How do you overcome the Great Resignation or the War for Talent?

You could try to rethink your recurring tasks and improve your existing processes.

The answer would be a high-speed ecosystem that uses your checklists and tasks to create optimized workflows. A solution like that would need to be available anywhere and at any time. 

The perfect solution would come with automation as well as optimization. It would also carry a guarantee of no-friction learning and great help support.

What you need is an online office that isn’t complicated.

Process Street can show you how that works and give you 8 hiring processes for free.

So, read on to learn how to streamline and automate your hiring processes:

• #1: Create an effective hiring process
• #2: Use SEO keywords in job descriptions
• #3: Improve the intake meeting
• #4: The HR manager’s guide to job sites
• #5: How to design the take-home test
• #6: Screening interviews that avoid unconscious bias
• #7: The job offer approval process
• #8: Help new hires from day one

With the market size of enterprise performance management expected to grow from $6.44 billion in 2017 to $11.72 billion by 2023, you know that to ignore it is to ignore something monumental.

Enterprise performance management lets you plan, structure, track, and improve your performance across the board. This isn’t something you want to ignore. 

You might want to know what’s going well and where the biggest improvements can be made. Otherwise, you may want to create achievable goals that don’t leave you overreaching or improve your tracking metrics with apps like Process Street. Either way, enterprise performance management is essential. 

That’s why, in this Process Street post, I’ll be breaking down precisely what it is, why it’s useful, and how to use it:

• What is enterprise performance management?
• What makes a good enterprise performance management system?
• Enterprise performance management benefits
• How to carry out enterprise performance management
• Process Street: The perfect addition to your enterprise performance management software

Let’s dive right in!

We’re super excited to announce our brand new employee onboarding podcast, focused on sharing insights & uncovering the trade secrets of employee onboarding!

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Podchaser, Podcast Addict, Deezer, and other podcast platforms.

Workplace diversity is more than a buzzword. It’s also more than a passing phenomenon.

Whether it’s findings from MIT proving that having an equal gender balance increases revenue, or McKinsey’s discovery that companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity have a 35% increase in financial returns above the national average, diversity positively affects both a company’s culture and bottom-line.

At Process Street, we recognize the importance of diversity, but we also understand that improving diversity in the workplace isn’t an easy task for HR teams.

• 8 free templates to improve diversity
• Why is diversity in the workplace important?
• Processes for improving diversity in the workplace
• Expand your diversity initiatives with Pages & Automations
• More useful HR resources

Let’s get started!

“What is employee engagement?“

I’d been explaining the ins-and-outs of my job to my family for a while but here I had to stop to give more detail. That’s when it hit me.

To most people, employee engagement is jargon.

They see it as an airy concept that doesn’t have a solid definition – it’s something that marketers point at to sell products and nothing more.

The reality couldn’t be further from that.

Employee engagement is a vital statistic to show the overall health of a business at every level. If you can better this statistic, it can result in massive benefits such as a 67% lower employee turnover rate and 21% higher productivity.

In this Process Street post, I’m taking you through what employee engagement is, how to measure it, and what you can do about it to get those lower employee turnover and higher productivity levels. 

• What is employee engagement?
• Reaping the benefits of an engaged employee
• Employee engagement: Can you put a number to it? 
• How to improve job satisfaction and increase employee engagement
• Stop, drop, engage! 

Let’s go!

Hiring surges are painful. We can agree on that, right?

Fewer candidates for more positions. Who likes that? 

What it means for you is your HR processes must be good. If we’re being honest, they need to be brilliant.

You need to work hard to improve, refine, and trim your HR processes.

What if you could discover a shortcut and stop duplicating work, maybe even eliminate manual tasks in your HR process? 

That would be sweet. It would also mean more hours per day. Time better spent elsewhere. Maybe on the fun stuff, like increasing engagement with new hires. We promise that you can: 

1. Do all that and more with optimized workflows
2. Go even further than that
3. Enjoy fully automated workflows: Built to save you time

Process Street is magic. To prove it, you can have nine of our HR processes for free. That’s only a couple of sand grains from our Sahara-like library of workflow templates.

Oh, and the secret we mentioned? 

Process Street’s chefs have a real hot stove. 

They’ve used it to cook up a delicious shortcut called automations.

Want to know how this magic works? No problem.

But first, let’s show you the steps to streamlining your HR process:

• HR process #1: An efficient recruitment process
• HR process #2: Write a SEO optimized job description
• HR process #3: Screening candidates
• HR process #4: Improve the interview process
• HR process #5: The job offer approval process
• HR process #6: How to accelerate employee background checks
• HR process #7: Improve the onboarding process and retain new hires
• HR process #8: The first 90 days
• HR process #9: Guidance for new hires on their first day

69% of Millennials would rather make $50k a year at a job they love than $75k a year in a boring job.

On top of that, the cost to the US economy of a disengaged, dissatisfied employee can be up to $500 billion a year.

So how do you make sure that you provide a role that both addresses the needs of your employee and aligns with company goals?

The answer? Adopting these HR best practices.

At Process Street, we recognize the delicate balance between your business and your employees that’s maintained primarily by your HR department. The best practices in this post will ensure that balance stays in place.

You don’t have to take just our word for it, though. We’ll also look at how Adobe, Google, Accenture, and Salesforce implement them in their own companies.

In this article, we will discuss the following:

• The benefits of HR best practices
• Implementing your HR best practices
• HR best practice maintenance for the long-term

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Jenna Bunnell is the Senior Manager for Content Marketing at Dialpad, an AI-incorporated cloud-hosted unified communications and call center IVR systems that provide valuable call details for business owners and sales representatives. She is driven and passionate about communicating a brand’s design sensibility and visualizing how content can be presented in creative and comprehensive ways. Find her on LinkedIn.

Personal user manuals are indispensable tools when it comes to working with new employees and perfecting your new employee onboarding process.

They are written guides that explain to others how best to work with you. They can either be targeted towards people working under you or people working with you.

Personal user manuals are full of information for other employees. They promote team collaboration by making others aware of your personal working style, and allowing them to work best with this.

They’re simple to write and maintain, and their purpose is to help you avoid giving multiple inductions to various new employees.

Having a written document is also useful as it’s information that your employees can come back to time and again—as opposed to a spoken induction when things can be easily forgotten.

If you’re working in a team that extends across multiple countries, there’s no need to plan multiple inductions to fit into everyone’s schedule. A personal user manual can be used instead, saving time, and allowing effective collaboration regardless of different time zones.

You may well be wondering: How on Earth do I get started with such an undertaking? Well, here are some steps you can take to create and maintain a solid personal user manual.

This post for Process Street will outline the 10 focus areas to include in your personal user manual:

• Choose a format for your personal user manual
• Personal user manual 101: Introduce yourself
• Outline your expectations of your team as a manager
• How to work with me: The essentials
• Scheduling: When are you accessible?
• What’s your working style?
• Troubleshooting your new manager
• Your user manual isn’t all about you
• Conflict resolution and you: Everything you need to know
• Personal user manual: The next iteration
• Check that your personal user manual works

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The larger an organization gets, the more complex it is. More people pulling in different directions creates bottlenecks and slows down an organization’s productivity.

Ideally, human resource departments should be the ones that keep everyone working toward the same goals. Unfortunately, for many companies, HR isn’t working.

According to McKinsey’s 2012 State of Human Capital Report:

• 42% of HR professionals are not taking action against priority areas;
• 65% of HR professionals are not pursuing innovative approaches;
• and 68% don’t have confidence in their strategy.

That’s why, in this Process Street article, we’re going to take this problem seriously and look at:

• What is human resource management?
• The 12 primary focus areas for human resource management
• Automation & data-driven HR
• Modern process management for modern human resources

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Bamboo HR found that employees are 18 times more likely to feel committed to an employer if they’re given an effective onboarding experience. This is something you certainly want to achieve when onboarding new hires.

You might want to head to trusty Microsoft Word to create this effective onboarding experience. After all, it typically is our go-to option for everything else. Want to create a quick newsletter? MS Word. Need a brochure? MS Word. You get the point. But, can Microsoft Word really help you create an effective onboarding experience?

This might come as a shock but your trusty Microsoft Word onboarding template likely has the opposite effect on your new hires. That’s what we’re looking at in today’s Process Street article. But, it’s not all bad. I’m also walking you through the onboarding best practices and how you can implement these with Process Street to optimize your onboarding process and boost your employee retention:

• The cursed Microsoft Word onboarding template
• How do you onboard new hires correctly?
• What does Process Street bring to the table?
• Start eating better at Process Street’s table (& get a free onboarding template goodie bag)

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