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IAN FERGUSON: Companies need annual check-up
Companies throughout the world use the start of the year’s third quarter to begin the process of planning for a new calendar year. They engage in talent development for their staff, formulate strategic business plans, create company goals and objectives - all in the hope of enjoying a more productive and profitable new year.
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IAN FERGUSON: Adapting leadership to fit every situation
Situational leadership is best described as an adaptive leadership style. This strategy encourages leaders to take stock of their team members, weigh the many variables in their workplace and choose the leadership style that best fits their goals and circumstances. The old concept of leader as “boss” has completely left the building.
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Training start-up eyes Caribbean expansion
A COVID-19 start-up is aiming to expand into the Caribbean within a year of next month’s launch, its president said yesterday.
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IAN FERGUSON: Forcing COVID vaccine on staff not the answer
The past 15 months has proven to be a challenging period for the world. While tremendous strides have been made in producing a vaccine for COVID-19, the resistance and opposition to taking it is staggering. Persons from all walks of life, in all countries, and across all socio-economic, political and cultural divides have openly voiced reasons why they will not take the vaccines and their lack of trust in them despite respective governments approving their use.
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Say it with music: Tribune readers reveal their favourite gospel songs
THE power of music is universal, crossing all barriers and all borders. It can uplift, make one reflect, and it can even have a therapeutic effect.
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Another delay in payment for frontline workers
FRONTLINE workers employed in the public sector are in for a disappointment as they will not see the much anticipated COVID-19 honorarium in their pay cheques this month as once again, the government has delayed it.
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IAN FERGUSON: Managers must relate to their older workers
Being an effective manager takes critical skills such as leadership, communication and strategic planning. It takes time to build rapport and respect with a team, and managers who do not take the time to do this can have a negative impact on team performance and morale.
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Digital billboards to play part in MARCO alerts
FOUR digital billboards have been erected across New Providence to send out warnings about missing children to facilitate the rollout of the Mandatory Action Rescuing Children Operation (MARCO) Alert system.
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IAN FERGUSON: Inviting the giving spirit to your firm
THANKSGIVING Day, even in The Bahamas, usually signals the start of the festive season and the season of giving. This year, the spirit of giving is even more critical as the world rebounds from the terrible grip of the global pandemic.
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IAN FERGUSON: Ethical workplaces give business boost
Having strong work ethics makes good business sense because employees want to work for a company they are proud of, and with colleagues they know act with integrity. Potential clients or customers are more likely to choose a company that can showcase their ethical behaviour because it provides the added ‘feel-good’ factor in any business transaction.
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Four scholars selected for BREEF and The Island School’s gap year programme
AFTER an unprecedented year of distanced virtual learning, newly selected Bahamas Environmental Steward Scholars are ready for hands-on research and in-person experiential learning through the BESS programme.
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IAN FERGUSON: Positive steps to a healthy workplace
A focus on employee health and wellness has become critical for many companies. Designing and managing employee wellness programmes, and developing strategies for helping workers achieve their health goals, is an important step in improving the health and productivity of employees.
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IAN FERGUSON: Succession planning is vital to lasting success
Whether you are a small family business or a large corporation, a business owner or a human resources manager, effective retirement and succession planning is vital for your company’s continuing success.
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Unholy fight fails to ‘uncover the truth’
A Supreme Court judge is unsure whether she obtained “the whole truth and nothing but the truth” in an unholy battle over the land upon which a 2,500 seat mega Freeport “cathedral” now sits.
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IAN FERGUSON: Worker wellness key to corporate health
Most would agree that employee health and well-being is a topic that receives far too little attention in the standard work environment. But amid this global pandemic, worker wellness has become a daily conversation because workplace COVID-19 spread is real.
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New Miss Teen Bahamas wants to give a voice to young abuse victims
Sheronika Simeon took a huge leap of faith when she entered the Miss Teen Bahamas International beauty pageant for a second time. It was a gamble that paid off when she won the crown on Sunday evening.
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IAN FERGUSON: Employees are the best social media promoters
WITHIN each company, regardless of size, industry or product and service offerings, people are using social media.
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IAN FERGUSON: Don’t tune out music’s workplace advantages
Music is said to be the universal language. Somehow bars, notes, chords, rhythms and beats have the ability to transport us into another world and emotional state of being. It influences the way we communicate, and most understand its immense power in causing people the world over to pay attention, receiving messages that are encrypted in each note and bar. Children learn songs much quicker than they put to memory their written and spoken lessons. This is why we sing the alphabet and multiplication tables to them.
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IAN FERGUSON: Internal promotion has its benefits
In our ever-changing and fast-paced corporate world, strong leadership is paramount in steering workforce teams towards sustained growth and success.
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‘All in all, I think the team did its best’
TEAM manager Kenton Roker said the Bahamas’ four cyclists competing at the Caribbean Elite Men/Women Cycling Championships in the Dominican Republic did the best they could.