Eight steps towards eliminating gender bias in the workplace

Would you expect to be treated differently by clients based on your gender A recent experiment found just that.

Eight steps towards eliminating gender bias in the workplace

5 Ways That HR Can Drive Sales

It can be a huge challenge, but there are a few effective ways that HR can be used to boost sales and help the company to grow.

5 Ways That HR Can Drive Sales

How to Create Employee Trust

Mutual trust is an essential part of the relationship between managers and their employees. A natural bond of trust can keep morale and motivation high without your staff feeling like they're under constant pressure or surveillance from those above them.

How to Create Employee Trust

How To Promote A Culture Of Punctuality At Work

Not only does it improve productivity, but it can also lead to a healthier relationship between employees and employers.

How To Promote A Culture Of Punctuality At Work

Smart Technology is Key to Driving Employee Engagement

Senior business leaders must allow their organisations to adapt and evolve to suit the requirements of millennials.

Smart Technology is Key to Driving Employee Engagement

How Portafina's Findings Could Make Your Workforce Healthier

Health is becoming an increasingly important topic of conversation, especially amongst employers.

How Portafina's Findings Could Make Your Workforce Healthier

HRM and E-commerce

How are e-commerce and human resources inexorably linked? What methods can be employed so that in-house efficiency will be maximised? 

The Undeniable Relationship Between Effective HRM and Bespoke E-Commerce Solutions

How to Hire the Best Employees for Your Business

A company's employees are the heart and soul of the operations.

How to Hire the Best Employees for Your Business

How To Improve Your Workplace For Your Employees

Your company will have a much easier job recruiting top talent when your business is viewed as a desirable place to work.

How To Improve Your Workplace For Your Employees

An Easy Step-By-Side Guide to Creating Your Ecommerce Strategy

The first step to setting up an online store is to create a strategy.

An Easy Step-By-Side Guide to Creating Your Ecommerce Strategy [Infographic]

Myths Around Stress And How To Deal With Them

The last few decades of scientific research into stress has provided a new and more diverse picture of what stress is, contradicting our previous understanding of stress, its causes and prevention.

Myths Around Stress And How To Deal With Them

Turning the Tide on BI Failure

When does business information become a business disadvantage? Using today's Business Intelligence (BI) tools can be a bit like trying to drink from a fire hydrant - too much information, from all directions, with no control.

Turning the Tide on BI Failure

How to Protect Your Retail Business from Fraud

Running a retail business can leave you wide open to various cases of fraud. You can be attacked from all angles, and it's vital you give yourself all the tools to prevent it.

How to Protect Your Retail Business from Fraud

Why HR is essential when hiring freelancers

More than half of European businesses leave HR out of the loop when hiring self-employed workers.

Making personnel more personal: Why HR is essential when hiring freelancers

Prioritize Building a Culture of Collaboration to Eliminate Workplace Silos

Recent studies have shown that companies that invest in a collaborative culture report stronger revenue growth and happier employees.

Prioritize Building a Culture of Collaboration to Eliminate Workplace Silos

Skills That Need to Find Its Place in Your Business Resume in 2018

Adding random traits and unnecessary details about skills and habits employers have no interest in waters down a resume, making it less impressive.

Skills That Need to Find Its Place in Your Business Resume in 2018

Crisis communication: the power of video during uncertain times

Amidst all of the recent uncertainty, video is quickly emerging as a powerful corporate communication medium.

Crisis communication: the power of video during uncertain times

Fitness In The Workplace: How Employers Can Get Behind It

To get the best from your employees ideally they need to be in optimal health mentally, physically and emotionally.

Fitness In The Workplace: How Employers Can Get Behind It

Seven Tips To Successful Working Relationships In a Family Business

Brookman Solicitors reveal the seven tips to successful working relationships in a family business based on a recent relationship survey of over 1000 individuals.

Seven Tips To Successful Working Relationships In a Family Business

Winning the war on talent: improving employee experiences to drive business value

Great benefits and cool office perks are no longer enough, employees want simple digital experiences that make work, work better for them.

Winning the war on talent: improving employee experiences to drive business value

How To Be Communication Savvy In The Digital Age

This article explains why you need to be flexible and adaptable with communication in the digital age.

How To Be Communication Savvy In The Digital Age

Recruitment difficulties to continue

Potential candidates are being put off using recruitment agencies because of concerns about receiving details of irrelevanr jobs

Recruitment difficulties to continue

6 bad meeting habits which could be silencing introverts

Whether the workplace atmosphere is dominated by a loud CEO, a talkative sales exec or Brenda in accounts, there can often be a clear line drawn in the sand between introverts and extroverts.

6 bad meeting habits which could be silencing introverts

How Businesses Can Help Employees With Student Debt

Over 50% of employees with student debt claim that their student debt makes it hard for them to focus on their job.

How Businesses Can Help Employees With Student Debt

Ensuring Your Staff Are Prepared For Work Travel

Workers travelling cross-country and internationally poses a specific challenge to HR when it comes to ensuring compliance is upheld and standards are followed.

Ensuring Your Staff Are Prepared For Work Travel

5 Key Behavioural Traits of Successful Leaders

It is easy to assume that there are natural leaders, and those who simply aren't up to the task of managing other people, but this just isn't
true.

5 Key Behavioural Traits of Successful Leaders

How to know that you need a bigger office for your employees?

To simplify your decision making, here are five checkboxes to consider when deciding whether to relocate.

How to know that you need a bigger office for your employees?

A lesson for businesses on attracting the App Generation

With this new 'app generation' already starting to enter the world of work, businesses must prepare for a whole host of new expectations and digital preferences.

A lesson for businesses on attracting the App Generation

Canada - Ongoing Competition for Talent

Canadian employers are doing more in a competitive job market to recruit and retain recent post-secondary graduates according to a survey of 95 leading Canadian companies.

Ongoing Competition for Talent

It's not me, it's you: re-thinking the exit interview process to transform the employee experience

Think about the last time you left a job. When you had that exit interview with HR, did you come away feeling your feedback was really going to make a difference to the organisation? Or was it just an opportunity to get a few things off your chest that you hadn't been able to put forward until then?

It's not me, it's you: re-thinking the exit interview process to transform the employee experience

DTL Letter to editor in response to Reform report on apprenticeship levy

A newly-published report by the think tank Reform correctly identifies some of the issues raised by the Apprenticeship Levy but is wide of the mark on three counts.

DTL Letter to editor in response to Reform report on apprenticeship levy

Attracting Top Talent: Using Your Design Skills

Have you ever considered the importance of branding and design in attracting top talent to your business?

Attracting Top Talent: Using Your Design Skills

Is Your Job Making You Sleep Deprived?

Sleep is the most vital component to having both an enjoyable and a fruitful day. A Sleep Council study revealed that the industry you work in can greatly affect how you sleep.

Is Your Job Making You Sleep Deprived?

7 tips for building great recruting pitch for local businesses

When you're a local business it's sometimes hard to imagine you can compete with big, national or even international players when it comes to recruiting talent. But there are many ways in which your business offers more to candidates than your larger competitors.

7 tips for building great recruting pitch for local businesses

Canada - PEI Minimum Wage Increases

The Prince Edward Island minimum wage increased by 30 cents to $11.55 per hour on April 1, 2018.

PEI Minimum Wage

Canada - New Brunswick Minimum Wage

New Brunswick's minimum wage has been increased to $11.25 per hour from $11 per hour on April 1 2018.

New Brunswick Minimum Wage

What to Do When an Employee Is Struggling with A Creative Block

Here are several steps, tips and pointers that can be used to help one overcome a creative block.

What to Do When an Employee Is Struggling with A Creative Block

How to Secure a Rewarding Career in Human Resources

Many budding professionals are eager to secure a job in human resources, as it is one of the fast-growing employment fields. Not only that, but it can provide varied tasks and offers a rewarding salary that is above the national average.

How to Secure a Rewarding Career in Human Resources

7 Tips When Negotiating a Job Offer

You finally got the offer. Now what are you going to do about it?

7 Tips When Negotiating a Job Offer

The value of video in employee onboarding

The faster new hires feel welcomed and prepared for their jobs, the faster they will be able to successfully contribute to the business.

The value of video in employee onboarding

Educating Your Employees to Take Cybersecurity Seriously

Here are a few reasons why you need to educate your employees to take cybersecurity seriously, as well as several tips on how to do so with a much
greater efficiency.

Educating Your Employees to Take Cybersecurity Seriously

Are You Listening To Your Employees Enough?

When organisations choose not to listen to their employees, they also decide to forego a hugely valuable resource.

Are You Listening To Your Employees Enough?

Giving negative feedback

How can you be unfailingly courteous and respectful without then also beating around the bush and losing focus and impact?

Giving negative feedback

How to Achieve Success in any Job

There are some things you can do to thrive at work no matter your occupation.

How to Achieve Success in any Job

The future of HR assessment in 2018

Five hot trends shaping the industry.

The future of HR assessment in 2018

The new rules of meeting room etiquette

While much common sense meeting room etiquette remains relevant, advances in technology mean that some of the old, more bureaucratic rules can be thrown out.

The new rules of meeting room etiquette

7 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement for Your Best Workers

In the HR world, we're constantly hearing about employee engagement, for good reason. Workers who are more engaged at work tend to be more calm, confident, positive, inspiring and motivated. Their enthusiasm and commitment also tends to rub off on others around them, boosting teamwork, collaboration and
overall success.

7 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement for Your Best Workers

10 Crucial Signs That Your Startup May Not Work

In spite of all the obstacles and challenges, people are happier when they try to do something for themselves and not work for a corporation.

10 Crucial Signs That Your Startup May Not Work

How To Take Care Of Your Employees' Mental Health

Stress in the workplace is inevitable but its effects can be countered if you have the right processes in place.

How To Take Care Of Your Employees' Mental Health

5 Ways to Manage Employees Who Have More Expertise Than You

Being someone's manager when you know they have the skills and abilities required to be your manager can sometimes feel a little awkward. There's a reason why you were awarded your current position, and you'll need to remember that when things can sometimes feel strange.

5 Ways to Manage Employees Who Have More Expertise Than You

Improve Employee Wellbeing in 2018

Employee initiatives are no longer just a perk to attract talent. They are now becoming a key priority across businesses to improve employee wellbeing and protect their mental health. Every forward-thinking business must therefore strive to create a company culture that allows people to thrive both personally and professionally. Find out how to improve employee wellbeing in 2018.

Improve Employee Wellbeing in 2018

Canada - Ontario Minimum Wage

Ontario’s general minimum wage increased from $11.60 per hour to $14 per hour on January 1, 2018.

Ontario Minimum Wage