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Flexible working: why organisations must stop ignoring working fathers
hrzone.com Jun 14, 2019
It is becoming clear that millennial fathers are more active parents and want to be more involved day to day across all parenting areas. This is borne out by our most recent research report looking at the Millennial Dad at Work and by previous...
Owning your onboarding strategy: why you need a holistic approach
hrzone.com Jun 13, 2019
As an employee, there’s nothing more nerve-wracking than starting the first day at a new job. It’s wrought with anxiety. Will your fellow colleagues like you? Will you get a clear sense of your role and responsibilities? Will you align with the...
Supporting employees affected by terminal illness
hrzone.com Jun 12, 2019
Terminal illness is a very upsetting and difficult thing for anybody to come to terms with. However, the reality is that it could happen to anybody. And because of this, it’s important that employers are prepared to support their people, and...
How employee recognition can support wellbeing
hrzone.com Jun 12, 2019
Everywhere we go, processes are becoming automated and we are therefore more reliant on technology than we have ever been. The world of HR and employee engagement is no different. The prevalence of online recognition platforms has now made the...
Coaching Conversation 1: The Coach
hrzone.com Jun 10, 2019
In the spirit of reflection and continuous improvement, the group of five experienced coaches, challenged each other to come up with one question about the coaching experience they would most like their fellow coaches to answer. What follows are...
Personal development: is passion a key ingredient for a successful career?
hrzone.com Jun 10, 2019
One of the implicit assumptions about work is that we should be passionate about what we do. A lot of anxiety and dissatisfaction occurs because most people don’t feel that way most of the time. Lets take a personal example. My son completed his...
Workplace mental health: how to be caring, not just compliant
hrzone.com Jun 6, 2019
The average person today is said to spend roughly a third of their life at work – so it’s no surprise that the environment we work in can have a huge impact on our wellbeing. In fact, the World Health Organization have stated that negative work...
Why should you invest in becoming more inclusive?
hrzone.com Jun 6, 2019
Advances in technology have brought issues of diversity back into the spotlight. Whether it be understanding the unconscious gender bias in new technologies such as AI, reporting evident gender pay gaps in organisations or highlighting the lack of...
Dream Machines - How AI Can Help Build Your Brand
hrzone.com Jun 5, 2019
Dream Machines - How AI Can Help Build Your Brand In 2004, the film i-Robot featured a world where everyday tasks were performed by artificial life-forms - one of which, Sonny, struggled to overthrow his programming in order to rise above his...
Do we know how to argue anymore?
hrzone.com Jun 5, 2019
The Brexit years won’t be looked back on with any fondness. The scale and complexity of Brexit - with the most far-reaching consequences of any vote in the history of British politics - has demanded cool heads, maturity and open conversations. And...
Mental health: why a digital detox is essential for both wellbeing and productivity
hrzone.com Jun 5, 2019
Most of us use technology every day at work, at home and on the move. Modern technology means that we are always connected to work, friends, connections and family. This makes it easy for us to become a slave to the various apps, email and...
Identifying objectives for your wellbeing strategy
hrzone.com Jun 4, 2019
Every successful business needs healthy and motivated employees, which is why companies choose to spend significant busget on various wellbeing initiatives. But to get the most value from your efforts, these initiatives need to be part of a...
The digital tools your business needs to succeed
hrzone.com Jun 4, 2019
For communicationImportant conversations between your employees can become quite difficult to keep track of, particularly as your company grows and you hire more and more employees. So, a communication tool like Slack which allows your team to chat...
Workplace culture: why it’s time to bust the myth of the ‘ideal worker’
hrzone.com Jun 4, 2019
I just got off the phone from my daughter who is travelling for work. This week she flew overnight, had four hours sleep and then worked until 1am every night, only to go straight to the airport for another flight, thankfully this time to go on...
What you should know before hiring a designer
hrzone.com Jun 3, 2019
It is impossible to imagine modern business without Internet. Online presence is a vital necessity for a successful campaign promotion – from local dairy manufacturer to a famous brand goods distributer. Brand success and consumer loyalty to him...
GDPR and HR one year on: three things you need to know
hrzone.com Jun 3, 2019
One year on from GDPR coming into effect, an impressive 95% of UK HR professionals feel confident in their compliance with the EU legislation, according to recent GDPR and HR research undertaken among teams in the UK. This is a great result for HR...
How to write the perfect job description?
hrzone.com May 30, 2019
Writing the perfect job description is an art which very few recruiters know. The fact is, productive employees are the essence and lifeblood of a company. They invest their time, talents, skill sets to help and keep the company’s success graph up....
Workplace stress: why good leadership is key to stress management
hrzone.com May 29, 2019
In today’s ‘always-on’ and hyper-connected workplace, work-related stress is becoming a real problem - so much so, it’s become the top cause of absenteeism for UK businesses. According to NHS Employers, stress accounts for over 30% of employee...
How to grow your own data scientists: a practical guide for the data-driven C-Suite
hrzone.com May 28, 2019
Data today is the fuel driving the modern business world. It therefore stands to reason that the ability to read and speak the language of data should be a fairly mainstream skill, except it isn’t - yet. A 2018 report by Qlik suggests that just 24%...
Employee engagement: how HR leaders can restore employees’ faith in career opportunities
hrzone.com May 27, 2019
Nearly half (45.6%) of UK employees who departed their jobs at the end of 2018 reported they left due to a lack of future career opportunities available at their company, according to Gartner’s latest Global Talent Monitor report. In order to...
The Potential of Gaming to Promote Social actions
hrzone.com May 26, 2019
Modern technology has profoundly changed the way we interact with. This has understandably had an impact on the way we socialize. Most significant is how our interaction with each other is dominated by digital personas – be that on social media,...
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