One of the Best People Management Practices: Empowering Your People
As a manager, actively empowering your employees can significantly impact your success. Empowering your employees means giving them the autonomy and resources to make decisions and take responsibility for their work. At Clicks we’ve found that empowering our people is one of the most effective ways to increase employee satisfaction, improve productivity, and drive growth. …
How to Motivate Employees That Work From Home… Or Anywhere
COVID-19 forced many organisations to move their entire workforce to a work-from-home model. With restrictions lifting, Clicks, like many companies, shifted to a hybrid model. We’ve learnt a lot about remote work over the past few years. With our Employee Engagement Survey results currently at 92% favourable, we wanted to share our top tips on…
How to Conduct Stay Interviews to Improve your Staff Retention Rates
If you’ve ever wondered what makes your staff happy or why they choose to stay – you don’t need a crystal ball. You just need to ask. After all, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Conducting stay interviews is a great way to understand what motivates your team members to remain in their roles…
Why Leadership Development Should be on the Agenda for All HR Teams
It is often said, “People leave managers, not jobs”. In my personal and professional experience, this is often the case. After all, people tend to look to their leaders to lead, inspire, and motivate. When expectations are not met, disengagement creeps in. Managers can become the source of frustration, mistrust, resentment, or even anxiety. These…
Top Tips for Getting the Best out of Your Hybrid Team
Entire workforces rapidly transitioned to remote work at the outbreak of COVID-19. Almost overnight, workers proved their ability to remain productive and engaged despite not being in the office. This challenged long-held misconceptions by more conservative leaders about remote work. Employee and job seeker expectations also shifted, seeking greater flexibility. As a result, hybrid teams…
The Great Resignation Australia
What Aussie Employers Can Do To Combat The Great Resignation The Great Resignation or the Big Quit – whatever you call it – it’s coming. And it has the potential to significantly impact your business. So far in the US, 4 million workers have quit their jobs in the last month alone – setting record…
6 Easy Ways to Boost Employee Engagement
Reflecting on last year, I am immensely proud of the team at Clicks who haven’t missed a beat to continue to deliver great service to our clients, contractors, and candidates. From our Operations and IT team to our Account Managers, Consultants, Contractor Care, and Leadership team; it has been great to see everyone pull together…
What We Can Learn From Jacinda’s Leadership Style
My mother always told me that polite conversation should never include politics or religion. Whilst Jacinda is inarguably a politician, today’s blog focuses not on her politics, but her leadership. Mum, if you’re reading this, I’m sure you’ll let me off the hook this once. I’ve been watching Jacinda Ardern’s career with interest since she…
Ways to Boost Staff Morale in a Remote Work Environment
When I think back on some of my best work memories, they’ve included adventures after Christmas parties that ended with sore feet and a sore head the next day, and pit stops for kebabs. Or that time when my colleague made me laugh so hard that I snorted my drink out through my nose and…
Redeploying Your Workforce in Response to a Crisis
The redundancies that so often accompany organisational restructure can be highly disruptive. Damage is done to the morale of those left behind, highly trained and loyal workers are lost, and years of in-depth specialist knowledge walk out the door, at an incalculable cost to replace. Redeployment is a preferable option, balanced with the use of…