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  WHAT IS A KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR (KPI)?

  February 27, 2017 @ 06:42|0 Comments

  A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric that helps you understand how you are doing against your objectives. A KPI ultimately provides focus for a business or team. Through having them you can unite a team towards achieving a common objective which will help the business succeed. They also allow a business or team to track performance against their overall objectives. This means that if things aren’t going well you can quickly take corrective action. Similarly, by tracking KPIs you also easily spot any opportunities to seize which will accelerate your trajectory towards hitting goals. I...
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  Management

  February 03, 2017 @ 07:24|0 Comments

  ‘Leading through fear creates a lying culture’, warns expert Ninety-two per cent of HR professionals think they are lied to every week, according to an exclusive survey by People Management. In PM’s online poll of 820 HR people, almost a third believed that they were being told more lies than two or three years ago, while staff in sectors such as travel and construction were flagged as the least trustworthy.Survey responses suggest that people working in the travel and leisure sector are the most likely to tell a fib: 29.7 per cent said these professionals tell more than 11 lies a week. Empl...
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• Coaching and Mentoring

  January 27, 2017 @ 06:48|0 Comments

  Coaching and Mentoring Mentoring programs help professionals grow, develop and learn new skills under the direction and advice of a seasoned expert. Organizations implement mentoring programs to align the goals of the company with the professional development of its employees. Coaching and mentoring provides benefits for the "mentee," the mentor and the organization. A coach or mentor can help a new employee adjust to the culture in an organization. Young professionals may not be accustomed to an organization's practices and acceptable behaviors. The coach can provide the new worker with info...
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  Future of hiring outlined at CIPD recruitment conference

  December 12, 2016 @ 05:40|0 Comments

  Future of hiring outlined at CIPD recruitment conference The future of recruitment lies in hiring for ‘predicted performance in role’ rather than judging a candidate on past skills or competencies, delegates at the CIPD’s recruitment conference heard yesterday. But to do this HR needs to radically shift its thinking around how it assesses candidates and embrace online gaming or ‘gamification’, one speaker said. “The trouble with assessing candidates on their past experience is that it’s not a predictor of future success. It will only tell you how good they were, not give you an idea of how th...
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  LEARN ABOUT YOUR BRAIN

  December 02, 2016 @ 05:52|0 Comments

  Today in our busy lives we might focus on our physical health but totally neglect our brain fitness. Our brain is responsible for not only undertaking our mental tasks but also helps us carry out physical functions and for that a healthy brain is a prerequisite. Approximately there are 1.1 trillion cells and 100 billion neurons in an average human brain. The slowest information processing speed of a brain is 260 mph. A brain thinks 70,000 thoughts in a day out of which most of them are repeated over and over again, so when the next time you think something take some time to think about you...
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