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Tools For Remote Teams: Stay Connected, Productive and Sane
By Peoplescape|2020-05-20T15:48:16-07:00May 20, 2020|
The Peoplescape team has been enjoying a remote workplace for years. What we may have lacked in having a traditional office, we’ve replaced with intentional high-quality interactions and of course, online apps. If you are looking for new tools to fill any gaps in your own Tec stack, we share below some of them we have used. Save yourself the time on the research and use it to test out which work for you – or perhaps use the time for some self-care instead! […]
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What Happens When Love Blossoms at Work?
2018-05-03T14:46:58-07:00By Belinda Morris|
Never Slack on Your Office Communications
2018-04-28T10:00:14-07:00By Caryl Porte Laborde|
How Agile Organizations are Thriving Along with Their Gigsters in the Gig Economy
2018-04-11T15:40:19-07:00By Caryl Porte Laborde|
Things That Happen When You Have Agile HR.
2018-04-11T15:41:49-07:00By Peoplescape Consulting Group|
Agile Organization: What did Zappos do that you didn’t?
2018-04-11T15:42:09-07:00By Peoplescape Consulting Group|
5 Hidden HR Risks for Biz Start-Ups
2018-04-11T15:55:24-07:00By Peoplescape|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|
“Our first calls for HR Advisory or Talent search are often prompted by growth or crisis,” reports Belinda Morris, President & Founder, Peoplescape Consulting Group. Start-up entrepreneurs are typically focused on the products and services they are excited about bringing to market, operating on the belief that great ideas are the foundation to a successful business. Real entrepreneurs are rarely deterred by grim statistics, such as Dunn and Bradstreet’s reporting that 3 out of every [...]
How Can Employee Surveys Help Your Business Grow?
2018-04-11T15:55:40-07:00By Jennifer Burton|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation, Surveys & Assessments|
Perhaps one of the most telling tools that we have in the leadership toolkit today is getting knowing our teams; understanding what makes each and every person tick and getting to know them as people. How better to do this but through the employee survey. Many employers are utilizing these as a way to determine what is important to their employees, and to implement a strategy for making changes. […]
Emotional Intelligence from Outa SpaceX
2018-04-11T15:55:49-07:00By Peoplescape|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|
Many hats came off to Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla fame last week, and he certainly scored points for high Emotional Intelligence in his recent letter to employees about safety management at Tesla. His personal letter to his staff was in response to reports of injury rates at Tesla being 30% higher than the industry averages for 2014 and 2015. The way he demonstrated what sounded like sincere concern and action-focused emphasis, highlighted a [...]
How Do You Retain Top Talent in Today’s Workforce?
2018-04-11T16:13:57-07:00By Jennifer Burton|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation, Talent Management, Talent Search & Recruitment|
We live in a different world from thirty years ago. Instant results, knowledge at our fingertips, and communication at the speed of light…these are all realities in 2017 – not only in our personal lives, but also in our lives at work. Customers, clients, and coworkers expect immediate responses, and we have been programmed (or in some cases re-programmed) to react accordingly. In this fast-paced, technology-driven, instantaneous world, how do business leaders retain top talent [...]
Flexibility, Feedback & Fun: Managing Millennials in the Workplace
2018-04-11T14:21:39-07:00By Peoplescape|Blogs|
In March, we blogged about mentorship and the future of work, especially as it relates to the multi-generational workforce today. Check it out here if you’d like a background to this blog: https://peoplescapehr.com/mentorship-future-work/. We’ve talked before about millennials and how they’re changing the face of the workplace, both in diversity and in the implementation of ideas and innovative strategies for competing in today’s ever-changing business world. Now, let’s take a deeper look at […]
Open-minded Decision Making Under Pressure
2018-04-11T15:56:05-07:00By Peoplescape|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|
“People Leaders’ decisions are delimited (surrounded/demarcated, “Peoplescape’s translation”) by internal and external organizational issues; and these decisions involve intensive information sharing.” Caroline Walger, International Journal of Business and Administration Research, Vol I. Issue 17, March 2017 The bar has always been high for HR leaders when it comes to a tolerance for dynamic work environments. Unexpected employee conflicts, sudden staff departures, urgent training needs, mergers and closures, are just some of the fluctuating challenges HR [...]
How You Doin’? Effective Performance Management Strategies
2018-04-11T16:14:08-07:00By Jennifer Burton|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation, Surveys & Assessments, Talent Management|
“Checking-in” on employees is a critical piece of the retention puzzle. Landing quality employees is a big win, bigger still is retaining them for the long haul. Good people stay when they feel themselves developing and enhancing their skillset. Updating your performance management strategies, taking time to provide feedback to employees, and making sure the process is beneficial for everyone at the table is a worthwhile venture. In the words of Joey Tribbiani, a simple [...]
Spy the Lie: Deception in the Recruitment Process
2018-04-11T15:56:32-07:00By Jennifer Burton|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|
As recruitment and HR professionals, we are trained to spot the embellishments in a story, to zero in on the candidates whose credentials don’t quite line up, and to ask those uncomfortable questions that often lead to answers none of us are looking forward to hearing. Spotting the white lie, figuring out where the titles, responsibilities or dates have been boosted, and reading between the lines to fully understand how the career path really must have [...]
People Puzzles – Finding the Right Fit – Suitability vs. Personality Assessments
2018-04-11T15:56:59-07:00By Peoplescape|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Surveys & Assessments|
“Suitability assessments reveal important attributes and values that can otherwise be overlooked in hiring and career development,” explains Belinda Morris, Principal Consultant at Peoplescape Consulting. “In spite of the advantages of suitability assessments (like Harrison and Profiles XT) over general personality assessments, there are only a couple of these on the market, due to a greater level of scientific sophistication required to develop and test these instruments. However, we find suitability assessments so much more [...]
Strategic Hiring – Going Beyond the Behavioral Interview
2018-04-11T15:57:08-07:00By Jennifer Farrelly|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|
Behavioral interviewing, which came into fashion in the 1970s, has long been a trusted tool for hiring managers to use when selecting talent for the organization. By using questions that are structured in such a way so that the candidate can “Tell you about a time when…” and so forth, behavioral interviewing has given leaders insight into understanding how candidates think and how they have behaved in the past. Behavioral experts believe that the best [...]