Common HR Mistakes: What to Look out for at Your Company
People make up the heart of any organization, and HR is responsible for facilitating those people. HR professionals connect employees, select quality candidates, manage working conditions, and ensure everyone has the tools and training to perform to their best potential. In an ideal situation, HR functions to bring good people in, while working to improve and facilitate individuals already in the organization. Unfortunately, any HR team is only human. Mistakes happen, and without the benefit [...]
How to Reclassify Senior Roles Without Losing Top Talent
As your organization grows, technology changes, and products evolve, roles will naturally change as well. Reclassifying roles becomes necessary when either a litany of small changes or several larger ones have made parts or all of a role defunct, the role is misclassified and could be better moved to another department, or the role is otherwise not performing to its possible potential. While this step is often necessary and valuable for organizations, it must be [...]
How to Recognize Employee Accomplishments
This is a guest post from Linda Ginac, founder and CEO of TalentGuard, a global provider of award-winning career pathing and talent management software. Inventive and driven, she is known throughout the industry for disrupting HR technology and is the inventor of the first commercially available career pathing software solution designed to optimize employee engagement and retention. Many HR departments around the world face the same challenge: effectively managing a diverse workforce. Part of the [...]
How to Use Humor to Inspire Employees
Humor is an emotion that’s often left out and even avoided at work, but research increasingly shows that humor is a powerful, motivating, and inspirational thing. Utilizing and encouraging humor at work can inspire and entertain, build camaraderie, and drive team spirit, so that employees are happier and more productive. While it’s often something that cannot be forced, and something that must be used with respect, understanding how humor works to inspire employees will help [...]
2019 New Year’s Resolution For HR Managers
This is a guest post from Indorse. Indorse is a Skill Validation Platform designed for developers. As we wave goodbye to 2018 and welcome 2019 with open arms, we will all, most probably, start thinking about our beloved New Year’s resolutions! That means setting personal goals like eating healthy, read a book per week, investing more time with family & friends, finally find Wally/Waldo, and so on. For most of professionals, that also means setting new [...]