February 8, 2024 Change Management, Human Resources, Leadership

4 myths about redundancies – and how to ease a difficult transition for your staff

4 layoff myths – and how to ease a difficult transition for your staff

“Trust is built in drops and lost in buckets.”

These are the words of Didier Elzinga, CEO of Melbourne-based software firm Culture Amp, reflecting on his experience of navigating a difficult transition. Making staff layoffs can be a shock for any company, but the impact can be more profound in highly collaborative environments like the company Elzinga had built.

Here, Elzinga dispels some of the myths surrounding staff layoffs and shares his learnings on managing change, dealing with fear and more.

November 1, 2023 Change Management, Interviewing, Managing People Well

Six simple steps to conduct a better exit interview

They say feedback is the breakfast of champions. But getting and actioning useful feedback from employees or volunteers isn’t always easy. One way to do this is the often over-looked, sometimes criticised, exit interview.

So if your organisation has been neglecting to do exit interviews – or if you’d just like to improve the way you do them – here are six steps to help do them well.

March 31, 2021 Change Management, Leadership

Need to manage change? Take this 100% free course in Adaptive Leadership for purpose-driven organisations

Have you ever struggled with a problem that will not go away, despite multiple attempts to solve it?

Adaptive leadership is a practice that helps a leader to engage members of an organisation to adapt to change, and it can help tackle problems which stubbornly persist or face unexpected resistance, despite seemingly obvious solutions.

October 8, 2020 Change Management, Organisational Strategy, Remote Work

Planning your return to the office after working remote? What if employees don’t want to go back?

For many workers, working 100% remotely during most of 2020 has been hard. But as states and industries look towards fully reopening in a new post-Covid-19 world, new people challenges are starting to emerge.

As many as a quarter of Australian employees say they don’t want to return to their offices until they feel safer – or perhaps ever.

So how should your organisation address this potential challenge?

September 9, 2020 Change Management, Human Resources, Organisational Strategy

‘Never let a good crisis go to waste’: How to keep HR relevant in challenging times

Who could have predicted that 2020 would be such a challenging year for so many people and organisations, right across the world?

Challenging times can bring out the best and the worst in organisations, but whatever the impact of the pandemic for your NFP, having an HR team – or person – that has the confidence and trust of the your staff and volunteers is critical.

So how can HR professionals stay relevant during challenging times?

June 9, 2020 Change Management, Health & Wellbeing, Leadership, Managing People Well

How to help your employees with back-to-work anxiety

Many Australians are starting to head back to their workplaces as coronavirus restrictions are lifted.

Here are four strategies you can use to help your staff transition back to the workplace.

May 19, 2020 Change Management, Health & Wellbeing, Legal Issues

How to have a conversation with employees about redundancy during the COVID-19 pandemic

Beyond its obvious health impact, the economic impact of COVID-19 is huge. Many NFPs are unfortunately facing some of the toughest decisions in HR and recruitment — reducing work hours, standing down employees and redundancies.

These are difficult conversations to have, but there are some simple points to bear in mind that can ease the process for everyone.

May 3, 2017 Change Management, Leadership, Managing People Well

Three positive ways to lead your NFP through uncertain and troubling times

It’s no secret that the not-for-profit sector has faced unprecedented instability in recent years, with uncertainty fast becoming the ‘new normal’.

The drastic drop in donations caused by the GFC, constant fluctuations in government funding and sweeping sector reforms like the NDIS are just three examples of massive change – and that doesn’t even touch on the increasingly volatile political climate both in Australia and overseas.

To start developing skills to help lead teams during these uncertain times, and to prepare for change in the future, here are three important lessons for leaders at all levels of your NFP.

March 1, 2017 Change Management, Organisational Strategy

Four key ingredients to building an innovation strategy for your NFP

“Innovation” is all the rage in Australia right now. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has urged an “ideas boom”, investing billions of dollars to promote private sector innovation.

But what about NFP organisations? NFPs need to innovate too, even though it’s by no means easy.

December 12, 2016 Change Management, Organisational Strategy

This new tool will help disability organisations plan and develop your workforce under the NDIS

The rollout of the NDIS has left many in the disability services sector with questions about what their future workforce will look like. Now, there’s a free online tool that aims to help answer all your questions.