Tag: employee engagement

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…

Does Your Employee Experience Match Your Employer Brand?

November 1, 2017 Is HR Broken? What do you think? I've heard and read it often that HR is, indeed, broken. Human Resources and Talent Management are supposed to assist employees (ranging from high-ranking executives to the newest and most subordinate player) in their experience at work, making it better. HR should, most definitely, listen to and be responsive to every employee on payroll. Human Resource Professionals have fought for years to get a seat at the table. But, what exactly does that mean? We should be tired of the excuses given for why bad employment experiences exist. If employees are taken care of, basic needs met, if they are heard, if managers are doing their jobs? Perhaps lawsuits and attrition would drop and those tremendous employer branding efforts would be a little less necessary. Do Employees have a Voice? It may be…

Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence

June 16, 2017 Guest Ron Wiens joins Rayanne for 4 episodes to share his expertise in Cultural Change Series: Emotional Intelligence, Part 2 HR Latte, episode 103 Ron Wiens, Speaker, Author, and Advisor on Cultural Change, introduces several concepts from his book, "Building Organizations that Leap Tall Buildings in Single Bound." Ron joins Rayanne again to continue the conversation in Episode 2 of a four-part series to talk about how to get your employees, teams, or organizations to work together for the good of the whole with a focus on Emotional Intelligence. "How people work together, how they interact, goes to the heart of what organizational culture is all about. Culture, a culture that facilitates the ongoing creation of new knowledge, a culture that gets people building and creating together, has become today's competitive advantage." - Ron Wiens Ron is happy to share everything…

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…

Matt Yunker: Showing Efficiency and Savings to Benefit our Clients

November 4, 2016 Matt Yunker, "Ethics and Integrity in Sales" Matt Yunker, Director of Sales with a Focus in Healthcare “One of the reasons I came to Dovetail was the integrity of the organization. Ethics is a big deal to me. You just can't lie to a customer. I see it over and over. And I think 'Lies by Omission' is a big issue in sales, where you just don' tell them and you let it go and you deal with it later. If I were the customer, how would like to be I like to be sold to? What would I like to know up front? I need to know so that I can make an educated decision." - Matt Yunker Check out this great interview and learn what’s on Matt’s mind: Dovetail Employee Engagement Suite Healthcare Focus By HR, for HR A Product that…

Charlie Judy: The Evolution of Culture

October 20, 2016 Charlie Judy talks Culture on intrepidHR! Charlie Judy, Founding Partner with Work XO, LLC, talks about the work he does at Work XO - a "culture shop" - at a genetic level providing data and intelligence to helping clients align culture with potential and growth. "Human doesn't happen organically, it is a little ironic and - but it doesn't happen when its enveloped in this institution we call work." Check out this great interview and learn what's on Charlie's mind: Being Intentional about Your Culture The Right Culture The reinforcement and clarification of Culture The Evolution of Culture The Institution of Work Remaining Relevant in the World of Work Tuning Out the Noise Unleashing Human Potential On Culture: "You can't look at your employee engagement score and say that 'we have a strong culture' or 'we don't' - that is an indicator but you need to get…

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…

The Community Garden of SaaS

July 14, 2016 The Perfect Analogy From time to time, we come up with analogies on the fly that make so much sense, we have to share them. This is a great example. Not long ago, I was trying to explain how SaaS works in relation to developing software and product management. While we've talked about our process in the past, it has been on the "how," not the "why." To explain that part, we found a perfect analogy in the Community Garden. The Plot Let's start with the land. To get our garden going, we need a place to put it. So we imagine a city block that has been razed and plowed. This is our garden, and we have opened up access to our clients, who wish to grow their own beets. We let the spinach people in too, of course.…

What Is HR Case Management?

February 25, 2016 Do you know what HR Case Management is? In the customer service sense, case management speaks to tracking interactions with customers, making sure their purchasing and product acquisition experience is the best. If we were to address case management in a healthcare environment, we would see the tracking of the life cycle of a patient, through their interactions with a healthcare provider or healthcare facility/system. HR Case Management can be viewed similarly, in that reporting and tracking employee interactions with HR allows for a greater understanding of the employee experience with the employer, and vice versa. Data collected using HR Case Management creates opportunity to efficiently handle questions, requests, and problems without losing any information, or letting issues or challenges to be mishandled, mismanaged or not managed at all. Recap The use of an HR Case Management system ensures that…