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Fair Pay?
Employers are increasingly getting dissatisfied with using standard pay packages only to find that they don’t work well for their organisation.Using a dashboard approach to measurement, the three main ingredients which make up productivity are...
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Motivation and Getting Results for 2016 and Beyond
I could write an endless story about motivation and how historically it’s been achieved. I would rather focus on key issues that have shaped our ideas on motivation and in particular things that really work and that you can apply in your work...
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Differentiation for Talent Management
An HR recipe for dramatic productivity improvementThere surely has never been a better time for human resources to excel. With tighter fiscal control and a business drive for more efficiency it is providing human resources with the perfect set of...
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Making Training Pay
Does training add value? If you ask any HR department all training function the answer would certainly be yes. What’s the same question to the CP or CF any answer would be completely different. So who is correct? The answer is probably the CEO...
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Towards Wellness
The basic human needs of security and significance determine a person’s behaviour.I AM deeply grateful to psychologist Dr. Larry Crabb for expressing his views that humans have deepest longings for the two basic human needs of security and...
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Effective Team Leader – Is there a single recipe?
What is a team? There are many definitions, so let us take an example from Wikipedia.“A team is a group of individuals working together to achieve a goal. A group does not necessarily constitute a team. Teams normally have members with...
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Have you suffered from a breach of contract?
Contractual disputes can be costly, time-consuming and are rarely straightforward. It would be beneficial if organisations could consider the ramifications of their decisions and actions at an earlier stage to determine the true knock on effects and...
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The Necessity of Focused Presentations
The development of modern technologies created a great possibility of gathering a large amount of data on different process-production, manufacturing, exploration, logistics and supply chain as well as other, providing the basics for scientific...
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A New Approach to Effective Interviewing
Why a Process?If you were to ask ten of your managers “what’s the best way to interview” I suspect you would get ten different answers, each convinced that their way was the best.Every time you recruit, you have the opportunity to make a...
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Should business strategy be built from the outside-in or inside-out?
For many years after business strategy emerged as a discipline in the midst of the 20th century, it was generally accepted that external analysis identified opportunities and threats, then internal analysis audited internal strengths and weaknesses....
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We Cannot Build a Reputation on our Dreams but only on our Actions
Advanced Health and Safety Management must not only consider legal compliance and people protection but must expand into Corporate Risk Management which has the objective to control risks that have the ability to adversely affect the well-being of...
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What has strategy got to do with business analysis?
Many people view strategy as a specialist subject practiced by senior managers, strategy specialists and consultants. Business analysis on the other hand is often involved with understanding operational needs to define a requirement that can...
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The Focus of Leadership
Leadership is without question the favorite topic of non-technical workshops worldwide. A Google search of leadership training brings up 299,000,000 results! But, do all these offerings point in the same direction. Certainly not. Depending...
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Are your Projects under control?
How do we make sure that our projects are under control? Too many times projects can spin out of control causing delays, additional costs and dissatisfaction among stakeholders. This is true for projects across many industry sectors. It is critical...
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Which risks are more important?
The process of risk prioritisation is affected by several factors including, risk attitude, risk sensitivity, resource availability, risk severity and risk manageability.Prioritisation by AttitudeAn organisation’s risk attitude is made up of a...
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