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Organisational leaders are being driven to focus on, and enhance communications with their team members like never before. Whilst that’s easily requested, it can be fraught with challenges. In this article we share a few lessons, hard-learnt, by others.

As a leader, hands up, who is having fun?

The Government recently announced a new round of funding for business support, to be deployed through the Regional Business Partner Network (RBP).

Ken Brophy, Director, K3 Consulting

Like many of us in NZ, I am writing this from the pleasant surrounds of my lounge, with the rest of my family ‘getting dibs’ on the more appropriate working spaces…but hey, none of them have the basketball hoop this close for the mini breaks!

So here we find ourselves, in lockdown. I think it would be fair to say that many of us are disappointed, having hoped that ‘herd immunity’ might have been achieved through vaccination roll out, but not surprised that we are here again.

Ken Brophy, Director, K3 Consulting

It is easy for employers to fall into a trap of considering that their reasons for issuing a warning or terminating an employee, justify getting to an outcome, regardless of the process followed. Perhaps a manager will consider a process as “red tape” that doesn’t help them get the business outcomes they want.

The Government has passed the Holidays Amendment Bill, regarding sick leave, to increase the minimum employee paid sick leave entitlement from 5 days per year to 10 days per year.