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Changing How We Train Employees It goes without saying that the more complex the job at hand is, the more energy (but not necessarily money) you need to invest in order to ensure you’ll have some results at the end of the day. The trouble is, many employers nowadays can’t really be bothered with training […]
Top Employee Recognition Tips Competition for top talent is fierce, and your newly trained and highly skilled workers are constantly being poached by recruiters and other organizations. To cultivate a strong workplace culture and foster employee engagement, you need to recognize your employees’ contributions in a way that makes them feel genuinely appreciated. Why recognize? […]
Employers in today’s job market are struggling—not only to find top candidates in the hiring process, but to keep their best employees around. As companies continue to lose employees, they’re asking, “What have we done wrong?” To get to the bottom of this challenge, you might want to ask a slightly different question: What haven’t […]
Diversity and Inclusion Tips for HR inclusion a priority requires the active involvement and long-term commitment of all employees, from entry-level employees to C-suite executives. That’s because when someone who isn’t a top executive is handed the job of transforming the company’s culture toward greater inclusion, he or she will lack the power and authority that this […]
It’s sometimes tiring, maddening, and even wasting our efforts if we don’t find the right candidate for our organization. Of course, I’m talking about talent acquisition! The traditional approach has made many organizations replace their processes with gamified assessments. The growing interest in gamification stems from the desire to increase the levels of employee involvement […]
How to Harness the Power of Design Thinking To Transform HR First and foremost, you may be asking yourself, “what exactly is design thinking?”. In essence, design thinking is a systematic, iterative and human-centered approach to developing user-friendly services, products, and solutions. From enhancing the end-to-end employee experience to transforming back-office HR processes, design thinking equips […]
For a customer-focused culture, make collaboration unavoidable We all want an organization that’s agile and has an established customer-focused culture. A workplace where all employees feel supported with a laser focus on improving the customer experience. Certainly, “it all starts at the top” so we should focus on investments in leadership development. Yet top heavy […]
Why HR Compliance is Essential for SMBs Compliance isn’t sexy, but neither is getting caught with your pants down. Unless you’re into that sort of thing. Do you own and operate a small business? Are you looking for your plus one? Are you overwhelmed, anxious, scared, worried or losing sleep thinking about the do’s and […]
Employees Need Disability Protection. Here’s How HR Can Help It’s common knowledge that benefits account for a significant portion of an employer’s spend on its workforce. In fact, benefits make up nearly one-third of an employer’s hourly compensation costs. In September 2018, average compensation costs totaled $36.63 per employee per hour with $11.60 of that […]
Personality Tests and Employee Selection: What Research Says? The use of personality data in classifying and measuring individuals on a set of personality characteristics & traits is playing key role in transforming Talent Acquisition. Many researchers share a common consensus on grouping the traits into five broad dimensions – conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and […]