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Recruiting Remotely During COVID -19. How to Do It Right!

While the world copes with the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are facing an unprecedented challenge. While the damaging effects of the epidemic are inevitable, modifications in engagements with suppliers, customers and employees can help cushion them. The ‘work from home’ culture has undoubtedly experienced a boom in recent times. Cloud applications and technology advances mean that …

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Two “Rights” for Business Success

HR, Recruitment

Having the right employees beautifully matched to your organisation’s purpose is the perfect situation. Right? If only it was that easy. When there is a mismatch between people and purpose the explanation could be wrong purpose or wrong people. Let’s unpack purpose from the perspectives of the organisation and its people. Business-as-usual: people and purpose …

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If you polled employees today, how many would know the company’s purpose?

HR, Recruitment

“Purpose” has become a core word in management conversations and referred to in thousands of books and articles about business management and leadership. Yet many of the purpose statements we read can be a little generic and vanilla. For example, … “ cultivate a strong network” …” be employer of choice” … “ maximise shareholder value” …

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If the answer is, “build a great culture” … what is the question?

HR, Leadership Development, Recruitment

When you employ staff, you bring them on for what’s in their heads. When they sign your employment contract, they bring their hearts as well as their heads. It is common to think that staff motivation is about the money. It is less common to think it’s about connection, purpose and alignment to core values. …

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How to Develop Your Listening Skills

HR, Recruitment

Listening is an important characteristic of an effective leader. So, why is it difficult for some leaders? Often, leaders tend to direct and take command of conversions or talk too much. Due to their busy schedules, leaders also do not take the time to listen to others. We need to use all tools available to …

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5 Proven Guidelines to Recruiting and Retaining Top Candidates

Recruitment

5 Proven Guidelines to Recruiting and Retaining Top Candidates Having a high employee turnover is a dilemma that steals time and productivity and is every business owner’s worst nightmare. Hiring employees is only the start to creating a strong work force. Next, you have to keep them and attract the best candidates for new positions that become available. Ponder …

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Recruitment is “easy”… so why do we keep getting it wrong?

Recruitment

Successful organisations constantly study expenditures, ROI and value for money in all decisions they make. However, the interpretation of “return on effort” without putting a financial component to the activity is where leaders often fail to recognise their mistakes, especially when it comes to recruitment. According to research from recruitment specialist Robert Half, 10% of employee …

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