<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>peopleengine</title><description>peopleengine</description><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/blog</link><item><title>Are you leading with the right emotions?</title><description><![CDATA[Leadership is fundamentally about facilitating performance, empowering others to do their best, to do their work effectively and efficiently.One of the most robust, consistent findings in the social sciences is that there is a direct link between the way people feel and the way people perform.As such, leaders need to be skilled at identifying, understanding and influencing emotion within themselves and others in order to inspire performance.Emotionally intelligent leadership is about leaders<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/e0d98cd121a52a41dcb32e1a05877e04.jpg/v1/fill/w_438%2Ch_291/e0d98cd121a52a41dcb32e1a05877e04.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/05/19/Are-you-leading-with-the-right-emotions</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/05/19/Are-you-leading-with-the-right-emotions</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 02:09:11 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>Leadership is fundamentally about facilitating performance, empowering others to do their best, to do their work effectively and efficiently.</div><div>One of the most robust, consistent findings in the social sciences is that there is a direct link between the way people feel and the way people perform.</div><div>As such, leaders need to be skilled at identifying, understanding and influencing emotion within themselves and others in order to inspire performance.</div><div>Emotionally intelligent leadership is about leaders intelligently using emotions to facilitate high performance. </div><div>Find out more by contacting <a href="mailto:kayley@peopleengine.com.au?subject=">Kayley</a> for some information, or <a href="https://www.peopleengine.com.au/events">register</a> for our next workshop.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/e0d98cd121a52a41dcb32e1a05877e04.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Are you busy being busy?</title><description><![CDATA[How often do you find yourself using the “busy” word each day? Chances are it’s become your automatic response when people ask you how you’re going or how your business is going.How often do you take a moment to ask yourself what you are busy doing, particularly in your business? Are you busy developing and implementing your strategy every day? Are you planning, checking in, evaluating performance, investing in your people, focusing on your customer experience…and aligning your activities with<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/73d8d0478ff44665910df2043d5ad543.jpg/v1/fill/w_626%2Ch_223/73d8d0478ff44665910df2043d5ad543.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/05/18/Are-you-busy-being-busy</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/05/18/Are-you-busy-being-busy</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2017 06:07:17 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/73d8d0478ff44665910df2043d5ad543.jpg"/><div>How often do you find yourself using the “busy” word each day? Chances are it’s become your automatic response when people ask you how you’re going or how your business is going.</div><div>How often do you take a moment to ask yourself what you are busy doing, particularly in your business? Are you busy developing and implementing your strategy every day? Are you planning, checking in, evaluating performance, investing in your people, focusing on your customer experience…and aligning your activities with your strategic priorities everyday?</div><div>Chances are you are in the large percentage of small to medium businesses that would like to be in that position, but are not quite sure how to get there.</div><div>Most of us know that having the right people in our business and aligning their actions with the business goals is important, but the busy-ness gets in the way. And knowing how to take the first step can be the hardest part.</div><div>People Engine work with businesses in measurement, planning and implementation of simple steps that make a difference to business performance. </div><div>Whether it’s minimising your business risk, organising your employee syst</div><div>ems, improving performance, developing capability or maximising your competitive edge, People Engine are here to help.</div><div>The first step is to contact us for a chat - or to take advantage of our COMPLIMENTARY Business Health Check, available until 30 June 2017. </div><div>Get busy!</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Could this happen to you?</title><description><![CDATA[Non-compliance can cost you millions!It happens daily. It’s only news because George Calombaris is a celebrity Chef. He’s been forced to pay out up to $2.6 million for underpayments to 403 of his restaurant’s employees. The company blamed "historically poor processes". Unfortunately, this is not uncommon. Many businesses have poor HR processes. It’s reported that Calombaris was "devastated" by the situation, which led to staff members being repaid an average of more than $16,000. "Our amazing<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/7f14bd5b24c941fe82b08f34c1a84764.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/Could-this-happen-to-you</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/Could-this-happen-to-you</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Apr 2017 05:23:28 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>Non-compliance can cost you millions!</div><div>It happens daily. It’s only news because George Calombaris is a celebrity Chef. He’s been forced to pay out up to $2.6 million for underpayments to 403 of his restaurant’s employees. The company blamed &quot;historically poor processes&quot;.</div><div>Unfortunately, this is not uncommon. Many businesses have poor HR processes.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/7f14bd5b24c941fe82b08f34c1a84764.jpg"/><div> It’s reported that Calombaris was &quot;devastated&quot; by the situation, which led to staff members being repaid an average of more than $16,000.</div><div>&quot;Our amazing team members are the key to our success. I am sorry we have messed up and let you down on a fundamental issue, which is to ensure our people are paid their full entitlements,&quot; he said in a statement. We work with businesses everyday to implement simple systems and reduce the risks associated with employing staff.</div><div>Learn more about implementing processes to meet compliance and regulations.</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Taking your management culture to new heights in 2017</title><description><![CDATA[People Engine loves to work with businesses on improving profits by developing great leaders... and many of our businesses have benefited from using analytics to focus on the leadership strategies that make the biggest difference.BravaTrak work with us to provide these analytics, and invite you to learn more about how this information can help you in 2017. Listen to their webinar - Roadmap for Taking your Management Culture to New Heights in 2017.Topics: The influence of management culture on<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/5da6025daca645e7baee50a929fe5b82.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/Taking-your-management-culture-to-new-heights-in-2017</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/Taking-your-management-culture-to-new-heights-in-2017</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 13:17:37 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>People Engine loves to work with businesses on improving profits by developing great leaders... and many of our businesses have benefited from using analytics to focus on the leadership strategies that make the biggest difference.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/5da6025daca645e7baee50a929fe5b82.jpg"/><div>BravaTrak work with us to provide these analytics, and invite you to learn more about how this information can help you in 2017. Listen to their webinar - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buu1zJmiseM">Roadmap for Taking your Management Culture to New Heights in 2017</a>.</div><div>Topics:</div><div>The influence of management culture on business performanceThe fastest way to improve management cultureThe roadmap you can use to rapidly improve management culture</div><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Buu1zJmiseM"/><div>ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT HOW YOUR ORGANISATION IS BENCHMARKED AGAINST COMPETITION? SIGN UP FOR A FREE BUSINESS HEALTHCHECK!</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Keeping Your Business Fit with HR</title><description><![CDATA[The thing that gets me out of bed every day is the energy I get from helping business owners grow and maximise the potential of their business.I help them get business fit.I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chantal from the Fitness Business Podcast. She's a great interviewer and drew some insights out of me I want to share with you on my blog.I have a background in the Fitness industry myself, and why you might think of Fitness as a unique business, at the end of the day they are<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/49da4fe036d5407092a50be42acdaf44.jpg/v1/fill/w_626%2Ch_417/49da4fe036d5407092a50be42acdaf44.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/01/25/Keeping-Your-Business-Fit-with-HR</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2017/01/25/Keeping-Your-Business-Fit-with-HR</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 06:45:31 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/49da4fe036d5407092a50be42acdaf44.jpg"/><div>The thing that gets me out of bed every day is the energy I get from helping business owners grow and maximise the potential of their business.</div><div>I help them get business fit.</div><div>I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chantal from the <a href="http://fitnessbusinesspodcast.com/kayley-riddle-how-to-recruit-and-keep-the-best-people-for-your-fitness-business/">Fitness Business Podcast</a>. She's a great interviewer and drew some insights out of me I want to share with you on my blog.</div><div>I have a background in the Fitness industry myself, and why you might think of Fitness as a unique business, at the end of the day they are managing people, processes and facilities. </div><div>Just like your business.</div><div>So, in no particular order, here's 4 HR tips you can apply to your business right now.</div><div>Give Yourself a Competitive Advantage</div><div>Without making generalisations, Fitness is an industry that doesn’t invest widely in proactive HR activities. This doesn’t make a lot of sense, given it is also an industry that depends so much on their people, their engagement, passion and customer or member service. It’s also an industry that often struggles to attract and retain talent.</div><div>But it's not just fitness. I can think of many small businesses that equally neglect basic HR principles and only look at policies and procedures in reaction to an issue like poor performance, high turnover or compliance.</div><div>But this is fairly common amongst lots of small to medium businesses across the board, so don’t beat yourselves up too much!</div><div>HR is an opportunity to give your small business a competitive advantage – I have and do work with many owners and managers who have invested proactively in annual HR plans (similar to annual Finance Budgets and/or Marketing Plans, but focused strategically and tactically on the people engine of their business) and are seeing greater alignment between the actions of the people in the business and the strategies of the business. </div><div>HR works!</div><div>When You Should Hire a HR Manager</div><div>Generally speaking, once a business owner has about 50 -80 employees or are planning to grow, they will appoint a HR Manager (who may only be focused on the traditional, transactional aspects of the HR employee life cycle). If they have less employees they usually have someone who looks after the HR needs as well as something else (such as admin or accounts).</div><div>Either can work well if you have a good system with relevant industrial links and resources, and the appropriate HR resources to also stay focused on the strategic and tactical initiatives necessary to ensure the sustainability or growth of the business. </div><div>You can then balance the day to day operating tasks (like employing, paying and managing people) with useful activities to improve the alignment of the people engine with the overall business strategy.</div><div>Irrespective of business size, if you can find the right external HR resource, who can coach and support the business owner and/or internal HR resources, the business learns to fish, when it comes to making HR work strategically and tactically .</div><div>This approach not only saves time, money and headaches, but actually achieves really tangible business improvement and bottom line results.</div><div>Interview and Observe</div><div>To hire the right staff, you've got to ask the right questions. I like to ask behavioural questions, so that the candidates share examples of what they have done before in similar environment (whether it be a sales, service or team situation).</div><div>I don’t ask a lot of questions, but really probe to make sure they give a lot of descriptive detail about the situation, how they handled it and what the outcome was. This provides the best evidence in an interview – and I get them to do a lot of talking so I can really observe their behavior.</div><div>I always couple an interview with other forms of assessment before making a hiring decision. This might include psychometric and/or cognitive assessment; roles plays, skills tests, group activities, discussion, or reference checks. It sounds complex, but can be done quite simply and gives me real evidence that ensures a big decision like hiring someone, is a sound one.</div><div>The Good and Bad of Performance Reviews</div><div>I have mixed views about performance reviews as they are so dependent on the business and its unique culture.</div><div>I think the main reasons people neglect this is lack of time and lack of training and confidence in actually facilitating such a conversation. Managers need support and access to good resources in addressing performance conversations. I hate seeing performance reviews being done as a tick box exercise without any meaning or substance.</div><div>Formal reviews aren’t always essential in my view. Some businesses use an informal approach really well and provide meaningful feedback, set objectives and develop their people in other ways. Others use a formal process and it is well designed, well delivered and well received. What is really critical though is that any type of reviews are 2 way, open, honest and linked to development plans – rather than a negative or critical experience.</div><div>I usually work with the business owner to develop and implement a way that works for them and helps them achieve their overall business strategy. I love helping managers have meaningful performance conversations and have worked with leaders of all types of business to achieve alignment through developing a culture of accountability.</div><div>And me? I think I have the best job in the world. I love the challenge of an ever evolving business discipline- you never feel like you have it totally worked out. It’s a great balance of legal governance (I love the problem solving), systems and process (I love organizing and structure) and people (I love coaching and developing people and teams to be the best they can) and above all I love business – achieving results and improving outcomes.</div><div>I'd love to help YOUR business be the best it can be. </div><div>Contact me right here to get your FREE business health check!</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>How Improving Workplace Communication can Boost Your Business</title><description><![CDATA[ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT HOW YOUR ORGANISATION IS BENCHMARKED AGAINST COMPETITION? SIGN UP FOR A FREE BUSINESS HEALTHCHECK!EVERYTHING DiSCSome of you might have heard of DiSC which is a personal development assessment that measures an individual's behavioural style. It is designed to help an individual understand his or her behaviour in the workplace, understand the behaviour of others and how to use this knowledge in different work situations.WHY IS THIS IMPORTANTPeople Engine have been working<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/73650e13e51eb7dd1978ab230d57d6c5.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Kayley Riddle</dc:creator><link>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2016/08/01/webinar-disc</link><guid>https://www.peopleengine.com.au/single-post/2016/08/01/webinar-disc</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:03:41 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/73650e13e51eb7dd1978ab230d57d6c5.jpg"/><div>ARE YOU CURIOUS ABOUT HOW YOUR ORGANISATION IS BENCHMARKED AGAINST COMPETITION? SIGN UP FOR A FREE BUSINESS HEALTHCHECK!</div><div>EVERYTHING DiSC</div><div>Some of you might have heard of DiSC which is a personal development assessment that measures an individual's behavioural style. It is designed to help an individual understand his or her behaviour in the workplace, understand the behaviour of others and how to use this knowledge in different work situations.</div><div>WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT</div><div>People Engine have been working with business leaders and teams to effectively improve communication and engagement through exciting workshops and coaching programs. Typical benefits from individuals include -</div><div>Increased self-awarenessStronger relationshipsMore effective communicationImproved people skillsMore effective conflict resolutionIncreased behavioural adaptabilityMore cohesive teamworkIncreased employee engagement; and more</div><div>Improving workplace communication can help teams deliver timely projects and smoothen execution, thus boosting healthier profits. The results are phenomenal. Watch this webinar Everything DiSC and Improving Communication!, where you will hear Matt Ryan from Integro discuss how you could create a DiSC culture to effectively improve workplace communication to boost your business.</div><div>LISTEN TO WEBINAR BELOW - EVERYTHING DiSC AND IMPROVING COMMUNICATION</div><div>Speaker: Matt Ryan from Integro</div><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nfyrGWijaNw"/><div>Topics:</div><div>Recognising DiSC Behavioural StylesUnderstanding needs driven behaviourTips for people reading using DiSCTips for writing emails to different DiSC stylesTips for running meetings that appeal to each DiSC styleCreating a DiSC culture in your organisation</div><div>SIGN UP FOR A FREE BUSINESS HEALTH CHECK &gt;</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>