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It’s 2023; workplaces have changed forever since the pandemic and the discovery that employees do not need a shared space of four walls to work productively. When the world was thrown into lockdowns during 2020/2021, businesses had no option but to trust their employees to work remotely without a lingering watchful eye. Desks were carried […]

HR professionals today need emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, leadership abilities, effective organisation and time management, and adaptability and resilience to succeed.

Over the past decades, corporate scandals have ratcheted up in numbers, with the toxic behaviour of organisations like Enron and Uber (amongst others) hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Not surprisingly, some of the love has gone, and nowadays it’s hard to accept what many organisations claim about themselves at face value. Today’s […]

The workplace has changed – in the modern workplace employees want to be challenged, they want to be educated and they want to be developed. A decade ago, the term learning and development was relatively unheard of, however now we are seeing more and more businesses allocate resources and funds to this very topic. But […]

Arrr the good old performance review! Managers hate doing them ……… employees hate attending them…… so why do we bother? Well, it’s not that performance reviews are bad per se… it’s just that we’ve been doing them wrong! For many years the annual performance review was conducted in a formal setting, with meaningless generic questions […]

Learning Digitally To support change, in a fast-evolving digital world, it is important that we have the right skills and techniques to be able to learn and develop within it. The way we learn is changing, and there is now, more than ever before, a vast amount of information we can draw on to help […]

Have you considered upgrading your skills to enhance your job opportunities at some point in your HR career? CIPD certifications are the best in helping you up your game! What is CIPD? The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is a professional HR and people development body, with a worldwide community of around 160,000 […]

Human resource strategies help maximize employee potential while ensuring all HR activities coincide with organisational objectives. Effective strategies can help maintain high levels of employee satisfaction, improve transparency, and workforce efficiency, and govern workplace behaviours. This blog post aims to highlight different examples of HR strategies. Are you seeking skills in HR or learning and […]

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