Want a Better Employee Experience? Start By Simplifying Tech

Technology is intended to make things easier -- especially in the workplace. Employers are implementing more and more platforms in the hopes of simplifying everyday tasks and communication. However, technology can inadvertently contribute to a negative employee experience, if you’re not careful....

How to be a leader, not manager

Credit: Getty Images Let's get something straight: Manager and leader are not synonymous terms. Manage implies maintaining the status quo. It's a manager's job to ensure that things go as planned and that the team meets expectations. Leading, on the other hand, has an inherent forward...

10 Workplace Trends That Will Change the Way You Manage

From the rise of the sharing economy to the flexibility of remote work new technology provides, the workplace landscape as we know it is evolving faster than it ever has before. Some changes are subtle and others are great, but all will impact the way you hire, fire and manage in the years...

13 Key Strategies to Attract and Retain Highly Talented People in 2016

Image: Getty Images The way we attract and retain highly talented people has been one of the major priorities for Human Resources for a number of years. As the competition for the best talent grows; businesses must reduce the disconnect between their talent requirements and the strategies...

4 ways to engage employees

 According to an HR Magazine article, What’s In Store For HR In 2015, employee engagement and retention will be the number one “front-burner” issue this year for most HR professionals and organizations. “In today’s highly transparent job market, employee engagement and employment...

How To Answer "What's Your Current Salary?"

You are almost guaranteed to get the question "What's your current salary?" or "What are you earning now?" when you're looking for a new job. You have to be ready to answer the question with a smile while keeping your personal salary-history information private. Lots of in-house recruiters and third-party recruiters...

3 Tips To Create A Workplace Culture That Employees Love

Workplace culture has made the news a lot lately — and it’s not always pretty. This summer, the New York Times reported on Amazon’s “little-known experiment” in pushing its white-collar workers. Between internal competition and long hours, they revealed that pressure is so high employees...