HR and Staff
- Effective Team Development
- Staged growth and staffing costs
- How to Keep Good Staff
- Advice on Interviewing Potential Employees
- Interview Skills
- Using a Recruitment Agency to Find Staff
- People Skills: The secret of management success
Effective Team Development
There’s more to effective team development than making up the numbers, or even the skill set required to achieve a desired outcome – Charisse Gray looks at ways to motivate people, rather than robots, to work together effectively and happily.
Staged Growth and Staffing Costs
Martin from Ascend Australia about staged business growth and staffing. Linda says they needs to be more selective about the type of work they choose to do. She also says that they should plan their staffing arrangements based on revenue projections.
How to Keep Good Staff
Most SMEs would find it difficult to match the incentives many corporate companies are offering employees – cars for their spouses, nine-day fortnights, subsidised gym memberships, yearly train tickets, rainwater tanks, and iPods – all in the name of recruiting good staff and keeping them. But as Charisse Gray reveals, small businesses can compete with the bottomless pockets of larger organisations.
Advice on Interviewing Potential Employees
HR expert Alec Bashinsky, from professional services firm Deloitte, advises Lance Witham, from Witham’s Coffee, about interviewing potential employees. Alec suggests not scheduling interviews consecutively, working in conjunction with a recruitment agency and also discusses the types of questions to ask and not to ask.
Interview Skills
There are plenty of tips for job seekers on how to behave in an interview, but what’s the secret to successfully conducting one? Robert Half has prepared a guide to successfully conducting an interview.
Using a Recruitment Agency to Find Staff
HR expert Alec Bashinsky, from professional services company Deloitte, talks to Lance Witham, from Witham’s Coffee, about using a recruitment agent to find a sales person to help Lance grow his business.
People Skills: The secret of management success
A manager who is not good at his or her job is unlikely to keep staff who have been trained to be good at theirs – Ron Krueger explores available management training opportunities, and why so many managers think they don’t need it.