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If you can’t avoid the layoffs – what you can expect
How do you manage layoffs to ensure fairness for employees and minimize the long term damage to your organization.
COVID19 – Sharing Great Resources
From the desk of Jennifer Glaeser Beck, VP of Research & Consulting Have you noticed an increase in helpful and supportive content being created by organizations right now? I am overwhelmed by the generosity of organizations in their sharing of best practices,...
Three Key Decisions For Your First Employee Survey
Spring has been conducting employee surveys for over 25 years. We have collected millions of survey responses across industries ranging from steel workers, airline pilots and truck drivers to physicians, executives and call center employees. Each employee group has...
What you need to know as a Trucking Company in 2020
Published: Ben Klein - Senior Project Director I arrived back from my first NATERA conference this week and I have to say it was an amazing time. I learned a lot about the biggest upcoming challenges in the trucking industry and what companies need to be aware of. I...
CEO Reflections: Bite The Bullet. Ask For Feedback
I always urge business leaders to do this. Then it was my turn. What sets the most supportive and dynamic leaders apart from their peers? It’s not what you think. Not decision-making skills. Not experience. And not strategic planning. Instead, it’s their...
All Aboard: Getting employees engaged with work results in higher profits, productivity
This article was originally published in the October 2019 Issue of "Costco Connection" Magazine. A business owner who has never asked employees for their brutally honest and candid opinions about their company’s greatest strengths and serious weaknesses is missing out...
What if my Big Data is Small Data?
In recent weeks, Spring had the opportunity to speak at multiple HR events focusing on how an organization can build their people analytics capabilities. For some, this was their first introduction to people analytics, for others, it was an opportunity to see what...
CEO Reflections: Four business (and life) lessons I learned in Shanghai
I’ve spoken about people analytics to audiences in 40 states and 7 countries, but never in Asia. That changed recently when I traveled to Shanghai to share the value of people analytics and evidence-based decision making. Though I was a presenter, I was also a...
Success in People Analytics
Characteristics of Companies Leading The Way in People Analytics We have the honor of working with numerous organizations helping them to advance and implement people analytics. On this journey, we often get asked what distinguishes the companies that are on the...
Re-engaging Your Survivors
Change and uncertainty characterizes today's employment environment and has done for the last decade or so. Organizations have been faced with an increase in global competition and fast moving technological change. Confronted with these pressures, leaders can feel...
Use the Power of Data and Analytics to Transform Your HR Role
You’re an HR professional, and your company has a turnover problem. How do you tell your team of C-level executives? Here are two options: “I’ve reviewed our churn rate over the past five years, and it’s risen every year. In 2014, about 8% of our workers left within...
What to do Before the Horse Bolts
Consider the importance of stay interviews Picture this: an employee who’s given notice has been unhappy for a while—long enough to think about leaving, refresh her resume, search for a new position and find what she hopes will be a better fit. Now she has one foot...
The World of People Analytics
In the month of April we had the good fortune of attending two conferences on People Analytics – one in New York and one in London. This provided the opportunity to hear insights from thought leaders, experts and practitioners from numerous organizations both here and...
CEO Reflections: What I learned from Billie Jean King
This morning I had the privilege to listen to sports icon and social justice pioneer, Billie Jean King, as she spoke to an audience of leaders in Philadelphia. Her quiet and humble demeanor is quite the contrast to the considerable accomplishments of her life story...
