Tag: Dovetail Employee Engagement Suite

5 Gifts of Employee Engagement

December 21, 2017 Are you providing adequate employee engagement? Every year, thousands of HR Practitioners around the world would love to drop packages of excellent engagement on their employees' desks. In a year of record-high revelations of sexual harassment claims, as well as calling out bullies and corruption, HR has been busier than ever. Check out these five quick ways to show you care about your employees. Their needs are really pretty simple and realistic. No surprises here, but maybe HR will start to listen. 5 Gifts of Employee Engagement 2-way Communication - Are you listening and responding to what your employees are saying? It's easy to ignore complaints and skip the opportunity to let employees know that you heard them, but is it prudent? Consider the reasons why people leave great organizations: usually they don't. Are you asking the obvious question: why…

Configuration vs. Customization

June 22, 2017 Discussion and Confusion about the Difference There is a healthy amount of discussion (and an unhealthy amount of confusion) over the difference between configuration and customization where software is concerned. If you are one of our clients (and if you aren't, there's way to fix that), you probably know this already, but we think it is a big enough deal that we thought we'd talk about it more. And we've done a quick 30-min presentation on this same topic. If you've had more than two conversations with me, you'll know that I love analogies. In fact, my love for analogies is like a simile. I'm not always great with either of them. But to explain the difference between customization and configuration, I have just the analogy for the job. We will use the wardrobes of two famous billionaires. First up,…

Discovering HR Case Management

May 15, 2017 HR Case Management Case Management, itself, speaks to tracking cases or issues with clients or customers. Healthcare Case Management tracks the life cycle of a patient, through every interaction with a healthcare provider or healthcare facility/system. HR Case Management is the reporting and tracking of every single employee interaction with the human resources department in an organization. This allows for the best understanding possible of the employee experience with the employer, as well as understanding the employer experience with said employee. And it is all about collecting the data from those interactions, then saving and using that data for future interactions, questions, or issues that come into HR - this keeps any information from being lost or allowing issues or challenges to be mishandled, mismanaged or not managed at all. The Flow of HR Case Management Made Easy Employee contacts…

The Employee Path: Talent Attraction & Talent Management

March 29, 2017 The Ongoing Conversations I've been having more and more conversations about employee growth and development. This extends beyond the tired and overused phrase Employee Engagement. I think it's fascinating that so many write, and talk, and present of the importance of retention but little is really done to ensure that their company shines when it comes to these efforts. Talent Attraction vs. Talent Management Is there really a difference between talent attraction and talent management? Shouldn't there be a concerted and continued effort to attract the talent you have already acquired? I am often dumbfounded by the crazy amount of effort that goes into talent attraction, recruitment marketing, employer branding, and hiring when compared to the lack of efforts put into retention, employee development, and succession planning. Is there no real understanding of what it takes to replace a good,…

Empower Employees with One Simple Tool

February 2, 2017 The Employee Portal Dovetail Software was very excited to launch our updated employee portal last September. As we continue to help organizations with employee communications and interactions, we understand the need to listen to what is important to employees because this assists our clients, the employers. Empower Employees Does it make sense to empower the workforce with "self" access to information? We think it does. Making knowledge readily and easily available, they are able to get answers quickly and easily. I have always felt that an informed and smart workforce is a productive and loyal workforce. The information shared with employees becomes another notch toward employee engagement, which we know leads to less attrition and retention of talent - obviously quality talent because they have chosen to become or stay informed about their own employment and ask questions they need…

SMAC your employees with Digital HR

September 7, 2016 SMAC Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud or SMAC-enabled HR technologies are revolutionizing our industry, smacking human resources with powerful tools to support their company's Digital Workplace vision by providing Digital HR applications which connect with the modern workforce. We have all been told, by now, of the millennial rock stars who won't work for us unless we connect with them in the world they rock - and it’s true! You not only need to empower employees and managers to keep them engaged, but you must also enable them - people enablement is key to productivity. People Enablement HR Technology is a big driver for people enablement. Alas, the reader is likely feeling troubled with the notion of costly technology investments, a platoon of expensive onsite technology consultants, and months turning into years of project timescales that never seem to hit a…

Dovetail Reporting – When You Need ROBUST HR Reporting

January 29, 2016 Dovetail HR Reporting We recently upgraded our reporting engine to deliver the robust experience HR needs when it comes to understanding the data they gather and store. I know, I know -- there's that word: data. Guess what? It is part of business today and HR, being a contributor to the success of an organization, knows that numbers and metrics with the analysis of all the data collected is imperative to recognizing what works, what hasn't worked, what is no longer working, as well as when it's time to shift and change, or implement a new process. What does ROBUST mean? It means that Dovetail's upgraded HR Reporting Engine provides: Out-of-the-Box Report Writing Templates Tight Security Integration Multiple Languages and Cultures "Get Help" Function Familiar Report Creation Interface Report Scheduling Password-protected Export of Reports What does all of this mean?…

HR Tech and Advisory Boards

December 21, 2015 The Tradition of Advisory Boards There's a long standing tradition of HR tech companies creating advisory boards to help them guide their company. This has been especially visible over the last few months, and I've had several clients and contacts asking about our board, how we use them, and what value they add. The answer is really simple. We don't have one. It's not that we haven't thought about it or discussed it. We did. We had long discussions over it, and as a team made the decision that there wasn't value to us adding a board. There are good reasons to have an advisory board, I think. Here are a few of them, and our perspective. Product Direction The obvious (or at least the most often mentioned) benefit of an advisory board is, well, advice. Getting input from thought…

Scott Berg: Live at the HR Tech Conference

December 9, 2015 Scott Berg Scott Berg is a Managing Director and Sr. Research Analyst who closely covers public HR Tech companies, working for Needham & Company, a boutique brokerage firm focused on software technology. Scott has seen a significant shift in the HR Tech buyer - "best of breed," as opposed to a full suite solution, is driving purchases now and a welcome transition in the space. "If you are an (#HRTechConf) attendee, you have to go to some of the content sessions." Click play above to listen to this interesting interview as Mr. Berg shares his thoughts about business today, what does the customer like/want, and what's new in technology today. You can learn more about Needham & Company here. intrepidHR at HR Tech To listen to all 30 LIVE intrepidHR interviews in our on-demand player, follow this link. intrepidHR is…

Broadbean CEO, Kelly Robinson: LIVE at #HRTechConf

December 4, 2015 Kelly Robinson Founder and CEO of Broadbean Technology, Kelly Robinson made his way from his jungle at the Broadbean booth to the Dovetail remote radio studio in the Expo Hall at HR Tech in Vegas. Kelly develops technology with the recruiting and HR practitioner in mind, having been a recruiter , himself, for many years. Kelly shared some keen business insights and gives advice to Start-ups about growth, success, and acquisitions. "It's a software jungle out there," said Kelly. Click play above to listen to this interesting interview as Mr/s Robinson talks about the importance of a great company culture and also addresses analytics and why it's a key buzzword in HR Technology: you will quickly learn why he is a well-loved boss and how he has found such success. You can follow Kelly on Twitter at @KellyJRobinson. intrepidHR To…