Employee Engagement

By Kelley Briggs
These are moments that matter. Those feelings of recognition, community, and achievement are what a thoughtful, comprehensive employee engagement strategy can deliver. Personalized Celebration Program and personalized celebration program is an important way to recognize and show appreciation for employees at an individual level. It goes beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to mark the moments for each employee, creating a more meaningful, impactful experience.

Rewards and recognition programs are a great way to motivate and engage employees. They can help boost morale, increase productivity, and improve overall job satisfaction. However, setting a budget for these programs can be challenging. Here are some tips to help you set a budget for a rewards and recognition program so that you can create a thriving culture that satisfies your employees and suits your bottom line.

By Kelley Briggs
There is no one way to “do HR” right — but many of the traditional models and practices in the HR scope are quickly becoming outdated, so there are lots of ways to get it wrong. Today’s HR leaders are expected to be in tune with the needs and expectations of employees and job seekers. In broad strokes, those include the desire to feel supported and included at work, to have access to real career opportunities and to have the flexibility and freedom to fit work into their lives, rather than the other way around. HR leaders and C-suite executives are at a crossroads: they must identify outdated practices and craft a new HR playbook, or risk falling behind and losing employees to organizations who have already redefined the strategic role of HR. 

By Andy Davis
Last year, Forbes suggested a list of technology investments including cloud cost optimization, integrated software delivery platforms, business applications that protect assets and people, resilient operational infrastructure, distributed data platforms, and more. HRExecutive.com reported data from WorkTech showing how global HR technology capital investments would outperform the rest of the market through the first half of 2022. So, while the rest of the market is sluggish, HR tech continues to thrive. Why?

By Kelley Briggs
In the past two years, HR leaders have seen talent recruitment and management turned upside down and inside out. The ‘Great Resignation,” hybrid work arrangements, and “quiet quitting” have impacted how HR leaders do their jobs, how employees respond to the “new normal” in their workplace, and what role organizations play in satisfying employees’ personal goals. One thing we have learned is when organizational leaders make an investment in the long-term success of their employees (a proactive mindset) rather than simply getting bodies back into seats (a reactive response), employees are happier and more motivated to perform at their highest levels.

By Kelley Briggs
When the term “quiet quitting” emerged in March of 2022, it painted a picture of lazy, entitled employees — or at least those with unrealistic expectations about their work.

By Kelley Briggs
The now popular term “employee engagement” was originally coined by Professor William Kahn with Boston University in 1990 in his paper, “Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.”

By Kelly Briggs
Trust is the foundation on which successful teams and positive team culture is  built. But recent world events like the pandemic has had a massive negative impact on trust in institutions around the world, according to global PR firm, Edelman, which conducts an annual “trust barometer” to monitor trust across four institutions — business, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and media.

By Kelley Briggs
In 2022, three distinct employment trends made headlines, gaining attention quickly and prompting various levels of panic for organizational leaders: quiet quitting, quiet firing, and quiet hiring. None of these so-called quiet trends are actually new behaviors in the workplace.

By Terri Moore
Orientation and onboarding can make or break the new hire experience — and drive long-term loyalty (or send employees running). But, while the two terms are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. They are, though, both integral parts of a company’s employee engagement and retention strategy.

By Theresa Harkins-Schulz
Neuroscience has become quite a buzzword in conversations around employee experience, work culture, talent development, and many more aspects of the human experience as it relates to team culture and work.

By Jennifer Disco
Today, November 2nd, is International Stress Awareness Day, a day established by the International Stress Management Association which falls on the first Wednesday of November.

By Kelley Briggs
Chances are, you already know what a toxic or hostile workplace culture is without ever reading a formal definition. Toxic work culture is an umbrella term that encompasses many negative, undesirable, and often harmful characteristics. It might mean a culture that is overtly or subtly exclusionary, unfair, or inequitable, creates high levels of burnout, and so forth.

By Sylena McClendon
October is Global Diversity Awareness Month and an oft-overlooked — but still very much key — component of workplace diversity is age. Creating strategies to encourage generational diversity is crucial to DEI success.

By Kelley Briggs
In this tough economy, it’s more important than ever that HR professionals take steps to boost engagement, satisfaction and loyalty among current employees, while building and supporting a culture that will attract new candidates.