by jenny | Apr 12, 2022 | Company Culture, Employee Development, HR Insights and Trends
From the HR Support Center Think about your favorite manager. Now think about what made them your favorite. Was it the success you earned while working with them? Your employer may have evaluated them based on metrics like team productivity or turnover rates. Great...
by jenny | Nov 29, 2021 | Employee Development
From the pros at the HR Support Center Many Americans get their first job working at a fast-food chain. You may have been one of them. If so, you probably remember your first day. Maybe you started at a register. Or perhaps you began in the kitchen. Either way, you...
by jenny | Apr 16, 2021 | Employee Development, HR Insights and Trends
Rhoda McVeigh contributed this How-to article, published in MaineBiz April 15th Over the last year, in addition to dealing with COVID-19, employers became much more aware of the business case for strengthening their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies and...
by hanna | Mar 5, 2021 | Employee Development, Employee Relations
From the Pros at the 24 Hour HR Support Center In an ideal world, communication would be easy. We’d immediately know exactly what to say or write. Emails, Slack messages, and reply threads would practically write themselves. And there’d be no confusion about what...
by kma team | Mar 11, 2020 | Company Culture, Employee Development, Employee Relations, HR Insights and Trends
From the Pros at the HR Support Center Writing in Harvard Business Review, Seth Harris and Jake Schwartz argue that competing for skilled workers is a mistake—that organizations would be better served by growing the talent they need from within. Employers are often...
by kma team | Feb 26, 2020 | Employee Development, Employee Relations, HR Insights and Trends
From the Pros at the HR Support Center There are a lot of reasons why an employee or a team may be underperforming, and sometimes it takes a little digging to get at the root of the problem. Under-performance could be due to a skill gap, unclear expectations, or a...