PeoplesHR was recently granted two industry recognitions by a leading B2B review site, FinancesOnline. Upon conducting a thorough review of our solution they found our solution robust in features and appealing in user-friendliness. For which, PeoplesHR was recognized with the 2017 Great User Experience Award and 2017 Rising Star Award.

An organisation’s talent pool takes similarity to that of a royal kingdom. When the right time comes for one ruler to step down, the next in command is usually groomed and ready to take the place. In the context of a work environment, when a management level member is getting closer to a retirement age, or decides to leave they encourage that they pursue and mentor a potential leadership role take over the position when the time comes. Now the organisational norm is much different to that of a kingdom, where the next in line is air to the throne and groomed from childhood, whereas at an organisational level, it involves mostly the performance levels that determines ones suitability to reach the next level. When you look at it from a distance mentoring simply feels like a ‘follow me around’, where the chosen employee simply gets to know the details involved in the role. Well there’s more to it than just a look into the life of a manager, during the process, the individual goes through extensive grooming to learn the responsibilities and challenges that comes with the job. Then comes the hardest part of guiding one’s own self to find the leader within. Here is a guide for the mentor and mentee.

The use of technology has surpassed its limitation by taking over most of the daily activities that we are now involved in. From work to home, there is a significant portion where technology has a higher involvement than ever. Often we find ourselves reaping the benefits of this luxury while wondering how we ever survived before all this came into place. As we all know, work takes up most of our day and week, where we spend majority of our time glued to a computer screen. Without knowing the environment becomes nothing but a blur with very little background noise. This is often when organisations realize that it needs to invest on bringing back the human factor to a very dull silent building with a lot of people just tap tapping away on their computers. This is not a bad thing, after all they are working, but how would you go about bringing back a bit of human to the digital speed train that we call work. Take a look at how things could change.

Whatever team you play for whether it’s for generation X, Y or Z it’s inevitable that one generation is going to be taking up the majority of the playing field very soon. And when that happens, the question becomes whether your organisation is prepared to balance the culture to make the work environment a productive one. With technology taking over the work environment and most of our lives, the balance of work and technology becomes as important as work and life. So if you find that your organisation’s productivity has more ‘con’ than ‘pro’ here are a few things to consider.