When we discuss companies with a high employee turnover, we need to look at a range of factors that might be contributing to this. It might be a fault with recruitment, or perhaps the wrong employees are being hired. Maybe…
Training, Learning & Development
The New Business-Driven Approach to Employee Experience
Human resources is experiencing a massive shift. For years, organizations have relied on a single annual engagement survey to collect feedback from employees. These surveys have become a ritual for many companies, and a lucrative industry has sprung up around…
Engagement Surveys: It’s What You Do About the Results That Counts
Does each of your employees know how their job contributes to the big picture? Are you truly interested in their input? The answers too often are no to both of these questions, which is bad for employers. An employer with…
HR In a Union Shop: Here’s What Your Supervisors Need to Know
The job of supervising employees in a unionized environment has its own unique set of rules and challenges. HR professionals need to provide supervisors with the knowledge and tools necessary to succeed in this special framework. This applies to both…
We Want Meaningful Work and a Meaningful Paycheck
I’m going to stop fighting. For years I’ve been fighting morons who claim that millennials would rather do “meaningful work” than making money. That is actually one big lie, I believe perpetuated by employers who don’t want to pay market…
How to Deal with Negative People in a Positive Way
I remember Mike like it was yesterday, even though I met him over a decade ago. He was the guy sitting in the back of the room with the dark cloud over his head in a supervisor training I was…
How to Mentor Your HR Newbie
Do you remember your very first HR job? Your title may have been intern or assistant or coordinator. Whatever it was, your most important skill back then was your excitement and eagerness to learn and contribute. Do you have beginners…
Are You Investing In Your Career?
“I don’t read this crap. When someone gives me an article to read, I just say yes I will. I don’t read anything anymore. When I leave work, the last thing on my mind is HR.” This was from one…
Are You Training the Way People Want to Learn?
Traditional LMS solutions are failing to deliver because they can’t provide what your employees want. According to an Ipos poll, 30% of workers say they haven’t received any formal workplace training from their employer. Of the remaining employees who did…
Trainers Need to Become Learning Curators
When my family moved to Florida eight years ago, we bought a house with a pool. We loved looking outside at night with the pool light on; peaceful and beautiful. But a few months later, the bulb burned out. Rather…
You’ve Empowered Them, But They’re Not Delivering. Now What?
When I discuss employee engagement, one of the main points I generally preach is that employee engagement and employee empowerment go hand-in-hand. People simply do not engage with things that they don’t feel control over or ownership of! According to SHRM, 70%…
Starting a Reading Program Is Good For the Company and For the Employees
Getting employees to continually improve can be a daunting task. Externally motivating others to change is difficult. But what if you had the ability to internally motivate? Getting your employees to make changes for themselves because they want to, instead…
Good Leaders Inspire a Culture of Meaning
Leading isn’t just a matter of knowing what to do – it’s a matter of knowing and communicating why it’s important to do it. Authority alone will no longer motivate employees. People are motivated by a leader’s passion, by their…
7 Steps to Successful Technology Adoption
So you’ve decided to implement new technology (ERPs, EHRs, SaaS, mobile, cloud, etc.) within your organization – congrats! New technology can definitely make your organization more effective and productive, but only if the people within your organization actually use the…
What You Can Do to Prepare the Next Generation of HR Leaders
One of our greatest assets in the field of human resources is our next generation of thought leaders. As we undergo significant changes in our industry and prepare for a new world of work in the information age, there is…
Will Contextual Learning Upend Traditional L&D?
Businesses devote a lot of time and money into corporate training programs. Last year, total U.S. training expenditures increased slightly to reach $70.65 billion, with companies spending an average of $814 per learner compared with $702 the year prior. It’s…
3 Secrets to Building High Performing Teams
Whether you’re scaling a large organization or building a new company, hiring and retaining top talent and building a high performing team is absolutely key. In fact, there is no bigger factor in driving a company’s long-term growth and success….
Advice For New Managers
Good leadership is essential for any successful company, but it’s not always easy for junior or first-time managers to adapt to their role. Many times, leaders look back on their career and have a whole host of new insights and…
What a Birthday Card Teaches Us About Culture
“There is an inside joke with acquisitions that I ask prior to closing: ‘How many more people?’” he told Business Insider — meaning, How many more birthday cards do I have to write? —”since I am constantly calculating that in my…
3 Effective Train-On-A-Dime Techniques For SMBs
If you’re managing a smaller business, chances are you’ve considered where to cut things out of the company budget in order to stay ahead. Unfortunately, many business leaders in these smaller ventures often aim for the training budget first when…