How to Improve a Human Resources Department
Running a small business comes with numerous challenges and owners are usually those who take care of everything. While this practice can save you a lot of money, keep in mind that a trained human resources representative can do a better job. Since your company is still a small one, you should get educated about […]
How to Start Sales Employment
A business without sales is not a business for any longer. If you don’t have individuals who can go out and offer your item then honestly you don’t have an organization no matter how awesome your item is. Having an incredible sales representative who can get a huge amount of money for the organization alone […]
How to Manage an Under-performing Employee
Every successful manager needs to learn how to deal with underperforming employees at some point in their career. Unfortunately, some of them will act emotionally and create an even bigger issue. Decreased productivity will negatively affect the growth of the company and HR professionals should do everything in their power to prevent it. There are […]
7 Traits You Need in Your Next Marketing Superstar
Whether you run a business that needs marketing help, or you own a marketing firm and just need some fresh talent, finding good marketers is hard. Sure, everyone says they are good at marketing. They are marketers, after all. But that doesn’t mean everyone has what it takes to elevate businesses through savvy campaigns and […]
Should I Disclose Chronic Illness in Resume?
At some point in life, getting a dream job is the foremost priority for many. When we start looking out for a job we often face challenges with respect to job location, flexibility, skills required among others. However, for People affected with chronic diseases like hypertension, diabetes, getting employed gets a little tougher. After having […]
Why Company Training is Essential in The Long Run
Training is important, there’s no doubt about that. In spite of this, companies aren’t investing enough in it. In fact, while 56% of HR professionals believe training is essential to business health, they aren’t doing enough to make training opportunities more available to workers. Further, ineffective training comes at a cost or 13.5 million dollars […]
3 key recruitment trends in the financial sector
There’s no doubt about it; the financial services sector continues to serve as a key player in the UK economy. While this marketplace may face an uncertain future post-Brexit, it generated a huge £176 billion to the British economy in 2017, with this number likely to increase further during the next 12 months. The financial […]
3 Guidelines For Hiring The Best Employees
When you’re adding to your company, it’s vital that you take your time and put together strategies that will grow your company with some discretion. Bringing someone on board is about more than just hiring some help — it’s about adding to the culture of your business. You’ll want to follow the tips in this […]
Starbucks and Unconscoius Bias
Starbucks is closing its 8,000 US stores today so that its staff can receive training around racial bias. It’s a reaction to an apparent example of racial bias, when, in April, two black men were arrested in a Starbucks store in Philadelphia, for simply sitting there. In reality, the two men had arrived early for […]
GDPR and Kirkpatrick Levels of Evaluation 3 & 4
Hi there, I was wondering if someone could help me. We run voluntary return-to-work (after training) Kirkpatrick evaluations 3-4 in our organization. We distribute a link to an e-feedback form, but the data collected is anonymous. No email addresses, no person-identifying information, no location identifying information is collected. In other words, it is impossible to […]
Contribute to Your Employees Career Development
3 Ways To Contribute to Your Employees Career Development Employees are the main strength of any organization. An organization’s growth depends completely on its employees’ capability. Then it is a duty of the management to nurture the employees. There are many employees who can do better in their professional field, but due to some reason, […]
Benefits of development programs
Benefits of offering development programs to employees How businesses can benefit from providing training Offering development plans and training opportunities to employees will offer many benefits to a company, some more obvious than others. Keeping up with business growth Your business develops and grows over time and your products and services advance as well, so […]
L&D remodeling project
Hi. I am currently redesigning our L&D delivery system and am wondering if there are any guides or standards that should be followed to create the learning materials/resoucres? I am looking to produce training videos and step-by-step guides but am unsure of structure and content and am struggling to find templates or guides on this. Any help would be […]
Report Writing – Simple Marking Matrix
I am currently developing a programme of learning in two ‘chunks’ – one is for potential job candidates (internal) who need to brush up on their report writing / briefing note writing; the second is from the interviewers perspective – how to mark / assess reports quickly using a marking matrix approach. I am looking […]
How to recruit top talent for logistics industry
It’s an exciting time for the logistics industry. With the rise of AI and blockchain, this is a sector that’s undergoing a technological revolution. This means logistics could see rapid change and require different skill sets from incoming employees. To make sure you recruit and attract the best talent, we’ve compiled a quick cheat sheet […]
13 Tips for Developing an Employee Manual
Large enterprises that have been in business for a time understand the importance of employee manuals. Small business owners, as they grow, may not. But once a few employees have been hired, it is time to think about developing an employee manual, for several reasons: Employees need to understand the “rules” under which they need […]
4 Tips for Finding Happiness in your Career
How about we begin things off with a few useful tidbits from the Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu: “He who controls others might be powerful, yet he who has aced himself is even mightier.” Finding happiness in work or career choice depends on taking a gander at happiness from a few alternate points of view, since […]
How to Keep Remote Workers Engaged
In this blog post, I will explore the advantages and disadvantages of remote or home working, coupled with my own personal experience and some of the important considerations that employers and employees should be aware of before making any changes to their working environment. According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of home […]
How training our managers to ‘listen’ reduced absence
Deborah Astles is HR Director for corporate responsibility and policy at the logistics and manufacturing company Unipart. In this article she explores how managerial training reduced workplace absence. As a nation, we’re getting better at opening up the conversation around mental health, with many employees opting to confide in their manager in the first instance. […]
Four reasons why HR matters to small businesses
Thousands of small businesses and startups don’t have any form of HR support. But the UK faces an unprecedented talent crunch, huge business uncertainty and stagnant productivity, so now is not the time for young businesses to skimp on professional HR support. Here are four key reasons why you need HR experts, according to some […]
