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Robyn Pearce: One family's solution to motorway time-wasting
COMMENT: Lateral thinking helps family out of a traffic situation.
Robyn Pearce: Don't do emails first thing in the day
COMMENT: Set yourself regular checking times, but not in your prime creative time.
Authenticity key to success
Sometimes the best thing to do in professional life is simply be yourself, advises Alex Malley
Helping out lends a hand to CV
Volunteering is about more than making the cups of tea - it can be a valuable tool to boost your resume and increase your employability.
Robyn Pearce: The magic bullet that will give you more time
Sometimes the answer is just to do less.
Living a portfolio life
Remember dipping into a bag of mixed lollies - how each sweet was delicious and offered the variety you craved? Workers are now using this approach to create the same in their careers
Tom O'Neil: First person perspective
On the whole, technology has benefited humanity greatly, especially us Kiwis stuck at the bottom of the globe.
Staying power the key to success
Danielle Wright discovers the best way to get out of a job rut may be just to stay put
Push to boost paid parental leave
Babies and parents mobilise for 26 weeks' paid parental leave
Career Coach: Yes, you still need strong communication skills
Arne Sorenson recently shared his views on what employers are looking for in their new hires at an event at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The time saving chart that made money
Many clients over the years, both in groups and one-on-one coaching with me, have shared the frustration of trying to keep up with follow-up of some kind, Robyn Pearce writes.
The best career advice I ever had
It can be years before you begin to heed that well-intentioned career guidance
App saves Health & Safety paperwork
Onside has launched an online health and safety app for farmers to make compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 easier.
3 reasons a good handshake will help you at work
Why exactly do we feel the compulsion to shake hands when we're saying hello, making a deal, or burying hatchets?
Spider bite brings loo break to painful end
A 21-year-old needed hospital treatment after being bitten on the penis by a redback spider while sitting on the toilet in Sydney.
Editorial: Health and safety must be core ethos
People should be able to come home at the end of their working day. In New Zealand, that is less sure than in Australia or the United Kingdom.
Affco: War of the works
A cleaner caught on a meat hook in a terrible workplace accident has lifted the lid on simmering tensions at the country's largest meat works.
Only one woman named CEO of a major company
Just four percent of S&P 500 CEOs are women. Only 19 percent of those companies' board members are women.
How to prevent meetings from stealing time
A well-run, on-target meeting is a key form of business communication. The key is good planning and follow through, writes Robyn Pearce.
Harold Hillman: 'No' doesn't have to be a bad word
COMMENT: How many excuses have you invented to avoid saying that two-letter word?
What to do when someone pulls rank?
COMMENT: It isn't that rank itself is the problem. What is an issue is the abuse of rank or power in the workplace.
Robyn Pearce: Clearing out clutter can change lives
COMMENT: What great places or organisations do you know that can benefit from our 'junk'?
Gordon MacDonald: Updated law encourages everyone to help keep our team safe
COMMENT: No one wants to see a worker, colleague or friend hurt. No boss wants to have to tell a family member that their loved one is in hospital or worse still, won't be coming home ever again, writes Grant McDonald.
Robyn Pearce: Three tips to simplify your busy life
COMMENT: Robyn Pearce talks three ways to declutter your life.
Mai Chen: Mental health in workplace is new frontier for health and safety
The new Health and Safety at Work Act, which comes into force today, expressly provides for mental health issues in an increasingly stressed-out and competitive workplace, writes Mai Chen.
Bosses face tough new safety laws
Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.
Upskilling to escape plateaus
Learning new things in the workplace can contribute to a change in your career narrative, discovers Joanna Mathers