Transform Your Workplace
Regardless of our titles and positions within our companies, we can all influence company culture positively—and, ultimately, this means we can all encourage company-wide success.
But in many companies, there’s a disconnect between upper management and junior employees. Often, company leadership ends up overworked with the burden of implementing a strong, healthy company culture. At the same time, junior employees feel like they have no agency in the matter, no real way to affect change themselves.
In the Transform Your Workplace video series, Xenium HR’s Suzi Wear shares tips that are useful for any employer who wants to help their workplace remain a fair, open, and positive space.
In this series, Suzi will share legal updates, workplace trends, and practical “how-to” guides for tools and practices that will help you upgrade your company culture, no matter where you fall on the management tier.
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GROWing Through Peer-to-Peer Coaching
Many of us assume that coach and mentor relationships must occur between an employee and a manager or member of company leadership. But mentor relationships between peers—especially people with different skills and experiences—can be incredibly powerful for personal...
7 Tips for Asking for More Support from Your Supervisor
Many employees don’t feel supported by their managers. I hear this from employees all the time. But they often don’t feel like there is a way to improve their situation, and they worry about the consequences of bringing up any issues themselves. Even when the employee...
How to Receive Feedback
Tips for Receiving Feedback—and Putting It to Use Our brains are hardwired to sense threats. And not just physical ones: when we perceive something as a threat to our ego, stability or sense of belonging, the part of the brain that regulates our emotion catches fire....
How to Ask for Meaningful Feedback at Work
According to numerous Gallup studies, employees who receive frequent feedback are more engaged at work than those who don’t. However, the effectiveness of feedback depends on who is giving it and how it is delivered. Employees may not be open to feedback that is...
Why Planning Sessions Are the Most Powerful Time Management Tool
There are countless methods for managing time, but they all require one crucial first step that we often forget: planning. It’s difficult to prioritize projects, leverage resources, track progress and ultimately achieve desired outcomes when we don’t have clear plans....
Is Your Workplace Training Making a Difference?
Generally, when organizations implement leadership development programs for their employees, they are hoping for changes in behavior or performance that ultimately assist the organization in reaching its goals. But when those company goals are large and multifaceted,...
How to Develop Career Paths with Your Employees
Talking with employees about their career goals is a necessary part of maintaining healthy employee morale and retention. Employees need to see that there are paths forward for them within your organization—like opportunities to work with new people, gain new skills,...
How to Conduct Effective 1 on 1 Meetings
One-on-one interactions between employees and their supervisors have a direct impact on employee engagement. Research shows that engaged employees report receiving meaningful feedback at least once per week. Depending on your operations and the number of people you...
How to Evaluate for Values Fit During the Interview Process
When hiring a new employee, it’s important to hire someone who fits both the open role and your company culture. How someone behaves, interacts with their colleagues, and accomplishes their work is just as important as the daily tasks they complete. In some...
Transform Your Workplace 09 | The Best Way to Work with Me
One consistent challenge we all encounter in the workplace is learning how to work with people whose personalities are different from ours. We tend to invest lots of time in understanding the communication needs and preferences of our customers and clients so that we...
Transform Your Workplace 08 | GROWing Through Professional Problems
No matter how content we are with our career and life choices overall, at some point we’ll inevitably feel stuck. In these moments, it’s helpful to have reliable problem-solving tools at our disposal, along with support from colleagues and friends. That support is...
Transform Your Workplace 07 | Uncovering Future Job Performance with Behavioral Interviewing
One of the biggest conundrums we face in the hiring process is interviewing. While interviews are crucial for getting to know and vetting job candidates, they aren’t always great at showing us how people might perform in the workplace. Traditional interview questions...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 06 – The Top Development Questions to Ask Employees
In today’s employment climate, employee retention is crucial to a business’s success. In many industries, there are more jobs available than there are people to fill them, so when someone leaves a company, it often takes some time to find their replacement. That makes...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 05 – How to Give Constructive Feedback
Genuine, constructive feedback is an important part of employee success. When we receive feedback, even if it’s negative, not only does it show us that someone cares, and that that person is paying attention, but it also gives us a chance to be better. When we aren’t...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 04 – How to Give Meaningful Recognition at Work
Taking a moment to express your appreciation for your coworkers and employees is a great, simple way to show those people you value them and their work. A little bit of awareness and discipline on your part can have a significant impact on people’s workplace...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 03 – How to Handle Defensiveness in the Workplace
Many of us avoid direct, potentially difficult conversations because we worry about how others will respond to them. Despite our best efforts to be positive, sometimes when we’re honest with someone about their work, they misunderstand our intentions and end up...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 02 – What Do People Really Want from Work?
A lot of companies don’t know what their employees appreciate most in the workplace, so they don’t know what they’re doing well and what they need to overhaul. To help find some answers, Xenium HR asked over 1,000 employees where they find value at work and whether or...
Transform Your Workplace Ep. 01 – Harassment Training Update
A new law in California, signed by Governor Jerry Brown last year and in effect as of the first of the year, expands requirements on harassment training. Since 2005, employers with 50 or more employees have been required to provide at least two hours of training and...