Four skills of effective leaders in a crisis
Small business owners will inevitably face disasters and challenges while running and leading a small business, so you must be prepared to handle them. These four skills will help.
From elite athletes to remote workers: Lumin Sports pivots on the back of a $650,000 raise
Lumin Sports founder Ben Tripodi has adapted his elite athlete training software after identifying an opportunity in remote worker wellbeing.
JobKeeper, JobSeeker and… JobTrainer? Australia has one billion hours of borrowed time, and we need to use it
If the economy has shed one million jobs, then we’ve gained about one billion hours of available time, and it should be used for upskilling.
Being human: Three ways to be a better leader during in a crisis, and protect your bottom line while you’re at it
Business as we know it has changed, but effective leaders understand that organisations are made up of humans. Here's three ways to be more human in your leadership.
JobKeeper powers: How employees get paid, stand down orders explained, and penalties for rule breakers
What you need to know about paying JobKeeper recipient employees, issuing stand down orders, and what happens if businesses get it wrong.
Mic off, clothes on: Five ways to maintain your integrity and sanity when videoconferencing
When you’re running a videoconference, it’s easy to appear a bumbling fool. Here are some tips to ensure you finish the day with your integrity intact.
Five ways to stay productive and sane while working from home
With the increase in people working from home due to COVID-19, here are my five secrets to nailing this new way of work from day one.
Androgogic has had a fully remote workforce for 15 years: Here are five lessons learnt
Androgogic was founded almost 15 years ago with fully remote workforce as a fundamental tenet. Here's how to transiton your own business to remote working.
How to establish a new routine in a time of social distancing, according to an organisational psychologist
The COVID-19 pandemic is demanding that we quickly transition to a new way of living and working. Here's how to create a new routine and a new normal.
Staff working from home for the first time? These six tips will ease the transition
It’s absolutely possible to nurture productive, engaged and thriving teams when employees are working from home — but they'll need some leadership.
Six things to remember when laying off your staff
When you’re laying people off, it’s essential to do it right. Particularly when it’s in large numbers and chaotic circumstances like now.
Founders, fear and hibernation: Seven reasons startups should not make employees redundant
There are numerous reasons why hibernation is a vastly superior crisis response compared to redundancies. Here are seven.