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Thought Leadership
Being Soft - In Power, Diplomacy, and Skills - Can Make a Leader Out of You
Never underestimate the power of soft skills to advance your leadership influence — and earn you strange local cakes.
Top 12 highest paid freelancing jobs
With more freelancers making up the global workforce, traditional corporate culture is witnessing a paradigm shift.
Don’t Use Age as an Excuse If You’re Actually Scared to Start a Business
Don’t believe the hype. Entrepreneurs come in all shapes, sizes and ages — not just young and hip.
How Can Remote Work Make You More Creative?
Remote work offers promising health benefits, low stress levels, and high creativity levels 🎨
6 Tips How to Improve Productivity When Working Remotely
Remote workers can be 13% more productive than their in-office counterparts. Here's how to improve productivity when working remotely.
5 Awesome Ways to Turn Your Virtual Team Meeting Into Success
Having a good strategy in place to ensure effective communication in team meetings is fundamental to success.
What Are Some Skills That You Think Everyone Should Learn?
We reflect on some of the skills that will help you understand your true potential and boost your confidence in your personal and professional life.
Creating a Workplace Culture That Values Mental Health
Solitude and a lack of interaction can lead to anxiety and mental exhaustion. Here's how to value mental health at work.
Five Employee Engagement Trends in the COVID-19 Era
Employee engagement is critical to your business’ success during a crisis. Here are 5 engagement trends that companies have adopted in the COVID-19 era.
3 Critical Tips to Maintaining Good Business Communication and Collaboration During the Pandemic
Internal communication and quality of collaboration is highly important to keep your newfound workflow consistent.
10 Best Virtual Team Building Activities for Remote Employees
Since more employees are working remotely, organisations are coming up with virtual creative activities to keep them engaged.
Work from Home Burnout: Causes and Cures
What you need to do to avoid the burnout caused by constant accessibility when you work from home.
8 Ways to Keep a Positive Culture During these Difficult Times
With a few small changes, you can help improve your organization’s work culture and morale.
5 ways how CSR leads to enhanced employee engagement
Does your brand practise Corporate Social Responsibility activities? Here are some credible reasons to start doing it now!
Considerations for HR During the 2020 Holiday Season
As 2020 comes to a close, corporate America (and beyond) is faced with a very different holiday season.
Employee Monitoring: Increasing Productivity and Security
The dark side of employee time-tracking software and how to increase employee productivity and security the right way.
How to Empower Your Remote Team to Maintain Peak Productivity Levels?
Remote work has surprisingly improved the productivity levels of most employees around the world. Here’s how to keep it up.
COVID-19: Regrets, Rewards and Resets
Our isolation makes it harder to practice empathy, but we have the opportunity to become better. Let’s turn the regrets into resets.
Online courses you can take to become a more valuable employee
Give your career a boost by learning valuable skills via online courses.
How Technology and Automation can Create a Healthier Office Environment
Whether you’re running office or remote teams you need these tools at your side, so here’s what you need to know.
Increasing Employee Engagement While Working Remotely
Doing these things will help your remote employees feel more engaged & satisfied and lead to a more productive business.
The Happiness Advantage
If being unhappy for 8 hours a day, 32 hours a week and 128 hours in a month sounds familiar, then you may want to consider a change.
5 Ways HR Software Is Changing — Latest Trends and Predictions
The future of HR technology is brighter than before, and we are going to be here to see it.
How to Connect with Your Remote Team and Build Culture
Tools and tactics that will help you connect with your remote workforce and create a great company culture.
Productivity Hacks for Working Students
Some handy tips for working students to set goals and pursue their life’s passion.
Tips to Attract and Manage Young Talent in this Pandemic
Keep your business open and cut operational costs through effective talent management.
Top Tips to Build a Better Company Culture by Focusing on Customer Experience
Customer Experience is the key to take your company culture to the next level.
Top 11 Skills Remote Working Can Help You Develop
When you’re working from home, there’s no boss or manager nearby to monitor or guide your performance.
The Complete Checklist to Effectively Onboard Developers Remotely
The first few weeks of training are especially important for new remote developers. Make sure to follow these 5 pointers for effective onboarding.
Making Employees Feel Valued During and After a Global Crisis
For many companies, employees have been showing their commitment and bravery. It’s time to show them your appreciation.
How to Cultivate a Positive Remote Working Experience for Your Teams
99% of people want to work remotely. The days when teams worked out of cubicles in a rigid 9–5 work environment are gone.
How to Manage a Remote Team in a Crisis
It’s crucial for managers not to lose sight of the people in their teams and the impact a crisis may have on their lives.
How to measure company culture in a remote team
ROI on your company culture, even when your team is working from home.
5 Steps to Remote Recognition
How to give employee recognition in a distributed team.
How Impactful Are Your D&I Programs? Getting to the heart of the matter.
Why diversity and inclusion at work need to be measured for success.
Returning to Work after COVID-19: How Businesses should Prepare
How to be cautiously optimistic at work post-COVID-19.
The S.T.I.C.K. Framework to Improve Loyalty and Retention Among Millennial and Gen Z Employees
Learn the simple S.T.I.C.K. framework to increase retention rates among your millennial and Gen Z employees.
Top 7 “Incentives” that will NOT Attract New Employees
Different people react to the same things differently — what motivates one employee, might repulse another.
Remote Work: How to Manage and Resolve Conflict
Conflict is not a stranger to any human being, even in the remote workplace.
Using Social Media for Hiring? Check Out These Three Companies with Winning Strategies
As digital users migrate from desktops to mobile devices and social media, they change the way companies do talent acquisition for hiring.
The Five Biggest Issues HR Will Face in 2020
The changing role of Human Resources: more than just processing staff paperwork.
High-Touch Mental Wellbeing Strategies for the Low-Touch Workplace
An article by Carin-Isabel Knoop (Harvard Business School) on learning to live in a low-touch society by focusing on mental health.
Are you building a healthy work environment?
A workplace where people are happy, productive and accepted.
12 Key Things Remote Working Employees Care About the Most
Today, working from home is not just an option but rather a necessity that keeps employees and their families safe & sound.
How Creative Training can Boost Your Employee Productivity and Morale
3 Strategies for better employee development.
Does your team engage each other?
How to make sure your team is collaborating, celebrating and problem-solving together.
Management vs Development
Should you be doing yearly performance reviews, or more regular one-on-one’s with your employees?
Workforce Diversity and Team Motivation Tactics
8 Tips to better mental health and motivation in your team.
How to Boost Motivation When You’re Working from Home
Remote work is a dream come true for many of us, but the trick is to stay motivated and productive. Here’s what works.
10 Tips for Training Employees with Video
How to create videos that connect, educate, and engage your remote-working employees.
Accountability in the face of Empathy
Why having empathy as a leader does not necessarily make you “too soft”.
How Improving your Writing Skills Will Enhance Your Leadership
5 Tips to help you present your leadership goals & requests in a comprehensive and honest manner.
How to Recognize an Employee in a Remote Team
Remote teams are growing at a remarkable rate all over the world. Here’s how to keep them motivated & engaged.
How Your Company Culture Can Become a Marketing Tool
Why immersing employees and customers into your corporate culture is an excellent way to build brand loyalty.
3 Tips to Make Your Next Employee Meeting Meaningful and Memorable
Employee meetings are an important part of the work culture you want to promote in your company, here's how to make sure they're motivating and memorable.
What Gen Z Wants From the Workplace 🤓
The post-millennials are starting to show up for work — here’s how to make them feel at home in your company.
Which One Style of Leadership is the Most Effective for Your Startup?
Should you be a strategic, democratic, pacesetting or delegative leader? Here’s what will work for your startup.
What’s the Difference between Recognition and Appreciation at Work?
What exactly does it mean to give recognition and appreciation in the workplace? You need both to build a thriving company culture at work.
9 Steps to Build a Mentally Healthy Workplace
Mental health has finally exited the shadow of stigma and entered the conversation, even in the workplace.
How to Make Your Home Office a Productivity Haven
The life of a freelancer or remote worker can be an exceptionally desk-bound existence. Here’s how to make the most of it.
7 Ways to Improve Employee Development at Your Company
The company is as good as its employees. When you focus on the development of the employees you are also investing in the future of the company.
Top 8 jobs that will be in demand in 2025
Automation is leading to more growth in these industries: IT and computer & data science, teaching, medicine, sales & trade.
How to Manage Your Remote Team Effectively?
Dealing with a remote team of people from different cultures, languages & time zones doesn’t have to be difficult.
Main Management Skills Young Leaders have to Learn
If you want to be a successful leader in a digital world, this is what you need to know.
How Company Culture Affects Customer Satisfaction
Employee experience has a direct impact on customer experience — here’s how to improve it.
Suffer from Toxic Employees? This is How the Best Managers Deal with Them
Seven key approaches to less drama at work. How managers need to approach toxic employees in the workplace.
8 Simple Ways to Cultivate a Happy Workplace
If you want to surround yourself with employees who love what they do, follow these tips to cultivate a happy workplace.
Why developers need career coaching
Want to improve your leadership, performance, communication skills & relationships? Here’s why developers need a career coach.
Why employer branding matters to your potential employees
It’s important to pay attention to these channels if you want to attract top talent. Here's how to create great employer branding.
Top 8 Effective Ways to Reduce Your Hiring Cost
Employee retention is cheaper than replacing employees, here’s how to keep your best employees engaged and motivated at work.
Five Great Ways to Improve Employee Engagement with Technology
Almost half of the workforce is disengaged, here’s how today’s tech can help with employee engagement.
Ensuring Future Success for Your Business by Investing in Your Employees
10 reasons why investing in your employees will work for your company
6 Great Hacks for Producing Engaging Employee Emails
Are you the poor soul who writes company emails? Your message is important, here's how to get employees to actually read it.
A 5-min guide to performance reviews
What do employee engagement, turnover rates, and open company culture have in common? An effective performance management system.
How to Encourage Employee Engagement
Want a great company culture? Here's how to increase engagement and involvement from your employees on a regular basis.
How to Win the Admiration of Your Boss
Love them or hate them, bosses are the stepping stones in your career. Here’s how to win them over.
How gratitude improves your mental health at work
Your brain and body benefit from showing gratitude and receiving appreciation. Here's how you can improve mental health at work.
How to Promote Your Company Culture Among Employees
The culture you create, promote & continue building is the key to keep your employees motivated and your customers happy.
A Simple way to find your employees’ strengths 🐜 💪
Companies who home in on employees’ talents see more success. Here's a simple way to find employee strengths.
A 5-minute Guide on Employee Retention
Companies should be applying Customer Success logic to keep their employees.
How Does Branding Impact Company Culture?
Your logo and signage are incredibly important, but a brand is so much more than that.
Artificial Intelligence… A Disruption or the End of HR?
Even the very best chess playing computer cannot play tic-tac-toe. This is how AI will change HR.
5 Ways to Use Flexibility to Boost Employee Productivity
Flexibility is no longer a perk — it’s the new workforce norm. Here are 5 ways to maximise productivity in a remote team.
Ready for Your 4th Industrial Revelation?
What the 4th Industrial Revolution means for workplaces and HR practitioners.
When Employees give more recognition than Managers
Recent research shows that Managers are not as involved as they should be. Is it good or bad when Employees give more recognition than managers?
Digital Transformation in HR
The 4th Industrial Revolution in South Africa: Human Resources is finally moving towards digital transformation.
Why we went back to remote work
Our remote team tried working at an office for a year, here are the pro’s and cons of office vs remote work.
How Employee Engagement will help your company succeed
Employee Engagement is much more than having happy employees. It’s also about an emotional and trusting relationship between the employer and employee.
Culture Workshop, Cape Town - 19 June 2019
The first ever Hi5 Culture Workshop in Cape Town, 19 June 2019. Three speakers shared their insights on company culture & employee engagement.
Why smaller companies have better culture
Recent research shows that employees at SMB's and startups tend to give their company culture a higher rating. Here's why.
When business strategy fails… What next?
You could have the best business strategy, the most talented employees and the biggest budget — and still, fail.
How to turn disruption and change into opportunity and advantage
Culture is the key to a company’s growth and profitability. Don’t wait for public displays of dysfunction before you start talking culture.
Your Greatest Asset. Your People.
Measure employee lifetime value (ELV) for a “greater” return on investment. John Mullins from Peopleswitch on how higher ELV leads to greater ROI.
Why we give our clients credit
We believe our clients have the best ideas, and we always ship new features with customers in mind. That's why we're giving them the credit.
The most overlooked measurement in most companies today
CEO’s & HR leaders should be measuring company culture on an ongoing basis for success.
Why South African millennials need recognition at work
Millennials are often mislabeled as ‘lazy’ or ‘entitled’ when the reality is, they see that the world is changing.
5 Reasons why culture is directly tied to recognition
Recent research shows that employee recognition really is the secret sauce of a great company culture.
Keeping a finger on your company’s pulse.
Why it’s important to listen to the heartbeat of your organisation, and how to measure it.
Why we should create Formerly Employees
Make the most of the time you have with employees. Create a culture and environment where they don’t want to leave - create Formerly Employees.
How to Give Genuine Recognition
Without continuous, genuine recognition employees tend to lose direction or become unsure as to how to reach their goals.
