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February 22, 2018
A More Human Workplace, Through Science: Q&A with Dr. David Rock (Part 2)
Having coined the term neuroleadership, Dr. David Rock knows how to transform thinking to optimize performance. His advice? Bring more humanity to the workplace.
Globoforce Managing Editor Sarah Payne wrote about attending David’s NeuroLeadership Institute in October, and now, we’re thrilled that he will share his expertise at WorkHuman 2018 in Austin, Texas, as a keynote speaker.
David is the Director of the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global initiative which brings neuroscientists and le...
February 20, 2018
Why We Should Be Making Workplaces More Human
It’s always flattering when someone reviews your book, but my favorite of those for “The Human Workplace” so far opens by saying, “I wish we didn’t need this book, but I’m glad Andy’s written it, anyway.” It’s essentially a book of common sense, put into the context of organizations and work.
My area of interest for a long time has been why we over-complicate everything, dehumanize our workplaces, and change the way we act when we get to work. The best thing we can offer any employer is being...
February 15, 2018
Let’s Talk: How Peer Feedback Drives Workplace Productivity
There is nothing worse than a tattletale. In the workplace, this is when a colleague doesn’t like what you’re doing, and he or she gives your boss feedback, and your boss gives this feedback to you. Seems a little roundabout, right?
I’ve experienced this third-party feedback in previous positions – never face-to-face, always behind-the-back. When it happens to me, I get frustrated. After the frustration wanes, I’ll typically approach the person who gave the original feedback to gather additi...
February 13, 2018
Report: Employee Recognition Helps Resolve Retention and Recruitment Challenges
The war for talent continues into 2018: Retention and recruitment are top of mind for HR professionals.
Nearly half (47%) of the HR professionals surveyed in The 2018 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Report cited employee retention/turnover as the top workforce management challenge for the third consecutive year. Second on the list is recruitment, which 36% of HR professionals said was a top challenge this year.
There’s no denying that recruiters have a hard job: The Bureau of Labor Stat...
February 9, 2018
The Corporate Tax Break is an Opportunity to Invest in Your People – And Your Bottom Line
President Trump’s tax bill was signed into law in December 2017. The enormous overhaul, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is the first major rewrite of the tax code in more than 30 years, with many provisions for individual taxpayers and corporations.
One of the most impactful changes is that corporate income tax has been reduced from 35 percent to 21 percent. In addition, the new law calls for a one-time tax rate of 12 percent on cash returns and 5 percent on non-cash for corporate money re...
February 7, 2018
Ronan Farrow Joins Historic #MeToo Panel at WorkHuman 2018
In the age of tweets and bite-size content, there are few pieces of long-form editorial that are so moving and so game-changing that they start a revolution.
Ronan Farrow’s Oct. 10 exposé in The New Yorker of women’s accounts of sexual assault by film executive Harvey Weinstein is certainly one of those pieces. I still remember where I was when I read the article in horror and disbelief.
And since Ronan broke those first rape and assault allegations against Weinstein, dozens of other high-pr...
February 5, 2018
3 Core Themes from the HRPA Annual Conference 2018
“Can HR change the world?” was a question posed at the recent HRPA Annual Conference and Trade Show, Canada’s largest HR event. This year’s theme – The Intelligence Revolution – featured telling images of a human hand interlocked with a robotic one. There was no shying away from the inevitable reality that how we operate at work will continue to evolve. Here are the three core themes from HRPA:
The Maturation of Disruptive Technology
The future of HR is not technology. This probably dismiss...
February 1, 2018
What’s Next? The #MeToo Movement and HR
How many of you have heard that HR doesn’t care about employees? It’s kind of insulting, isn’t it?
One of the themes to emerge from the #MeToo movement is that HR practitioners can’t possibly care about workplace harassment because they’re not employee advocates. When in doubt, employees should avoid speaking to them because they’ll just side with the company, anyway.
It’s pretty harsh, and it’s not actually true. However, some of the criticism leveled at HR is valid.
Susan Fowler struggled...
January 30, 2018
Teams are Key to Organizational Progress: Q&A with Amy Edmondson
At Harvard University, Amy Edmondson sought to explore how organizations learn. In doing so, she realized the key to any organization’s ability to learn lies in its teams and in the quality of the collaboration across teams.
Now the Novartis professor of leadership and management at Harvard, Amy went on to study fostering psychological safety in the workplace, teaming, combating groupthink, and encouraging social recognition. Her chair at Harvard was established to support the study of human...
January 25, 2018
5 Findings from the 2018 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey
A more human workplace not only fosters happier employees, it helps resolve retention, recruitment, and culture management challenges, according to the 2018 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey.
In collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management, Globoforce explored what constitutes a human workplace by surveying 738 HR leaders in a variety of organizations. In our sixth year conducting the surve...
