Back to Basics: Teach Managers How To Provide Feedback
Feedback can be valuable for your employees to develop and reach important goals, but more feedback isn’t always better. It’s not as simple as telling
Tori has spent her career dedicated to growing herself, her teams, and supporting the growth of others around her. During her 10-years in HR, Tori became a trusted HR partner with strengths in process improvements, program management and building trusting relationships cross-functionally. As a true HR generalist, she has experience in HR compliance, total rewards, global mobility, talent management and development, and employee engagement.
Using her HR experience, Tori became employee #3 at GoCoach/SkillCycle, responsible for building and scaling employee coaching programs and leading significant operational changes to influence scalable product growth. Today, Tori drives the learning success and enablement strategies, improving user ability to access the right content and resources that will help them utilize the SkillCycle platform in ways that contribute to their own successes. She is also a coach on the platform and manages SkillCycle’s talented coach community, always advocating for continuous learning and development for all SkillCycle users.
I think we can all easily agree that the interviewing process can be awkward. We have all likely had at least one bad experience, whether we’re on the candidate or company side. Which is why I feel so many of us can relate to the process, especially if we are interviewing candidates.
Did the pandemic disappear? Has everyone had a test to see if they are asymptomatic? Is there a vaccine I may have missed that is available to everyone right now? The answer is “no” to these questions. And until it is “yes,” then the answer to whether people (who have the ability to work from home) should return to work will also be “no.”
As leaders, we need to ensure that every single one of our employees feels safe coming (or logging) into work. It is not just about hiring diverse candidates — we must also provide a space for everyone to be their true selves and shape the culture in their own unique ways. It is never too late to build a safer, more inclusive workplace.
This isn’t news to anyone, but the world is changing. Now more than ever, people are looking for ways to improve the way they work to have a better impact on their overall lives. Not surprisingly, we’ve seen a rise in remote work as technology has evolved. But right now, it’s mostly innovative and cutting edge companies that support remote work, and it’s not yet become the “new normal.”
Most companies have already invested in technology that supports remote work. The framework and resources are there, and it’s just a matter of learning how to use it to embrace this shift. When we come together to embrace change and re-learn our work habits, we can fundamentally change the relationship that people have with their jobs.
SkillCycle, formerly GoCoach, is excited to welcome Terry Pauzer as our new strategic HR Advisor and Elise James-DeCruise as our new Learning and D&I Advisor. Welcome!
Our CEO and Co-Founder, Kristy McCann Flynn shares her tip on how to move past the early stages of founding a company, as seen on Technical.ly.
We’re often asked how a solution like SkillCycle can impact the bottom line of an organization. The simple answer is that the people of your company are the single most important asset you have, and the more you invest in them the more your company will grow. But we know this isn’t enough information to bring to your CFO when you’re looking for budget and support on a new initiative.
There have been some notable changes in the workforce this past year: companies becoming “woke”, high-profile CEO dismissals, and a workplace people transformation with new opportunities ahead of us in 2020. I am so excited about the new and many ways we can help others, knowing that many of the excuses and distractions that hindered us in the past are finally going away for good!
