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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 when companies do manage to hire top talent, these individuals often leave either the company or even the country. This...
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 surveys is crucial to understand the level of engagement within your workforce and identify areas for improvement. These...
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 and tests measuring a person’s ability to follow directions to reject the weaker candidates and detect leadership...
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 need to ensure that you do it right to get the most benefit out of the process. Psychometric assessments have evolved...
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 screening of potential and existing employees through psychometric assessments is on the rise more than ever before. In...
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 skin has started peeling off and barricaded our doors. Let’s face it, interacting via social media platforms such as...
Exploring the latest trends in predictive hiring
Hiring and retaining the right employees has always been a challenging endeavour for organizations. The global pandemic has exacerbated this challenge. Organizations have been forced to adapt their processes to recruit remotely and rapidly, integrate new team members...
Talent Management
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 who can work together effectively and efficiently to achieve a common goal. One way to optimise team productivity 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 goal. However, in today's job market, it's important that companies show why they are the best choice for their...
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 2022 have in store for us? What has changed, and what are the key Talent Management priorities to look out for to gain...
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 are you facing a major change in your career path? Have you been retrenched or sidelined and you are left wondering...
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 opportunities could be opportunities that afford you growth or learning opportunities, that enable better work-life...
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, you will enjoy working in your team or department, you will have a good relationship with your direct manager and you will feel that you’re working for a great...
The High-Impact HR Operating Model
Effective HR establishments are taking on an entire new identity by means of using automation and streamlining activities in order for them to be able to focus on design, values, culture, leadership and productivity. This is not only HR specific but it gives companies...
Learning & Development
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, resilience, and adaptability over the last few months. Those that remained afloat, however, recognised the importance of...
Top 5 emerging trends to consider for your e-Learning strategy
With the constant shift, growth and evolution of technology, user behaviors and new scientifically backed learning models, the world of eLearning and L&D has gone through tremendous change in recent years. Many technological and scientific breakthroughs have had a...
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 training and engagement results in the modern age is rooted in SIMPLICITY & EFFICIENCY. We have outlined 5 steps that will...
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 to work or waiting at the dentist’s). 2. It Is Flexible. Your people can choose to focus on particular areas and when...
9 reasons why gamification works (Part 1)
70% of business transformation projects fail due to lack of engagement. Gamification is the process of using game-based elements with business processes to enable higher levels of engagement. Gamification advocates the use of the same techniques game designers use to...
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. If you look at the way millennials look at Google. They don’t necessarily value the information on Google. They value...
How to use learning to solve business performance problems
You need a course on a specific topic, you already have 100 powerpoint slides telling people exactly what they must learn. But you now need to convert it into an e-learning course. Converting a 100 slides crammed full of information is definitely do-able, but does it...
Finding your Value in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Technology and High-speed Internet are words regularly frequented in the modern working world, and those which may in fact significantly impact the world of work as we know it. Research suggests these are going to be...
Team Development
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 back, arms open, trusting that they would catch you. It’s a memory that still makes my stomach still drop when I think...
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 problems often stem from team members moving in different directions and misaligned with the end goals and objectives....
CONFLICT PREVENTION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
When project management is done well, organisations can improve efficiency, mitigate risks, increase accountability, enhance team morale and improve team collaboration and communication. In essence, project management is an essential discipline that helps...
PIVOTING TOWARDS HYBRIDIZATION
The term “hybrid” has become increasingly popular over the past few years. The word hybridization means different things in different fields. In biology, the definition is as follows: “The process of an animal or plant breeding with anindividual of another species or...
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, especially with the current rate of change in the business environment. Over the last few years, we have seen some of the...
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 to understand and meet employee needs, add value to the business and align specific functions with commercial demands?...
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 to understand and meet employee needs, add value to the business and align specific functions with commercial demands?...
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’, etc. as the soft issues. The problem here that the term ‘soft’ creates the idea that it’s not important - especially when...
Why Design Thinking is the Best Friend You Do Not Yet Know You Have
Companies have a very pressing question at the moment: How can we innovate? Before we can answer the how, we need to ask the what. Every company knows that innovation is a crucial aspect of ensuring long-term success. Some companies are at a point where innovation is...
Leadership Development
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 our organisations and communities. Learn why we need more of this transformative leadership style for a brighter, more...
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 are much more than the quiet ones in the back of the room. Some of the world's most influential people are introverts -...
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 lives, we now enter the recovery season. Welcome to the season where we can start to breathe again, re-evaluate, pivot,...
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 businesses had implemented leadership development at all levels.What if we told you that you could take your leadership...
All disruptions aren’t useful…
I have recently been bombarded by messages of “The Fourth Revolution”, disruption, disruptioneers, transcendence, exponential opportunities etc. etc. etc. There seems to be a lot of “disruption” in our world, and I am not sure I like it all… There are emerging,...
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. They are very ambitious, yet focused on lifestyle balance. They are extremely innovative and adaptable, but also often...
Are digital distractions costing your organisation millions?
In order to manage all the technology and information that forms part of their daily work, most employees have adopted a multi-tasking lifestyle. 70% of employees work in open-plan working spaces, where interruptions and distractions are rife. The impact of digital...
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