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World Kindness Day: the kind leader
Does your organization see kindness as a weakness or an asset in leadership? The answer will differ depending on your work culture.
New York Times best-selling author Dan Heath to keynote Workhuman Live 2020
Dan Heath is a firm believer in the power of moments and how they can transform not only customer experience, but also employee experience, patient experience, or even family experience.
Celebrating Veterans Day
Just as companies are dedicated to supporting other underrepresented groups, they need to make a concerted effort – beyond Veterans Day – to become “veteran-friendly” organization.
A deeper dive into diversity and inclusion
While the D&I conversation often focuses on ethnicity, Workhuman Executive Forum attendees touched on inclusion challenges, including navigating old boys’ networks, hiring veterans, and LGBTQ allies.
Humans of HR: Meet Robin Schooling, managing partner of HR and people strategy at Peridus Group
We chat with Robin about creating human workplaces, helping entry-level and front-line employees, and why honesty and fairness are the future of HR.
The business value of trust
The research on the business value of trust is undeniable, but there’s one simple daily task that illustrates what the lack of trust costs an organization.
Workhuman Book Club: "How to Be an Inclusive Leader," by Jennifer Brown
Jennifer outlines a multistage model – the Inclusive Leader Continuum – to help leaders and employees understand their current state, anticipate next steps, and create an inclusive culture.
How gratitude amps up belonging and civility in the workplace
How do we create a workplace where people feel seen and included? Take employee recognition out of a hierarchical structure and empower everyone to express gratitude and call out good work.
Fight, flight, or fright? Don't let the performance review spook you.
For organizations that evaluate performance on a yearly basis, performance review season can be scarier than Halloween.
The cost of toxic cultures
Bullying. Abrasive feedback. Discrimination and harassment. These toxic behaviors are all too well known in American workplaces. What’s less understood is the cost in terms of dollars and cents.
Work needs to get woke: a modern look at gender inequity
Just like old habits, institutionalized biases die hard, and reaching a future with complete gender parity is going to take time, an open dialogue, and some irrefutable facts.
3 things Gary Hamel tells us to stop tolerating at work
At the Workhuman Executive Forum in London, Gary Hamel said to bust bureaucracy we need to stop permitting "creative apartheid" and preventing people from bringing their gifts to work.
5 ways to prevent the Sunday scaries
No job is perfect. But there are five steps you can take to rise above a toxic workplace and be the change agent who can make a difference.
Author Priya Parker to lead experiential workshop at Workhuman Live 2020
Priya has worked on race relations on college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India. Her TED talk on transformative gatherings has more than 1.5 million views.
Kate Bischoff and Heather Bussing on harassment, discrimination, and belonging
Creating a workplace that’s free from discrimination and harassment takes constant vigilance. "We have to shift the way we look at each other, treat each other, and work within our organizations.”
Workhuman checks in at Workday Rising.
As a Select partner, more than 40% of Workhuman customers – which have invested in social recognition – use Workday Human Capital Management (HCM). That number continues to grow.
The new lever in compensation: crowdsourced pay
No matter how much an employee is given – whether merit increase, retention bonus, or annual bonus – the lift in energy and engagement only lasts about 3-4 weeks. Crowdsourced pay changes that.
Let's change Boss's Day to Leader's Day.
Boss's Day is a day for employees to thank their bosses for being kind and fair throughout the year. I would argue a boss who wants their people to appreciate them for being fair and kind is toxic.
4 steps to achieving organizational agility through trust
We are in the midst of a trust crisis in the workplace. Yet trust is essential for organizations to grow, evolve, and succeed in a competitive market.
World Mental Health Day: how to raise psychological capital