The only definition of a leader, is someone who has followers
In creating HR Club Sydney, I’ve been very fortunate to be able to meet a number of very amazing and passionate individuals. I also regularly get invited to events that are happening in Sydney, and am free to write my thoughts on these topics. After all, I don’t make any money from HR Club Sydney, [...]
Smarter Government: Oxymoron or possibility?
Over the past year, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in the IBM “Smarter Work for a Smarter Government” Future Leaders Forum. The last session I blogged about included a combination of Government execs and their Gen Y representatives, talking about how it is that we can improve collaboration, productivity and efficiency in the [...]
A new era for Talent Management?
My better half actually spotted this article for me in the Business Spectator and there were a couple of things that I loved about it. 1) The fact that I have now trained my better half how to spot articles that include terms like ‘talent management’. 2) That flexibility in the workplace is no longer [...]
Demographics or psychographics? Should HR be focusing on what generation you are from?
Generational differences- is it something we should be focusing on now? There is a lot of talk about the different generations these days and how we in HR manage the situation. Previously, when employees held the power in the market we witnessed organisations scrambling to train their boomer and even Gen X Managers on how [...]
What are you ALLOWED to view at work? The grey area of social media in the workplace
Last week when I was chairing the Australian Employment and Workplace Relations Summit, the very last panel featured Pete Williams from Deloitte Digital and so the conversation skewed towards social media and what companies allow employees to access. I mentioned that in my workplace, I have access to everything. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube- the lot- [...]

