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(A short extract from my recent lecture at Employee Benefits Asia) How do we ensure that our reward strategy is motivating our best-performing employees? How do we determine critical drivers of employee retention? Is it pay, benefits or the environment? How do we tailor our reward strategies to adjust to changing demographics or generational trends […]

This time last year, we celebrated our 50th Anniversary. A nation was born in 1965. It was born out of a sheer need of necessity. The necessity to survive, to provide hope for a nation of immigrants, and to build a home that truly belonged to us, Singaporeans. Today, 51 years later, that hope and […]

The world is changing at a rapid speed. When I open my Linkedin page, I am bombarded by so many articles that speak of topics like keeping up with the competition, artificial intelligence taking over the work of humans, new frontiers in research, cyber threats, as well as companies that have become casualties in the […]

SUTD just won an award for best practices in Employee Relations and Workplace Harmony. This was achieved through a great deal of effort being put into making the organization a great place to work. This is done through our very own unique “RE” initiatives. I would like to share how my team crystalize the “RE” […]

In one of my previous article, I shared about digitization and its impact on the future of work. The digital economy is going to transform the way we view work and also how jobs are being managed. Technology will change the way companies operate and digital disruption and social networking are altering how organizations hire, […]

We are now living a in a highly complex world that spans four generations. More and more millennials are entering the workforce while the general population is aging. Life expectancy rates are going up with advanced medical care and technological breakthroughs. This will mean a greaterdiversity in the work place, and the ability to manage […]

Last week, I shared the 8 steps to culture change. In your culture change project, it is important to note that there are many barriers that may make your change effort ineffective. Understanding what they are and dealing with them will assist you in helping your organisation manage them more effectively. Change needs to be […]

Last week, I shared the 8 steps to culture change. In your culture change project, it is important to note that there are many barriers that may make your change effort ineffective. Understanding what they are and dealing with them will assist you in helping your organisation manage them more effectively. Change needs to be […]

Culture Change is a complex process of transiting employees to a future desired culture that is aligned with organisational goals. How do you ensure that in a change project, everyone in the organisation subscribes to the new culture that you are setting and aligns with it? While not rocket science, there are some simple steps […]

Introduction Digitization is now the buss word in the new economy. We are living in a highly complex world that is more connected than before. Cross border bandwidth has grown 45 times compared to 2005. Flows of information, searches, communication, video, transactions and intracompany traffic continues to grow. There is now a staggering 5.2 billion […]