What is performance management? Ultimately, it is a process of making each employee and ultimately any organization successful. Performance management enables any company or organization to build the skills, abilities and confidence of each individual employee, which results in elevated performance from the team as a whole. All people like to feel that they are ...

Two years ago, McDonald’s began its fight back against the dictionary definition of the so-called ‘McJob’, launching an aggressive campaign to redefine preconceptions about working life at the burger-flipping conglomerate. At the time, a McJob was defined as an “unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects”, but head honchos at the firm argued that this was ...

In June, the fifth annual ImagePower Green Brands Survey revealed that the majority of consumers – 60 percent – in all countries want to buy from environmentally responsible companies.  What’s more, consumers said that a company’s environmental consciousness is an important priority, ranking just behind ‘good value,’ ‘trustworthiness’ and ‘caring about customers.’ For Eric Ryan, ...

What is leadership development?  Simply put, it is an effort to develop those skills and characteristics necessary to lead other people effectively.  An individual who is a manager or leader must be able to set a direction and guide the team/employees in that direction.  Leadership development helps those with basic talent and skills further enhance ...

Leadership training helps build upon the qualities and characteristics an individual needs to become an effective leader.  Team building, communication skills, creative problem solving and being an effective negotiator are just a few of the traits great leaders possess.  Leadership training is essential in improving performance, developing the skills necessary to be an effective leader, ...

What is a leadership skill?  There are numerous skills you desire if you want to be an effective manager or leader.  One important leadership skill is motivation, for example.  You must be able to motivate your team to reach a common goal.  Sounds easy enough, but it isn’t always that simple.  This is just one ...

Effective human resource management often requires training so that individuals working in the HR environment are equipped with the newest ideas, tools, and best practices necessary to build an efficient team of working professionals.  Since HR personnel are commonly responsible for hiring, training, and assessing the performance of employees, human resource management training is a ...

New York Fashion Week kicked-off in style last week, refocusing the mainstream media’s attention on everything from collections to collectibles, from Acne to YSL, from high-end to High Street. According to the British Fashion Council, 75 percent of women are now more likely to shop in their free time than read, listen to music, do ...

The lure of this year’s London Fashion Week has been palpable. Whether you were there for the whole week, just caught the one show, or – quite frankly – if you weren’t even there at all, it has been near-impossible to escape the excitement around the week long event. Hot on the heels of New ...

We all tell the odd little white lie from time to time, but this is generally considered okay – told to spare someone’s feelings and largely considered to be a well-intentioned untruth. What we don’t accept is a malicious or spiteful lie, told to purposefully hurt an individual or to stir unnecessary bad feelings between ...