Managers are the key to retaining your workforce. If management isn’t showing their genuine gratitude for their team's hard work, the chance of keeping that top talent is incredibly low. Your employees work hard. It shouldn’t be difficult to acknowledge their effort and show how much you appreciate them.

While there’s no single formula or questionnaire for perfectly assessing every candidate for each position you need to fill, there are some key questions to ask yourself about every candidate you interview.

As an employer with an open job position, the first thing you want to know is, “How fast can we get this position filled?” and the last thing you want to hear in response is, “It just depends…”

Even though we’re all exhausted from the hardship of 2020, prioritizing employee engagement is just as important as ever – if not even more so. Improving your team’s engagement is not only beneficial for your company culture, but also for employee satisfaction and retention – not to mention productivity and profitability.

Although it often dominates the dinner table, compensation is more than just a dinnertime topic – it’s one of the most personal aspects of employment for every employee, at every level. So as an employer, you want to make sure the conversation is a good one.

Having an understanding of your turnover rate is an essential part of any HR function – monitoring the movement of employees out of your company will allow you to better minimize the causes of turnover and increase your employee retention.

When filling an open position, it can be difficult to know which candidate is the right one. Unfortunately, there’s no way to know for sure which candidate is the “right” one until they’ve spent some time in the role, but there are signs that show they might be a great fit.

As an employer, you want to provide the best culture to keep your team as happy and healthy as possible. It’s impossible to eliminate every stressor within the workplace, but some common stressors can be, and the rest can be managed. Check out these best practices to help make your work environment less stressful:

It’s no secret the challenges HR professionals face are constantly evolving. Throw in a global pandemic and those challenges rise to a whole new level – now HR professionals are having to solve problems they never dreamed possible.

Miscommunication can be blamed for a significant amount of workplace conflict, and it would be unrealistic to think it could be entirely prevented. However, with a better understanding of some of the causes and possible solutions, the chances of a miscommunication decrease.