Hiring for Cultural Fit.
image credit: http://goo.gl/XX8BhP It does not matter if you are leading a well-established brand name business or a start up, the need to find great cultural fit is central…
Hiring for Cultural Fit.
How to Personally and Clearly Lay Off Your Staff
The Power of Personally Laying off Staff BMWs are fine on the road. But “Bitching, Moaning, and Whining” can be avoided at the water cooler or on gossip sites like…
How to Give Notice to Your Staff
image credit: http://goo.gl/F2ks9M One of the most challenging times to be a Manager is giving staff notice that their job is no longer required. These difficult conversations can be…
Laying off staff? Consider these cost saving options.
image credit: http://www.hysterectomy.org/ Redundancies, retrenchments, layoffs are more often the result of pressure from the Executive or Board to reduce costs than from the business having less work to…
Creating High Staff Engagement Following a Layoff
image credit: http://goo.gl/QUwxZb Successfully deal with fears, uncertainties, doubts and guilt What is often overlooked in the chaos and emotion of a layoff is how to communicate with the staff…
How to Effectively Handle Layoffs
image credit: NY Daily News Redundancies and retrenchments of any scale are fraught with issues Layoffs are hard. Even a small-scale retrenchment or redundancy can present a seasoned HR professional with numerous issues…
A-Z Guide for Protecting Your Employer Brand and Reputation
image credit: http://shambhala.bg/ As we move in to 2016, here are my thoughts on the “A-Z Guide for Protecting Your Employer Brand and Reputation”. ALIGN what you say with…
How Workers Feel After Being Told They Have Been Made Redundant
CareerSupport365, a leading and innovative provider of outplacement services in Australia, polled white-collar workers who had been made redundant. * Here is what we found: 78 percent of respondents felt…
Reputation Lessons for Leaders.
Power versus Influence. What is the difference? I heard a fine distinction the other day at a eulogy – where the clergyman was addressing the grandchildren of the person who…
How to increase your chances of getting a job interview.
In a competitive job market, you have to attract the attention of Recruiters and Hiring Managers in the first few seconds and then keep it. One sure fired way of…