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Hello, and welcome to Episode 254 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

In today’s episode I’m joined by Lexi Smith, Founder and Financial Coach with Moneyvine.

Lexi helps individuals and couples gain clarity, create a plan and take confident steps with their money.

In 2020, after a decade as a Financial Adviser, she side-stepped into Financial Coaching.

She has an energetic ENTP personality, which gives her a knack for problem solving and offering fresh perspectives.

Lexi’s team sessions focus on optimising cashflow - boosting income, understanding expenses and finding ways to improve your financial trajectory.

To connect with Lexi:

• https://moneyvine.com.au/
• https://www.instagram.com/moneyvine.au/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexi-smith-moneyvine/

As always, I’d love you to join us inside our free Facebook Group, HR Support for Australian Businesses, so I can learn more about what’s working for you and any challenges you might be having. Join...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 253 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

In today’s episode I’m following up on last weeks episode where is shared 5 strategies to help set your team up for success in 2025. Today I am sharing my top predictions for your team for 2025.

My 5 top team predictions are:

1. Job mobility will be on the rise: for a range of reasons, I believe we are heading into a season where more employees will be looking to change employers – this may be good news for you if recruitment has been tough for the last couple of years.
2. Increase in the use of AI and associated technology: we’re already seeing job applicants actively using AI in their application process – so your hiring skills really need to be on point right now. But on the flip side, how can your team leverage these tools to help them at work?
3. The right to disconnect implementation will be closely watched by your team. If you haven’t yet put any thought into the practical...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 252 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Happy 2025 to you! I’m wishing you all a wonderful start to this year.

In today’s episode I’m sharing 5 strategies to help set your team up for success in 2025.

Specifically, we’re looking at:

• Setting Clear Goals and Expectations – both at a team level and for your individual team members.
• Setting Up Effective Communication Protocols – including having the right meetings, with the right structure and cadence.
• Professional Development and Fostering a Workplace Learning Culture. This includes not only structured training and development programs, but also simper things like knowledge sharing.
• Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and encouraging your team to use AI tools to improve efficiencies in their roles.
• Implementing Workplace Well-being Initiatives. Business who can do this effectively in 2025 will have the edge when it comes to attracting, engagement and retention...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 250 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Today we are celebrating 250 Episodes

To celebrate, I’m recapping our top 10 most listened to episodes, and one takeaway from each. Here is the list:

• # 10 – Why KPI’s are Critical to Team Success (Episode 122)
• # 9 - Why Hiring (and holding onto) the Wrong People Impacts Team Morale (Episode 159)
• # 8 – How To Motivate Disengaged Employees (Episode 116)
• # 7 - Document, Document, Document! (Episode 129)
• #6 - The 2 Types of Motivation (and why you can't have one without the other) (Episode 127)
• #5 - Competing with Sign On Bonuses and Other Hiring Tactics (Episode 126)
• #4 - Engaging a Recruiter - What You Need to Know First (Episode 124)
• #3 - 3 Reasons Your Employees Motivation Might Be MIA (Episode 125)
• #2 - Using Psychometrics in the Recruitment Process with Charissa Lim (Episode 128)
• #1 - The 5 Step Framework to Screening Resumes in a Competitive Market (Episode 130)

As always,...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 249 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Wow! Isn’t December just the gift that keeps on giving?

In today’s episode I’m bringing you a raw and honest conversation about what I’m noticing right now – because it is utter chaos!

There are big decisions being made, huge reactions, overwhelm and high stress.

Today I share with you that one of my secret super powers is seeing patterns – seeing patterns in lots of ways, but particularly around patterns of behaviour.

What I see is that there are often common themes, and when I see them showing up, I know it’s not just these few people I might have spoken to that week, it’s a broader trend.

What I’m seeing right now is quite high stress – zero tolerance, lack of resilience. I’m seeing successful business owners wanting to fire their whole team and just throw it all in. It’s very reactive, not responsive, not proactive. And there are lots...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 248 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Can you believe it’s already December?

I’m excited because inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month!

I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put our plans into action.

Over these 3 episodes we’re talking planning. Last week we spoke about your 2025 business protection plan, and the week prior we focused on your 2025 resource plan, today we are getting into your retention and motivation plan and why you actually need to start this side of Christmas.

In today’s episode we are looking at:

• Why starting now, before the Christmas break is incredibly important;
• Some ideas of key elements of a retention and motivation plan – and how you can get creative with this;
• The importance of...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 247 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Can you believe it’s already November?

I’m excited because Inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month!

I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put our plans into action.

Over these 3 episodes we’re talking planning. Last week we spoke about your 2025 resource plan, today we are getting into your HR compliance business protection plan, and finally next week we will be talking about your engagement and motivation plan.

In today’s episode we are looking at:

• Why being across your compliance obligations is more important now
• than it has been before, and why sticking your head in the sand is
• definitely not the solution;
• The key elements you want to be considering in creating your compliance...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 246 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Can you believe it’s already November?

I’m excited because Inside our People Powered HR community, November is Planning Month!

I really believe this is the best time of year to work on your 2025 plans – because let’s face it – none of us will do it in December, and if we wait until January we’ll be in February before we put our plans into action.

Over the next 3 episodes we’re talking planning. Specifically in today’s episode we’re talking about your 2025 resource plan, next week we’ll get into your HR compliance business protection plan, and finally your engagement and motivation plan.

In today’s episode we are looking at:

• The fact that the team that got you to where you are no, may not
• be the team to get you where you want to go in business – and that’s ok!
• I showed you how to create clarity with your ideal team structure through...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 245 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Today on the podcast I’m joined by Ryan Griffin, MD of Chunky Duck, to talk about leading and managing a remote team.

Like many of us entrepreneurs, Ryan’s journey to his current business has not been a straight line. Initially a professional baseball player, he returned to Australia ready to start his career in digital marketing. He worked for many years in marketing agency before turning to scuba diving and juggling freelancing. As Covid hit he went all in on his own digital agency – now known as Chunky Duck.

In today’s discussion Ryan shares the benefits and challenges of managing a remote team, some of the great initiatives he has put in place to create connection and enable collaboration, and why he thinks it’s a great move in terms of attracting and retaining the best possible people.

If you’d like to connect with Ryan you can find him on LinkedIn here, or head over to...

Hello, and welcome to Episode 244 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Can you believe it’s already November? The year is flying by, and here we are with another important topic for business owners just like you.

In today’s episode, we’re diving into an area that’s critical but often misunderstood: redundancies.

Recently, I’ve been hearing about a surge in redundancies, especially in business groups, networks, and conversations with peers. But the big question is – are all of these redundancies legitimate, or are they sometimes being used as a workaround for performance issues that should have been managed differently? In this episode we explore why it’s so essential to get this right and discuss the real reasons for this trend.

Inside our People Powered HR community, each month we focus on a specific theme from The P.E.O.P.L.E Pathway. October’s focus was on ‘Exit’ – a challenging but necessary part of business...