How Promoting Employee Work-Life Balance Helps Your Company Thrive
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic disrupting how people work, employers and their personnel butt heads over work-life balance, with the former pushing for return-to-office mandates and the latter saying they’d rather quit than lose their hybrid setup. In modern, fast-paced work environments, achieving a delicate equilibrium between professional and personal responsibilities or interests can become a Herculean task. Work-life balance issues in your organization can affect your workforce’s well-being, so, as a leader, it’s your [...]
Employee motivation: The keys to improve workplace productivity
Employee motivation is a major component of employee engagement as well as one of the most important metrics for a successful business. Motivation directly impacts individual productivity, whether on a single project, professional development, or even onboarding. That’s why many organizations spend millions on employee motivation strategies. Google’s 20% rule is a famous example of that, where employees are expected to spend 20% of their time on their own projects and ideas. This encourages creativity [...]
How to use competency frameworks for business success
Competency frameworks effectively define the skills, behaviors, and soft skills an employee needs to succeed in a specific role and the organization. These frameworks are some tools your HR can use for people-driven performance management, hiring, and team building. But, with their focus on capabilities, they’re also one of the most important. Competency is the sum of skills, knowledge, abilities, attributes, experience, personality traits, and motivators. Once your organization maps the competencies a position needs, [...]
A Guide to Building a Career During Tough Times
This is a guest post from Michael Deane. Michael has been working in marketing for almost a decade and has worked with a huge range of clients, which has made him knowledgeable on many different subjects. He has recently rediscovered a passion for writing and hopes to make it a daily habit. You can read more of Michael's work at Qeedle. The Coronavirus pandemic has flipped our world upside down. In just a couple of [...]
How to look after your employees’ mental health
This is a guest post from Alicia Christine. Alicia is a human resource professional with expertise in employee experience and wellness. She writes for BestTechie and Techie Doodlers, and shares how businesses can be better to maximize their potential of helping better their communities and society as a whole. Find her on LinkedIn. The discussion about employee wellness and mental health is becoming more and more important all over Asia. In fact, the Department of Labor [...]