As you might already know, my partner works in the media industry and I like to hear about what he does when he comes home just as he listens to me and my HR adventures for that particular day. He’s accompanied me to HR events and I like to go along to some of his events. I like to do this because I am interested in social media (not that that is all he does by...

Yes well it feels like there is a lot of focus on women and leadership at the moment. Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female prime minister Thursday after Kevin Rudd lost favor over mining disputes and his shelving of climate change initiatives. So for the Women of NSW we now have a female Premier, Kristina Keneally (@kkeneally), a female...

Welcome back everyone. Well you might still be on holidays but I’m back to work today and back blogging to ease you into the new work year. I thought I might start off with the HR Carnival as it’s something I’d like to get more involved with in 2010 (sounds like a New Years resolution doesn’t it?). In case you haven’t heard of HR...

This week I was fortunate enough to be asked to attend the Smarter Workforce Government Leadership Forum hosted by IBM in Canberra. I was invited by my Executive Director for HR because he needed to take along a Gen Y’er, and seeing as I was familiar with the technology being discussed it was a good opportunity for me to talk about this stuff and its application...