Michele McGovern

Scranton

Senior Staff Content Creator at SuccesFuel

writer, stickler for professionalism, wannabe athlete, fun wife, mediocre mom ... but always trying

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5 Ways to Get It Right

1 week ago | resourcefulfinancepro.com | Michele McGovern

If you’ve been in Finance for a long time, you know there are a lot of situations when you can trust your instincts. Beyond numbers, outlooks and budgets, there’s one area where it’s best to stick to the facts: how you motivate employees. Time and again, researchers have found that employee motivation is the key driver of performance. In fact, one study in the Harvard Business Review found that motivating employees can’t be left to chance.
3 Ways a Cool Career Site Can Improve Recruiting

1 week ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

You could probably find more great employees if they could find you first. And that alone is a good reason to consider a career site dedicated to you. A great career site is an extension of your company website, and it’ll help you stand out from all the other jobs like yours listed on the major sites such LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter.
How to Identify a Toxic Culture and 11 Ways to Fix It

2 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

A toxic culture isn’t always obvious. In fact, it’s usually the dark side of the workplace that leaders don’t see, or worse, turn a blind eye to. But employees notice and feel it. According to data from SHRM, employees see or experience 208 million acts of incivility at American workplaces every day. Still, for leaders, fixing a toxic culture probably feels like a daunting task. After all, where would you start? What should you focus on fixing? What steps do you even take?
Retain Good Employees Now

2 weeks ago | resourcefulfinancepro.com | Michele McGovern

Are you concerned you won’t be able to retain good employees? You should be. And not just your employees. As a finance pro, you likely know that turnover is an expensive problem. By some estimates, it can cost 50% to 200% of an employee’s salary to replace the worker, depending on the position. That can add up financially and mentally: Turnover disrupts operations, causes extra stress for remaining employees and hurts morale.
6 Big Keys to Documentation to Make Case for Termination

2 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

What’s the one thing companies need to have before they decide to part ways with an errant employee? If you’ve been in HR for more than a minute, you know the answer: Airtight documentation. There’s just no overstating the importance of documentation when a company embarks on the process of firing an employee. Establishing a paper trail you can depend on can protect you against legal backlash and keep you in compliance.
Your New Spin on Feedback

2 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

You might call it constructive feedback when you have to correct an employee. But to the employee, it sounds like negative feedback. Despite your best intentions, that’s usually the reality. Of course, you want to find a way to deliver necessary feedback without sounding like you think the employee can’t do anything right!The key is to make negative feedback sound like constructive praise.
Who's 'Task Masking' and 6 Big It Impacts Work

3 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

There’s no masking Task Masking these days. It’s a workplace trend that’s all about NOT working. Some say it’s the only way to get through a workday. Others say it’s career suicide. Either way, it’s not a good workplace trend. When employees pretend to be busier than they are, they’re task masking. “It’s when employees feel the pressure to appear constantly engaged, even if they aren’t doing any meaningful work,” says Lynette Silva Heelan, EMEA Consulting Practice Lead, Workhuman.
Clash With People at Work? 5 Tips to Stop Butting Heads

3 weeks ago | resourcefulfinancepro.com | Michele McGovern

Differences on the job can drive good finance leaders bananas. It’s difficult to walk into work knowing you have to deal with employees, colleagues or even bosses who you clash with. You don’t want to butt heads. And you don’t want to give in to their whims every time. But here’s the reality: You’re never going to change that one employee, colleague or boss you clash with. Even if you try to avoid interaction, you likely won’t be able to.
3 Critical Steps to Hire Better, Faster in Today's Workplace

3 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

Who wants to hire better and faster for their workplace? Probably every hiring manager in existence. But most HR professionals struggle to fulfill their hiring managers’ dreams of quality and quickness. Why? It’s because every other HR pro is aiming to do the same. It’s often a fierce competition to get the best hires on board.
6 Tips to Give Employees

3 weeks ago | hrmorning.com | Michele McGovern

Whether you work in an office full-time or spend your weeks straddling an office and home, we bet one thing about work that remains the same is this: Office gossip. Despite the workplace changes that have evolved in the past five years, there are still folks who live for scraps of information – negative or positive – that are traded day in and day out. Office gossip and the office grapevine are as old as the workplace and as difficult to manage as the people and processes in them.