Salespeople thrive on challenges. Unlike many professions, sales performance metrics tend to be very black and white. You either meet your sales target or you don’t. The sales profession can be pretty brutal. Not meeting monthly targets can be depressing for sales staff as not only does it affect their self-esteem, but it can…
6 Ways to Keep Remote Teams Engaged & Accountable
Remote work started as a matter of necessity at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. However although the pandemic has since subsided, the demand for remote work is still strong as ever. Once regarded as a temporary solution, remote employment has emerged into the new normal. According to a study conducted…
Empathy Can Be the Missing Link to Your Business – Here’s Why
Traditionally, the workplace has been considered a cesspool of competition, a space that was ruled by deadlines and bottom lines. However, in the recent decade, employers have slowly woken up to the importance of having a kinder workplace. At a time when employee attrition rates are astronomically high, the management has realized that the traditional…
7 Ways to Upskill Employees When You Are On a Shoestring Budget
Employers all around the world want a loyal and highly competent workforce. But an enviable team doesn’t appear from nowhere. It takes time, resources and funds to create the ‘dream team’. Most often hiring and training costs are involved. Even though more employers now acknowledge the value of investing in employee training and development,…
7 Ways to Up skill Employees When You Are On a Shoestring Budget
Employers all around the world want a loyal and highly competent workforce. But an enviable team doesn’t appear from nowhere. It takes time, resources and funds to create the ‘dream team’. Most often hiring and training costs are involved. Even though more employers now acknowledge the value of investing in employee training and development,…
6 Common Mistakes to Avoid When On boarding New Employees
As they say, first impressions are last impressions. The employee’s journey with a company begins with the employee on-boarding day. A hasty, impersonal on-boarding can create a negative bias in the new hire’s mind and may lead to higher rates of disengagement and employee turnover. Unfortunately, most organizations do not have a structured on-boarding process.…
7 Ways to Rebuild Employee Morale Post a Mass-Layoff
This year, many start-ups have come under fire for mass-layoffs. Many businesses ran out of funds as banks around the world tightened their monetary policy. In a bid to please their investors and cut-costs many start-ups had to downsize and cut their workforce by half. For various reasons such as automation, cost-cutting, organizational restructuring etc. about…
Business Intelligence Can Make Your Training Programs More Effective. Here’s how.
Businesses are ultimately result-driven. No organization can survive if they don’t have quantifiable, positive results. Each promising strategy to boost sales or enhance employee efficiency is ultimately an expense no matter what it guarantees. Unless the management can ensure that a new marketing campaign or employee onboarding program is delivering tangible results everything is…
How To Leverage Gamification To Get The Most of L&D Programs?
All work and no play used to make Jack a dull boy. Not anymore. Today many employers are offering a heady combination of play and work. Or rather play and learn. Employees are being encouraged to brush up on their core skills through gamified e-learning solutions. Gamification has emerged as a mainstay in…
Debunking 6 Corporate Training Myths
Myths are preconceived notions we have about something. These assertions are mostly false arising out of outdated knowledge, lack of information, or misinformation. Continued belief in these myths however may rob us of great opportunities! Corporate training has gradually become a more mainstream business practice in recent years as many companies have faced…