23rd September 2020
Each industry has its own hurdles when it comes to finding the right employees. In every company (big or small), HR departments are hard at work looking for new talent that would fit the culture and grow with the business. However, the days when people would stay with one company until retirement are long gone. […]
20th February 2020
Recruitment is complete and you have found the right candidate for a role and they then accept the position. So what could possibly go wrong from here? Unfortunately, there’s plenty that can, and very often does, go wrong during this crucial phase of the hiring cycle – known as onboarding. Employee onboarding should start the […]
4th July 2019
To engage employees you need to eliminate resistance by getting employees to do tasks because THEY want to do them. When you find yourself continually nagging them to get things done it’s a sign that they’re not engaged. When you pile pressure on top of this resistance you’ve got yourself a very unhappy and unmotivated […]
26th June 2018
Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin, one of the biggest superpowers in the world, said “train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to”. You’ve probably read thousands of articles, news headlines and Tweets about Millennials, or the ‘digital natives’. There’s a good chance you already employ […]
1st April 2015
Many of us will have been onboarded without even knowing it. Some of us will have missed the onboarding opportunity altogether – and once you’ve missed it, you’ve missed it for good. But what is this thing called onboarding? When a new person joins an organisation, they are being brought “on board”. So onboarding is […]
27th March 2015
Starting a new job can be a stressful experience at the best of times. It might include giving up a good job to start anew with only the promises made in the recruitment process for comfort. People with mortgages and kids to support might have a pressing need for success, but in reality every new […]