What is a Blended Workforce and How Can It Help My Business?
While hiring has traditionally revolved around long-term contract hires, blended workforces are quickly becoming more popular. These workforces combine individuals with different types of contracts, bringing freelancers, part time workers, and traditional contracts together to create a more flexible and scalable workplace. This trend brings complexity to HR management and payrolling, but offers numerous advantages to businesses of all sizes. What is a Blended Workforce? Traditional hiring means hiring everyone with a fixed contract for [...]
How to Conduct an HR Audit
No matter what the size of your organization, the end of the fiscal year is an ideal time to set new goals, adjust old ones, and realign the organization to keep everything and everyone on track with targets and objectives. Conducting an HR audit to determine how, why, and where HR processes are contributing or not contributing to these goals will help you to better define what is adding value to HR and what is [...]
How to Eliminate Bias in The Workplace
This is a guest post from Johanna Cider. Johanna is a freelance writer from Wellington, New Zealand with a special interest in business, travel and lifestyle topics, as well as experience producing written content for various sites and blogs. Visit Johanna’s Tumblr page to see more of her published work. With issues of racial discrimination and unequal pay hot topics in the corporate world, the question of how to eliminate bias in the workplace is [...]
5 Ways to Address a Performance Gap in Your Team
Skill and performance gaps crop up in every workplace. Jobs, technologies, and even demand change over time. When this happens, recognizing and working to fill performance gaps is crucial to maintaining results and productivity inside your team. In most cases, performance gaps are the direct result of missing skills inside your team. This could show up as lack of development for team members or missing team members. The best short-term strategy is to use direct [...]
Skills of the Future: 10 Skills You’ll Need to Thrive in 2020
This is a guest post from Jomel Alos. Jomel is a Consultant at Guthrie-Jensen Consultants. It’s not quite right to say that we live in a technological world now more than ever. Over time, technology has been the driving force in various fields such as business, education, medicine, and telecommunications to name a few. However, technology is dynamic by nature, so it’s quick to change and pave the way for the so- called industrial revolution. After [...]