Skills Training Reminders
04 / 10 / 2016
Yesterday I did a toolbox talk in the office, the first in quite some time. The phrase “toolbox talks” was imported from the language of construction site training. A toolbox talk is an informal safety meeting, generally conducted at the job site prior to the commencement of a job or work shift. The talk covers special topics on safety aspects...
What’s Wrong With Having a Tattoo on My Face?
29 / 09 / 2016
Tattoos stir strong feelings. Last year journalist Bill Borrows wrote in The Telegraph that tattoos are: “ugly and utterly pointless. How have we come to believe that tacky sentiments or lazy quotes inked indelibly into a man's skin are the sign of a profound and interesting person?” It wasn’t so long ago that tattoos were the trademarks of the hell...
Transgender People at Work
28 / 09 / 2016
In the films, Anything and Reassignment, Hollywood has been under attack for using cisender actors (non trans) but whose gender matches their ‘’assigned’’ sex at birth in transgender roles. Cisender = denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex; not transgender. Members of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT)...
A Match Made In An Office.......
22 / 09 / 2016
People get extraordinarily excited over celebrity break ups. You’d have thought the world had come to an end the way social media and news rooms reacted over Angelina Jolie’s application for divorce ending her 12 year relationship and two-year marriage with Brad Pitt.’ The two met each other in 2004 on the set of one of their movies Mr &...
Having a Laugh
16 / 09 / 2016
They say laughter is the best medicine and there is substantial medical evidence that the more you laugh, the greater the health benefits, both long and short term. Chez Russell HR Consulting the workflow is fast, the problems tough, discussions are often complex and the environment can be challenging, both mentally and emotionally. We have to manage not just the...