We probably don’t have to tell you this, but we’ll at least validate it: You work with some jerks! And you aren’t alone. Because there are a variety of jerks, nearly every company and team has one (or some). “No matter how educated you are or what your job title is, you can fall victim […]
What is organizational resilience? With a volatile market, rising inflation and effects of the COVID pandemic, your company’s ability to adapt to change – known as organizational resilience – is crucial. Organizational resilience is “the ability of an organization to anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to incremental change and sudden disruptions in order to […]
Did COVID-19 derail meaningful work? And if so, should HR care about making work meaningful again? Bottom line, yes! And yes! When organizations re-focus on meaningful work they’ll likely take employee engagement to new highs and reduce turnover to new lows. Employees who find meaning and purpose in their work are more engaged, productive, innovative […]
One year out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2021 release of 50 newly defined occupations of the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC), the baseline is stabilizing – let’s look at what changed. Perhaps as a response to the tectonic shifts in the labor market caused by COVID-19, the 2021 update arrived faster than expected. BLS […]
The last two years were full of HR lessons – and this could be the most important: Resilience makes a difference. It likely helped you trudge through volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. And now, resilience – the ability to cope with adversity and adapt to challenges and change – is a critical business strategy. At […]
Workplace conflict happens all the time: Individuals disagree. Teams compete. Employees bicker. Executives go head to head. In fact, conflict eats up more than two hours of each employees’ time weekly. That’s to the tune of about $359 billion in paid hours, according to the CPP Global Human Capital Report. Those are hours focused on […]
Personality differences. Moral misalignment. Work style disparities. Character clashes. They’re conflicts in most workplaces every day. Even HR pros have to work with people they dislike. But if you’re lucky enough to not be in that situation, you likely have to manage people who hate each other. Aside from separating sparring employees – which can […]
Company culture isn’t what it used to be. That’s not to say everything has changed for the worse since the pandemic. But full disclosure: Many things HR pros would want to be perfect just aren’t, according to new research from The Conference Board. Bottom line: Stress and burnout rose. Overall well-being fell. And employees don’t […]
The pandemic reminded us how quickly disease – plus stress, anxiety and pessimism – can spread. But it’s not only negative things that can spread quickly. Kindness and generosity can be positive contagions at work and in life. Research shows the key to spreading kindness is through acts of goodness. And this cycle of goodness […]
