Let’s Focus On The Work
A few years ago we suggested you should try to keep political discussions out of the workplace. Our view was that simply telling people not to have such discussions might not work, so instead, you should focus on leading by example and also perhaps steering conversations into another direction before they get out of hand. […]
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- Aug, 26, 2019
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Aug, 26, 2019
From HR Departments to HR Committees
A recent article in Human Resources Online described how Decathlon, a sporting goods chaim, replaced its HR department with an HR committee in some countries. According to the CFO of their Hong Kong operation, their committee includes 6 members from various functions, with no specific committee leader, and “[o]ur group is composed 100% of anyone […]
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- Aug, 22, 2019
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Positive Language Can Help
Words matter; that’s why we have them. So it’s safe to assume that negative words carry a negative message, and positive words carry a positive one. It’s silly to ever think your words don’t matter. Language exists to convey ideas and feelings, and so the words you choose will in fact do that. If you […]
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- Aug, 15, 2019
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A Vacation Can Be Informative
As the summer creeps toward a close, your employees may be scrambling to take a vacation before their kids go back to school, or before the end-of-year push for sales builds to a frenzy. Pretty much every company offers vacation days to their employees, and pretty much every employee never takes all of them. Perhaps […]
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- Aug, 12, 2019
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BAT or Bust
Many university graduates across Asia are facing employment challenges. While it’s not so much that there’s a lack of jobs — Singapore reported 60,000 vacancies last year, while one study in China shows 1.4 jobs per graduate — the newest members of the workforce still seem to have trouble finding their first role. Why? For […]
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- Aug, 08, 2019
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