Tip of the Day – Setting The Right Compensation Strategy
The right compensation strategy is important to attract and retain talent and to some extent, shapes the culture of the company. These are some key considerations: Internal Equity Internal equity relates to how [...]
Tip of the Day: Why Money Is Not The Best Reward
Many business owners use money as the only form of reward to upkeep employees’ motivation, but end up frustrated that it doesn’t turn out the way they expect it to be. While everyone loves [...]
Tip of the Day: Injecting Variety Into Your Employee’s Work To Enhance Learning
Needing to use only one skill at work over and over again may bore out your employees, stagnate their learning curves, and reduce productivity. With employees increasingly seeking out challenges and learning opportunities, you can [...]
Tip of the Day- Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have been used extensively to evaluate the performance and to decide on the eventual rewards accorded to employees, thus it has a strong influence in shaping behaviours and attitudes of [...]
Tip of the Day: ‘Dating’ the Right Talent
Recruiting talent is no different from dating. You need to make yourself attractive to have the right talents knocking at your door. How can your company better position itself in the eyes of potential candidates? Communicate [...]
Tip of the Day: Nurturing Pride At The Workplace
Instilling pride is one the most cost-effective ways to foster higher employee engagement. In fact, it has the highest correlation with workplace happiness according to the latest data from the National Workplace Happiness Survey [...]
Tip of the Day: Speaking to Under-Performing Employee
It is always easy to speak to an employee if he is a top performer. How about when you have to speak to an under-performing member of your team? While there is a need [...]
Tip of the Day – Managing Your Employee’s Off-boarding Process
An off-boarding process is more than just recovering company’s assets. When an employee leaves, it has an impact on other employees’ morale, and might even open up your company to legal and security threats. [...]
Tip of the Day: Playing Fair- Avoiding Perceptions of Favoritism
Everybody, including managers, have their unique personalities and that means each manager gets along better with certain more compatible people. However, it’s important not to let personal preferences result in favoritism. When there’s favoritism, [...]
Tip of the Day: Innovative Collisions Between Employees for Innovation
“Accidental collisions”, otherwise known as random interactions between employees play a key role in generating creative thinking, developing new ideas, and strengthening the work community. These chance meetings, especially between people from different departments [...]
Tip of the Day: Are you ready for the new workforce
“The millennial we just recruited had job-hopped out of our company again.” If you can relate to the above statement, then perhaps it is time to take a peek into the minds of these millennials [...]
Tip of the Day: Using Games In Selection Process
Using Games in Selection Process Companies typically use formal interviews as their only tool to select their next employees. However, this is not enough for you to verify the actual personality or behaviour of [...]
Tip of the Day – Set Clear Performance Expectations to Attain Success
Employees have to know what is expected of them to stay engaged and perform well at work. When you as a business leader have set clear performance expectations with your employees, you are one [...]
Tip of the Day – Do Your Workers Have The Right Tools?
Maximizing employees’ efforts require the right effective equipment to get the job done. When employees are held back by absent or poor-quality equipment, productivity is negatively impacted. After all, would you expect Picasso to [...]
Tip of the Day: Increasing Togetherness in Today’s Organisations
Managing the major differences arising from generation gaps at the workplace may be a challenge for leaders who are trying to build positive synergies within their teams. Here are some ways you, as a [...]
Tip of the Day – Groom Your Millennial Workforce with Anonymous Mentoring
Millennials have grown up in an environment unique from past generations, and it will be to your company’s advantage to manage them differently as well. One way is to mentor them. In our last [...]
Tip of the Day: Align Your New Hires
Simple Steps to Align Your New Hires An appropriate on-boarding process for your new hires is necessary. It aids in helping them understand your organisational culture and what behaviours are expected of them. Here [...]
Tip of the Day: Integrating New Hires Smoothly into the Workplace
Article : Smoothly Integrating New Hires Into The Workplace An effective onboarding is crucial to help your new hires to integrate into your team. It can be considered as "creating the right first impression" [...]
Tip of the Day: Make Room for Failure
Make room for failure Woody Allen once said, "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative". Today, organisations are investing in innovation in this era [...]
Tip of the Day: Actions of an Effective Leader
Title: Actions of an Effective Leader (QW) An effective leader is one who is able to positively influence others and brings diverse people together to move the company forward. Thus, a leader is only [...]
Tip of the Day – Adapting to an Aging Workforce
While today’s trending topics focus on issues such as the entry of the millennial workforce, let’s also look at the opposite end of the age spectrum to look at issues relating to the retirement of [...]
Tip of the Day – The Trust Equation (Part 2)
Trust is the foundation for all relationships. Within your organisation, building a strong foundation of trust amongst your team will increase morale, teamwork, productivity and ultimately the bottom line. In the last Tip of [...]
Tip of the Day – Achieving Quick Wins in Culture-Shaping
Culture is typically identified as 'how things work' in an organisation. While it is necessary for all leaders to shape their desired culture, most are at a loss at how to undertake this task. [...]
Tip of the Day – The Trust Equation (Part 1)
Trust is the foundation for all relationships. Within your organisation, building a strong foundation of trust amongst your team will increase morale, teamwork, productivity and ultimately the bottom line. According to Davide Maister’s “Trust [...]
Tip of the Day – To Become a Better Leader, Practise Taking Risks
Leaders become better when they follow through. That requires emotional courage or the willingness to feel the hard feelings that arise from taking risks, breaking the usual patterns, and trying new actions. So how does one [...]
Tip of the Day – Business Continuity During Crisis
When crises strike, you want to be already prepared for them. You will want to ensure that your business and operations can continue by prioritising the most crucial roles and tasks and protecting your [...]
Tip of the Day – Grow Your People, Grow Your Business
The success of your business depends on a host of factors: sound strategy, marketable product or service, efficient processes et cetera. However it ultimately falls on the shoulders and into the hands of people [...]
Tip of the Day – When Your Employee Gets Grounded at Home
When your employee is placed under Quarantine Orders or have to take Leave of Absence, it posits a number of work- and pay-related issues for companies. Just because an employee is not allowed to [...]
Tip of the Day – Management and Communication in Times of Crisis
In times of crisis like the Covid-19 virus spreading rapidly amongst the community, advancing contagion in its path and instilling fear in our people, our economy and many businesses will invariably be negatively impacted. [...]
Tip of the Day – Leading by Feeling
The most gifted leaders effectively manage the moods of their organisations with Emotional Intelligence or Quotient (EQ). They are self-aware, empathetic and can intuitively grasp how others and the organisation feel. While EQ comes [...]
Tip of the Day – How to Stop Micromanaging Your Employees
One of the most common struggles a new leader faces is learning to delegate and let go of the “little things.” While you may feel like you need constant oversight into your team’s work, [...]
Tip of the Day – What to Do When Stress Mounts at Work
The stakes are high, the pressures are intense. People are maxing out their energy, everyone is feeling the heat and tempers are starting to flare. Stress is starting to get the better of you [...]
Tip of the Day – Getting your Team to Cope with the Changing Future
Many small businesses lament that they do not have the resources nor foresight to compete in the new economy. Contrary to what most believe, technology actually develops rather slowly then becomes viable suddenly. Usually [...]
Singapore’s Fastest Growing Companies 2020
Align Group has been selected by The Straits Times and Germany-based global research firm Statista as one of the top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in Singapore. The selection criteria is based on the compound annual [...]
Tip of the Day: Strengthen Your Employer Brand
Ever bought a product that failed to do what it claimed to do? Disappointing, right? Now imagine the product is your company, and the people who bought the product are your employees. They were attracted [...]
Tip of the Day: Getting your Team to Cope with the Changing Future
As a leader, you will have to make decisions. Lots of them. And you’ll probably spend significant amounts of time and energy trying to make unbiased, fair decisions. But you’ll also probably discover that finding [...]
Tip of the Day: How to Be Perceived as a Fair Leader
As a leader, you will have to make decisions. Lots of them. And you’ll probably spend significant amounts of time and energy trying to make unbiased, fair decisions. But you’ll also probably discover that finding [...]
Tip of the Day: Motivating Your Creative Employees
Creative people tend to be characteristically different from others when it comes to their values, personality and abilities. So they might require special consideration when it comes to managing this group of people. Here are [...]
Tip of the Day: 3 Dimensions of Onboarding for Higher Retention
In an ever-intensifying battle for talent, retaining your hires is critical. In that, how your new hires are onboarded influences how long they choose to stay with you. Organisations with a standardised onboarding process experience [...]
Tip of the Day: The 3 Silent Killers of Culture
Many leaders cite “culture” as the root cause of peoples’ problems in their organisations. Often, they are unable to pinpoint the causes, even less so in identifying the symptoms when culture is heading downhill. The issue of [...]
Tip of the Day: Attracting Millennials: Have A Clear M.V.V
A company’s Mission, Vision and Values (MVV) statements are not just beautiful verses to be placed on company walls or websites. In fact, they play a key role in attracting millennials as many millennials crave [...]
Shift Perspectives to Influence Your Organisation Positively
Too often we are overly fixated on the opinions and perceptions of our surroundings. This can lead us to focus on things we have no control over: the weakness of others, problems in the environment [...]
Tip of the Day: Why Employee Training Fails
Employers are often puzzled by how little employees’ performance improve despite sending them for expensive training courses. The following are some major pitfalls as to why employee training fails and what you can do to [...]
Tip of the Day: When Should You Not Delegate Work
Delegating is one of the core responsibility as a leader. However, not all types of work are suitable to be delegated to your team members. Here are 3 pointers to help serve as a guide [...]
Tip of the Day: Why Employee Empowerment Fails
‘Empowerment’ is often used when a leader is attempting to improve the employee engagement level. However, it may not yield the intended outcome if the execution is incorrect. Generalising the concept of employee empowerment Empowerment [...]
Tip of the Day: Using the Pygmalion Effect at Work
Take a moment to recall your schooling days where you might have particularly liked and done well for a subject. Was the reason because of a good teacher who recognised and believed in you? [...]
Tip of the Day: Dismissing Employees with a Heart
Dismissing an employee with disciplinary issues might be an easy task. For employees who are good in many aspects but are simply ill-fit with the company culture – How can you gracefully dismiss them? Communicate with Empathy When [...]
Tip of the Day: Benefits Of A Strong Employer Brand
An employer brand is how your employees and external stakeholders perceive your company, and its benefits cannot be underestimated as it impacts your company’s ability to attract, recruit and retain good employees. Attract: Increase [...]
Tip of the Day: Encouraging Collaboration
How effective employees are able to perform together as a team can often make or break the success of any business. With increasing competition, it has become extremely important to encourage collaboration in the office, [...]
Tip of the Day: The 5 Strategies Of Appreciative Leadership
Finding it challenging to drive your employees to perform at their best? You may want to consider the following 5 strategies of Appreciative Leadership, or the ability to boost good performance through positivity at work. [...]
Tip of the Day: Managing Experts in Your Team
As a manager, your role is to set the stage for the company to grow and that might mean leading a team who are more experienced than you. While it may feel daunting at first, [...]
Tip of the Day: Managing Millennials In Your Workplace
Millennials are becoming one of the most populous generations in the workforce, and managing and retaining them in the workplace is seemingly challenging to many business leaders today. Wonder how you can maximise their stay [...]
Tip of the Day: Manager’s Roadblocks to Practising Fairness
Fairness influences how employees feel at work, and is one of the basic conditions to build a positive culture. Managers are often expected to be fair in the way they communicate and make decisions, but most [...]
Tip of the Day: Essentials For Talent Attraction Today
The demographics of talents and their reasons for working are changing, so companies face growing challenges in attracting talents. This may be the result of hiring managers being too comfortable with traditional recruitment processes and [...]
Tip of the Day: Making The Most Out Of Exit Interviews
An exit interview should be a priority when an employee leaves, whether they get fired or they resign, as it gives you valuable information about your company and your employees. Find The Best Time The [...]
Tip of the Day: Reframe Blame
It is tempting to blame others when things go wrong. While you may protect your self-esteem in the short term, it will be costly in the long term. When the blame game becomes dysfunctional, it [...]
Tip of the Day: Put The Right Person In The Right Role
A square peg will not fit into a round hole. The same applies with personnel deployment. Putting people in the right role is often one of the most critical yet challenging tasks. A wrong fit [...]
Tip of the Day: How To Build Trust In Your Organisation
rust in business these days is no longer just an ethical consideration; it has become an economic "gold standard", with implications that affect an organisational relationship with its various stakeholders, i.e. employees, customers, business partners, shareholders, and the [...]
Tip of the Day: In Difficult Times, Think Psychological Capital
Psychological Capital (PsyCap), also known as AQ (Adversity Quotient), is found to have a strong correlation with the capacity of an organisation to thrive in challenging times. It measures the "toughness" of an organisation [...]
Tip of the Day: Are You A Good Leader? The 5Rs Of True Leadership
A true leader is someone who attracts a following by choice, not because they are compelled to. One can be a good leader by developing these 5Rs of leadership: Role Management guru Peter Drucker [...]
Tip of the Day: Increase Engagement in Your Job
Starting to feel slightly too comfortable in your everyday routine at work? Or facing too many work challenges resulting in a plunge in enthusiasm levels? Re-spark your excitement and positivity towards work by increasing [...]
Tip of the Day: Achieve Short but High-Impact Meetings at Work
Meetings tend to be time-consuming and unproductive, but it does not have to be that way. Below are some tips to make meetings more worthwhile: Do Stand-Up Meetings Stand-up group meetings enable participants to [...]
Tip of the Day: Lessons from the World Cup we can apply to Human Capital
With the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup, after congratulating the finalists, let us review some of the participating countries’ performances, and see how we can relate them to developing and strengthening the human [...]
Tip of the Day: Getting The Truth Through Various Feedback Channels
As the management team may not always have a strong sensing of what is happening on the ground, employees’ feedback becomes critical in solving process problems and understanding their satisfaction levels. Below are 3 ways [...]
Tip of the Day: Engaging Employees Through Learning
Thinking of ways to engage your employees? Consider engaging them through learning opportunities. Identify the learning needs of your employees, and introduce some of the following employee engagement initiatives to meet those needs. Peer-to-Peer Sharing [...]
Tip of the Day: Aligning Employees to Corporate Values
Are your corporate values serving a real purpose? Or have they become a “decoration” that is hung on the wall? To bring out the company’s values in everyone, they have to be integrated into as [...]
Tip of the Day: Designing A Rewards Structure That Works
Rewards are powerful in shaping employees’ behaviours and even the company’s culture as they express the type of effort being recognised at the workplace. Below are some key factors that can be considered when designing [...]
Tip of the Day: Promote An Optimistic Culture
With an optimistic culture in the workplace, the organisation is more likely to embrace changes and seek opportunities for growth. As the leader of the company, you are the best role model to promote the [...]
Tip of the Day: Pitfalls To Avoid During Selection Interviews
Interviewers have to be trained to manage their own natural biasness. Otherwise, the objectivity of the selection process could be easily undermined even with scorecards and structured interview questions prepared. Be self-aware and minimise the [...]
Tip of the Day: Attracting Talents With The Right Words
With an increasing percentage of the workforce seeking a purposeful career with valuable learning experiences, companies could attract more talents by reframing their job descriptions. A typical job description mainly describes the tasks of the [...]
Tip of the Day: Equipping Your Employees with Adequate Resources
After hiring the right people into your company, the next step is to drive these employees to excel in their capabilities by providing adequate resources. The following are some examples you can consider: Assign a [...]
Tip of the Day: Using the “Love Languages” at Work
The five "love languages" outline ways we express and experience love: words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, receiving gifts, and physical touch (Chapman, 1995). As leaders, we can take reference and apply them [...]
Tip of the Day: Ensure Speedy Grievance Handling
An organisation with a healthy culture is one that encourages all employees to raise any concerns they might have, without the fear of reprisal. This includes the raising of grievances that may be present in [...]
Tip of the Day: Hire Slow, Fire Fast
Many SMEs often hire too quickly just to fill up job vacancies “urgently” and drag their feet when it is time to remove “bad apple” employees because “It’s just too difficult to fire people.” Such [...]
Tip of the Day: Are You A Good Leader? We look at the 5Rs of true leadership
A true leader is someone who attracts a following by choice, not because they are compelled to. One can be a good leader by developing these 5Rs of leadership: Role Management guru Peter Drucker said, [...]
Tip of the Day: Inject Variety Into Your Employees’ Work To Enhance Learning
Needing to use only one skill at work over and over again may bore out your employees due to a lack of variety, stagnate their learning curves, and reduce productivity. With employees increasingly seeking out [...]
Tip of the Day: Three Ways to Engage the Millennials
Research has shown that millennials will comprise up to 75% of the workforce by 2025. This shift in demographics will be the driving force behind workplace changes, specifically how organisations engage and motivate the millennials. [...]
Tip of the Day: Being Future-Ready by Growing a Curious Workforce
Individuals with curious mindsets will play key roles in companies in the future economy. With an ever-increasing pace of change and innovation, businesses have to constantly evolve and challenge the status quo. Without curiosity and [...]
Tip of the Day: Overcome Miscommunication with Authentic Leadership
Miscommunication between leaders and subordinates is common and often damaging to the engagement levels of employees and their resultant quality of work produced. Here are 2 tips to help you better connect with your subordinates [...]
Tip of the Day: Group Mentoring Your Millennial Workforce
Millennials have grown up in an environment that taught them that work is one part of life and is not necessarily a separate activity that requires some sort of balancing against life. They seek a [...]
Tip of the Day: Mentor Your Millennial Workforce
Millennials have grown up in an environment that taught them that work is one part of life and is not necessarily a separate activity that requires some sort of balancing against life. They seek a [...]
Tip of the Day: Begin With The Vision In Mind
Transformation should begin with the end in mind. A clear vision will steer the company towards their desired direction, but how do we bring this vision to life? Develop Strategies and Goals You would want [...]
Tip of the Day: 3 Steps To Motivate Underperforming Employees
Underperforming employees tend to dampen an organisation’s morale and usually pose headaches for the organisation. How can you, as a leader, motivate them?
Tip of the Day: Strategising Your Recruitment Process Part 2
These days there seems to be more bad news than good news when it comes to the economic climate, notwithstanding all the uncertainty that threatens to ensue crises every other day. Still life must go [...]
Tip of the Day: Strategising Your Recruitment Process
These days there seems to be more bad news than good news when it comes to the economic climate. Nonetheless, business must still recruit talent through the good times and the bad. We present to [...]
Tip of the Day: Reframe Blame
It is tempting to blame others when things go wrong. While you may protect your self-esteem in the short term, but it will be costly in the long term. When the blame game becomes dysfunctional, [...]
Tip of the Day: Move Your People To Action
Discussions after discussions, and yet no decision has been made, no action taken. Does this scenario sound familiar? If so, a culture of inaction might have taken root in your company and this is often [...]
Tip of the Day: The Right Conditions For Effective People Management
Many business leaders often grapple with the challenges of human capital or people management. While it is tempting to hire someone to solve the problem, the success of any HR-related interventions is largely hinged on [...]
Building HOPE At The Workplace
HOPE is a positive motivational state where an individual sets realistic, yet challenging goals and then strives to accomplish these goals through self-directed determination and energy. Hopeful individuals are capable of generating alternative paths to [...]
Tip of the Day: Simple Steps For A Positive Organisation
In our previous Tip of the Day, we encouraged you to adopt positive and virtuous practices in your organisation. Here we offer a few ways to guide you in implementing these positive and virtuous practices. [...]
Tip of the Day: Boost Productivity With Positive Practices
Organisational productivity starts with how your people treat one another on a personal level. According to a research done at the University of Michigan, a workplace with a high level of organisation effectiveness, customer satisfaction [...]
Tip of the Day: Build A High Efficacy Team For Greater Performance
Efficacy is about one’s belief in his or her ability to successfully accomplish a acheter du cialis en ligne task. Individuals with high self-efficacy tend to set high goals, thrive on challenge, and persevere to [...]
Tip of the Day: Inspire Your Team With Stories
People remember a good story. To be remembered, simply tell good stories. A leader that can create and share good stories will have a powerful advantage. To inspire the team, share five stories concurrently, say researchers [...]
Tip of the Day: Employee Retention
To retain your employees, it is vital that you understand their career considerations. To inculcate a greater level of security on their commitment to the organisation, you can adopt these 3 ‘R’s: Responsibility Give them greater [...]
Tip of the Day: Building Relationship With Your Employees
According to the National Workplace Happiness Survey, co-worker relationship is one of the factors that affect workplace happiness and engagement. As a business leader, here's what you can do: 1. Encourage workplace friendships Being able [...]
Tip of the Day: Strengthening Organisational Resilience
Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficulties. As an organisational component, it has increased in significance due to domestic and global uncertainty, and the impact to businesses and employees. To increase the hardiness of your [...]
Tip of the Day: Build A Virtuous Organisation
The virtuous organisation is one that has a strong moral compass, and a compelling mission that creates values for customers, employees, shareholders and the community. The virtuous organisation does well, and it does good. Research suggests [...]
Tip of the Day: Implement Your Employee Engagement Policies Effectively
Many leaders understand the importance of increasing employee engagement. However, in the implementation of new initiatives intended to positively impact employees, good intentions may run aground by factors they may not clearly grasp. These include [...]
Tip of the Day: Put The Right Person In The Right Role
A square peg will not fit into a round hole. The same applies with personnel deployment. Putting people in the right role is often one of the most critical yet challenging tasks. A wrong fit [...]
Tip of the Day: Leverage On Social Media To Attract Millennials
In this digital age, millennials form a big part of the talent pool in the new workforce. It is common for them to research potential employers via platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. To better then, [...]
Tip of the Day: The battle between values-aligned behaviours and performance
It is a given that performance is a key indicator of a good employee. Desirable behaviour aligned with organisational values is just as important an indicator of a model employee. Based on these, how do [...]
Tip of the Day: Increasing Workplace Happiness
Are your employees feeling satisfied, valued and happy at work? Research has shown that happy employees are more productive, innovative and they create a more attractive working environment. To elevate the happiness levels in your [...]
Tip of the Day: The “Four-Letter Word” of Employee Engagement
In today’s work environment, it is common to have a multi-generation workforce, where baby boomers, Gens X and Y are working together. Each generation is exposed to a different education system and life experience - [...]
Tip of the Day: Increase Employee Engagement With Active Constructive Communication
To increase employee engagement, communication is key. This is more so when it is active and constructive. In a given scenario when an employee shares about his/her achievement, you may react with a possible response: [...]
Tip of the Day: Empower Your People, Not Overpower Them
Traditional managers leverage on authority to accomplish tasks. Their people management style is more directive and they instruct more than they listen. These managers often take on the “expert” role with all the solutions. Although [...]
Tip of the Day: Make room for failure
Woody Allen once said, "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative". Today, organisations are investing in innovation in this era of digitalisation and disruption. To thrive, [...]
Tip of the Day: Be Vulnerable to Build Trust
Being vulnerable is one of the fastest and most effective ways to build trust in an organisation. Typically, there is a higher tendency for us to put up a facade of self-worthiness, shielding our weaknesses [...]
Tip of the Day: Hire for Growth Mindset
For your next hire, look out for the candidate with a growth mindset. In her famous book "Mindset", Carol Dweck describes the two different mindsets - fixed vs growth - and how each shapes the [...]
Tip of the Day: Feedforward, not feedback
Most employees dread annual performance appraisals, when they are evaluated by their managers. The session generally focuses on feedback and fault-finding on what went wrong. Feedback tends to be problem-focused on past behaviours or actions [...]
Tip of the Day: Having a tough time managing Millennials? – Give them the Tour of Duty
One of the common laments by employers is that the Millennials aka Gen Y workforce, do not stay long in an organisation. It is a global phenomenon with common and distinct traits of this [...]
Tip of the Day: Eliminate employee disgruntlement with open communications
Many managers adopt the instructional and top-down approach in their communication to the employees. They believe this is not only less time consuming but limits avenues for employees to complain or make demands. In [...]
Article: Mindset Change For The Modern Workplace
How prepared are you for the changing face of the workplace? With an ageing population and increased longevity, it will be increasingly common to see workers over 70 of age at the workplace. A multi-generation [...]
Article: The Modern Roles of HR
The skills required to manage people has gotten more complex as we progress in the new knowledge economy. The relatively higher educational level of today's employees, the fluidity of market demand, the mindset of a [...]
Article: The Case For Workplace Happiness
In simple terms, unhappy workers will not realise their potential. Besides lower productivity, they cost companies a lot of money each year too. The promise of positive psychology, dubbed the science of happiness, has never [...]