Top HR Pros Share Note-Taking Secrets

Quick Summary: Quick Summary: Before you can successfully communicate health, wellness, and benefits information to staff, you need to understand the details yourself—processing precedes informing. Taking effective notes is a necessary—but often neglected—skill to push your projects forward so you can communicate with more confidence and clarity to employees. “In the workplace, HR leaders often must separate different ... [read full article]

Talk Amongst Yourselves: Scanning and Sharing Advice on Newsgroups

Quick Summary: Quick Summary: Before you communicate an important message to employees, check out how peers have handled similar issues by subscribing to appropriate online newsgroups. Think of an online newsgroup as a virtual coffee house, a public discussion about common interests, challenges, and ideas—except the communication is written, not verbal. When Are Newsgroups Most Effective? Newsgroups are most ... [read full article]

Get Better Feedback: 7 Online Survey Mistakes You Can Avoid Next Time

Quick Summary: Quick Summary: Want more employees to tell you what they like and loathe? Surveying them online can generate immediate, powerful, anonymous feedback that fuels your programming and benefits decisions Your employees will respond to online surveys more often if you avoid these common mistakes. 1. Don’t begin before setting objectives. Before considering questions to ask employees, know ... [read full article]