If you've heard any of the news about the Financial Services Royal Commission, it is pretty clear that these businesses don't do a very good job of conveying and embedding mission-critical concepts (like ethical behaviour) into their organisation. Communicating the values of your business, and illustrating the culture of your organisation to both potential and actual employees is one thing. Ensuring that those values aren't just paid lip service, but become lived experiences at ALL levels within your organisation, is definitely business-critical in today's marketplace. If the interrogations and admissions of the Royal Commission are anything to go by, it is clear that there is such a wide gap between words and actions in business that something needs to be done. But what? Our last couple of Blog posts have focused on the importance of getting Onboarding right, and the untapped benefits of storytelling for hr. In this Blog, we will explore how you can use the power of story as part of your Onboarding process to set the right tone for the expectations your business has about 'how we do things around here.'

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Topics: Human Resource Software, Human Resources Managers, Human Resources Professionals, Top 100 HR Blogs, Employee Onboarding Software, Onboarding, Storytelling, HR blog, human resource blog

We're currently doing 2017 edits of some of our most popular Blog posts. Back in 2014 we published 'Key Concerns for HR Managers in an Organisational Restructure, and it still gets a significant number of views every month. However, the business landscape has shifted quite significantly in the last 3 years, so we figured it was time for an update. After all, as the disruption from AI, robotics and other upheaval transforms the way we work, having some sound restructure foundations to guide your process will become more essential than ever.

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Topics: HRIS/Payroll, HRMS, performance management, HRIS and Payroll, organisational restructure, Human Capital Software, HR organisational design, Human Resources, Human Resources Software, Human Resource Software, High-Functioning HR, Performance Management Software, Human Resources Managers, Human Resources Professionals, Top 100 HR Blogs, HR blog, Organisational culture change, Change management

Managing a business is challenging. Cost control, Human Resources, Marketing, Risk Management - there are many balls in the air. With so much focus now on cost management, it’s no wonder that there is so much pressure on justification of spend. Whether it be marketing spend or office leasing, smart business people are all looking at ways to maximise value and return-on-investment. The business model is evolving into one that can harness the power of agile services. Whether this be serviced office space or a freelance / contract workforce, management teams are looking for way to reduce fixed costs and two of the largest areas of fixed costs are wages and office space. Both of which are based on employee numbers.

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Topics: Employees, Jobs Board, Employee Wellbeing, e-Recruitment Software, HRIS Software, hr software, Employee Engagement, Human Resources Managers, Business Planning, Human Resources Professionals, API Communication

Now that we’ve taken a deep dive into employee engagement and the enormous potential available through a commitment to facilitating such engagement, let’s take a look at the benefits this will produce for your customers. According to Gallup's  research, when organisations successfully engage both their customers AND their employees, they experience a 240% boost in performance-related business outcomes. Yes, that is a zero after the 24, not a typo – 240%.

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Topics: Employee Engagement, Human Resources Managers, Top 100 HR Blogs, HR blog, human resources blog