How HR software can identify bad managers in summary… A new study has discovered HR’s efforts to create effective staff retention strategies are being undermined by poorly trained or bad people managers. HR teams must undertake several key activities to […]
Employee retention is a hot topic in HR circles right now. Gone are the days when employees would stay with a single company throughout their entire career. In fact, job hopping every few years is now seen as the norm, […]
Today’s line managers are having a tough time right now. They’re traversing incredibly difficult working landscapes, with seemingly endless waves of negative trends sweeping through workforces. Take Gallup’s recent research into levels of employee engagement. It revealed only 10% of […]
No-one likes having difficult work conversations – but as a manager, it’s inevitable that at some point an issue will arise that has to be addressed. It may be that an employee’s performance has been consistently under par, a project […]
With every business looking for effective ways to retain their best staff and attract the brightest talent, pulse surveys have proven a simple yet vital method of collecting targeted employee feedback. The best thing about them is that they are […]
What’s been distracting you today? The relentless ping of emails arriving in your inbox? A constantly-ringing telephone? Or maybe working from home has made it difficult to separate your work and non-work life? Research carried out by Totaljobs found that […]
When your appraisals, reviews or check-ins roll around, how are they received across your business? Are employees happy and excited at the thought of discussing their performance? Or does the thought of an appraisal fill them with dread? If it’s […]
The COVID-19 pandemic may be over, but a different kind of epidemic has also been seemingly sweeping the world of work – an epidemic of employee demotivation. Results of a recent Gallup poll found that just 36 per cent of […]
If the latest research is to be believed, companies are still struggling with two of the most fundamental people management issues – keeping employee absence under control and employee performance management. The latest data from the ONS shows that employee […]
As employers increasingly feel more confident about their business prospects* post-lockdown, many organisations have upped their recruitment efforts. But instead of spending arduous amounts of time and resources on external hiring, identifying and growing your talent internally may be the […]
