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Employee feedback, compliance, government forms, leave policies, recruiting: the list of tasks that an HR professional have to perform is nearly endless. Just as important as any one task is how professionals put them all together into a united front. Welcome to the Strategic HR topic.
While analytics have become popular in the world of HR, the ability to analyze and gain actionable insights into global benefits and reward data has remained largely unexplored. Until recently, that is. Organizations are now starting to realize that they need to demonstrate concrete ROI on their benefits spend, especially since benefits make up such […]
By Lisa Copeland, The Culture Works Within the next 10 years, it is estimated that 75% of the workforce will be made up of Millennials (people now in their 20s and 30s.) Companies are actively trying to recruit candidates from this generation, but a surprising trend has emerged that is making it difficult to retain […]
Two years ago, when President Obama gave his State of the Union address, he challenged employers and educators to double the number of apprenticeships offered by 2019. They listened. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reports that, since the 2014 State of the Union address, the United States has experienced “the largest growth in apprenticeships […]
By Ruth Ross Today’s workplaces are drowning in a sea of disengagement. It’s easier to find a needle in a haystack then to find an employee who is highly engaged and passionate about their work. You may not even be aware of just how bad the situation is because disengagement is mostly a silent disease.
Skyline Group International (a global provider of scalable coaching solutions) has released new research that finds female leaders need more support—especially from other women—to develop a more balanced approach to leadership.
By Joseph Grenny There are at least two sides to every story, and according to recent research from VitalSmarts, there is a huge chasm between how leaders and employees perceive their companies’ cultures. For more on this communication and culture gap, we present an article by Joseph Grenny, a best-selling author, speaker, and cofounder of […]
EPISODE 17 There are few if any companies today that don’t have remote workers on the payroll. And that’s all to the good in many ways, but it’s also true that managing remote workers can be challenging. To get some perspective and some practical tips on creating a great digital culture, we’ve asked Miranda Nicholson […]
Yesterday we discussed the benefits of a robust employee volunteer program. As stated, companies should think beyond annual holiday drives and develop programs that encourage staff to get into the community on a regular basis during work hours. Benefits are plentiful—to the company, to the employees themselves, and to those these efforts serve.
It’s no secret, or coincidence, that if you’re a manager and you can keep your employees happy and motivated, they will respond by investing a greater degree of effort into their work, which in turn enhances the likelihood of company success. The infographic below from Ayers Management outlines just why it is so important to […]
By Lynda Silsbee, CPT, SPHR After countless client projects involving strategy formulation and execution, I have learned many things—one of the most important being that having a strategic plan does not mean the strategy can or will be executed. Failure to execute the strategy is the reason strategy fails but the most important lesson is that […]