A busy executive’s secrets to a productive day
We’ve all been there: You walk into the office on a Monday morning to find your to-do list for the day is longer than the stream of comments on a new One Direction video. (They’re still a thing, right?) The struggle is especially real around mid-afternoon when the caffeine in your bloodstream has run dry and the thought of watching yet another clip of Kendall Jenner at Paris Fashion Week
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Tips for preserving your physical and mental health in the workplace
It’s that time of the year, when the weather turns cooler, the holidays are fast approaching … and cold and flu season is in full swing. Although most would consider staying in bed all day the best remedy to recover from an illness, don’t be surprised if your co-worker shows up to the office coughing and sneezing. According to a new CareerBuilder.co.uk survey, 62 per cent of British employees will still go into the office
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A guide to networking for the non-networker
Networking is an essential part of moving your career forward, but while making interpersonal connections comes naturally for some, it can be an uncomfortable prospect for others.
There’s nothing wrong with being shy, but it doesn’t mean networking is any less important to your career success. Fortunately, there’s no reason you can’t network just as effectively
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How to deal with an out-of-town boss
The world has become a global workplace, thanks to technology’s far-reaching capabilities that can keep everybody in touch. From phone calls and emails to instant messaging and webcams, there are plenty of ways to stay up to date with everybody you do business with.
So it may not be too surprising for today’s workers to sometimes have a boss
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HR Glossary: Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognise, express, understand and deal effectively with one's own and other people's emotions.
A high level of emotional intelligence involves not only the presence of feelings, emotions, moods and affects, but also consciously dealing with them. This includes attributes such as trustworthiness, innovativeness, the ability to motivate and skills in recognising
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International Day of Tolerance – Cultural diversity drives businesses forward
"Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human in all its and diversity. […] It means that one is free to adhere to one's own convictions and accepts that others adhere to theirs. […] Tolerance is not concession, condescension or indulgence. Tolerance is, above all, an active attitude prompted by recognition
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Ways to promote leadership amongst employees
When you’re the manager, your team looks to you for support, advice and direction in order to get the job done. And as the manager, you likely have strong leadership experience to help you succeed in that role. But part of being a great leader is empowering your employees to one day be leaders themselves. Not only does this help prepare your organisation for future leaders to step up
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5 Ways to retain good staff during mergers and acquisitions
When large organisational change happens, it isn’t surprising that employees first think, “What does this mean for me?”
This happens everywhere and in every company, regardless of where employees sit in the organization - and a merger or acquisition is probably the largest, most uncertain organisational change a company (and its employees) can go through.
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HR Glossary: Generation Y
Generation Y (also called "Millennials") refers to all people born between 1977 and 1998 – and is therefore the successor to Generation X.
Generation Y members are said to have the following characteristics:
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Education: well educated, often being polytechnic or university graduates.
HR Glossary: XML
The abbreviation "XML" stands for "Extensible Markup Language". It is used to present data in a hierarchical and structured way in the form of text files, and is particularly useful for exchanging data between different computer systems.
XML technology is mainly used in two areas of HR. Firstly, these special text files make it possible to publish multiple job adverts on different platforms very quickly.
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