Are Competencies Enough to Build Strong Teams?
Employee assessment tactics like behavioral competencies are extremely popular in HR, and often for good reason. Recognizing how and why an individual will react and act in any given situation gives leaders the opportunity to put those people into work environments where they will excel, to offer training to help people excel, and to recognize when people will and will not work together. Behavioral competencies are also more and more often used to find and [...]
What is employee engagement and why is it critical for every company?
This is a guest post from Melisa Marzett. Melisa is a freelance employee currently working for findwritingservice.com. She enjoys traveling, sports, cooking and swimming. Employee engagement implies a psychological state of workers in which they are interested in the success of the company where they work, and are willing to invest their time and energy in the common cause. Indicators of employee engagement are initiative, enthusiasm, desire to actively participate in the life of the team, [...]
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 [...]
How to Effectively Handle Employee Complaints
This is a guest post from Allison Hail. Allison has written articles for different sites on topics ranging from travel and lifestyle, to career and business, and has most recently collaborated with NZ businesses such as Keith Andrews. Even the smoothest-running workplaces will eventually be subject to occasional complaints from employees. Staff complaints are a warning sign to a range of problems: perceptions of favoritism, sexual harassment, or difficulty seeing eye-to-eye with a coworker, to name [...]
Professional and Conflict-Free Employee Termination Strategies
Terminating an employee is never easy. Nobody enjoys the process but it is a necessary evil of business. If handled correctly, employee termination doesn’t need to result in conflict. There are steps that all HR professionals, business owners or managers should take when letting go of an employee. Preparation for a Termination Meeting You can’t wing it when you’re dealing with employee termination. This is something that needs to be carefully planned and executed to [...]