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The May edition includes:
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This practical NZ book on how to manage people was written by Elephant's own Angela Atkins. Angela's passion is making HR and training useful and practical, so Management Bites is written in an easy
to read, chatty style. Angela has included lots of real stories of things that have and haven't worked, including
mistakes she's made herself - because she didn't have this book!!
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At last! A practical guide to human resources - for anyone working in an HR role, or who has HR as part of their role (PA's, Office
Managers, small business owners, line managers, CEO's....). Employment Bites covers all the key areas of HR and is packed with
practical tools and techniques to put excellent HR into your company, real stories of what went right and wrong, case law, legislation,
and examples from NZ companies.
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HR Skills Builders
Sometimes in HR we are so focused on making sure our managers and employees have development plans in place, that we forget or don't have time to think about our own development! Or we struggle to find practical tools or suggestions to help. That's where this section comes in! At Elephant we believe you should 2 development plans in place (hey look, we're HR. We're allowed to break the rule of only having 1 development plan!!) The 2 plans you should are a Career development plan to build specific skills and experience related to all the different areas of HR for a generalist role. The second plan is your Personal Development Plan to use your strengths and develop your areas to improve how you practise HR. To get you started on your career development plan, we've been putting together skills builder documents which have a section on rating your skills, then writing out what experience you have and then some suggestions on building your skills and experience. We add to this each month: |
Refresh HR workshops Elephant run these workshops as a joint venture with HRINZ (HR Institute of NZ). They are short workshops which cover a range of HR topics. For the schedule of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin workshops visit HRINZ's website by clicking here! |
HR Products Peformance Reviews in a Box: Designed for use by SME's but could also be used by HR teams wanting a quick and easy way to put in place performance reviews. Performance Reviews in a box has all the templates and guides you'll need as well as KPI or KRA's you can add in to make it even easier! For an information sheet click here. To order yours today click here. HR Galaxy Game: We think you can make HR fun and put together the HR Galaxy Game! For more information click here. |
Articles
It's lonely at the top Article in Herald on Sunday in March, about Angela's new book and HR being a lonely role. To read it, click here.
Grow your HR skills Published in December issue of HR Magazine. To read it, click here.
Managing in High Heels Published on the Breeze's website in August 2009, find out lessons Angela learnt about being a female manager by clicking here.
Tackling Poor Performance Published in the NZ Herald, NZ Plumbing, NZ Business and more in July 2009. To check it out, click here.
HR that makes managers jump for joy! Published in the June 2009 HRINZ magazine. To read it, click here.
Employment Law Quiz! Published in the May 2009 Employment Today magazine. Test whether you're up to date with new legislation changes by clicking here.
HR Blogs
If you find a good blog, let us know!
HR Groups
Here are links to some of the HR groups around the world!