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Foster employee growth and advancement with performance-development plans

10/04/2024
Performance-development plans are excellent tools for keeping managers and employees on track with ongoing performance development, mentorship and learning. A PDP is designed to allow managers and employees to align on improving employee performance. It involves setting goals and measuring progress to grow the employees’ skills and improve performance.

Smart strategies for surviving this fall’s open enrollment

09/30/2024
Open enrollment for health insurance benefits is an inevitable autumn ritual that can cause great stress for HR and for your employees. It usually comes at the busiest time of the year, when HR pros—along with everyone else—are tending to year-end deadlines. Smooth the process by implementing these strategies.

Empowering neurodivergent talent: Strategies to support unique skillsets

09/27/2024
Hiring a diverse team is crucial for driving innovation and strategic advantage. However, when discussing workplace diversity, neurodiversity is often overlooked. This is a significant oversight, as embracing neurodiversity can unlock untapped potential within your organization.

Moving the needle on employee happiness

09/27/2024
A new report from BambooHR delivers good news for managers: Employees reported being “happier” at work at the beginning of 2024. This might signal that employee satisfaction is moving in a positive direction after the last four years of discontent.

Take employee misconduct complaints seriously, for their sake and yours

09/27/2024
Employers would love it if unacceptable behavior never happened in their workplace. Unfortunately, few work environments escape problems. Effective leaders realize their actions during such critical times play a huge role in employee relations going forward.

How to fix a department problem

09/23/2024
If you or your organization’s executive team must call an entire department on the carpet for an overall workplace problem, don’t let the “defeat” become demotivating.

10 low-cost communication tips to start open enrollment right

09/23/2024
With benefits election open-enrollment season looming at organizations across the country, make sure you avoid the mistake too many employers make: plopping a benefits booklet in front of employees and telling them to figure it out. That just doesn’t work anymore. Benefits have become too complex for employees to figure them out on their own. Here are 10 ways you can do a better job of communicating with your employees.

Recognizing presenteeism in your team members and 10 ways to address it

09/20/2024
Your star employee hasn’t missed a day in months, but their output has mysteriously declined. Another team member is visibly under the weather yet insists on powering through their tasks. These scenarios point to a pervasive issue in modern workplaces: presenteeism. This phenomenon can be more costly than absenteeism.

High-quality feedback is a must for employee retention

09/19/2024
High-quality feedback involves more than just superficial communication; it requires openness and honesty. Tell your people which parts of their job they’re performing well, but make sure they know where they have gaps and how to close them.

How to improve employee attitude toward performance reviews

09/19/2024
Don’t give up on the usefulness of performance reviews. Instead, think about ways to make them more informative and engaging. Here are six things to try.