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Brooks: Want better managers? You need to develop better employees

HRExecutive

HR leaders have a lot of angst about their managers, and whenever I speak to them in sales conversations, at industry events or even in a coaching dynamic, I can feel the frustration in their voices. In order to make better managers, we must have employees meet them halfway. This is a relationship, after all!

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Connecting the Dots in Employee Engagement

Strategic HCM

But I’ve also been sent a copy of some new HCI research on engagement, due to publication in September, ‘Connecting the Dots: Comprehensive Career Development as a Catalyst for Employee Engagement’ and am pleased to see the overlap with some of the key points I was making in today’s training. Engagement Events Social networks'

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Employee Relations: Examples + 10 Strategy Tips

Analytics in HR

Understand the psychological contract At the foundation of the employee-employer relationship lies a social and psychological contract. This contract consists of beliefs about reciprocal obligations between the two parties. Let’s take a look at ten ways to optimize employee relations: 1.