Professional Advice

Facilitating his/her adaptation to the new environment and avoiding premature failure It is a well-known fact that the first days and weeks in a new company can largely determine the degree of adaptation of that new employee, his/her satisfaction with the position and with the company, and may even condition his/her performance and development within…

The COVID-19 pandemic has really moved the needle for emotional quotient or intelligence in a generation, we would have imagined ever. Emotional intelligence goes beyond the administrative nuts and bolts of being a great leader and emphasizes how your emotions affect others and how you can fine tune the knowledge to drive behaviour and create…

In any workshop we hold the last couple of years, any coaching session we do, the word “agility” keeps popping up in the vocabulary. When we ask the question, ‘what does agility mean for your organisation’, we get a range of responses from blunt looks to answers of ‘we have to be faster’.  Organisations have…

Easy to follow work from home tips to avoid burnout Working from home used to be such a joy before Covid-19 hit the world. It would allow employees sleep in, as commute was no longer an issue, they could wear their comfy clothes and do their chores whenever they found some time during the day.…

How it all began It was over ten years ago that I first met Luka Dončić. His school was playing against my son’s school in a Primary school basketball league game. Most of the kids were focused on dribbling and scoring, or at least trying to score. Luka was different; he was way ahead of…

“Our employees are our most valuable resource” – a sentence that can be read on thousands of websites. This is laudable, but companies should also focus on potential employees in the selection and recruitment process. This “Candidate first” or “Candidate Centricity” approach involves the creation of a positive Candidate Journey or Candidate Experience from initial…

Author: Marjana Lavrič Šulman, CFR Global Executive Search Slovenia ‘Wheat, the most beautiful flower’ is the title of a Slovenian folk tale. For all of you who don’t know it, a quick summary, the rest of you, please, skip to the third paragraph 🙂 – Once upon a time, in some far away country, the…

How to be a responsible employer and stay in a positive relationship with an employee who needs to be dismissed due to many factors, almost certainly not the fault of the employee? The key word is outplacement. This is the process of transferring talent from one employer to another company, in line with their professional…