Retiring boomers, nomadic millennials and the rise of the gig worker mean there’s about to be a lot of new faces at work. Companies need to find new ways to get them up to speed — quickly. The world of…
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Do You Know the Real Reasons Your Employees are Quitting?
Note: This article is part of an occasional series dedicated to exploring the contribution of human capital assets (people!) to the valuation of a business. Welcome to The New ROI: Return on Individuals. Previous articles in the series can be found here. ∼∼∼∼∼ 60% of the U.S workforce…
Retaining Your Top Talent Starts before They’re Hired
When you’re recruiting your next employee, you’re making first impressions and discovering prior experience to find out if they are a match for a role. How long they’ll stay at your company before moving on is probably not something you’re…
Accenture Is Using Tech to Make Onboarding a Personal Experience
Normally I think of onboarding along two dimensions: efficiently handling the administrative work and welcoming a person onto the team so they can be effective. Onboarding, even the basic administrative work, can be hard to do, and technology can help…
What You Need to Do If a Layoff Comes
In rapidly changing markets, layoffs are a possibility in any industry, at any time, and are bound to send shock waves through an organization. Organizations often change direction in response to market needs and pressures or will jettison one line…
5 Ways to Make New Hires Wish They Turned You Down
When it comes to the employee lifecycle, no period of time is more important than those first few days and months in a new job. Both the employee and the organization want to start off on the right foot, making…
How and Why to Make Onboarding a Strategic Priority
For several years, organizations viewed the process of onboarding new hires as the automation of required tasks like completing paperwork, and then it was often up to the new employee to integrate into their new surroundings. But focusing on paperwork…
If Your Onboarding Program Means Filling Out Papers, Say Goodbye to Your New Hire
There is no time period more paramount to an employee’s career than onboarding, yet so many companies are failing at the process. With up to 30% of new hires quitting in their first six months and 22% leaving in the…
7 Keys to Building a World Class Onboarding Experience.
Your CEO probably doesn’t wake up in a cold sweat thinking about your organization’s onboarding program, but maybe (s)he should. It shocks me that onboarding doesn’t have a more elevated importance in many organizations and isn’t more carefully created to…
Teach the ‘Invisible Lines’ When You Onboard Your Executives
“My marriage keeps getting better and better and I never have to work at it.” That’s not a statement you hear often. Instead, we hear that “building a successful marriage takes work.” Building a leadership team that works well together…
Gamify Your Onboarding and See Retention and Engagement Improve
Businesses are always looking to hire and retain great talent. However, a business’ growth and success are not always enough to retain its employees. On average, businesses lose 23% of all new employees within one year of joining. Some, more…
The Case For Making Onboarding a Yearlong Experience
The onboarding process is often a disjointed set of events that is partially owned by different areas of HR and the business, leaving the new employee feeling discouraged and frustrated. With partial-process owners across talent acquisition, HR business partners, HRIS…
What Will Happen When You No Longer ‘Own’ Talent?
Needs-based employment is hardly a new phenomenon. Since even before the Industrial Age, when a business needed a toolmaker, an accountant or some other skilled worker, it hired one. It then “owned” one, as Bryan Clifton describes the relationship. That’s…
3 HR Processes Made Easier By Automation
Paperwork has long been considered a critical component of the HR industry. For years, even the most talented professionals in the sector spent hours approving, signing, and mailing forms as part of onboarding, training and scheduling processes. However, as technology…
Why Do You Do It This Way?
Whenever I familiarize myself with a new company – because I am writing a case study on them or have been asked to speak to a group of their executives — I find out what its key processes are and…
You Can Take Action Against Employees For Their Political Activism
After white supremacists descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, social media lit up in response. In the days that followed, several marchers were identified and lost their jobs in the process. As the events in Charlottesville showed, political extremism in the US…
3 Challenges to Successful Onboarding
Effectively incorporating new employees can be a challenging task for HR and managers alike. Back when the majority of new hires were expected to stay with the company for the long haul, traditional orientation programs consisted of a brief introduction…
5 Ways You Can Use Exit Interviews to Improve Performance
A critical performance management tool that often goes underutilized and undervalued is that of the exit interview. It might feel awkward for employees to sit down and cover in detail the reasons they are choosing to leave your company, but…
How to Get the Most From Your Seasonal Hires
With the holiday season fast approaching, retailers, shippers, warehousing companies and others are busy hiring hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers. Last year, companies that shared their hiring plans brought on almost 750,000 temps. Whether these temporary employees work in-store,…
How to Deliver An Effective Onboarding Experience
Most employers consider generational differences when they design their onboarding process. These can be costly and have a huge impact on employee success, which is why they need to be effective. However, when they place new hires into generational stereotypes, they’re actually hurting onboarding processes….