Michelle Watson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Helping businesses to solve their human capital challenges and realise the growth potential of their people.Everyone is teeming with potential, and growth comes from tapping into, expanding and nurturing that potential. I see helping others to realise their full potential as my raison d’etre. I achieve this through working to get to the heart of issues, using creativity to resolve human challenges, promoting growth as it uniquely applies to individuals, speaking in human terms rather than with pure logic and consciously connecting purpose and principles to action.Nothing motivates me more than creating solutions that change people’s lives.Services I offer include: Management Training: Management Mastery Program, 1:1 and group Mentorship, Performance Coaching at all levels in the organisation with a speciality focus on development, people advocacy, building empathy, management and leadership skills.People & Culture Consultancy Services: Employment relations, Employee engagement, foundational HR/modernisation of processes and procedures, Redundancies, Compliance, workplace training across critical HR functions such as recruitment, performance management, HR and workplace compliance.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Too often, people in HR positions don’t understand fully, the opportunity they have to make a positive difference in the lives of their teams & consequently, the business as a whole.What if we could change the future of HR, by changing the way employees perceived the HR function in business today? If everyone in HR understood, that in order to inspire others, we must first live an inspired life ourselves? What if there was a platform, that not only brought this information to them, but also encouraged them to share, connect & grow alongside a community of people who believed what they believed? If we were able to not only realise the power of connection, but harness it? If instead of just building ourselves, we became value builders in each other’s lives - not just within our own companies, but within the community of our profession. What if in our roles as HR professionals, we worked to change across the companies we worked for, what it means to be a leader. If the goal that every person was striving for, became not about power, but about inner leadership. Leadership that was about personal responsibility, self-discovery & creating value in the world by the people we become. Leadership that is not reserved for just those with management titles, but rather embraced at all levels of the organisation. This is the idea behind Project Sonder.Be part of the future of HR. Join the Conversation. www.projectsonder.com.au

Sydney, Australia

JRM Hospitality is a unique offering in the hospitality space. Our philosophy is based around the key characteristics of all successful companies – Simple. Effective. Quality driven. We live by this philosophy when communicating with every candidate, client and staff member.We never stop learning and are always striving to be known as the company you want to use, the company you want to keep.With JRM you know exactly what you’re going to get. The right result. Every time. The services offered to our clients are exceptional.Our Senior Management and Directors have extensive experience on the client side. They’ve opened award winning restaurants, built entire departments from scratch in large corporations, negotiated complex contracts and managed mass volume recruitment drives.As a result, JRM understands the pain points and blockages in growing and managing a business.

Sydney, Australia

Tramada is an industry-leading travel technology company providing cloud-based software to the travel industry in Australia & New Zealand. We have a reputation for delivering innovative operational and reporting solutions for our clients.I was contracted into this project-based role to facilitate the modernisation of the company's HR function - aligning their people strategy with business goals. This was a robust project, in a dynamic and agile environment, where I reported directly into the CEO working independently across the entire HR function from setting a strong foundation with the redevelopment of position descriptions, reviewing and updating policy and procedures, and implementing an effective recruitment strategy through to designing and setting individual and team KPI's and metrics, a complete redesign of the performance appraisal process, the upskilling of people leaders, culture development and the ongoing management of internal HR and workplace relations matters.

Sydney, Australia

At BENCHMARQUE, our motivation is to inspire and enable others to consider hospitality or events as a career, where we encourage and nurture professional and personal growth to lead members of the workforce in becoming the influencers of tomorrow.As General Manager, I am blessed to work in a passionate team of hospitality enthusiasts who I have the opportunity to mentor, teach and work alongside, to evolve their roles around who they are as individuals, playing to their strengths as they learn and grow within our business.Reporting directly into the Directors of the business, I am responsible for taking a social capital approach across the following Key Result Areas:Resourcing & Staffing Management – Oversee the end-to-end recruitment process, develop acquisition tactics and source high quality talent who are the right fit and who reflect BENCHMARQUE's values and brandTeam Development & Leadership – Develop capability and build an internal talent pipeline to succession for people within the business. Drive a high performance culture, influencing desired behaviours and not settling for the status quoClient Account Management – Establish standards & create metrics across the team to maintain the quality of our services to clients, manage the feedback process and being responsive to client needsBusiness People & Support – Partnering with clients to manage employee & performance related matters and aligning HR activities accordinglySpecial Projects & Innovation – Identify ways in which to improve the business, by systems/technological improvements, quality assurance standards, the development of unique programs and driving new business opportunitiesPeople & Culture – Leading and driving a social capital approach towards the culture of BENCHMARQUE, focusing on employees as our biggest asset, taking ownership of the people strategy and directing & nurturing our teams to ensure progressive development as to create the hospitality leaders of tomorrow

Sydney, Australia

In my role as Staffing Manger I am responsible for finding the best recruiting solutions for our clients with a strong emphasis on sourcing talent that are the right cultural and motivational fit, BENCHMARQUE's point of difference. I am responsible for managing the recruitment and staffing functions inclusive of acquisition strategy, people management & team development. This is a challenging & dynamic role that requires strong leadership capability, commercial acumen & provides the opportunity to grow & improve the broader business.The crux of this role is to oversee the end-to-end recruitment process and support the staffing team to source, place & schedule employees across both our casual staffing and workforce management teams across the following Key Result Areas:Resourcing & Staffing Management - in both an operational & strategic capacity. The focus here is on the management of deliverables, task and services that are provided by the staffing team.Team Development & Leadership - Creating agility and setting the business up with the resources that can support business growth, change and diversification.Client Account Management - Building sustainable and long standing relationships with all clients focusing on the ability to build rapport, trust & confidence.Business & People (HR) Support - Aligning all aspects of the business in a HR context to build solid partnerships with clients and to enhance the HR function internally across the business. This is about evolving the HR practice so that it focuses on strategic initiatives to support business growth.

Sydney, Australia

Mange-Tout is an in-house catering company who is responsible for looking after all of the in-house catering & event requirements for AMP, Sydney. This included everything from corporate catering, meeting room catering, cocktail parties, dinner parties, awards nights, media events (such as half yearly & yearly results) and boardroom catering where we reported directly to the CEO and members of the AMP board.In this role I was responsible for managing a team of staff who looked after the service desk (concierge services), meeting rooms and the boardroom. In addition to overseeing catering services for all meetings and events, as well as event end-to-end event preparation. I was also responsible for re-designing the entire catering services menu, from meeting room and lunch catering through to launching a brand new events menu consisting of a full canapé menu (finger food, substantial and bowl food items), to 3 course sit-down menu items.

Adv. Dip, Event Management

Cert Iv, Hospitality Food & Beverage Supervision