by Nuture HR
Following the 2017 Budget, the announcement of a $100 million fund being pumped into the automotive supply chain business has hit like a thunder bolt.
This funding assistance for the car manufacturing industry will assist manufacturing organisations to increase technology skills across their workforces in preparation for changing careers.
Fostering technology skills can be actioned over the entire employee life-cycle to ensure relevance and success for future growth and sustainability, both for the employee and the organisation.
What are some of the things organisations can do to foster skill increases in technology?
Learning culture – Foster a learning culture where employees understand the need to continually learn to remain abreast of industry and technological advances.
Broader skill range – Create a broader skill and experiences range to ensure employees are able to adapt and embrace changing technology demands as required.
Multiple minds – Encouraging and rewarding a diverse range of mindsets, decision making can assist with generating a greater suite of ideas and suggestions to drive the organisation forward through the embracing of new and improved technologies.
For more information please contact a member of the team at Nurture HR Consulting. www.nurturehrconsuting.com.au
by Nuture HR
Recently I was asked how frequently my consultancy comes across mental health concerns in the workplace, within the same day I also spoke to a client about mental health in the workplace.
This led me to ask the question – are we as HR professionals doing all we can to assist organisations in supporting and addressing mental health in the workplace?
So what can we do to assist workplaces?
- Communicating the relevance and impact of mental health to the workplace
- Providing education to leaders and employees on how to identify and support mental health concerns
- Actively supporting individuals with mental health in returning to the workplace
- Driving a diverse and open culture in the workplace where mental health is openly spoken about
- Minimising stigma and stereotypes about mental health
- Ensuring workloads are manageable
- Designing roles and workplaces to reduce exposure to mental health concerns
- Making resources about mental health available to the workforce
- Building personal resilience within a workforce
- Reviewing and updating policies and procedures
- Proactively maintaining the conversation about mental health and wellness in the workplace
- Promoting early intervention and facilitating this
- Being available and responsive to assist employees and leaders with mental health concerns when they are identified
For more information on how to assist workplaces with mental health wellbeing please contact Eva and her team at eva@nurturehrconsulting.com.au
by Nuture HR
All of us, whether we want to or not, carry biases with us into the workplace based upon the environment we grew up in, our education, our life experiences and our values.
Most importantly, it is a matter of how we deal with these biases by understanding what they are, how they are formed and how we deal with these on a day to day basis to understand why we make / support certain decisions in the workplace.
How are biases formed?
Psychological scholars posit that biases are evolutionary adaptions. Mental shortcuts that reduce cognitive processing and free up the mind to complete other tasks. They typically lead to fast paced judgments that are made priority, in order to maintain basic survival. Though some seem irrational at times and cannot even be explained rationally, they have often been passed down through our genetics as a form of adaption.
Some types of bias include:
- Belief perseverance: once a belief is formed and a rationale has been developed it is very difficult to demolish it (Ross and Anderson 1982).
- Confirmative Bias: the tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring information that does not.
- Illusion of control: for example – lotto!
- Heuristics: mental shortcuts we all take to reduce complex judgements
What we can to do increase our self awareness around our biases?
- Recognise that we carry biases
- Define what these are
- Obtain all the facts before jumping to a conclusion regarding an individual or a matter and
- as the old saying goes don’t judge a book by its cover!
