📓 vacate to celebrate: maximizing PTO and inspiring leadership alignment
✍🏽 How do we talk to employees about using their expiring leave before the year ends? How can we get leadership on board with encouraging leave use? Context: We are a government agency and have strict rules about the amount of leave that can be carried over — there are NO exceptions. Many employees have…
Read MoreVol 2: 5 Gifts Your HR Team Actually Wants
📣 Welcome to the second edition of 5 gifts your HR actually wants! ✨Tis the season ✨ Below you’ll find the perfect gifts for the HR person in your life, sooo you. If I missed anything be sure to reply with your additions! Saying no can be really scary and TBH it doesn’t come naturally…
Read More🏆 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 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…
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