Losing an employee costs thousands of dollars. You know that, right? By the time you factor in downtime, reduced productivity, interviewing, hiring and training, plus all of the administration costs involved, it goes something like this: Entry-level employees cost about 30% of their annual salary to replace. Mid-level employees cost about 100%. Senior staff, or Read More
One of the characteristics that makes a true influential leader is a person’s ability to see the future as a puzzle – that needs to be solved, but in which all the pieces can work together to create a whole. And, as we all know, when every team member feels like they belong, then everyone Read More
Actions always prove why words mean nothing… How often have we heard ‘you’re only as good as your word’, ‘without trust you have nothing’ or ‘people will always remember what you did, not what you said?’ We are a society that has been conditioned right from the age of time. We are told our entire Read More
‘Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is a progress. Working together is success’ – Henry Ford. Here’s a truth I want you to think about: Individuals join an organisation because of a great ‘vision’. Individuals leave because of poor leadership. A friend of mine started a new job in February. She was so excited Read More
Our “unconscious bias” shapes a lot of what we do – from the foods we love to the people we connect with. Understanding its influence and its impact on our thoughts is the key to making good decisions. First of all, what is unconscious bias? Unconscious bias comes from our innate humanness to instinctively label Read More