How do you negotiate salary over email?
You have aced your job interview and now have an offer letter in your inbox/hand, but you are not too pleased. Why? Your salary expectations are not met. You have two opt...
Examples of Employee Engagement Survey Questions
Employee engagement is a necessity if your organization wants to achieve growth and progress. Fully engaged employees mean greater productivity, improved image and better...
How to evaluate the compensation plan?
Before you accept that new job, it is important to carefully evaluate the compensation plan. Here is a guide on what to look for in an ideal total compensation package. Y...
How to deal with difficult people at work
Conflicts are endemic when you notice factions, team divisions and stonewalling at team meetings. This is the time a true leader steps in to lay down the rules. Make it c...
What to include in employee personnel files?
Keeping a record of an employees’ lifecycle documents of their employment journey within an organization has become a must due to the digitization of all decision-makin...
Tackling burnout while working from home
Japan is notorious for its work ethics and how people work to exhaustion, they even have a term for death by overwork—Karoshi. The same malaise seems to be plaguing the...
How to calculate for pay for remote workforce
The future of work is remote. That is the direction that the world was moving towards before the Pandemic hit in 2020. Now, work from home is a reality and not something ...
What can Human Resources do for the people?
When was the last time you reached somebody in HR? When you joined the organization? For your performance evaluation? Or when something awful occurred at work? HR groups ...
5 ways to foster motivation in employees
When you have a workforce that eagerly anticipates the end of Friday and rushing out the office door and sighs morosely on Mondays before entering the office, then you ha...
A Case for Employee Engagement in Improving Work Culture
Employee happiness is crucial in any organization as happy employees are said to be more engaged in their work. When it comes to measuring happiness at work, one of the m...
Great perks and benefits that build company culture
The greatest assets of any company are its employees and if you want to attract the best talent and retain them, then having a great company culture is essential. Good co...
A checklist for return to office mode with the pandemic fading
The vaccine rollout across the world has led many companies to announce a gradual transition back to work from the office. Some are considering a hybrid model—a mix of ...
How to resolve conflicts in office
All collaborative exercises need some rules to co-exist and resolve disputes. If there were no referees for games and no redressal forums, then life would undoubtedly get...
The Hybrid Model for Work Is the New Norm Post-Pandemic
Work-from-home was considered one of the better consequences of the Pandemic. It provided relief from the daily commute, gave flexibility and productivity in some places ...
How to motivate a multigenerational workforce?
Inclusivity and diversity are the new buzzwords for a woke workplace with agism a tired third in the mix. At a given time, a mixed workplace is bound to have an intergene...
5 Rules to Run Effective Meetings
Here’s a fact: Meetings are a part of life. Whether you’re an employee or entrepreneur, meetings are an indubitable part of life. In fact, a study by MIT suggests tha...