Mathan Allington

Dad. Marketer. I eat too much chocolate.

[Mathan Allington @mathan_a]

Lead with empathy, but back everything up with data. That's the shift these HR leaders made to go from cost centre to command centre.

https://t.co/1HnGSgYTt3

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"If I treated myself like a product and HR like my customer, what would I do differently?" That reframe from an HR Influence Awards winner is worth sitting with.

https://t.co/lyxIWAqk39

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Edan Haddock pushes back on sorting people by personality type. Focus on values instead.

"If you move away from that and focus on values as the core driver, you build this wonderful rich diverse team." Not a team of five Edans.

https://t.co/NC9L70PTtS

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From rugby development to fintech people leader. The skills she brought from sport to Sharesies aren't what you'd expect.

https://t.co/klsVvdRd1k

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You can be incredibly busy and make zero cultural progress.

Activity ≠ culture. The orgs getting it right are the ones making intentional micro-decisions every day, not running a culture initiative once a quarter.

https://t.co/i8ay13Lunh

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Drew Mayhills calls AI a "partner in thinking." Not a replacement for judgement — a tool that helps you process more, faster, so you can spend time on the parts that actually need a human.

5 #HRInfluenceAwards winners on AI in HR.

https://t.co/VkSOB4Kw2L

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Alex Pusenjak: culture is community. Not something HR owns — something everyone contributes to.

When people feel like they belong to it rather than comply with it, that's when it actually works.

https://t.co/Pj5tngHanf

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A florist. A musician. A French teacher. A rugby manager. None of the HR Influence Awards winners took a straight line into people leadership. That's the point.

https://t.co/cUndwmPgHq

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[Mathan Allington @mathan_a]

Drew Mayhills calls AI a "partner in thinking." Not a replacement for judgement — a tool that helps you process more, faster, so you can spend time on the parts that actually need a human.

5 #HRInfluenceAwards winners on AI in HR.

https://t.co/ds9JxzGlKH

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"Culture is the residue of past decisions." Not the poster on the wall. Not the values page. The actual decisions you made last Tuesday.

https://t.co/AJITM4PTsi

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You can throw every perk in the book at your employees. But if they feel like renters instead of owners, none of it will stick.

6 #HRInfluenceAwards winners on why purpose is the new perk — and how to make it real.

https://t.co/SeY47frxSn

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Teresa Lilly's take: creativity survives automation. AI can draft your policy doc. It can't read the room during a restructure or hold space for someone having a rough week.
The human skills aren't nice-to-have. They're the whole point.
https://t.co/FM6Jq14SkW
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OzHarvest has a Purpose Program. Once a year, every employee spends a day in a different department. Finance sits with the food rescue team. HR rides along with the van drivers.

Purpose stops being abstract when you see it with your own eyes.

https://t.co/IjXOaE7vmf

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The golden rule: treat people how you want to be treated.
The platinum rule: treat people how THEY want to be treated.

Small shift in wording. Massive shift in leadership. 7 #HRInfluenceAwards winners explain the difference.

https://t.co/dn0OexCYqY

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Teresa Lilly's times-it-by-10 rule for interviews: whatever you see, multiply by 10. That's the person you're getting.

https://t.co/LEJr7nmBDX

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How often do you actually see a commercial role that's truly part-time? We're hiring one at @ComponoTech. 25 hrs, remote, sales enablement, properly scoped. https://t.co/gSPMwyyVhH

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Genuinely high-impact, part-time commercial roles barely exist. We just built one at @ComponoTech. 25 hours, remote, operational right hand to our Head of Sales. If you've been waiting for this, here it is: https://t.co/NDCdNNCTeP

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Edan Haddock reckons creativity is the skill HR needs most right now. He was a florist until 30, so he'd know.

Good feature from the HR Influence Awards.

https://t.co/FLjOVxVj7i

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A florist turned global talent leader built an AI agent so every candidate at Movember can share their story. His own founder questioned it. Then backed it immediately.

Worth the read.

https://t.co/7rrsLrpX4s

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