5 Ways to utilize a DISC assessment of your employees
Using personality tests during the hiring process has become common practice for many organizations around the world. Theyâre a great way to assess job candidates, making sure you choose the best fitting candidate for the job. In fact, itâs reported that over 88% of Fortune 500 companies use the MBTI personality assessment in their recruitment process. But the usage of personality tests shouldnât stop at the hiring stage. Keeping your employees happy and engaged should [...]
How businesses benefit from diverse candidate pools
Candidate pools are necessary for everything from succession planning to filling vacancies as people leave old roles. You need to know whoâs moving into upcoming roles, you need a pool of candidates to choose from, and the more senior that position, the more that has to be planned. But, even for junior roles where candidate pools are almost entirely pulled from job applications, diverse candidate selection benefits the organization in more ways than one. For [...]
10 tips for firing an employee with empathy
Terminating an employee is always a major step and always a last or final effort after trying remediation. Unfortunately, if youâve offered remediation issues such as coaching, training, and interventions like performance improvement plans (PIP), and had no success, you might not have much choice. Whether employees are failing to meet conduct requirements, failing to meet performance requirements, or slipping up in some other way, firing is sometimes the only option. These 10 tips for [...]
How flexible workspaces can help HR with employee retention
This is a guest post from Steven Sevilla, a Digital Marketing Associate at Weremote who enjoys writing useful content for readers to learn and enjoy. He has an ambition in building his career towards Content Writing, Copywriting, Content Marketing, and SEO. Hybrid and Flexible Remote Work has risen in popularity at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020), making it a new normal for the majority of workers and employees. Although it wasn't new for [...]
How to write a performance improvement plan (PIP)
If an employee is consistently underperforming or breaching code of conduct or performance requirements in some other way, a performance improvement plan or âPIPâ is one alternative to terminating their contract. Here, you create a sort of probationary phase, during which expectations of change are clearly communicated to the employee, a deadline is set, and change is monitored and managed. Performance improvement plans are usually designed to help employees reach their full potential, especially if [...]