3 Ways to Improve Your Employee Onboarding Process
Onboarding is crucial for setting your new hires up for success – theirs and yours. An effective onboarding process helps newcomers get to know your company culture, mission and values, in addition to processes, policies and procedures that will add to everyone’s overall productivity. Start onboarding the minute you decide to hire someone. Preboarding should […]
How are Businesses Utilizing Data Within Their Hiring Strategies?
Back in the day, recruiting and data were not even mentioned in the same sentence. But now it’s a whole new world, with a wealth of software and analytics tools available to enhance your hiring process. And if you’re not putting them to good use at your company, you’ll quickly fall behind in the competitive […]
Why Transparency in Business is Important
When you think transparency regarding your business, think trust. Transparency is the foundation for trust between a company and all its stakeholders, including investors, customers, vendors and supply chain members, and employees. It can take various forms, but the core objective of transparency remains the same: establishing trust and goodwill through openness and honesty in […]
Are You Sure You’re Selecting the Best Candidates to Interview?
Candidate screening before scheduling interviews helps ensure that you short list the right people as you move closer to a final hiring decision. It can also reduce turnover, minimize the need for costly rehires, and contribute to improved employee engagement by ensuring that a new hire will be successful and fit well within your company […]
What’s Your Leadership Style?
Every leader – just like every person – is different and unique. But there are some common leadership styles that you’ll adopt, whether you’re heading up a project, a team, a department, or an entire company. Here are a few common samples. Can you identify yourself in any of them? (Hint: To achieve optimal effectiveness, […]
Tips to Improve Workplace Communication
The value of communication within a workplace cannot be underestimated. Your verbal and written interactions with employees, managers, and coworkers help encourage everyone to contribute successfully to projects and assignments and bolster ongoing relationships between team members. Effective communication not only fosters team building but also: Boosts the growth of people’s careers – and your […]
Tips to Find Top Talent and Schedule More Interviews
In today’s competitive market, finding candidates who are the right match for your open jobs – and converting them into applicants – has never been more challenging. Be sure to take a strategic approach as you seek to engage desired talent, streamline your hiring process, and successfully target and interview the right professionals for every […]
How to Make Your Job Postings Stand Out
A well-crafted job posting can mean the difference between a desired candidate applying for your open position – or skipping over it and moving on to the competition. That posting may be a job seeker’s first point of contact with your company, so be sure to make it a good one. You need to sell […]
How to Support Your Employees’ Mental Health
Prioritizing your employees’ health in every way – mental and emotional as well as physical – has never been more critical. Taking a holistic approach that raises awareness and offers treatment and service options for mental health is more than worth your time, effort and company resources. As noted by the World Health Organization, an […]
Celebrating Diversity in a Leadership Role
The benefits of a diverse workplace have been well documented. They include higher creativity and productivity, a more positive employer brand, and enhanced marketing and talent acquisition opportunities. And like everything else good about your business, building and celebrating diversity starts at the top. In fact, it all comes back to you. Your own identity […]