A Guide to Showcasing Company Values: 4 New Ideas to Get Company Values Front and Center
We all talk about company values, but do we really understand what they mean? Company values, if authentic, embedded and shared properly, can be one of the hallmarks of your business. Your company values, along with your company’s purpose and mission, give your people something bigger to work towards — it helps them understand the […]
Attracting the Wrong Candidates? 4 Things You May Be Doing Wrong
So you’ve gone through dozens, maybe hundreds, of resumes, spent weeks screening and interviewing, and finally extended an offer to the winning candidate only to regret your decision just weeks after starting? The unpredictable nature of humans coupled with the process of settling into a new position means that a candidate’s true colors may take […]
Why Getting (And Giving) Employee Feedback Once A Year Isn’t Enough
Traditionally, performance review time rolls around once per year. Managers and their employees collectively dread this ritual, because what it really means is that they’re faced with the prospect of tedious meetings, pointless paperwork, and a process that leaves everyone unsatisfied. Yet 72% of companies still perform annual performance reviews despite evidence that they aren’t particularly effective. Learn […]
6 Steps to Building Happier Teams
One of the big challenges of running a successful company is keeping individual employees happy, productive, engaged, and working towards the greater good of the company. However, it’s not enough to just cater to your employees’ separate needs – you also have to take a step back and think about how (and if!) all of […]
What Makes Good Employees Quit? 16 Most Common Reasons
There’s this common assumption that today’s employees, especially those of the Millennial crowd and younger (born in 1982 or after), are frequent “job-hoppers”. More specifically, that they quit / change jobs way more often than past generations did and that they are typically always on the look out for themselves and their next career step […]