Boosting Employee Productivity
A good manager or lead employee can make all the difference on your operation floor in terms of productivity. Laura Stack of HR resource website TLNT provides tips for leaders to build a more positive and more productive work environment. Track productivity. You can’t manage if you are not tracking and measuring your team’s productivity. This will allow you to not only stay on track but see where challenges exist and what areas need help or attention. Ask for feedback. Regularly ask employees for their thoughts on how to improve processes on the floor. They may be able to alert…
Building a Team not Just a Group
In precision manufacturing every day you can see the positive results of true teamwork to your operation. But what makes a team operate well, what makes a group of employees work together with a sense of purpose and community and how can you elevate your group to a team? Jim Sisson writes for the Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal, “A team is a group of people who share a common team purpose and a number of challenging goals. Members of the team are mutually committed to the goals and to each other. This mutual commitment also creates joint accountability which creates…
Improve Your Onboarding Process
In today’s talent market, many companies thrilled to have filled key positions may forget the onboarding process for new hires is an important first step in long-term retention. The onboarding process is an employee’s first impression on what it will “actually” be like to work at your company. Is your onboarding program organized or on-the- fly, do you encourage connections between new hires and employees, do you stagger training or do you load it on all at once? Human Resources expert Maya Townsend shares tips to improve your onboarding process in a recent Inc article. Start before they start. Is…
5 Tips for Attracting Talent
The State of Manufacturing survey conducted by Enterprise Minnesota interviewed 400 Minnesota manufacturers and those executives rated the ability to attract and retain workers as their 3rd most concerning issue. The survey also found that 47% of manufacturers are looking for employees with technical skills and experience. With the local talent pool tight, what are some tips to attract the employees you desire when you find them. Scott Span of HR resource site TLNT provides tips to attract talent: Provide career navigation from the start. To begin developing your plan interview current employees on what attracted them to your company,…
A Little “Light” Work
No, “why did the hiring manager cross the road” is not part of this post, but today we’d like to share other HR humor to brighten your day. After all, when you are in the business of hiring and staffing busy operations sometimes a little humor can go a long way to lessening daily stress. Enjoy!
Hiring Process Tips…from Psych 101 Class
Perhaps college is still fresh in your memory….or maybe distant! Lou Adler of Inc walks us through how a basic Psych 101 principle could help us hire the right employees. First, the principle: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. In 1943, Abraham Maslow suggested people make decisions based on different behavioral needs. In his article, Mr. Adler applies this hierarchy to job search candidates and defines their core needs as economic, social or achievement: source: inc.com He provides the following example to explain these needs: “Consider that a person who is unemployed or underemployed seeks a new job primarily for monetary…