HR Revolution

19/08/2026

One simple thing managers can say now that might save a much harder performance conversation later 👇

13/08/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS FOR THE GIG ECONOMY

From Monday, 17 August, thousands of food and grocery delivery workers across Australia will have new minimum pay protections.

For the first time, “employee-like” workers on digital delivery platforms will have an earnings floor for their engaged time — the time from accepting a delivery through to completing it.

The new minimum rates are:

🚲 Bicycle/e-bike — $31.30/hr
🏍️ Motorcycle — $31.80/hr
🚗 Car — $32.00/hr

It’s important to note: this isn’t quite the same as a minimum hourly wage for an employee.

Workers aren’t paid the rate simply for being logged into the app and waiting for a job. Instead, platforms will assess their earnings for engaged time over a 21-day period and top them up if they fall below the applicable minimum.

The changes also introduce further protections around personal accident insurance, dispute resolution, worker feedback and unpaid time away.

And this could be just the beginning.

There are already applications underway seeking minimum standards for rideshare and last-mile parcel delivery workers.

It’s a pretty significant shift in the way Australia regulates the gig economy — creating workplace protections for some workers without turning them into employees.

So where does the balance land? Will these changes help more gig workers earn a sustainable living — or will higher costs ultimately make food delivery too expensive for consumers?

10/08/2026

We ask this question every day...

But is it actually helping us connect with people?

A simple change in the questions you ask can lead to better conversations, stronger relationships and deeper connections.

Watch this and let me know if you're guilty of it too 👇

03/08/2026

The employee nobody wants to fire is rarely the difficult one. They're the one everyone likes. Friendly, easy to be around, always has a reasonable explanation when something slips.

They ask the same question for the fiftieth time. Priorities get misread or ignored. Simple tasks turn into escalations instead of solutions. They're busy all day, but rarely get to the work that actually matters, and to them, busy looks a lot like good performance. None of it looks like a crisis.... That's exactly the problem.

If this same person was difficult to work with or not a ‘nice person’, these issues would've been called out months ago. It's not the behaviour that's buying them time. It's their personality.

Most leaders know the person isn't the right fit much earlier than they want to admit. And most wait anyway, because raising it with someone this likeable feels disproportionate, unfair or they're hoping they'll get better.

Meanwhile the team is quietly covering. Fixing the mistakes. Filling the gaps. Eventually the team will go from liking someone to resenting them. Eventually that resentment stops being about the employee and starts being about leadership, for not doing anything about it.

None of this makes anyone a bad person. It usually just means the role, the person, and the business were never quite aligned, and nobody said so.

In this article I've shared why this happens, what it actually costs a team and a business, and why avoiding the conversation isn't the kind thing to do.

Read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/employee-nobody-wants-fire-sally-dillon-ahhzc

Where do you draw the line between giving someone more time and knowing it's not the right

Not the difficult one. Not the person who creates conflict or makes the office tense the moment they walk in.

28/07/2026

"We thought they'd get better."

It's a sentence I hear all the time, and it almost always comes from a good place. Most leaders aren't avoiding a conversation because they don't care. They're trying to give someone every opportunity to succeed.

But hope isn't a strategy.

Waiting usually makes the conversation harder, the impact on the team greater and the outcome more difficult for everyone involved.

In this short video, I share why having the conversation earlier is often one of the kindest things you can do for your employee, your team and yourself.

Have you ever found yourself hoping a situation would improve instead of having the conversation?

27/07/2026

If there's one thing my years in HR have taught me, it's this...

Most people problems aren't actually people problems.

More often than not, they're leadership, communication or systems problems.

I explain what I mean in this short video.

Do you agree, or have you seen something different?

🎥 I've linked the full presentation in the comments if you'd like to dive deeper.

25/07/2026

You hired capable people. So why do they still need you for everything?

You thought hiring great people would give you more freedom.

Instead…

• They still bring every problem to you.
• They still wait for your decision.
• They still ask questions they could probably answer themselves.

And somewhere along the way…

“I’ll just do it myself.”

…became your leadership strategy.

If that feels uncomfortably familiar, you’re not alone.

The Delegation Gap is a practical, live online workshop designed to help business owners and leaders build teams that think for themselves, take more ownership and stop relying on you for every answer.

In just 60 minutes, you’ll leave with practical frameworks, conversation tools and take-away resources you can start using with your team the very next day.

📅 Thursday 31 July
💻 Live Online
⏱️ 60 Minutes
🎟️ Just $49

If you’re ready to build a team that doesn’t rely on you for every decision, I’d love you to join us.

👉 Book your spot today: https://events.humanitix.com/the-delegation-gap

24/07/2026

BREAKING: Local business owner delegates task.

Task returns half-finished, slightly wrong, and emotionally dependent.

Owner adopts it and raises it as their own.

Meanwhile, an employee somewhere says, “I didn’t want to bother you,” then makes a decision so confusing it requires an emergency meeting, two phone calls and a quiet drive home in silence.

Every business owner has lived at least one of those.

If you’re tired of every decision, every question and every half-finished task finding its way back to you, The Delegation Gap is for you.

60 minutes. $49. Live online. Practical tools to help your team take more ownership, make better decisions and stop everything landing back on you.

Tag the business owner this is happening to.

(It’s you.)

🎟️ Grab your ticket here:
https://events.humanitix.com/the-delegation-gap

24/07/2026

One of the biggest leadership traps I see is this...

We spend so much time trying to change the people who don't want to change, that we forget to invest in the people who do.

In this short video, I explain why where you spend your time matters just as much as how you spend it.

Where do you think your leadership time creates the biggest impact?

🎥 This clip comes from a longer presentation where I unpack the Models, Not Yets & Nevers framework. I've linked it in the comments if you'd like to watch the full presentation.