Not Work Ready

Why Young Staff Leave in the first 90 days When young staff leave after a couple of months, it’s easy for businesses to feel frustrated. They’ve spent time advertising, interviewing, onboarding, training and answering questions, only for the young person to resign, disengage or disappear before they’ve properly settled. But what if the first 90 days aren’t just a probation period for the young per...

Stop Blaming Staff. Start Fixing Systems. When staff leave, performance drops, or workplace culture starts to suffer, organisations often look for someone to blame. Is it the young staff? The supervisor? HR? But what if we're asking the wrong question? In this episode of Not Work Ready , I explore why many workplace challenges aren't actually people problems—they're systems problems. We unpack wha...

Most workplace mentoring programs don't fail dramatically. They don't end with a formal announcement or a decision to shut them down. More often, they slowly fade away. Meetings get postponed, mentors become too busy, mentees stop engaging, and eventually the program becomes something everyone quietly stops talking about. In this episode of Not Work Ready , I explore the five common reasons mentor...

A lot of workplaces are asking the same question right now: “How do we keep young staff?” In this episode of Not Work Ready , I explore why many young people don’t actually leave because work is hard — they leave because the environment around the work feels difficult to settle into. I unpack the social and emotional side of employment that workplaces often underestimate, including the importance...

Young people who are quiet in the workplace are often misunderstood. Managers may assume they lack initiative, confidence, communication skills, or interest in the role. But in many cases, quietness is actually a sign of overwhelm, anxiety, uncertainty, or fear of getting something wrong. In this episode of Not Work Ready , I unpack why young staff sometimes go quiet at work, what workplaces often...

Episode 1: When Mental Health Starts Affecting Work Mental health issues don’t always show up at work as “mental health issues.” They often show up as lateness, withdrawal, poor communication, low confidence, emotional reactions, repeated mistakes, avoidance, conflict, or someone slowly disengaging from the workplace. In this first episode of Not Work Ready , I talk about what happens when mental...