4 Tips on Getting Actionable Employee Feedback
This is a guest post from Ashley Wilson. Ashley is a digital nomad and freelance writer from San Diego, California. When she is not busy baking cupcakes, Ashley loves writing about business, digital marketing, and finance. Connect with Ashley via Twitter @ashleygwilson. Most businesses understand the value of getting customer feedback, but many are missing out on a much more valuable source of actionable intelligence: their own employees. While customer feedback is important, it often [...]
Should you do a social media check before an interview?
Social media showcases someone's interests, hobbies, and even personality. By looking at a person’s Instagram profile, you can spot their favorite places, ways of spending time, and even learn about their views on modern trends and culture. However, you cannot predict whether a person will be a perfect fit for your team or not just by looking at their social media page. People behave differently at home and at work – and that’s the primary [...]
How Should Employee Assessments Impact Business Results?
Employee assessments and performance reviews are an often-resource-intensive endeavor requiring training, time from HR, and third-party tooling for assessment, testing, and monitoring programs. Whether you’re attempting to validate the efficacy of employee assessments, attempting to streamline them to meet goals, or attempting to gain buy-in for improvements from management, understanding how these assessments do and should impact business results will help. Employee assessments exist to tell you the state of employees and their performance, which [...]
Your HR manager should have these 5 competencies for success
HR managers are more than just hiring and firing - they are critical business leaders that should help to shape and drive your company’s future. Which also means that HR managers should have more than just a qualification - your HR manager should also have the competencies for success. The top HR manager competencies The remit of an HR manager is never-ending - from attracting talent and resolving grievances, to creating a culture and developing [...]
5 Ways to Build Success Profiles
Success profiles can help your organization to improve hiring, leadership development, and role planning, giving you the tools to strategize who and why you hire and develop. However, the value of these success profiles often lies in their validity, relevance, and ability to adapt to the future, which means that the process of building success profiles is just as important as actually using them. While your organization can take many approaches to building success profiles, [...]