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“To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace.”
- Doug Conant
Employee Handbook: top missing things from BrainyHR
Hundreds of times, you answer the same questions of new employees? Is it time to turn off the ineffective parrot and make a good reference for employees? What to do, who is useful, how is he arranged? BrainyHR presents five tips that will help you develop the content of the Welcome Book for your company.
Minimizing stress at work - tips for managers
Stressed employees are characterized by lower productivity at work. More and more managers, when organizing the work of their team, pay attention to the issue of stress. Numerous actions are taken to minimize this negative phenomenon.
It’s not a joke. Countless studies show that excess stress can cause real physical symptoms like headaches, upset stomach, increased blood pressure, chest pain, and trouble sleeping. It seems that stress is an individual matter and it is difficult to control it. Each of us reacts differently to the work environment and the tasks we face.
Focus on Work-Life Balance
How to achieve a good relationship between your work and personal life? The concept of work-life balance seems to polarize opinions in contemporary society. Some argue that achieving a positive relationship between work and personal life is the key to a happy and productive existence, while others think that this concept does not make sense nowadays.
In the world of constantly ringing smartphones, working on projects available in the cloud from anywhere on Earth. In addition, career development is often associated with the need to work after hours and to solve difficult, complex problems.
Strategic HR Management and Planning
Currently, organizations are aware of the competitive advantage that is competent and constantly developing staff and strive for consistent management of employee development, trying to build an effective policy in this area through strategic management of human resources.
Book review - performance management by Linda Ashdown
At a time when business is in great need of growth, the most important leaders bring to their organizations a focus on performance. This view is different from the stubborn focus on efficiency that has characterized managerial thinking over the past 30 years.
Work efficiency is most often defined as "the number of hours of work performed to accomplish tasks in relation to the standard in terms of business applications or conditions." Efficiency is to do the same with less money. Companies most often increase efficiency, trying to reduce the number of working hours needed to achieve the same level of production. Translate to bills because the company creates less on wages and other service costs. Therefore, efficiency consists in reducing the denominator, i.e. expenditure - number of employees, working hours - in order to change profitability.
How to upskill your team: Useful tips
Professional competences are not permanent. Over time, both our personality traits and associated soft competences, as well as the level of acquired skills, i.e. hard competences, may change. Continuous improvement of employee competencies should be important for the team leader, because development will be beneficial for the entire company. Check out the top 10 ways to develop employee skills.
Competence is a combination of practical skills and knowledge as well as personality traits that influence the way an employee performs tasks. They include hard competences and soft competences. Many specializations require constant commitment to professional development, as available technologies. The employer who depends on the employee's competences should enable him to develop professionally as part of his work.
Who is who part 2 : Recruiting professions and their differences
Is there any difference between recruiter, sourcer or talent acquisition manager ? What is the difference between the daily duties and tasks of people with such positions? Well and most importantly, how much are these roles interchangeable, or vice versa, each of them requires a certain unique set of qualities and skills?
What Is Employer Branding?
What exactly is the employer's brand?
If you want to answer honestly the question about the effectiveness of Employer Branding, you must give a negative answer. Why? So before we start complaining about the effects of activities in the area of EB, it is worth looking at the company comprehensively so as to first identify the problems and address them. If you want to go outside with a clear message, you must first make sure that everything is fine inside. After all, the employer's brand is the sum of many components, among which employees are one of the key elements. In turn, for them the values that guide the company and whether they are the same as those they follow in life are extremely important. You have to ask yourself: "do employees have a sense of impact on what is happening in the organization and the direction it is going?", "Do they have a sense of mission related to the projects being implemented?", "Do they see their future in the organization's structures in the next few years? "
Soft skills: examples, tips and training
Soft skills are more important for professional success than technical or hard skills. Knowledge is power, but far more powerful is the right way to deal with people. Soft skills are defined as methodical, personal and social competences that are characterized by interdisciplinary qualifications and are reflected in the personality and behavior of a person.
Talent management - what is it? The future of talent management
Basically, talent management is about winning, identifying, retaining and developing talented employees. Talent management means all activities of personnel marketing and personnel retention and employee development. However, there is no general definition for talent management.