HR professionals are not always the most vocal about promoting their own success. Yet surely efforts to sustain employee wellbeing, build a positive employee experience and retain top talent deserve to be acknowledged and celebrated rather than simply done behind the scenes?
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- Human Resources
The mere mention of a performance appraisal can be enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine, but there is no denying that these can be highly effective - if used in the right way.
Unfortunately, many organisations either don’t have an HR appraisal system in place at all or they use an ineffective annual appraisal, which is often no more than a tick box exercise. With a recent Gallup report revealing that traditional performance reviews and approaches to feedback actually make performance worse 30% of the time, it’s clear that there’s room for improvement.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
It goes without saying that an employee feeling empowered in their work and in control of their career will be happier, more productive and far less likely to leave your organisation.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
In the modern-day, moving to the cloud is a process that more and more organisations are coming around to the idea of doing. In the UK alone, it’s estimated that 60% of businesses will have migrated all of their computing systems to the cloud by the end of 2020.
However, if you work in the HR field, what are the distinctive advantages of making a cloud-based move for your people functions?
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Motivating employees is the eternal challenge for most organisations, and it’s easy to fall into a trap of thinking that rewards alone will do the job. Whilst there’s definitely a place for reward, recognition is more powerful and effective at motivating and retaining employees than you might think.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
We all know about the perceived ‘generation gap’ – the contrasting ideas and ways of operating that separates people from different age groups.
Now that technology has become even more prevalent in daily life, particularly in light of increased remote working, how is the age divide impacting work interactions and activities? And what difference does attitude to technology make?
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Employee recognition is quickly becoming a key pillar of the employee experience and can have a powerful impact when it comes to boosting morale, supporting wellbeing and ensuring your people feel valued.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
If you’re making good progress with attracting talent to your organisation despite the current climate, congratulations. Though beware of ‘counting your chickens’ until they are fully onboard and in post…
- Topic:
- Human Resources
In today’s climate, people data is a major priority for HR professionals to aid future decision making and drive meaningful initiatives in the workplace, in line with what matters most to employees.
Traditionally, HR has been very ‘people’ focused, serving the humans within the organisation and dealing with employee matters head-on. And in this past year, we’ve seen just how much HR are worth their weight in gold when it comes to sustaining the welfare of both its people and the wider business.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
Is your organisation still running an annual employee survey? If so, there’s no better time to change things up. Nowadays, there’s a far superior way of eliciting useful information from employees that’s easier to keep track of and respond to, and it comes in the form of the humble pulse survey.
- Topic:
- Human Resources
