Anyone who’s ever worked in a toxic workplace knows the toll it can take on you: the loss of sleep, the stress gnawing a pit in your stomach, the constant uncertainty around your manager. You might have even thought to yourself, “this can’t be good for me”. Well, we now have clinical data to say…
Whose job is workplace culture? Is it yours? In some organizations, culture is in the title or job description of a few people. Maybe it’s in yours. But there may be some key people in your workplace who could get real value from the data about workforce attitudes and behaviors that are captured in Emtrain…
It’s more than likely that one of your employees will experience a loss at some point. Death, illness, and grief are all natural, unavoidable parts of life. Dealing with grief at work, however, can present a myriad of challenges for everyone in a workplace. For the aggrieved person, many who have experienced loss feel like…
CFOs and HR have long been thought to work in entirely separate business sectors. As the old wisdom goes, the CFO oversees the hard metrics of the business, while the CHRO focuses on the personal relationships between employees and the company. As a result, the two are completely independent of each other. Well, no longer.…
This blog post was published in July of 2019, following an outpouring of brands supporting pride month and adopting temporary rainbow branding. Since then, this trend has not only continued, but grown exponentially. It is hard to find a prominent organization without some level of pro-LGBTQ+ messaging or branding during the month of June. While…
I started a business to address an obvious (to me) market need. As an employment lawyer, investigator, and workforce trainer, I could see that companies failed to manage harassment and discrimination issues. I realized that organizations needed a framework to decode messy human interactions, and employees needed wisdom and guidance in real-time and at scale.…
As Learning and Development practitioners, our jobs are evolving. We’ve become true partners who lead with business acumen and leverage our learning and organizational development expertise to drive measurable impacts. We use an evolving tech stack to drive learning engagement, and we’ve moved way beyond basic job training into leadership development, teaching modern soft skills…
Too often, a new job posting goes up on a company’s careers website without anyone other than HR and the hiring manager having known about the new position. Why is this bad? Because it all too often creates unnecessary workplace drama. Employees with similar positions worry they are getting a new boss, or, worse yet,…
Good management is built on honesty, transparency, and accountability to increase employee engagement. As your company continues to grow, so does the pressure on employees to prove their worth. In return, leaders are encouraged to trust their employees and by showing that they are being seen and heard. Where are we going and where do…
Data is arguably HR’s most important asset. People analytics play a key role in recruiting and workforce management, and many believe we’ve barely scratched the surface of what is possible. At the same time that culture analytics become more sophisticated, HR professionals are highlighting the importance of soft skills such as such as collaboration, communication…