Guides
Practical guides for the people part of work
Straight-talking, AU/NZ-specific writing on psychosocial safety, workplace culture, retention, performance and leadership, drawn from Melanie Sisson's 20 years of HR and culture consulting.
Workplace culture: what it is, and how to actually change it
A practical guide to what workplace culture actually is, why measuring it changes nothing on its own, and a grounded model for changing it for real.
Psychosocial safety at work: the AU/NZ duty, explained
A practical guide to the psychosocial safety duty across Australia and New Zealand, and how to turn everyday people data into audit-ready evidence.
Employee retention: why people stay, and why they leave
A practical guide to what actually keeps people at your organisation, what pushes them out, and what to measure and act on before you lose them.
Continuous performance: beyond the annual review
Why the annual review is fading, what continuous performance management looks like in practice, and how to shift without adding admin.
Choosing an employee-experience platform in AU/NZ
A practical AU/NZ buyer's guide to employee-experience platforms: the categories on the market, the criteria that matter, and the question most vendors skip.
Why employees leave (and the signals you already have)
The common reasons people resign, and the everyday people data that shows the signals long before they hand in their notice.
Stay interviews: the retention tool most teams skip
What a stay interview is, how it differs from an exit interview, the questions to ask, and how to act on what you learn.
Pulse survey questions that actually tell you something
What makes a pulse survey question worth asking, the traps that quietly ruin your data, and an example question bank grouped by theme.
How to run a psychosocial risk assessment (with a template)
A step-by-step guide to running a psychosocial risk assessment, plus a hazard-register template you can adapt.