How to Use Behavioral Prediction to Improve Personnel Management
HR and business leaders have increasingly more data at their disposal thanks to predictive analytics and personnel monitoring. One Deloitte study revealed over 70% of surveyed organizations are investing more in people analytics, as data shows it improves business performance. Predicting behavior gives HR the information to make data-driven decisions from the first point of contact with employees. Many platforms begin the data collection during the hiring process through recruitment assessments, then onboarding interviews, performance [...]
7 Tactics To Prevent Burnout in Your Employees
Employee stress is at an all-time high. Unlike previous generations that could easily decompress once they left work, employees today have to be available constantly and are often asked to learn an ever-changing set of skills, as well as frequently adapt to new technology. That combined with other work stressors from leadership, high workloads, commutes, and colleagues creates an environment where many feel strained. As a result, 52% of all employees on average experience burnout [...]
How to integrate performance feedback into daily work
Annual performance reviews can get a bad reputation in some companies, being seen as the dreaded month where everyone is “graded” and not much else gets done. For many organizations, they’re expensive, time-consuming, and provide little valuable information, while fostering employee dissatisfaction and reducing loyalty. Managers spend an average of 17 hours per employee, per year on traditional performance reviews. That in itself is a huge time cost to the company — without factoring in [...]
5 Components of a good employee onboarding program
Most recruitment plans focus on the hiring and employee assessment phases (after all, you need to know you’re getting the right person). From there though, helping them complete onboarding often falls on the teams they join. It’s common for new hires to walk into a new company on the first day only to be handed a printed employee manual because IT hasn’t finished setting up their account. Onboarding is a major component of the employee [...]
The Great Resignation: Avoiding voluntary turnover
Retention rate has always been an important focus for human resources professional teams. However, it’s become a challenging issue in recent years for most (if not all) human resource departments, in what has come to be known as "the Great Resignation." According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a whopping four million Americans quit their jobs in July 2021. Resignations peaked in April and remained higher than normal throughout the rest of the year, [...]