Employee Engagement

    Empathy in the Workplace
    Empathy in the Workplace
    Fallon Carpenter
    Empathy is an important trait among employees, leadership and executive teams that is often overlooked. An empathetic individual is willing to help employees on a deeper level, shows interest in their wants and needs, and demonstrates compassion. Exemplifying empathy in the workplace means relating to employee emotions, thoughts and experiences—something that can greatly improve the success of a department and the company overall. In order to create an empathetic work...
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    5 great ways video is helping HR recruit and retain
    Terry Tateossian
    Recruiting and retaining talent is tough work, and existing strategies seem to get lost in either the barrage of attention-seeking media before hiring or the tug of KPIs that starts right after hiring. As a result, the Talent Economy states, “Outside of traditional hiring, companies need to consider more creative,...
    Guide to effective feedback
    Harrison Kim
    Feedback tends to have a bad connotation at the workplace. Employees are scared to provide or receive feedback. We highlighted this in another post: why we are so afraid of feedback. One big reason why employees are scared is because employees don’t know how to exchange effective feedback. When done...
    4 ways to retain your high performers
    Harrison Kim
    Almost every organization has a handful of high performers, or HPs, that it keeps a close eye on. Or at least, it should. Research indicates that high performers are 400% more productive than average performers. Yes - you read that correctly - 400%. Wait, there is more. In more complex...
    Why Managers Don’t Coach Employees – and How to Fix It
    Steve Hunt
    Creating effective coaching conversations between managers and employees is one of the more challenging parts of performance management. With this in mind, one objective of most performance management transformations is improving manager-employee coaching conversations. Relatively few managers are promoted to manager positions because of their coaching skills, and as a...
    3 Tips for a Positive Employee Benefits Experience
    Christina Dunn-Seru
    Do you want to create a positive benefits experience for your employees? It’s not that complicated if you focus on three core areas. Your benefits should reflect what your employees need. Companies who understand how important this is will survey employees periodically to see what should change. For example, if you...
    What Makes People Happy in a Job?
    Author: Christina Dunn-Seru -- Salary is the most important thing to keep people happy at work, right? Maybe not. Ask 2,000 people what makes them happy in a job and you get some interesting answers. Lexington Law, a Utah-based credit repair firm, recently did that to find out what people valued...
    How to Create Engagement in Your Workplace
    Author: Christina Dunn-Seru -- Do you think you know what your employees want in a benefits package? Employee engagement is top of mind for today’s executive and human resources staff. No one wants an unengaged team — it’s less profitable for the company, and employee turnover can be extremely high....
    Investing in Your Employees with Outplacement
    Author: Arlene Newman -- For both employees and an organization, losing a job or laying someone off can be a very difficult situation. Employees oftentimes feel lost while the organization wants to mitigate the potential damages. Outplacement services offer former employees career coaching opportunities to attain newfound success and provide...
    Why You’re Not Getting More Out of Your Employee’s Training: The 4R Model
    Author: Sy Islam -- In a recent piece on the SIOP website,I was asked to give some advice to frontline and mid-level managers about how to get the most of their training in 2017. Here’s a follow-up to the aforementioned piece...which has great tips about employee engagement and work teams! I had...
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