5 Critical HR Skills Every Manager Needs to Know
The Human Resources department can get a bad rap. But you can benefit as a manager from their guidance and advice. Here are 5 critical HR skills every manager should know.
Career Development
A kinder, gentler approach to managing your workforce
The key to employee engagement is a feeling of fulfillment, says 25-year HR vet Maria Robare. She outlines a plan to reach employees through their own inner motivations.
As more firms move to private security, here’s what HR needs to know
When recruiting private security, a hiring manager with proper preparation can identify the best security candidates and assist in their successful transition.
Drafting a remote work policy: 5 legal pitfalls to watch for
The COVID-19 pandemic is the ultimate game-changer that has turned many things, especially business, on its head. In response, most companies are implementing work-from-home-arrangements for employees so they can keep things running. Along with all the cautions about online scams and email phishing, another pitfall awaits: It’s possible that without a legally sound remote work […]
Mentors, sponsors, and coaches are critical to career development
How Much Support Do You Really Need to Get Ahead? When it comes to career development, what gives you a leg up over your peers? Extra hours in the office? Consistent performance? The sheer luck of being in the “right place at the right time”? What if getting ahead at work means having the right […]
New research highlights keys to successful feedback and performance management
Performance management theory and practice is among the fastest-evolving areas of human resources. New research from corporate performance think tanks reflects recent psychological insights into the power – and drawbacks – of how we provide performance feedback to employees. Fight or flee? Most of us are familiar with the concept of the “flight or fight” […]
Performance Management Trends for 2019
As we move into 2019, organizations of all sizes are once again reviewing employee performance management strategies. In a field as dynamic and fast-changing as HR, the new year is seeing HR teams trying new approaches that include recent scientific insights, productivity research and technology developments. The traditional annual review is on its way out […]
Resolve to achieve good health and excel in 2020!
Here are my five simple strategies to help you achieve good health as you excel in business. Best of all, there’s no need to sacrifice one for the other!
Satisfaction scores fall, workers planning to quit increase: 4 reasons
Employees are growing unhappier by the minute.
Top 10 job factors that attract, retain employees
What do employees value most today? Recently, 9,218 full-time U.S. employees at nongovernmental organizations were asked to rank 23 job factors by what’s most important to them. Here is their top 10 (by age group).
Top 5 most popular employee perks: How does your company stack up?
What are your employees’ favorite perks? If your workforce is anything like the 1,227 participants in a recent Unum survey, the answer is time away from the workplace.
Transitioning to a continuous performance process: 3 keys to success
As the HR profession evolves, it continues finding innovative ways of tackling traditional problems. Unfortunately, in areas such as Performance Management, we sometimes open our toolkit and pull out the same old solutions. For many years HR has been stuck on a hamster wheel of annual reviews supported by one-to-one check-ins and coaching sessions that […]
When considering employee training options, think of the ‘whole person’
When many employees hear there’s going to be training, they usually think of presentations that focus on something that helps them do their jobs better. Depending on how long the training session or sessions are, there’s a chance they might start thinking about other tasks they need to accomplish that day, maybe zone out and […]
Why employee engagement matters – and 4 ways to build it up
As you know, employee engagement is an important factor in how well organizations function. But how important is it, really? Joe Wedgwood of The Happiness Index answers that question using the latest research on engagement — and he provides some helpful tips on how to improve engagement in your organization.
Why hiring overqualified applicants could be your smartest move
Conventional wisdom says it’s stupid for companies to hire individuals who are overqualified for open positions — they’re just going to make a break for it when the job market improves. Conventional wisdom is wrong.
Why you need to put 'age bias' on your list of critical concerns
Two recent reports indicate that it’s time to be increasingly sensitive to the issue of age discrimination in the workplace.
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