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5 TIPS TO IMPROVE EMPLOYEE INDUCTION TRAINING/ HOW TO IMPROVE INDUCTION TRAINING FOR NEW EMPLOYEES The first day at work for any employee feels like a race well won that started on the day they first applied for that job. For employers, however, the games have only just begun. In fact, the games began right from the time the employee was selected to join. The next stage - employee induction training - is a precarious time for both company and new employee, one that will either forge strong bonds or one that will soon drive them apart. Gone are the days when companies simply employed a one-size-fits-all onboarding process involving long lectures, reams of boring company & product brochures, and little to no interaction with co-workers. A time when employee induction or onboarding was a mere formality, and when HR’s only role was to handover strict instructions to new employees. Such apathetic assigning of roles & responsibilities just doesn’t fly in today’s work culture. In toda...

  How Podcasts Help Employer Branding As a business or an organization, no matter the size, your company’s perception as an ‘employer brand’ is a good barometer of the kind of talent it attracts. The very best talent goes to the best employers. For this reason, organizations and businesses would benefit greatly by creating and communicating their distinctive employer brand. One could even make the case that it has become imperative in Covid times, and will only become more integral to employee considerations in the future. A reputable employer brand offers several advantages, from recruiting better candidates to reducing hiring & marketing costs and improving productivity. Organizations that still harbor doubts about investing in  employer branding  need to understand that in a hyperconnected world with 24*7 internet, your reputation – your employer brand - is no longer a game of status quo that can survive on an infrequent diet of annual/biennial marketing campaigns ...

HOW TO RECORD AN AUDIOBOOK? Audiobooks are a modern, efficient way of getting more “reading” done in the finite number of hours we can allocate for all the books we want to read. Research indicates that the average person reads one book a month. The average audiobook is under 12 hours in duration. Listening to books in audio form effectively reduces the time spent per book, and increases the number of books you can ‘read’ per month or year.  With the quality of voice artists and narrators available these days, audiobooks serve as fun, productive “activities” that help improve our knowledge of literature, our grasp of ideas, and also save us time. This is perhaps why writers are increasingly opting to have their work turned into audiobooks, sometimes even daring to go a bit further and record his/her book in their own voice. That might sound complicated, but with the right knowledge and equipment  making your own DIY audiobook  is surprisingly easy. (Professional recording...