kez, Author at The HR Landscape
COVID Safe Plan – Prevention and Targeted Action

If you are one of the few business that are permitted to stay open during the Stage 4 restrictions, you must have a coronavirus (COVID-19) Safe Plan in place by 7 August 2020.
As a minimum your COVID-19 Safe Plan must include:
Actions to help prevent the …
Read MoreUndertaking a Workflow (Job) Analysis

A workflow (job) analysis is the process of identifying what tasks, activities and processes take place in order to achieve outputs. This analysis aims to uncover any inefficiencies, duplication/repetition or barriers in process, function or task to determine how an organisation can be more effective …
Read MoreLeadership Development Program

Great opportunity working with a progressive Catchment Management Authority in Victoria’s west.
Our brief was to design a leadership development program to guide the organisation and its people in the identification and development of potential leaders, whilst ensuring appropriate diversity across all job levels and job …
Structuring for the new ‘normal’ – Redundancies and lay-offs during Covid-19 pandemic

Analysts predict more than 1 million Australians will lose their job by November 2020 as result of Covid-19 and subsequent economic shutdowns.
Employers have been given greater powers to exercise workforce cost savings through temporary Award legislation amendments as a result of Covid-19, with employers applying …
Coronavirus – Employees stood down may be able to recover unpaid wages

Many employers are standing down employees amid the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Fairwork Ombudsman states that employers should exercise the option to stand down cautiously, because if they stand down their employees unlawfully, their employees may be able to recover unpaid wages.
This is due to …
Vietnam in-country workshop – ACCC

Showcasing our earlier work series.
The HR Landscape was fortunate to support the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in the design and facilitate of a three day in-country workshop to raise awareness and skills related to the selection, development and delivery of in-house training for regulators …
Gender Equality

As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2020 and the positive progress made around the world to improve gender equality, it’s important to revisit current work practices. Legislation and social movements continue to highlight the need for business to shift its focus on improve gender equality …
Read MoreShifting leadership behaviours – a performance conversation made easy

As part of our consulting work, we come across some interesting workplace environments. Some with exceptional leaders and others that need to work harder than most in shifting leadership behaviours in order to bring about improved business outcomes.
If your employee surveys are highlighting engagement issues, …
Leadership – the ability to unlearn

We research widely to inform our approach and advisory services. Time and time again we come across an article that encapsulates very simply what it truly means to be a leader. Mike Myatt and his summation of Miguel Helft’s assessment of a former Fortune 500 …
Read MoreObedience to Authority – A Workplace Study

Obedience to Authority – A Workplace Study
Obedience is a form of social influence where an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual, who is usually an authority figure. It is assumed that without such an order the person would not have …
Restructuring Organisations program feedback

This is what some of our delegates had to say about our 2 day pubic training program on ‘Restructuring Organisations- a process of design and change’ :
“A game changer for Board and Managers in terms of organisational design and change management. Thank you! An incredibly invaluable …
Four rational reasons to undertake a restructure and how to go about it

Improving performance starts with a good strategy to which structure, jobs, staff, business systems, processes and associated people and culture work practices are aligned. We call this organistional design.
When you know what you need to achieve and why you need to achieve it, then the …
Victory Offices – optimising employee engagement and workplace practices

The HR Landscape is pleased to be supporting Victory Offices, a publicly listed company on the Australian stock Exchange, in optimising employee engagement and workplace practices.
Victory Offices is the incubator of business success providing unique spaces, lounges, and opportunities for Members to future proof their …
Events – FY20 dates released for our public training programs

Registrations are now open! Our 2 day workshop and 1 day master classes provide great development opportunities you can attend or extend to your team and colleagues.
Check our programs on https://www.thehrlandscape.com.au/public-training-programs/
Customer Experience guaranteed:
A game changer for Board and Managers in terms of organisational design and change …
Benefit realisation – Opting into the future state

Benefit realisation and effectiveness of organisational change is a means of ensuring business outcomes are fully realised when people choose to opt into the future state. When the people side of change is overlooked, organisations need to work harder in understanding why the adoption of new work …
Read MoreLeadership Development Program – Pursue Your Potential

We were fortunate to partner with a progressive catchment management authority in Victoria’s north last year in developing their leadership program in the first half of FY17/18. We are now pleased to announce how they are progressing since implementation.
Firstly, about the leadership development program.
The framework …
People and Change Management

We explored a few approaches to people and change management in our recent presentation to students studying Masters of Management at the University of Melbourne, but we also focused on the ‘real’ challenges businesses are faced with when dealing with change and the importance of …
Read MorePeople and Change – Guest Presenter, University of Melbourne

Our Director Kez Tacar will be presenting to students of University of Melbourne’s Masters of Management class this coming Monday. Kez will be sharing her experiences to support students leanings on People and Change (strategy & organisational change).
Read MoreApproaches to managing reactions to change

Change is a process. Employees are comfortable with and prefer the current state. Transitioning through change creates stress and anxiety. In most cases, the future state is unknown or not well understood. In reality, each impacted employee has his or her own current and future …
Read MoreEmerging Leaders

We thought we’d share some feedback we received recently from a group of managers who attended our Emerging Leaders (Frontline Manager) program last month.
Rating Scores
Overall assessment of program – 45% Excellent / 55% Very Good
Overall assessment of facilitation – 64% Excellent / 36% Very Good
Was …
Workforce Reduction Strategies

Picture: Jason deCaires Taylor – Underwater Sculptures
When an organisation is faced with major budget challenges, there comes a critical decision point regarding workforce composition and numbers. Workforce reduction decisions need to be made relating to; the number of employees an organisation can afford; the positions …
Rebuilding the people agenda

Prominent, industry leading early education sector organisation engages The HR Landscape in rebuilding the people agenda
Read MoreHR Department Structure and Capability Review

Government
THRL undertook a comprehensive HR department structure and capability review to improve performance and align with the strategic directions of a large government agency. The process involved assessment of strengths, weaknesses and the introduction of improvements, in the context of broader business directions and best …
HR Departmental Structure Review

Education Sector
THRL was engaged to provide independent strategic HR advice and be a sounding board to the Executive Director People and Culture relating to HR departmental structure review and design of the HR department and the development of a HR Strategy and Plan. This included …
Job Analysis and Design – Free Offer!

Job analysis and design is a process of workflow analysis.
It is the process of identifying what tasks, activities and processes take place in order to achieve outputs. This analysis aims to uncover any inefficiencies, duplications/repetition or barriers in process, function or task to determine how …
Does your job suit your personality?
Certain personality types and styles gravitate to certain occupations.
When you have a well designed job matched up with the right person you are more likely to get better outcomes. The successful matching of a job-holder’s personality to the personality and unique requirements of the job …
Addressing leadership behaviours. A performance conversation you have to have.

As part of my consulting work, I come across some interesting workplace environments. Some with exceptional leaders and others that need to work harder than most in shifting leadership behaviours in order to bring about improved people and culture work practices.
If your employee surveys are …
How to keep your job when the threat of losing it is real

At some point in your career you are likely to experience a major change taking place in an organisation you work for that may impact the security of your job. With so much uncertainty, you still have choices. What you say and do, now until a …
Read MoreHR Reporting and Analytics Mad Men Style

Paraphrasing Joan Harris of Mad Men – You’re “…in charge of thinking of things before people know they need them.”
Convincing the C-suite with viable HR reporting and analytics is like selling ice to eskimos. The problem isn’t necessarily related to the importance of such data, …
The Big 4 blow up performance management reviews

Deloitte and Accenture will be shifting away from performance reviews as we know it and no doubt PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst and Young will be following suit. Microsoft and SEEK are getting rid of rankings and major Banks are likely to be next.
If you haven’t come …
Executive Coaching to enhance the performance of your team

Executive coaching is a solution-focussed approach to assisting individuals or teams to draw on their strengths and perform at their best. Executive coaches work with people to broaden their perspectives, increase their self awareness and craft strategies that will work for them in their particular …
Read More10 Steps to Successful Change Engagement

Success rate of change programs are not great. It’s in the execution that most fail. So how do you implement change and manage the complexities of human behaviour, when change is so personal?
The successful implementation of change is dependent on the way that people understand …
Leadership and Management capabilities

image: Good Boss / Bad Boss
To stay relevant, organisations require employees who are willing and able to perform at optimal levels. This isn’t something you can mandate. It requires leadership and management capabilities to create opportunities that are meaningful to the employee. According to the numerous …
Restructure Change Process Review – Health Services

The HR Landscape was recently engaged by a health services provider (government) to review the effectiveness of an implemented departmental restructure change process. The purpose of the review was to understand why the benefits of the changes had not been realised. Overall staff were less engaged …
Read MoreMoving deck chairs is not the solution to improving performance and culture change

There are many internal and external factors that influences an organisations strategic direction and ultimately how they are structured. Some of these factors are unavoidable but many can be foreseen and appropriately managed with the right planning. Internal workforce challenges however, aren’t that straight forward. …
Read MoreFeedforward when feedback is too confronting

Giving and receiving feedback is a key process for many organisations seeking to develop individuals and teams.
It offers insight into individual performance and leadership effectiveness. When specific feedback is received you know exactly what you did well, so you can replicate it and know exactly …
A Leadership reflection: “So this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun…”

It’s that time of the year where we reflect on our achievements and start to plan forward on opportunities and challenges learnt for a better or different year ahead.
At The HR Landscape, 2014 has been an extraordinary year supporting extraordinary leaders in realising their full …
‘One Team’ Programme

Attention Executive Officers. Are you seeking to build a unified leadership team in order to achieve strategic outcomes? Are behaviours getting in the way? Do you have a strategic imperative that needs to be addressed but progress is minimal because everyone is not on the same page?
The challenges cited above are some of the most common experienced by Chief Executives. Since 2007, The HR Landscape has supported many organisations through change and capability building programmes. With demand growing for such services we have designed a programme called ‘One Team’ to assist Executives and teams explore opportunities for change in culture and behaviours and to build sustainable strategies for improving individual, team and organisational performance
Read MorePathway to successful change

70% of change programs fail and 90% of the reasons for those failures are directly related to people.
It’s in the execution that most fail. So how do you implement change and manage the complexities of human behaviour, when change is so personal?
Presenting credible, reliable HR analytics

Presenting credible and reliable HR analytics with preventative strategies aligned with strategic business outcomes will significantly build greater awareness but above all, HR reports will become as important if not THE most important insight the business has of its performance.
Introducing meaningful and credible HR analytics …
What exactly is employee engagement and why should you as a business leader care?

We have been fortunate enough to draw on BlessingWhite’s XModel of Engagement to show case the various levels of employee engagement as part of our organisational change and development programs . Our blog is a snippet of the model and the five levels of employee engagement.
Read MoreAffordability and genuine productivity gains shape the new APS workplace bargaining policy

On 28th March, Senator the Hon Eric Abertz launched the new Commonwealth Public Sector Workplace Bargaining Policy. In his press release, Senator the Hon Eric Abertz emphasised that the new and improved Government Bargaining Framework is designed to enable taxpayers to receive greater value for …
Read More6 Approaches for the successful devolution of people management duties to line managers

Further to our popular post on ‘Critical HR issues in the devolution of people management duties to line managers’, we have developed six proven approaches in which HR professionals can implement to ensure improved stakeholder relationships and uptake of HR duties by line managers.
Identify and …
Read MoreExecutive Manager, Community Engagement and Investment

Join one of Victoria’s most progressive Catchment Management Authorities and lead community engagement and investment
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