Learning to inspire your employees is vital to the success of the business, the manager, and the employees. Inspired employees enjoy their jobs and love coming to work. Inspiration is a key factor in the productivity of your employees. Creating a high self-image environment is key to better performance from the…...
To Attract Candidates During COVID-19, Rethink Your Job Perks
In a matter of months, COVID-19 turned our nation’s recruiting landscape from a candidate’s market to a job drought. In the midst of the pandemic, individuals are stressing about their health, more candidates are applying for remote work, and families are losing access to childcare services. In this hiring climate,…...
How to Be Found by Recruiters on LinkedIn: 6 Important Tips
With all the rage around social media in job searching, LinkedIn stands out as the tool of choice for many recruiters to connect with job seekers (or future job seekers). Knowing how recruiters use the tool may shed some light on how to leverage LinkedIn in your own job search…...
8 Hiring Mistakes to Avoid, According to Sales Managers
As the cheesy saying goes, there is no "I" in team. However, there are a few in "hiring mistake." Hire well and you’re more likely to have a high performing and happy team. Hire just one wrong person, commonly known as a "hiring mistake," and you’ll spend a lot of…...
10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup
If you come from a large software company, don’t implement their methodology. It isn’t going to work in a startup. Literally 100% failure rate. Let go of what you know. Listen. Learn. Adapt. And get moving. I went to a startup once where the prior VP of Sales had 13…...
CEO Leadership During COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic has been an epic test of character and determination for millions of people around the world. Nothing compares with the sacrifice of workers on the front lines in hospitals and other essential services. In the business context, CEOs have had to cope with extraordinary demands: for them, the…...
Future Of Work: Five ways the workplace will change in the future
There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has made us re-evaluate our lives, change our priorities and transform the way we live, work and play. “The pandemic has been a sharp reminder of the fragility of life and the importance of human connections, and we can expect to see a rebalance in…...
Focus on strengths to build high performing teams
The organisational practice of investing in those with potential and casting aside others who are deemed as not being able to grow is unsupported by evidence and can be harmful. Many of our youngest workers suffer from this because current tertiary education focuses strongly on developing technical skills but not…...
Millennials on the rise: Understanding the five generations at work
Organisations face the unique challenge of managing the workplace expectations of five different generations while still trying to achieve their strategic goals. Each generation has its defining traits, which are helpful in understanding their preferred ways of working and management style. Millennials are set to make up 75% of the…...
What If Your Assumptions About Your Culture Are All Wrong?
In our research, two-thirds of organizations that successfully changed their culture reported that they first gathered sentiment and related data from the workforce to understand how they viewed the existing culture and ascertain what they’d like the new culture to be. Too often the senior team assumes they know what…...
The toughest challenges facing CEOs: Post-pandemic leadership
This is the moment for strong, inspirational leadership. As businesses recover and rebuild themselves for the post-Covid world, the way in which CEOs lead the change will determine how successful they are. So how do you lead on the road to recovery? When we speak about rebuilding and recovery, this…...
Here are the 5 soft skills employers demand most
A new report confirms what many HR leaders have been saying in recent years: Soft skills are critically important to employers across the workforce. According to the new report, Workplace Basics: The Competencies Employers Want, by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, the most in-demand skills across the labor market are: Communication…...
Post-COVID Recruitment: Which Skills Should Employers Be Looking For?
COVID-19 has impacted the world enormously and one of the main areas that has suffered is the job market. Our working practices have shifted considerably and the way in which employers are now recruiting has also had to adapt. One of the main characteristics that employers will be seeking for…...
How to become a Chief Financial Officer?
An accounting or finance professional aspiring to be a chief financial officer (CFO), must reflect a little to be certain they understand what it takes to become a CFO. CFO is generally the most sought-after job title to possess in anyone’s finance career. CFO is an executive-level professional financial professional…...
10 Vital Roles for CFOs
If CFOs have learned anything in the past year, it’s that they must be agile and innovative leaders skilled at predicting and planning for a future that is anything but predictable. The essential skills for CFO success go far beyond mastery of the financial basics, the ability to adopt popular…...
How to Become an Investment Banker
Investment banking is a very popular career path among MBA graduates. While roles such as trader and analyst are accessible to candidates from a wide range of financial backgrounds, an investment banker position usually requires the high-profile skills and business acumen that only an MBA can give you. If you’re…...