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At Peakon, we have one goal, to build the number one employee experience platform in the world. I know it’s not an easy task, but […]

If you can’t afford to spend so long dreaming up plans for world domination, business podcasts are a great help. They can be enjoyed while you’re on a break or on the move, which is particularly handy for the 3.7 million UK workers who spend at least two hours a day commuting. To ensure you get the most out of your idea exploration, we’ve listed our five favourite business podcasts and why they’re worth your time.

From stock prices to personal fitness goals, benchmarks are an essential tool to help us understand how well we are performing. The greater the intelligence of the benchmark, the more we tend to rely on it. For example, a running app that provides goals tailored to our age and physique is likely to be a more relatable and therefore compelling motivator.

Businesses, and the world around them, are constantly changing, and it’s important that employees adapt alongside this. It’s never been more crucial to have a development plan in place – not only for the continued learning and improvement of your staff’s skills, but for the continued success of the business.

We’ve never followed the crowd at Peakon, and that remains true of our interview processes too. I want to share with you my top tips and tricks you should remember for interviews, that you won’t find listed in many other help guides!

Everyone thinks they’re on a ‚dream team‘. But what really makes one? It’s not as easy as you think…

Usually, we encourage employees to strive for success, and forget to prepare them for failure. But the smartest leaders are the leaders who see failure as an opportunity…

From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs, all high achievers have this common trait. However, it wasn’t until American psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth wrote about it in May 2016, that this secret became a buzzword in the management world.

There’s no silver bullet to becoming successful, but there are some simple ways you can transform the way you work and become more effective. Stephen Covey has seven habits you can incorporate into your daily life.

Intriguingly, the secret to making successful choices is quite simple, and was discovered during a social experiment with toddlers several decades ago.

The idea of stretch goals can be incredibly alluring for business leaders and people managers. Their „oh-so-simple“ premise suggests that pushing people to dream bigger and shoot for the stars will inevitably lead them to innovate and outperform what they’d previously imagined possible.

The best business books go beyond anecdotes. They challenge us and equip us with new mental frameworks to make better day-to-day decisions.