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How to Use Real-Time Engagement to Build a Winning Culture

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Articles

The Path: “Think about what you can uniquely do, what that world needs. And if it’s something that hasn’t been done, say, how can I do it.”

Adidas Director of the Global Social Impact Emmy Negrin opens up about what it means to shape company culture during a time of immense social change and upheaval.

Articles

Resourceful: 'Treat Your Employee Experience Like It's Your Product'

A talent leader shares why she believes HR teams need to start thinking more like agile product teams.

Articles

Like a Boss: “How do I lead a distracted team through chaotic times?”

This is the time to pull out the most humane and human tools in your leadership toolbox.

Articles

6 Takeaways from Resources for Humans Virtual 2020

This year's conference featured insights from over 40 inspiring leaders and visionaries. Speakers addressed topics ranging from remote work to career growth.

Articles

RfH Working Session Recap: How Companies Can Support Working Parents

Lattice's online community recently hosted a virtual working session for members to share their tips for supporting employees juggling parenthood and work.

Articles

The Manager’s Guide to Engagement Huddles

When managers have access to team-level engagement metrics, they can implement changes in days, not months.

Articles

The ROI of Employee Engagement: 5 Reasons It’s Worth the Cost

There are clear, compelling reasons why even the most skeptical CFO can embrace the value of employee engagement.

Articles

Like a Boss: “We won’t be working together in an office for a year. How can I keep my team motivated?”

Salvaging dragging morale at this moment seems like an exercise in letting go, in rethinking your approach to managing the work day, and perhaps even managing itself.

Articles

Turnover vs. Attrition: Decoding Two of HR’s Most Important Metrics

‍Both turnover and attrition identify whether employees are leaving your organization. That powerful simplicity makes them go-to HR metrics for the C-suite.

Articles

3 Creative Employee Onboarding Ideas You Can Implement Right Away

From employee podcasts to jeopardy-style company trivia, here are some ideas to make your onboarding experience more engaging.

Articles

4 People Management Skills for Global Teams

As remote work becomes the norm and global teams adapt to this new way of operating, people management skills need to adapt as well.

Articles

Are Employee Counter-Offers Ever Worth It?

Companies sometimes try to retain top performers by one-upping outside job offers. Management experts weigh in on the practice.

Articles

6 Ways Great Managers Champion Their Employees

What are the tell-tale signs you’re working with a career-changing leader?

Articles

RfH Workshop Recap: How to Make DE&I a Lasting Part of Your People Strategy

Our Slack community recently hosted a virtual working session for members to share their tips for making this year’s added investment in DE&I stick.

Articles

Running an Employee Survey? Get Better Data With the Likert Scale.

Using the Likert scale makes it easier to collect, analyze, and subsequently act on employee feedback.

Articles

4 Workplace Perks to Keep After COVID-19

HR leaders share which initiatives and benefits will stick around long after the pandemic.

How to Incorporate Holidays That Celebrate Diversity and Inclusion

The recognition of Juneteenth is an important gesture, but DE&I experts say it’s critical for employers to be thoughtful as they contemplate offering other diversity holidays.

Articles

4 Ways to Close the Opportunity Gap and Help Remote Workers Thrive

Going remote shouldn't mean compromising on career advancement. Here's how to ensure offsite employees don't get overlooked.

Articles

What Are Stay Interviews? 20 Questions to Ask Employees.

By getting to the heart of what’s troubling people before they leave, stay interviews complement your existing retention and engagement strategy.

Articles

10 Creative Team-Building Activities for Remote Teams

From LEGO parties to gift exchanges, here are some fun activities to keep your remote employees feeling connected.

Articles

8 Employee Surveys Your HR Team Should Be Running

Step one in building a people-first culture is getting feedback on the entire employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding.

Articles

RfH Insights: 5 Tips for Supporting Employee Mental Health

HR leaders share how they're going beyond traditional employee assistance programs to proactively address mental health.

Articles

How to Keep Essential and Non-Essential Workers United

HR experts share how they’re maintaining a sense of fairness when asking only some employees to come to work.

Articles

RfH Insights: How to Get Employees to Take PTO During COVID-19

In times of crisis, no one wants to be the first person to request a day off. HR leaders share how they're getting employees to shake off that mentality.

Articles

Writing a Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy? Read This.

From finding your “magic number” to managing accruals, here’s everything you need to know about PTO.

Articles

10 Questions to Ask Employees During Remote One-on-Ones

Managers need to adapt their talking points when meeting with remote workers.

Articles

HR's Guide to Employee Assistance Programs

The current global health crisis has underscored the importance of prioritizing employee mental health. Sometimes professional help is what’s truly needed.

Articles

How to Build a New Hire Buddy Program That Engages Employees

Starting a new job usually comes with a flurry of emotions. HR teams can support new hires by giving them someone to learn from and confide in.

Articles

How HR Teams Can Support Working Parents

Offering paid family leave isn’t the only way companies can help lighten the load.

Articles

How to Encourage Employees to Disconnect

If you want your employees to show up and do their best work, you need to make sure they have ample time to get away from work and disconnect each day.

Articles

Lattice Insights: Employees Struggling With Work-Life Balance During COVID-19

Lattice customer survey data shows that employees are struggling to disconnect from work.

Like a Boss: “Am I burning out myself and my team with Zoom meetings?”

Yes, you are probably having too many meetings and yes they are probably burning out your team, though possibly not for the reasons you think.

Articles

HR Survey: 3 Takeaways From Lattice’s New COVID-19 Report

We surveyed over 1,700 HR professionals on the short and long term impact of the crisis.

Articles

How to Run Effective All-Hands Meetings

Not all all-hands meetings are created equal. Make sure yours leaves employees feeling included and excited about your organization.

Articles

HR Team Strategies for Reopening After COVID-19

With infection rates starting to plateau, companies are considering how they might welcome employees back.

Articles

RfH Workshop Recap: HR Teams Exchange COVID-19 Best Practices

At a virtual meetup, leaders opened up about their experiences and lessons learned.

Articles

How to Analyze Employee Survey Data

Before building your action plan, approach employee feedback with curiosity and read between the lines.

Articles

How to Calculate Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)

Today, eNPS represents one of the most popular survey methodologies used by HR teams. Lattice clients can now use our software to measure it.

Articles

How HR Can Best Check in on Employees Coping Through Crisis

Don’t lose sight of how teams are feeling about your crisis efforts. Use surveys and one-on-ones to check in.

Articles

How to Maintain Culture While Working Remotely During COVID-19

One HR leader shares how she’s keeping her team together in an uncertain time.

Articles

5 HR Metrics That Matter Most to CEOs

HR dashboards are packed with compelling data points. We asked chief executives to share which they valued the most.

Articles

RfH Insights: Great Ways to Support Employees (and Yourself) Amid COVID-19

The pandemic has taken a physical and emotional toll. Here are some ways to lighten the load at work.

Articles

How to Manage Remote Teams (Especially If This Is Your First Time)

Respondent’s Head of People Kat Myers shares her best practices for handling the unique challenges remote work can pose for managers.

Articles

How to Get Employees (Actually) Excited About Saving for Retirement

Offering a 401(k) is a great way to drive employee loyalty. Here are some ways to boost enrollment.

Articles

How HR Can Bring Remote Teams Together

Getting everyone on the same page is hard enough when they share an office — bridging thousands of miles and multiple time zones is another story.

Articles

Are Companies Ready for a 4-Day Workweek?

In most industries, the “Monday to Friday” job has been standard for decades. Some companies are starting to question that approach.

Articles

7 Signs Your Employees Are Job Hunting (And How to Address Them)

Do you suspect that your top performers are looking elsewhere? Here's how to handle the situation tactfully.

Articles

How to Get More Out of Your Performance Review Data

Combining employee performance ratings with engagement, recruiting, and compensation data leads to unexpected insights.

Articles

Top Takeaways From Resources for Humans Virtual

Our first-ever virtual conference featured insights from over 20 inspiring HR leaders and visionaries. Here are some of the highlights.

Articles

20 Employee Recognition Ideas to Show Them You Care

Rewarding employees for a job well done goes beyond traditional compensation.

Articles

The Path: "I love creating experiences for people that leave them feeling empowered, inspired, and engaged!"

Reddit's Michelle Lozzi opens up about putting her ego on the backburner, having someone take a chance on you, and why trust is at the root of everything.

Articles

What Is Employee Experience vs Employee Engagement?

Many people use these terms interchangeably, but knowing the difference can help ensure your employees stay satisfied.

Articles

Why Your Company Should Be Doing Pulse Surveys and How to Do Them Right

Bridge those gaps between bigger surveys and find out how your engagement initiatives are performing.

Articles

How to Talk to Employees and Managers About Your Engagement Strategy

Are your people and managers bought in on fixing engagement? Here's how to get them on board.

Articles

7 Times Managers Should Give Praise to Their Employees

Everyone knows praise is an important part of workplace feedback, but when you’re a manager, your praise to a direct report carries an extra special weight.

Articles

6 Practical Ways to Build Rock-Solid Discipline

Productivity expert Thomas Frank shares his tried-and-true tactics for building discipline and staying focused at work

Articles

Brad Holliday of Caravan Health: “It’s important for me to stay in touch with employees. You rarely find me in my office.”

Brad Holliday is the Chief People Officer at Caravan Health. Here, he shares stories from his 30 years in HR, and how they’ve informed his HR philosophy.

Articles

Embark uses Lattice to optimize engagement, culture, and productivity

Our customer Embark writes about how they use Lattice to strengthen and measure their employee engagement.

Articles

How Slack Built A People First Company Culture

If you work at a tech company, you probably use Slack.

Articles

The complete guide to running an employee engagement survey

While some guides will only take you through the survey itself, this is a step-by-step plan for the engagement survey cycle.

Articles

3 Simple Steps to Designing a Better Employee Engagement Survey

Employee engagement surveys help companies get a read on high and low points and offer a valuable space for candid feedback — if used correctly.

Articles

10 ways to increase employee engagement survey participation

In order to improve employee engagement with a survey, you have to get employees to participate in it, and this can be easier said than done.

Articles

To drive employee engagement, you have to play the long game

Like with any other objective, companies need to develop a long-term employee engagement plan in order to be effective.

Articles

Build your employee engagement strategy around an engagement survey

Employee engagement surveys provide a base for employee engagement strategy.

Articles

Mahesh at Airtasker: "If the employee experience is the product, HR people are the product managers"

Mahesh Muralidhar is Head of People Operations at Airtasker, a Sydney-based community-based marketplace for outsourcing tasks to people looking and ready to work.

Articles

35 Employee Engagement Survey Questions You Need to Ask

An engagement survey is intended to help you solve a critical problem at your company, better your workplace, and identify your strengths. So you need to be sure that your employee engagement survey questions are actually going to give you insight into your problem.

Articles

How Do You Measure Employee Engagement?

What is the actual definition of employee engagement?

Articles

How Performance Management Boosts Engagement

Keeping employees engaged is a never-ending task.

Articles

What Is Company Culture?

Company culture refers to the values, beliefs, and attitudes that serve as guiding principles for everyone in an organization.

Articles

The value of performance management

Effective employee performance management is what naturally leads to strong employee engagement.

Interviews

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Sarah Nahm on How to Hire Top Talent

In this episode of Resources for Humans, Sarah talks about what she's learned in the process of building Lever, a modern applicant tracking system, and how companies should think about building a next generation recruiting function.

Watch the Interview

Sam Altman on How to Make an Impact on the World

The president of YC Group shares his thoughts on risk taking and workplace dynamics.

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Kim Scott: How to Give Candid Feedback

Kim Scott, former Google exec and Apple University faculty member, shares how managers should approach giving feedback and how to build a culture of trust.

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Webinars

Lattice Lunch: Committing to DEI as a Business Strategy

Learn the importance of making diversity, equity, and inclusion a part of your business strategy.

Watch the webinar

Defining Your Culture Through Hard Times

Jack will talk through research on what companies and HR teams are struggling with, and how the basic principles of people strategy can still help people leaders steady the culture and performance ship, even when going through an unprecedented crisis.

Watch the webinar

Maintaining Company Culture in Times of Change

Learn how you can maintain your company culture in times of change, whether it’s managing new remote work requirements or facing the need to expand or downsize.

Watch the webinar

Lattice Lunch: Managing the Unknowns as a People Team

Gillian Heltai, Lattice Chief Customer Officer and Stephanie Garcia, SVP of People at Postmates discuss the transition to remote work amidst a global health crisis.

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How to Turn Engagement Survey Results Into Action

Learn how to analyze your engagement survey results, present findings to leadership, and formulate a response with managers.

Watch the webinar

Employee Engagement Strategy: Getting to the Roots of Your Employee Experience

How to build a bottom-up employee engagement strategy that reflects your company values and creates a culture of feedback.

Watch the webinar

Transparency Matters: How to Build a Culture of Trust in Your Organization

In this webinar with Lattice and Payscale, a panel of experts will explore techniques for promoting transparency within their organization.

Watch the webinar

Performance and Engagement: Better Together.

Watch the webinar

Motivating Employees Beyond the Paycheck

Motivation is way more than salary. Learn how to motivate employees with effective engagement and unique rewards.

Watch the webinar

Making "Remote Work" Work

Webinar featuring a marvelous panel including Bianca McCann, VP of People at Trifacta, Jocelyn Robancho, Head of People Ops at Lambda School, and Kate Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer.

Watch the webinar

Webinar: How to Use Real-Time Engagement to Build a Winning Culture

Learn how to collect and leverage real-time employee engagement data to create the culture you have always dreamt of.

Watch the webinar

From Candidate to Advocate: Building Engagement Throughout the Employee Experience

HR leaders from Artsy and Thirdbridge share their employee engagement techniques.

Watch the webinar

eBooks

The Ultimate Guide to Employee Development

How to use job levels, competencies, and growth plans to make career advancement crystal clear.

Read the book

How to Turn Engagement Survey Results Into Action

HR's guide to analyzing survey results and implementing change.

Read the book

Crisis Response Survey Template

Discover how HR can most impact the employee experience during COVID-19

Read the book

How to Use Real-Time Engagement to Build a Winning Culture

A better way to monitor, assess, and improve engagement across your organization.

Read the book

The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement Surveys

A how-to guide for running and acting on your next employee engagement survey.

Read the book

HR and People Teams

The Path: “Think about what you can uniquely do, what that world needs. And if it’s something that hasn’t been done, say, how can I do it.”

Adidas Director of the Global Social Impact Emmy Negrin opens up about what it means to shape company culture during a time of immense social change and upheaval.

Read the article

Resourceful: 'Treat Your Employee Experience Like It's Your Product'

A talent leader shares why she believes HR teams need to start thinking more like agile product teams.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “How do I lead a distracted team through chaotic times?”

This is the time to pull out the most humane and human tools in your leadership toolbox.

Read the article

6 Takeaways from Resources for Humans Virtual 2020

This year's conference featured insights from over 40 inspiring leaders and visionaries. Speakers addressed topics ranging from remote work to career growth.

Read the article

RfH Working Session Recap: How Companies Can Support Working Parents

Lattice's online community recently hosted a virtual working session for members to share their tips for supporting employees juggling parenthood and work.

Read the article

The Manager’s Guide to Engagement Huddles

When managers have access to team-level engagement metrics, they can implement changes in days, not months.

Read the article

The ROI of Employee Engagement: 5 Reasons It’s Worth the Cost

There are clear, compelling reasons why even the most skeptical CFO can embrace the value of employee engagement.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “We won’t be working together in an office for a year. How can I keep my team motivated?”

Salvaging dragging morale at this moment seems like an exercise in letting go, in rethinking your approach to managing the work day, and perhaps even managing itself.

Read the article

Turnover vs. Attrition: Decoding Two of HR’s Most Important Metrics

‍Both turnover and attrition identify whether employees are leaving your organization. That powerful simplicity makes them go-to HR metrics for the C-suite.

Read the article

3 Creative Employee Onboarding Ideas You Can Implement Right Away

From employee podcasts to jeopardy-style company trivia, here are some ideas to make your onboarding experience more engaging.

Read the article

4 People Management Skills for Global Teams

As remote work becomes the norm and global teams adapt to this new way of operating, people management skills need to adapt as well.

Read the article

Are Employee Counter-Offers Ever Worth It?

Companies sometimes try to retain top performers by one-upping outside job offers. Management experts weigh in on the practice.

Read the article

6 Ways Great Managers Champion Their Employees

What are the tell-tale signs you’re working with a career-changing leader?

Read the article

RfH Workshop Recap: How to Make DE&I a Lasting Part of Your People Strategy

Our Slack community recently hosted a virtual working session for members to share their tips for making this year’s added investment in DE&I stick.

Read the article

Running an Employee Survey? Get Better Data With the Likert Scale.

Using the Likert scale makes it easier to collect, analyze, and subsequently act on employee feedback.

Read the article

4 Workplace Perks to Keep After COVID-19

HR leaders share which initiatives and benefits will stick around long after the pandemic.

Read the article

How to Incorporate Holidays That Celebrate Diversity and Inclusion

The recognition of Juneteenth is an important gesture, but DE&I experts say it’s critical for employers to be thoughtful as they contemplate offering other diversity holidays.

Read the article

4 Ways to Close the Opportunity Gap and Help Remote Workers Thrive

Going remote shouldn't mean compromising on career advancement. Here's how to ensure offsite employees don't get overlooked.

Read the article

What Are Stay Interviews? 20 Questions to Ask Employees.

By getting to the heart of what’s troubling people before they leave, stay interviews complement your existing retention and engagement strategy.

Read the article

10 Creative Team-Building Activities for Remote Teams

From LEGO parties to gift exchanges, here are some fun activities to keep your remote employees feeling connected.

Read the article

8 Employee Surveys Your HR Team Should Be Running

Step one in building a people-first culture is getting feedback on the entire employee lifecycle, from onboarding to offboarding.

Read the article

RfH Insights: 5 Tips for Supporting Employee Mental Health

HR leaders share how they're going beyond traditional employee assistance programs to proactively address mental health.

Read the article

How to Keep Essential and Non-Essential Workers United

HR experts share how they’re maintaining a sense of fairness when asking only some employees to come to work.

Read the article

RfH Insights: How to Get Employees to Take PTO During COVID-19

In times of crisis, no one wants to be the first person to request a day off. HR leaders share how they're getting employees to shake off that mentality.

Read the article

Writing a Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy? Read This.

From finding your “magic number” to managing accruals, here’s everything you need to know about PTO.

Read the article

10 Questions to Ask Employees During Remote One-on-Ones

Managers need to adapt their talking points when meeting with remote workers.

Read the article

HR's Guide to Employee Assistance Programs

The current global health crisis has underscored the importance of prioritizing employee mental health. Sometimes professional help is what’s truly needed.

Read the article

How to Build a New Hire Buddy Program That Engages Employees

Starting a new job usually comes with a flurry of emotions. HR teams can support new hires by giving them someone to learn from and confide in.

Read the article

How HR Teams Can Support Working Parents

Offering paid family leave isn’t the only way companies can help lighten the load.

Read the article

How to Encourage Employees to Disconnect

If you want your employees to show up and do their best work, you need to make sure they have ample time to get away from work and disconnect each day.

Read the article

Lattice Insights: Employees Struggling With Work-Life Balance During COVID-19

Lattice customer survey data shows that employees are struggling to disconnect from work.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “Am I burning out myself and my team with Zoom meetings?”

Yes, you are probably having too many meetings and yes they are probably burning out your team, though possibly not for the reasons you think.

Read the article

HR Survey: 3 Takeaways From Lattice’s New COVID-19 Report

We surveyed over 1,700 HR professionals on the short and long term impact of the crisis.

Read the article

How to Run Effective All-Hands Meetings

Not all all-hands meetings are created equal. Make sure yours leaves employees feeling included and excited about your organization.

Read the article

HR Team Strategies for Reopening After COVID-19

With infection rates starting to plateau, companies are considering how they might welcome employees back.

Read the article

RfH Workshop Recap: HR Teams Exchange COVID-19 Best Practices

At a virtual meetup, leaders opened up about their experiences and lessons learned.

Read the article

How to Analyze Employee Survey Data

Before building your action plan, approach employee feedback with curiosity and read between the lines.

Read the article

How to Calculate Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)

Today, eNPS represents one of the most popular survey methodologies used by HR teams. Lattice clients can now use our software to measure it.

Read the article

How HR Can Best Check in on Employees Coping Through Crisis

Don’t lose sight of how teams are feeling about your crisis efforts. Use surveys and one-on-ones to check in.

Read the article

How to Maintain Culture While Working Remotely During COVID-19

One HR leader shares how she’s keeping her team together in an uncertain time.

Read the article

5 HR Metrics That Matter Most to CEOs

HR dashboards are packed with compelling data points. We asked chief executives to share which they valued the most.

Read the article

RfH Insights: Great Ways to Support Employees (and Yourself) Amid COVID-19

The pandemic has taken a physical and emotional toll. Here are some ways to lighten the load at work.

Read the article

How to Manage Remote Teams (Especially If This Is Your First Time)

Respondent’s Head of People Kat Myers shares her best practices for handling the unique challenges remote work can pose for managers.

Read the article

How to Get Employees (Actually) Excited About Saving for Retirement

Offering a 401(k) is a great way to drive employee loyalty. Here are some ways to boost enrollment.

Read the article

How HR Can Bring Remote Teams Together

Getting everyone on the same page is hard enough when they share an office — bridging thousands of miles and multiple time zones is another story.

Read the article

Are Companies Ready for a 4-Day Workweek?

In most industries, the “Monday to Friday” job has been standard for decades. Some companies are starting to question that approach.

Read the article

7 Signs Your Employees Are Job Hunting (And How to Address Them)

Do you suspect that your top performers are looking elsewhere? Here's how to handle the situation tactfully.

Read the article

How to Get More Out of Your Performance Review Data

Combining employee performance ratings with engagement, recruiting, and compensation data leads to unexpected insights.

Read the article

Top Takeaways From Resources for Humans Virtual

Our first-ever virtual conference featured insights from over 20 inspiring HR leaders and visionaries. Here are some of the highlights.

Read the article

20 Employee Recognition Ideas to Show Them You Care

Rewarding employees for a job well done goes beyond traditional compensation.

Read the article

The Path: "I love creating experiences for people that leave them feeling empowered, inspired, and engaged!"

Reddit's Michelle Lozzi opens up about putting her ego on the backburner, having someone take a chance on you, and why trust is at the root of everything.

Read the article

What Is Employee Experience vs Employee Engagement?

Many people use these terms interchangeably, but knowing the difference can help ensure your employees stay satisfied.

Read the article

Why Your Company Should Be Doing Pulse Surveys and How to Do Them Right

Bridge those gaps between bigger surveys and find out how your engagement initiatives are performing.

Read the article

How to Talk to Employees and Managers About Your Engagement Strategy

Are your people and managers bought in on fixing engagement? Here's how to get them on board.

Read the article

7 Times Managers Should Give Praise to Their Employees

Everyone knows praise is an important part of workplace feedback, but when you’re a manager, your praise to a direct report carries an extra special weight.

Read the article

6 Practical Ways to Build Rock-Solid Discipline

Productivity expert Thomas Frank shares his tried-and-true tactics for building discipline and staying focused at work

Read the article

Brad Holliday of Caravan Health: “It’s important for me to stay in touch with employees. You rarely find me in my office.”

Brad Holliday is the Chief People Officer at Caravan Health. Here, he shares stories from his 30 years in HR, and how they’ve informed his HR philosophy.

Read the article

Embark uses Lattice to optimize engagement, culture, and productivity

Our customer Embark writes about how they use Lattice to strengthen and measure their employee engagement.

Read the article

How Slack Built A People First Company Culture

If you work at a tech company, you probably use Slack.

Read the article

The complete guide to running an employee engagement survey

While some guides will only take you through the survey itself, this is a step-by-step plan for the engagement survey cycle.

Read the article

3 Simple Steps to Designing a Better Employee Engagement Survey

Employee engagement surveys help companies get a read on high and low points and offer a valuable space for candid feedback — if used correctly.

Read the article

10 ways to increase employee engagement survey participation

In order to improve employee engagement with a survey, you have to get employees to participate in it, and this can be easier said than done.

Read the article

To drive employee engagement, you have to play the long game

Like with any other objective, companies need to develop a long-term employee engagement plan in order to be effective.

Read the article

Build your employee engagement strategy around an engagement survey

Employee engagement surveys provide a base for employee engagement strategy.

Read the article

Mahesh at Airtasker: "If the employee experience is the product, HR people are the product managers"

Mahesh Muralidhar is Head of People Operations at Airtasker, a Sydney-based community-based marketplace for outsourcing tasks to people looking and ready to work.

Read the article

35 Employee Engagement Survey Questions You Need to Ask

Read the article

How Do You Measure Employee Engagement?

What is the actual definition of employee engagement?

Read the article

How Performance Management Boosts Engagement

Keeping employees engaged is a never-ending task.

Read the article

What Is Company Culture?

Company culture refers to the values, beliefs, and attitudes that serve as guiding principles for everyone in an organization.

Read the article

The value of performance management

Effective employee performance management is what naturally leads to strong employee engagement.

Read the article

Managers

The Path: “Think about what you can uniquely do, what that world needs. And if it’s something that hasn’t been done, say, how can I do it.”

Adidas Director of the Global Social Impact Emmy Negrin opens up about what it means to shape company culture during a time of immense social change and upheaval.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “How do I lead a distracted team through chaotic times?”

This is the time to pull out the most humane and human tools in your leadership toolbox.

Read the article

The Manager’s Guide to Engagement Huddles

When managers have access to team-level engagement metrics, they can implement changes in days, not months.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “We won’t be working together in an office for a year. How can I keep my team motivated?”

Salvaging dragging morale at this moment seems like an exercise in letting go, in rethinking your approach to managing the work day, and perhaps even managing itself.

Read the article

4 People Management Skills for Global Teams

As remote work becomes the norm and global teams adapt to this new way of operating, people management skills need to adapt as well.

Read the article

Are Employee Counter-Offers Ever Worth It?

Companies sometimes try to retain top performers by one-upping outside job offers. Management experts weigh in on the practice.

Read the article

6 Ways Great Managers Champion Their Employees

What are the tell-tale signs you’re working with a career-changing leader?

Read the article

4 Ways to Close the Opportunity Gap and Help Remote Workers Thrive

Going remote shouldn't mean compromising on career advancement. Here's how to ensure offsite employees don't get overlooked.

Read the article

What Are Stay Interviews? 20 Questions to Ask Employees.

By getting to the heart of what’s troubling people before they leave, stay interviews complement your existing retention and engagement strategy.

Read the article

10 Creative Team-Building Activities for Remote Teams

From LEGO parties to gift exchanges, here are some fun activities to keep your remote employees feeling connected.

Read the article

RfH Insights: How to Get Employees to Take PTO During COVID-19

In times of crisis, no one wants to be the first person to request a day off. HR leaders share how they're getting employees to shake off that mentality.

Read the article

10 Questions to Ask Employees During Remote One-on-Ones

Managers need to adapt their talking points when meeting with remote workers.

Read the article

How HR Teams Can Support Working Parents

Offering paid family leave isn’t the only way companies can help lighten the load.

Read the article

How to Encourage Employees to Disconnect

If you want your employees to show up and do their best work, you need to make sure they have ample time to get away from work and disconnect each day.

Read the article

Lattice Insights: Employees Struggling With Work-Life Balance During COVID-19

Lattice customer survey data shows that employees are struggling to disconnect from work.

Read the article

Like a Boss: “Am I burning out myself and my team with Zoom meetings?”

Yes, you are probably having too many meetings and yes they are probably burning out your team, though possibly not for the reasons you think.

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HR Survey: 3 Takeaways From Lattice’s New COVID-19 Report

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