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accurate assessment

Accurate Assessment Connects Candidates to Culture

A healthy workplace culture depends on hiring the right people for the right roles. Use assessments to remove the guesswork from your recruitment decisions. The culture of your workplace is totally dependent on the mix of traits and skills among your teams and leaders. Get this wrong and you have strong potential for toxicity, disengagement

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healthy workplace culture

Recruit Well to Create a Healthy Workplace Culture

A healthy workplace culture depends on how well the people within it work together. For this, you need to ‘recruit right’ every time. Besides the financial/productivity cost of mis-hiring, you also have the cost to the morale of those who are most affected by a poor hiring decision – your teams. The onboarding process can

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Develop Workplace Culture

How to Develop Workplace Culture

Create and elevate a healthy, robust and resilient workplace culture centred on your values, attitudes and beliefs. Companies that find themselves at the top of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work … foster a culture that inspires innovation, dedication, and enthusiasm among employees. Harvard Division of Continuing Education Nobody needs ping-pong tables, yoga sessions or barista-served

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workplace culture

What is Workplace Culture?

Your workplace culture clearly defines your organisation as an employer of choice, or one to avoid at all costs. “A workplace culture is the shared values, belief systems, attitudes and the set of assumptions that people in a workplace share … A positive workplace culture improves teamwork, raises morale, increases productivity and efficiency, and enhances

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job benchmarking

Create The Benchmark For Success

Take uncertainty out of your hiring and promoting processes with accurate and objective job benchmarking. It can be hard to pin down what you are looking for when hiring for a role. Especially if the role is new or you are replacing a long-term incumbent. For the former, the world is your oyster – but

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destination employer

Reach Up: Be A Destination Employer

Set your sights high. Be the destination employer everyone wants to work for. From quiet quitting to the great resignation, the outlook on talent retention might appear bleak. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Over the years have you scanned the annual top 100 UK companies to work for and (a) wished your

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hire for potential

Be Bold: Hire For Potential

Do you struggle to find the right mix of experience, personality and power skills? If so, it’s time to be bold, and hire for potential. Nobody wants to hire a square peg for a round hole. But what if you could identify those, who with a little work and time, can lose their ‘pointy corners’

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develop perseverance

Develop Perseverance To Thrive In The VUCA World

Develop perseverance to thrive through uncertainty. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. But is it really that simple? Perseverance is one dimension of our personal resilience. flowprofiler® defines perseverance as: The ability (or skill) to bounce back To be persistentTo deal with what is in front of you Thrive through uncertainty

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people pressures

Spend Less Time On Your People Pressures

Help line managers to spend less time resolving intra-team disputes and give them more time to achieve their objectives. Do your line managers feel like workplace referees? Settling internal disputes, dishing out yellow cards? Unwilling to deliver a red card for the good of the team? Do your teams pull together like the Lionesses, or

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Team Holst getting together

The Importance of Getting Together

Last week Team Holst travelled from near and far to spend time together, reconnect and remember what makes our team strong. Like many SMBs, Team Holst has changed since our last full company day in 2019. We lost some valued team members and onboarded new starters. Getting together to solidify new relationships is vital to

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