Happy New Year everyone. January 1st sure seems
to roll around quicker each year, or maybe that’s just my age. As a new year
dawns, I thought I’d take us into the Akolade vault for a look at the top 5
posts on Human Resources from the Akolade blog in 2015.
By a long margin, this post examines the legalities
surrounding employee’s use of social media out of work hours seemed to hit a
nerve with readers. Examining the case of a former Meriton employee who’s out
of hours trolling of Fairfax columnist Clementine Ford cost his job, the
situation raised several key legal issues about the consequences of social
media use for employees outside of their working hours.
Examining the importance of senior management buy-in in the development
and execution of succession planning, Welcome to the Leaders of Tomorrow
focused on the changing work environment and how managers could “fast-track”
future leaders and outlined some best practice succession management strategies
to ensure a succession management programme was planned to gain maximum benefit
for both the employee and the company.
All employees respond different to rewards and recognition
programmes, and understanding the drivers for a multi-generational workplace
can leave HR re-inventing the wheel every year. This concise post highlighted
best practice strategies when designing a Reward and Recognition strategy that
would engage, or re-engage as the case may be, your workforce.
In light of a business survey by Galaxy on behave of
business service provider Citrix, it was shone that many Australian businesses
are still using outdated management techniques when it comes to the day to day
operations of HR. Lack of workplace flexibility and a lack of trust that
employees will do what they need to do is having a negative impact on workplace
productivity. The Netflix Slide Deck on HR strategies is a must read document
for HR managers who are preparing to bring their policies into the 21st
century. While Netflix is not an Australian company, it has some leading-edge
ideas on productivity, performance management and company culture.
Business today is done both in the office, and at events and
receptions where hand shaking and business card collecting are becoming more
important than ever before. The Art of Networking is a personal development
piece, based on a decade’s experience of preparing and hosting commercial conferences
and legal seminars. The piece examined some key tips and provided a handful of
take aways that can be easily implemented at your next corporate event, which should
help you to not only remember who you’ve met, but also gain the best ROI on the
time and cost of attending.
Mike Cullen has recently returned to Akolade after a period as the
conference producer for one of Australia's leading economic think tanks. Mike
began working in the conference industry in 2007 after looking for a career
change from the high pressured world of inbound customer service. Mike has
worked for some of the most well-known conference and media companies in the
B2B space and in his spare time is working on his first novel in a planned Epic
Fantasy trilogy.
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