A Position Description describes the knowledge, skills, abilities, and duties of a specific position. It must include a breakdown of essential job functions.

Use this easy visual guide to ensure your team members desk setup at work and/or at home is ergonomically sound.

This checklist will support you in putting remote and working from home arrangements in place.

On occasion you will find yourself needing to commence a formal performance disciplinary process. We’ve developed a Process Guide and Tip Sheet to help you feel confident you’re lawfully compliant, supporting performance improvement of the individual and maintaining their engagement and your work culture.

Application screening is a desktop exercise. This helps you to shortlist to refine the applicants to a group you will (phone screen if applicable, and) interview, to further test they meet your key selection criteria. Rate each applicant against the items in column 1, replacing ‘key selection criteria’ with what the actual criteria is, total at the bottom. Progress the top 3 – 7 highest ranking applicants to the next stage of your recruitment process.

Follow this guide to ensure your new employee is onboarded to your business well, feels connected as a team member from the day they accept your offer of employment and are setup to succeed from commencement

One key element of retaining people is to show genuine interest and care in them as a person, in their job satisfaction and career progression. Stay interviews can be impactful for this purpose.

Stay interviews are best when framed as ‘check-in conversations about job satisfaction’. Ideally they are conducted by the leader one level above the team members direct manager, though this depends on the size and structure of your organisation.

To achieve the intended benefit (and avoid cynicism), you need to be open to hearing things you may not know about your organisation, your team member’s experiences and their retention needs.

Usually these conversations lead to some action, changes, opportunities and it’s best to follow up down the track to retain the connection you make and check on how things are going.