Building Trust into Your Sick Leave Policy
If you look at policy manuals around the country, you will find sick leave policies that say if an employee is going to be away from work due to illness for more than 3 days, they are required to bring…
4 Ways to Foster Learning On Your Team
The start of a new year often brings up the annual performance review and discussions about what kind of performance goals to set for the year ahead. As important as it is to focus on performance goals, the performance review…
How to Communicate with Employees on Leave
In a perfect world, every employee would be able to come to work in top notch shape and perform at 100%, without ever missing a day. In real life, things happen, and it’s inevitable that employees sometimes need time off…
Social Committees: Why You Should Formalize Fun
While the term “Social Committee” might make you recall cringe-worthy scenes from the show The Office (or even provoke eye-rolls amongst more cynical colleagues), there are good reasons to ignore the doubters and start one anyways. Why? Having fun with…
Winter Wellness Tips
In the summer, it seems easy to spend lots of time outside, get enough vitamin D, hit our target number of steps per day, and generally take better care of our bodies. But when the weather cools and the rain…
Crossing the HR Minefield
Engaged HR is pleased to welcome guest blogger and DisruptHR speaker Dave Whittington coach and facilitator with Calliope Learning. Dave's blog outlines his talk "Crossing the HR Minefield" at DisruptHR 2.0 with the full length video available below. As we progress deeper into…
Preventing Presenteeism
Most employers have a keen eye on absenteeism, but what about presenteeism? On the job time-wasting, when employees come to work and under-perform, can happen for a multitude of reasons. Whether caused by fatigue, illness, or low levels of engagement…
Accommodating Parents: What’s an Employer’s Responsibility?
Most organizations recognize that having family-friendly policies is an important part of having a competitive employer brand. The truth is, it’s no longer exceptional to offer flexible work hours to support parents and caregivers – for employees, flexibility is fast…
Cannabis at Work
Yesterday - on October 17th, 2018 recreational cannabis was legalized across Canada. This means that adults will be legally allowed to purchase, use, possess, and even grow cannabis. The result of the impending changes? Employers are left nervously nail-biting and…
Conflict Resolution: 5 Strategies for Workplaces
Every workplace experiences conflict. Whether it’s a tiff over whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher or deep disagreement over an impending merger, in today’s unpredictable business world, conflict is the one constant. Conflict in general isn’t necessarily a…