When running your own company, it is easy to self-motivate. You are inextricably linked to every success and every failure the company has, so you know full well that it is paramount that you are motivated to ensure that you are linked to more successes than failures. Your employees however, are not linked to the…
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You Gotta FIGHT! For Your RIGHT! To Work Without Being Made Miserable
The workplace isn’t usually known as a place of fun and games. Indeed, you’ve got to be pretty disciplined and even strict most of the time. After all, you’re there to do a job. But this doesn’t mean that your work life has to be miserable. Unfortunately, it seems that an alarming majority of people…
Guest Post: HR in 2017: What to Expect?
HR has been constantly evolving since it entered the business landscape in the beginning of the 20th century. In the beginning of its corporate journey, HR departments were only focused on recruiting and selection. As time went by, departments adopted many new roles including training, discipline, health and safety, wage policies, etc. HR is still…
Guest Post: Why shadowing doesn’t work: proper training in a call center setting
I recently left a part time job with great hours and a great location because of bad training, and it wasn’t the first time. Training can make or break a candidate. Systems knowledge and confidence are key when speaking to customers. Why then do companies so often use shadowing as a training method when it…
Whisper: I exchanged my family for my career
*As told to Kally from someone who wishes to be anonymous From the title above, you probably thought that I am a man. Wrong. I am a woman, more than that, I was a mother of two beautiful kids and a doting wife to the most wonderful husband. I lost it all due to my…
Salute to Pregnant Working Ladies Out there
As I waddle my way into the third trimester, I really wish I can give each and every pregnant career woman a huge hug! Not that if you are pregnant and not working, you are not as important but I’m amazed how someone can be miraculously creating a baby inside her, wakes up at 6…
How Do You Handle Malicious Gossip?
As much as everyone hates gossips (especially when you are involved in it!!), we secretly thrive in listening to gossips. That explain we have the paparazzi profession to feed our yearn to intrude into others’ private lives. Malicious gossips happen around not only in our personal lives but in our workplaces as well. These gossips…
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