(Pragnesh, far left) At Huse Hill Associates, we often take in interns and provide them with work experience and exposure to New Zealand blue-chip businesses. We currently have 3 interns working with us. Pragnesh has been studying towards a degree in management: “We are always looking for opportunities to fulfill our requirements. As a short […]

Habits are coping mechanisms we use in our everyday lives. When we carry out actions without conscious thought, we interact with the world through conscious actions, thinking about it, unconscious actions where we don’t think about it because we formed habit. So why do we form habits? We create habits through repeating task or action […]

Your eyes may be telling you lies as in lying by omission. While your eyes see images in the visual cortex, if your brain has no knowledge or experience of the image you are looking at, you do not see or comprehend it. This is what magicians use to create an illusion. However, once you […]

Recently I was asked to give a speech at a tertiary education provider that offered courses in business. I was in a list of other speakers who were faculty, academics, past students and other business leaders. The purpose of the presentation was to welcome new students to the school. I asked to speak last as […]

Performance Appraisals. Do those two words give you a shudder down your spine? Do you get knots in your stomach waiting to see what someone thought of your job performance over the last period? Appraisals are meant to give you an assessment of the work you have done since you were last assessed. A clear […]

I was in Australia last year running some training programmes, and while I was there I heard from a manager about a meeting in the corporate Head Office of Senior Management of HR and LMD where the topic of discussion was staff wellness. This focus was on staff physical health as well as their mental […]

Bill Gates once famously proposed the “Paperless Office”, where he would do all his business via screens instead of using paper. It sounds efficient. Less paper means less costs, less mess, more space, no need to hunt around for your pen and paper every time you write something down. For Bill Gates, this works brilliantly. […]

Think about your letterbox at home. Is it full of random letters and correspondence for every assignment or project you’ve ever worked on? Is it stuffed with every personal letter or parcel you’ve ever received? Every joke or funny story someone’s sent you? Is it over-flowing with random bits of material you never managed to […]

Every physical action has a mental component. As well as “we are what we eat”, we are what we think. Our mental diet is what we do for a job and has a big impact on our wellbeing and health. This comes from job satisfaction. High job satisfaction equates to good positive stress and the […]

I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Establishing an end objective to work toward is a great way to motivate yourself to buckle down and stay focused. But there’s somewhat of a fine line to walk when it comes to establishing goals that are a help instead of a hindrance. Set goals that are too […]