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Teams are formed to accomplish a shared purpose and their success will depend on familiarity with each other’s work style, experience on prior teams, and their clarity of purpose and performance is hampered if team members don’t work well together. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines collaboration as “an action of working with someone to…
How can we encourage employees to be the storytellers on behalf of the employer brand? We’ve asked this and much more to Bryan Chaney who heads up employer branding at Indeed and is the founder of TalentBrand.org. Have a listen below and be sure to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. Why is employee storytelling…
Let’s firstly acknowledge the founding principle of philanthropy: a care for humanity and others. The world isn’t perfect, and a charity venture can make it just a little bit more fair. If you value the social good done by a charity then you should get involved. And while the first reason for supporting a charity…
So you’ve decided the diversity of your company isn’t quite up to the standards that you would like and you want to know how you go about improving? Do you change your recruitment polices? Do you get a diversity expert in to help you make the changes you need? Well luckily for you our panel…
UK organisations lose over £100m every year because of work-related stress, depression and anxiety, a figure which could soar in the coming decade if poorly managed nomadic working practices continue, a mental health organisation has warned. Paul Finch, CEO of A People Business, says: Nomadic, remote and flexible working practices are the norm today. Unfortunately, if…
Employees are a business’ most valuable asset. This is something that rings true for companies in every sector, and for SMEs in particular it is especially important. It’s essential to create the right conditions for your employees to thrive within your organisation. Engaging with employees at all levels is a vital part of success but…
Franklin Roosevelt was President, the Great Depression was raging, and Jean Harlow was the reigning queen of Hollywood – all this while the first serious studies of unconscious bias and prejudice began to emerge. In particular, much of the focus of this 1930’s research was on answering this central question: Can contact between groups reduce…
Whether you’re a recruiter, HR professional or owner of a business – you know that the brand you represent is going to help you attract the right employees. Robert Jones is a strategist at Wolff Olins where he has helped build brands like Barclays, National Trust, Oxfam, Tesco, and Virgin. With a wealth of branding…
Soft skills are becoming increasingly vital to employers when differentiating between candidates with similar experience and education. Be it team spirit, communication skills or being a quick-thinker, expressing and demonstrating the right soft skills can make hopeful applicants stand out from the crowd. In the competitive hiring environment, employers are asking and looking for certain…
