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How To: All Hands Meetings
All Hands meetings are a critical touchpoint for your team, and an invaluable part of your internal communications strategy. When done well, they’re often one of the times that employees look forward to the most. But, they can be hard to get right…
Conscious Culture’s Spring Checklist
Spring especially is an important time to reflect on the first quarter - how you’re tracking towards topline goals, how your people are doing, and whether you’re in compliance. After all, a little “spring cleaning” can go a long way!
As you gear up for the quarter ahead, here’s our “Spring Cleaning” Checklist:
Holiday Gift Guide
This year, we had a lot of fun putting together curated gifts from our clients’ product lines! Then we thought, why not share some of those gift ideas with our community? So if you’re still doing some holiday shopping, here are a few of our current favorites.
Is Feedback Getting Harder?
Now that we have fewer interactions, it feels more difficult/awkward to bring up hard things. So what can we do about it? I’ve been asking myself this question lately, not just to better support our clients, but to be proactive with our team at Conscious Culture too.
5 Lessons I Learned from Maternity Leave
Earlier this year, I went on maternity leave, and wow, have I learned so much! Like what “wake windows” are, how to decode cries, and what it’s really like to be a new parent in the workforce…
4 Things Your Employees Want in 2022 (and it’s not more money)
As The Great Resignation continues, organizational leaders need to stop thinking about compensation as the only way to improve retention. Research shared by McKinsey, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes tell us that work-life balance, manageable workloads, flexibility, and other employee value propositions are most important in stopping attrition in 2022.
One Thing You Must Do to Invest in People & Culture in 2022
As we approach the end of the year, people leaders everywhere are determining how and where to invest their time and internal resources to build culture in a remote, hybrid, or return to work environment, to retain their best people, and to prioritize high-impact People Ops activities. One of your best tools for doing that? Ask your people.
5 Tips for Holding Effective One-on-Ones
Regular one-on-one meetings (1:1s) are critical for building relationships with your employees. These meetings are your best opportunity to collaborate, identify challenges, brainstorm solutions, provide feedback and initiate coaching and mentorship conversations. If you’re not holding regular 1:1s, it’s time to start!
6 Steps for Creating a Fair & Equitable Compensation Plan
The ability to attract and retain employees who are truly excellent is critical to your organization’s success. With the competitive market for talent plus a lack of visibility into fair market rates, it can be challenging to budget for new positions and respond to pay inquiries from your existing team. Developing a formal compensation system to standardize pay decisions will not only protect you as an employer, but also elevate you to one of the best in your industry.
Five Steps to Prepare for Your Performance Review
Let’s face it, most people get nervous when it comes time for performance reviews. However, performance reviews can be really informative for your career growth and development, and a great time to celebrate wins and accomplishments! As many companies approach mid-year reviews, we wanted to provide employees like you, with five tips to make the most out of your upcoming review.
Benefits of a Dog-Friendly Workplace (+ Link to Download Our Pet Policy!)
Dog-friendly offices were fairly common before the pandemic, and early trends show that they’ll be even more common going forward, with over half of CEOs surveyed saying they’ll allow it post-pandemic. However, company leaders also have to make sure to limit potential disruptions or distractions that may arise from adding dogs to the mix.
Three Reasons Why You Should Set Actionable Goals
Goal setting is essential to company success. Studies show that just writing down your goals can increase the chances of achieving them by 42%. Setting individual, departmental, and company goals creates focus, drives alignment, and provides clarity for employees.
Conscious Culture’s COVID-19 Lessons: One Year Later
At the beginning of COVID, none of us knew what to expect or exactly how the pandemic would impact our work. The last year has required a new level of adaptability, resilience, and courage from individuals and teams alike…
Five Tips for Onboarding Remote Employees
It’s critical to create a remote onboarding experience that builds and reinforces company culture As the shift to remote work becomes more permanent, we’ve gathered our best onboarding tips and practices for you to implement as you intentionally build a holistic, virtual onboarding process that meets the needs of new hires.
How to Build a More Equitable and Unbiased Hiring Process
Right now, we’re seeing so many companies grapple with how to create more equitable people processes and reduce implicit bias in the hiring process in order to attract the best possible talent…
5 Questions to Ask Employees Before Open Enrollment
The 2021 open enrollment period is fast approaching. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important for companies to re-think the types of benefits they offer…
Reflecting on Our Relationship with Receiving Feedback
Feedback is our best tool for understanding how others experience us and how we can be more effective in our roles. People who seek out constructive feedback at work…
Back to School: How to Support Working Parents in the Time of COVID-19
As the summer comes to a close and the school year begins, many working parents are dealing with the difficult balance of keeping up at work while their children learn from home…
Developing Our Emotional Resilience
Dialogue about emotional wellbeing is gaining attention within the workplace, and rightly so. Companies that are clear that they want to cultivate emotional wellbeing for their teams are now turning their attention toward the “how.” While emotional wellbeing describes a desired state of being, emotional resilience is a critical skill to return us regularly to it.
Approaching Mid-Year Reviews in 2020
As we approach mid-year reviews, many leaders are wondering how to handle performance feedback during such an unprecedented time. Should companies be conducting reviews during a time like this? How can our teams be accountable to performance targets, so neatly designed before we knew what 2020 would hold?