Saturday April 27, 2024

Coronavirus: What employers need to know about travel restrictions

With an active flu season well underway and concern growing over the spread of potentially deadly coronavirus infections outside of China, it’s a good time to re-emphasize your contagious disease health response plan with all of your employees. The Centers for Disease Control has numerous wellness and safety templates and information packets you can customize […]

Always saying ‘yes’? 5 things to ask before committing

A lot of the time, it can seem like being insanely busy at work is just the norm. Good employees are always tackling big projects and saying yes to more work, right? But being too overwhelmed can lead to burnout and slip-ups. The problem is, a lot of hard workers can find it difficult to […]

How to write job descriptions that attract Millennials

Of course you want to create a job advertisement that accurately reflects what you need. But does the ad always meet the needs of your target audience? When creating job descriptions to attract Millennials, most HR pros have little demographic and “psychographic” experience, and so they especially struggle with Millennials. That’s because these active young […]

How we helped employees fight burnout and stress

Our employees are under a great deal of pressure. They work long hours, they’re constantly on their feet and they deal with a stressful environment as they help sick children and their families. Stress is one of our top risk factors. We help our patients focus on behavioral and mental issues, but we needed that […]

Sex harassment suit could push Riot Games settlement to $400M

The sexual harassment suit against Riot Games has respawned and is now, potentially, able to inflict 40 times more damage on the video game maker. Riot and current and former female employees agreed in August 2019 to settle the suit. The agreement called for the $1.5 billion dollar company (2019 revenue) to settle the class-action […]

The 5 top feedback skills for great performance management

Great performance management requires managers to create an environment in which employees are enabled to perform to the best of their abilities.  Being able to do that will depend heavily on whether you’ve mastered these five essential performance management skills. Skill 1: Listening Good communication is achieved more through a manager’s ability to listen than on […]

Why it’s always a good time to update your onboarding

Updating your onboarding process might not be at the top of every HR professionals’ priority list, but it probably should be – especially if it’s been over a year since your last update. Why? Because an outdated onboarding experience might be sending the wrong signals about a company – and causing needless confusion – at […]

Top 5 ways to improve employee training with learning software

Corporate learning is different from school learning or even self-development. For professionals seeking to improve employee training, it helps to remember you can’t just take an approach from other industries and expect it to pay off without adapting the solutions to your own unique work environment. Hence, downloading educational software, used in classrooms, is not […]

Tackling mental health issues at work in 2020

We are at a critical juncture in how we choose to address and tackle mental health issues at work, and in our larger society. There is no debate that the conversation is shifting. Awareness about mental health issues is becoming mainstream with actors, musicians, sports celebrities, and even the British royal family raising their voices, […]

Exec out? 3 keys to handling a leader’s sudden departure

It’s every organization’s worst nightmare when the CEO or a key executive leaves the company unexpectedly. And in the current climate, it’s a very real possibility. The #MeToo movement saw many top leaders terminated due to sexual harassment. More recently, big execs have been ousted for other controversial reasons. The CEO of Papa John’s, John […]