Prioritize Recognition for a People-First Culture

The need for community, connection, and belonging with our work family is more important than ever. If ever there was a time we should celebrate the life events of our colleagues, that time is now.

As the world adjusts to month six of the pandemic, digital communication has become the norm, requiring many organizations to rethink processes around performance management.

In the most recent episode of our Keeping Work Human video series, Leila and Jacquline share the importance of mentors, allies, and enlightened leaders in promoting equity for all.

Read key takeaways from the Northeast Human Resources Association (NEHRA) and Workhuman webinar titled, "What's Next Starts Now: Rearchitecting Your Total Rewards Pie to Drive Employee Connection."

Today, employee experience is more about safety, hygiene, and predictability. But one thing hasn’t changed. In the end, it isn’t about benefits; it's about meaningful work.

In an informative WorldatWork 2020 Total Resilience Conference session, an all-female, multidisciplinary expert panel converged to break down the need for pay parity, and how to achieve it.

Connection is a basic human need; and in these challenging times, connection is critical for your employees' mental health and to build a sense of community.

Here are some tips for leaders to build the resiliency they need to drive organizational success during these uncertain times and do the right thing for employees, customers, and society at large.

“Hope is a powerful, positive view of one’s ability to attain a better tomorrow,” explains London Business School professor Kathleen O'Connor.

What can you do to maintain a wide web of potentially beneficial connections in these socially challenged times?

Here are some powerful proof points on how recognition can help your organization realize the benefits of higher engagement and lower stress – while making employees feel safer in the workplace.

According to Accenture's Tamara Fields, the future of work requires organizations to “talk about cultural awareness and inclusion and diversity in the workplace,” and make it happen for their humans.

Baseball is back and we're excited to partner with the Red Sox to have the Workhuman logo on Fenway’s storied left-field wall, the Green Monster.

As HR departments plan for Q4 and beyond, employee wellness must be part of an overall strategy to ensure organizational survival and growth. Here are 7 tips to get you there.

"People respond to short-term recognition, and a larger number of smaller-value incentive payments have a much greater motivational impact than one large annual bonus payment," says Peter.

Taking a more comprehensive approach – a career milestone approach – to the employee journey can highlight and reinforce the connections that make an organization strong.

Behavioral Grooves Podcast co-hosts Kurt Nelson and Tim Houlihan teamed up to provide HR leaders guidelines for how organizations should work with employees to get through this crisis effectively.

Recruitment, operations, training, strategy … it’s been said that Robin Schooling, managing partner at Peridus Group, has held practically every HR job there is. And then some.

Microaggressions are subtle and sometimes unconscious, which can make them tricky to deal with in the workplace. In the latest Keeping Work Human interview, Sarah shares tips for HR.

In today’s charged climate, Brittany believes it’s “more apparent than ever that organizations don’t exist within a vacuum. They are part of a much broader solution change, an ecosystem."