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  • The One Thing Employers Have to Know for Worker Retention in 2023-2024 [Livestream]

    The One Thing Employers Have to Know for Worker Retention in 2023-2024 [Livestream]

    On Thursday, August 10th, George Rogers and I will be hosting a special livestream to look at our brand new data on Performance, Engagement, and Culture Enablement (PEACE). Based on 1,000 global workers, this study has some incredible insights on how employees feel about their experiences at work today, what employers need to do to…

  • DisruptHR HSV is BACK!

    In August I’ll be hosting the DisruptHR HSV event. This event is open to HR professionals that want to think differently about the profession, grow their network, and challenge the status quo. We’ll have multiple speakers covering everything from coaching and performance to culture and DEIB topics. If you’re within a few hours of Huntsville…

  • 3 People Leaders Share Frontline Employee Engagement Secrets

    “One of the things that a lot of our industry struggled with was trying to regulate employees and not let them have their phone in their hand, but we actually encourage it. We ask them to help us do TikToks. Everybody gets involved. It really brings in a sense of camaraderie. We’re not constantly saying,…

  • Listening to the Needs of 1700 People at Once at Getty Images

    “We have 1700 people at our company. That’s 1700 different opinions, needs, journeys. So at Getty Images we create and we measure and we monitor engagement opportunities to strengthen a work culture where people belong and they can do their best work.” Marie Potter, Senior Director, Culture & Development, Getty Images We’re Only Human — Episode…

  • Case Study: How to Automate Hundreds of Hours of Onboarding Tasks

    “I was deleting 24 Google Calendar placeholders one day and manually copy/pasting new hire email addresses into the 17 ones we were going to keep. It was at least 30 minutes of hundreds of just mindless clicks. And I said, wait a minute. I’m gonna figure out how to do this [better]. So I looked…

  • Talent Intelligence is the Future of Hiring

    “If I had to put a bet on the future, where we’re headed is about understanding potential future performance and what drives and drains people. I think that’s really where I see TA going longer term. We’ve seen success around using some of that psychometric data to really upskill folks into engineers that wouldn’t not…

  • Recruitment Process Outsourcing Research: Value and Impact

    “And speaking of changing expectations and what’s socially acceptable, this challenge of ghosting is going through the roof, and I’ve got bad news for you. It’s gonna get worse. When we look at the data on ghosting, we see that it’s actually age correlated. So someone who is 25 is more likely than someone who’s…

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