The first time I realised that the way I thought about training was very different to many business owners came in a conversation I had with a neighbour some years ago. I told Mick, the owner of a large maintenance business that I’d spent the morning running a seminar. ‘Feeding the chooks you mean,’ he …
Effective Up-Skilling – Not Just Feeding The Chooks! Read More »
Last weekend my husband was lying on the couch reading the newspaper (yes, he’s still one of those people that actually reads them) when he drew my attention to a full-page colour hiring ad seeking workers to build the new AUKUS nuclear submarines. He knows I love talking about recruitment, so this was either some …
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As manager of a retail store many years ago, I started employing temporary and casual workers to fill in for absent employees. The trend caught on and soon my organization, global travel retailer Flight Centre, was employing ‘temps’ across the globe. The practice became so entrenched that one enterprising employee even started her own temp …