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Talent. Leadership. Learning. Reimagined.
Welcome to the Yellow Seed blog – where fresh thinking meets practical solutions. Here, we share insights, stories, and strategies on talent, leadership, learning, and culture. From tackling skills gaps to building future-ready teams, our articles are designed to spark ideas, offer tools, and inspire you to reimagine what’s possible for your people and your organisation.
Talent and Learning Design
How to Turn a Policy or Process Into a Story
Yes, even compliance can be compelling We get it, not every topic feels “story-worthy.” Company values. Procurement policies. Cybersecurity. Code of...
Can AI Make Learning More Human?
The surprising way custom AI is making learning more personal, responsive, and effective. It sounds like a contradiction.AI making learning more...
Learning and Development Skills
Excelling in 2022: 6 Skills L&D Pros Need to ‘Future-Proof’ Learning and Development.Responding to change, organisations demonstrated agility,...
Top 5 Emerging Trends To Consider For Your e-Learning Strategy
With the constant shift, growth and evolution of technology, user behaviours and new scientifically backed learning models, the world of eLearning...
The 5 Step Filter: Streamlining Learning Strategies for Optimal Impact
When it comes to using digital learning our experience has confirmed the findings of modern research indicating the key to achieving the best...
6 Key Advantages Of Micro-Learning
1. It Is Time effective. By offering small and easy to understand drops of knowledge, your employees can put it in use anytime (e.g. while commuting...
Reasons Why Gamification Works
70% of business transformation projects fail due to a lack of engagement. Gamification is the process of using game-based elements with business...
What Is Efficient Digital Learning?
Efficient digital learning means providing employees with exactly what they need, when they need it, in practical and regular bite-sized formats. ...
How To Use Learning To Solve Business Performance Problems
You need a course on a specific topic, and you already have 100 PowerPoint slides telling people exactly what they must learn. But you now need to...
Resilient and Agile Teams
Trusting Teams Move Faster
Why trusting teams move faster Do you remember the game we used to play as children? One person would stand behind you, and you had to fall...
How to Use the Cloverleaf Enneagram to be a Trailblazing Team Leader
The challenges team leaders face today are so vast that literally hundreds of books have been written about each one. Like a failing marriage, these...
Organising Teams According To Personalities
In today's world, teams are a crucial part of any business, and they come in all shapes and sizes. It's essential to have a diverse group of people...
Conflict Prevention in Project Management
When project management is done well, organisations can improve efficiency, mitigate risks, increase accountability, enhance team morale and improve...
Pivoting Towards Hybridisation
The term “hybrid” has become increasingly popular over the past few years. The word hybridization means different things in different fields. In...
The Easy Way To Improve Agility In The Workplace
There are various ways to improve agility in the workplace. But where to start? Let's have a closer look!We all know how important agility is,...
9 Prominent HR Trends for 2023 – Part 2
Are you interested in diving into the 9 most prominent human resources (HR) trends for 2023 to see what practices and techniques companies often use...
9 Prominent HR Trends for 2023 – Part 1
Are you interested in diving into the 9 most prominent human resources (HR) trends for 2023 to see what practices and techniques companies often use...
Employee Engagement – A Soft Issue?
There is a tendency in the workplace to refer to areas relating to employee engagement, like ‘communication’, ‘trust’, ‘collaboration’, ‘culture’,...
Navigating Your Career Transition
The ideal job is a job that enables you to be fully engaged. This means that you will enjoy what you do, enjoy working in your team or department,...
Talent Assessments
From Hiring to Thriving: The Power of Job-Fit in Recruitment
Two candidates walk into a new role with the same qualifications, the same years of experience, and glowing recommendations. Six months later, one...
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Recruitment: How does it work?
In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment, companies are constantly seeking ways to stay ahead, drive growth and be innovative. One way to...
The Power of Predictive Assessments for Hiring Success
In the realm of Talent Acquisition, finding and securing the right talent is both critical and challenging. Moolman and Breidenthal (2013) note that...
Enhancing Employee Engagement: 10 Essential Questions for Your Survey
Employee engagement is critical in driving productivity, job satisfaction, and organisational success. Conducting regular employee engagement...
Organising Teams According To Personalities
In today's world, teams are a crucial part of any business, and they come in all shapes and sizes. It's essential to have a diverse group of people...
7 Best Tips on How to Attract Top Graduate Talent
Any organisation has top of mind to stay relevant and by ensuring that you have a constant influx of young, fresh talent is one way to achieve this...
The Evolution of Psychometric Testing: It’s All About Integration!
Job related psychometric assessments really came to the fore during World War 1, when the US army used a variety of numerical tests, verbal tests...
Why You Should Use Psychometric Tests For Recruiting?
If you’re considering joining the over 70% of Fortune 500 companies and 75% of UK’s top 100 organisations currently using psychometric testing, you...
7 Tips on How to Prepare for a Psychometric Test
Organisations are realising that their competitive advantage relies heavily on their investment in the development of human capital. As such, the...
A Satirical Take on COVID-19 Reactions Based on Enneagram Types
With the looming uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 virus strain, we have bought endless supplies of toilet paper, sanitized our hands until our...
Talent Advisory
Insights From The Work Itself
Every now and then, work comes along that doesn’t just tick boxes. It stirs something deeper. This is one of those stories.The Challenge: Shaping...
7 Best Tips on How to Attract Top Graduate Talent
Any organisation has top of mind to stay relevant and by ensuring that you have a constant influx of young, fresh talent is one way to achieve this...
Top 5 Talent Management Priorities for 2022
In this blog we share the top 5 Talent Management priorities organisations need to look out for going into 2022. 2022 is a new year... So, what does...
Having a Fulfilling Career – Only For The Brave!
Do you feel like you’ve reached a ceiling in your career? Or that you need a change? Are you looking for different challenges in your work life? Or...
Considering a Career Change? Don’t Make Stupid Mistakes…
When considering a career change, there are various factors to think through. Money is not the only consideration that you should think of. Better...
Navigating Your Career Transition
The ideal job is a job that enables you to be fully engaged. This means that you will enjoy what you do, enjoy working in your team or department,...
The High-Impact HR Operating Model
Effective HR establishments are taking on an entirely new identity by means of using automation and streamlining activities in order for them to be...
ROI & Human Capital
Human Capital Investment entails a sense of Ubuntu. Human Capital, albeit a somewhat impersonal term, entails the value employees as a collective...
Leadership and Pipeline Acceleration
Being the Connected Leader: Why Connection is the Heart of Leadership
We live in a world that’s more connected than ever, digitally. But when it comes to a real connection between people? Many of us are more...
Adding Value to ALL People: A Lesson in Leadership and Humanity
A few months ago, I had the privilege of attending the Maxwell Leadership IMC event in Orlando, where I became certified as a Trainer, Speaker, and...
Inside Out Leadership: Cultivating Inner Strength for Outer Impact
In the fast-paced world of leadership, it's easy to get caught up in external achievements, public image, and climbing the organisational ladder....
How to Use the Cloverleaf Enneagram to be a Trailblazing Team Leader
The challenges team leaders face today are so vast that literally hundreds of books have been written about each one. Like a failing marriage, these...
What Is Servant Leadership, and Why Do We Need More Of It?
Discover the power of servant leadership in our latest blog. Explore what servant leadership is and why it's the key to fostering positive change in...
Can Introverts Be Good Leaders?
Introverts are often portrayed as being quiet, reserved, and uninterested in leadership roles. However, this stereotype is far from the truth. They...
Stress, Burnout & Well-being – What Leaders Should Know
Following the immense stress and pressure we endured for the past two years with a global pandemic wreaking havoc on our personal and professional...
The Habits of High Performing Leaders
Leaders are the (sometimes) invisible forces behind the most significant movements.A recent article published by Zippia reported that only 5% of...
All Disruptions Aren’t Useful…
I have recently been bombarded by messages of “The Fourth Revolution”, disruption, disruptioneers, transcendence, exponential opportunities etc....
Afrillennials – The Future Leaders of Your Organisation
American millennials refer to individuals born between 1980 and 2000. They grew up online and never knew a time without mass media and the internet....
Talent Intelligence
Are You Listening?
At this year’s TalentFest, we asked the room a deceptively simple question:Think of your team or company. If it could whisper one thing to you right...
4 Forces of Predictive People Intelligence
Predictive people intelligence is the answer to the problem you don’t even know is coming. It’s the red, blaring signal hiding in plain sight, just...
Enhancing Employee Engagement: 10 Essential Questions for Your Survey
Employee engagement is critical in driving productivity, job satisfaction, and organisational success. Conducting regular employee engagement...
Employee Engagement – A Soft Issue?
There is a tendency in the workplace to refer to areas relating to employee engagement, like ‘communication’, ‘trust’, ‘collaboration’, ‘culture’,...
The High-Impact HR Operating Model
Effective HR establishments are taking on an entirely new identity by means of using automation and streamlining activities in order for them to be...
Employee Experience To Enhance Employer Branding
Employee experience encompasses everything employees experience at work. This encompasses their interactions with their boss, team, workplace...
4 Focus Points to Attract, Employ and Retain Millennials
Lazy, entitled, self-obsessed and narcissistic are the descriptions that are often bestowed upon this generation. Millennials (born between 1985 and...
Predictions For The 2020 Workplace
A new year means a new beginning, so unsurprisingly new developments and trends will emerge in the workplace. Employers are increasingly focussing...
Talent Scarcity & Skills Gaps
When Your Roots Run Deep, But The World Around You Shifts – How Do You Stay Future-Fit?
At Yellow Seed Consulting, we believe that even the most grounded, established industries must continuously adapt to stay future-fit - and...
7 Best Tips on How to Attract Top Graduate Talent
Any organisation has top of mind to stay relevant and by ensuring that you have a constant influx of young, fresh talent is one way to achieve this...
Having a Fulfilling Career – Only For The Brave!
Do you feel like you’ve reached a ceiling in your career? Or that you need a change? Are you looking for different challenges in your work life? Or...
The High-Impact HR Operating Model
Effective HR establishments are taking on an entirely new identity by means of using automation and streamlining activities in order for them to be...
Talent Mobility: What Is It All About?
In today’s ever-changing, fast-paced global economy, organisations needs agile, flexible workforces. For HR, the ability to shift resources and...
