GUEST BLOG: Why operators should be open to using flexible staff
Could a flexible workforce be right for your business? There are five key benefits for you to consider, says Coople… Matching and optimising your staffing levels to the business you are experiencing can be a challenge, especially when you need to maintain high standards throughout the customer experience. A flexible, adaptable workforce provides a solution. […]
GUEST BLOG: Customised surveys offer the cost-effective solution to effective staff feedback
By Asimina Stamatiou MHR Are you struggling to get honest feedback from staff in order to implement change and improve company culture? MHR’s employee engagement expert Asimina Stamatiou discusses the best way to engage your staff with a platform for honest feedback… Keeping staff engaged is challenging. Without a platform to confidently raise issues, employees miss out […]
What are the benefits of corporate training days for profit & productivity?
By Chill Factore If you are looking for ways to boost staff morale, enhance productivity, and lower employee turnover, look no further than corporate team-building activities. These exercises can provide a great company culture that will involve the business’s values and goals. To put it simply, if your company was a human, its culture would […]
GUEST BLOG: Change is an opportunity for growth
By Carole Spiers Any prospect of major organisational change – a merger, takeover, relocation or perhaps restructuring – can tend to provoke fear and resentment out of proportion to the actual disruption that eventually occurs. All too frequently, it can be our attitude and mindset towards change rather than the change itself that can cause […]
GUEST BLOG: Bossy girls – Closing the gender pay gap
By Geraldine Gallacher, Managing Director, Executive Coaching Consultancy I am optimistic that what is revealed by the figures in the gender pay gap declarations will spur all employers – not just those already committed to action – to take time to understand what’s causing the gap in their organisation and find the most effective way of […]
OPINION: Leadership & humility in business
Rob Field, Learning and Development Director at Advanced People Strategies takes a look at leadership in business… Leadership… A pretty vast topic. The debates around effective leadership always evoke some pretty heated debate and numerous perspectives. We all have our stories of the successful and inspirational leaders we have worked for and with, the qualities […]
GUEST BLOG: Maximise your presence at industry expos
By WhereTheTradeBuys The challenges of advertising aren’t restricted to design. Many business owners and marketers need to consider where they will place their printed products once they’re complete — put them in the wrong spot and your ROI could plummet! To help, we’ve explored the multiple locations available to you when you want to optimise […]
GUEST BLOG: Are you ready for the upcoming GDPR?
By XpertHR The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes in to effect on 25 May 2018, will change the way organisations like yours manage personal data. This could be anything from names or email addresses to more detailed information such as bank details or medical records. To help your business prepare […]
GUEST BLOG: The definition of ‘clever’ – Why university’s not for everyone
By Marissa Francis, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Improver, ABM UK To mark National Apprenticeship Week, ABM UK apprentice Marissa Francis writes about the importance of promoting different routes to success… A question I’ve always battled with is, ‘What is the definition of clever?’ I think nowadays people are so focused on getting a degree […]
GUEST BLOG: Workflow Automation Part Three – It’s time to move to a more digital way of working
By Karen Guglielmo, Iron Mountain Part three of our series looks at how to move to a more digital way of working… Before we begin, a quick recap of parts one and two: Digital ways of working hold many benefits, but HR departments are still largely mired in paper-based and manual processes, most notably in […]
