How are you making your workplace more enticing for new people and existing employees? If you’re an HR leader, chances are, you’ve increased the number of employees eligible to receive a cash bonus. At least, according to a Grant Thornton report, which says 68% of HR leaders took that step in 2021. Other perks reported by HR Dive include companies paying for their [...]
Among the trends Harvard Business Review called out for 2022, the one that really caught my eye was “wellness as the newest metric companies will use to understand their employees.” Wellness as a concept has arguably always been important, but in business, it’s not officially important until it reaches the level of having its own metrics. And after two years of a pandemic, [...]
Who decided the work week has to be 5 days and 40 hours? This is a topic I’ve brought up in past posts. Recently, I came across a fantastic, in-depth non-profit report on the shift to a shorter work week in Iceland. You don’t have time to read it, so I’ve isolated two key takeaways for you. 👉 Reducing the workday to just [...]
Remember offsites, those annual gatherings to get the team together for high-level strategy and planning work — not to mention extreme team-bonding activities? Now, in the hybrid era, when people aren’t always in the office — if ever — offsites are turning into onsites. As Erica Keswin describes it in Harvard Business Review: “Professional development is critical to stemming the tide of the Great [...]
If you’re new to hiring, you probably wish someone had just given you a playbook. Or at least a primer. That’s unlikely to have happened. So before you step into your first interview, make sure you've got a strategy for what you want to learn (i.e. behavioral vs competency vs stress type interview). Instead of "winging it" make certain you’re prepared with the [...]
More than perhaps any other line of business, HR folks have had to adapt in the last few years. As we round the bend into year three of the pandemic moving towards an endemic stage, what does this look like? According to HR Dive, there are a few big trends happening right now: 🔹 Workplace and workstyle flexibility are now the normal mode for [...]
How to do well in an interview? It depends what kind of interview we’re talking about. A behavioral interview focuses on your behavior — both in the interview and in the hypothetical workplace. Questions revolve around your conflict-resolution skills and try to tease out insight into the way you think and act on the job. A competency interview assess your core skills, both hard [...]
Science fiction fans of a certain (long ago) era remember with fondness the Doctor Who television show on PBS. It was a nerdy British affair that still holds up pretty well today. But I’m not here to talk about TV. I’m here to talk about a really interesting study some folks conducted. By analyzing the contributors to each Doctor Who episode that aired [...]