Honestly Engagement Blog

Welcome Gift Tips and Ideas for New Employees

A new employee’s first day can be a daunting experience for many reasons: pride in a new role, meeting new coworkers, and learning the ins and outs of their position are enough to overwhelm even the steadiest among us. As forward-thinking companies everywhere endeavor to maximize employee engagement, too many overlook the stresses that accompany the onboarding process. By making an effort to acknowledge and assuage the unique circumstances of employees’ first day at work, empathetic organizations can better help their hires feel relaxed, welcomed, and appreciated from Day One.

Analyze This: A Primer on People Analytics

“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” — Daniel Keys Moran If yours is like most successful businesses, you’re using analytics to drive your development, target your customers, and optimize your operations, so why aren’t you using them to maximize your company’s human potential? People Analytics, also known as Talent Analytics, HR Analytics or Workforce Analytics, is possibly the newest trend in Human Resources, but it’s still far from commonplace.

Small But Mighty: Turn Your Small Team into a Tactical Force

Greater flexibility. Fewer resources. Faster training. Tighter schedules. Small teams allow for a more direct, personal approach to accomplishing goals. However, the benefits come packaged together with their own unique set of challenges. Today we’re taking a look at the various advantages and disadvantages of small teams, and what it takes to lead one effectively. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF History is packed with stories of small teams beating the odds.

Successful Teams Practice Psychological Safety

Have you put the research and effort into providing a vibrant benefits package, but just can’t shake the feeling your teams aren’t operating at a hundred percent? If so, psychological safety might be your missing link. Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School, literally wrote the book on psychological safety. In The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, she defines Psychological Safety as “a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with questions, comments, concerns, or mistakes.

Improve Employee Retention With These 22 Tips

What’s your company’s turnover rate like these days? In recent years it’s become de rigueur for employees, especially millennials, to move on to (what they perceive as) greener pastures more frequently than their older colleagues. We’ve examined before how to improve employee retention, but a lot has changed in the past couple of years, and it’s high time for an update. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement eBook Download PDF Is loyalty an outdated concept?

The Secrets to Conducting Effective Meetings

“Meetings should be like salt – a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.” — Jason Fried Meetings, like e-mails, are an inevitability of the modern workplace. If there’s no escaping them, then how can one make them more effective? That’s the question many leaders lately find themselves grappling with.

4 Tips to Develop Cross Cultural Management Skills

“Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.” — Edgar H. Schein As the world gets more connected and businesses are no longer strictly local, neither will be the workforce. Right now, over 230 Million workers are expatriates, or roughly 3.3% of the world’s population. Companies with global ambitions benefit from an international talent pool, as it allows them to broaden their views and incorporate different ideas to the way the business is run.

A step-by-step guide to implementing a Change Management Process

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Change is never easy for those involved in it. That’s why many resist it, in fact. This is a reality turned all the more problematic when we consider these two things about change: change is necessary and change is inevitable. Yet, despite knowing that, according to McKinsey only 30% of change initiatives succeed.

Collaborative Leadership: 10 Steps On How To Lead By Example

There are some qualities that are expected when it comes to leadership; leaders are decisive, they maintain order, they initiate projects and drive strategy. A leader is supposed to know best, that’s why they are leading. However, the fault in this way of thinking is that, in a team of 10, only one person has the power to act on their ideas. The other nine employees, no matter how brilliant they are, are chiefly responsible for realizing their leader’s vision.