HR Guide: Increasing Organizational Commitment
Nurturing a sense of organizational commitment in your business can help you perform better and reach your goals. It helps your workforce feel more connected [...]
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Small Business Manager Essentials: 7 Top Skills
According to the US Small Business Administration, there are nearly 30 million small businesses in the United States employing 47.8% of US workers. Despite this [...]
How to Calculate Revenue Per Employee (RPE)
As an employer, have you ever sat down and calculated your revenue per employee? Do you know if your organization is getting the most from [...]
What is a Direct Report? In-Depth Guide for Employers
A direct report is an employee that works directly below another person in an organization, often referred to as a subordinate. Most managers have at [...]
The Complete Guide to Small Business Hiring
It costs more than $4,000 on average to hire a new employee. This means that it is essential to hire the best possible candidate for [...]
Business Succession Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide
Business succession planning is a valuable tool for both small businesses and growing enterprises. In small businesses, succession planning means effectively managing changes in ownership [...]
How to Conduct a Pay Equity Analysis: Guide for Employers
Pay equity is a hot topic right now. This may be because of increased awareness around diversity, equity, and inclusion topics following the upheaval of [...]
Creating a Buddy System at Work: A Complete Guide
One of the best ways to improve your new employee onboarding experience is by implementing a buddy system. A buddy program can help new employees [...]
What HR Needs to Know About Flexible Time Off
According to research by Nielsen Consumer Research, 54% of surveyed employees in the US don’t take vacation time because they prefer to save their PTO [...]
5 Key Metrics to Track Onboarding Success
The onboarding experience that new hires have at your company can have a huge impact on whether or not they choose to remain at your [...]
9 Ideas for a Creative New Employee Onboarding
When you onboard a new hire, it’s important to make them feel welcomed and excited about joining your team. The process is all about sharing [...]
How to Welcome a New Employee to the Team: A Guide for HR
A new hire’s first day on the job usually involves training, paperwork, and general employee onboarding. However, it’s also important to welcome a new employee [...]
Preboarding Checklist: How to Welcome New Hires in Advance
Creating an engaging employee experience is one of the key drivers of a successful business. It sets the stage for increased loyalty and higher retention [...]
Stress Leave from Work: How to Manage Time Off for Anxiety
According to a recent by ADP Research Institute, 68% of respondents in North America claim they feel stressed at least once a week. Yet, only [...]
10 Types of Bias in Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are an integral function of the HR department. They help you gain insight, and they provide employees with valuable feedback that can help [...]
Performance Management Cycle In-Depth: 4 Key Pillars
The performance management cycle process has undergone significant changes over recent years. Traditionally, performance management was structured around formal annual appraisals and little more. More [...]
Reskilling Your Workforce: The Definitive Guide
Certain effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, such as an increased reliance on remote working and technology, have accelerated the transformation to automation and digitization. This [...]
Detecting a Performance Gap (5 causes)
The performance of your employees has a direct impact on your business. If you’re not performing well as an organization, then it is unlikely that [...]
Upskill Your Workforce with these 5 Practices
The future of work is changing at a rapid pace. For one thing, post-pandemic labor shortages coupled with the digital revolution have left many organizations [...]
How to Create the Ultimate Talent Development Plan: 5 Key Steps
Your greatest asset is your people, and their value is determined by the time and energy you invest in them. The more you nurture your [...]
What is Performance Coaching in Professional Development?
Performance coaching is a highly effective technique for improving the performance of your employees. In fact, coaching is now viewed as such an effective tool [...]
What is Design Thinking in HR? 5 Key Principles
Employers are under pressure to attract top talent and adapt to evolving employee expectations. Now is the time to create new ways of thinking and [...]
Setting Up a Peer Mentoring Program: A Step-by-Step Guide
Peer mentoring can be a highly effective tool for encouraging employee development. Aside from helping your employees to further their careers, it can help to [...]
Closing Skills Gap: Tips to Promote Employee Development
A skills gap analysis is a highly effective tool for identifying any skills that might be missing from your business. It can help you spot [...]