Measuring the real effectiveness of your Training/HR

How effective are you organisation's training and HR interventions? Don't really know? Join the club - a very big club! Most organisations have no idea.

Managing Time and Stress

It’s official; workers are definitely more stressed than they were a decade or so ago. Various studies have shown this quite graphically, and new mental stress work compensation claims in Australia have virtually doubled in the last five years.

CASE STUDY: Team Building

Advanced HR Solutions was asked to facilitate a one-day team building workshop for an internal audit group in a large organisation. On enquiry, we found out that this was a very dysfunctional team, very much in crisis mode. There was a marked lack of trust, respect and openness in this ‘team', and largely as a consequence, they were not achieving their goals.

From Performance Appraisal to Performance Management

"...too often, performance appraisal is a once-a-year event that neither managers nor employees see as contributing positively to their working relationship - or their performance. ”

Recruitment - Beyond Nice Chats and Gut Feel!

An Australian survey a few years ago deduced that about $17 billion is wasted annually through poor recruitment practices. This is an enormous and unnecessary waste. What is the key reason for this great waste?

Finance for Non-Finance Managers

ln the not-too-distant past, managers were basically accountable for managing a team and ensuring that their department’s goals were met. While they had a budget, they weren't required to have a solid knowledge of budgeting, and they certainly didn't need to have a basic knowledge of accounting and finance. After all, that was up to the Finance department!