Category: Employee Engagement
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Returning to work after the pandemic: how to re-establish a healthy, high performance team
Returning to work after the pandemic and more crucially, to a work environment that’s fully functional and stable is a long-term process. It includes a series of small steps that creates a positive synergy between health, wellbeing and performance for you and your team.
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Rowena Wood: How managers can use coaching to help employees transition back to work
This last year has been without precedent. Everyone from health care professionals and government officials to individuals have made massive efforts to help us return to normal life as summer approaches. There has been a momentous paradigm shift as society has pulled together under the ‘new normal’ to bring us to where we are now.…
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What has the pandemic taught businesses about employee engagement?
Employee engagement is a top priority for many companies, especially those which may be continuing with remote working into the foreseeable future. Due to the pandemic, many HR managers have had to significantly adapt and evolve company’s engagement strategies to ensure they would still be effective with remote employees.
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How to create a culture of kindness in the workplace
Workplace culture is the personality and character of an organisation and is the sum of its traditions, values, attitudes, and behaviours. A culture of kindness has core values of kindness, respect, and compassion, with employees ultimately working towards creating a kind and caring environment to work in.
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Dorian Ilie, Communication Director at Rogalski Damaschin Public: Companies should connect with their audience in an authentic, relevant and emotional manner; don’t make it about you, make it about them
Transparency and empathy are of the essence in PR should always shine through in a company’s communication with its audience, especially as many businesses try to navigate the COVID crisis. Many companies lose sight of their audience’s needs which is why often their communication is not what it should be, explains Dorian Ilie, Communication Director…
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Top five changes in recruitment processes post-Covid-19
Covid-19 has had an impact on so many areas, changing how we communicate, how we access to support and how we work. Inevitably, recruitment post-Covid-19 will also be different. Companies have realised that, in order to survive such adversity, they must adapt their recruitment processes and job requirements to suit the current environment and its…
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The pitfalls of group decision making and how to avoid them
Decision-making is one of the many skills experts have identified as crucial when it comes to rebuilding the workplace post-pandemic. One of the key ways to improve group decision-making is to be conscious of groupthink, a scenario in which individuals of a team are afraid to voice their opinions for fear of creating dissent.
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Employee engagement – easy ways to keep your colleagues entertained
Every team leader knows that it is more than working together that creates a team. Shared interests, friendships, and mutual respect are essential to maintain harmony. The Covid-19 pandemic means…
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Redefining performance management in the ‘new normal’ workplace
In the last couple of months, businesses have had to rethink their strategies and consider the best way forward for their companies post-COVID-19. Performance management has become an important topic among HR managers as flexible working will become the norm in the ‘new normal’ workplace.
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Why business women need to support each other to reach the top
Equality, diversity and inclusion should be at the core of the modern workplace, providing everyone with the resources and opportunities they need to reach the top positions (should they want to).