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June 27, 2016
[Last Chance] Webinar: Recognition as the Foundation for a More Human Workplace
Last week Kevin Walling, Chief Human Resources Officer at The Hershey Company, wrote a LinkedIn post titled, “The Goodness We Share.” It’s an important reminder of the incredible impact HR can have on business results.
As Kevin and his team focus on developing, “a remarkable workforce and a compelling workplace,” The Hershey Company has earned several honors, including:
#6 out of the top 500 U.S. companies in Newsweek’s 2015 Green Rankings Listed as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBT...
June 23, 2016
#SHRM16: Breakthrough Moments and 3 Must-Read Takeaways
I’ve just returned from the annual SHRM Conference & Exposition in Washington, D.C., where the theme was Breakthrough—an ode to the ‘aha’ moments of clarity that we experience in our professional careers.
While other HR bloggers like Mary Faulkner and Ben Eubanks wrote great posts about the value of the relationships and connections we make at SHRM, my breakthrough came in a moment of complete silence, stillness, and peace.
It was Monday morning during #WorkHuman speaker Pandit Dasa’s Master...
June 20, 2016
[New Report] 7 Ways to Help Your Employees and Company Thrive
Download the new SHRM Foundation report.
Much of what has traditionally been labeled as the “softer” side of workplace culture – like civility, thriving, and playing to peoples’ emotions – are now coming to forefront as part of the #WorkHuman movement. HR practitioners and business leaders know—innately—how important they are to a thriving business. But now we are beginning to see the tangible ROI and benefits of focusing on new, more human workplace practices.
In fact, these benefits exist...
June 15, 2016
Advice on Rebooting Performance Management: M. Tamra Chandler Q+A (Part 2)
In part one of our Q&A with author and consultant M. Tamra Chandler, we discussed the 8 fatal flaws of performance management, the changing manager-employee relationship, and the need for crowdsourced recognition.
So perhaps you’re convinced that performance management needs to change. Where do you start? How have other companies found success? And what exactly is replacing the annual review?
Tamra shares a real-world example and explains how social recognition, “can play a significant role...
June 13, 2016
[Webinar] 3 Ways Performance Management Will Change in 2016
Every week, it seems, we read news about more companies “blowing up” performance management. Just a few days ago, GE executives said they are considering scrapping the annual raise in favor of, “being more flexible and re-thinking how we define rewards.”
On the blog, I’ve recently written about the death of the annual review, the growing emphasis on coaching and feedback, and performance management’s fatal flaws. It’s also a trend that came to the forefront at WorldatWork’s Total Rewards con...
June 9, 2016
Top 6 Takeaways from Total Rewards 2016
While at WorldatWork’s Total Rewards conference in San Diego this week, my colleague and I visited a local spot called The Cat Café. And it’s exactly what you would expect—a place where you drink coffee and play with cats. There are rules, though. You can’t pick up the cats. Only 8 people are allowed in the room at once. And noise must be kept to a minimum.
I’m sure there are people who find The Cat Café a bit bizarre. But for cat lovers and cats, it’s perfect (or should I say purr-fect?)....
June 3, 2016
5 Must-Attend Sessions at Total Rewards 2016
Will you be in San Diego next week for WorldatWork’s Total Rewards conference? This is one of the top conferences that Globoforce attends every year. Last year it was held in Minneapolis and I wrote a wrap up post on the 10 top things I learned. I’ll be posting another wrap up this year, but I thought I would also list some of the sessions our blog readers may find most pertinent for their work and professional development.
Annual Salary Reviews: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
Monday, June...
June 1, 2016
8 Fatal Flaws of Performance Management: M. Tamra Chandler Q+A (Part 1)
There goes another nail in the annual performance review coffin.
The most recent company to publically announce its revamp of performance reviews is Goldman Sachs. In a memo to employees, CEO Lloyd Blankfein and COO Gary Cohn wrote, “Providing high-quality and ongoing feedback is at the heart of our culture, and is an important investment we make in our people.”
Why doesn’t traditional performance management work anymore? And if we do away with ratings and annual reviews, will there by any a...
May 26, 2016
The Art and Science of Coaching
People at Google love data. They measure everything. A few years back, they launched a research initiative called Project Oxygen, in order to measure and improve key management behaviors at Google. This initiative is highlighted in a 2013 Harvard Business Review piece by David A. Garvin, professor at Harvard Business School.
Garvin writes, “Compared with leadership, managing remains understudied and undertaught—largely because it’s so difficult to describe, precisely and concretely, what man...
May 24, 2016
[WEBINAR] 3 Universal Drivers of Employee Happiness
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back about how to kill happiness at work. It’s quite simple, really, and it happens all too often.
What’s interesting about the whole “happiness at work” discussion is that people either become immediately skeptical or they overthink the concept to death. Soren Lockwood, CEO of SEB Pension in Denmark, perfectly illustrated this in a recent talk posted by Woohoo inc. He said:
To me, happiness at work and results are not opposites at all. It’s funny, because e...
