Every day I’m in awe of the magnificent device that is our brain: At birth, a baby’s brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way. These 100 billion neurons are not yet widely connected in networks, the number of connections or synapses per neuron is...
Are you already back in the daily grind right after your vacation? Or are you so refreshed that your daily hassles are far away, and you’d like to keep them far for as long as possible? Ten years ago, a local travel agent ran a TV campaign advertising “vacations in which you forget everything”...
Person-Job AND Person-Organization Fit matter Research consistently shows that employees who are aligned with the company culture outperform the competition by a three-fold factor. Employees aligned with the company culture: Are happier More satisfied Stay longer Are committed Provide better service Person-job fit can be determined using skills tests, competency analysis, behavioral interviewing and...
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness” – Seneca Research shows that when we witness an act of kindness, we are more likely to offer an act of kindness ourselves. Another body of research demonstrated that recipients of an act of kindness are up to 3 times more likely to...
Increasing employee performance and well-being in a hybrid model – a digest of research & insights from Gartner’s HR practice 2020 catapulted the workforce into the new reality of working and performing in a virtual setting. Organizations created virtual office practices, which included adding monitoring systems and increasing virtual meetings in response to the...
