Creating a Culture Where People Feel Valued
It’s not uncommon to hear businesses boast about how their people are their greatest assets. While this is certainly a wholesome sentiment, it can also come across like lip service, particularly when the corporate culture does not cause people to feel valued. The good news is that some cultures really do show that people are […]
Building Trust with Your Multigenerational Team
Today’s workforce is characterized by multigenerational diversity. At most companies, you will find a combination of Boomer, Gen X, millennial, and even Gen Z employees. Each generation brings its own set of life experiences, ideas, and expectations to the table. While this diversity can be fodder for creativity within the workplace, it can also present […]
Create an Engaging Benefits Guide
One of the central functions of HR is to help employees make smart, fully-informed decisions about their benefits enrollment, and then to actually make good use of those benefits as needed. There are a number of tools that can assist you in this goal, starting with a benefits guide. In recent years, the benefits guide […]
Employee Retention in a Hybrid Work Environment
Some have deemed it the “Great Reshuffling.†Whatever you call it, there’s no denying that the pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we think about the workplace. And as work environments continue to evolve and adapt, it’s vital that HR teams respond in kind. Here’s one important question that HR leaders should be asking themselves: […]
How to Connect with Remote Hires
Digital communication technologies, such as Zoom, Skype, and FaceTime, have made it surprisingly easy to interview and hire people without ever meeting them face-to-face. Actually bonding with those new hires, forming a meaningful connection that brings them into your company culture, is far more challenging. With many businesses still doing a lot of their hiring […]
Tailoring Benefits to a Multi-Generational Workforce
Today’s employees are looking for benefits that go well beyond the basic, the generic, or the cookie-cutter. Rather, today’s employees want benefits that actually address their personal and family needs. Naturally, those needs can look quite a bit different from one employee to the next, which means HR must be ready to build benefits packages […]
Simple Ways to Prioritize Employee Engagement
Over the last 18 months, all of us have gone through seasons of immense disruption. For many of us, this period has been marked by stress and uncertainty, both in our personal lives as well as our professional lives. Naturally, this has led to a significant increase of stress, burnout, and fatigue. The question is, […]
3 HR Basics for Small Business Owners
One of the most exciting aspects of running a small business is hiring employees, assembling a team, and creating a positive and proactive company culture. But if developing your team is exciting, it can also be a little bit daunting. This is especially true when it comes to human resources responsibilities. The reality is that […]
