All Blog Posts Tagged 'SHRM' (9)

Recognize This! – If you go to the trouble of developing core values, then it’s worth the effort to make those values real in the daily work of every employee.

Does your company have core values defined? If so, why? What’s the expectation for those values? I would hope that it’s so employees will live by them. And yet, this rarely happens in organizations today.

So how do you get the most value from your company values?

1. Communicate the…

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Recognize This! – Direction, training, and feedback are critical to increased engagement.

Thanks to a great article in HRZone.co.uk by Leslie Allen, I came across these interesting results of a recent CIPD study in the UK. (The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development is similar to SHRM in the US. This 2012 research reflects…

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Recognize This! – You can learn a lot about recognition done right in just 30 minutes.

Well, it’s not everything you need to know, but I’m impressed with how much ground we were able to cover thanks to William and Byran’s expert guidance. Three weeks ago I had the opportunity to join Bryan Wempen and William Tincup on their DriveThru HR program…

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Recognize This! – CFOs say communication and recognition are most lacking in employee management.

What do Chief Financial Officers – those charged with managing the money – say is most lacking in employee management? For more than 1,400 CFOs from US companies who were asked just that in a recent survey by Accountemps, the answer is simple – communicate more and say “thanks.”

Most…

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Recognize This! — “The enemy you know” isn’t a good enough reason to keep relying on a broken process that demoralizes employees.

Eve Tahmincioglu ran a story on MSNBC.com today on just this topic. Jumping off of results from the…

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Recognize This! — You can’t have a meaningful discussion about performance, goals, and successes in an environment of fear, dread and anxiety.

How do you feel about performance reviews? Personally, I think the annual performance review (as most commonly implemented) is broken. It’s too infrequent, too fraught with anxiety and fear (for the manager as well as the employee), and too ineffective at doing what it is supposed to do – deliver solid, actionable praise…

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Recognize This! – If the vast majority of your employees are dissatisfied with your recognition program, perhaps it’s time to change the program.

I greatly enjoyed leading a webinar discussion yesterday with Evren Esen of SHRM on the results of our bi-annual Globoforce/SHRM Employee Recognition Tracker. (Recorded webinar available on HR.com.)

Commissioned to dive into the expectations and…

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First and foremost, let's start by recapping on what SHRM is and what they do...



Per the official SHRM website:



"The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management. Representing more than 250,000 members in over 140 countries, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals and advances the interests of the HR profession. Founded in 1948, SHRM has more than… Continue

By now any business person should realize that HR professionals are at the forefront of the economic crisis. If HR is not managing layoffs, it is dealing with the extensive updates to HR legislation (COBRA, FMLA, I-9s, Lilly Ledbetter, etc.). While companies are shutting down, downsizing, and reorganizing, HR professionals are being called on to step up to the plate to ensure organizations remain informed and compliant.



We have been asked to the strategic table and found our seat,… Continue