How Not To Burn Out Your HR Staff & Employees

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Burnout in HR too often occurs, staff is overworked and tired with little to no resources to support. After over a 20 year career in HR, our CEO and Co-founder, Kristy McCann has witnessed this time and time again. Check out our blog with our recommended resources to learn the ways not to burnout your team.

Make No Mistake: Soft Skills Are Key To Employee Prosperity

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Find the 13 necessary soft skills in order to have employee success. Soft skills are often overlooked in comparison to hard skill but are equally as important in the workplace. These include attentive-listening, empathy and curiosity.

Dragon-Fly Eye & Acting With The Best Of Intent

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At SkillCycle, our mission is to make it easy for everyone to grow in their careers, unlock their potential, and achieve greater happiness at work. This month, we came across some incredible lessons which we believe are vital for success in the workplace, which we’re sharing with you here.

How has this last year impacted your people

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People have been living with higher levels of stress, working longer hours, and dealing with more grief and anxiety than ever before. Whether your company laid people off or grew headcount (or both) during the pandemic, the level of uncertainty, change, and overall ambiguity has taken its toll on the way your employees function at work.

What’s Your Remote Work Policy?

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Candidates are asking this question in the interview process more now than ever before. With restrictions relaxing across the US as more people are getting vaccinated, many companies are evaluating their policies and deciding the best way forward.

For Greater Innovation And Engagement, First, Nurture Leadership Excellence

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Poor leadership also racks up lost dollars because it damages overall creative thinking, future innovation, diversity and inclusion, and mental health, along with inciting a fear factor about an employee’s next job — the fear that leadership there will be the same. It doesn’t need to be this way.

Personalized Coaching At Scale

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It’s the words that especially for female leaders that drive us bonkers because there could be a passive aggressiveness with it where I was told I was aggressive. I was told a lot of different things as far as my style where I was trying to be assertive with the dozen executives. I

Remote Interviewing & Hiring: How To Improve The Candidate Experience

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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.

Stay Remote: 5 Alternative Approaches To Return-To-Work Planning

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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.”