At ERC, we believe that creating a great workplace is about creating an environment and culture that supports the talent your organization needs to be and stay successful. It means creating a place in which great talent want to come work and where they want to stay and build their career. It’s about enabling superior performance and eliminating the policies, practices, and norms in your workplace that hinder your top people’s success, progress, and innovation.
9 Common (and Avoidable) FMLA Mistakes
There is probably no law that gives HR more headaches than the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Even the most adept and experienced HR professionals make errors when administering FMLA. It’s hard not to make mistakes, given the emergence of new case law as well as state and federal regulations that are constantly expanding the scope of employee leave and employer’s obligations in administering that leave.
3 Things Managers Do That Disengage Employees
Engagement is often viewed as just an “HR thing” when in fact, managers play an even more important role in engaging employees day-to-day. Managers, however, may not realize how their actions engage or disengage employees and how that affects their team’s performance and productivity. Here are 3 things managers do which can unintentionally disengage employees.
4 Ways to Become a Manager Employees Want to Follow
Are your managers people who your employees want to follow? Do your managers regularly encounter resistance and wonder why they can’t achieve the results they want or why their employees won’t follow their lead? More importantly, are employees just following managers because they are the boss, or because they are genuinely inspired and motivated by their leadership?
7 Strategies to Find Extraordinary Local Talent
Is your organization looking for extraordinary talent and thinks it needs to search outside of your local community? Not so fast. Many employers think they can’t find talent locally and pursue their search elsewhere, but local talent is at your fingertips if you use the right strategies.
How to Pay Your Executives
Executive pay is very different from other compensation practices you administer, involving greater pay-mix complexity, more components, and consideration of various business and legal factors. Here are executive compensation basics that you need to know to drive your business results as well as attract and retain key executive talent.
5 Myths About Workplace Communication
Employers constantly find themselves battling communication issues between employees and managers in the workplace. These issues commonly stem from not understanding the basics of good communication, mistaking frequency for quality, and making inaccurate assumptions about how much information others want and need to know. Here are 5 myths about workplace communication that your organization should consider “debunking” to improve communication.
Just Promoted to Supervisor? Why to Consider New Manager Training
Every organization faces the challenge of new manager training: transitioning an employee from team player to team leader. This transition from employee to supervisor is one of the hardest an employee must make in their career. After the promotion occurs, what should you do to make sure the transition goes smoothly and that your new supervisor is successful in their new role?
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The Ultimate Guide to Training Your Supervisors and Managers
Learn how training your supervisors and managers will help them overcome challenges, motivate those around them, and be more effective in their roles.
Survey Shows Trends in FMLA Usage
The ERC/CareWorks FMLA Practices Survey shows trends in FMLA usage. The majority of employers (71%) cite that between 1 and 10% of employees took FMLA in the last 12 months. Ninety percent of organizations reported that 20% or fewer employees took FMLA in the last 12 months.
How to Create a Positive, Engaging Performance Review Experience
It’s the end of the year and for most employers, time for performance review conversations.
100+ Workplace Ideas: Celebrations, Parties, & Gatherings
There are many ways to celebrate and gather in the workplace, not limited to just the holidays. Many workplaces come together to celebrate retirements, birthdays, anniversaries or tenure, office changes, employee or organizational accomplishments, among others.
What to Do When Violence Comes to Work
An estimated 2 million employees each year are victims of workplace or domestic violence, according to OSHA. Employers have a responsibility to prevent and mitigate issues of workplace violence, which also include domestic violence. These issues can cause problems that organizations can’t afford to ignore if not prevented or managed.
