ZEDUCATION

Written by CEO: Pasitaua Haufano In 2017 I walked away from a stable corporate job to build something of my own. I did not have a plan. I had a story, a mission, and a lot of fear. Zeducation did not start in a boardroom. I always tell people that Zeducation started with my parents. It started with a kid from South Auckland who struggled to read at school, who got knocked rejected by universities more than once, who served a mission overseas and came home a changed man. That

You did the hard part and got in the door. Now comes the decision about whether you stay. Research on more than 20,000 new hires found that 89% of people who don't make it fail on attitude, not skills. That is good news, because attitude is a choice. Here are six simple things you can start doing on your next shift to turn a temp role into a permanent one.

Most change plans look fine on paper. An announcement, a go live date, a training session. Three months later half the team is quietly back on the old spreadsheet. ADKAR explains why. Change is not an event, it is a journey, and people travel it one person at a time.

Losing a job can knock the confidence out of anybody. Months of applications, no replies, and you start to feel invisible. LinkedIn strategist Stuart Little joins the Zeducation Leadership Podcast to explain why being seen online is not showing off, it is self leadership: know yourself before you write a word, treat your profile as a living asset, and why one honest comment can outperform a hundred posts.

Everything looked right from the outside. Inside, Lesieli Oliver had gone quiet. She talks about the burnout behind her success, the ancestors who navigated oceans without instruments, and the moment she turned down $225,000 because the joy wouldn't flow. A conversation about vision, struggle, and leading from within.

Auckland System Management and Zeducation partnered to build trust on the frontline, where fewer than a third rated team communication as excellent and fewer than half felt safe to speak up. In a single three-hour Building Trust workshop with 16 operational leaders, that shifted fast: 100% learned something useful and felt confident to apply it, and 94% committed to acting with their team that same week.

Auckland System Management and Zeducation partnered to build confident frontline leaders. Over five weeks, communication confidence rose from 52% to 90%, self-rated leadership communication climbed from 3.0 to 4.33 out of 5, and 80% were already applying it at work.

In an episode of the Zeducation Leadership Podcast, we sit down with Nicholas Thompson, founder of Iceberg, to unpack self management: how leaders build teams that own their work by sharing power instead of hoarding it.

Finding a job in New Zealand can feel overwhelming when you don't know where to start. Not all job sites are worth your time — some are great for beginners, some better once you have experience. In this guide, Zeducation walks you through the six best places to find work in NZ, what each platform is good for, and three simple tips to help you stand out and get hired faster. Whether it's your first job or something new — this one's for you.