Never Grow Up - Best Business Culture Consultant

Does your organization have a data-oriented culture and does your leadership team promote data-driven decision making? If your answer is no, then it's time for you to emphasize, debate, discuss and focus on building a data-driven culture. It's a good idea to enable your HR teams to showcase data insights and offer recommendations based on organisational data. I do not want to bore you with the philosophy; a lot has already been saying. Let's instead focus on three specific aspects of data analytics which are less spoken about, however, must be emphasized to help HR drive a data-driven organization: 1. Data visualization 2. Storytelling through data  3. Data analytics competencies of the future    Data Visualization For a data analyst, numbers, graphs, charts, and percentages might make perfect sense, but would it help someone from a non-analytic background, looking at it for the first time?  Stick to these three basic guidelines: 1. Keep it simple - The message has ...

Singapore celebrates numerous festivals in a year. At Never Grow Up, we celebrate none of them at work. We still have a pretty good time - not despite this, but because of this. To start with, there are at least above 15 festive occasions that Singaporeans celebrate. Then there are all the different festive occasions that communities observe across religions and geographies not in that list. When was the last time you heard of The Hungry Ghost Festival being celebrated at work? For all the diversity that Singapore brings, we don’t do a very good job of taking the effort to educate ourselves about all our festivals or making everyone in the city understand aspects of each of these. When we choose to recognize just a few major festivals in the workplace, we deprive others of the opportunity to feel at home. Who’s to decide one festival is more important than another just on the basis of skewed diversity numbers? Observing holidays is not just a matter of treating employees equally. It’s ...

Employee feedback is crucial to any company. One of the key roles of a leader is to deliver effective feedback. But just a pat on the back or a few good words doesn’t work. There is a proper way of providing feedback consistently that will improve employee performance. The leader must not only know when to be direct, but also know when to be positive, and when to challenge them for best results. If delivered poorly, it can cause problems that can harm employee engagement and productivity Here are a few ways that one can offer employee feedback – it’s quick and will help the organisation get the outcome they foresee: Pay attention to frequency and tone Employee feedback should be regular, task-focused, crystal clear, and to the point. By giving regular feedback, employees feel supported, reassured, and guided. Giving general comments confuses them as to what aspect of their work is being questioned and if they need to improve something about the way they perform. So, be to-the-point. Re...