Tricia Tan

Creating a Memorable Onboarding Experience

When you started your current job, was your onboarding experience memorable, impactful, and overall helpful? Here's why it needs to be.

How to Create an Onboarding Plan for a New Hire

There are many issues that HR Managers deal with on a daily basis, but none are more complex than hiring and onboarding interns and new employees

How to Include Diversity & Inclusion in Your Employer Brand

Diversity, equity, and inclusion must be a top priority for your business to have a strong employer brand. Here's how to implement them.

How to Handle the Employee Offboarding Experience

With the proper process, accountability, and encouragement, the whole offboarding experience can be bearable and perhaps even noteworthy.

Should We Believe All We Read About Millennial Work Ethics?

The traditional workplace structures have been heavily resisted by Millennial workers, who also reject conventional job titles and office attire.

The Correlation Between Workplace Culture & Brand

What is genuine workplace culture? And does it all go hand in hand with your company's brand

What You Must Know About Training Retail Employees

Positively engaged staff are your finest brand ambassadors who will generate evangelism that spreads to your customers and boosts brand awareness and revenue.

How to Unite Your Teams During Global Growth

By bringing together individuals from other cultures with a variety of professional experiences and perspectives on organizational and strategic issues, companies gain from global diversity.

How to Increase Productivity with Recognition & Rewards

Employees who receive praise for their efforts are happier, more engaged, and more motivated to accomplish excellent work for the company.

Awesome Employee Retention Strategies to Know About

According to some estimates, replacing an employee who leaves a job can cost the employer double their salary.

What Are the Characteristics of High-Potential Employees?

While your company may have a defined process for discovering high-potential individuals, you might need one to maintain their engagement to keep them on staff.

Employee Recognition Is Essential: Stats You Can't Ignore

There’s a battle to find, hire, and retain top talents. As a result, companies and business owners are busy developing ways to boost organic growth, worker productivity, and business revenue.

Utilizing Stay & Exit Interviews for Recruitment

Effective communication strengthens bonds between people, keeps top talent on staff, grows and keeps customers, and improves your employer's brand.

Keep Your Team Happy With These Great Perks

Produce an outstanding employee experience by paying attention to the perks and rewards you provide to your staff.

Tips for Organizing an Office Filing System

It's crucial to maintain your documents so that they are accessible and organized whether you deal with paper documents, electronic files, or a combination of both.

Creating a Culture of Recognition

An employee recognition gap can damage your company's growth because today's workforce lists recognition as one of the top motivators in their job happiness.

Why Employee Experience is a Worthwhile Investment

The employee experience movement has gained traction in recent years as employers begin to consider how employees feel about the entire experience from hiring to firing.

How to Measure Employee Engagement

When evaluating if your company is meeting its goals, you'll circle back on one question: how engaged are your employees?

How Do You Transition New Hires Into Top Talents?

Whether a CEO or an accounting clerk, the first 90 days are crucial for any recruit. The shift from new hire to a useful team member can be smooth with effective onboarding.

Can You Leverage Hiring & Retention for Your Brand?

What are potential hires, current employees, and alums saying about their interactions with your business, and how much of a handle on these crucial discussions do you have?

Data Science: The Future of HR?

Data can now be gathered from more sources than ever before, and when used wisely, it may completely change how corporate operations are conducted.

Take It to the Next Level With the Right HR Tech

When deciding what features you want in a system, choosing the right HR tech can be compared to shopping for a new phone. Check out our guide.

How to Improve Onboarding With Org Charts

Every new employee joining your team should have access to a corporate profile package including an org chart to guarantee that they are provided with the appropriate resources.

Stats That Prove Employee Recognition Matters

Employee recognition snowballs into something bigger and more beneficial for your organization. You can improve retention when you take the time to recognize the achievements of your employees

How Employee Monitoring Boosts Productivity

Innovative solutions are needed for managers entrusted with measuring and monitoring team members’ productivity levels to help their teams become more effective and productive.

Employee Retention: Eliminating Toxicity In the Workplace

You can get through a tough Monday, make it through a hard week & take away positives from a poor quarter. But what happens when every day sucks?

The Makings of an Effective Offsite Meeting

Want to know how to hold offsite meetings that are both fun and engaging for your employees? Read this blog post and you'll find out!

Cultivating a Sense of Workplace Belonging

Employees feel like they belong at work when they believe their company and coworkers value their individuality. So how do you achieve that?

About Time: Understanding Time Tracking Software

When employees are on varying shifts how do you ensure they’re working full time. That productivity doesn't drop when they’re not in the office?

Nurture the Culture with Company Core Values

The truth about company culture is that it guides how the employees collaborate and how you take care of the brand and your clients—it’s how your company operates

Boosting Employee Engagement With Data

Disengaged employees aren't emotionally invested in or proud of their company and lack enthusiasm and energy. But how can data help?

How Big Companies Onboard New Hires

Because onboarding is so crucial, we couldn't help but wonder; how do big companies welcome their new hires?

The Difference Between Comp Time & Overtime

Typically employees work 40 hours a week. But what happens when they go over? How will payment work? Will they be compensated for the extra time?

Is Your HR Team Enough or Understaffed?

Even on a good day, running a business may be stressful, but when staffing levels are low, issues worsen substantially. Your team is forced to take on more work due to the strain you feel.

Building Your Succession Plan

Succession planning keeps your company going forward during the inevitably occurring changes that come with operating a business. Here's how.

Virtual Management: A New Skill Managers Must Unlock

Leading virtual teams can resemble conducting an orchestra blindfolded. It’s unique but it’s something conductors will see as a new challenge.

Online Recruitment: Going Beyond LinkedIn

For both employers & job seekers the application process has significantly changed; Internet has dramatically altered the recruitment landscape.

Training Records: To Store or Not to Store?

You're in for a shock if you think storing training records is just checking names & filing results. Maintaining proper records needs a lot more.

Safeguarding HR Information with Data Policies

Using HR data can be very beneficial especially in the age of big data but it can also present ethical and legal difficulties. Let's take a look.

Data Privacy & Everything in Between: An HR’s Guide

With the abundance of information HR handles, one can’t help but wonder, are data privacy policies in place?

Putting Together an Annual Leave Policy

It is critical to manage vacations and holidays properly. And one thing that will help you do that is when you have an annual leave policy.

Can You Predict and Prevent Employee Turnover?

Professionals who receive competitive job offers typically have a combination of experience & qualifications - and they are huge shoes to fill!

How to Maximize Your Human Resources Department

A strong, attentive HR department is necessary for having a strong employee recruiting and retention strategy. But how do you maximize your team?

Workspace Organization: What, Why & How

The irritation of having to look for items that ought to be accessible would be lessened by organizing your workspace. Here are our tips.

Why Business Leaders Must Prioritize Employee Experience

Company culture is associated with perks like ping-pong tables, free-flow coffee, and complimentary lunch. But should it go deeper than that?

Why Offboarding Matters: What HR Needs to Know

Offboarding is more than giving someone a cupcake & a recommendation. It can enhance your brand & offer insight you couldn't acquire elsewhere.

How to Write an Effective Job Advert

Put yourself in the shoes of your ideal new hire before you begin drafting a job ad. What would you want to see in an ad for your future career?

How to Conduct the Ideal Exit Interview

Exit interviews are meetings that HR staff members or corporate executives hold with departing workers. But here's how to do them properly!

Engage New Hires on Day 0 to Boost Employee Retention

In 2019 65% of companies reported hiring staff who failed to show on their 1st day. How can you decrease turnover if they haven’t even started?!

From a Distance: A Guide to a Stronger Remote Team

One thing about remote work that may make business owners think twice is trust. So how do you establish trust when everyone's working from afar?

An HR’s Guide to Managing Disciplinary Hearings

In the unfortunate event you have to hold a disciplinary meeting, how should you and your HR team handle it? We covered it all in this post.

A Manager’s Guide to Effectively Setting Goals for Your Team

Together with your team, you achieve the company’s KPIs. But as their manager, you have a special and influential role in ensuring the how.

Management & Leadership: Why You Should Have Both

Management and leadership are two words that both imply the same image of a person who is looked upon by a team. But is there a difference?

Misconceptions That May Harm Your Company Culture

It takes time, effort, communication, transparency, and buy-in from all levels of the business to create a solid and healthy workplace culture.

Tips for Writing an Effective Performance Review

If you don’t know how to interact effectively with your team, conducting a good performance assessment will be tough. Here's how to do it.

Performance Reviews: What to Do Before, During & After

Feeling a little nervous when a performance review draws near is normal. So what should you do before, during, and after your performance review?

Workplace Diversity & Inclusion Stats You Must Know

96% of business leaders concur that programs focusing on diversity & inclusion in the workforce can promote growth & provide a competitive edge.

Cultivating a Healthy Cross-Generational Company Culture

A diverse team of all ages has advantages but if generational differences aren't effectively managed they can lead to rifts within the culture.

Here’s Why You Should Boost Workplace Motivation

Here you’ll see that investing time, effort & money in employee motivation can help boost your retention rates and cash flow in the long run.

What You Need to Know About Swearing in the Workplace

Research has connected swearing to positive attributes like honesty. Are these connections genuine or are these studies a bunch of nonsense?

Inclusive Hiring: Supporting Candidates With Disabilities

Even though many nations have disability employment legislation in their labor laws, policies are frequently flawed & not consistently enforced

Workable Alternatives to Your Home Office

Now we’re more conscious of the value of maintaining a healthy work-life balance & keeping our home & office distinct, literally and mentally.

Why Should You Hire Remote Workers?

More businesses are recruiting workers worldwide & letting them work wherever they wish instead of opening an office & hiring locals to fill jobs

Supporting Millennials in the Workplace

Since they account for a significant part of the workforce, how can companies support Millennials? Our blog post has some ideas you can try out.

The Makings of a Top-Rated Workplace

Whether big or small, strengthening your company's culture or becoming a top-rated workplace must always be one of your must-dos.

Your Guide to a Smooth Open Enrollment

Open enrollment is a time each year when you can enroll in health insurance or make changes to your current plan. Here's how to handle it.

Boost Your Business by Becoming the Best Workplace

Newsflash—although free-flowing coffee, amazing couches, and a ping pong table are fun perks, an excellent workplace is much more than that.

How to Create a Successful Employee Referral Program

Referral programs shouldn't be your sole recruitment tactic but there are several advantages to creating a successful one. Let's get into it!

How Active Listening Makes You a Better Leader

What sets a great leader apart from an average one? The answer includes soft skills such as active listening that help leaders connect with teams

A Guide to Building a Resilient Workplace

Developing a resilient team is the best way to ensure your employees remain healthy and that your company remains operational during a crisis.

Crafting a Meaningful Employee Survey

Criticism and positive employee feedback are essential to understanding employee well-being, resiliency, and engagement. Here's how to get it!

Why You Need Effective Job Descriptions

You must create the perfect job description to attract a variety of individuals into your pipeline & ensure you're not discouraging talent.

Get the Most Out of Conferences With These Tips

Can you come home from a conference with more than just swag? Yes! This post sees how you can get the most out of your conference experience.

The Pros and Cons of Hot Desking

How does hot desking work, exactly? And is hot desking beneficial, or are there some cons you need to consider before implementing it?

A New Manager's Guide to Performance Reviews

One way to get in touch with your team is through performance reviews. An effective performance evaluation is priceless for your business.

Should the Hiring Process Include Personality Tests?

Most personality tests are facilitated by candidates as tests are widely available online making one wonder whether they're reliable hiring tools

Everything You Need to Know About Cross-Training

No matter what we do to streamline, circumstances often throw a wrench in the works. Cross-training staff to cover others can be the answer.

Useful Phrases for Effective Employee Performance Reviews

Keep reading if you have difficulty figuring out the proper & most effective phrases to say what you mean when conducting a performance review.

The Truth About GPS Monitoring At Work

In this blog post, we discuss everything you need to know about using location-tracking devices such as GPS to check in with your employees.

Managers: Here Are Tips to Make 1-On-1 Meetings Count

Some managers DO take up time with unnecessary meetings. But one-on-ones, especially when done effectively, can benefit the individual & the team

Tardiness & Absence Notifications: Is Your Policy Clear?

Employees get sick, incidents happen or maybe they have to deal with unexpected circumstances there will be days that staff may be late or absent

Outsourcing 101: Everything You Need to Know

Outsourcing is the practice of employing outside specialists or generalists to carry out specific duties that are typically done in-house.

The Key Qualities of a Good People Manager

If there's one key to effective management it's understanding your people. You must learn what inspires them & how & when they're most effective.

Deal or No Deal: Investing in Employee Well-being

Is your company investing in health & wellbeing? If not you need to read this. We'll discuss why this investment is worthwhile in the long run.