16 01, 2018

Playing Nicely In the Workplace Sandpit

2018-01-18T17:58:38+08:00January 16th, 2018|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Peer Support Products, Training & Development|

Rates of sexual assault and harassment as well as threatening or abusive conduct have been declining in the public sector. Worryingly however, reports of bullying, racism and discrimination are on the increase. The annual WA Public Sector Commission 2016/17 report revealed that 534 minor misconduct complaints were received during that year. Comprising of 969 separate allegations, 64% (621 complaints) were regarding staff behaviour with almost one third of those

6 11, 2017

Mirror Mirror On the Wall

2018-01-18T18:41:57+08:00November 6th, 2017|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Psychosocial Risk Management, Workplace Investigation Services|

I recently read that a particular world leader receives folders twice a day ‘full of positive news stories, tweets praising him and sometimes pictures’ of himself on TV ‘looking powerful’. It is a level of narcissism uneasily reminiscent of the evil queen in Snow White and her mirror on the wall. As I watch current developments around the world, it reminds me of an article published in the February

22 04, 2017

Crisis Management Planning

2018-01-18T18:28:44+08:00April 22nd, 2017|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Peer Support Products, Psychosocial Risk Management, Training & Development|

Many organisations avoid the issue of crisis planning, as if anticipating a crisis is tempting fate. Establishing a set of basic crisis management procedures, which can be used in any organisation from a school to a major industrial centre can be done using four steps: Determine the major categories of crisis events that may occur in the organisation. Crises can be divided into three types, people crises, natural disasters

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