Kazoo

JANUARY 19, 2016

A group of HighGround employees spent the morning at the Breakthrough’s Fresh Market helping stock the pantry, greeting customers, bagging groceries and sorting through food deliveries. In our own rewards program at HighGround, we offer employees the opportunity to donate to the charity of their choice. What are they?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In this roundup, In Their Words: HighGround Customers Tackle Performance Management , five HR leaders share their thought process behind designing their processes, the practical side of implementing it and how it’s helped their companies re-imagine their goals for employee engagement.

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Kazoo

JANUARY 26, 2016

Healthcare professionals and hospitals face a daunting reality if employee engagement is low: patients’ health suffers. Every company deals with engagement issues but no other industry is so directly tied to customer (patient) satisfaction, outcomes and lives saved. What challenges have you faced in engaging your staff?

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Kazoo

JULY 7, 2016

What we’ve learned here is that it’s always a good time to re-consider your engagement strategy. The post 27 Moments When You Should ReThink Your Employee Engagement Strategy appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Employee engagement has been a hot topic for a few years now and organizations are finally taking a closer look at how to create a culture of continuous, real-time feedback. The infographic below shows how we got here and why 2016 will be the year of employee engagement. Share this Image On Your Site.

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Kazoo

JULY 17, 2018

One HighGround client created a Chuck Norris-themed badge to celebrate its “Day of Awesomeness.”. These could support the behaviors and competencies the organization wants employees to embody, such as community or integrity, and be awarded in a town hall meeting setting or announced in the platform. or even made up holidays.

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Kazoo

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s no secret that companies are completely reevaluating their approaches to employee performance management, workforce recognition and survey programs and now looking for employee engagement tools to help support these new approaches. Selecting and implementing employee engagement software just gets the ball rolling.

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Kazoo

MAY 22, 2017

HR leaders recognize the importance of employee engagement strategies and the emergence of technology solutions facilitating them. It’s been difficult to articulate the benefits of an employee engagement solution when leadership clings to common misconceptions about the problem and how it can be solved. Aberdeen ).

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Advos

DECEMBER 30, 2016

HighGround Closes $7.6M Bonfyre Raises $4 Million in Funding, Accelerating Growth of Employee Engagement Platform. Perkbox, an employee engagement platform, picks up £2.5M Checkr Raises $40 Million Series B led by Y Combinator Continuity Fund. What’s next for recruitment site Lagou with USD 34 M in funding?

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Kazoo

MAY 3, 2016

How do you know if employee engagement is really worth the investment in tools in programs to help improve it? Some stats included: $11B is lost annually due to employee turnover. Some stats included: $11B is lost annually due to employee turnover. A 5% increase in employee engagement results in a 3% increase in sales.

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Kazoo

MARCH 31, 2016

Employee engagement is talked about often but rarely clearly defined. and Dean Carter, VP of Human Resources and Shared Services for Patagonia recently co-hosted a webinar with the Human Capital Institute called, “ It’s Time to Rethink Your Employee Engagement Strategy. What does employee engagement mean?

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Kazoo

AUGUST 10, 2016

Here are some parallels between the Olympics and the employee engagement in the workplace. In the same way athletes, coaches and host cities prepare for years prior to the Olympics, your employee engagement approach takes time, re-tooling and dedication. So practice, practice, practice and go for the engagement gold.

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Kazoo

MARCH 18, 2016

Last week we hosted a webinar with Human Capital Institute, Forrester Research Analyst Claire Schooley and Patagonia VP of Human Resources and Shared Services Dean Carter called, It’s Time to Rethink Your Employee Engagement Strategy. The post Q&A: Rethinking Your Employee Engagement Strategy appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You’ve spent time and energy developing a new employee engagement strategy. It is HR’s job to care about employee engagement, right? The CEO and senior leadership team set the tone for how the company values are carried out, how employees interact and even how often your employment engagement tools are used.

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Kazoo

JANUARY 18, 2017

Why engagement and performance must be unified to generate positive business momentum. The post Which Comes First: Employee Engagement or Performance? appeared first on HighGround. Download our newest tip sheet to learn more.

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Kazoo

JANUARY 29, 2016

It’s a recipe for failure that many organizations need to fix before their best employees get burned out from lack of direction, recognition, or development – and in many cases, all three. Managers have the opportunity to drive better employee engagement but they need the right tools in place to be successful.

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Kazoo

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HighGround in the news. Video] 9 Employee Engagement Archetypes. Everyone is talking about low employee engagement levels, but are managers even thinking about this concept in the right way? It’s Time to Redefine the Rules of Employee Engagement.

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Kazoo

MARCH 1, 2018

But it’s a myth to believe that these are the only things important to today’s employees. A report by SHRM found that “meaningfulness of the job” was the third most important employee engagement driver by 76% of respondents. The results can be found in the HighGround Meaningful Work Study 2018.

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Kazoo

MAY 8, 2017

After all, we’re in the business of helping companies execute employee recognition and feedback approaches that actually improve engagement. When we found out HighGround was named a silver Stevie Award winner in the Human Capital Management category for our feedback and check-in functionalities, we were pretty pumped.

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Kazoo

AUGUST 9, 2017

While there is no shortage of employee engagement strategies, one tactic they typically have in common is giving and receiving feedback. Whether it’s a performance review or a coaching session, or a reward or recognition, in each of situation, employees receive some type of feedback. Learn how in our eBook.

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Kazoo

JUNE 8, 2017

In the workplace, when a manager ditches a 1-on-1 meeting with an employee, it not only sends a strong message to the employee but it might suggest a deeper issue. Do employees on a particular team regularly solicit feedback from someone other than their direct manager? appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Can employees request feedback at any time or do they need to wait until the quarterly check-in? Yes, employees have the ability to request feedback at any time and it doesn’t necessarily need to correlate to a check-in. HighGround offers a variety of feedback types including: Group feedback. Project retrospectives.

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Kazoo

AUGUST 8, 2016

How Can HR Drive High Employee Engagement? HighGround founder and CEO, Vip Sandhir, shares his thoughts on employee engagement, the power of HR insights and the responsibility of executives to drive employee engagement strategies. Are your employees working hard or hardly working?

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Kazoo

JUNE 20, 2017

To make living their company values an everyday practice, some leaders tie them to employee recognitions. While recognition technologies are often thought of as “nice to have,” solutions like HighGround are a valuable investment. The post Ignore Your Company Values and They Will Go Away appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

MAY 5, 2016

It implemented HighGround’s employee engagement and feedback platform to help its employees recognize one another and perform better. The solution has helped unify and engage a workforce located in multiple locations around the world.

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Kazoo

JANUARY 21, 2016

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HighGround in the news. How Big Data Can Drive Employee Engagement. Using analytics to predict which employees are engaged and perhaps even more importantly, those who are not, is changing HR. Employee Engagement in U.S.

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Kazoo

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

What Arthur Blank’s Super Bowl Generosity Can Teach You About Boosting Employee Engagement. The Atlanta Falcons may have lost the Super Bowl but their owner did something remarkable beforehand that can teach companies the importance of recognizing and engaging employees. 9 HR Tech Trends for 2017. . What is it?

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Kazoo

JUNE 27, 2017

Skip the Stocks, Invest in Employees. At HighGround, we invest in our employees every day. Check out our new blog which highlights how Virtuoso uses HighGround to invest in theirs. How to Tell if Your Leaders is Ruining Employee Retention. How Great Leadership Drives Employee Engagement.

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Kazoo

APRIL 18, 2016

HighGround is Hiring: Beyond the Job Description . You might have noticed that HighGround is growing. Admitting a mistake is never easy but if you’re a manager, it’s important to acknowledge to employees when you were wrong. Employee Engagement Tools Aren’t Just Plug-and-Play.

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Kazoo

MAY 23, 2016

Employees also responded to a separate questionnaire, called the Employee Engagement Survey , that tackles their sentiment in four key areas: employee engagement, career development, total rewards and work environment. To earn a spot on the list, companies shared a bit about their HR practices. That’s a given.

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Kazoo

JULY 11, 2016

If you’re not giving regular feedback to your employees or answering their questions, they will find companies that will. 27 Moments When You Should ReThink Your Employee Engagement Strategy. Here are 27 moments when outdated employee engagement strategies will fail. Shift Your Employee Survey Approach.

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Kazoo

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Today, analytics are empowering HR with the same holistic view into employee engagement. Solutions like HighGround offer visibility into three major areas: Performance Management – Organizations that move toward a frequent cadence of performance development get richer data. appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Why Isn’t Your Employee Engagement Strategy Working? On paper, your engagement strategy is bulletproof. Four Tips for Tough Conversations With Your Employees. People are Naturally Lazy” and Other Myths about Employee Engagement. Check out our advice for what to do in and out of the conference hall.

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Kazoo

JUNE 1, 2017

In our latest eBook, Happy Employees, Happier Customers: How Engaged Employees Amplify a Strong Customer Experience , the answer is a resounding yes. We turned to the experts within the employee engagement and customer experience industries to: Understand how and why employee engagement and customer experience are connected.

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Kazoo

AUGUST 11, 2016

Over the past few weeks, I’ve blogged about different aspects of employee engagement that illustrate how today’s multigenerational workforce has more in common than you might think. Interning at HighGround this summer while using our own platform, I feel as though I have grown both personally and professionally.

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Kazoo

DECEMBER 27, 2018

From case studies and webinars to tip sheets and reports, the HighGround resource library is constantly updated with new content that helps HR leaders launch and optimize great performance management and recognition programs. The post HighGround’s Top 5 Must-Download Resources of 2018 appeared first on HighGround.

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Kazoo

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Before resorting to Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs), managers should reflect on the feedback they’re giving underperforming employees. Check out our blog for tips on establishing an environment where employees and managers can work collaboratively on goals. How Companies Miss the Boat on Employee Engagement.

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