2 Reasons Your Harassment Training is Failing
You’re finishing up your workplace harassment training and everyone signed your company’s anti-harassment policy. No #MeToo issues for you, right? While you’ve done enough to comply with the administrative requirements, your training has likely done very little to actually prevent harassment from happening in your workplace. Why? Two reasons. Problem #1: You’re solving for the …
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How Good Surveys Go Wrong. Choosing the Right Employee Survey for Your Business.
So, you want to know more about your employees. Why not just run a simple employee survey, right?! Unfortunately, this is the haphazard approach has been adopted by many companies and is why 78% of companies using employee surveys fails to see improvement. Any survey produces data, but quality data comes when you use …
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Can a sucky interview be your key to success?
Prior to finding my career in HR and company culture, I tried out a lot of jobs. A LOT. One job I really liked was working as a matchmaker. Setting people up on blind dates that is….not manufacturing matches to light a fire (you’d be surprised how often I had to clarify this point). This …
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At what point does a company have a culture?
Monthly, I host a culture event featuring leaders from various companies with amazing workplace cultures. In these events I ask each guest when he/she became aware of their company’s culture. All too often, they respond with a story of how they discovered the importance of culture too late, usually a lesson learned the hard way. …
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Culture Engineered Event – Innovative People: DoubleDutch
The Energy of a Team Coming Together DoubleDutch brings the power of digital to some of the largest live events. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, they took off on the startup tech rocketship of VC funding and fast growth. As is so often the case, the journey to profitability and category leadership …
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Feelings in the Workplace – An Insightful Tool or the New “F” Word?
Crying, yelling, arguing, fighting. Not ideal in any workplace. So, when the Huffington Post asked Culture Engineered for tips to include in their article, Crying At Work Happens. Here’s How to Handle It, According To Experts, we stressed the importance of taking a broader approach to such events. Excessive emotion in the workplace is often …
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Culture Engineered Launches a New Tool for Schools!
Today, Culture Engineered officially launches a survey focused on assessing the employee experience for educators as it relates to school performance. The process began in fall of 2017 when a staggering number of requests were received from schools around the US in an effort to improve their workplace. Not a surprise to many as the …
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Should you ban employees from dating?
Recently, Culture Engineered was asked by the Huffington Post how an employee should ask a co-worker out on a date. While a topic dreaded by most HR and People professionals, it led us to consider whether or not a non-fraternization policy still holds any relevance in today’s workplace. Do these policies protect the company legally? …
Your new year strategy – Plan or Pipedream?
If you’re planning for success, be sure to include a plan for your people in 5 steps. It’s year end and like most leaders, you are assessing both this year’s performance and putting together a plan for an even better and more successful new year. But before finalizing either your year end review or the …
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