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Are you looking to improve your HR processes? Develop the commitment and well-being of your teams at work? Implement a new collaborative tool? Stay up to date with the latest trends in HR? Explore these articles to find the answers to your questions.
[Expert Opinion] Elmy’s Journey to Becoming a Mission-Driven Company
Temps de lecture : 6 mnToday, more and more organizations are seeking to move toward a purpose-driven business model to enhance their social and environmental impact. Among them: our customer elmy, a France-based renewable energy supplier that uses our tool Holaspirit to document roles,...
Why Boreout at Work is More Dangerous than Burnout
Temps de lecture : 9 mnPicture this. Your worker is sitting adrift at the office or home desk. The task assignments are like sand in an hourglass, slipping by, grain by grain, each as meaningless as the last. Is your staffer just being lazy? Or is it boreout, burnout, or brownout? We’ll...
ESG and CSR: The Winning Duo for a Responsible Business Strategy
Temps de lecture : 6 mnToday's companies operate in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, where the expectations of customers, employees and investors are changing rapidly. In this "new normal," organizations must no longer be satisfied with good financial performance...
The 7 Best HR Podcasts to Stay Ahead of the Game
Temps de lecture : 6 mnNeed a tiny (ten-minute) or solid (one-hour) dose of news, advice, or upskilling in the human resources field? Look no further—this is your ultimate list of HR podcasts from which you can extract all that. Some will leave you nodding in agreement or shaking your head...
Impact-Driven Business: THE Answer to Sustainable Development Challenges
Temps de lecture : 5 mnSustainable development means big business for companies! Ecological needs are evolving so rapidly that it's imperative for companies to stay aware of and adopt responsible best practices. Among existing responsible business models, there’s the impact-driven business,...
Do Purpose-Driven Companies Outperform Traditional Ones?
Temps de lecture : 5 mnIn its 2024 report, Deloitte found that nearly 90% of all Generation Z and Millennials stated that having a sense of purpose at work is important for their job satisfaction and well-being. No surprise, then, that purpose-driven companies are growing by leaps and...
Workload Management 101: 5 Strategies for Avoiding Employee Burnout
Temps de lecture : 6 mnA heavy workload, or a mismanaged workload, can lead to anyone burning out. As a manager, it’s your job to implement key workload management strategies to help support every employee and task. Done right, workload management can help bring complex projects together...
6 Best Practices for Building Team Cohesion
Temps de lecture : 6 mnWe often think salaries are the most important argument for attracting and retaining top talent. Well, think again: team cohesion is just as crucial! According to a Gusto survey, 54% of American employees have stayed with a company longer than their best interest...
Offboarding: How to Manage an Employee’s Departure
Temps de lecture : 7 mnOffboarding is the process of an employee leaving the company. Far from being a simple farewell or good-bye, this is a process with a few steps that shouldn't happen overnight! 🗺️ Offboarding encompasses the handling of administrative formalities, internal...
6 Ingredients for Creating an Inclusive Workplace Culture
Temps de lecture : 7 mnInclusion is one of the three pillars of DEI—diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yes, it's important to include inclusion in your organization! Inclusive culture or culture of inclusion is based on the values each company holds, as well as its convictions and each...
6 HR Team-Building Activities to Keep Your Hybrid Teams Engaged
Temps de lecture : 4 mnTeam coffee, music quiz, or classic brainstorming sessions... These HR team-building activities are useful. Still, most companies have already experienced all of these at least once. When the usual forms of team building are boring, and the team needs to be shaken up,...
7 Ways to Improve Company Culture and Retain Top Talent
Temps de lecture : 7 mnFor any organization to thrive and retain top talent, it needs a company culture that’s thriving too. The significance of company culture is seen across every aspect of the workplace – and it shapes the attitudes and behaviors of employees. For example, statistics...
Skills Management: Unleash Your Employees’ Full Potential
Temps de lecture : 6 mnAccording to McKinsey, 87% of companies worldwide are facing an internal skills shortage, or will do so within the next few years. To overcome this shortage, HR managers need to deploy an effective skills management strategy. Skills management is one of human...
[Expert Opinion] Steps for Achieving a Successful HR Transformation
Temps de lecture : 6 mnIn recent years, human resources have had to carry out several HR transformation projects to adapt to new organizational needs. Between the waves of lockdowns, the popularization of hybrid working, the return to the office, the quiet-quitting trend and all the related...
Best Practices for Ensuring HR Data Security
Temps de lecture : 5 mnThe digital environment that modern organizations operate in is a goldmine for hackers. This means that every department of the organization, including HR, is expected to maintain the highest standard of data security. It’s simply non-negotiable. A data breach...
How Can We Overcome Lack of Recognition at Work?
Temps de lecture : 6 mnIt's a gesture all employees appreciate but rarely address openly and proactively when it's missing: recognition. According to a study by the Jean Jaurès Foundation, 72% of British employees feel that their work is not properly recognized—either by their manager or by...
The winning strategy for attracting and retaining talent
Temps de lecture : 6 mnAccording to Gartner, 51% of global employees are now watching for or actively looking for a new job. Their objective is clear: they want higher salaries, access to more development opportunities, and above all, improved well-being at work. These expectations are key...
[Expert opinion] How Can I Develop an Effective HR Strategy?
Temps de lecture : 6 mnDeveloping an effective HR strategy is a major challenge for all human resources managers. It involves careful consideration of teams' operational needs, the management's expectations, and the company's strategic objectives. How can you strike the best balance to...
Why HR Digital Transformation is Crucial in Modern Businesses
Temps de lecture : 6 mnIn the age of Big Data and an ever-growing hybrid and remote workforce, modern businesses have to embrace digital transformation to survive. The digital revolution has reshaped business processes and cultures across multiple industries. Human resources (HR) is no...
[Gartner study] HR Trends to Track in 2024
Temps de lecture : 5 mnThe year 2024 promises to be full of challenges for human resources. Even with the COVID pandemic behind us, many companies are still struggling to re-engage their employees and get them to return to the office. The talent shortage also remains acute, making...
[Expert opinion] How HR can improve psychological safety in the workplace
Temps de lecture : 4 mnHuman Resources (HR) has many roles within a company. One of these is managing the quality of work life (QWL)—a topic that remains a priority for 49% of employees!¹ In response to these high expectations, more and more companies are introducing workplace well-being...
Transparency: cornerstone of Talkspirit’s own talent retention strategy
Temps de lecture : 6 mnMany organizations are faced with a steady stream of resignations and turnover that can be hard to control. According to one study, 36% of people who changed jobs did so mainly because they were dissatisfied with their work environment or company culture. To retain...
Quiet quitting: the telltale signs
Temps de lecture : 5 mnFor some time now, you've been noticing that one of your colleagues is only doing the bare minimum at work, and is becoming increasingly disengaged. This phenomenon is known as quiet quitting. On average, it affects 6 out of 10 employees worldwide, according to...
10 Ways To Enhance Your Diversity Recruiting Strategy
Temps de lecture : 6 mnWhen you look around your workplace, do you find that everyone appears suspiciously similar? Perhaps they might all be a bit like you? Same ethnicity, same gender, same background. It can happen all too easily. The thing is, a lack of diversity could be...
How to Successfully Implement an Employee Recognition Program
Temps de lecture : 6 mnOne area of business management that organizations should be prioritizing is employee recognition. The reality is that it is no longer as simple as offering the best benefits package out of your competitors. If you want to have a cohort of happy and motivated...
Psychological safety at work: why it’s important and how to promote it
Temps de lecture : 8 mnDo your employees seem to avoid taking initiative? Promoting psychological safety at work can unleash their potential! This term is used to describe an environment where employees are not afraid to speak up : something that 89% of all American employees consider...
Gartner: 5 trends for HR to watch through 2023
Temps de lecture : 5 mnRising inflation, the Great Resignation, the war for talent, supply chain problems... HR managers have had to confront many challenges in the post-COVID age. The most important one is to strike the right balance between the needs of the organization and those of...
Does happiness at work have a real impact on employee productivity?
Temps de lecture : 5 mnA company’s success relies, in large part, on how productive its workforce is. And if you want to inspire your employees to be more productive, one of the best things you can do? Try to make them happier. Research has shown that happiness at work plays a huge part in...
4 steps to build a successful internal communications strategy
Temps de lecture : 4 mnIf organizations want to empower their team’s best work, they need to create a framework for open and effective communication—or, in other words, they need to build a solid internal communications strategy. But for many organizations, how to build that strategy...
The top 4 advantages of internal communication for businesses
Temps de lecture : 4 mnWe’re in the midst of The Great Resignation, where employees are leaving their jobs—and their companies—in record numbers. According to data from the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 24 million Americans left their jobs during the second...
How New Ways of Working Are Transforming Knowledge Management and Sharing
Temps de lecture : 5 mnMore companies than ever are shifting to a remote or hybrid model. And in order to keep their employees effective and productive, organizations are having to rethink the way they work and the way their teams function—and that includes rethinking their approach to...
[Expert Opinion] How To Make Your Workplace More Attractive To Top Talent
Temps de lecture : 5 mnIf you want to build the best, most successful company, you need to hire the best, most successful people. But competition for talent can be fierce—and if you want to attract top talent, you need to do everything you can to make your workplace as attractive as...
How to Successfully Onboard New Recruits Remotely?
Temps de lecture : 5 mnMany onboarding practices (think Welcome coffee, office visits, afterwork drinks…) are no longer compatible with fully remote or hybrid work. To adapt to these new ways of working, Human Resources had to digitize their integration process. This is no small challenge,...
Deloitte Predicts 5 Key HR Trends for 2021
Temps de lecture : 6 mnThe year 2020 hasn't exactly been easy for human resources. Having to adapt to a totally unpredictable health crisis, the HR function needed to take on new responsibilities and support the implementation of new work methods. In this uncertain environment, anticipation...
Human Resources: 5 Priorities for 2021 According to Gartner
Temps de lecture : 5 mnWith the COVID-19 outbreak, priorities for human resources have changed dramatically. In addition to recruiting and retaining talent, HR managers must now support the implementation of new ways of working, while ensuring compliance with drastic health measures. ...
New ways of working: why and how to adopt them?
Temps de lecture : 5 mnRemote work, flex office, smart office, nomadism, digital workplace… New ways of working are more and more popular among companies. Still, many people haven't yet heard of them. For example, 71% of French employees don't know what a flex office is¹. Yet these new work...
5 Best Practices to Maintain Your Company Culture While Working Remotely
Temps de lecture : 7 mnCompany culture plays a key role in talent retention. According to a 2019 Glassdoor survey, 56% of employees believe it's even more important than their salary. Fine, but how do you maintain that business culture with a remote workforce? In order to adapt to changing...
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