Category: HR

Best Practices for Recognizing Your Remote Employees

For decades, employee recognition usually involved bringing staff together in a large conference room to honor work anniversaries and top performers. There might be a framed certificate, a handshake and a…

Preventing Burnout Starts With Job Design and Culture

Employee burnout continues to challenge workplaces across industries and around the world. According to Forbes magazine, a global study found about 70% of employees had experienced burnout over the past 12…

How To Help Employees Overcome AI Fears

The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Gemini has created immense expectations. AI promises to accelerate innovation, design and personalize content, handle manual tasks, and allow…

Tips for Documenting Manager-Employee Conversations

When in doubt, document. That’s the expert advice you should give your managers when discussing important job-related matters with employees. Whether a manager is congratulating an employee on a job well-done or…

Best Practices for Empowering Women in Leadership

Despite excelling in leadership qualities, women often face an uphill climb to the top roles. Data from the human resources association SHRM and Harvard Business Review captures this ongoing challenge. Women account…

Make Your Meetings Matter

Employees and employers agree unproductive meetings are a big problem. But what’s the solution? You could call a meeting to discuss the inefficiency of meetings. Or you could explore research suggesting you’d…

Are Your Employees As Healthy as You Think?

Employers have different views on employees’ well-being than the employees themselves. In many cases, it’s not even close. And it begins with diverging thoughts on benefits packages. Just 61% percent of employees…

How and Why To Embrace Your Company’s Night Owls

Nearly a third of people identify as night owls, notes the human resources association SHRM. Night owls are more alert, engaged and effective in the evening. Understanding and embracing the cyclic patterns…

Let’s Be Blunt: Legal Changes Coming for Employment Practices & Marijuana Use

By: Alison Bender, Select Commercial Lines Account Executive Currently in CA, employers may “prohibit the illegal use of drugs and the use of alcohol at the workplace by all employees”. What about…

It’s Time To Talk To Your Employees About Suicide

Suicide is a difficult topic. But having those hard conversations could make all the difference for your employees. According to the human resources association SHRM, four out of five deaths by suicide…