Motivating millennials in the Middle East
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Why putting pressure on people is a good thing
One technique open to the team leader, business leader, chief executive, is to put staff under pressure to raise their game. There are different forms of words that do this, but essentially it comes down to two things: Accountable individuals are pushed to commit, to deliver something beyond what they believe is possible Having made […]
10 questions: how well do you know your workforce?
Many young and fast growing companies are expanding and recruiting fast. While these are exciting trends, new challenges are quickly emerging regarding their people. When everyone was co-located in the same office, and everyone knew everybody, knowing your workforce was easy. Now these companies are bigger – and people are dispersed across different offices and […]
“Our next challenge is retaining new talent.”
Regine Buettner is EVP HR Global & Europe at DHL Express. She is an international HR executive with over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining DHL in 2007 she was Senior Vice President HR at Deutsche Telekom and, before that, Senior Vice President HR of T-Systems. 1) What are your biggest challenges now around attracting and retaining […]
“We are really big on continuous improvement,” says Las Iguanas’ Angela Da Silva
This is an interview with Angela Da Silva, HR Manager at restaurant chain Las Iguanas, who won the Reward & Recognition Award at the 2014 Employee Engagement Awards. In this interview we delve into the company’s approach to engagement and tease out key learnings to help others bring an evidence-based, joined-up approach to their engagement […]
Freelancers experience “enthusiasm-based” work–nonwork interference
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Can you predict job satisfaction?
Prediction of the match between job satisfaction and job performance has been an area of intense study for organisational psychologists since the first examination in the 1930s by Roethlisberger & Dickson and has continued with research papers published periodically to the present day. The theory is if we can understand the relationship between job satisfaction […]
How to integrate outsiders into your team
I’ve just written a book about outsiders. Called The Outside Edge, its focus is on helping outsiders understand themselves, as well as how they can succeed in a world made by insiders. But what about those insiders (i.e. everybody else), having to work with outsiders: perhaps having to integrate them into a team and encourage them […]
The world’s happiest jobs and what they tell us
The Guardian recently conducted an analysis of nine different occupational surveys to find out which professions report the highest levels of happiness. What do the results tell us and how does poor managerial direction can interfere with natural engagement? The jobs that appeared the most often in the top 10 of each survey analysed were […]
“Thank you, I’d love to speak at your event…”
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Germanwings crash: we must keep up our progress on talking about mental health at work
The Germanwings tragedy has brought mental health to the forefront of people’s minds. Unfortunately, this is mostly for the wrong reasons, thanks to the sensationalised reporting which dominated the media. Much of the coverage linked mental health with dangerousness – demonising those of us with experience of a mental health problem such as depression. We […]
Your 10-step survival guide to making redundancies
Why me? Is a question common to any HR professional that has had experience of handling redundancies. It is often the first thing an employee at risk of redundancy will ask and is often fuelled by emotion, indignation and a sense of injustice. The wrong response can easily inflame the employee’s sense of dissatisfaction and […]
One-off management training is a waste of time and money
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HR – please stop thinking in ‘years’
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Mindfulness in the workplace – What HR professionals need to know
Alexander Beiner is a Founder of Open Meditation, a London-based organization teaching non-religious mindfulness meditation in the workplace. In recent years there has been a rising interest among HR professionals into the practice of mindfulness meditation. However, there is still a lot of confusion as to what this practice really is, what it involves and […]
Three quick wins for workplace productivity
We’d all like to be a little more productive right? Finding ways to stop procrastinating and get things done? Easier said than done though. With more distractions in our workplaces – emails, social media, phone calls – being and staying productive is a challenge. The good news is that by adopting better habits, productivity can […]
How to support employees through bereavement
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Overcome impostor syndrome once and for all
Do you suspect that you are a fraud and do not deserve the success you have achieved? Have you ever worried that you’re not really as good at your job as everyone says you are? Do you dismiss your successes as being down to luck, the work of others or timing? Are you worried that […]
Employee adoption and participation define successful recognition strategies
Rob Catalano is leads global engagement and expansion at cloud recognition and engagement company Achievers. Rob is a Certified Recognition Professional (CRP) and a popular speaker on the HR circuit, having presented on best practices and trends in over 30 cities. His writings include a ‘wisdom of crowds’ approach leveraging his work with hundreds of […]
Four principles for instilling cultures of creativity
The number of job descriptions that now list ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ amongst the list of characteristics applicants need to have seems to have skyrocketed. Really, they just want someone who can take the initiative and think outside the box. But organisations don’t need to hire in new talent to find these qualities. Instilling a culture of […]