Employee Engagement Activities During a Pandemic

Employee Engagement Activities During a Pandemic

Maintaining a strong company culture and employee engagement already has its own obstacles. When you throw in a sudden virtual workplace, that creates another set of challenges that people leaders are still trying to figure out. With COVID-19, we don’t know when we’ll go back to the normal official life. People leaders from small to…

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Managing Unconscious Bias with Employee Differences

Building an effective and impactful program to manage unconscious bias is a journey for practitioners. Likewise, becoming more enlightened around unconscious bias is a journey for each employee. Everyone starts from a different place and moves at their own pace. People can’t be forced to adapt, they need to be encouraged and nudged. In our…

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Engage Employees with Storytelling

As HR becomes increasingly data driven, we focus a lot on measuring: formally tracking unconscious bias training efficiency and efficacy, collecting survey data and analyzing employee responses, and benchmarking efforts versus short term objectives, annual goals, peers, etc. Over the past two years, our team at Emtrain has been building out our quantitative capabilities, recognizing…

how to prepare for a year end performance review

How to Prepare for a Year End Performance Review

It’s a late Thursday afternoon, and you’re scrambling to finish your quarterly business report to present to your executives the next morning. Suddenly, a Slack message pops up in the Company-Wide channel, “Managers, make sure you’ve completed your annual performance review with your employees. The deadline to submit reviews on Lattice is Friday EOD.” Some…

3 Companies Cultivating a Positive Workplace Culture

3 Companies Cultivating a Positive Workplace Culture

It’s never too late to cultivate a positive workplace. There’s tremendous opportunity to do so. From small to enterprise-sized organizations, every company aspires to be the best company to work for. A positive workplace is more than just office perks, beer kegs, catered lunches, and holiday parties. From diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to supporting…

Always Learning with Steve Cadigan

Why Companies Are Experiencing High Turn-Overs?

On Tuesday, November 12th Emtrain’s Founder and CEO Janine Yancey sat down with Steve Cadigan, Founder of Cadigan Talent Ventures and former VP of Talent at LinkedIn. Steve was able to leverage his years of experience working in Human Resources all over the world to provide some insight into how HR can help guide company…