Individual Managers Can Make A Shiny Happy Workplace
Recent research has shown that employees in Singapore are not happy in their workplace – indeed, out of 14 countries polled,Singapore is ranked last in workplace happiness! Unsurprisingly therefore,...
View ArticleEnsuring Corporate Training Sticks
There are organisational costs to training – and not just financial costs but opportunity costs as well as other resources. Course participants invest their precious time and energy in the training –...
View ArticleSet New Employees Up for Success
Your new hire is complete and an excited employee is about to begin a new endeavor that involves significant risk and reward for both your company and your employee. Knowing that a significant...
View ArticleTalent Management Lessons From Steve Jobs
In his 56 years, Steve Jobs earned accolades not just for the technologies he created, but also for the way he managed his staff. Under his leadership, the team at Apple grew from a group of...
View ArticleLearning From Talent Management Failures – An Analysis Of AOL & TechCrunch
AOL publicly announced their acquisition of TechCrunch on September 28th, 2010. Less than a year later, TechCrunch’s top talents have exited with major drama and the investment, valued at between $30...
View Article5 Top Non-Financial Bonuses
There’s more than one way to effectively reward employees and top performers. Along with cash rewards, there are also non-financial bonuses which can be given. After all, once your employees have...
View ArticleWhen The Money Doesn’t Matter: Designing Non-Financial Incentive Plans
For all the salary discussions happening in the workplace, the reality for many workers is that the money doesn’t matter. In Singapore, the recent Lumesse survey showed that local workers are the...
View ArticleThe Need for Training in Creativity and Innovation
Technological Innovation New products and services are appearing all the time and the latest versions of products are appearing more quickly than ever before. Technological innovation facilitates this...
View ArticleA Few Quick Talent Management Lessons, From The Top Companies To Work For In...
Glassdoor released a list of the top companies to work for in 2013. The results are based on employee feedback and amongst the top are companies such as Facebook, McKinsey, Riverbed Technologies, Bain...
View ArticleThinking about moving to an open-plan office? Think again…
Around 70% of people in America work in open plan offices. I couldn’t find comparable numbers for Singapore/Asia but my guess is that the figure will be lower. However, I have been hearing from more...
View ArticleTips for successful employee selection and hiring
Anyone who has worked with an unsuitable co-worker probably has at minimum a general idea that they can cost a company in terms of lower output, increased training and assessment time, and impacted...
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