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It’s official — Last March 27, the Government has announced via IATF Resolution No. 106-A, Series of 2021 that the following cities in NCR will be placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) from March 29 (Monday) up until April 4, 2021 (Sunday). Before anybody panics, please remember that this is NOT our first ECQ rodeo. […]
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Running a business is tough. You have to face labor concerns, market your products, sell them, and ensure that money is transmitted in the right way. I think I had a much easier time being part of the corporate world. All I had to worry was my own key performance indicators (KPI), and my boss […]
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Thanks to the HR Shouts and Whispers and the wonderful HR Guru, Ms. Cristana Estacio Reclamado, we have finished the Webinar regarding DOLE CAMP, DoF/SSS/BIR’s SBWS and DSWD’s SAP. This is a followup to my post, HR HACKS: 12 CONFUSING QUESTIONS ABOUT BIR/SSS SBWS + DOLE CAMP and DSWD SAP ISSUES. Here were my slides […]
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Last March 14, Saturday, I was fortunate enough to attend the Salcedo Auction‘s Important Philippine Art Auction that was held at the NEX Tower. There were around 202 items that were to be auctioned, and many of the works of the great masters were up for auction. My father was a great lover of art, […]
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Thanks to the ANVIL Business Club, I had the pleasure of hearing Mr. Enrico “Rikki” Dee, CEO and Founder or Foodee, talk about his success secrets as a restaurant tycoon. The enlightening talk happened last February 19 at the Marco Polo Ortigas. You may find his brands familiar as they are as follows: MESA: Classif […]
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There is a running joke that’s going around recently that the Philippines is deserving of the award of being lowest in terms of reading comprehension: “HM po” means “How much po?” which means that the typical Filipino do not even bother to read even when the question has already been answered. The heartbreaking truth is — […]
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Our family stayed in Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar over the last three days. It is touted as a heritage resort, and can be found in Bagac, Bataan. Photo taken from the company website The Acuzars Resort are owned by the same owners of New San Jose builders. The patriarch is an architect and the […]
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What and how to learn from others’ mistakes and commission By former DOLE Undersecretary, Atty. Josephus Jimenez, DPM He wrote these two books which is useful for any beginner HR: First, we must remember that in the Philippines, there are four layers of arbitration — Labor Arbiter with NLRC and DOLE, filing of case and […]
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Mr. Paul Smithson is a design thinking consultant and the owner of On-Off Group: This is him. He starts by asking whether anyone is creative nowadays? We used to be not so much anymore. Design thinking is a structured way of solving any type of problem. It provides an opportunity for us to be creative, […]
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This topic is taught by Mr. Bob Hooey, author, speaker and creative catalyst for Ideas at Work! Bob believes that employees are the company’s most important assets. Training does not always eliminate conflict. But talking about it, bringing everyone to try to solve the problem, then everybody wins. A program will NOT solve the issue. […]
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The talk by Mr. Nonong Noriega, Head of People and Transformation Capability Development in PLDT-Smart: Iba talaga sa Pilipinas, masmasaya if there’s song and dance. 🙂 This is the age of disruption. Either you’re the disruptor, or the disrupted. The supervisors are closest to their employees. They can help their staff adopt new processes and […]
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Mr. Patrick Gentry, CEO and Co-Founder of Sprout Solutions capably speaks about this topic: History Humans were a nomadic species who moved around a lot. There came the agrarian revolution when people started to settle down in a single location. Population boomed. People became stable. Quality of life improved. The Industrial Revolution came in the […]
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