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How to Get Your Managers to Motivate Their Teams

This post is sponsored by Workstride, helping companies recognise, motivate, and develop their talent through a blend of configurable software, modern rewards experiences, and strategic program design.  Every employee has their own sources of motivation when it comes to work. Some are motivated by money; others are driven by the necessity of providing for their…

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Time to Build Resilience in New Managers

Resilience is about finding ways to bounce back from challenge, adversity or disappointment; it is elasticity, the capacity to recover. The International Resilience Project describes resilience as ‘a universal capacity which allows a person, group or community to prevent, minimise or overcome the damaging effects of adversity’. Psychologists have identified some factors that make a…

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5-Step Guide: Marketing to So-Called ‘Millennials’

Millennials, millennials, millennials. What if someone told you that they don’t even exist? Well, they’re about to. Brenda Wong is the social media and community manager at Debut, a careers app that is targeted toward students and recent graduates. Her role is all about engaging people. Not just any people – the right people who happen to be…

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5 Ridiculous Company Rules to Make You Appreciate Your Job

We’ve all heard the entertaining stories of employees who got fired from their jobs for the most ridiculous reasons. Of course, what seems shocking to some appears perfectly sensible to others, otherwise those employees would still have jobs. But there can be no terminations without rules to be broken, and where there are ridiculous firings,…

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How to Build a Team Full of Talent

We all know that the key to organisational success is largely dependent on having the right people with the right skills in the right roles. To be effective and productive we need to nurture and retain resilient, creative and agile performers at every level. Talent management is about maximising the potential talent on the team…