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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.
Top 3 mistakes to avoid when identifying company values
Values create cohesion among teams and employees in complex organisations. Read this article by Joe McDevitt to find out how to create good company values.
When should small businesses get HR support?
Everyone's doing what they're supposed to and they seem happy, so that's fine, right? The bottom line is: don’t leave HR Support until it’s too late.
10 Budget-Friendly Ways to Incentivise your Staff
Want to engage & motivate your staff? Incentivise staff with thoughtful gifts, time off, saying thank you & starting a peer recognition programme.
We have some good news and some bad news
After careful consideration and loads of discussions with our customers, we’ve realised we’re just giving away too much. See our new pricing structure.
How to Prevent the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Remote Worker
Tim Barry's personal experience of a great onboarding process as a remote co-worker for an international company.
Reflections of our 2018 Hi5 Retreat
We just returned from our 2018 retreat and I thought I would share some helpful insights that I learnt about running our 2nd retreat in our 3rd year of existence.
What's the magic word? Culture!
What IS company culture? They way the company’s values are being lived out every day, through actions from everyone within the company.
Stop Managing Performance & Start Measuring Growth
Deborah Hartung shares 5 ways you can manage your team's performance and promote positive behaviours aligned with your company's values to get the culture you want!
There’s no health warning on your job title
Think twice before taking on a project or job that could potentially affect your health in the long run.
How we work with 3 frogs and a remote team
When we started Hi5, we came up with 5 company values to help us create our company culture. Here's how we work with 5 frogs and a remote team.
How to prepare your company for a water crisis
Day Zero is less than 3 months away. Here’s what you can do to stay productive.
How to give feedback
How to give feedback in the workplace without losing your humanity, based on the principles of Kim Malone Scott's book, Radical Candor.
Why Human Nature & The Power Of Incentives Matter for Your Employee Engagement Strategy!
Businesses and managers care about employee engagement because it’s commonly believed that a more engaged employee is a more productive employee...
