Hi Friend, Happy Friday! It’s time for another installment of the week’s best HR and policy management resources – we hope you enjoy them! Have an incredible weekend… see you next time!
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Article of the Week: This week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) describes a few ways in which the NLRB deems your Employee Handbook to be illegal. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to update it and push it out to employees instantly? Hmm, I wonder how you could do that…
🍀 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It’s been quite a week and we’re ready to celebrate. We checked out the latest and greatest HR and policy management articles so we could send them to you. Don’t forget to have some green beer this weekend!
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Article of the Week: Although we subscribe to the old adage “the harder you work, the luckier you get”, the subject of this week’s highlighted piece (look for the 🍀 below) is about getting lucky. Not, not that lucky. C’mon now. The subject is creating your own luck and the author has 5 tips to do that.
TGIF! One more week gone forever. Since we’ll never get it back, let’s look ahead and get better for tomorrow. We plowed through a field full of HR and policy management articles this week so we could harvest (see what I did there?) the best stuff for you. Here’s hoping your Saturday and Sunday are Blissful!
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Article of the Week: The subject of this week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) is inspired by the recent Day Without a Woman protests in that the article’s headline has the word “Woman” in it. Hey, I didn’t say it was a strong connection. Also, the issue shouldn’t be a gender one – we all hold ourselves back in some way from time to time.
It’s March AND Friday? Yes! Spring is just around the corner. Of course, here in Atlanta, it started a month ago. I digress… We read so so many HR and policy management articles this week just so we could filter out the best stuff for you. I suppose we also learned some things too. Have a great weekend!
Article of the Week: The subject of this week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) is the Winner’s Effect and how small victories give us the confidence to keep winning.
Are there ways you can show off some wins to your team so they’ll keep the win streak alive?
Well hello Friday! It’s the last day of the work week, which means you’re relaxing because you already finished everything you wanted to this week. Right? Thought so. We sorted through heaps of HR and policy management articles for you to find the very best content. Enjoy and try to get some rest this weekend. You deserve it!
Article of the Week: This week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) discusses evidence that focusing on an unrealized future might make your goals harder to achieve. Instead, try to focus on creating systems and habits that provide incremental change. Discipline is a virtue that can be trained! How do you achieve your goals?
The weekend is almost here! We hope your work week was fun, challenging, and drama-free. We read a wheelbarrow full of articles to find the best HR and policy management content for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and have an awesome Saturday (and Sunday)!
Article of the Week: This week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) takes a “Moneyball” approach to hiring. We like it because (a) we like baseball and (b) finding creative ways to grow your company gives you a competitive advantage. What other under-valued objects have you discovered and utilized to your advantage?
Friday Friday Friday. Another week in the books. You deserve a break. How’s 2 days off sound? Until then, we’ve gathered the best HR and policy management resources to help you get ever so closer to the weekend.
Article of the Week: This week’s highlighted piece (look for the ✦ below) takes a deep look at the unspoken things that make some people great at their job and others… not so much. There are also 5 lists that would be great inspiration for someone creating content around core values.
We’re finally getting around to launching our weekly newsletter and since the info we’re blasting out every week is so valuable, we thought we’d post it on the ol’ blogaroo as well. We’ll be back every Friday with the best HR and policy management content we can find to help you become a better HR pro, leader, and person. Without further adieu…
TGIF, am I right?! You made it through the week and to commemorate your accomplishment, we’ve gathered the best HR and policy management resources for your reading pleasure. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
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Article of the Week: We love our first ever A.O.T.W. (look for the ✦ below) because it highlights just how important language is. Language exists just as much to influence as it does to communicate. How are you influencing the people you communicate with? On that note…
Which of this week’s articles do you think is the most useful?
When Blissbook launched in late 2013, we felt pretty good about what we knew and what we were launching. We combined our knowledge of the policies and procedures industry that we acquired over 1-2 years of research with the momentum we saw behind engagement initiatives and the growing sentiment that company culture is something companies should invest in.
It made a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the real world often doesn’t make sense. In the real world, people don’t act rationally. It may seem like they do from the outside, but if you dig deep enough, you’ll find it’s usually an illusion.
Looking back with that knowledge, we realize we knew a lot less than we thought. I’d say we were at the beginning of the “I’m an expert” phase shown below.
In late 2014, after an intense 6 months of startup engineering education, we decided that we knew nothing. Or, at least, not enough. Not only that, we were burned out. So although we remained committed to serving our existing Blissbook customers, we weren’t sure what to do next. We took a break and in addition to taking on some consulting work with Home Depot (our team has deep, real expertise in designing and building software), we built a completely unrelated product in a totally different market.
Blissbook, if you didn’t know, is built by the amazing folks at RW Code Lab. By keeping our “day jobs”, we make sure Blissbook remains independent. This is very important to us because we always want to make sure Blissbook’s users long-term interests are our first priority.
Sometimes we’ll post about topics on the RW Code Lab blog that we think would be interesting to our Blissbook audience. Today is one of those days.
Change management in the enterprise is hard! We have an interesting take on it (boats and sharks?!), so head on over to the RW Code Lab blog to give it a read.
