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What’s the right way to keep an employee you need when you’re feeling manipulated?
HR teams need to navigate acquisitions, upsizing, downsizing, and everything in between — not just for themselves, but employees at large.
HR administration and performance management are separate functions. Why should they share the same tool?
From workplace flexibility to gig economy headaches, here are a few issues that could take center stage in 2020.
Companies' long term advantage resides in their people. So why don't more of them make retention a priority?
A talented employee doesn’t automatically translate into an excellent manager. Here's what new leaders need to know.
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.
SMART goals help you dive into the details and build a sense of urgency. Here's how to put them into practice.
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.
While it’s no fun, sometimes you have to set boundaries if your company doesn’t.
Company culture refers to the values, beliefs, and attitudes that serve as guiding principles for everyone in an organization.
Rewarding employees for a job well done goes beyond traditional compensation.
Join Cassie Whitlock of BambooHR and Annette Cardwell of Lattice as they discuss how providing frequent (and useful) feedback can help employees do their best work now and in the future.
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.
You might feel intimidated and the power balance feels all wrong, but you can handle this.
Managers who get to know pronouns, terms, and how to use them can help build a more-inclusive workplace.
From small changes to big initiatives, HR can help build a more inclusive workplace for trans and GNC workers.
Companies that focus on goals tend to do better across the board.
Here's how to make effective, useful, and -- most importantly -- achievable goals.
Here are some of HR’s most dynamic and inspiring voices on social media you totally need to add to your follow list.
Giving your boss feedback can be stressful, but the right feedback may end up being beneficial to you both.
Satu Pelkonen, Design Director at Squarespace, gets real about why she believes it’s important for leaders to take chances on others.
In order to be an effective boss of this team, you need to be brave.
It can be tricky to know how to navigate friendships in the workplace. Luckily, we've got a few pointers.
We might not want to admit it, but unconscious biases influence a vast majority of our decisions.
Values can help shape the employee experience and your brand. But what if you have writer's block?
Tatiana opens up about her career journey, how she approaches difficult conversations with her team, and what she believes makes a good leader.
Use these easy steps to create a plan to improve your employee's performance.
Actionable advice for taking survey results to implementing changes at your company.
Time to train your managers how to iron out the differences across performance review scoring.
Long-distance relationships can require more — or just different — effort. Here's how to make it work.
With these tips, it doesn't have to be a stressful experience; it can even be a positive thing.
Many people use these terms interchangeably, but knowing the difference can help ensure your employees stay satisfied.
We’ve got some advice for maximizing your time in the seven days before the big day. We want to make sure you leave your review feeling confident about the year behind you and the year ahead of you.
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.
For managers, knowing how to manage people and all their quirks and ambitions is a key part of you being successful at your job.
But when done well, feedback sessions can turn an underperforming employee into one who is prized.
That weekly check-in with your boss is your time to shine and also get valuable feedback, so make sure you're ready.
Creating smart offboarding and exit interview guidelines can give you engagement insights and keep your company's reputation safe.
Bridge those gaps between bigger surveys and find out how your engagement initiatives are performing.
Asking your manager for feedback is an essential part of getting what you want out of your career. But asking someone to be honest about your shortcomings seems painful.
Your organization understands the value of performance reviews, but has struggled to implement them.
Reviewing yourself is usually the hardest part of the performance review cycle, but it doesn't have to be.
Are your people and managers bought in on fixing engagement? Here's how to get them on board.
At a previous job, I gave feedback to a coworker and was, to be blunt, a total jerk about it.
Cindy Gordon is the VP of People at Policygenius, an Insuretech company that enables people to compare insurance options, based in New York, NY.
If you’ve never had a performance review before, preparing for one might be stressful. Use this handy guide to know what to expect.
Tips and advice for HR on making friends at work and creating a friendly environment at work.
Everything you need to know about cascading goals and how to implement them at your company.
How you structure performance review questions will have a significant impact on your next review cycle and the data you collect.
Step up your email game and set yourself apart.
Productivity expert Thomas Frank shares his tried-and-true tactics for building discipline and staying focused at work
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.
OKRs help organizations stay aligned by connecting company, team and personal objectives to measurable results.
The key is to be intentional.
To rate or not to rate, that is the question. We give a breakdown of the good and bad of performance review ratings.
It's a tough job, but you're going to be great at it.
It's so easy to get distracted, so find out how productive people keep from getting sidetracked.
People management hinges on your ability to connect with and understand others, but high emotional intelligence isn't everything.
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.
Conflict management can be one of the hardest parts of a manager's job.
Burnout at work is widely acknowledged as an “employee crisis” that could be to blame for a slew of problems for companies, and their employees.
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.
How to set goals – and really, truly stick to them – this goal cycle.
Managers, here's how to make a plan with your direct reports to help keep them on track with their goals.
Are you managing your company's goal-setting process? Here's what you need to know.
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.
HR leaders from Artsy and Thirdbridge share their employee engagement techniques.
Our customer Embark writes about how they use Lattice to strengthen and measure their employee engagement.
Performance management systems might not be one-size-fits-all, but many management programs do tend to have some common components.
There's an epidemic of employees being stressed, anxious, and overworked. Most of them require larger, systemic changes, but one we can implement right away is more time for play at work.
Effective performance management starts with understanding how to give accurate and specific feedback, and integrating it into your culture.
If you work at a tech company, you probably use Slack.
You've read articles about which management principles you should follow -- but what about the ones that you should avoid?
While some guides will only take you through the survey itself, this is a step-by-step plan for the engagement survey cycle.
Regardless of what you need to cover in a 1:1, there are a few meeting questions you should always ask in order to maximize the check in process.
Part of the performance management process is goal setting in a way that aligns the organizational goals and business objectives of your company with the individual goals of your employees.
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.
Employee engagement surveys help companies get a read on high and low points and offer a valuable space for candid feedback — if used correctly.
Like with any other objective, companies need to develop a long-term employee engagement plan in order to be effective.
Employee engagement surveys provide a base for employee engagement strategy.
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.
Becoming a manager for the first time is a big step in your career. But your first day as a manager isn't about coming in hot and being the greatest.
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.
We held a remote round table panel with four remote team experts. Here's what we learned.
What is the actual definition of employee engagement?
As your business grows, use these strategies to foster a team culture that helps everyone succeed.
Performance and engagement are inextricably linked.
Following generic improvement advice for engagement is not a path to success. Instead, you need to systematically survey the landscape of your company and make decisions based on what you see actually happening.
We interviewed several People Ops leaders about performance review participation and made a list of their best tips for getting managers and employees to finish their reviews.
The vast majority of HR leaders are in the process of reimagining performance management.
To get to the best performance management process for your workplace, figure out what is and isn't working in your current process.
Before you start sharing your results and implementing changes, you need to make sense of the data you've been given.
Getting feedback in any form is stressful, but it’s also the key to growth and learning.
Performance reviews can and should be an important tool for your company because they have the power to impact your bottom line.
Figure out your perfect formula for writing good performance reviews and questions.
Why is it that some teams flourish while others collapse?
Keeping employees engaged is a never-ending task.
Use this guide as a foundation for business performance management.
