Edward M Hallowell in his book ‘Shine, Using Brian Science to Get the Best from Your People’ explains in clear terms that connections between people add to the well being of the employees and their organisations.   Connection refers to the bond an individual feels with another person, group, task, idea, mission, piece of art, [...]

We are living in challenging times for employees and companies and very often people are stressed out and look towards HR for advice and inspiration. This can be difficult however research has shown that there are answers. Fred Luthans (2009) has defined Psychological Capital which gives a positive approach to developing staff members, managers and [...]

In these challenging times a lot of companies have to let staff members go in order to secure their survival. This is both difficult for the employee and the company. The employee has to find a new career and the company has to face up to the fact that business is not going as planned. [...]

In the current economic climate we need to improve our performance as individuals, organisations and as a country. Whoever we are, we need to take stock and assess how and what we could do to improve our performance. As individuals we have to be realistic and see what actions we need to develop in order [...]

Under the current circumstances the traditional view might be that employees just need to be happy to have a job and shouldn’t complain and just get on with their work. However, in today’s business environment employee engagement is more important than ever before. Employee Engagement is the extent to which workforce commitment, both emotional and [...]