How 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 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…
Read More3 things HR teams are grateful for:
Fun fact: being grateful is consistently associated with greater happiness. Gratitude is being thankful for things in life, either tangible or intangible. It’s about affirming the goodness in life and acknowledging the sources of goodness outside of yourself. Gratitude can help folks: I list gratitude as one of my 3 core values alongside curiosity and…
Read More🍗 winging it & serving it up
✍🏽 How do you help a business owner see the need for a formal HR program when they’ve gone 40+ years just “winging it”? Context: Trucking industry, 140 drivers (30% company, 70% contractor), 40 full-time staff (not including drivers). Family-owned business second/third generation. For example, no performance reviews, no ombudsman program, just an “open door…
Read MoreThe struggles of performance management:
If you’ve been reading I Hate it Here for a while you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I loathe performance management. 😂 So much so that one of my earliest editions was all about how performance management doesn’t actually assess performance. Despite most People teams knowing that there are issues with performance management,…
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