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4 Clues That You’re About to Make a Bad-Hiring Decision
The cost of your company’s bad hiring decisions can be staggering. To calculate this cost, I tell my clients to add the first-year turnover rate to the percentage of people who the company wouldn’t rehire. This number is your company’s Bad Hiring Rate (BHR). Next, I ask them to multiply the BHR...
4 Reasons Working With a Competitor Might Be in Your Best Interests
To get through these trying times, companies everywhere are examining their business models and day-to-day operations. They’re taking a keen eye to everything from their ordering processes to their employee onboarding to help identify the best opportunities to weather the COVID storm. ...
Tone and Words: Use Accurate and Precise Language
You make decisions, allocate resources, and make plans—all based on words. This is why it’s important to be mindful that your language accurately reflects a few things: Intent Meaning Severity Level of certainty Stakes Power dynamics These elements are even more important to consider if you’re...
Poll: Employers Split Between Traditional Paid Leave and PTO Banks
Dive Brief: Nearly half of employers use a traditional paid leave plan, while 44% offer a single PTO bank, according to the results of a June 17 survey by XpertHR. In traditional plans, leave is organized into categories such as sick leave and vacation. In PTO plans, as defined by XpertHR, all or...
Protecting Remote Workers’ Productivity and Performance
Most office workers became remote workers when social distancing measures put into place in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus dramatically changed the way we go about our days. If that was you, over the last several months, you have had a taste of the long-touted benefits of remote work...
4 Signs Your Team Can’t Work From Home Long-Term
Adopting a permanent remote work model should not be a foregone conclusion. A recent Gartner survey of 229 HR leaders showed that 41 percent of employees are likely to work remotely at least part-time post-Covid. That's compared with 30 percent of employees who worked remotely at least part-time...
Meetings and Email Are Here to Stay, So Make the Most of Them
It’s popular to bash meetings and email as unproductive time sinks. By some accounts, pointless or poorly organized meetings cost the global economy billions of dollars a year. Corporate communications apps such as Microsoft Teams and Slack have attracted tens of millions of daily users by...
5 Things to Consider Before You Use Software to Monitor Remote Employees
There's nothing illegal about remotely monitoring your team with software applications. It's how you use them—and what you do with the data—that can get you into trouble. When the coronavirus forced non-essential businesses to close their doors in mid-March, U.S. employers began a sudden...
How to Deal With Toxic Complainers: Bobby Black-Hole
The Rolling Stones sang, “You can’t always get what you want.” You can’t always choose the people you work with either. But when you have a choice, avoid relationships with toxic complainers. Danger: Negative opinions are more powerful than positive. Hanging with negative people makes you a...