Category: Feedback

October 14, 2020

Written Job Descriptions Are Critical Perhaps the simplest and most important step in ensuring employees clearly understand their job description is to write it down. It’s important to be as detailed as possible so as to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. […]

October 8, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently published guidance addressing employer obligations to track employee hours while teleworking. Even though the guidance is being issued in part because of the increase in teleworking arrangements during […]

October 7, 2020

When the COVID-19 virus started making headlines at the start of 2020, American observers watched as the disease spread beyond the borders of China and started impacting specific regions of the United States. As the numbers of domestic infections continued […]

October 2, 2020

Implementing the right technology can make a huge difference in a company’s success. Technologies that have strong synergies with the organization and its people can leverage and amplify competitive advantages and set a business apart from its competitors. Unfortunately, many […]

October 1, 2020

For many employees, the COVID-19-prompted transition from working in the office to working from home has provided a sense of greater autonomy and flexibility. For many employers, it has created anxiety over productivity and staff supervision. This tension has the […]

September 3, 2020

Employee feedback is traditionally collected through anonymous surveys. A year ago we started working with a group of forward-thinking enterprises to trial open feedback. This is what we have learned. Micro-actions make macro impacts I met Arjun at one of […]

July 17, 2020

Employers know that in order to combat problems in the workplace, the first step is to discover those problems. But how can an employer find out about problems if employees aren’t willing to bring them to anyone’s attention? This is […]

July 6, 2020

Learning and development experts have advised implementing at least some digital learning as part of any organization’s training strategy for quite some time. The pandemic has shown that many organizations have not taken that advice seriously, as many scrambled to […]

June 11, 2020

Onboarding is a crucial part of the new hire process for any organization. Even seasoned industry experts can benefit from learning the rules, norms, culture, and processes of their new work home. A refresher on the industry trends most near […]

May 27, 2020

How many people in your organization are capable of better work, modifying or adopting new behaviors, and becoming better versions of themselves? How many of us have seen this “movie” play out in our organizations: A manager alerts you to […]