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4 Tips for Creating a Mentoring or Coaching Program in the Workplace

CoAdvantage-Mentorship and coaching programs in the workplace can be enormously beneficial. Experience counts for a lot in the business world, and mentors can take skilled but less experienced workers and give them a chance to learn, improve, and grow under real-world conditions. In other words, they offer a great way to bridge the gap between[…]

Is It Time for Employers Everywhere to Adopt a 4-Day Workweek?

Is It Time for Employers Everywhere to Adopt a 4-Day Workweek?

CoAdvantage-The 40-hour workweek isn’t as old a tradition as you might think; it’s only been around for about a century. Back In the 19th and early 20th century, it was common to work 12 hours or more each day. Auto manufacturer Henry Ford changed that; he came to believe that overwork reduced productivity and increased[…]

Optimizing Employee Productivity Part 2: More Best Practices

Optimizing Employee Productivity Part 2: More Best Practices

CoAdvantage- Figuring out the right strategies to improve worker productivity isn’t easy, in part because everything affects worker productivity. Poor air quality affects productivity! Rheumatoid arthritis affects productivity! Ambient temperature affects productivity! So, the answer is not figuring out some single magic action or set of actions to take. Instead, it’s assembling the right constellation[…]

3 Tips to Help Your Employees Grow And Stay At Your Company

How to Help Your Employees Grow and Stay at Your Company

CoAdvantage- Career development is a cornerstone of employee experience. Workers who have opportunities to grow in their roles and align their career trajectory with their personal goals will be happier, more satisfied, and more engaged. Indeed, well over half (57%) of the respondents to engagement technology platform provider Glint’s most recent State of Employee Engagement[…]

Are Taxes Overtaxing for Your Small Business? 7 Strategies to Simplify Tax Season

The Top 5 Ways to Boost Employee Productivity

CoAdvantage-Addressing employee productivity in meaningful, useful, and actionable ways is a huge challenge for employers, especially for knowledge-based work that’s hard to translate into clear productivity metrics. Further complicating the question, raw production isn’t everything. As the famous axiom says, “Productivity is getting things done. Effectiveness is getting the right things done.” But what can[…]

9 Steps to Take with Under-Performing Employees

9 Steps to Take with Under-Performing Employees

CoAdvantage- Do you have an employee who’s just not meeting expectations or minimally accepted performance standards. You’ve already invested time, money, and resources into recruiting, onboarding, training, and supporting this worker. What do you do to manage their underperformance? Thankfully, under-performance can often be fixed with the right approach. 1: Find the root cause The[…]

5 Ways to Help Employees Get More Value Out of Their Benefits

5 Ways to Help Employees Get More Value Out of Their Benefits

CoAdvantage-In our article, “5 Best Practices for Communicating About Employer Benefits,” we discussed how principles like simplicity and knowing your audience can improve communications around benefit packages. We also mentioned paying attention to what the audience (your workforce) wants out of their benefits. Today, we’re going to dive into one thing employees definitely want: more[…]

How Digital Transformation Supercharges HR Performance

Why Most Employers Measure Engagement Backwards

CoAdvantage-Employee engagement is indisputably an important metric for employers to monitor. Study after study has found that organizations with highly engaged employees outperform those without (by 202%, according to one study). As former General Electric CEO Jack Welch has said, “No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who[…]

Helping Employees Cope with Workplace Stress

Helping Employees Cope with Workplace Stress

CoAdvantage-You might have noticed it’s been a stressful couple of years. We even have the numbers to prove it: Gallup’s 2021 State of the Global Workplace found that more than half (57%) of workers have been experiencing daily stress due to the pandemic. Worse, over two-thirds (69%) of employees say “2020 was the most stressful[…]

6 Tactics for Managing Employee Performance, with Pros and Cons

6 Tactics for Managing Employee Performance, with Pros and Cons

CoAdvantage-What’s the best way to manage employee performance? Answers to this question seem to fall in and out of favor with the seasons. The traditional approach of high-stakes annual performance reviews has been diminishing in popularity at major employers for a long time, but what are the alternative options available? One word of warning: no[…]