Health and safety: Providing protective gear
If you provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to your workers, here’s how to stay compliant when new laws take effect in April 2016.
Tough World Cup ahead… for fans and employers
Pre-dawn kick-offs. Mid-week games. The men in black may play havoc with getting a full day’s work out of your staff.
Automatic enrolment and pension schemes in Xero
Automatic enrolment of employees into a workplace pension will affect every employer over the next couple of years.
Every employer has a legal duty to enrol all eligible employees into a pension...
Do or Do Not – There is No Try: Working with a Business Mentor
When I first started out as a copywriter working for myself, I felt a bit lost. There were so many different directions my career could go, and I wasn’t sure which one to take. I’d never worked...
A Guide to Social Media in the Workplace
Social media is changing, advancing and evolving, so it’s difficult for employers to know where they stand legally.
Australia knuckles down on Employers who underpay Staff
The Fair Work Ombudsman has been unusually proactive in pursuing underpayment claims in the courts recently. This may have been prompted by several widely reported cases of large supermarket chains...
What Employee Perks Means For Business
It’s no secret that providing employee perks to your staff is a key way to keep motivation and happiness levels high, and to increase productivity across the business. However, for many small to...
4 Tips for Training Your Staff on How to Use New Technology
Whether in a large corporation or a small retail store, implementing a new piece of software can be a daunting task. One of the largest mistakes an organization can make is overlooking the training...
Out of the Office? What to Monitor For Complete Agency Management
Whether you’re on vacation, attending a conference, or simply working from home, being out of the office can feel stressful.
8 Unexpected Benefits of Business Networking
Have you been told that you should use business networking as a tool to grow your business? You should; it’s an awesome way to expand your brand’s reach and find new clients through referrals,...
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Advancing Collaboration for a Dispersed Workforce
Flexibility and the ability to work from anywhere are increasingly becoming the driving forces behind many career goals. FlexJobs (a leading job search site) has reported a 26% increase in remote jobs...
Do you know yourself as a business owner?
According to Greek mythology, the temple of Apollo at Delphi was inscribed with the words “Gnothi Seauton.” This translates to “Know thyself” – and it’s a useful maxim for business owners...
Happiness is the key to success
What is it that makes us truly successful? Renowned psychologist, best-selling author and happiness guru Dr. Robert Holden believes our definition of success has changed over time.
While many of us...
Polly LaBarre’s Maverick Manual for Success
As a founding member of the Fast Company magazine team, Polly LaBarre has seen her share of successes—and failures—in the business world. Now the cofounder and director of Management Lab, she...
The Top Three Reasons To Switch To Outsourced Payroll
We’re quickly approaching EOFY, the moment that businesses often dread. Time consuming, admin heavy tasks begin to really start to gather momentum, which often means reconciling the entire year’s...
Helping new employees settle in – Tips for NZ Small Business
As your business begins to grow, when the workload increases and the time commitment too, you may start to think you need some help. If getting the kids to stuff envelopes for pocket money come...
How to understand your customers
In more than 20 years of writing for and about a wide variety of companies, I’ve noticed something important. The businesses that flourish are the ones that truly understand their customers – who...
Secret Tips for Agencies to Improve Client Relationships
The beginning of a relationship is always the best. You laugh at each other’s jokes, you look forward to every phone call, and you truly enjoy getting to know one another.
5 ways to boost productivity using timesheets
In the past, having honest scales were key to doing good business. Today, for many service-based businesses, our scales are our timesheets. Keeping our timesheets honest is not only good for our...
Top tips for hiring recent grads
A popular topic these days is how to hire the perfect candidate for your business. Many industries seem to be suffering from a candidate shortage. When you can’t hire a quality candidate with a lot...
9 Tools That Support Better Agency-Client Relationships
While this likely isn’t news to your agency, as with any service business, there is a constant struggle to retain and grow long-term client relationships.
Are your best brand champions sitting just down the hall?
With the digital age in full swing, it’s no surprise that your employees’ personal and professional lives are becoming more and more intertwined.
3 Monetary Basics You Should Continuously Be Reviewing
Do you know who an incredible advocate for hard work was? Mary Poppins.
Make the Right Hire: 3 Tips for Agencies to Consider
Successful agencies are constantly on the hunt to attract and retain top talent through recruiting and networking. But making a hiring decision isn’t easy, and it’s important to hire the right...
10 steps to perfect small business payroll in 2015
This is a good time of year to review various parts of your business. Payroll is sometimes neglected in reviews, yet it's an important topic. So here's how to make payroll work perfectly for you this...
3 Ways To Overcome The Management Blues
Often it’s easy to get stuck in a rut. You begin to doubt yourself and your ability to perform your job at a level that you see fit. But you know what? It’s okay.
5 Interview Questions to Find the Right Hire
We all know the colleagues we love working with every day. They usually have a few common characteristics, including…
Change Management: How To Help Employees Cope With Change At Work
No industry is exempt from change. Change is inevitable. It affects everyone within a business, from the CEO and director through to front line employees. It’s important to keep in mind the...
Kitchen table entrepreneurs – turning your hobby into a business
From cupcake-crazy home bakers to fitness addicts and artistic dreamers, more and more entrepreneurial Britons are turning passions and pastimes into money-making enterprises. In fact, latest studies...
10 reasons HR Needs To Think Like Marketing
No matter what products or services they produce, businesses need two essential things to succeed: employees and customers.