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- By Tammy Tansley
- / October 3, 2020
A contract protects both you as the employer, and the employee. It allows you to be specific about what you expect of your employee and what happens if it all goes wrong. It is a safety net for you both. It's different to an award which is the minimum; you need to comply whether you want to or not.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / September 21, 2020
Whilst the issue of what is a "casual" and how do employers balance the need for flexibility with fairness and equity to their employees continues to be debated in the courts and within politics, employers continue to get frustrated.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / September 15, 2020
The first question after the initial navel gazing is whether an organisation has the appetite for embarking upon such a journey. If there's a sufficiently compelling "why". And if not, how much of the impact of the current culture is the organisation prepared to tolerate?
- By Tammy Tansley
- / September 7, 2020
Then there re are power differentials, emotions, egos and other reasons which also get in the way of being a good listener. And perhaps, a thought that to listen makes you more vulnerable. Less in control?
- By Tammy Tansley
- / September 3, 2020
Perhaps it is understanding that employees have a need to be safe and comfortable. By safe I mean that your boss doesn't try to lure you into bed against your wishes. And by comfortable I mean that you're able to access the most basic of human biological needs as needed.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / August 25, 2020
If being on repeat sounds like you. Or you feel as though your head is filled with unfinished or unresolved thoughts, coaching may be a process that helps you sort through those thoughts to move forward.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / August 21, 2020
Following on from Chris' advice on how to be a better negotiator - it starts with being a better listener. Which means listening, not fixing.. Which is somewhat aligned to last week's post on listening too...
- By Tammy Tansley
- / August 10, 2020
If you're hearing this in your personal life from a significant other, it's possible that it's a more prevalent habit than just in the home. It's worth taking some time to get to grips with it. It's one of those habits than eventually ends up tripping you up in one or other parts of your life.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / August 3, 2020
If you believe the culture of your organisation isn't working for you - it isn't necessarily that the culture is bad. Simply that it doesn't serve the needs of the organisation.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 27, 2020
Yes. It's the year 2020, and yes, you read the title correctly. According to a recent report by Slater & Gordon, this is perhaps one of the more unexpected aspects of remote working. A whooping 35% of women interviewed claimed to have been subjected to sexist workplace demands whilst working from home.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 20, 2020
Being asked for advice can be flattering. But it can also mean we are constantly in rescue mode. And we're not really doing the other person any favours. The other person has limited buy in to our solution and very little growth or learning. Note though.. Listening, asking questions, being curious.. It's hard.. much much harder than saying our piece.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 16, 2020
Understanding the composition and chemistry of your team and why people react the way that they do, is a first great step to understanding team dynamics, and why some people do, in the context of a specific team, give their team member(s) the hooby doobies.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / July 5, 2020
It’s about raising awareness - which in turn allows people to see their team mate’s attributes that are different to their own as something that is potentially positive, rather than just irritating. That can, in and of itself reduce conflict that teams experience.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / June 29, 2020
Many organisations have worked very hard over recent years to have excellent family friendly policies that are available to both partners. There are excellent examples of organisations that are progressive and flexible. Those same employers have sophisticated comms programmes to ensure that they are well known throughout their organisations. And yet.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / June 22, 2020
The trick now will be to learn the lessons from the trial by fire, and work out the bits that don't work for each organisation. This may mean going backwards to go forwards - to introduce the new normal slowly. To ask what worked, and importantly, why? And what didn't?
- By Tammy Tansley
- / June 15, 2020
It's a fine line between being a sticky beak and sticking our nose into unwanted territory - and looking after the welfare of our employees; but as we talked about last week, increasingly work and home are colliding.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / June 9, 2020
Risk is no longer just about having an ergonomic chair or table, a proper risk assessment is making sure that your employee is safe in their working environment, whether this is at the actual workplace or at home.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / May 5, 2020
Digging deeper is key. Is it the employee that the Manager doesn't trust? Or the principle of working from home?
- By Tammy Tansley
- / March 24, 2020
If you're working from home (as in actually working from home) for the first time, you might be thinking, where do I start? The following has a pretty comprehensive list of things to think about before you start working from home. But if there's one takeaway that's more important than any other - it's over communicate, over communicate, over communicate!!
- By Tammy Tansley
- / January 4, 2020
The first step to any change is to be able to visualise how something might be different.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / January 3, 2020
Reading can introduce you to new ideas and different perspectives. In today's often polarised world of strident opinions - this is more important than ever.
- By Tammy Tansley
- / January 2, 2020
It's not about the offering of pawternity leave per se. It's about an organisation that is listening to it employees and offering them what they want.
