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Managing international employees
01 Feb 2017 • Kenelm Tonkin
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Starting a new job: some advice!
27 Sep 2016 • Kenelm Tonkin
Starting a new job is an exciting and even nerve-wracking time. You want your first day of work to go well. Using his 16 years experience employing more than 1,400 staff, Kenelm Tonkin offers 5 tips for your first day, week and month. The first will surprise you.

Interview questions to ask
17 Feb 2015 • Kenelm Tonkin
If you really want to cut to the chase in an interview, skip the questions about qualifications and skill. Instead, move immediately to understand the character of the person in front of you with this handy checklist of 14 interview questions to ask.

Q&A: When trust is irreparably damaged
19 Jan 2013 • Australian Financial Review
A shocked entrepreneur is tipped-off by a rival proprietor that his managing director is divulging confidential information about the company, including revenue, profit and key staffing intelligence. In such an emotionally charged situation, Kenelm Tonkin advocates a steady, clinical approach, but with a surprising post script.

Competitor's P&L actually a Trojan Horse
17 Jan 2013 • Human Capital Magazine
What can seem like a stroke of luck might actually warn the busy entrepreneur. There are few temptations greater than a candidate from a competitor handing over a confidential profit and loss report. What would you do? In this real-life situation, Kenelm Tonkin advises a torn business owner.

Q&A: Do not play favourites
24 Sep 2011 • Australian Financial Review
A well-meaning business owner indulges staff in private audiences and seeks to train people who report to employed managers. Kenelm Tonkin makes a prediction about the company which any entrepreneur in this situation should keenly note.

Q&A: Underhand moves call for strategic rethink
13 Aug 2011 • Australian Financial Review
An entrepreneur has a revolving door with staff because former employees are poaching the insiders. With a hint of desperation, she draws on Kenelm Tonkin's experience who recommends a series of defensive investigations and attacking postures, including targeted counter-punches from headhunters and lawyers.

Reweaving the tattered threads of a cultural divide
21 Jul 2011 • Human Capital Magazine
Managing a culturally diverse workforce is an important skill for any business founder. Entrepreneurs, who set the tone for their ventures, must culturally harmonise and rally their workforces, rather than impose and sanitise. This probing discourse outlines four themes to apply and introduces the idea of a "culturebank."

Q&A: Vampire on the payroll
25 Jun 2011 • Australian Financial Review
Worthy of special mention, this question and answer reveals the #1 recruitment lesson for business owners. The actual situation should be committed to memory. It is bound to repeat itself with slight variations sooner than you imagine. The advice is priceless!

Q&A: Don't make one-glass policy the norm
28 May 2011 • Australian Financial Review
An entrepreneur discovers his employed manager allows alcohol in the office during working hours, so plays the hardline only to later second-guess himself . This Q&A discusses typical staff justifications to allow alcohol and outlines clear cut reasons to disallow it.

Social media at work: censor it or leverage it?
29 Apr 2011 • Benchmarking HR
From the Gutenberg press to telegrams, from fax to email, business communication is evolving and business owners must adapt to it. This article examines the latest manifestation, social media, including counter-productive employer responses to its adoption and the advantages of embracing its rise.

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