The spring growing season is here and your garden will be starting to come alive. It’s a great time to enjoy the outdoors and start planting delicious spring crops the whole family can enjoy. The team from Tui Products have shared some tips to help us create a thriving vegetable garden. Prepare Pull out any…
Every day 60 New Zealanders will hear the words “I am sorry you have cancer.” Friday 30 August is Daffodil Day, the Cancer Society’s largest fundraising event. Every dollar raised stays in the region and goes a long way by providing free support services for people in our community affected by cancer and their whānau….
Seasons can affect our moods, our mental wellbeing, our stress levels and our skin, especially Winter. In todays’ busy world of family and/or work we tend to put ourselves and our needs at the bottom of a very long list. Winters’ harsh environment causes damage to our skin, due to humidity levels dropping, and winter…
Attracting the best people to join your team can be difficult. Tani Hansen, Everest Human Resource Specialist has provided us with some tips around recruitment that can help you get the ‘right’ applications rolling in! Ensure your advert is punchy and draws people in. Adverts need to attract attention and interest, create desire and provide…
How we present ourselves is determined by how we perceive ourselves and how we recognise and manage our emotional range. We speak 16,000 words, on average, per day – imagine how many words pass through our mind in that same period of time. These words and thoughts lay the foundation of our habitual thought processes…
The Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Act 2018 (“Act”) came into effect on 1 April 2019. The Act amends the Employment Relations Act 2000, the Holidays Act 2003 and the Human Rights Act 1993. Tania Waikato from Cooney Lees Morgan has shared with us the implication of this Act from an employer’s perspective in respect…
Successful advertising is essential because it allows you to get a greater connection with your target audience, creates awareness of your product, adds credibility to your message and makes it easier to get attention for your entire brand. Micheala James from Design Juice has provided these top advertising tips to ensure your next advertising campaign…
If you’ve seen the rewards investing in the share market can bring and want a piece of the action, here are few simple tips from Bridget Cummins of Craigs Investment Partners, to help you get the most from a new investing adventure. Do your research – You wouldn’t buy a house or a car without…
Everybody should take a holiday. By holiday we mean a proper break from work and not checking work emails every half hour, or dealing with client/team issues. The truth is that most people generally work far too hard for it to be healthy to go without a holiday. Overworking is eventually going to take its…
Ninety per cent of New Zealanders are concerned about being scammed or defrauded and one in three say they’ve been a victim. This is according to a new survey just released by Westpac New Zealand (NZ) in conjunction with this week being International Fraud Awareness Week. These findings highlight the growing importance for us to…
