“It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” — Mickey Mantle Understanding what lies ahead is critical to making the right decisions. Accepting reality requires to remain open to new information — especially the one that challenges…
Talent Management
HR Roundtable: Where Did the Passion Go?
The November HR (Cincinnati) Roundtable took a step into an arena that is somewhat taboo these days – “Passion at Work.” Now, please note that we got together to talk about employees being passionate about what they do. It’s almost…
The Unconscious Factors That Make Annual Reviews So Subjective
Objectivity is the most important part of having an effective performance appraisal system. What you want is a process in which your top performers are recognized and then given opportunities to advance their skills. Meanwhile, rather than being discouraged, low…
Make YouTube Part of Your Training Program. Your Employees Already Have
YouTube is not just for funny cat videos. In fact, a 2017 survey from the platform found that 56% go to YouTube to learn something new. YouTube is now taking the initiative to ensure that learning content finds its users…
3 Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Work
A significant shift is transforming today’s corporate landscape. The gig economy and technological advances are reshaping the workplace in ways that have significant ramifications for human capital and talent management. Flexible independent work provides increasingly attractive and viable career options…
Survey Says Cold, Hard Cash Is Your Workforce’s Favorite Holiday Perk This Year
Ah, the holidays. A time in business to tie a bow on the past year and exhale from what was hopefully a time of prosperity. And according to a new survey, it’s a time when your employees want to get…
How to Keep Your Remote Workers From Feeling Isolated
Remote working has become an increasingly common practice for modern businesses worldwide, whether that’s as a full-time replacement for the 9-5 office job, or as an occasional bonus for regular commuters. Gallup found that in 2016 43% of employed Americans…
HR Departments Everywhere Are Embracing Video. Are You?
Not long ago, companies viewed videos as optional tools to achieve communication objectives. They were a luxury reserved mainly for marketing departments with huge budgets. Meanwhile, learning and development departments had only canned, off-the-shelf videos to draw from. And because…
How High Performing Employees Can Intimidate or Inspire Others
Have you ever been in a situation where you were inspired to work harder because of a teammate or co-worker? Or felt nervous because you were worried about looking bad when compared to those around you? If you are like…
Good Managers Aren’t Born. They’re Trained Early
“I am actually a good manager. I have had other people in the office comment on my managerial behaviors and they like it. Cause I treat people under me like actual people. And I don’t make them feel like I…
HR 101: This is the Perfect Time to Recognize Your Employees
The following are selections from the Humetrics blog. Five keys to effective recognition Praise and recognition are essential to successful management. People want to be respected and valued by others for their contributions. Everyone feels the need to be recognized as…
How Analytics Can Help You Decide Pay Increases
According to Aon’s 2017 U.S. salary increase survey, more than two-thirds of employers were taking some kind of action to increase merit pay differentiation, with 40% reducing or eliminating increases for lesser performers. This suggests that spreading pay raises across the…
Not Getting the Right Answers? Try Asking the Right Questions
Humans are curious by nature. At work, it’s normal for HR professionals, managers, and team members to ask and answer hundreds of questions a day — and the way we ask and answer questions is important for our projects’ success….
10 Reasons to Reconsider the Traditional Annual Review
It’s that time of the year again: time for annual performance reviews. Do you wish you could change it? Turn it into something less time consuming, and more meaningful? While it may seem safer to stick with the familiar, holding…
What Do You Do When Bosses Go Wild?
“I see the classic image of the boss as a total anachronism. It may work in certain connotations like ‘organized crime boss,’ ‘union boss,’ or ‘pit boss.’ But being bossy per se is not an attribute that I have ever…
Internal Movement – The Ultimate Productivity, Development and Retention Tool
Talent advisors have in most cases failed to make senior executives fully aware of the extremely high ROI generated by a “wonder tool” that directly improves performance in multiple talent areas including productivity, retention, recruiting, motivation, as well as skill…
Employees Trade Pay for Culture, Not Perks
Last month, Bloomberg reported that employees will give up big pay raises in exchange for job perks. The reported statistics from a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research were eye-catching, the Bloomberg headline teasing that “Americans Are Willing to Forgo…
The Complicated Role Comp Plays In Retention, Engagement and Satisfaction
Here at PayScale, we conduct ongoing research to understand the complicated relationship between compensation, how people feel about their salary and the many other factors that impact employee satisfaction. Over and over again, we’ve learned that nearly no one is…
Don’t Call It An ‘Intranet’. It’s a ‘Digital Workplace’
I attended the recent ICE Digital Workplace event in San Antonio, organized by Igloo Software, and it highlighted the slightly embarrassing fact that I wasn’t sure what the term “digital workplace” meant. In this context it refers to a software…
One View of How AI Is Impacting Career Dynamics
Professional careers have always had a tinge of uncertainty. However, the digital age has amplified it significantly with efficiency no longer being the mainstay of human excellence as advanced automation and autonomous functioning have steadily reduced the commission of errors….