Top 5 Leadership Pitfalls to Avoid: Common Mistakes Leaders and HR Business Partners Make When It Comes to Supporting Healthy High Performance

Successful leaders navigate these challenges by prioritizing a balanced approach that considers both the outcomes and the health and wellness of their team members. Striking this balance fosters a healthy work environment that is conducive to healthy high performance. Read the article in full now to learn more about top 5 leadership pitfalls and common mistakes leaders and HR business partners make when it comes to supporting healthy high performance.

How to Test Your Assumptions: Top 3 Benefits of Data-Driven Decision Making Process for HR Business Partners

Having data on what employees love about their jobs in each business unit and what they dislike can help managers make more informed decisions about the health and safety of their employees. Senior management teams can always incorporate employees’ feedback by asking them about practical changes that they would make in their work environment to improve their wellness and productivity. Here is the issue with sticking with our assumptions. Read the article in full now to learn more.

Balanced Training: Top 7 Tips on How to Balance the Short-Term Burden of a New Leadership Development Program with Its Long-Term Benefits

Employees like their company as much as they like their direct manager. So, providing training to leaders is critical for creating a culture of care. The good news is that the best leaders are lifetime learners, and they enjoy participating in well-designed training programs. The downside of offering a new training program is the added workload on managers. The upside is that we hope the training program we are offering has a positive impact on their wellness and performance. Read the article in full now to learn more.

Top 4 Tips on How to Conduct Policy Review: Bringing Subject-Matter-Experts to Finetune Your HR Policies and Procedures

Do you know where your HR policies come from? In 99% of cases, work policies around performance management, organizational culture, and health & safety in the HR world come from two sources. They’re either from Google, or they’re borrowed from other companies in your sector which initially copied Google. Even if you hired an external consultant, they probably Googled it on your behalf and cherry-picked your policies from a bunch of different templates. Now, I am not questioning this method because I agree that there is no point in reinventing the wheel. However, when we use this methodology, there is always an opportunity for finetuning and improving these policies. Read the article in full to learn more.

Top 5 Tips on Launching Employee Health & Wellness Programs: Throwing (Almost!) Everything at the Wall and Making It “Stick”

There is a famous marketing quote where John Wanamaker said, “Half the money I spend is wasted, the trouble is I don’t know which half.” The measurement in the advertising world has progressed very impressively. However, in the HR world, we can still quite confidently say half of the budget is getting wasted, and we don’t know which half. In my experience, the typical awareness rate around wellness programs is 50%, and the average program uptake is around 10%. Read the article in full now to learn more.

Building a Resilient Workplace: 5 Effective Strategies for Leaders & HR Business Partners

To build a resilient workplace, organizations should prioritize and boost mental health safeguards, offer relevant leadership training based on psychological principles, collect and analyze data, and understand the scope and intensity of burnout within their organization. To address burnout effectively, organizations need to understand its scope, intensity, and psychological underpinnings, and implement targeted interventions such as workload adjustments, fostering a sense of autonomy, and promoting a positive work culture. Regularly evaluating metrics around burnout prevention initiatives, organizations can refine their strategies for effective interventions and recognize the ROI-related investments in their business partners. Read the full article now to become familiar with these top 5 effective strategies.

Dealing with Workplace Burnout: Whose Fault Is It?

We are on the same team, same storm, but different boats. Most of us are fighting 10 different battles at the same time, and our friends and colleagues are only aware of one or two of them. We can all agree that each one of us lives in different circumstances with different resources, and there is always a spill-over effect. The difficulties you face in one area of your life can impact other areas. That shows how offering a confidential coaching program for your leaders can help them sustain their healthy high performance in your organization. Read the article in full now to learn more.

Top 6 Reasons Why Each Leader Needs to Create their own Personal Recharge Plan: Healthy High Performance Coaching for Leaders

We are on the same team, same storm, but different boats. Most of us are fighting 10 different battles at the same time, and our friends and colleagues are only aware of one or two of them. We can all agree that each one of us lives in different circumstances with different resources, and there is always a spill-over effect. The difficulties you face in one area of your life can impact other areas. That shows how offering a confidential coaching program for your leaders can help them sustain their healthy high performance in your organization. Read the article in full now to learn more.

Create a Culture of Care: 5 Important Lessons for Leaders & HR Business Partners

Having data on what employees love about their jobs in each business unit and what they dislike can help managers make more informed decisions about the health and safety of their employees. Senior management teams can always incorporate employees’ feedback by asking them about practical changes that they would make in their work environment to improve their wellness and productivity. Here is the issue with sticking with our assumptions. Read the article in full now to learn more.

The Best Way to Prevent (And Handle) Employee Burnout: Top 15 Early Warning Signs of Burnout & Organizational Smoke Alarms

Working regular hours in a thankless job will empty your tank faster than working long hours in a job that comes with a lot of autonomy, creativity, and problem-solving. Burnout is not the result of long work hours. It has more to do with the balance of demands versus benefits of your job. For example, one may have a stressful job and work long hours, but they don’t get burned out because they’re appropriately compensated, supported, and appreciated by their manager and colleagues. Read the article in full now to learn more.