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…
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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…
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…
What We Can Learn About Engagement From Video Games
I sometimes joke with those who ask me what I do that I get paid to play video games. It’s actually half-true. As a behavioral scientist who specializes in understanding human motivation and emotion, my colleagues and I cracked the…
C-Level Burnout: A Problem No One Talks About
When Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne recently passed away, the corporate world mourned one of the greatest turnaround leaders of the modern business era. Marchionne was one of the auto industry’s most tenacious and respected CEOs, who took over…
Anxiety Is a Killer. Here’s What to Do About It
40% of America’s employees experience persistent stress or excessive anxiety in their daily lives. 72% of them says it interferes with their lives and performance. Globally, anxiety is the sixth-leading cause of disability (and growing). I’ve seen this trend growing…
Could Mobile Technology Be the Answer to Retail’s Engagement Crisis?
There’s little that’s more important for HR strategy than addressing low levels of employee engagement. Engagement — or an employee’s emotional commitment to a company — has proven links to everything that matters from a human resources perspective, from productivity…
HR 101: The Importance of Workplace ‘Recess’
The old adage, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,” may seem like a silly childhood chant. Yet, it’s an idea that just may save today’s HR manager from one of the biggest headaches: turnover. Giving employees…
The 5 Keys to Employee Engagement
Engaged employees fully invest their best selves in the work they do. But what is employee engagement and how is it created? Employees and leaders intuitively know that when we find a place where we can throw our hearts, spirits,…
Five Easy Cures for Information Overload
“Our brains would melt if they tried to process and store even a fraction of the information they are exposed to.” Tim Pollard, American communications professional Face it: we’re drowning in information. There’s too much to do and see every…
Autonomy is Key to Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Large Enterprise
The great paradox of success is that as enterprises get bigger and more established, they have a natural tendency to lose the very entrepreneurial edge that made them successful in the first place. It’s a tendency that leaders in large…
Motivating Staff the Triple ‘A’ Way
Motivating staff can be a bit of a mystery. Managers are often confused about what actually does motivate employees and even employees themselves might find this hard to pinpoint. This leads to an assumption among some that money is a…
How to Overcome 5 of the Worst Hits to Productivity
Productivity at its most basic, signifies the rate of output per unit of input. The phrase echoes an era where people were seen as elements in a production line, measured by the amount of time it would take them to…
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…
HR 101: 5 Simple Keys to Keeping Your People Engaged
Your people leave for various reasons. However, thanks to Gallup Research which collected data from more than 195,600 U.S. employees, we now have a #1 reason people say, “Peace, see ya later”: They don’t feel they are encouraged or supported to…
Why Look Outside When You Already Have Great People?
There is a talent shortage. I know, this isn’t a shock to you. You feel it in your business on a daily basis. Trying to fix it, you get creative in your hiring practices. Maybe you’re like Carol McDaniel, an…
The Law of ‘Congruent Experience’ Is One You Should Follow
Creating a winning customer experience starts first with the Employee Experience. The customer. It’s any person or group receiving a service from an individual or organization. If you run a company, it’s the person buying your t-shirts, pizza, or software. In healthcare, it’s the…
Meet These 4 Employee Needs and Engagement Will Improve
Engagement is a term that gets tossed around a lot in the business world. When we observe employees (including ourselves) not being focused or lacking energy in doing their jobs, we say that they have low engagement or are disengaged….
How to Read the Virtual Body Language Of Remote Workers
All managers want their teams to be happy and engaged in their jobs. Unfortunately, even the greatest companies will occasionally find themselves with an unhappy employee. Managers know there are certain patterns to look out for that may reveal an…