Workplace Culture

10 Jul

Posted at 12:22h in Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Featured, HR Strategy, Learning, Training & Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

All Aboard! Onboarding [on-bohr-ding]—n. is the process through which new employees acquire the skills, behavior, and knowledge to become effective members of an organization. Research has shown that these techniques lead to higher job satisfaction, better job performance, greater commitment to the organization, and reduced turnover. Introducing...

04 Jul

Posted at 09:30h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Leadership Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Systems & Software, Workplace Culture by

It never ceases to amaze how many organizations rely on groups of people (teams) to deliver significant outcomes for their businesses yet invest few resources in understanding the individuals who make up a team. Great team dynamics are the basis for success. When teams are built...

13 Jun

Posted at 09:00h in Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Featured, HR Strategy, Learning, Training & Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

Have you ever experienced arriving all fresh and ready to go for your first day at a new job but your manager is running late? Maybe the receptionist doesn’t know where your desk is (if you even have one)? Worse still, perhaps nobody is even expecting...

07 Jun

Posted at 09:00h in Career Development, Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Leadership Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

The idea of having performance appraisals can make team members feel all sorts of emotions. Some feel fear and anxiety, others may feel neutral or excited, or even entitled. As the time for performance appraisals approaches, here are 8 areas management can review in helping...

28 May

Posted at 11:08h in Employee Wellness, Employment Law, Featured, HR Strategy, Managing, Occupational Health & Safety, Organisational Change, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

By Abraham Ash, Partner and Heloise Ormandy, Lawyer, Clayton Utz Disciplining and terminating employees for inappropriate use of social media is unfortunately a "hot topic" for businesses. The divide between "work life" and "private life" has become increasingly blurred, in large part due to the...

23 May

Posted at 10:00h in Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Featured, HR Strategy, Managing, Motivating Employees, Occupational Health & Safety, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

While it is now common for workplaces to strive for workplace well being, the role of culture is sometimes overlooked. In reality, workplace wellness programs including gym memberships, step challenges and flu vaccinations pale into insignificance when compared with the effects of workplace culture on...

15 May

Posted at 10:00h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Learning, Training & Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Staffing & Recruitment, Workplace Culture by

The Art of Matchmaking 7-steps signature program focus on the organizational and employee needs throughout the employee journey; also known as employee lifecycle so that the employee experience, engagement and retention could be impacted in every step. For the last 10 years we’ve been experiencing...

08 May

Posted at 10:00h in Employee Engagement, Employer Branding, Featured, HR Strategy, Managing, Motivating Employees, Online Recruitment, Organisational Change, People Management, Performance Management, Staffing & Recruitment, Workplace Culture by

As a Human Resources professional, if you and your team obsessed over all the metrics that every article on the web suggested you should measure to confirm whether you are running an effective recruitment process, you would end up spending most of your time measuring recruiting activities...

13 Mar

Posted at 10:30h in Career Development, Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Leadership Development, Learning, Training & Development, Managing, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Workplace Culture by

For the last 15 years I’ve been accompanying organizations to maximize performance, retention and engagement (earlier described as job satisfaction) by implementing strategies specifically design for Human Resources projects for the recruitment & selection team, learning & development team or the employee relations team. Today...

01 Mar

Posted at 10:30h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Managing, Motivating Employees, Organisational Change, People Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Workplace Culture by

Managing a group of people isn’t always easy even if your entire team is sitting right in front of you. But the challenges faced by anyone building a team increase exponentially when that team is spread across different offices – whether the offices are at...