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Category: Employee engagement

Employee engagement / Employee wellbeing / Leadership / Management / Onboarding / Recruitment

Are you listening? How employee listening elevates your hiring and retention decisions

Kiwi leaders are genuinely great at using data to make decisions — whether that’s technical, financial, or operational. But when it comes to recruitment and retention, many of us are …

Employee engagement / Leadership / New ways of working / Productivity / Uncategorized

Why your team isn’t using AI — and what you can do about it

You’ve invested in AI tools or at least given the green light to your team members to use it and given them access. You’ve written a policy about AI use …

Employee engagement / Employee training / Leadership / New ways of working

When growth outpaces structure: the hidden cost of too many direct reports

A team of 5 becomes 8. Then 12. Then 15. Same manager. Same structure. Different breaking point. I’ve watched this pattern unfold across countless New Zealand businesses. A successful company …

Employee engagement / Employee training

10 ways to stretch your staff training budget when money is tight

2025 has been a(nother) tough year. Remember last year, when everyone was saying “survive to 25”, because they thought that this year was going to be amazing? For many, it …

Leadership / Employee engagement / Social intelligence

Leading with curiosity

Being a team leader or a manager is hard. Sometimes, it’s very hard! Every week you will need to navigate one or more difficult conversations. What’s really hard though is …

Employee engagement / Leadership / Productivity

Making performance reviews not suck

Yes, even some of us in HR/People & Culture think performance reviews suck! But they don’t have to. In this article, I correct my own mistakes.

Employee engagement / Leadership

More productivity? Heck yeah!

Productivity is the holy grail of a bustling economy. A thriving (and productive) business needs thriving people. How can you achieve that?

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Leadership / Employee engagement / Employee wellbeing / Job crafting

What is the job demands-resources model, and why should you care?

The job demands model (JD-R) is a relatively young model to describe the delicate balance between many factors at work that help or hinder productivity, employee engagement and employee wellbeing[i]. …

Performance management meeting
Leadership / Communication skills / Employee engagement / Social intelligence

Effective performance management turns poor performers into great ones – without losing your best people

Learn how effective performance management can turn poor performance and also retain your top talent. Practical steps to lift performance and strengthen teams.

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