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Some relaxed holiday season reading on the science of happiness. We are in the last week of the Year before the holiday season, and mentally we might already be preparing for the next few weeks off. I wanted to share my notes that I took during a study course at Stanford led by one of the world’s leading experts in the science of happiness. Thank you Professor Rod Kramer for your inspiration. The findings below are research based, yet I have also added my personal observations.
Year: 2016
The New World Of HR: Humans Are Not Resources
People are humans, not resources. Many times in my life I have seen amazing things happen once a culture of putting people first was adopted within an organization.
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Six Ways to Foster a Winning Team Dynamic
Build a team that works together and wins together.
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How a Constantly Growing Workplace Relations Company Manages HR
We sat down with Employsure to learn a little more about their business, what makes them tick, and why they need a new HR and benefits management solution.
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5 Tips for Better Performance Management
Performance management has gotten a lot of bad press lately. Speaking to many CEOs and HRDs, as well as drawing on my own experience, I almost have a feeling that the process gets in the way of the purpose. For me, the purpose is alignment and transparency; aligning effort, aligning development, aligning support, aligning priorities, aligning values, and aligning motivations.
First Impressions Matter – Why is Employee Onboarding so Important?
As a former CEO with the responsibility for hiring and integrating over 100 of employees every year, there is nothing more frustrating than spending months and months searching for a great candidate to fill a key role in your team or organization, only to find the person you chose doesn’t perform, or even worse, performs well but resigns within their first year. Sound familiar? Yet this occurs all too regularly in organisations and, more often than not, it is actually the fault of the organisation not the new hire. How and why is this so? Let me give you my view.
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Flare Launch Event
Flare launch lights the way to a super future.
Thank you to everyone who made it to our launch event on Tuesday the 31st of May. Over a hundred people joined us to mark the beginning of something big and exciting.