How to Implement an Employee Retention Policy
The importance of employee retention cannot be overstated – employee turnover is the single most costly issue your organization can deal with.
Mental Health Benefits and Other Smart Employment Perks
There are some employee benefits that a modern day job simply has to offer, including health & dental, a 401k, and some form of paid time off.
Should You Follow These 2023 Recruitment Trends?
As we barrel towards 2024, we’re finally entering an era where workplace trends can evolve without being inherently connected to the Covid-19 pandemic or the remote work revolution. It feels good, doesn’t it? While these workplace trends grow and change, there’s one industry that grows and changes right alongside it: recruitment. Recruitment strategies often act […]
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Management Systems
When it comes to training employees, onboarding and continual learning programs are the seeds that grow forests of productivity.
Seven Different Handy Acronyms for Goal Setting
When you set goals for your team, you naturally want them to remember those goals going forward and keep them at the forefront of their mind. Shouldn’t you, then, focus on making the goal-setting process memorable in itself? Enter, the acronym – the oldest trick in the book when it comes to mnemonic devices. Acronyms […]
What To Do When Employees Strike
If you’ve been following entertainment news over the last couple months, you know that the Writer’s Guild of America has been striking in protest of low wages/residuals and job instability since the beginning of May. In a nightmare scenario for Hollywood, that movement has recently been paired with a strike from the Screen Actor’s Guild […]
When Employees Discuss Their Pay
One of the most classic human resources conundrums is how to handle employees discussing their wages. It can cause issues and frustration, which makes many people leaders want to prevent it from occurring. You shouldn’t forbid it (and, per the National Labor Relations Act, you can’t legally forbid pay discussion at all). Workers are actually […]
The Six Step Employee Retention Plan
We’ve never seen employee turnover this rampant. Not only do 4 million employees nationwide quit their jobs every month, but one out of every 3 new employees leave their new positions after six months or less. This messes with productivity and culture while skyrocketing the cost of recruitment. Maintaining high employee retention within your organization […]
Seven Mistakes That Disengage Employees
We spend a lot of time discussing the moves people-leaders should make to find success, whether for employee engagement, company profit, or culture-building. What’s just as important, however, is what people leaders shouldn’t do. Stumbling into pitfalls in the workplace can hurt a culture’s momentum and lead to rampant disengagement, sometimes paired with anger or […]
The Pros & Cons of Company-Wide Vacations
Have you ever had a company-wide vacation? No, we’re not asking if you and the rest of the team have all boarded the same plane to Italy – we’re asking if you and the team have ever taken paid time off simultaneously to recharge. Like so many other workplace evolutions of the 21st century, company-wide […]