HR Strategy

Today's HR conference circuit is full of exciting options. From SHRM to Resources for Humans Live, here are the events you need to add to your calendar.

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How to Write Authentic and Inspiring Company Values

Values can help shape the employee experience and your brand. But what if you have writer's block?

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What Is Employee Experience vs Employee Engagement?

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

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Why Offboarding and Exit Interviews Are Important and How to Do Them Right

Creating smart offboarding and exit interview guidelines can give you engagement insights and keep your company's reputation safe.

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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.

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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.

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Cindy Gordon of Policygenius: “Make HR about leading with purpose before process.”

Cindy Gordon is the VP of People at Policygenius, an Insuretech company that enables people to compare insurance options, based in New York, NY.

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How to Use Cascading Goals

Everything you need to know about cascading goals and how to implement them at your company.

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The Pros and Cons of Ratings in Performance Reviews

To rate or not to rate, that is the question. We give a breakdown of the good and bad of performance review ratings.

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How HR Can Keep Slack a Safe, Productive Space

Here are some common problems that HR faces in keeping Slack a safe, productive space for both them and their company, and how to address them.

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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.

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HR, here’s how to keep your company on track with their goals

Are you managing your company's goal-setting process? Here's what you need to know.

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Amber Authier of TWG: “What I love most is being able to see people grow.”

Amber Authier is the People Operations Manager at The Working Group (TWG), a team of product managers, software engineers, and designers based in Toronto, ON, CA. We spoke to her about her HR philosophy.

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Which program management model is best for your company?

Performance management systems might not be one-size-fits-all, but many management programs do tend to have some common components.

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How to use Lattice to boost your feedback culture

Effective performance management starts with understanding how to give accurate and specific feedback, and integrating it into your culture.

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How Slack Built A People First Company Culture

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

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What Are SMART Goals?

SMART goals help you dive into the details and build a sense of urgency. Here's how to put them into practice.

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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.

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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.

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Build your employee engagement strategy around an engagement survey

Employee engagement surveys provide a base for employee engagement strategy.

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7 ways status updates can help with people management

Status reports are a key way that employees define their work and set themselves up for success, as well as a key way managers communicate with employees.

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.

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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.

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How Do You Measure Employee Engagement?

What is the actual definition of employee engagement?

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The How and Why of Performance Review Calibration

Time to train your managers how to iron out the differences across performance review scoring.

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How Performance Management Boosts Engagement

Keeping employees engaged is a never-ending task.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Performance Management Process

To get to the best performance management process for your workplace, figure out what is and isn't working in your current process.

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HR’s Guide to Performance Review Questions

How you structure performance review questions will have a significant impact on your next review cycle and the data you collect.

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What is performance management?

When performance management is effective, everyone is happy. But what exactly is it?

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What Is Company Culture?

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

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4 Tips for Making Goal Setting Work

Companies that focus on goals tend to do better across the board.

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The Value of Self, Manager, Peer, and Upward Feedback in a Performance Review Cycle

Review cycles are an opportunity to take a step back and think about what’s working and what can be improved, on the individual, team, and company levels.

Articles

The value of performance management

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

Articles

The Essential Guide to Business Performance Management

Use this guide as a foundation for business performance management.

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That moment when your company needs an employee performance management system

There’s always a moment when you realize your company’s employee performance management system needs to change.

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Quick Tips for Creating Goals and OKRs

Here's how to make effective, useful, and -- most importantly -- achievable goals.

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Performance Management for Remote Workers

Remote work is here to stay, with a 115% increase over the last 10 years. Managing remote workers is a skill every manager will have to learn.

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Here’s Everything You Need to Know About OKRs

OKRs help organizations stay aligned by connecting company, team and personal objectives to measurable results.

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Lattice Book Report: Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Put simply, this book shows you how a good boss behaves -- something that too often sounds like a pipe dream but doesn’t have to be.

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How to Reduce Unconscious Bias at Work

We might not want to admit it, but unconscious biases influence a vast majority of our decisions.

Articles

How to Create a Feedback Culture

Creating a culture of direct, consistent communication within your business— also known as a feedback culture— is so important.

Articles

How Much Does Employee Turnover Cost?

Companies' long term advantage resides in their people. So why don't more of them make retention a priority?

Articles

How defining values and culture helped Airbnb achieve worldwide success

Every company will have their own core values to build their culture around. For Airbnb, these are five that guide them to this day.

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Lattice Book Report: Dream Teams

Why is it that some teams flourish while others collapse?

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A Blueprint for Performance Management

Your company has decided that it needs to invest in performance management. Here's a ready-made program to get started.

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.

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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

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eBooks

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

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

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Your Performance Review Checkup

A how-to guide for when it's time to give your performance review a review.

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The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement Surveys

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

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People Management Program Models

Typical platform configurations that we see our customers use for people management.

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HR's Guide to Preparing for Your Annual Performance Review

Detailed guide to perfecting your annual performance review -- including writing performance review questions, preparing your managers and employees for employee evaluations, and increasing performance review participation rates.

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A Practical Guide to OKRs

How to make OKRs work for your company

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HR and People Teams

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.

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Trending: What the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) Means for HR

The historic law offers employees not one, but two forms of paid leave.

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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.

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RfH Insights: Hiring and Onboarding During the COVID-19 Outbreak

Starting a new gig is hard enough. So how are HR and recruiting teams putting hires' minds at ease during a pandemic?

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HR Toolkit: Staying Productive During the COVID-19 Crisis

We’ve brought our most-helpful coronavirus and remote content together in one place.

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4 Recruiting Trends to Find Your Next Top Performers

Are robo-interviewers really the future? Two veteran recruiters navigate fact vs. science fiction.

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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.

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How to Pivot to Remote Work During the Coronavirus Emergency

Companies and their HR teams are taking action to keep employees safe — even if it means going "full-remote" overnight.

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RfH Insights: How HR Teams Are Addressing Coronavirus

The health crisis has brought people teams together to crowdsource policies, ask questions, and share best practices.

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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.

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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.

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How to Get More Out of Your Performance Review Data

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

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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.

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4 Ways to Include ‘Gig’ Workers in Your Company Culture

Engaging contractors starts with treating them with the same respect you have for your full-time employees.

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SHRM vs. HRCI: Which Certification Is Best for You?

If you’re weighing your options between the two leading HR certifications, read this first.

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How to Set Diversity and Inclusion Goals

Before putting pen to paper, identify your company’s “why” and listen to employees.

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Your HRIS Wasn’t Built for Performance Management

HR administration and performance management are separate functions. Why should they share the same tool?

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3 Tips for Leading Through Change

HR teams need to navigate acquisitions, upsizing, downsizing, and everything in between — not just for themselves, but employees at large.

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4 HR Trends to Watch in 2020

From workplace flexibility to gig economy headaches, here are a few issues that could take center stage in 2020.

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HR Conferences to Attend in 2020

Today's HR conference circuit is full of exciting options. From SHRM to Resources for Humans Live, here are the events you need to add to your calendar.

Read the article

How to Write Authentic and Inspiring Company Values

Values can help shape the employee experience and your brand. But what if you have writer's block?

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 Offboarding and Exit Interviews Are Important and How to Do Them Right

Creating smart offboarding and exit interview guidelines can give you engagement insights and keep your company's reputation safe.

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

Cindy Gordon of Policygenius: “Make HR about leading with purpose before process.”

Cindy Gordon is the VP of People at Policygenius, an Insuretech company that enables people to compare insurance options, based in New York, NY.

Read the article

How to Use Cascading Goals

Everything you need to know about cascading goals and how to implement them at your company.

Read the article

The Pros and Cons of Ratings in Performance Reviews

To rate or not to rate, that is the question. We give a breakdown of the good and bad of performance review ratings.

Read the article

How HR Can Keep Slack a Safe, Productive Space

Here are some common problems that HR faces in keeping Slack a safe, productive space for both them and their company, and how to address them.

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

HR, here’s how to keep your company on track with their goals

Are you managing your company's goal-setting process? Here's what you need to know.

Read the article

Amber Authier of TWG: “What I love most is being able to see people grow.”

Read the article

Which program management model is best for your company?

Performance management systems might not be one-size-fits-all, but many management programs do tend to have some common components.

Read the article

How to use Lattice to boost your feedback culture

Effective performance management starts with understanding how to give accurate and specific feedback, and integrating it into your culture.

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

What Are SMART Goals?

SMART goals help you dive into the details and build a sense of urgency. Here's how to put them into practice.

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

7 ways status updates can help with people management

Status reports are a key way that employees define their work and set themselves up for success, as well as a key way managers communicate with employees.

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

The How and Why of Performance Review Calibration

Time to train your managers how to iron out the differences across performance review scoring.

Read the article

How Performance Management Boosts Engagement

Keeping employees engaged is a never-ending task.

Read the article

4 Ways to Improve Your Performance Management Process

To get to the best performance management process for your workplace, figure out what is and isn't working in your current process.

Read the article

HR’s Guide to Performance Review Questions

How you structure performance review questions will have a significant impact on your next review cycle and the data you collect.

Read the article

What is performance management?

When performance management is effective, everyone is happy. But what exactly is it?

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

4 Tips for Making Goal Setting Work

Companies that focus on goals tend to do better across the board.

Read the article

The Value of Self, Manager, Peer, and Upward Feedback in a Performance Review Cycle

Review cycles are an opportunity to take a step back and think about what’s working and what can be improved, on the individual, team, and company levels.

Read the article

The value of performance management

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

Read the article

The Essential Guide to Business Performance Management

Use this guide as a foundation for business performance management.

Read the article

That moment when your company needs an employee performance management system

There’s always a moment when you realize your company’s employee performance management system needs to change.

Read the article

Quick Tips for Creating Goals and OKRs

Here's how to make effective, useful, and -- most importantly -- achievable goals.

Read the article

Performance Management for Remote Workers

Remote work is here to stay, with a 115% increase over the last 10 years. Managing remote workers is a skill every manager will have to learn.

Read the article

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About OKRs

OKRs help organizations stay aligned by connecting company, team and personal objectives to measurable results.

Read the article

Lattice Book Report: Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Put simply, this book shows you how a good boss behaves -- something that too often sounds like a pipe dream but doesn’t have to be.

Read the article

How to Reduce Unconscious Bias at Work

We might not want to admit it, but unconscious biases influence a vast majority of our decisions.

Read the article

How to Create a Feedback Culture

Creating a culture of direct, consistent communication within your business— also known as a feedback culture— is so important.

Read the article

How Much Does Employee Turnover Cost?

Companies' long term advantage resides in their people. So why don't more of them make retention a priority?

Read the article

How defining values and culture helped Airbnb achieve worldwide success

Every company will have their own core values to build their culture around. For Airbnb, these are five that guide them to this day.

Read the article

Lattice Book Report: Dream Teams

Why is it that some teams flourish while others collapse?

Read the article

A Blueprint for Performance Management

Your company has decided that it needs to invest in performance management. Here's a ready-made program to get started.

Read the article

Managers

Employees

The Value of Self, Manager, Peer, and Upward Feedback in a Performance Review Cycle

Review cycles are an opportunity to take a step back and think about what’s working and what can be improved, on the individual, team, and company levels.

Read the article