By: Sonnie Santos Someone asked to clarify the difference of social web from social networking sites. I explained that social networking sites are part of social web, but the latter is larger because social web includes all web 2.0 applications . These include blogs like wordpress and blogspot, micro blogs like twitter,video sharing sites like youtube, photo sharing sites like flickr. One…
By: Sonnie Santos In a post about 5 months ago, I briefly discussed about spiritual intelligence. I got several inquiries from students and managers alike since then. So please allow me to re-post an article I wrote years ago. This is also my advocacy, I will release a mini e-book on the subject soon and expect more…
By: Geraldine Cruz The job of your resume and cover letter is to convince your potential employer to shortlist you for an interview. At the interview, it is your job to convince them that you are the best person among all the candidates. At both stages, the objective is the same – to persuade. To…
By: Edwin Ebreo How do you know you have a successful performance management system? That’s when your employees’ performance are improving and you have a definite way of telling. How do you know it isn’t working? If managers are doing as little as possible to achieve minimum compliance, which is probably to submit shabbily filled out…
By: Edwin Ebreo Work gets done, problems get solved, customers are happy and goals are achieved. Such is the power of communication. Without it, the opposite happens; people yield to mediocrity, problems linger, customers misunderstand, hence, they are unhappy. All these block your team from harmoniously working together and achieving organizational goals. There can be…
By: Edwin Ebreo In all my years as a team building facilitator and participant, I have observed that five factors affect the success or failure of teamwork. They are: • Leadership • Team Dynamics • Communication Skills • Team working environment, process or tools Of all these, leadership is pivotal. As I facilitate teambuilding workshops,…
By: Christine Dapa They say good things come to those who wait. This used to be true even for talent selection and acquisition but not anymore. The rule of the recruitment game has changed. This is due to the ever increasing disparity between needed talents and their availability. There is a tough competition for talent out…
What is the Difference? Task managers see to it that employees are busy, that they are doing things exactly as they are told. That they are racking up enough hours of work. The more hours they spend at work, the better employees look in the eyes of their managers. Task managers complain about the lack…
By: Geraldine Cruz I just read what could possibly be the most self-centered piece of advertising I’ve read for a long time. The Grammar Pulis is still on vacation, so there will not be any grammar critiques. I am responding to this ad as a consumer and a target client. My knee-jerk reaction to this…
If HR is to play a strategic business partner role in the organization, it needs to streamline its activities so it can find time to handle the rigors of strategic HR Management and Development. When HR Transforms into a strategic partner, it cannot shed off its transactional activities like pre-employment screening and administration, personnel administration…