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Skills gap analysis: 4 tips to close the skill gap in your organization
Is there a gap between the skills your employees possess and the skills that will be needed - even in the future - in your organization? Then you are dealing with a skills gap. To close a skill gap, you can conduct a skill gap analysis. Because that's how you keep...
Preparing for the planning interview: tips and examples
The planning conversation, also known as the goals conversation, takes place at the start of the traditional HR cycle. The planning meeting determines what the goals for the upcoming period will be. Yet a quarter of employees have no idea how they can contribute to...
How do you evaluate and improve the onboarding of new employees? Tips & tricks.
Evaluating and improving the onboarding process for new employees is crucial to preparing them for success in their positions. In this blog, we explore the significance of onboarding and its importance to employee engagement and satisfaction. We also give you the...
What are OKRs Objective Key Results and how do you work with them?
Goal setting is inseparable from your organization's performance. Managing this performance, also called performance management, is what we described in our earlier Eguide as breaking down and translating the organization's strategic goals into individual employee...
The modern HR cycle: what it is and how to create it
More and more organizations are moving from a traditional to a modern HR cycle. The traditional appraisal cycle of planning, progress and assessment is now obsolete, as you may wonder if your appraisal cycle is still in line with modern business practices. And...
Here’s how to create a valuable feedback culture in the workplace
Many companies use an appraisal method that assumes one appraisal interview. Being told once a year how you performed in the past year does not contribute to good mutual cooperation and, more importantly, often causes employees not to develop (further). More and...
This is how you get employees to assess each other through the use of 360-degree feedback
The traditional way of assessment is well known to us. The manager uses the end-of-year performance review as the only time to give feedback. The employee has little to nothing to prepare and hears the points during the interview. Often such a judgment call then...
Performance appraisal new style: here’s how to set it up for development
A performance review, along with the appraisal review, is an important part of the HR interview cycle. But the traditional performance review has also come under a lot of fire. Fortunately, there is an alternative: a new-style performance appraisal. We'll explain...
Prevent turnover with exit and stay interviews
The labor shortage is so severe that restaurants are closing their doors one or two days a week, departments at institutions are closing because they can't care for their residents, and construction companies are postponing projects or not even taking them on...
What is employee engagement, how do you measure it and why is it important.
In this blog, we delve into the concept of employee engagement: what it means, how it differs from employee satisfaction and why it is important for organizations. We also discuss different methods of measuring employee engagement, including surveys, interviews and...