Entries by Jenny

How an HR management tool can predict sales people performance

Better sales staff equals more sales revenue. It sounds simple. However, an HR management tool can help significantly to increase your salespeople’s productivity.  A complex task fraught with misunderstanding. Finding high-performing staff involves a specific hiring approach that targets those with precisely the right attributes for the job at hand. Once you have the right […]

Looking to hire? First build a positive Workplace Culture

As workplace culture continues to evolve while we slowly resurface, it’s easy to blame the pandemic for this disruption. Add the “great resignation” or whatever it’s called now, and we have plenty of excuses. If you’re a business that has tried to recruit someone over the past several months, you are undoubtedly familiar with how […]

Motivation – how to measure this attribute in a reliable way

Motivation is the key to performance and success. The past two years have caused many workers around the globe to re-evaluate what’s really important to them.  Maintaining productivity while working flexibly from home has prompted a massive shift in employees’ thinking. The Great Resignation is evidence of this reset. Organisations have quickly adapted to the […]

Remote Work – What are seen effects of further shifts in this competitive market?

After two years of disruption further shifts in remote work and our lives have emerged. There’s been: the rise of individualism and independence bringing out new confidence to show up as themselves at work. (Fjord Trends 2022) hybrid employment arrangements placing more emphasis on staff being able to work remotely and maintain productivity and service […]

People strategy for now and the future – how to close gaps

Planning for a best People Strategy is essential. Your business strategy amounts to no more than words on a page if you don’t have “the right people in the rights seats on the bus”. All elements of your employee life cycle must be linked:  from attraction through to talent management,  leadership development, and  ongoing performance […]

People Development – how to handle an employee who thinks they are better than they are

People development is key to a successful people strategy in all organisations. Many managers out there have likely experienced the unsavoury situation of managing someone who believes their performance is terrific when it’s just mediocre at best. Recent studies in performance management have identified that the “underperformer” is a frequent and draining problem. But what […]

Retention, revenue and return: Why it’s important to identify and hire top Customer Success talent

Over the last ten years or so, cultural trends and customer expectations have combined, resulting in more and more businesses prioritising customer success. Recent research reports that there has been an increase in the total number of open Customer Success jobs for the first time since February. In June, there were 6,515 available Customer Success jobs […]