Staff Welfare

Follow this link to my presentation on Staff Welfare delivered 26 April 2010 to the Indian National Police Academy, mid-career training program.

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Engage Now

Research from Tower Perrin flagged employee disengagement as a global epidemic. Various studies support this with findings with results such as: only 34% of Indian workers being fully engaged (Akhilesh & Das 2008); or 21% of Australian workers being actively disengaged (Gallup 2008).

The tools of engagement are not complex. The rules of engagement do not require an exercise in intellectual agility.

• listen: genuinely
  
• give direction: show the way and the link between individual and organisational objectives
  
• give recognition: survey after survey show that more than anything else, people want to be valued
  
• give feedback: good and bad; but give it often and be timely
  
• nurture your staff: they are a big investment and ongoing investment will return dividends


• show respect: respect will be reciprocated; so will lack of respect


• support your staff: encourage them to succeed; support them to learn from failure

Concepts in HR

I have been inspired in the past week to rethink and rejuvenate. Whilst there is a wealth of Human Resources discussion on the net, I see little which focuses on simple, straight forward and practical ideas.

Last week I chaired a meeting of the heads of HR from counterpart agencies from across the States and Territories (of Australia). It was largely free flowing with a very loose agenda. Yet it was a very profound sharing of ideas and experience; and of pitfalls and successes.

I left the discussion energised.

If I look at the series of successful conference presentations I have given over the past few years (at least I hope they were successful) - I realise that the success is down to the context of stories I'm telling. Real stories of success and failure: of practical down-to-earth HR solutions to down-to-earth HR problems.

This blog series will focus on just that: simple tools - simple stories.