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Essential Tips for Better Leadership
How to Get Promoted

Essential Tips for Better Leadership

Whatever your current leadership skill level may be, there is always room for improvement and with these essential tips for better leadership, you can be well on your way towards the C-suite in the near future.

Know why your staff leave
Career Coaching & Guidance

Know why your staff leave

By the time an employee hands in a resignation letter, it’s often too late to reverse the decision…….

How Managers Can Help Employees to Stop Hating Work
Advice Columnist

How Managers Can Help Employees to Stop Hating Work

Let’s face it. If any of your employees win the lottery, they would stop coming to work. Most people prefer (and daydream about) never having to work another day of their lives. And yet, most people will not win the lottery, and will be clocking in day after day looking for you, their manager, to make life tolerable. Good news, however, as there are actually some research-backed ways that managers can help get employees to stop hating work.

China’s global expansion is an opportunity for Hong Kong professionals
Career Coaching & Guidance

China’s global expansion is an opportunity for Hong Kong professionals

Chinese companies are going global–fast. In the first quarter of 2016, Chinese buyers were responsible for foreign acquisitions  almost equal to the entire value for 2015. For Hongkongers thinking about careers in global business, this trend presents a great opportunity. Chinese acquirers are seeking to build integrated global companies, and increasingly expect their Western and Chinese subsidiaries to build collaborative ventures that require a high degree of intercultural understanding.