What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?

What key activities are you currently completing in your role?
Staff Survey and facilitating actions resulting from it. I think line management training is required (nothing in place at the moment) so this needs attention. Review of handbook (6 years out of date)

What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?
As a part-timer, I can sympathise with David's challenges :) as regards my non-working days! But for the working days: prioritising. Work seems to breed when I'm not looking so my days are always super busy (and not always with interesting stuff). I still consistently underestimate how long it will take me to do things.

What challenges can you see coming around the corner in the next few months?
Our staff survey actions. It's mostly about mental health and wellbeing, and I feel we're tinkering 'round the edges too much - lots of info on how to deal with stress but not sufficient focus on organisational / job design to prevent stress (and resulting conflicts) from happening in the first place. Also persuading people who've done a job for donkey's years to engage with training once I get 'round to designing it. Retention - we're a business of two halves, one of which is hospitality, so keeping hold of our kitchen and front of house teams is an ongoing challenge.

What is keeping you up at night?
Thankfully, nothing. Loving my job (and I've had some bad ones).

What key activities are you currently completing in your role?
Staff Survey and facilitating actions resulting from it. I think line management training is required (nothing in place at the moment) so this needs attention. Review of handbook (6 years out of date)

What key challenges are you currently facing in your role?
As a part-timer, I can sympathise with David's challenges :) as regards my non-working days! But for the working days: prioritising. Work seems to breed when I'm not looking so my days are always super busy (and not always with interesting stuff). I still consistently underestimate how long it will take me to do things.

What challenges can you see coming around the corner in the next few months?
Our staff survey actions. It's mostly about mental health and wellbeing, and I feel we're tinkering 'round the edges too much - lots of info on how to deal with stress but not sufficient focus on organisational / job design to prevent stress (and resulting conflicts) from happening in the first place. Also persuading people who've done a job for donkey's years to engage with training once I get 'round to designing it. Retention - we're a business of two halves, one of which is hospitality, so keeping hold of our kitchen and front of house teams is an ongoing challenge.

What is keeping you up at night?
Thankfully, nothing. Loving my job (and I've had some bad ones).

Hi Anka,

The point you raised concerning "job design to prevent stress in the first place" and "tinkering around the edges" are themes that I frequently encounter in my work.

If you give a highly competent worker too much work, eventually they will become overwhelmed, become stressed and make mistakes. A key issue that organisations fail to focus on isn sustainable workloads.

It is possible to identify metrics to track that would highlight when a person's workload is unsustainable and it's disappointing that organisations do not do so. Maybe certain organisation's don't want to know...

Hi Anka
Is your handbook a word / PDF or is it part of your HRIS "company corner"?
I hear the challenge of keeping staff.