Exclude Staff Cats

 <?php
                $taxonomy     = 'staff_departments';
                $orderby      = 'name';
                $show_count   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
                $pad_counts   = 0;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
                $hierarchical = 1;      // 1 for yes, 0 for no
                $title        = '';
                $args = array(
                'taxonomy'     => $taxonomy,
                'orderby'      => $orderby,
                'show_count'   => $show_count,
                'pad_counts'   => $pad_counts,
                'hierarchical' => $hierarchical,
                'title_li'     => $title,
        'exclude' => '1'  // exclude categories
        );
        ?>