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Employee feedback is a very precious and valuable thing. Because it indicates that an employee trusts you enough to share what they are feeling.
Category: Employee Experience
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360 Degree Feedback: Benefits, Pitfalls and Implementation Tips
360 degree feedback is a great tool for employee self-development. As such, it can help you uncover a lot of useful employee insights.
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Getting 360 Degree Reviews Right
360 degree reviews when done well can render insightful results and improve overall employee engagement as it allows for comprehensive feedback and not just managers feedback.
3 Tips for Navigating The Annual Office Holiday Party
The annual holiday party is a storied tradition at most organizations. It’s usually held at the end of the year in conjunction with festive holidays. For new employees, the annual holiday party might feel like a puzzlingly stuffy tradition, especially if you see everyone getting excited about it but just can’t understand why.
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4 Tips to Ensure An Enjoyable Office Holiday Party
One way to bring together a bunch of diverse people is to have a celebration together, and most office holiday parties do exactly that. They bring together a number of people who don’t usually interact with each other, put out a lavish spread and let the holiday spirit do the rest.
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Dealing With Mental Health In The Workplace
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In the way that the environment around us has the capacity to improve or affect our health, good work environments affect employees positively and toxic work environments can negatively impact an employee’s mental and physical health.
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Make Your Work a Craft
Make Your Work a Craft
Do you have a “job” or a “calling?” Research shows that viewing your work as not just a means to an end, but a higher-vocation that you are drawn and dedicated to have a dramatic impact on your happiness and satisfaction. But the surprise is: it doesn’t matter what the job is – anyone can make a craft of their work to reconnect with the deeper meaning.
6 Tips For Giving Effective Employee Feedback
Frequent employee feedback is one of those things that contribute the most to the organizational productivity but not many employees actually get it.
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8 Points To Ensure An Effective 360 Feedback Process
What makes a 360-degree feedback program effective? Is there are step-by-step manual or guide out there that can ensure a 360 feedback program’s success?
After some careful research, we at Engagedly came up with an 8-point guide that should make navigating a 360-degree feedback program a breeze and ensure its success as well.
What is the purpose of the program?
This is the most important question you need to ask yourself before you begin a 360-degree feedback process. Most 360 feedback programs are used for self-development, that is, to help employees know more about themselves and better themselves as well. Don’t use 360-degree feedback to measure performance.
What do you propose to achieve from the program?
Do you want to know more about your direct reports? Or do you want to help your employees know more about their own skills and gaps? Either way, whatever your objective is and what you would like to achieve from the program, it’s best to be sure of that before you start.
What are the parameters for feedback?
The process of giving feedback can very quickly become a vague activity. Before you invite people to participate in the 360 degree feedback process, share a set of feedback guidelines with everyone who is participating. That way, they know what to say, what they shouldn’t say, how they should frame the feedback, what phrases they should avoid etc.
Are your employees primed for the process?
There’s no point to a 360 degree feedback program if your employees aren’t ready for the feedback process. To prep them for the process, explain the objective behind the program, what you hope to achieve, what they will gain from the process and what happens after the program. Only when employees are invested in a feedback program and know what to expect can a 360 feedback process be effective and successful.
From whom all would you like to collect feedback?
Some organizations prefer to just collect from an employee’s peers. Others might prefer to also collect it from managers in addition to peers. There’s a third subset of organizations that might also want to collect feedback from external clients, vendors etc. The more people are included in the process, the more important it is to keep everyone on the same page with regard to the 360 feedback process.
Custom templates or generic templates?
You can choose to use generic, broadly appropriate templates for everyone across the organization or you can choose to use department or job designation-specific templates. If you choose to use custom templates, you can then add competencies based on an employee’s job title. Software like Engagedly helps you add competencies based on job titles for 360 feedback templates. Generic templates are good if you have a small organization where everyone does more or less the same kind of work. Custom templates are a good fit for organizations that have a large number of departments or employees who do very specific kinds of work.
Is the process going to be anonymous?
The call to make a 360 degree feedback process anonymous rests on the leaders of an organization. To be fair, anonymity can be a double-edged sword. On one hand, more employees might be willing to participate in a 360 feedback process because it is anonymous. On the other hand, there’s going to be some anonymous feedback that employees or managers might not agree with.
Also read: Anonymous Feedback: The Good And The Not-So Good
What happens after the feedback cycle? How do you propose to use the information you have received?
This is the most important aspect of the 360 feedback process. In a good 360 feedback process, all the feedback received is shared with the employee and then their skills and gaps are discussed so that employees can focus on their development. Hoarding the information from a process benefits no one and just serves to make employees suspicious.
If you want to make the 360 feedback process at your workplace easier, know more about Engagedly’s 360 feedback module here. To know more request a demo!
6 Meaningful Alternatives to the Annual Office Holiday Party
One way to bring together a bunch of diverse people is to have a celebration together; and most office holiday parties do exactly that. They bring together a number of people who don’t usually interact with each other, put out a lavish spread and let the holiday spirit do the rest.
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5 Fun Employee Engagement Ideas For This Holiday Season!
Holidays are the most delightful time of the year and all we can think of is celebrating them with family and friends.
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How To Communicate Effectively In The Workplace (For Extroverts)
A common theme that we hear time and time again is that extroverts have absolutely no problem communicating with others because talking and interacting is what they are best at [raise your hand if you are an extrovert and have heard this so often that you’ve rolled your eyes out of your head!].
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How To Choose The Best 360 Feedback Software For Your Company
More than 85% of all the Fortune 500 companies use the 360 degree feedback process as a cornerstone of their overall leadership development process – Forbes.
360 degree feedback is an essential tool for any organization. A feedback culture where employees enthusiastically participate by receiving and giving feedback to their managers, colleagues and their direct reports drives employee engagement and helps the organization stay productive.
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11 Employee Perks Which Are Lot Better Than Just A Pay Raise!
It’s March and almost everyone I know is talking about employee salary appraisals. All those talks about deadlines, goals, targets etc has got me curious and I’ve been trying to understand what is all the hurry and excitement about.
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10 Fun And Innovative Ideas For Employee Appreciation Day 2017
Employee appreciation day is fast approaching! It is just two days away (March 3, Friday). Have you planned anything for your employees? If not, this article is just for you (well, almost).
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What 360 Feedback Tells You That Managers Cannot
Here’s a scenario.
You are going to buy a new phone. You look up reviews, ask for opinions of others who have the same phone and compare the specs of the device to that of other devices. By doing all of these things, you get to weigh the good and bad against each other. As a bonus, it also helps you make an informed decision.
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How Can Leadership Drive Employee Engagement?
We know that leaders play a crucial role in organizations. In an organization, there needs to be someone whom we can look up to and the leader fulfills that role. In addition to leading the organization, one of a leader’s default duties is promoting and improving engagement. Because when it comes to employee engagement, there’s not a lot employees can do unless they have engaged leaders who can show them the way.
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How To Navigate The Office Holiday Party
Holidays can conjure up a lot of fun times, but additionally, they also chockablock with a lot of events, where you need to be on your best behavior, like your office holiday party for instance.
A Guide To Holiday Gift-Giving In The Workplace
It’s that time of the year again. Winter is here and festive holidays are around the corner. Gift-giving is a tradition in many organizations around the world, despite it not being a mandatory practice.
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Giving Feedback? Don’t Make These Mistakes
Regular employee feedback is vital. It becomes easier for employees to improve themselves and to align their goals to the company values when they are given regular feedback.
Not everyone realizes how feedback affects employee performance. Sometimes, employers ignore employee feedback and prioritize other business tasks. Though it may seem like a small thing, it might affect organizational growth over a period of time.
But simply giving feedback does not fix the problem. It’s important that managers and leaders alike know what kind of feedback to give. Bad feedback can have even worse consequences than no feedback,
Here are 4 feedback mistakes you should avoid.
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Managing Millennials Is Not Hard
Millennials get a bad rap. While some criticisms are warranted, some are plainly unfair. As tempting as it is to think of millennials as exotic unicorns who are disrupting the workplace with their ideas and their way of working, not only is that kind of thinking wrong because it’s based on a broad generalization, it also affects a manager’s ability to manage people.