Blog – PaySmart Thinks

If you thought our 8-week federal electoral campaign was long and drawn out, you can’t help but spare a thought for the Americans whose presidential primaries have been going on…

How does your business build workplace culture? Do your corporate values stay laminated to the kitchen wall, or do your employees live and breathe them? If it’s the latter, how…

The tinsel has been boxed up for another year, the staff have filtered back from summer holidays and schools are back into swing—always clear signals that another work year has…

“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get…

The tinsel has been up in the shops for weeks and it’s beginning to feel a lot like we’re on the home stretch for 2015 as we edge closer towards…

Continuing on last month’s theme that dealt with creating a healthy workplace culture to avoid burnout—this month, I’d like to extend the discussion to workplace bullying and how we can…

 “Burnout—the mental and physical exhaustion you experience when the demands of your work consistently exceed the amount of energy you have available— has been called the epidemic of the modern workplace.” — Harvard…

The art of minimising meetings In recent years I often found my days consumed by meetings, when as CEO, I actually needed time for the strategic thinking required to guide…

Smart technology is evolving so rapidly that many people believe Australia’s privacy laws have not sufficiently kept pace. Apps we freely use are feeding information on our patterns of behaviours…

These days, customers are spoilt for choice—whether they’re buying products or accessing services—their ability to shop around online makes it easy for them to find us, and our competitors! We…