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How Can Early Career Mentorship Lead to Development?

How Can Early Career Mentorship Lead to Development? As I always stated: “Your team is your greatest asset”. Team members are always the corner stones in any business or institute, shaping the relation between the employee and the client. Early career mentorship is considered one of the most underrated types of mentorships that mentees undertake, …

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The Importance of Upskilling Your Employees with Training

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The Importance of Upskilling Your Employees with Training The world is constantly evolving, especially with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of new trends. Evidently, businesses need to adapt to the changes or risk becoming obsolete. One way to adapt is through upskilling. Growing in popularity, upskilling is based on the understanding that …

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How Businesses Can Cope with the Revolution in Workplace Flexibility

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How Businesses Can Cope with the Revolution in Workplace Flexibility We are currently witnessing a revolution in our understanding of the workplace. Working remotely was once the exception, but quickly became the norm after the COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide, forcing people to stay at home and find ways to carry on working. Now, employees actually …

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There comes a time in every student’s life where they will need to choose what they would like to settle into. The majority of high school graduates rely on furthering their educational backgrounds by working towards a degree that will help them earn high paying jobs and broaden their opportunity window. In addition, young adults strive to find a university that will provide them with social awareness, flexibility, as well as skills that will allow them the chance to not only earn money, but also maintain their positions in the profession of their dreams. What can universities do to provide its students with the best possible learning experience that will further their careers and better their futures? Provide the Right Skills Instead of mainly focusing on providing lecture information and wrapping up curriculums, universities should also provide students with real-life skills that will benefit them in their careers. Work life requires a wide set of talents that young adults need to stand out amongst other job applicants. From leadership, teamwork, and organizational skills to behavioral and social skills, there are numerous activities a university could incorporate in its curriculum to improve students’ futures. College clubs are a great integration that enhance students’ social and leadership talents. Group activities in the classroom represent a great way to build teamwork communications and behavioral aspects. Build Real-Life Work Experiences Graduating from university does not necessarily mean a student’s preparation to face the challenges of real-life work. For that reason, universities today are working on integrating more interim work opportunities for students to get a taste of the hands-on experiences they will need once they are working. Instead of relying on in-class teaching methods, universities should benefit from working hand-in-hand with various businesses that will provide their students with the right mindsets and skillsets to nail their first jobs after college. Teach Problem-Solving Technics In today’s job market, employers look for individuals with the right thinking skills that will benefit their businesses in the long run. Students benefit greatly from universities that integrate various exercises that stimulate and build up problem-solving and decision-making skills. With the right training, universities can provide their students with a myriad of activities that will ensure a positive outcome for their futures. In addition, allowing students the opportunity to take on valuable roles in collaborative projects ensures the growth of their decision-making skills. Familiarize Digital Communications The need for digital and technological skills has flourished since the start of the pandemic. Not only have jobs transformed their face-to-face workplaces to virtual ones, but universities have also turned their offline campuses online. With this comes a great responsibility for educational institutions to provide their students with the right practical, apprehensive, and collaborative digital skills. With the right digital transformation, online learning bundles up a series of skills that are highly valued in today’s virtual workforce. From flexibility and organizational skills to online group collaborations and communications, universities should be the source for all these necessities that will give graduates a head start in the real world. Focus on the Future The business world is ever-changing. Despite the degree students undertake, it is important for them to be able to flexibly fit into various changing opportunities. Universities are required to keep up with the times by providing their students with practical skills that will help them evolve in the workforce. One way to go about this is by broadening students’ ambitions and building up leadership, problem-solving and decision-making skills that will aid graduates in acquiring and preserving various new job opportunities.

The Power of Universities in Prepping Students for Their Careers

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There comes a time in every student’s life where they will need to choose what they would like to settle into. The majority of high school graduates rely on furthering their educational backgrounds by working towards a degree that will help them earn high paying jobs and broaden their opportunity window. In addition, young adults …

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Having bright, talented, and emotionally intelligent employees is not enough to get a company going. No matter the capabilities and stability of your workforce, it is important to ensure and preserve high-performance by setting up the suitable workplace plan. What is a Workplace Plan? A workplace plan is a strategically placed process that ensures the viability of your workforce. By analyzing a company’s current workforce and future needs, studying the workforce issues that might deter a company’s growth in the future, and implementing the right solutions to ensure all obstacles are overcome and goals are reached, a workplace plan is the right first step to ensuring a determined workforce and company growth and success. How to Implement a Successful Workplace Plan A workplace plan is all about your employees. For that reason, it is important to pay attention to the base elements of a successful workplace plan. 1. Hire the right amount of employees 2. Hire the best employees for your company 3. Hire employees at the most suitable time With these main elements, you can safely ensure that your company will not be losing any profit, time, or focus on your focal objectives and goals. Now that everything is ready, prevent any faulty steps when implement your workplace plan by following these 6 valuable steps: 1. Set Your Company’s Main Goals Whether it’s to launch a new product or to fix your company’s marketing technics, the first step you should be taking is making sure to set the right goals for everyone to follow. While doing so, stay specific. Let your management team contribute and communicate with your current workforce to ensure everyone is on the same page. 2. Analyze the Skills Required to Complete these Goals Now that your goals are set, find out what skills are required to complete them. This step is very important to ensure you have the right team to get your objectives up and running as soon as possible. 3. Make Sure Your Current Workforce Can Complete These Goals Make use of your management team and get to know the work capabilities of your existing workforce. Compare them to the afore completed skills required for the set company projects. Hire additionally required people or use the right amount of current employees to get things done. 4. Start Building Your Plan With your management team in the loop, designate a team to take control of your plan and watch over it. All the previous steps make up your current workplace plan. From your main goals, the required skills, the required training or hiring of valuable employees, all the information make up your plan. In addition, include your turnover rates and required gaps to ensure maximum success rate. 5. Watch Your Workplace Plan In Action This is the step where you sit back and watch your workplace plan succeed. Keep your management team and investors in the loop of its progress to ensure all gaps are filled. Monitor your workplace plan’s progress and make changes as needed with the help of your designated and managerial teams. 6. Evaluate and Study Your Plan Analyze your completed objectives. Make sure that they have been completed in time and according to the workplace plan’s set measures. When new goals are implemented in the plan, recheck your previously placed objectives and don’t be afraid to alter any required steps or changes as needed. Your workplace plan is the key to ensuring a profitable future for your company. After the first objectives are met, your business will now be ready to overcome and complete any new obstacle or goal it might have.

What is a Workplace Plan and How to Implement it?

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Having bright, talented, and emotionally intelligent employees is not enough to get a company going. No matter the capabilities and stability of your workforce, it is important to ensure and preserve high-performance by setting up the suitable workplace plan. What is a Workplace Plan? A workplace plan is a strategically placed process that ensures the …

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Why is Emotional Intelligence so Important in the Workplace?

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Why is Emotional Intelligence so Important in the Workplace? and how to find it in people Every human being on the planet is innately emotional. For that reason, it is important to understand, appreciate, and respect the value emotional intelligence brings to the workplace. From communication, relationship building, and stress relief skills, a highly emotionally …

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HR’s Presence in the Digital Business World

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Since the start of the pandemic, the business world has changed drastically. The challenges that were brought upon all industries have caused leaders and CEOs to work their hardest on ensuring the profitability and growth of their companies. With that came the demise of a plethora of businesses that were not fully equipped to take …

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Picking the Best Solution: Mentoring vs. Coaching

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When discussing the implementation of professional career growth plans and workshops for a company, you might find yourself questioning the difference between mentoring and coaching. Whether you want to choose a coaching or mentoring program, it is important to understand the similarities and the differences between the two to be able to make the suitable …

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COVID 19 demands more coaching and mentoring skills on leaders?

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When thinking about the current challenges around us, we can’t help but recall a particular leadership book that resonates to this day! Ronald A Heifetz and Marty Linsky in “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading” highlight the risks of lack of adaptability in the art and science of leadership! Current …

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Corporate Mentorship Strategy

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The importance of implementing a corporate mentorship strategy is by now statistically proven. When done properly, mentorship at work is shown to increase productivity, profit, staff retention, and promotion. It is, therefore, a wonder that so many companies do not take advantage of mentorship. The biggest companies seem to have caught on—around 70% of Fortune …

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