There are several good reasons to give feedback. The first would be to confirm understanding, to make sure that the employee understands what you're asking them to do and why. Also, this is your opportunity to clarify the meaning, or the intent of giving the feedback, to provide guidance, to give direction in terms of a step-by-step process that you'd like to follow, to change the employee's behavior, and encourage their development. A bad reason to give feedback would be to demean, embarrass, intimidate, or hurt your employee to get something off your chest. Here's an easy way to remember how to give effective feedback with the BOOSTER acronym. Booster stands For Balanced, Observed, Objective, Specific, Timely, Engaging, and Respectful.

Anyone who conducts an interview should be trained on the right way to prepare and conduct an interview. Some people approach the interview like a casual conversation, others grill the applicant on technical skills. Others focus on the deficiencies of a past employee or ask irrelevant or personal questions. Some ask overly common questions like “what’s your greatest strength or weakness?” or worse, unlawful questions like “do you have any kids?” or “what kind of last name is that?”

Some managers provide ambiguous directions to employees only to be disappointed with the outcome. To ensure that your employees understand how to do a task, they need to understand why. Follow these guidelines for better training experiences for both you and your staff.

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Managers Working Remotely? This is a perfect time to give them skills, support, and structure with a series of essential management classes.

The Times Up movement has been around for a few years, and time has been up for harassment prevention compliance for several months.

Rolling out a consistent harassment prevention training program in multiple states can be tricky. Remote workers make scheduling difficult across time zones to achieve 100% compliance. More than half of the states have unique requirements in terms of content, length, frequency, and other elements.

Sexual harassment continues to be in the news as high-profile people ruin their reputations and careers and force people to put up with their degrading behavior. Countless politicians have had their reputations crushed with harassment allegations including recently, Governor Cuomo, who had signed the New York state law mandating harassment prevention training.

Most organizations face challenges when implementing work at home programs: Remote work, telework, virtual teams, or a hybrid arrangement. By improving communication and nurturing trust the work relationship and productivity will improve.