Writing effective job descriptions one of the most challenging sections is the section on job responsibilities. This section defines the work that an employee needs to perform after assuming a certain role. listing the tasks that an employee would be accountable for. This section is...
A big problem that most companies go through without stopping to think about, is their high turnover rate. Like the saying, “most friendships come and go”- the same applies to employees. Despite it being a popular belief and saying, the real problem that lies here...
One thing that we all don’t do often is give ourselves compliments (unless you’re a fearless and confident person). There’s never a specific national day that’s dedicated towards giving and receiving compliments. However, if we’re looking at it from a modern workplace perspective you’d be...
HR challenges in today’s fluctuating global economies affect every aspect of business, and this includes meeting strategic organisational business imperatives that HR departments never faced in past decades. The following top-eight HR challenges - while seemingly complex - actually have relatively simple solutions for companies...
Over the past week, I’ve had quite a few conversations with HR professional on the brink of a role change or looking to undertake some study in 2017. The conversations go something like “I’ve just finished my Diploma in X and I have a few...
The Annual Performance Review. We all know it’s coming, we wait all year long. We all know how this goes. The email comes out that the manager wants to see us and we start to go over the last year in our minds. What were...
Although being recognised by our own manager is crucial to employee retention, we tend to forget that the recognition we get from our peers is just as important. Our colleagues share the same challenges as we do, and who's better placed than them to understand...
Harboring and developing an agile culture can go a long way in impacting and ensuring your company’s long term success factor. In today’s competitive environment, it is imperative for any growing organisation to be lean and flexible. The term “Agile” has unfortunately lost its essence and...
Whether you’ve immersed yourself in a career around business or not, you would have heard or learnt, that the dynamics of HR Management are in a constant state of change. It could be from your fellow friends in business or through just a casual talk (you’d be...
For better or worse we shape our individual realities according to our response or reaction to the world around us. Hardly anybody responds to external stimuli with the purpose of producing unintended, unwanted results. Yet, our responses, our reactions, our behaviours, often produce results that...
