History tells us that trade guilds were rather powerful in Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century. These were associations of craftsmen and merchants formed to promote the economic interest...
In the past eighteen months, a new type of training delivery emerged – the hybrid model. In a nutshell, hybrid training means that some participants are in the room and others (including the facilitat...
It’s clear that with the end of the pandemic in sight and glimpses of what the new normal will look like, companies need to tend to their cultures. Some organizational cultures have taken a hit during...
Organizations with a strong, positive culture have weathered the global health crisis and all that it has brought with it a lot better than others. However, every company and every person working ther...
The greatest thing about technological development is that now we have useful tools for many things that took a long time to get done before automation. The not-so-great thing is that there are so man...
Many corporate employees prefer self-directed learning, which is a celebrated professional development method. L&D specialists usually create learning paths for each role, but they also curate many va...
Organizations around the globe strive to acquire and develop the best talent they can find. It’s not an easy task in today’s economy and demographic situation. An important aspect that companies have ...
A recent McKinsey study “reaffirms the strong business case for both gender diversity and ethnic and cultural diversity in corporate leadership [...] The most diverse companies are now more likely tha...
“People leave managers, not companies” often comes up whenever we talk about leadership. The truth is that the way managers interact with their teams influences the team members’ satisfaction and enga...
Zoom was a life savior as the global crisis confined all of us to our more or less organized home offices. However, we all learned the hard way about Zoom fatigue, and today it’s hard to find anybody ...
Corporate employees are tired of conference calls. Whether it’s cameras on or off, from home or the office, Zoom fatigue got to most of us by now. Managers find it increasingly difficult to get team m...
Today’s news is all about a staffing shortage on a global level. There are several reasons for this, some related to the global health crisis, some to generational characteristics, and some to how cer...
One of the perks of social media is that it’s easy to find people with the same interests as yourself. I think it’s safe to say that there is essentially a group for anything, regardless of how niche ...
Technology has already greatly transformed traditional HR. A few decades ago, one of the main functions of this department was to deal with payroll. They did this manually, it took a lot of time and r...
Organizations have been setting up wellbeing programs for their employees for a rather long time. Whether these entailed art workshops, massage sessions, tickets to entertaining events, or incentives ...
I've recently watched an interview with a leading actress in a popular period drama. She was saying how she never imagined she could ever be part of such a big production because of the color of her s...
