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April 2021

5 Ways Your Onboarding Process Can Establish Your Company Culture

Human resource professionals know that an effective onboarding process involves much more than simply hiring a new employee. Bringing in a valuable new member to your team that can be seamlessly integrated into your company culture can result in a more contented and productive employee. Your company may have a standard onboarding process that helps to orient new hires, but the goal should be to integrate your company culture into the process in a seamless way. Your company’s mission and vision should be introduced early in the onboarding process so that candidates get a feel for the environment before they join the team. An effective onboarding process that incorporates your company’s culture can draw in high-quality candidates that will fit in with your staff. With over three-quarters of new employees deciding whether they will stay with a company within the first six months, the onboarding process becomes an essential part of the hiring process. Immersing each candidate on an individual level in your company culture is critical. For example, if employee health and wellness is an integral part of …

What Is Recruitment Marketing Automation: 4 Practices You Should Follow

Recruitment marketing automation allows you to automate and streamline repetitive tasks in the recruitment process. Effective recruitment marketing automation will help your HR team save time by taking time-consuming tasks off of their hands. Saving time on repetitive tasks will free up personnel to do other activities. For example, promote job openings through other marketing channels. Or, maybe they’ll use that time for a completely different set of activities. In the recruitment funnel, recruitment marketing activities would cover the first three stages: awareness, consideration, and interest. Source: PageUp People Let’s look at these stages one-by-one: Awareness: Build awareness of a job opening or the company. Consideration: Get talent to think of you as a potential employer.  Interest: Get potential candidates to apply for the job vacancy. A lot of recruitment marketing activities revolve around sharing job listings across social networking sites. They also include posting job advertisements on boards and creating content to attract your ideal candidates.   Automation of these recruitment marketing activities enables you to optimize your recruitment marketing efforts. Furthermore, it gives you time to …

Hot Takes on How to Drive Successful Change in Your Organization

I’m reading a gem of a book by Phil Buckley titled, “Change on the Run: 44 Ways to Survive Workplace Uncertainty.” Phil is an author and change management expert. The great thing about his latest book is it’s designed to be read quickly and acted upon immediately. Here are my hot takes on driving successful change in your organization, courtesy of Phil’s book. Influence Skills Are Key If you are tasked with leading any portion of the change, it’s important that you demonstrate credibility to senior leadership. Here are two of Phil’s communication tips that will help you do that. “The better briefed leaders are, the better they will be at making the right decisions.” Identify which meetings include important decisions about the change and find a way to attend so you can ensure decision-makers are well-informed. “Talk strategy first, tactics second.” Demonstrate what executive coach Dana Theus calls a “treetops view” of the business. When you demonstrate an understanding of key business initiatives, executives will sit up and take notice. https://amzn.to/3a59ZiA Managing the Work to Drive Successful …

Self-Insight Is Sparked by “Crystallization of Discontent” Moments

“The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that’s a good thing to learn.” -Christina Baker Kline (American novelist) In The Power of Moments (“Defining moments shape our lives, but we don’t have to wait for them to happen. We can be authors of them” [Heath & Heath, 2017, p. 5]), Chip and Dan Heath (2017) talk about self-insight, “a mature understanding of our capabilities and motivations” (p. 116). “[S]elf-insight rarely comes from staying in our heads. Research suggests that reflecting or ruminating on our thoughts and feelings is an ineffective way to achieve true understanding. . . .Better to take a risk, try something, and distill the answer from experience rather than from navel-gazing. Action leads to insight more often than insight leads to action” (Heath & Heath, 2017, p. 117). Lea Chadwell had always dreamed of starting her own company, so she took a risk and opened a bakery she named, “A Pound of Butter,” which makes custom …

Reset vs. Return

This past week I was geeked to be involved with a virtual HR Happy Hour with my local HR chapter, GCHRA. The event had a much different vibe than the many virtual events that I’ve been a part of over the past year plus. We started with a local bar owner teaching us how to make common drinks we could put together for summer gatherings. Then, we broke out into rooms and attendees could choose where they wanted to go based on the topic of the room. You couldn’t know who the room facilitator was prior to going to the room to make sure people didn’t just choose people they knew. I was the facilitator of a room and our discussion topic was – “Checking on Culture.” There were two rules for anyone entering this breakout room: (1) You had to drink any time someone used a catchphrase in their answer/response and (2) an expectation to participate and share. We had an energetic and lively discussion talking about how workplace culture had morphed over the time of the pandemic. …

Reset vs. Return

This past week I was geeked to be involved with a virtual HR Happy Hour with my local HR chapter, GCHRA. The event had a much different vibe than the many virtual events that I’ve been a part of over the past year plus. We started with a local bar owner teaching us how to make common drinks we could put together for summer gatherings. Then, we broke out into rooms and attendees could choose where they wanted to go based on the topic of the room. You couldn’t know who the room facilitator was prior to going to the room to make sure people didn’t just choose people they knew. I was the facilitator of a room and our discussion topic was – “Checking on Culture.” There were two rules for anyone entering this breakout room: (1) You had to drink any time someone used a catchphrase in their answer/response and (2) an expectation to participate and share. We had an energetic and lively discussion talking about how workplace culture had morphed over the time of the pandemic. …

How Do Leaders Create Continuous Improvement?

I asked my readership, “How do leaders create continuous improvement?” It turns out there are many ways to interpret the meaning of continuous improvement. Read on to learn how Rich Teed, President of LBi Software, works to personally better himself, as well as foster a culture of improvement at his company. The Pathways to Getting Better Getting better is about learning and it’s evident that Teed takes this to heart. He says, learning “can be accomplished via various channels – reading books, articles and blogs, subscribing to podcasts, attending conferences, listening to people.” Which leads to Teed’s next point: the importance of listening to others. [Related: free leadership development resources] Leaders Create Continuous Improvement by Listening Teed highlighted the vital role that listening plays in continuous improvement. “The key word is listening’. Listening to employees, customers, mentors, and industry experts,” he noted. Clearly Teed has learned the importance of listening more than talking. One of the best ways a leader can create a culture of improvement is to learn when to stay silent. Developing Employees is the Linchpin to …

Infographic Templates to Measure Employee Engagement and Growth

Source With the COVID-19 pandemic normalizing the work from home (WFH), there is no denying that remote work is here to stay! Although WFH has allowed companies to get their hands on the best talent across the world without boundaries, it has also posed the challenge to engage and retain the talent. Remote employee engagement is rapidly becoming a top priority for managers to boost work satisfaction for their spread out employees. Hubspot says that 69% of the employees will work harder if they get recognition. Employees who fail to receive feedback from their managers tend to lose interest in their work more readily. Corporates with higher employee engagement foster 22% profits and 18% higher employee retention rates.  Therefore, organizations looking to stay at the top of their game and retain the best talent must develop beneficial employee engagement strategies. But mere development of these strategies might not help you fully in achieving your goals. Tracking employee engagement with valuable metrics is equally imperative.  Before looking into some ways to measure and display the employee engagement metrics, let us …

Diversity & Inclusion In Hiring: Creating A Diverse Workplace 

A diverse world should have mixed workplaces — but not all businesses agree. Or, even if the leadership agrees philosophically, they struggle to practically implement the idea. While hiring for diversity and inclusion would ideally be a no-brainer, some companies need a little convincing to see the value of pursuing and making the most of a multi-faceted team. As an HR leader, you can do something about this by communicating the benefits of diversity, as well as providing your business with practical ways to better recruit and interview with inclusion in mind.  What Is Workplace Diversity? Step one in moving your business toward greater diversity is understanding the term. Despite its status as a buzzword today, diversity still confuses many. Here’s what it is: bringing together people with different characteristics, personalities and skills. Most typically, diversity refers to the combination of workers of different races, genders, ages, ethnicities, etc. What Is Workplace Inclusion? To many, even more confusing than the idea of diversity is inclusion, which essentially means including every member of a team and making available the same possibilities …