Right now there seems to be a push - ok, honestly, it started during the pandemic and with the layoffs right now it feels like it’s a big question mark - about creating a great company culture. There have been a lot of buzzwords to define what that ideal culture...
Read Morelet’s dive deeper into if you have an employee experience problem… at all. For most of us, our workplaces feel hard at the moment. Maybe they have for some time, maybe it feels harder due to current buzz topics (return to office/hybrid, quiet [whatever the right word now is]), or...
Read MoreIn today’s issue, I’m going to share how you can take a traditional annual HR activity - goal setting - and turn it into an employee experience advantage. Goal setting - both for the company and for individuals, can be an important activity at most companies to align employee efforts...
Read MoreAs the workplace continues to evolve and with competing pressures on HR professionals - layoffs, recession, hybrid/remote/in-office debates, and more - focusing on the employee experience has never mattered more. And it’s also never been easier to do. Don’t be stuck being the tactical HR leader forever - spending all...
Read MoreHave you been hanging out on LinkedIn during the past year at all? If so, you’ve definitely seen the same post and image circulated over a million times – saying that “Employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers.” This all stems from a Gallup poll in 2017 that indicated this...
Read MoreBecause the employee experience is vast and we’re moving beyond three standard areas to review, we need a standard way to capture the employee experience journey – to make it easier for you to influence engagement through quantitative and qualitative measures. The employee experience journey is made up four components:...
Read MoreI know we’re still focused on delivering engaged employees… and slicing and dicing the engagement survey data and over-analyzing the small increases or decreases in numbers and over-indexing on each small change. Because that’s what we know and frankly, that’s what we’ve been tasked with. That approach isn’t effective –...
Read MoreCreating an effective employee engagement plan is one of the most strategic HR activities you will do throughout your career – as it can be critically important for the overall success of your company and for your career. Historically, “creating a plan” consisted of reviewing the overall survey results from...
Read MoreYour employee engagement survey results are worthless… at least compared to the value they used to deliver in the first five years of doing a survey. Here’s the thing: regardless of the type of engagement survey, provider, vendor, or aggregator you use – the hard part resides solely on your...
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