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high-performance teams get results. A high-performing team can consistently deliver, despite the odds. Developing such a team gives you the ultimate competitive advantage. When a team is highly focused on achieving their goals, the employees, management, and customers benefit from it. Duties are shared more effectively, employee discord is diminished, and customers receive a more […]

Diversity and Inclusion has been on the priority list of smart organizations for quite some time. However, recently the need for its genuine inclusion has risen significantly owing to some very high profile incidents. For instance, the film industry has been reporting incidents of sexual harassment for quite some time. Also, there have been initiatives […]

What is Organisational Culture? The culture of an organisation depicts its basic personality with how its people work and interact. However, organisational culture is a complex and elusive entity which evolves in the midst of leadership, strategy and other circumstances. In other words, culture may be defined as a self-sustaining behavioural pattern that decides how […]

Assumptions of any kind are always detrimental if you truly wish to seek a solution to a problem. It’s often assumed that an unmotivated employee is lazy and labelled as ‘bad hires’. This assumption is not always true. Even the best-hire eventually becomes disengaged & unmotivated owing to several factors. The fact that they are not […]

Modern organisations have transitioned from their transactional & process-driven nature towards becoming more employee-centric. This exciting paradigm shift has prompted organisations to muster up the courage to try out new things and shake up their existing performance management systems. Listed below are a few performance management trends or predictions for the next 12 months 1. Focus […]

One of the key drivers pertaining to employee engagement and organisational performance is personal development. In fact, there is a strong correlation between personal development and employee retention. Retaining employees is a major and ongoing concern for almost every employer. That is the reason why Personal Development Plans (PDPs) is a component of the performance management […]

When it comes to employee advocacy, one of the best ways to ensure a team raves about their work to anyone and everyone they meet is to find ways to keep each employee happy, engaged, motivated, and inspired in their jobs. After all, if staff members enjoy coming to work and feel a real part […]

This Company Did to Challenge Their Employees.” While many of these articles, blog posts, studies, and expert opinions hold merit and offer excellent advice, most fail to answer one simple question: Why? Why is it so important to challenge your employees? The truth is, the idea of a challenging— though not overly-difficult— a job that stretches […]

Digital first players which are mostly start-ups have a significant advantage with the speed at which they are able to innovate. But how do they innovate so fast? Is there anything that other organisations can learn from them and apply to their respective business? Most people are likely to reason that startups are able to […]

Why is Workplace Engagement Important? The backbone of any business is employee engagement. It’s a direct outcome of experience that thrives between the employee and the employer. The true foundation that lies behind employee engagement is trust, respect, and performance. Employee engagement is considered to be dynamic as it is bound to change during the […]

Experience is about a series of moments that go on to form negative, positive, or neutral memories. Each of these moments tends to leave a lasting impression on our minds, and they decide if our overall experience has been a good or a bad one. However, we do not seem to view life as a […]

Every transformation carries along with it a story. In the world of technology, change is the only constant thing. People Management changes come in various forms. Be it the small and medium scale organisations shifting towards automation or large scale organisations migrating their legacy systems to the cloud, and it’s all a part of the […]

Human Resource function has been under incredible pressure with the expectation of delivering a framework of actionable insights and, data analysis right across the organisation. The primary challenge is that they are under-resourced and subsequently under-invested in technology which could support this framework. As a result, most HR executives cannot present core HR data about […]

The human resources industry has been deeply reflecting on how issues regarding culture and performance need to be handled in the workplace. As an outcome of this awareness, huge shifts are expected in the way in which technology can be utilised to identify, engage, connect, and replace people and the steps to be taken thereafter. […]

2. Give Feedback Often The action of providing feedback needs to be a more regular event instead of waiting for the annual performance review. Providing just a one-time feedback at the time of annual performance review is not enough as it lacks true context, detail and clarity. Often it comes way too late. On the […]

While a lot of employees truly wish their company to succeed, the fact remains that these best intentions need to be properly aligned to connect them to your organisation’s mission. If these best of intentions are not directed properly, all that remains is sheer noise which does nothing but hinders the progress of your company. To […]

In today’s business ecosystem, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the HR function. There has been an influx of HR tools regarding applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve people issues in the workplace. In fact, organisations which are prompt in accepting and adapting to continuous change and are focused towards decentralisation, utilising technology optimally, […]

While ‘business strategy’ may be a cool buzz word that people like to use nowadays, ‘strategy’ is one of the most misused or somewhat overused words in business. The reality is, the majority of people who use this term randomly, are not aware of what all strategy entails or they don’t understand the underlying business […]