Ochre is designed to grow your people management capability and allow you to be self sufficient in doing a great job of your day to day people management responsibilities. To get the best out of your Ochre resource;

• Become familiar with Ochre: take the time to look around it and become familiar with its structure and content.
• Use the homepage icons: these give you fast access to the most ‘high traffic’ areas of need (but not to all content areas).
• Use the ‘search’ function on top right of each page: Search will show you a list of pages where content relating to your search can be found. Note: ‘Search’ won’t find documents just pages.
• Try the FAQs: The FAQ section (accessed via the homepage icon holds Q’s and A’s in all the main content areas. It either answers questions or directs to where the answers can be found.
• It’s a bit like Wikipedia: to avoid long explanatory paragraphs the opening paragraph in each section covers the subject at a high level while the links embedded in the paragraph take you as deep into the subject as you want to go.
• Sidebar menus can help: in each section (e.g. Discipline and Dismissal) the sidebar menu on the right of the page shows you what subsections there are within the main topic.
• Content is organised intuitively: to make finding what you want more intuitive all content is organised under one of four activity areas which together deliver great people management.
  • Engage: everything to do with bringing great people on board and winning their passionate support (e.g. recruitment, induction , setting expectations and health & safety)
  • Achieve: content here supports you in helping your people make the greatest contribution they can (e.g. feedback and coaching, performance management, getting performance back on track and dealing with issues that disrupt performance).
  • Grow: includes training, development, delegation and activities that help people reach their potential.
  • Reward: obviously explains how we reward and encourage performance including remuneration and benefits and also our recognition and Award programs.
• Ochre isn’t ‘confidential’: while its a resource for managers Ochre contains nothing you can’t share with employees.
• Flowcharts give greater detail and tables give fast access: we recognise some managers have less experience and benefit from detailed explanations of what we do and why we do it (e.g. recruitment) while others, with more experience, just want fast access to the interview questions they need. Flowcharts give fuller explanations and the tables give fast access to the documents you need.
• Conversation plans: your confidence in holding ‘courageous conversations’ (e.g. where performance or behavior is unacceptable) grows where you are well prepared and have a conversation plan you believe in. Throughout Ochre there are conversation plans for these  conversations. Populate them with what you want to say and maybe have a ‘test run’ with someone you trust before holding that vital conversation.
• Improve Ochre as you go: Ochre is a living resource which must grow with our business. If you have an improvement idea, maybe new content, navigation improvements or ambiguity that needs ‘fixing’ contact HR with your idea.