Posts by Hebba Youssef
🏆 commending contributions
✍🏽 General Manager (CEO) wants departments to nominate and vote on a departmental employee of the year, and then all staff organization wide will vote on that pool to select an org-wide employee of the year. It feels icky and like it may just end up being a popularity contest, and also not very culturally…
Read MoreHow HR can secure budget:
Do y’all ever feel like every other department gets budget secured before HR? It goes a lil something like this: Sales needs a new prospecting tool, request approved. Marketing needs a new CRM, request approved. Engineering needs a new data tool, request approved. HR needs a new performance management tool, REQUEST DENIED. Do not pass…
Read MoreHow an internal comms tool could help HR:
Woosh. Email in my inbox. 📧 Ping. Message in my Slack. 💬 Ding. A comment tagging me in the project management system. 💻 Ring. A call from someone about a work task. ☎️ All maybe within the same 5 minutes. My experience isn’t unique. Your employees are inundated ALL day long with various forms of…
Read More🪪 scenarios to certify & support
✍🏽 How important are HR certifications (HRCI + SHRM) and how to decide which one to get?! Context: Start-up, <20 people, currently fundraising for Series A. I’m an experienced admin professional, now doing mostly everything HR – and I’m the only one in the company doing HR. I have a lot of work experience that…
Read MoreYou don’t need 9 HR tools… you may just need 1.
I’ve said this a dozen times but it always needs to be repeated! The average HR team spends their day logging into different systems. I’ve heard anything from 1 to 25 systems! 🤯 And, in a recent survey, 67% of HR professionals reported using more than one solution with 64% considering replacing their current HR…
Read MoreThe engagement tools you can leverage:
In your tech stack is there an engagement tool or tools?? There probably should be! Because engagement dropped for the first time in decades in 2020 and continues to decline, with only 32% of employees engaged in 2022. Not surprised! The pandemic was tough for a lot of employees and employers as we learned a…
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