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Mental Health Awareness: How To Create A Healthy Workplace By Supporting Mental Health

On average, a person spends a third of their life at work. It’s essential employees feel comfortable, happy and productive at the workplace. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many people.  The sad truth is, many employees are unhappy at work, and in most cases, their employers are unaware of it. Employers don’t maliciously intend to ignore this aspect of their employees. Rather, it’s due to a work culture which exists in many businesses with Read more…

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How Effective Leaders Deal With Workplace Conflict by humanresourcesglobal

How Effective Leaders Deal With Workplace Conflict

Leadership is a full-contact sport and those who play it need to learn how to endure and deal with workplace conflict. If you can’t address workplace conflict in a healthy, productive fashion, you shouldn’t be in a leadership role. As a leader, you shouldn’t avoid workplace conflict but embrace it as a part of your position. Recognising workplace conflict and bringing a swift resolution will serve you as a leader. It may even strengthen your Read more…

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Closing The Disability Employment Gap by humanresourcesglobal

Closing The Disability Employment Gap

You often hear people saying they want to be more diverse and inclusive with their hiring practices. The case for building fairer and more inclusive workplaces is indisputable. We all deserve the opportunity to develop our skills and talents, work in a safe and supportive environment and be fairly rewarded and recognised for our work. But this reality as yet is rarely successfully implemented. How can an organisation successfully become disability employment friendly? To start Read more…

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Ways To Be Happy At Work by humanresourcesglobal

Ways To Be Happy At Work

Many employers use various workplace perks from discounted gym membership to free food and drinks to improve their employees’ happiness. Why? Because happy employees are more creative, innovative and motivated. And they’re more willing to stay with the company over an extended period. But what if you don’t work for a company that has the resources to offer you free stuff? It’s possible to create your own happiness, whether it’s a job you feel enthusiastic Read more…

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Develop Leadership Skills In Your Team Members - humanresourcesglobal

How To Develop Leadership Skills In Your Team Members

Developing leadership skills with the members of your team is not a task to be taken lightly. It requires time, patience, and persistence. But you will find that it is worth developing some of your team members leadership skills beyond their present capabilities. Not everyone has the fortitude to be a leader. Neither does everyone on your team want to be a leader. But for those individuals who you think have the potential, here are Read more…

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Surveillance Software

Surveillance Software At Your Workplace

Productivity management software: a tool to increase productivity or to impose fear… Covid-19 changed the way we live and even how we work, to the point that the way we relate to the company for which we work may not be the same again. According to a survey by Global Workplace Analytics, 77% of workers want to continue to work from home once the pandemic is over. But there is a fear. The one that Read more…

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Difficult Boss

How To Deal With A Difficult Boss

Wouldn’t it be great if we all had fantastic managers? The type that let us know that we are a valued member of the team. Who showed appropriate empathy and ability to lead the troops to work collaboratively? A boss that constantly inspired you to achieve more for the organisation? But instead, you’re scrolling through this article because you need ideas on how to deal with a difficult boss. Whether your difficult boss is a Read more…

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The Pros and Cons of Employee Engagement Surveys

The Pros And Cons Of Employee Engagement Surveys

Employment engagement is critical to target employee skills and talents toward future goals and achieve success. Many organisations take a measure of them regularly. They are often referred to as employee engagement surveys, employee satisfaction surveys, surveys of departing employees and more. Measuring employee engagement in real-time is like taking the companies’ temperature. There are definitive benefits, especially if you find there is something wrong, but there are also some disadvantages that must be acknowledged. Read more…

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Workplace Diversity

Improving Workplace Diversity

Diverse companies have almost 20% higher revenue. They are nearly twice as likely to be innovation leaders in their industry and are more likely to capture a new market. Diversity in the workforce makes your company creative, productive, and agile. It helps your business represent and serve your community and clients in a more inclusive manner. Before you start the hiring process though, you need to define what diversity means to your company. When we Read more…

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Innovation

Develop Your Teams Innovation

It may be surprising that productivity has increased in most businesses that have moved to remote working. Employees don’t tend to slack off just because they are working from home. If anything, they are more vigilant to the expectations of productivity. They also appreciate personalising their work area, fewer distractions, and not having nosy work neighbours watching their every move. However, it has been recognised that innovation has taken a significant hit. During uncertain times, Read more…

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Emotional Intelligence

Hiring For Emotional Intelligence

Every smart employer recognises the value of hiring emotionally intelligent team member for their workplace. The person with emotional intelligence can utilise the understanding of their emotions in a positive way to relieve stress, communicate effectively, build positive relationships, and effectively overcome challenges and conflict. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace As artificial intelligence and machine learning take over the dull and dangerous jobs, emotional intelligence skills will be more critical in the Read more…

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Workforce Plan

The Importance Of A Workforce Plan And How To Carry It Out

Even the most talented people and the brightest minds need the support of the best human talent to bring their ideas to life and turn them into reality. For this, you not only need a solid workforce, but also a plan that allows you to build the path to make everything more viable. Workforce Planning will allow organizations to have the right staff with the right skills and with the necessary support to achieve the Read more…

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