This Is How You Can Create A Successful Business Recruitment Strategy Plan
By Owen Jones
A recruitment strategy plan is a process of identifying and hiring the best-qualified individual for a job position. In practice, it is...
Hiring by True Fit: The Future of Recruitment
By Yardenne Assa
The current hiring process that most companies implement today is fundamentally broken.
What are the facts that allow for that conclusion? Research shows...
How Can You Spot a Potential Leader in Your Staff?
As a business owner, one of the most important attributes you can find within your staff is leadership. Being able to find someone in...
The Best HR Managers Should have these Skills
The world of human resources is constantly changing, in line with wider trends in the labour market. So, whilst more Brits are in employment...
HR Automation – Why It Makes Sense In The Pandemic Era
The COVID-10 pandemic is perhaps the biggest business disruption that this generation has faced. The changes on the Human Resource front have been drastic,...
The Importance of Adopting a Loving Attitude Towards Stakeholders
By Dr. Bruno Roque Cignacco
In the business environment, love is commonly seen as a feeling totally alien to the cultures of most organisations. Some...
Getting the Right Talent: Eight Benefits of Building an Effective Project Team
A successful project is a result of planning all the actions and efforts of talented people and trust within the team. If you need...
A Guide to Remote Working for SMBs
By Grace Lau
Working remotely has both pros and cons and is a fast-growing trend. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to avoid the...
How to Negotiate Effectively with Multiple Parties?
By Guido Stein and Kandarp Mehta
Soft skills, like negotiating, have become increasingly important in creating personal relationships and fostering opportunities for your business’ long-term...
AI Revolutionaries are at the Gates of Your Organization’s HR Department
By Andy Charlwood and Nigel Guenole
AI has been widely tipped as a powerful potential asset in the field of human resources – particularly recruitment,...
Caring for Workers Returning After Injury
A serious injury can have all manner of knock-on effects. It might compromise an individual’s ability to do something as simple as make a...
5 Strategies for Working Seamlessly with a Multigenerational Workforce
You often see great age-diversity among employees working in a company or organization. This diverse workforce is also referred to as a multigenerational workforce....
5 Tips to Help Business Owners Motivate Their Staff
By Rae Oliver
You simply cannot do without your employees. Regardless of the size of your business, they are integral to your success.
Many businesses face...
Team Mindfulness: A Discipline for Performance Beyond Fashion and Fad
By Michael Chaskalson, Helen Sieroda, Chris Nichols and Philippa Hardman
Mindfulness – a way of paying attention with an attitude of open-hearted interest to what...
How Automation Can Improve Employee Satisfaction
By Jenna Bunnell
If you’re like 40% of American workers, you’ll probably agree that at least a quarter of your time is spent on repetitive...
4 Workforce Management Tips To Create An Efficient Work Environment
Just like other aspects of running an organization, efficient workforce management is also crucial for the success of the business. Typically, your employees can...
What Is Employee Fraud? Tips on Spotting the Red Flags and How to Prevent...
By Jenna Bunnell
Trust is an extremely important element for every business. Without confidence in your colleagues, you’ll fail to work effectively as a...
The Importance of Background Checks For Your Employees
If you’re looking to hire a new employee, you want to know about their history and if they are who they say they are....
A Voyage Into Premature Aging: The Role of Chronic Stress and its Principal Correlates
By Prof. Simon L. Dolan and Prof. Mario Raich
Introduction
The idea of stress and aging was born many years ago while one of the co-authors of...
The Dangers of Context Switching to Your Productivity & How to Solve it
By Grace Lau
Even the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once lamented the urge to take on too many tasks at once. How quaint it now seems...
4 Ways to Increase Employee Loyalty in 2021
Retaining your top talent throughout the years will not only decrease your company’s turnover fees, but it could increase productivity and profitability. However, many...
Gender Pay Gap Extends to Pensions, Research Reveals
Much has been made about the gender pay gap, with efforts to bring incomes between men and women more in line.
While those in work...
Future of Hiring Platforms: When Online Shopping Meets Dating Platforms
You blink, and something new is on the market, yet again! Times are changing so fast, it’s become very hard to keep up. All...
Digital Upskilling, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Tech-Driven Organizations
By David De Cremer
Renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell (2007) is often quoted saying “Everything rises and falls on leadership.” This quote underscores the...
Managing People’s Talent with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence leadership goes beyond technology
By Prof. Guido Stein, IESE Business School and Alberto Barrachina, Research Assistant
For companies, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the...
How a motivational speaker can transform your next event
Planning a business event can feel like a daunting prospect, even for established business leaders. This is for good reason: the evening’s legacy can...
Adapting HR strategies to the COVID landscape
By Nikolas Kairinos
Even at the best of times, Human Resources (HR) managers have a difficult job on their hands. In 2019, before the onset...
Current Development in Psychometric Tests
By Adrian Furnham
Finding the right person who is well suited for a job position is vital in any organisation’s success. There are numbers of...
Mental Stability – A Key to Success in Business
The pursuit of happiness should be one of the main goals of most people. In this relentless pursuit, they will make more and more...
Navigating Tricky Conflict Resolutions: How To Stop a Chris Rock vs. Will Smith From...
Last Sunday’s night Oscar altercation is worth more than 10 Teen Choice Awards.
ICYMI: In what can only be described as a surreal public cross...
Top 8 EOR Providers for Hiring Global Talent
Due to globalization and increasing network connectivity, companies have more scope to expand than ever before.
However, extending your employment strategy overseas is challenging. Branching...
Make Hiring a Delightful Employee Experience
How to upgrade your employer brand to attract and retain the best talent
By Avi Liran
As the war for talent intensifies, creating a Delightful Employee...
When to train and not to train your employees?
By Rohit Chandiramani
According to the 2017 Training Industry Report, companies in the USA have spent over $90 billion on employee training and development, and...
Headhunting At Your Competition – 5 Ways To Draw Talent To Your Company
By Peter Bray
Knowing how to draw top talent to your company is a vital recruiting skill, but it becomes a sensitive issue when you...
5 Ways to Keep Your Workforce Running Strong
It is vital to keep your workforce running strong as a business owner. This means ensuring that your employees are happy and productive. If...
How To Make Sure Your Employees Are Satisfied
It should come as no surprise to learn the truth behind the adage of businesses being only as good as its constituting people. These...
The New Normal – How Companies Are Adapting to Employees Working from Home
COVID-19 may still be spreading around the globe and disrupting many lives, but in some ways, many of us have come to tolerate the...
Can a DBS Check Be Used For Different Jobs?
Whether a DBS check can be used for different jobs is a very common question, but unfortunately it doesn’t have a straight yes or...
How to Empower Your Employees to Adopt a Conscious Entrepreneurial Mindset
By Vlatka Ariaana Hlupic
Until recently, the concept of a compassionate and collaborative leader was regarded as an exception rather than the norm. But with...
Why Leaders Should Encourage Employees to Rebel
By Francesca Gino
Organisations see lacklustre results when workers feel bored and constrained. By encouraging employees to rebel against convention and bring their best selves...
Acing Job Interviews: Why Employers Use Psychometric Tests and How to Prepare
You have an upcoming interview and learn that the recruiting company relies on psychometric tests in its assessments. What are psychometric tests? High school...
Assault in the Workplace – Understanding the Business Owner’s Liability
Workplace conflicts are an integral aspect of running a business. While seniors may give verbal threats to junior employees, the risk of physical violence...
Aiming to Nourish the More Human Organisation
By Michael Chaskalson, Helen Sieroda, Chris Nichols and Philippa Hardman
The first article in this series examined the importance of Team Mindfulness using the AIM...
Laugh and the World Complains to HR: Humour at Work
By Adrian Furnham
But it was just “workplace banter”! Another pale, stale, frail male attempts to defend himself against a range of accusations of “inappropriateness”...
Manual transmission: what should your company put in its employee handbook?
Does your company strictly need to produce and distribute an employee handbook? Depending on where your business is based, perhaps not; in the UK,...
6 Employee Recruitment Strategies for Quality Hiring
Hiring an employee can seem like a nightmare. What if you don’t choose the perfect candidate? What if they perform well during the recruitment...
The Art of Discovery Questions in Hiring: How to Ensure you are Asking Candidates...
By Allison Todd
The last time I checked, no one exactly enjoys the hiring process. Combing through countless applicants, weeding out the unqualified, interviewing the few...
How To Motivate Your Staff In 2020
When you have an unmotivated workforce, things can start to go wrong in the business. You need to make sure that you are treating...
Trust, Treason and Treachery: The Psychology of Spying
By Adrian Furnham and John Taylor
“In the world of intelligence, it is trust not betrayal which dominates the mindset”
What exactly do spies do? What...
People Assessment in the Digital Age
By Adrian Furnham
How have technical, social, economic and legal forces influenced the business of people assessment? New technologies used in assessment include smartphone and...