Soliciting employee feedback and input should be part of every company’s normal business process. For small businesses, this responsibility may fall directly on the owner, director, or manager, while larger organizations hand this off to the HR department. Regardless of the size of your company, however, eliciting honest and valuable information from employees is extremely difficult, and requires a strategic plan. Here are some tips to help make sure your employees are giving you the [...]
Another great post from HRMToday.com, regarding employment branding. Employers take notice- if your internal employment brand fails to live up to the hype of your external brand, you’ll be creating a breeding ground for disengaged and untrusting employees. Remember, every new hire you make comes to work in your workplace culture as it exists today, so you can’t build your external brand based on how you want your workforce culture to be in the future. The work [...]
This post: Hiring People Who Can Handle Ambiguity « The Staffing Advisor, does a great job providing simple and effective tips to uncovering an applicants ability to handle ambiguity. While not going into too much detail about the value of these folks, it’s an excellent and quick read. From my vantage point, it seems that our economy is now built and growing on industries and job functions where dealing with ambiguity is an essential characteristic. [...]
Is it my imagination, or are the simplest truths always the greatest truths? My friend at Human Race Horses has touched on something in his “personal leadership epiphany” that I’m certain strikes a chord with all who read it. In one simple statement, he encapsulates what’s often at the root of poor performing employees, managers, teams, departments, divisions, and entire companies. Every organization needs do’ers and leaders, and despite the fantasy-land ideal of a “hands-on [...]
Do what you are supposed to do, when you are supposed to do it. That’s the single greatest piece of advice I can give young employees looking to make a name for themselves within their organization. Sounds a little elementary, but more often than not, young over achievers spend such a great deal of time looking for ways to stand out and go “above and beyond” that they abandon the work they are supposed to [...]
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