The People Powered Business Podcast

Hello, and welcome to Episode 256 of the People Powered Business Podcast! In today’s episode I am bringing you an excerpt from a best of episode of the podcast – today I am sharing my proven framework for effective resume screening. The thing is, when we are short on applicants for a role, our usual screening methods tend to go out the window, and as a result we don’t shortlist effectively, which...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 255 of the People Powered Business Podcast! In today’s episode I am bringing you the first of our tech tips for 2025. Each month I’m going to be dedicating one episode to sharing with you how you can leverage new technologies to help with your HR. Today we are looking at how you can use AI to help with your recruitment campaigns, and I’m focusing on specifically how I...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 254 of the People Powered Business Podcast! In today’s episode I’m joined by Lexi Smith, Founder and Financial Coach with Moneyvine. Lexi helps individuals and couples gain clarity, create a plan and take confident steps with their money. In 2020, after a decade as a Financial Adviser, she side-stepped into Financial Coaching. She has an energetic ENTP personality, wh...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 253 of the People Powered Business Podcast! In today’s episode I’m following up on last weeks episode where is shared 5 strategies to help set your team up for success in 2025. Today I am sharing my top predictions for your team for 2025. My 5 top team predictions are: Job mobility will be on the rise: for a range of reasons, I believe we are heading into a season whe...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 252 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Happy 2025 to you! I’m wishing you all a wonderful start to this year. In today’s episode I’m sharing 5 strategies to help set your team up for success in 2025. Specifically, we’re looking at: Setting Clear Goals and Expectations – both at a team level and for your individual team members. Setting Up Effective Communication...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 251 of the People Powered Business Podcast! In today’s episode I am sharing a conversation which we had over on the Grow Your Influence podcast, where my cohost Juliet Robinson and I were talking about dealing with difficult people at work – in fact it’s one of our most popular episodes ever! We waste so much time and energy dealing with people who behave badly. Often...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 250 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Today we are celebrating 250 Episodes 🥳 To celebrate, I’m recapping our top 10 most listened to episodes, and one takeaway from each. Here is the list: # 10 – Why KPI’s are Critical to Team Success (Episode 122) # 9 - Why Hiring (and holding onto) the Wrong People Impacts Team Morale (Episode 159) # 8 – How To Motivate Dise...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 249 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Wow! Isn’t December just the gift that keeps on giving? In today’s episode I’m bringing you a raw and honest conversation about what I’m noticing right now – because it is utter chaos! There are big decisions being made, huge reactions, overwhelm and high stress. Today I share with you that one of my secret super powers is s...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 248 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Can you believe it’s already December? I’m excited because inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month! I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 247 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Can you believe it’s already November? I’m excited because Inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month! I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 246 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Can you believe it’s already November? I’m excited because Inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month! I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 245 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Today on the podcast I’m joined by Ryan Griffin, MD of Chunky Duck, to talk about leading and managing a remote team. Like many of us entrepreneurs, Ryan’s journey to his current business has not been a straight line. Initially a professional baseball player, he returned to Australia ready to start his career in digital mark...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 244 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Can you believe it’s already November? The year is flying by, and here we are with another important topic for business owners just like you. In today’s episode, we’re diving into an area that’s critical but often misunderstood: redundancies. Recently, I’ve been hearing about a surge in redundancies, especially in business g...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 243 of The People Powered Business Podcast! In today's episode, we’re exploring a topic that is no longer just a ‘nice-to-have’ for organisations but an absolute necessity—workplace flexibility. We’ve touched on some of the legalities and frameworks before, but today, we’re going to dive deeper into why flexibility is a critical component of retaining top talent. What...

Hello and welcome to Episode 242 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we’re diving into a fundamental piece of legislation that every small business owner in Australia needs to be aware of: the National Employment Standards, or NES. If you’ve ever wondered what your minimum obligations are as an employer, or if you want to make sure you’re compliant with Australian employment laws, then t...

Hello and welcome to Episode 241 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Today we are bringing you a discussion from the archives, that we featured back on Episode 128 of the podcast, and that has proven to be one of our most popular episodes yet! In this discussion I am joined by Charissa Lim of Impact Persona to chat all things Psychometrics Assessments, especially in the recruitment process. Ch...

Hello and welcome to Episode 240 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are continuing the conversation on performance reviews, but shifting to a sightly more practical, and sometimes challenging element of the review process – setting Key Performance Indicators – or KPIs as part of the review. In this discussion I unpack the synergy between KPIs within Position Descriptions and at revie...

Hello and welcome to Episode 239 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are continuing the conversation on performance reviews, but today we are focusing on retention – and looking at how conducting effective performance reviews improves retention and reduces turnover. We kick off this episode by taking a look at some of the ways reviews create engagement and ultimately this drives impro...

Hello and welcome to Episode 238 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are continuing the conversation we started last week on performance reviews, but today we are focusing on timing – and looking at how often you should be doing performance reviews. We start today's episode by discussing how the regularity of reviews impacts engagement and productivity. I shared some statistics and da...

Hello and welcome to Episode 237 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are tackling a topic that I know many business owners struggle with, and that is conducting effective performance reviews. Maybe you can relate. Perhaps you’ve found that your reviews aren’t very meaningful, or that you want it to be consistent – but time constraints get in the way. Maybe you aren’t sure what questio...

Hello and welcome to Episode 236 of The People Powered Business Podcast. We talk a lot in business and leadership circles about our communication styles don’t we? About how we deliver our message, how we give feedback, the words we use, our tone, pace, timing. We talk a lot about talking, but less about listening, so that’s what we’re tackling today. In today’s episode we look at why listening eff...

Hello and welcome to Episode 235 of the People Powered Business Podcast! Today I am delighted to be joined by guest expert Stacey Hughes from Stacey Hughes Co to talk all thing Meta and LinkedIn paid ad campaigns for your recruitment projects. Stacey spent years learning how to craft compelling recruitment ad campaigns via Meta in her Allied Health practices, and now specialises in working with bu...

Hello and welcome to Episode 234 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are answering a question from our listener Virginia who asks: "How do you pass on feedback regularly to let staff know they’re doing good (other than saying that… it gets repetitive and seems… contrary?) What are appropriate ways to show your appreciation?” What a great question! To help answer this I am going to zoo...

Hello and welcome to Episode 233 of The People Powered Business Podcast. Did you know that nearly 46% of new hires fail? Almost half! If you have ever been through a recruitment process for it only to end in disaster you will know the pain, frustration, cost and time associated with having to start the process again. The good news is it doesn’t have to be this way! By following a few fundamental t...

Hello and welcome to Episode 232 of the People Powered Business Podcast. Today we are taking a look at an important HR metric that every organisation should be measuring – employee turnover. We start by defining employee turnover, and the different types of turnover we may want to measure. We then look at why it’s such an important metric to measure, no matter the size of your business. And then i...