Many critical HR tasks either start with or require communication. As a practitioner, you have a rather diverse audience: executives, middle managers, rank-and-file employees, stakeholders, and even prospective members of your organization. And because communication sits at the core of…
Working in Human Resources often means having to overcome one roadblock after another. If you’re the type who likes keeping the company’s goals in mind, a day in the life of an HR practitioner would give you a soul-crushing list…
Workplace productivity is hard to come by these days, but it’s not hard to see why that’s the case. We live in an age of competing priorities: an age when we’re faced with both tougher demands and more distractions at…
As someone who works in HR, you don’t have to be reminded of the importance of training in one’s career. It’s something you’re expected to advocate; something you know by heart. Learning and development (L&D), after all, are a crucial…
There is an old saying that goes, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Although we know better than to think that this bit of wisdom is always true, we can’t deny the importance of building and expanding…
An updated employee handbook is like the well-built foundation of a sturdy building: it holds everything in place and survives the test of time. Everything changes, especially in the workplace. Labor and tax laws get amended. Technology evolves. Companies rebrand…
A tricky part of being in HR is that the world thinks you’re faultless — perfect, so to speak — when, in fact, you’re not. Just like everybody else, you make mistakes. But unlike regular employees and middle managers, your…
Great employers don’t rely on luck in finding and keeping the right talent. Instead of leaving things to chance, they spend huge amounts of resources in hiring and retaining excellent people. The best products and services, after all, can only…
Managing a team at work is an equally big responsibility as that of managing a household. It comes with certain expectations, such as showing leadership and being the role model at all times, being able to manage troubled employees, and more, while…