April 28, 2020 Human Resources, Productivity

How to make your NFP’s HR practices more impactful during the coronavirus lock-down

The coronavirus pandemic has certainly created significant challenges for all NFPs. In the midst of these challenges, HR teams can play a key role in helping to steady the ship, maintain employee performance and morale, and ultimately support your organisation to navigate the new environments.

So how can you ensure you’re supporting your organisation and colleagues during these challenging times? Here are four tips to help you maximise the impact of your HR practices and adapt to the fast-changing environment.

April 14, 2020 Health & Wellbeing, Human Resources, Managing People Well, Remote Work

How to approach an employee who may have poor mental health during the coronavirus lockdown

The coronavirus pandemic has created uncertainty and instability that has the potential to exacerbate existing anxiety and depression, and contribute to the onset of new mental health problems.

Given this environment, understanding how to support people experiencing mental health issues is a pivotal part of guiding your team through these challenging times.

The Head of Operations People and Culture at the Black Dog Institute, Marian Spencer shares her tips for how you can spot the signs that a staff member might be going through mental health challenges, and what you can do to support them through it.

June 1, 2016 Human Resources, Organisational Strategy

Great organisations tell great stories: how to harness the power of stories to engage and retain your staff

A simple survey will tell you how staff feel about your organisation. But how do you want them to feel? And what can you do to create that change?

Over breakfast on 15 June in Brisbane and on 17 June in Sydney, EthicalJobs.com.au is proudly presenting ‘story activist’ Moya Sayer-Jones, who’ll be discussing how your organisation can identify and use stories to engage, inspire and retain your best people.

September 25, 2018 Conference, Human Resources, Organisational Strategy

How CanTeen developed an HR strategy that makes everyone accountable for success

Does your organisation’s HR strategy have contributions and buy-in from your whole organisation? The idea of collecting feedback from every single team or department in your organisation to shape your HR strategy might sound like a colossal challenge – or even a waste of time. Yet this is exactly what youth cancer charity CanTeen has […]

May 1, 2018 Human Resources, People Analytics, Professional Development

A free course on People Analytics for purpose-driven organisations, from the experts at Google

Does your organisation sometimes base HR decisions on emotions, instincts or politics rather than data?

Every day, reams of data are created by your organisation that could help you make better people decisions. Decisions like: Who to hire? Who to promote? How to manage great staff or struggling staff? How to build high-performing teams?

But how do you turn all that data you’ve got – whether through CVs, staff surveys, or staff pay and performance data – into actionable insights? Here’s how.

June 17, 2015 Change Management, Human Resources, Managing People Well

How to support staff – and yourself – through redundancies: a guide for NFP leaders

Have funding cuts and uncertainty left your organisation considering restructuring and/or redundancies? People are at the heart of all NFP organisations, so when the going gets tough ensuring people are treated with dignity and respect is of utmost importance. A new guide created specifically for not-for-profit leaders aims to help NFP leaders to manage staff […]

January 9, 2018 Human Resources, Managing People Well, Recruitment & HR Technology

Three HR trends your NFP can’t afford to overlook in 2018

Happy New Year! As we’ve ticked over into 2018, your organisation has likely done some strategic planning around your people and culture goals for the year ahead – and how you plan to achieve them.

But have you considered how the changing external world will impact on these goals, and the future of people in your organisation?

December 5, 2016 Human Resources

Eight ways to improve your organisation’s HR practices

‘Human resources’ – what does that even mean? Regardless of what name you go by, here are eight pieces of advice to be the best you can, and get the ‘human’ back in HR.

August 7, 2017 Human Resources, Organisational Strategy

Claiming a seat at the table: why and how HR should be playing a key role in your NFP’s strategic planning

Who’s involved in setting your organisation’s strategy?

Traditionally, HR wasn’t a part of the strategic planning process in most organisations. People considerations were more of an afterthought or a response to the strategy that was already set by senior management.

But in the rapidly changing Australian NFP sector, can organisations afford to leave HR expertise and perspective out of their strategic planning processes?

May 29, 2017 Human Resources, Managing People Well, Organisational Strategy

The case for greater flexibility at your NFP

Dr Clare Allen is on a mission.

As CEO of VisAbility – Guide Dogs Ltd in Western Australia, she knows that work-life balance can be challenging for many people working in the NFP sector – particularly those in more senior roles, and for those in frontline services juggling high client work-loads with admin and/or management responsibilities.

That’s why she wants to spread the word about how organisations can move past a focus on “work-life balance” towards a vision of a much more flexible “work-life harmony” that empowers staff to achieve more powerful and healthier results.