Clients often ask us: “how do we create and maintain a positive organisational culture?” In the 13 years we’ve been operating, the answer hasn’t been identical for any two clients – no two businesses are ever the same. But the one theme that’s common to the otherwise bespoke solutions we’ve delivered has been to define, […]
Natasha Hawker, Founder and Managing Director of Employee Matters, was recently quoted in a Yahoo Finance article by Lollie Barr titled ‘Entitled’ young Aussies ditch one major Boomer rule – and I like it. Hawker discusses the significant shift in leadership traits among Gen Z, emphasising their advocacy for flexibility, empathy, and a focus on […]
Payroll is evolving into a powerful tool for boosting your organisation’s Employee Experience (EX) and Employee Value Proposition (EVP). Rather than being laborious and risk-prone, your payroll processes & systems could instead be boosting employee attraction, engagement and retention. In this webinar, Joel Smith (Affinity Payroll) and Natasha Hawker (Employee Matters) share insights and practical […]
Mining the value in your business Natasha talked with Joanna Oakey of Aspect Legal on the concept of employee engagement – what it is, how do you measure it, and how do you increase it. To help us give depth to this topic, we brought back Natasha Hawker of Employee Matters to talk about how […]
By Natasha Hawker Why are Australian businesses not reaching their potential when it comes to productivity? Currently we are lagging behind other OECD countries and our position is not improving. We are behind US, UK, Brazil and France, to name just a few. “Productivity is the real value of output produced by a unit […]
By Natasha Hawker People often ask me, if I could get one thing right around my people strategy, what would it be? Unfortunately, there is not one strategy that fixes everything. For example, I had a client that I initially went in to one day a week, to help with the HR for a period […]
Last week, I met Carol at the Coles checkout. I asked her (while she was serving another customer) whether they sold cool bags. She did not respond – not because she was ignoring me – but she didn’t hear me. That was when I saw that she had a hearing aid (in fact a cochlear […]
I was asked recently by a small business owner, “How do you get the right people on the bus?” A Mission critical question. As you would know, it’s not only about finding people with the right skills and experience for the specific role and team, it’s also about finding people who ‘fit’ culturally. To do […]
We are supposedly the happiest industrialised nation in the world but how are your employees fairing? Australia has been rated the happiest OECD country, with a Better Life Index of 84% of Australians being satisfied with their lives. Interestingly though, whilst we often say we are a nation of bludgers, we work some of the […]