Lattice

MAY 8, 2018

Feedback helps employees improve their workplace performance and develop their skill set. This development can help employees not only excel in their current position, but also perform well in future positions, especially if they’re promoted in your workplace. However, not all feedback is created equal. Managers should think critically about how their feedback is delivered, because otherwise it may be ineffective. Here are some questions to consider when offering feedback: 1.

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Lattice

MAY 15, 2018

For managers, providing feedback can be daunting— especially when that feedback isn’t entirely positive. Plenty of managers avoid giving critical feedback for reasons ranging from a fear that it’ll upset the employee, to being afraid to affect a seemingly positive workplace culture , to even not knowing how. But providing that kind of feedback is necessary for both the achievement of company goals, and for personal development. Why constructive feedback is important.

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Lattice

APRIL 30, 2018

Onboarding is an essential part of bringing new hires on in your organization. It’s not simply about orientation, either: onboarding should be a comprehensive process that gives new employees everything they need to succeed in their new job. A 2007 study from The Wynhurst Group found that employees who take part in a structured onboarding program are 58% more likely to still be with their company after three years.

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Lattice

APRIL 2, 2018

It can be tricky to know how to navigate friendships in the workplace. How much should you connect with your co-workers? Too much, and you might not get enough work done. But too little, and you miss out on collaboration, overwhelmed by your lonely workload. Luckily, we’ve got a few pointers: 1. What are the benefits of work friendships? How do you make work friends? What does a typical work friendship look like? How do you have good workplace boundaries with work friends?

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Lattice

MAY 2, 2018

Praising employees for their successes may seem like a ‘little’ thing: good to do sometimes, sure, but not that important, and often more of an afterthought. That small thing, however, can have an enormous impact both on employees as individuals, and on the culture of the company at large. The benefits of building a culture of praise. What does praise look like? Anyone can give praise. When and how to give praise. Giving praise publicly. The benefits of building a culture of praise.

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Lattice

APRIL 9, 2018

When performance management is effective, everyone is happy. But what exactly is it, and how can you integrate effective performance management at your company? What is performance management? The consequences of poor performance management. The elements of performance management. A strong employee-manager relationship. A culture of feedback. What is performance management?

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Lattice

APRIL 17, 2018

Product-market fit is the hard to define but undeniable ‘click’ when a product and its market connect. When you don’t have product-market fit, no amount of process, talent, or strategy will make a company work. When you do have it, almost nothing can stop you. It’s the only thing that matters. Identifying employee-job fit. There is an analogous concept in management that we might call “employee-job fit”?—?the —?the

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Lattice

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Asking your manager for feedback is an essential part of getting what you want out of your career. But asking someone to be honest about your shortcomings seems painful. It’s much less painful to believe that what happens in the workplace is out of your control. However, that’s a total myth. The reality is you have to take the reigns of your career and drive it toward the goals and objectives you want to reach.

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As an HR professional, it’s important to learn about the labor laws and posting requirements that affect your company. Staying on top of these continual changing rules can be challenging, but this free Poster Guard® e-Guide can help you better understand the regulations. In addition to an overview of the laws that apply to every business, you’ll learn about specific requirements for local postings, Spanish postings, remote workers, industry-specific notices and much more. Our e-Guide will provide you valuable information to keep your business in complete compliance.

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Lattice

JANUARY 21, 2018

A 1:1 meeting is an ongoing feedback strategy to keep both the manager and the employee updated on the employee’s progress, an opportunity to develop employees’ skills, and gives the employee a chance to discuss workplace challenges with their manager. Much more informal than annual performance reviews, these meetings focus on solutions to day-to-day problems as well as help an employee develop strategies of their own in the long run.

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Lattice

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Heather Doshay has been Head of People for Rainforest QA for about a year and a half. Before that, she was leading talent markets for Hired. Before entering the startup space, she got her PhD in Organizational Development at the University of San Francisco, and worked in student life in higher education. How did you get into HR? So many people tend to believe that HR is that persnickety policy person in the corner who can answer your benefits questions, and that never appealed to me.

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Lattice

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 1994, Rochelle DiRe left the art world for a career in HR and hasn’t looked back. Since, she’s worked in the rapidly evolving media industry (including for Time Warner and Martha Stewart Omnimedia) as well as for a host of NYC startups (LimeWire, Quirky, Intent Media Inc, and Managed by Q). She is now the Chief People Officer at Blink Health. What was HR like when you first started?

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Lattice

MARCH 22, 2018

To effectively manage remote workers: 1. Set expectations from the onset. Regular one-on-ones. Constant feedback. Status updates. Trust. When you’re in the same room as your employees, providing feedback or asking a question can be simple and straightforward. You make eye contact, tap them on the shoulder, or maybe finally unplug your earbuds and walk to their desk. You can gauge their response in person—read their body language because they’re just a few feet away from you.

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Critical thinking is more important than ever. The fast pace of business today demands that employees know how to make strategic decisions that drive business success. More than any other business skill, critical thinking can make the difference between success and failure.

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Lattice

JANUARY 30, 2018

Performance reviews can be very intimidating -- studies have shown it can even put your brain in “flight or fight” mode. However, performance reviews need not produce such reactions -- mostly because you should already know what’s going to be in your performance review. Performance reviews should not surprise you.

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Lattice

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We’ve already talked about what makes people happy at work. But a lot of those factors, like having a good boss and a high salary, can feel out of your control. What about solutions you can enact on your own? You have more power over your happiness at work than you think. Sometimes it’s just a matter of approaching the problem differently. If you’re unhappy at work, see if one of these strategies changes how you feel. Have friends at work.

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Lattice

JANUARY 16, 2017

People are companies’ most important assets. We’ve all known this for a long time, but 1) we pay it lip service more often than we try to do something about it, and 2) it’s true more now than ever.

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Lattice

DECEMBER 9, 2017

One of the challenges of being an introvert is that practices of professional recruiters can feel oriented to more extroverted ways. Here are some strategies for being inclusive of both introverts and extroverts during the employee hiring process for the best outcomes for both the organization and applicant.

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Lattice

MARCH 1, 2018

Companies and individuals can use goals to: 1. Communicate what to focus on (and what to block out). Track progress and motivate employees. Help employees define and meet their own career development milestones. Show how different initiatives are connected to one another. Give employees direction while supporting their autonomy. Goal Setting Frameworks. The two most popular frameworks for corporate goal setting are SMART goals and OKRs.

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Lattice

APRIL 11, 2018

How does performance management ultimately benefit the company? An engaged workforce. Feedback that leads to lasting improvements. Better manager-employee relations. The ultimate benefit of performance management. An engaged workforce. Effective employee performance management should naturally lead to good employee engagement. Employee engagement is both a quantitative and qualitative measure of the relationship between employer and employee.

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Lattice

AUGUST 15, 2017

Here is a very common scenario at growing companies. A team has decided it’s time to get serious about performance management, but they’re not sure what comes next. Maybe someone at the company read somewhere that performance management is something they’re supposed to do, maybe an executive did things a certain way at her last job and wants to bring that here, or maybe the company is full of hungry young employees with lots of ambition and not much management experience.

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Lattice

MARCH 12, 2018

So you’ve graduated from school, or decided to quit freelancing, and started working in an office. You’ve gotten used to the nine-to-five schedule, the office coffee machine, and have hopefully found your niche in your office’s culture. But there’s one thing left… performance reviews. Some companies do performance reviews semiannually, and some quarterly, but most companies still stick to an annual schedule.

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Dice’s new Tech Salary Report is here. The skinny? While Cloud, Big Data and Process Management skills are driving the biggest pay increases, employers are also offering non-monetary motivators to attract and retain tech talent. Find out which skills and incentives are hot.

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Lattice

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Emotional Intelligence is about how well you understand yourself and others, and your ability to influence yourself and others. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is highly prized in the workplace, with high EQ being correlated with those in leadership roles and higher salaries. (It It also improves your health, relationships, overall happiness -- and your sense of humor.) Not surprisingly, HR is the top industry with the most number of high EQ professionals.

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Lattice

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Whether it just crept up on you, or you were so busy dreading it that you buried your head in the sand like an ostrich, it’s that time of year again: your performance review is coming up! But don’t worry. Don’t panic. We’ve got some advice for maximizing your time in the seven days before the big day. We want to make sure you leave your review feeling confident about the year behind you and the year ahead of you.

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Lattice

OCTOBER 15, 2017

The team at Lattice is very excited today to roll out a major product update. This is different than many of the other product launches we’ve done at Lattice. Instead of adding a new feature, we’ve reorganized our existing features in a way we think will create a much better experience for our users. 30 seconds of history. Before explaining the change, I wanted to provide a little context on how the product came to be structured the way it did.

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Lattice

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest QA, recently sat down for a Resources for Humans interview and shared some insights into how startup founders should think about developing culture at their companies. What is culture? Culture is a mirror that reflects back the combined personalities of the people at the company, and so I think the only tool that you have as a founder to define a culture is hiring and firing. Why is culture important for startups?

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Lattice

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Fred Stevens-Smith, CEO of Rainforest QA, recently sat down for a Resources for Humans interview and shared some insights into how startup founders should think about developing culture at their companies. What is culture? Culture is a mirror that reflects back the combined personalities of the people at the company, and so I think the only tool that you have as a founder to define a culture is hiring and firing. Why is culture important for startups?

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Lattice

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Ask Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s CEO, about the key to building a successful company, and he’ll tell you a story about those famed early days. These were the eighteen-hour days, the sleeping-on-air-mattress days, the binders-full-of-maxed-out-credit-card days. This was back in the summer of 2009, and it was at this point that the three founders finally admitted that they were in desperate need for some outside assistance. It was time to hire their first employee.

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Lattice

JANUARY 16, 2017

People are companies’ most important assets. We’ve all known this for a long time, but 1) we pay it lip service more often than we try to do something about it, and 2) it’s true more now than ever. The rise of technology and the information age has resulted in more companies that compete based primarily on their people.

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Lattice

JANUARY 15, 2018

When you think of annual reviews you received early in your career, were they positive or negative experiences? Were your bosses able to give effective employee feedback that allowed you to improve? If not, what might you do different for your employees? Taking the “annual” out of annual reviews. The ‘annual’ part of ‘annual review’ is being seen as a big part of the problem.

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