25 March 2025

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Protecting your business: Why expertise matters in workplace investigations

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Author : Kerry Tattersall – Baker Tilly Staples Rodway employment relations/HR consultant, licensed private investigator Are you an employer dealing with a serious incident or ongoing situation involving a critical breakdown of processes or relationships? If so, you’ll know it’s a knotty time, often bringing multiple “he said / she

Fractional work – hiring a part-time specialist to help grow your business

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Over 2024, high interest rates and inflationary pressures have made it harder than usual for Kiwi businesses to thrive. At the same time, many businesses still see an opportunity to grow but may be reluctant to spend money on hiring a new person (especially at a senior/ executive level) who

Let’s talk leadership – a journey that doesn’t have a final destination

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Author: Andrea Stevenson The working environment has become ever more complex in recent years and now, more than ever, leaders in organisations need to be stepping up to the plate. In a world that has thrown a lot at us over the last few years, now is the time, more

The beauty of a well-run meeting

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Well-run meetings are an amazing thing but when poorly executed, they can be extremely frustrating. Meetings are a key touchpoint for our teams, and they provide an overt and visual display of our leadership. However, few people feel they are time well spent. Meetings are often poorly planned and ineffective

Celebrate your people and team successes

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Let’s Celebrate! In the face of inflationary pressures, interest rate rises, cyclones and uncertainty, it is challenging to rise out of the mire and celebrate the good in our organisations and people. Too often it’s the loudest voice, the trickiest staff member or the latest crisis that takes all our

People Planning for a Year that is not business as usual

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It was anticipated as a year of positivity, business as usual and moving on, but 2023 so far has not been what Hawke’s Bay expected. From a people and business perspective, managing through a disaster creates additional issues to navigate. Resilient Organisations, a research and consultancy group, classify the stages

What to do when there’s a fraction too much friction

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As we head into a new year it is timely to reflect on 2022 as you plan your our human resources considerations for 2023. Talent sourcing was an ongoing challenge in 2022, but employers seem to have successfully revisited their talent acquisition strategies and practices, and are now shifting focus

Could your team be doing better?

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Teams are a powerful asset for any organisation. However, unlike a sports team, we rarely spend time practicing being a team. While most organisations can acknowledge the positive impact of an effective team, particularly in leadership, few create a plan to make this happen. Looking at how your team is

Have we learned any recruitment lessons yet?

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By Adam Caccioppoli, Associate – Baker Tilly Staples Rodway Many businesses seemingly have not changed their approach to recruiting talent, despite the almost constant noise from all industries about how hard it is to find the people their businesses need to grow and succeed. Are we really going through the

The Employee Experience – Now is the time

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A tight labour market, closed borders and now The Great Resignation (a term used to describe an unexpected side effect of the pandemic, where people are rethinking how to live their lives and what type of meaning and purpose they want out of work and life), the task of finding

Author Profile

Andrea Stevenson Baker Tilly Staples Rodway

Much of Andrea’s work centres on developing organisational performance through its people, recognising that the effective sourcing, growth and development of people is the critical component to an
organisation’s success. She partners with clients and prides herself on her ability to deliver a bespoke and tailored service for their people requirements.
As a skilled people practitioner with a background in Organisational Psychology, Andrea specialises in working with individuals, teams and leaders. She is accredited in a range of diagnostic tools including
psychometric assessment, 360o surveys and team profiling and is an accredited executive coach. Prior to her current role, she has worked as an Organisational Psychology Consultant and held roles in human
resources and career coaching.

andrea.stevenson@bakertillysr.nz

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