The words “continuing education” may make some employees roll their eyes or wonder how they’re going to squeeze in the time to meet requirements. But there are good reasons for the practice of learning beyond traditional education – benefits for the business and the employee. Businesses profit by having employees who are up to date on […]
The Relationship Between Skills and Performance
A common misunderstanding in the performance discourse is that the relationship between skill and performance is directly proportional. For instance, one basic misconception is the idea that if an employee has higher skills, then they can achieve better performance than someone with lower skills. But, the reality as we will examine is much more complicated. […]
HRchat: Building Organizational Capacity and InnovateWork Toronto with Christine Miners [podcast]
In this episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham is joined by Christine Miners, Managing Director of Talent at Verity International, a Canadian Human Resource consulting firm, focused on providing service across three areas of specialty: Career Management & Transition, Leadership Coaching, and Talent & Organizational Development. With over 18 years of progressive and diverse […]
Knowing When It Is Time to Make An Internal Shift
Is your organization ready? How to know when it’s time to make an internal shift Change management. It’s a phrase that saturates the working world, especially as companies prepare to make an internal shift to operate more efficiently and become more profitable. Having solid change management practices in place can streamline these internal shifts and […]
HRchat Podcast Interview: Building Better Bosses with Johnathan Nightingale
In this episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham talks with Johnathan Nightingale about what makes for a great leader, how to keep on track in a fast-growing company and his experiences at the recent #NextGenTA Diversity by Design event. About Our HRchat Guest Johnathan Nightingale is a founder and partner at Raw Signal Group. […]
How Employee Self-Evaluation Can Help Your Company
The best companies are adopting self-evaluation. Why? because self-evaluation is beneficial for both the employee and the employer. Let’s investigate… What is self-evaluation? Self-evaluation is a process of defining goals by employees, achieving goals by employees, and evaluating results by employees, all by himself. It is a process which allows employees to set his goals, […]
Four Steps for Achieving Excellence in Execution
As an essential business topic, strategy execution is in its infancy. Yet it’s quickly evolving as leaders demand more knowledge, structure and resources on how to achieve it to remain competitive in the rapidly changing business environment. When leaders address how to execute strategy, it’s not always with the same energy, drive and conviction they […]
How To Delegate Without Feeling Awkward
As a leader, have you ever felt uncomfortable about ‘delegating’ tasks to staff or colleagues? Most of us are little awkward about delegating, but that’s only because we’ve never really been taught how to do it. If you knew how to allocate tasks to others (instead of doing it all yourself) in a way that […]
innovatework Toronto Review
Despite the wet conditions and dense traffic, HR, Talent, and tech enthusiasts came out in their droves last night to hear from top speakers and an awesome panel at the third innovateworkTO summit. The event included lots of networking and learning for those looking to understand and develop the ways we’ll work in the future. The […]
Study Finds Employees Struggling to Manage Anger Perform Poorly
Every year unethical conduct costs employers billions of dollars. But much of the time unethical behavior can fly under an employer or supervisor’s radar. The Signs So what signs should companies look for when evaluating employees? A study published last year by the Journal of Business Ethics suggests that employees who have difficulty managing their […]