Written by: Charong Chow, Social Chorus Human resources will always be about people—but it’s truly amazing the way technology continues to shift the way HR teams operate. In 2019, you can bet technology and tools will provide new opportunities (both big and small) to streamline, enhance, and improve your work. Here are the top six
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It’s not hard to understand why an increasing number of companies are choosing to do away with annual performance reviews: according to one study, over 94 percent of employees would prefer their manager address feedback in real time rather then wait until the end of the year. But annual performance reviews aren’t all bad. Formal ratings provide a
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Why transparency is important For the past 22 years Habanero has been on a quest to become more transparent with our employees. And for good reason—transparency is directly related to employee happiness. In fact, according to 7 Vital Trends Disrupting Today’s Workplace*, management transparency is the top factor when determining employee happiness. One tried and
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Written by: Charong Chow, SocialChorus Modern communications are more than just email blasts. In our last installment, Shel Holtz of FIR was talking with Jana Dawson, Director of Corporate Communications, and Jaycee Breese, Corporate Communications Representative, at Westar Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. They were discussing the difficulties of reaching over 2,400 employees out in
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A new study released at the Engage16 annual workforce communications conference last week revealed that 2 out of 3 corporations are investing in employee communications technology. What took them so long? Every CIO and internal communications professional we speak with complain that getting employees to read internal communications has been extremely difficult for a number of years. Studies
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At ALI’s recent Strategic Internal Communications Conference in San Francisco, we tackled one of the greatest challenges facing companies today – how to create an outstanding experience from the very first moment employees connect with your company. Here were our challenges: #1: The Job Hunt How can we communicate our unique employee experience in a
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Jessica Stillman· April 16, 2018 How to Beat Boring: 3 Storytelling Secrets for Your Type of Organization If you’re Google or Pfizer, it’s not hard to come up with stories for internal communications. After all, your employees are literally launching moonshot technologies and developing drugs that save millions of lives. But what if you
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This article was written in conjunction with Waggl and Courtney Harrison, Principal, Medius Advisory Group. n case you haven’t heard yet, change is coming to the workplace – and fast. According to a 2017 study conducted by independent research firm Edelman Intelligence and commissioned in partnership by Upwork and Freelancers Union, 36 percent of the total workforce
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If you look back on your working life, what memories stand out? Chances are you’ll remember specific moments that have come to define how you feel about a particular role or organisation. We remember these moments so vividly because of what psychologists call the peak-end rule. When we review an experience after the event,
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From the Brilliant Ink Blog by Patty Youngclaus Brilliant Ink’s Ann Melinger will be speaking at ALI’s upcoming conference Aligning HR & Internal Communications to Boost the Employee Experience, April 24 – 26 in New York. Melinger will lead an Interactive Workshop: How to Tackle Measurement Challenges Through Strategy, Business-Driven Communications and HR Goals _______________________
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