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…
Things are a little different now, and how we handle a performance review should be different. Hearing the words “performance review” can be a trigger for employees, especially during an ongoing health crisis and remote/hybrid work. We’ve had a year of ups and downs, uncertainty, anxiety, and so forth. There is an opportunity here to…
Workplace culture is a dynamic, complex aspect of your organizational health, and many factors come into play when building a healthy culture. While many of these factors are mutable, some are constant: transparency and communication to name a couple. When making an organizational change such as a new hire, a layoff or a promotion, it…
Culture matters more than ever, even with the new norm of working from home. Zoom video meetings are new for some of us, but trying to do a Zoom call while overseeing a child’s remote learning, keeping one ear on the news, and one eye on your bank account, that’s a whole other ball game.…
Under the new normal, managers are required to shift practices to place an emphasis on empathy and patience as their employees transition to remote working. Employers no longer insist that their teams adhere to rigid schedules and “flexwork” policies are on the rise. The “one size fits all” approach does not work when managing remote…
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…
When it comes to employee performance, HR pros often lose sight of a critical variable—the employee-manager relationship. When these relationships are running smoothly, and everyone is meeting their business goals, it’s all good. But, when managers aren’t great at the people management of their job, it’s the employee performance that suffers, as well as your…
Companies that make bad hires pay the price. Placing someone in a role they’re not fit for can cost your company hundreds of thousands of dollars, stemming from costs of training, negative impacts on your entire team’s morale or their need to pick up the slack, lost customers, and more. Savvy HR pros know to…