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Unique Ideas for Your Next Team Building Exercise

We’ve talked numerous times about the benefits of team building, why businesses can benefit from hosting team-building exercises, and why it’s one of the most important investments you can make in your people.

Of course, team building has a bad reputation. People can often feel uncomfortable being forced to partake in silly chanting, trust exercises, and holding hands in a circle. Some “creative” team-building exercises can feel pretty patronizing, such as being asked to “create your own personal logo” and explain it to the group. So it’s no wonder so many find an excuse to drop out!

Communication Tips: How to Increase Engagement

Budget-Friendly Marketing Tips If you are a small business owner, you probably don’t have a lot of funds to invest in great advertising for your brand. This doesn’t mean to say that you still can’t advertise your brand and market your company. There are so many affordable ways to drive traffic to your website and […]

Is Your Company Paying For The Biggest “Wasted Benefit”?

As the coronavirus pandemic brings healthcare to the forefront of America’s mind, HR professionals are considering the importance of benefits packages more than ever. Benefits are crucial to attracting and retaining good employees, even when there’s not a global pandemic — according to national studies, 49% of employees report they would seek out new jobs […]

How to Eliminate Payday Blunders

For many business owners, handling payroll can be an error-prone and time-intensive process. The increase in the number of labor litigations highlights the fact that payroll mistakes can be costly for companies. In this article, we detail ways in which you can smartly use payroll software to eliminate payday blunders.

Five Skills of Successful People-Oriented HR Professionals

Successful recruitment management always impacts on organization growth. It focused on a culture where people can deliver their best abilities.

HRchat Interview with Dr. Geoffrey Soloway: Using Mindfulness to Address Workplace Stress and Anxiety

COVID-19’s Impact on Mental Health in the Workplace Huge numbers of employees are reporting a significant worsening of their mental health and expressing anxiety and safety concerns as workplaces plan to reopen. The COVID-19 crisis is highlighting the need to urgently increase investment in services for mental health or risk a massive increase in mental […]

Five Tips for Making Your Zoom Team Meetings More Engaging

How to Make Zoom Business Calls Clearer For many of us, video calls are as new to our daily lives as the introduction of face masks or social distancing. With so many of us working from home for the first time as a result of COVID-19, they can be an ideal way of communicating with […]

HRchat Interview with Alysha Campbell: Building Trust in the Midst of Uncertainty

In HRchat 175, we hear from Alysha Campbell, an accomplished and respected Strategic HR Leader about why trust is so important in the workplace and ways HR and leaders can rebuild relationships with their employees following the difficult decisions made during the COVID-19 crisis. Listen to the interview here. Alysha recently presented at the first InnovateWork […]

HRchat Interview with Gethin Nadin: Employee Experience and Mental Wellbeing

In this HRchat episode, we consider the employee experience, mental wellbeing at work, and rewards and recognition. Our guest this time is Gethin Nadin. Listen to the interview here. About Gethin Nadin Gethin is a psychology graduate who has been helping some of the world’s largest organizations to improve their employee experience and wellbeing for […]

HRchat Interview with Mario Baril: Helping Government Workers Manage Stresses of COVID-19

In HRchat 170, we hear from Mario Baril, Ombudsman of Mental Health and Employee Well-Being at the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, a Canadian federal public service that embraces authentic, open and stigma-free dialogue on mental health issues based on compassion. Mario will also be a panelist at the April 29 InnovateWork Online Summit. Listen […]