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them and provide complementary services to your clients which
may mean in the longer term that you also share your staffs'
respective expertise in each other's organisations.
lock in a 5 year collective workplace
agreement
Negotiate a collective workplace agreement that will create
certainty around wages and other terms and conditions of
employment for the next 5 years. This must be completed before
1 July, 2009 before the rules change under the new Fair Work Bill.
trim the fat
As unpleasant a task as this is within NFP organisations you must
make the tough decisions around poor performers or positions that
do not serve your core business. Get some advice on doing this
right!
annual leave
Ask people to take their accrued annual leave even if it's only one
day per week over the next few months. This reduces the liabilities
on your balance sheet and gives individuals an opportunity to either
rest up or take on some contract work elsewhere.
Invest in training & re-skilling
If your organisation can afford it invest in training and re-skill
your staff so that they are ready for when the inevitable economic
turnaround occurs.
"Manage with Confidence"
Clean house
Get your standard operating procedures in place. Write your HR
policies, procedures, write position descriptions, implement a
performance management system, set KPI's, write your employee
manual, finalise your employee induction protocols ...
build your untapped volunteer
workforce
Breathe new life into your languishing volunteer program if it's
been sitting in the bottom of your too hard basket now is the time to
really make it happen. Volunteers are the great untapped resource
in many NFP's but are a source of huge potential if managed and
nurtured correctly. n
Gwen McIlroy is the Managing Director of Indigo Field Industrial
Relations the home of NFPN Employer Assist service. Employer
Assist provide specialist NFP HR & IR advice and support to all
Not-for-Profit employers with NFPN members receiving special
discounts and FREE services as a part of their NFPN member
benefits. Join now and be prepared for the significant changes
that will impact on NFP employers after the new IR legislation
is enforced 1 July, 2009. Workshops on these changes will be
run across Australia in May, for more info visit www.nfpn.com.
au/Events/2009workshops. To reach Gwen, call 1300 153 154 or go
to www.indigofield.com.au/nfp.
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