In your position as team leader the quality of the relationship among your team members is perhaps one of your biggest areas of focus. A unified and communicative team produces the best results, but it’s not always easy to develop a united team. People simply have different beliefs, backgrounds and social skills, all of which […]
A lot of businesses are talking about how they will need an abundance of resilience to get through this time. The reality is, they won’t need resilience, they will need mental toughness. Please, allow me to explain the difference. Resilience is about experiencing stress and being able to withstand it or bounce back from it. […]
There is currently a real buzz around the world of neuroscience. This is not surprising as the latest developments have important implications not just for business, but also for wider society. The actual physical architecture of our brains – the way our billions of brain cells are wired together – is a result of our […]
The task of organizational core skill development is a critical component of overall organization strategy and is necessary prior to calculating a comprehensive workforce planning initiative where an inventory is performed regarding current employees and their associated skills, compared to future employee headcount needs and predicted skill requirements. This activity links organizational performance with people […]
All organizations want the Superhero employees; however, it is not that simple. Training your workforce to be at their best and achieve both their personal growth goals and the organizational goals requires diligent, deliberate and intentional efforts. And, although many L&D functions follow the ADDIE model (Analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate), or they think […]
Imagine yourself as a new employee joining an organization and walking into the office on day one. You enter the office at 8 am. At the front-desk you are asked for the purpose of your visit. You explain that you are ‘the new guy’ and this happens to be your first day at the job. […]
Before you can train and develop your team, you have to recruit them! Employee’s viewpoint…. To simplify the issue, I am looking from the viewpoint of an employee in the GCC (any nationality!) who wants to find a better job, or who has been made redundant and needs a replacement job very soon, as opposed […]
So where do you start? There are numerous models to identify core skills in the workforce, or should I say lack of, with the ultimate aim of producing a ‘Training Needs Analysis’ in order to develop staff. Organizations within this region are at different stages of development with regards to the level of sophistication required […]
Ordinary leaders believe that if some employees are under-performing, you must fire them. But not you! Underperformance is very common nowadays due to the increasing levels of stress and competition. Sadly, performance issues and employees spirit are too often ignored by leadership due to the endless battle for a bigger market share, decreasing costs and […]
This month I interviewed Samer Abdel Kader, Head of SEI Investments Middle East on their latest advances in End of Service Benefits, an important strategy to research in order to recruit and retain employees. Tell us your name and what you do I joined SEI Investments back in April 2013 and I am currently heading […]
