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Juggling With Transformational Projects | In The Midst Of Managing Disruptive Change | What Do Great CEO’s and Directors Do?

Transformational projects bring about disruptive change. Executive leadership is often not aware that their so called internal change experts are not operating at the right level of maturity when it comes to managing change for transformational projects/programmes. Large to small scale projects are treated in the same manner despite their level of impact. Who is traditionally entrusted to manage…

  As the new year starts, it could be daunting to think of going back and doing the same thing that you have done for long without change. Fortunately for HR Professionals, the field is broad.  Depending on natural talent, skills and passion an hr person can change direction at any point in their career, there are various fields within HR to choose from. Some people opt to be HR Generalists…

Shocking Results | Managers Demotivate Employees Without Knowing It

Contrary to ordinary beliefs, according to Frederick Herzberg pay is just a hygiene factor  which ‘surround the job’ rather than the job itself, not actually a motivator. For example, a worker will only turn up to work if a business has provided a reasonable level of pay and safe working conditions but these factors will not make him or her work harder at his job once he or she is there. What…

Introducing A Revolutionary Social Recognition Digital Program | Verve

    Verve-Employeez has partnered with an amazing digital and ecommerce company to create Verve. Verve is a social recognition digital program that promotes appreciation for everyday excellence across all levels of an organization: Peers and line managers praise others for living the values and positive behaviours Employees are able to submit creative ideas towards new business improvements /…

Get Game Changers And Top Achievers In A Room

According to the 2015 WorldatWork study, in the last 10 years recognition program investments for above and beyond performance has decreased from 87% to 76%. On the other hand within the same period, recognition programs to motivate specific behaviors have increased almost from nothing to 51%. What has changed? Those who go above and beyond typically fall within the top achievers category. These…

Outcomes That Matter In Gauging Employee Loyalty

It is often easier to think of commitment when it comes to personal mates, right? Defining what matters and feels right is part of a natural process. Every day the emotional experience is tested and parties understand that a give and take is necessary. Top of mind is about keeping each other engaged, i.e. interested, involved and caring. What makes people want to work for you? Maslow’s tells us…

Notable HR Business Partnering | Value Creation

Organizations are introducing new initiatives and changing structures, technologies, processes or programmes much more rapidly than ever before. Amongst many variables that inform organisational change is product lifespan. A 2009 study by the Environmental Science & Technology, reveals the evolution of computer product lifespan decrease from 10.7 years from 1985 to 5.5 by the year 2000 from…

Online Employee Surveys For Evolving Organisations

Reviewing and remodelling systems, practices and processes is integral to evolving organizations. Getting employee responses through online surveys is a quick, easy and cost effective way to ensure that your people management interventions meet the organisational needs and support business goals. Surveys are tailor made to specific audiences (includes student surveys, community and customer…

Create A Mindmap For Leaders To Keep Employees Engaged

Inspire your people with love and passion In organizations some employees may often receive better treatment than others. That could be due to reporting to good managers who have good people management skills, yet other people may report to managers that don’t have these skills, also sometimes privileges are given to some employees and others don’t get them. Either way, I have good news to tell.…

Managing Organisational Change To Harness Engagement

Engagement results are volatile just like the stock market, one year the majority of employees are perfectly happy and vote their employer ‘the best employer of choice for the year’, another year the same workforce has a different story to tell. Why is that? Faith [email protected] Change… Organisations do not operate in an island. There are strategic decisions that leaders sometimes have to…

The Difference Between Recognition and Rewards

Employee recognition trends have shifted from employers giving gold watches as gifts for appreciation of long term service towards appreciation of employees for day to day actions and behaviors.  Recognition as a key factor of employee motivation is about acknowledgment of employee contribution, and it is also about appreciation for teamwork. Faith Nhlapo [email protected] The appreciation…

6 Steps Implementation Guidelines|Employee Engagement Roadmap

Effective employee engagement is about creating an organisation that has: Staff who are attached to the company and are willing to go the extra mile, Achieved a great level of individual, personal and interpersonal emotional wellbeing at work Built a local work environment that supports productivity and performance To continuously improve employee engagement results, it is important to implement…

As skills gaps increase in the labour markets, the war of talent increases and as is that wasn’t pressure enough for organizations,  there is increased pressure for keeping up with the latest technology to be digital, and so on. All these exciting changes that increase opportunities for new entrants to compete in the labour market, as the technologies are forever evolving and new and now let us…

Downloadable Change Management Playbook for HR

When introducing a new HR initiative that will bring about an organisational impact, remember that change management doesn’t end only with introducing  and training people  on the change management methodology. To make sure that you have buy-in and lead people to a change that will stick, you have to ensure that you ALIGN THE CHANGE METHODOLOGY WITH ACTION. Just as one would do when project…

Benefits Of Prioritizing Talent Management

According to various surveys conducted in 2014, 36% of global employers reported talent shortages, the “war of talent” is certainly on the rise. This global phenomena is impacting companies in the ICT sector the most. This industry has greatly experienced these effects in recent years. The shortage of skills across  ICT organisations has had a significant impact on customer experience, thus the…

HR Stuck On Activity

As HR Professionals we tend to be stuck on activity, enforce compliance for employees to sign performance contracts, create development plans and go to training programmes as so forth. Yet our counterparts are quiet clear on how to differentiate activity and output towards creating business impact. Surprisingly,  we are the Custodians of goal alignment and cascading processes. For example,…