Despite recent high-profile examples of rescinded offers, it’s still a seller’s employment market with two jobs for every unemployed American. And even as inflation rages and economic contraction looms, employee retention remains a pressing issue. In fact, a study of 87% of human resources...
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5 Things All Employees Want. How Many Do You Offer?
Leaders should pay close attention to the following needs their teams are afraid to negotiate. A study from Oxford University found that employees are 13 percent more productive when they are happy — even when their mood is affected by things unrelated to their job, such as the weather. Many...
The Leading Way to do Performance Ratings
Numerical performance ratings provide important data points for improving performance, both at the individual and organizational levels. But how we’ve historically determined those numerical values hasn’t always been effective or accurate. And when compensation decisions are at stake, developing...
Recognition Revolution
Companies are figuring out how to include all employees – onsite, hybrid, and remote – in their recognition and rewards efforts, and once they do, they can expect the results to increase tenfold. Most people spend a large portion of their day at work, and for some, that time is spent within the...
10 Free Things Business Owners Can Do Now to Engage and Retain Talent
According to a recent Wall Street Journal survey, small businesses are losing confidence in the United States' economy, with 57% bracing for economic conditions to worsen in the next 12 months. Among the challenges of inflation, supply chain issues, rising interest rates and labor shortages is the...
Complainers: 5 Ways to Limit the Garbage People Pour Into Your Ears
How much time do you spend listening to complainers? Too much. Cy Wakeman’s research with one company showed employees spent almost 2.5 hours a day dealing with drama. Drama most often came from b*tching, moaning, and whining (BMW).Garbage in your ears: Complainers feel powerful pouring garbage in...
How to Retain Employees by Offering the Right Health Benefits
As companies compete for talent, monthly premiums could become the next casualty of the red-hot labor market. To prevent employees from becoming another statistic in the Great Resignation, companies may want to revisit the health benefits they offer. Some small business owners are embracing a perk...
How Businesses are Digitizing Their Workforce to Offset Employee Deficits
Businesses have dealt with unprecedented challenges over the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Following federal or state mandates, enforcing customers to wear masks and requiring social distancing were examples of how businesses had to adapt. The pandemic also exacerbated other issues...
Some Companies Have Cut Back on Background Screening
Are they lowering the bar or leveling the field? When hiring workers for its growing stable of restaurants and clubs, Groot Hospitality in Miami Beach no longer asks candidates to provide two professional references. One will do. “People know each other in our industry,” says Groot HR director...
This is How to Get People to Change: 5 Secrets from Research
Trying to help someone change can be sanity-straining. Even when people face serious health scares they often don’t do enough to alter their habits, like they’re stuck on some monorail track of doom. That said, we often go about trying to help in all the wrong ways. We know that lectures probably...
What Leaders Need to Know Before Trying a 4-Day Work Week
Despite the gains workers have made through the Covid pandemic in increasing flexibility in where they work, bigger workloads have meant that there is little slack in the system for people to take time out and recover. The effects are obvious. In 2020, 62% of people reported that they had...
Is Your Hiring Process Costing You Talent?
More than 20 million Americans quit their jobs in the latter half of 2021, leaving many companies struggling to find talent to refill their ranks. With 11.3 million job openings, which is about 5 million more than unemployed workers as of March 2022, job seekers certainly have the upper hand — and...