Kerstin Schuetz shares her career story!

According to Gallup’s 2021 State of the Global Workplace Report, only 22% of Australia’s employees are engaged at work. 31% of Australia’s employees feel daily worry, and an overwhelming 45% feel daily stress. In disruptive workplace environments, peoples’ needs should be prioritised to ensure employees remain engaged at work, and inspired by what they do. Engaged employees achieve higher productivity and profitability for organisations because they are enthusiastic to go to work every day and perform better than their less engaged peers.

This blog sheds light on various approaches you can adopt to inspire your employees to achieve higher profitability and productivity, and the importance of engagement and enthusiasm. Read on to discover more!

Something funny happens in the psyche of the worker when it comes to older employees – which often has little to do with being revered and even less to do with humour. Sadly it illustrates that as a nation we are more interested in the celebrity factor that is often out of our reach than in our older workers who have contributed so much and are so close.

So if that is the case, why are we failing to adequately document the older workers’ knowledge, showcase their talents and celebrate them as mentors?

In this guest blog, Ricky Nowak, Certified HR Leadership Consultant, Speaker, and Author, shares five steps to go from Older to Bolder, and explains the importance of bringing people together to collaborate rather than let people stagnate.

It is probably without argument that the most valuable resource within a business is its people and the talent that resides in them.

Engaged talented people can have a direct impact on the bottom line. They can lead to engaged clients, which leads to better sales, innovation and better internal efficiency.

In this blog, special guest Ken Meek explains how good leaders see beyond just being satisfied with employees performing the specific tasks they are paid to perform, instead they look beyond this and search for those with talent. Read on to learn more!

While women at work are trying to crack through their idea of a glass ceiling, there’s a little glass slipper vying for our attention too. The Glass Slipper effect, propounded by Karen Ashcraft and expounded in her keynote address at the National Centre for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Summit, is very real and deserves redress.

In this blog, behind closed doors’ Founder and Managing Director, Donny Walford, unpacks the idea of the Glass Slipper Effect and why Australia taking off the glass slipper matters. Read on to learn more!