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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...
How can you prevent burnout with GOOD conversations?
Burnout is a feeling of being burned out, spent and empty and can manifest itself in difficulty concentrating, fatigue, lethargy, sometimes crying and chaotic thinking. Employees nearing burnout often resent everything, are more easily irritated and less engaged....
Rewarding and The Good Talk
Do bonuses lead to better functioning employees and increased motivation? Does an assessment with final scores ranging from A = poor to E = excellent contribute to increasing employee job satisfaction and sustainable employability? In what ways, other than money,...
In The Good Conversation, focus on strengths!
Focusing on strengths is an ingredient of The Good Conversation. The "strengths" approach states that if employees do work they are (already) good at, this will lead to even better performance, less absenteeism, more development and less turnover. What is...
Prevent burnout with Vitamin A talks
Due to the tight labor market, employees' workload has increased significantly over the past year, resulting in record high absenteeism. Nationale Nederlanden's Sick Leave & Disability Trend Report (November 2022) states that half of employers report that...
Employee journey: a complete guide
Creating an engaging and supportive employee journey is an essential strategy for companies striving for high employee satisfaction, engagement and overall business performance. This journey, which encompasses an employee's entire experience with an organization,...
Be radically candid about mistakes
Last year, even more organizations said goodbye to the more traditional interview cycle and welcomed The Good Conversation. One of the ingredients of this conversation is ongoing dialogue. Employees are coached by their supervisor throughout the year, receive and...
Be happy with an excuse in The Good Talk
Coaching leadership is one of the five ingredients of The Good Conversation. In this conversation, there should be room for "a sorry. Admitting to having made a mistake is not easy for every employee. Certainly not to his supervisor. Fear of his sighing response...
Improve and develop with competencies
In more and more organizations, the old-style appraisal interview is under fire. The emphasis would be too much on the past and what went wrong. Including competencies in conversations with employees allows them to shift their focus to their strengths and develop...
What is a “Continuous Dialogue” and how do you implement it?
'Continuous dialogue' refers to managers having ongoing conversations with their employees throughout the year. This methodology is often used as one of the tools to replace the traditional HR interview cycle with plan, performance and appraisal interviews. In a...