Inspirus Blog

By Gene Park
Business cannot live by metrics alone. Balance sheets, production capacities and earnings reports are certainly attractive to Wall Street analysts, but customers and employees seek a deeper attachment to the companies they buy from and work for. What nurtures that attachment? Consumers and employees bond, in part, with a brand— the intersection between what customers and employees know about a company (the intellectual component) and what they feel about that company (the emotional component). Why do millions of consumers exhibit a religious-like devotion to Apple products? Why does the J.M. Smucker Company so often rank near the top of the Great Place to Work Institutes’ list of the “100 Best Companies to Work for in America?”

By Gene Park
More and more organizations are moving toward centralized reward and recognition programs for greater program efficiency and effectiveness. Yet, far too many are failing to take what may be the most important step toward reaching their goals. That crucial step is proving their program’s return.

By Cara Pilgrim
Managing generational diversity in the workplace effectively allows companies to build a collaborative multigenerational workforce that embraces a wide range of generations from Baby Boomers celebrating decades of service anniversaries, to brand new hires in Generation Z. But this needs to be a collective goal for your organization in order to be successful.

By Mia Mends
There is perhaps no topic more relevant than authenticity to my life, my career, and my leadership role, so I am especially excited about the opportunity to participate in the keynote panel, “Leading With Authenticity,” at Brandon Hall Group’s A Way Forward: Women in Leadership Summit, June 15–16 in Delray Beach, Florida.

By Mia Mends
Human resources professionals and forward-thinking companies know that employees are the foundation of culture, and their everyday employee experience is key to the organization’s success.

By Allen Holman
Whether at home, at work or on the go, 21st century technology allows us to be “connected” to the web at all times. Answering emails, checking social media and browsing the internet on an hourly basis have become common in today’s world, and the span of technology only continues to increase. However, with this high-tech era comes phishing: a new and common gateway for criminals and hackers to steal private information. Phishing is a way that criminals attempt to obtain access or sensitive data such as usernames, passwords and credit card details through a disguised email acting as an invoice, bank statement or password reset notification. Phishing can occur through almost any communication medium, including automated phone calls, social media and email, and can happen anywhere you can be enticed to click on a link, open a document or disclose sensitive information.

By Mia Mends
Today on International Women’s Day (IWD), we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women everywhere. But IWD marks more than just a day of celebration. It’s also a global call to action to accelerate gender parity where it is lacking.

By Cara Pilgrim
Setting and discussing goals is critical in getting coworkers to work together. Many would say that when setting goals or resolutions, recognizing areas for improvement and creating a purpose of action to make those changes is the easy part—it’s the follow-through recognize that person that’s the challenge.

By Wendi Walker-Schmidt
I have spent the last 20 years of my career in the human resources, learning and OD world. In that time I have heard and had many discussions around the question, “What is the employee experience?” Some define it as what an employee receives during their interaction with their career’s elements, while others define it as employee emotions with the technological and physical environment they experience. Additional definitions cite the employee experience as perceptions about the interactions with their organization.

By Wendi Walker-Schmidt
The role of chief learning officer is evolving as we head toward 2021. Organizations are starting to understand that learning is at the heart of talent management as a business strategy. As a result, the traditional role of a Chief Learning Officer is shifting--an inevitable change but a good change.

By Cara Pilgrim
When employees spend time on e-learning, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employee must be compensated for all “hours worked,” including training time. To alleviate this strain, Inspirus is bringing compensation reports into the equation, because keeping track of hours isn’t always as simple.

By Cara Pilgrim
“In today’s business environment, learning is an essential tool for engaging employees, attracting and retaining top talent, and developing long-term leadership for the company.” — Global Human Capital Trends 2016, Deloitte University Press, learning and development play such a critical role within an organization. So how do we tailor our learning initiatives to fit this new direction in learning?

The Inspirus vision statement, “Bring joy to work, one experience at a time,” not only applies to the companies we work with across the globe, but includes our very own employees too.

By An Inspirus Contributor
If employee turnover, engagement, and succession planning are major concerns for your organization, you are not alone. According to a recent Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) study, these are the top three challenges HR professionals are facing today. These issues are closely connected. A disengaged workforce negatively impacts both employee retention and succession planning. How can you plan for the future if a high turnover rate demands your constant attention?

By Charlla Feller-Davis
Company safety incentive programs are critical to the health and safety of your organization. I learned this early on as a professional.