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In this issue:
Latest HR stats
Ninety-three percent (93%) of high performing companies utilise employee engagement surveys compared with 78% of lower performers.
Source: Talent Management Magazine
Quote of the month
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
Mark Twain
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A word from the MD, Peter Tobin
Welcome to another edition of Worklife News Alert. In this issue of Worklife News Alert, we are excited to introduce you to our new website at www.worklifeint.com. We hope our new website will be a great source of information, be easier to use, provide up-to-date facts on all our programs and more importantly provide research and news relevant to you!
Also this month, as well as our other regular segments, the feature article entitled “The many faces of redundancy” takes an honest, frank but uplifting look at how four professionals, and their employers, handled their redundancies.
I hope you enjoy this latest issue of Worklife News Alert, and as always, if you would like to tell us what you think why not email us with your comments and suggestions (click here to contact us now).
Dear Worklife
Each month Worklife answers your career development questions. To ask us a career development question, simply click here now. This month's Q&A looks at staying engaged in your current role:
Q: I am a HR professional planning my 2010 calendar now the new financial year has started. What do you think are the upcoming events that I need to be aware of in my planning?
A: There are a number of significant milestones facing HR practitioners as they plan for 2010 including (hopefully) a turnaround in the economy, emerging technologies, and the usual challenges of planning and managing budgets. From a careers perspective, we are already seeing small signs of increasing vacancies and a need to ensure the engagement of existing workers.
In the professional sector, Advertising and Marketing vacancies increased in June 2009 compared with previous months and in trades; wood workers, hairdressers, and food vacancies increased. Movements in these sectors may lead to increased competition and provide more negotiation power to applicants.
Many businesses, due to global economic pressures, are seeing a stagnant workforce where team members are staying put. This can lead to decreasing levels of engagement or lack of challenge, which we mentioned in last month’s newsletter. Implementing engagement strategies can assist in maintaining team member excitement for work and contributions.
Feature article: The many faces of redundancy
While much has been written about the downturn in the world economy of late, and the flow-on effect this situation is having on the majority of organisations and functions globally, it is important to remember that not all change is negative.
This month’s feature article comes from HR Magazine and discusses the effects, and many faces of, redundancy. The piece written by Sarah O’Carroll talks with four professionals about their experiences in being made redundant – everything from how the meeting was handled to what support they were offered post-employment. It is an honest and uplifting look at how redundancy and the outplacement support provided post-employment for all four professionals has led each of them in a new, positive direction. To read the article, click here.
 What's new on the web?
Check out www.worklifeint.com
Worklife International (“Worklife”) is proud to launch our newly re-developed website. Redesigned with our clients and coaches in mind, the new website:
- contains up-to-date information and flyers;
- has quick and easy online registration forms for all of our programs;
- includes fact sheets and order forms for our products; and
- links to back issues of Worklife News Alert and other important news.
Log on today and tell us what you think to win some exciting prizes! Click here to find out how.
What's happening at Worklife this month?
Worklife has begun the new financial year with many changes. Here is a look at what is happening this month:
- Job Readiness Workshop
Some organisations are restructuring their business in small but significant ways during these tough economic times. The result may be redundancies. Our Job Readiness workshop is a one-day workshop to help displaced team members turn around their situation and re-engage with the workforce. We present this workshop in-house if you have a number of team members or if you have one or two displaced team members they can attend a public workshop conducted in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne each month.
To read more about the Job Readiness workshop, click here.
- NEW Worklife Website
One of the most exciting changes for Worklife in July was the introduction of our new website. See “What’s new on the web?” for more details.
Also, log onto our new website and take a few minutes to tell us what you think to be in the running to win some exciting gifts from Worklife – see the homepage for more details.
- Redevelopment of the Career Coach Certification Program... Now 2 days!
In response to feedback from our clients and coaches, Worklife has undertaken a major rewrite of the materials and content of the CCCP. One of the biggest changes has seen the program revised down to TWO DAYS face-to-face learning, as well as pre and post workshop readings and activities. To read the announcement, click here.
- CCCP Incentives
Worklife continues the incentive to attend CCCP. From now until the end of 2009, all registrants of a CCCP will receive a Worklife Coaching Toolkit (valued at $295) as a gift when you register and attend a workshop. Click here for more details on the Coaching Toolkit.
- CCCP Dates
With the change to CCCP materials and content, the updated CCCP dates for 2009 are:
Sydney
10 to 11 August
9 to 10 November
Melbourne
24 to 25 August
23 to 24 November
New Zealand
8 to 9 September
Click here to find out more about CCCP
Click here to email your interest
Click here to visit our online registration
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