Pavestep Blog

Working with people can be challenging. Hopefully these tips can help.

Oct 20
4 min

Why a Feedback Culture Matters and How to Create a Feedback Culture in Your Organization

Culture of feedback has been a buzz phrase in the HR and business world for several years. A feedback culture is a culture where every em...

Chiara Toselli

Jul 8
3 min

Creating a Great Employee Experience

Most (if not all) organizations understand the value of employee experience, and many are developing an integrated focus on employee expe...

Why Alumni Programs are Critical to the Future Success of Your Organization

Chiara Toselli

Jul 7
2 min

Why Alumni Programs are Critical to the Future Success of Your Organization

Often times people forget about alumni relations and management when discussing employee engagement. In fact, one study estimated that on...

Analytics in Employee Turnover - Leverage the Data You Already Have

Chiara Toselli

May 26
2 min

Analytics in Employee Turnover - Leverage the Data You Already Have

Employee turnover is costly. If you consider the lost productivity, time spent on exiting and recruiting, and backfilling resources, it's...

Why is it so Hard to Find the Right Talent?

Chiara Toselli

Mar 3
3 min

Why is it so Hard to Find the Right Talent?

You want top candidates to work for you, but where can you find them? In recent years, companies have had a more difficult time recruitin...

Chiara Toselli

Feb 6
3 min

How to Maximize Employee Productivity

Employee engagement is extremely important - engaged employees show up more often, stay longer, and are more productive overall. However,...

Your Actions Matter: The Effect of Good and Bad Leadership

Chiara Toselli

Feb 4
3 min

Your Actions Matter: The Effect of Good and Bad Leadership

Leadership development isn’t just a nice to have – it’s essential to have. Leadership behaviours can have a profound effect, not only on ...

How to Make Your Meetings More Effective

Chiara Toselli

Jan 28
3 min

How to Make Your Meetings More Effective

We’ve all been a part of ineffective or inefficient meetings. Maybe the agenda is unclear, maybe people are not listening, or maybe there...

5 ways to celebrate and thank your employees during the holidays!

Chiara Toselli

Dec 16, 2019
2 min

5 ways to celebrate and thank your employees during the holidays!

With the holidays just around the corner, everyone is thinking about showing their loved ones how much they mean to them. But showing app...

Harrison K.

Oct 24, 2019
3 min

Performance ratings - keep or drop?

Do we need performance ratings? Why?

Do we need PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans)?

Harrison K.

Oct 17, 2019
3 min

Do we need PIPs (Performance Improvement Plans)?

PIP - Performance Improvement Plan. Quite possible the most dreaded word by HR teams and managers in the workplace (even worse than "feed...

Chiara Toselli

Sep 26, 2019
3 min

History of Performance Management

Employee performance management isn’t a new concept. Performance management has evolved in many ways over the twentieth and twenty-first ...

Chiara Toselli

Sep 16, 2019
1 min

Employee's Checklist: Manager Check-in

Do you have an upcoming check-in conversation with your manager? Make sure you are ready with this checklist! Print it here. #HR #humanre...

Harrison K.

Sep 5, 2019
2 min

4 ways to retain your high performers

Almost every organization has a handful of high performers, or HPs, that it keeps a close eye on. Or at least, it should. Research indica...

Chiara Toselli

Aug 29, 2019
3 min

Multiple Generations. One Workplace.

Today, there is a strong focus from managers and HR teams on figuring out how to best interact with their employees. But with ~five gener...

Chiara Toselli

Aug 28, 2019
1 min

Manager's Checklist: Employee Check-in

Do you have an upcoming check-in conversation with your direct report? Prepare for it using this checklist! Print it here.

How HR can claim its "seat at the table"

Harrison K.

Aug 18, 2019
3 min

How HR can claim its "seat at the table"

How can HR convince management to take their initiatives more seriously?

7 cheap ways to motivate and engage employees

Harrison K.

Aug 5, 2019
2 min

7 cheap ways to motivate and engage employees

How do we motivate and engage employees without breaking our banks?

Problems with traditional performance management (3/3)

Harrison K.

Jul 30, 2019
3 min

Problems with traditional performance management (3/3)

Performance management can be very costly. Find out what it could be costing your organization today.

Harrison K.

Apr 23, 2019
1 min

Feedback Cheat Sheet

Prepare for your feedback conversations using this cheat sheet! Print it here. #HR #performancemanagement #performance #productivity #ret...

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