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Selection of Poetry composed by Mel Clifford. Additional poems kindly provided with the permission of the authors.

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Never Lose the Child Within - Your World of Business.

What you create in your life will either support you or hinder you in what you want to achieve. Like the culture you create and support within your organisation, it can make the Company great or destroy it – everyone has a part to play including you. Why do we lose the child within us when we enter the world of Business?

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What makes a great organisation – Its People?

Yes the Focus is on YOU

Most organisations generally do what is expected of them.  They have all the right policies, the right slogans and they have written somewhere maybe on the Company walls, their vision mission and values.  The issue is that  most Companies don’t pay any attention to their stated values [...]

The People Business

Know Your People

What makes a great HR Director?

It is my opinion that most of the time over 95% of the employees within an organisation would not recognise their HR Director even if they were standing in front of them.  They may have seen at some stage a photograph of them but [...]

Leadership requires courage not excuses

Step out from the others

“How to stop the worrying and learn to love the job”- article written by Wallace Immen for the Globe and Mail daily newspaper.  The article was based on an interview with Graham Jones who is a Psychologist and Leadership Consultant.  The article was mostly around the pressure of [...]

Who are they protecting?

Rotten to the Core

It seems to me that there are more rules and regulations in place to protect those that waste Government money then there are to protect those that just want to do a good job within the Public Sector.  Protecting those that make claims of false and excessive expenses, those [...]

Who Has The Map?

I was once informed that if you watch any tourist couples in any city around the world that in the morning time (AM) the males will have control of the tour guides and city directional maps.  In the afternoon (PM time) the women will have control of the maps.  For over one hour [...]

Human Resources (HR) what function does this department actually do?

People at Work

How many times have organisations changed the functional name of the department or section that considers itself with the responsibilities for their employees?  What is this department called in your business? Here are some of the names I have come across over the years:-

Personnel Department Human Resources Department Talent [...]

Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Blind or What?

If you had a team of people working for you who were guilty of the following actions and who ran your business into the ground and left generations to come with an enormous debt because of their inabilities and self greed, what would you do?

Charge Sheet

Totally incompetent [...]

When it's rotten throw it out

Rotten Apples

Yet again more rotten apples in the barrel.  I have written before about people taking personal responsibility and accountability for their actions.  It seems to me that these values and qualities do not exist within the Government ranks for certain Politicians and Senators.  Again we see more issues of miss spending. [...]

Six Steps to Achieve a Better Interview Experience

Getting it Right

Interviews for a new job/position can be a very positive experience and learning opportunity for both the interviewee and interviewer, if you prepare correctly.

It is amazing how many individuals fail to prepare properly, even the basics.  I have seen candidates not knowing what they have written in their Curriculum [...]