Honestly Engagement Blog

It Goes Both Ways: Implementing Feedback from Employee to Manager

Which way does feedback flow in your organization? Laterally, from peer-to-peer? Or do you take a more traditional top-down approach, with managers delivering performance reviews? When you assess the productivity, performance, and quality of the work your company produces, you may be overlooking one other direction–upward. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF Upward feedback turns the conventional approach to reviewing employees on its head.

Employee Turnover Is Devouring Your Profits – Here’s How to Stop It

Like every manager, you know that your employees are valuable–after all, you discovered them. But now that you’ve succeeded in hiring your top talent, it’s easy to assume that your employees look forward to coming into work every day, find satisfaction in their projects, and clock out feeling accomplished. This is a mistake. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF Employee turnover is an enormous cost that rarely gets circled in red on a spreadsheet.

9 Unusual Ideas to Increase Employee Productivity

Employee productivity can be a tricky topic. Managers today understand that people’s work output is affected by many factors beyond earning a good salary in exchange for time. In fact, productivity is higher among engaged employees. Therefore you could say that it makes no sense to address productivity without thinking of employee engagement and vice-versa. The two are intertwined. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement Ebook Download PDF It’s no surprise then that employee engagement is the talk of town in HR departments these days.

Talent Shortage? The Truth About the War for Talent

Looking for the right person for the job can be a daunting task. When seeking out a key hire, the stakes are high and the number of applications coming in is often low. In fact, according to a Manpower Group study, 58% of employers are having difficulty finding skilled workers. Globally the number isn’t much better, with an estimated 40% of global employers reporting talent shortages both for skilled and unskilled labor.

5 Reasons Why Employee Engagement is Important to Management

Employee engagement is a theme that makes the rounds of every conversation regarding talent development, productivity and company culture. But what makes it so important to managers? What are the benefits of an engaged workforce in the eyes of management? Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF Before we dive into a more detailed answer, let me first ask you these five questions:

Big news: Meet the new Honestly

We’re really excited to share with you what we’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Since the beginning of Honestly, we have invested all of our time and energy into creating meaningful relationships between companies and their employees and customers. Honestly’s purpose and mission is best described as an appeal to all the businesses out there: Put people first. By putting people first and emphasizing the relationship a business has with its employees and customers, companies can create real and meaningful value (trust us, we crunched the numbers).

5 Easy Ways to Change Company Culture in the Workplace

Whether it’s organisational culture, company culture or corporate culture, if you’re in recruitment or management, chances are this is a concept you’ve been hearing more and more about. In fact, in an age of growing tech startups and a demanding millennial workforce, ‘company culture’ has become something of a buzz word. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF And for good reason. It used to be that forking out a bit of cash for a half-decent Christmas party, or even orchestrating a summer ‘away day’ was enough to tick the boxes and keep employees (relatively) satisfied.

How to Increase Employee Engagement by Creating a Culture of Belonging

In a fast changing business landscape, where only 15% of employees worldwide feel engaged in their jobs, while the other 85% are functioning below their potential, it’s obvious that organizations need to make a massive shift in how they create workplace cultures that increase employee engagement and maximize performance development. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement Ebook Download PDF Culture should be the number one priority in running a business.

6 Ways to Boost Employee Morale

Employee morale shouldn’t be rocket science. No matter where you are in your career, everyone has bad days at work – whether you just got started within your industry or you’re a seasoned veteran, there is a good chance you’ve felt flat-out miserable at work, which leads to decreased collaboration, fewer conversations, and high turnover rates. Want to learn more about this topic? Download our Employee Engagement ebook Download PDF When employees become overly stressed or start feeling overworked, it’s a sign they are in serious need of a morale boost.