Career Growth Improves Retention: Here’s Your 5 Step Plan
In the early stages, startups are keenly focused on building a viable product, getting customer feedback, and making payroll. But as soon as you have team tenured team members, they’ll start asking about their career growth – how to gain new skills, get a bigger role, become a manager, etc. Experienced founders will anticipate people’s […]
How to Really Listen to Employees
Can you tell when someone’s listening intently? I can. They’re actively engaged, making eye contact, and fully taking in my comments, not thinking about the next thing they’re going to say. I know I’m being seen and heard, and the listener respects what I have to say. Employees want to experience the same thing – […]
Four Ways to Improve Hiring Diversity at Your Company
After working in HR in close proximity to diversity my whole career, a couple of years ago, I realized I didn’t really know how to increase diversity on my own team. To be honest, I was embarrassed to even talk about it. I’d built a strong team, but it was more homogeneous than I wanted. […]
Make Anti-Harassment Training Fun
HR is full of sensitive topics, and anti-harassment is a big one. It’s absolutely necessary, but how do you introduce it without people starting to whisper about who did what to bring this on? You want to train your team without feeling like you’re turning into a big corporation. So how do you do it? When should you start training […]
Hard Conversations: When to Have Them, Why It’s So Hard, and How to Prepare
Unless you employ a team of robots, it’s only natural that sometimes there’s conflict in your workplace. That conflict can only be resolved by conducting difficult conversations, sometimes one-on-one, other times with an entire group or between groups. While you can’t avoid hard conversations, there are ways to minimize the pain by being more thoughtful […]
Rewards and Recognition: How to Show Appreciation to Your Team
Ensuring employees feel valued for their achievements isn’t just an exercise in kindness—it’s also crucial to the health of the organization, as it enhances trust in leadership and increases productivity. So, what’s the easiest way to show appreciation to your employees? There’s no one right answer, but we’ll explore several ways that have proven effective. […]
The Business of Happy Employees: How to Create a Company Culture That’s More Human, Less Resources
Hiring great employees is only half of the secret to success. The other half? Keeping them happy. PROOF OF PRODUCTIVITY Want to get the best performance out of your staff? Marketwatch reports that happier employees are 10% more productive than their disillusioned counterparts, confirming that employee wellness is vital to your company’s bottom line. However, […]
When should you Invest in Management & Leadership Training?
Like a beloved schoolteacher, the memory of a great boss can stay with you for a lifetime. The way they motivated you, brought out the best of your talent and helped you reach your greatest potential. Alternately, you’ll never forget the leader who prevented you from reaching your professional goals. Whether they lacked coaching skills […]
Seattle HR Collective: Gender Diversity in Leadership and Why it Matters
Guest Author: Seattle HR Collective “We are passionate about helping to build and support strategic and effective HR leaders. We are a startup friendly HR community that provides professional development beyond the basics of HR in the form of training, best practices, guest speakers as well as networking. We want to fill the gap for […]
The Consumerization of Leave Management: 8 Trends to Follow in 2017
A consumer-like environment in the workplace is not just the expectation of a Millennial mindset. Researchers at MIT have found that a preference for social, mobile, and collaborative tools crosses all age demographics (1). Innovative tools and techniques are evolving in all areas of the workplace and leave management is no exception. From consumer-oriented technologies to ease the administration of statutory […]
