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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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…
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…
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,…
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…
We’ve heard the phrase, ‘you are what you eat’, but what about ‘you are what you create’? Cutting through the content noise online is difficult. How is it that some pieces of content resonate incredibly well with a particular audience, while others fall on deaf ears and flop? Some content pulls huge social engagement, but is…
Let’s be honest: nobody likes traditional performance reviews. Managers hate trying to find time in their schedules to give employees a year’s worth of feedback. Employees dread having to hear a laundry list of mistakes they’ve made. In the end, both parties leave the meeting feeling it was less than productive. It’s time to stop…
Intelligent machines aren’t stealing our jobs – they’re making us better at filling them with right fit hires. The development of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword: we marvel at intelligent machines achieving bigger and better things, but at the same time, they’re starting to outcompete even human superstars at their…
On one hand, we know we shouldn’t really be taking our work home with us; that it’s important to uphold some real work-life balance in order to stay happy and refreshed. On the other hand, we’re told that if we want to succeed we have to constantly ‘go the extra mile’ and ‘give everything we’ve…