I have visited many councils during the recent amalgamation period. Many managers have discussed with me the logistics of managing team members who are located some distance away from their usual office. Many have raised the difficulties this presents compared to their...

Recent research concluded that 1 million Australians live with depression and 2 million Australians live with anxiety.

It is likely that will either be you or someone that you know.

These mental health issues do not stop us from working, raising our families or engaging...

 You have read it correctly.  One million dollars. 

Psychiatrists provided evidence that her mental injury rendered her unable to return to work.  The woman worked in a NSW State government agency and experienced the bullying five years ago from two supervisors....

I have visited many councils during this amalgamation period. Many managers have discussed with me the logistics of managing team members who are located some distance away from their usual office. Many have raised the difficulties this presents compared to their previ...

In recent months I have been more intimately involved in the New South Wales Council amalgamation process.  Over the last few months, together with a colleague from the IR world, I  have been meeting many of the senior staff associated with the proposed amalgamations....

I have been asked to talk to a group of Human Resource managers involved in the current amalgamations of NSW Councils.  The request was broad and my colleague simply asked that I speak on how to maintain a positive culture during the coming months and years of the amal...

The NSW Local Government has commenced the Fit for the Future process for all NSW Councils.

Much is centred around the economic benefits for councils, rate payers and communities.

The impact for the staff both through the Fit for the Future process and the amalgmations t...

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When I presented at a HR conference in Sydney I challenged the audience on the question, "How many actively chose the members of their teams at work".  Not surprisingly no one did.  There was an expectation that a group of people put together as a 'team' would just wo...