The Confidence Trap in Leadership

Leadership confidence isn’t about having all the answers. It’s built through experience, reflection, and the courage to lead through uncertainty.

AI Nearly Broke Sarah’s Business

Sarah runs a mid-sized accounting firm with 35 employees. Like all growth-minded business owners, she decided to integrate an AI-driven system. The promise was enticing; faster client onboarding, smoother document processing, and predictive reporting that would give her a competitive edge. The consultant she hired painted a compelling picture, higher productivity, reduced manual workloads, and…

Fair Work is Shaking Things Up AGAIN. Is Your Cashflow Ready?

If you’re running a business, leading a team, or wrangling HR in any form, the latest Fair Work updates aren’t just background noise. They’re about to reshape how you hire, pay, and look after your people in 2025 and beyond. These changes could have a big impact. Some are long overdue. And all of them…

Non-Compete Clauses: Sensible Shift or Slippery Slope?

In a move that’s caught many by surprise, the Federal Government has announced that non-compete clauses will be banned from 2027 for workers earning below $175,000 a year. It’s pitched as a way to give Aussie workers more freedom to move toward better, higher-paying jobs—especially in industries like childcare, construction and hairdressing. And in those…

🎄 The 12 Days of Christmas: HR Edition! 🎄

On the 1st day of Christmas, HR gave to me…… Ban the “Reply All” email – We’ve all been there—a single email turns into a thread of endless Reply All responses, and suddenly, your inbox feels like a battlefield. Let’s bring peace back to our workdays. Together, we can fight the flood of unnecessary emails—one thoughtful reply…

HR Spring Clean: Time to Dust Off Your People Practices

Spring has sprung! How do I know? My hayfever has been in full bloom for four days straight. While sneezing my way through some personal and business spring cleaning, I started thinking: what could an HR “spring cleaning kit” look like? With the tissues piled up beside me, I laid down to contemplate the essentials…

HR Haunts and Horrors: Unmasking Workplace Mysteries

What keeps you up at night? I bet it isn’t ghouls and goblins… it’s HR nightmares? Yes, we all have them. Whether it be a Corporate Crypt Keeper, the Office Phantom, or simply ‘Ghostbusting that elusive perfect employee’, our businesses can become our version of Halloween. Now is the perfect time to craft your ghoulishly…

So this is Christmas….is the (talent) war over?

Recently, I presented to people leaders all the way down the East Coast, and asked them, ‘what are your challenges as a people leader right now?’ I wouldn’t be telling you anything surprising when I say that a barrage of HR headaches were thrown out there: If only we could grow our business without people!…

Is it time to get vulnerable?

R U Ok? Only yesterday, a colleague mentioned she is seeing so many more mental wellbeing issues in workplaces. So there is a conversation and subsequent actions that needs to happen but haven’t we been doing that for years? Where is the change we need to see? In pondering this, I take inspiration from Ed…

Are You Quietly Quitting?

Chances are good that either you or your team would answer yes. I read an article on this quietly quitting concept and it’s interesting how buzzwords are now being used for well-known phenomena. It’s a ‘new’ TikTok trend that in my view, is simply regaining boundaries between work and life….or some may view it as…