Pexels / Pixabay Today’s employees are overworked and overstressed. That’s just not my opinion: There are statistics to back it up, including recent reporting from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, plus plenty of anecdotal evidence from business owners around the country. It’s an important issue, not least because it impacts the bottom line of your […]
At Red Branch Media, we love to get to know our new hires with a game we call New Brancher Trivia! Usually, we try to pair new Branchers up and have the existing employees try to guess which answer goes with who. Besides helping us make our new hires feel a little more at ease,
When you think of company culture, what comes to mind? Free lunch, ping pong tables, onsite gym, slide in the lobby? I consider these perks, which are certainly an expression of a company’s culture, but not the actual culture in itself. So what, exactly, is company culture? I recently stumbled upon this statement, which I
heathergunn / Pixabay All of us have days where we’re not feeling as motivated or as energetic as usual. That’s perfectly normal. But when that aimlessness lasts for days or for weeks, the only name for it is burnout—and when burnout starts spreading to your employees, it can derail the productivity of your entire team.
waldryano / Pixabay It would appear that half of all large IT projects massively blow their budgets. According to a study of more than 5,400 UK and US IT projects, carried out by McKinsey and the University of Oxford, the average budget overrun is 45%, with the total overspend coming in at an eye-watering $66
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geralt / Pixabay In the world of comms, there are many things that are really important. Coming up with a strong, long-term strategy; if you’re in internal comms, being able to engage employees from a range of disciplines and backgrounds; being good at communicating is obviously a must. But something that often gets forgotten is
You’ve probably heard this buzzword: agility. Although you’ve heard it and seen it, do you know if it’s something your organization should practice? What does agility really mean when it comes to shaping your human resources? Agility in the HR industry Many HR departments think of their role as developing and executing company-wide standards and systems.
It’s that time of year again, the smiling faces of colleagues who are off on holiday are beginning to become increasingly commonplace around the office. You’re yet to plan your getaway and so have convinced yourself that spending some time at home will be just as fun as a sun-drenched holiday abroad…but it’s hard to
Crazy job titles and employee-assigned monikers are the new rage in start-ups. But what do they really mean in the workplace? What’s in a name? As Juliet stated in William Shakespeare’s inimitable tragic poem, “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” reasoning that a name is irrelevant to function. Over the past
They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question. But “they” are wrong. There are plenty. And when you ask silly things during the… They say there’s no such thing as a stupid question. But “they” are wrong. There are plenty. And when you ask silly things during the hiring process in particular, your
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