VR in Soft Skills Training Sessions When discussing the concept of upskilling workforces for the future, it is likely for digital and technical and operational skills to spring to mind – they are also known as ‘hard skills.’ Hard skills are skills that employees develop to perform specific tasks at a job and [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhR1RJyh-C8 Executive Interim Management Interim Management began in the Netherlands in the 1970s when business owners across multiple industries, including the Life Sciences, recognized a need for expertise in times of uncertainty. There has been a growing demand in companies for highly skilled candidates to take over job positions and solve current circumstances [...]
The Changing Role of HR: How to Prepare In the upcoming years, the role of HR will evolve due to different changes in the working environment. Recruiting teams will need to develop new skills, adopt new tools, and master different metrics. Current trends such as digitalisation, the growing importance of data and employee [...]
The Dangers of Micromanagement In the fast-changing world that Life Science firms compete in currently, it is necessary for managers to consistently adjust to sudden changes and to adapt to a new hybrid work model. As a result, companies rely on their employees to continuously innovate and respond to problems efficiently. Pharma and [...]
Agile Mentality The concept of agile mentality began in 2001 in software development firms; however, it has recently expanded to organizations of all sectors of activities including the Life Sciences industry. The agile mindset is a set of attitudes, including respect, collaboration, improvement, ownership, and the ability to adapt to change. Recently, companies [...]
Inspiring And Regaining Confidence Post Covid One year after the beginning of the health crisis, companies face a new challenge in attempting to regain confidence from less eager employees to return to the workplace. While confidence was a problem in the workplace before the pandemic, the lockdown has made people feel more “impacted” [...]
How Organizations Can Learn from Failures Failure is a common occurrence in business as in wider life. No one sets out to fail but accepting that it happens allows organisations to mitigate the impacts and learn useful lessons. Indeed, failure can present learning opportunities and help to drive organisational improvement. And, in fact, [...]
Welcoming and Intergrating New Remote Recruits Studies are in consensus that the induction of new employees matters well beyond the end of the onboarding period. If employees experience great onboarding, they are 69% more likely to stay at a company for 3 years. Acing this is a challenge in a normal context, but [...]
How Quality Feedback Can Improve Performance What am I doing well and successfully? What could I do differently? Is there anything that I should be doing that I am not doing nowadays? What should I improve or work on in the near future? These are questions we should ask ourselves to excel and [...]
Improving Employee Engagement In today’s competitive and rapidly evolving business environment, it is critical that organisations engage their workforces, as engaged employees drive business success in numerous areas. Indeed, Gallup found that companies with higher engagement achieved 23% better profitability, 18% less turnover, and 10% higher customer loyalty. There is research which finds [...]
