6 Principles of Successful Storytelling
To tell stories successfully, we need to understand a little about why stories connect and a lot about how to build that connection through listening and storytelling.
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Spot Awards–A Detailed Plan You Can Use
In yesterday’s Advisor, consultants Brandon Cherry and Brooke Green detailed incentive plans for non-exempt employees. Today, their take on recognition and spot bonuses, plus an introduction to the comprehensive guide to non-exempt compensation. Here are the last two of Cherry and Green’s Six types of incentive. [Go here for the first four types.] Cherry and […]
What Is Ergonomics, and Why Does It Matter to Employers?
While ergonomics is frequently delegated to the realm of safety professionals, it can be a great focus for HR as well—reduced absenteeism, increased productivity, and healthier employees are all benefits. Business consultant Bridget Miller has some ergonomics tips for employers.
Ask the Expert: 1095 Form for Seasonal and Part-Time Workers?
For the tax forms we must issue for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – do we need to issue them to seasonal employees since they will not be considered full-time employees? Also, can you confirm that we do not have to issue the form to part time employees (working less than 30 hours per week)?
Goal Setting as a Time Management Technique
Regardless of intellect, education, or industry experience, every employee faces one very real and very concrete limitation: the number of hours in the day. Sure, we could theoretically add additional time at the start and end of an already jam-packed day, but that will only go so far, and sooner or later, it will lead […]
3 Ways HR Is Defining the New Normal
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a tragic toll from a human and public health standpoint, along with causing massive business disruption, resulting in some businesses shutting down completely. In contrast, others have had to rapidly expand service teams and ramp up production to meet increased demands, while many companies have become remote workplaces practically overnight.
‘I am appalled’ by SHRM/HRCI Brouhaha (Talk-Back)
We got a large number of comments responding to last week’s epinion concerning the brouhaha brewing over SHRM’s decision to start offering its own certifications, in competition with HRCI. [See the original post here.] None of the comments is positive and most of the negativity is directed toward SHRM. Two readers cleverly turned the sample […]
Case Study Underscores Why HR Change Management Skills Are Critical
It is easy to lose your focus with all of the demands on Human Resources today. While your day-to-day duties make demands on your time, don’t neglect your most important HR responsibility: helping your organization plan and manage changes essential to the organization’s growth and future. You need to develop your change management and organizational […]
FMLA Notice Requirements: Substitution and ‘Make Up’ Leave
In previous articles, we covered the four calendar methods for tracking nonmilitary caregiver Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave. One way was the variable or rolling method that is used to minimize or avoid the stacking of leave. However, this raises the question of whether or not employees can substitute leave or “make up” […]
Have You Asked Your Employees to Do More with Less?
If you have asked your employee to do more with less, you are not alone. As organizations laid off and furloughed workers, they also struggled to keep revenue streams open. That meant doing as much work as possible with as few resources as possible. Recent research shows that the effect on employees has been stacking […]