The Employer Branding Best Practice Checklist Sprigg offers lots of training and online tools to help your small or medium sized business become excellent at Employer Branding techniques. We can …
Why Should My Company Adopt A Performance Management System?
Are you looking for ways to cut the time and money spent on performance reviews? There are lots of reasons why 2014 should be your year to make the switch …
HR Professionals Believe Video Conferencing Improves Productivity
Analysis of a recent global survey conducted by Redshift Research on behalf of Polycom, Inc. has found that 98% of HR executives who use video at work today say they …
Want More Profits? Employee Engagement is the Key
If companies want to bolster productivity and profitability they need to engage with their employees. Why? Well core reasons include increased customer loyalty, higher operating income, lower attrition and decreased …
The ROI of Performance Management
Case Study Finds Companies with High Performance Cultures Can Expect 3 – 5 Times Better Financial Performance Here’s a great case study from Group50 which demonstrates the financial benefits of cascading …
The Best Performance Reviews are Fast and Straight Forward
Your performance review software should be simple and intuitive, to assist you rather than complicate things. Our software makes HR staff focus on what’s truly important – keeping performance review …
What Do Employees Really Want From A Performance Management System?
Are you constantly looking over your shoulder worried that your top performers are not engaged and may leave your organization for a competitor? Do you struggle to get alignment with …
Higher Employee Engagement Through Fresh Performance Management Practices
As a leader in a small to medium sized organization, one of your biggest challenges is inspiring and retaining your workforce. Employees are leaving companies because they do not feel …
Performance Management: It Really Does Work, But Managers Are the Key
Employee performance is not the sole responsibility of HR. The management of employee performance is a day-to-day responsibility of managers and supervisors. Much research suggests that effective managers trigger better …
Top HR Twitter Influencers in 2014
So you’re looking to follow the biggest movers and shakers in HR but don’t know where to start? We can help! Based on number of followers, klout scores and, frankly, …
Better Coaching: A Six Question Process
Its an undeniable truth that the top employees do not always make the best leaders of people. Just because someone is exceptional at their job doesn’t necessarily translate into them …
The Problems with Negative Employee Reviews
There’s no denying the fact that sometimes difficult conversations between managers and employees have to happen. Sprigg believes that before it gets to the stage when a manager needs to …
Still Using Paper-Based Employee Evaluations? Its Time to Get into the Cloud
Re-inventing the Employee Review Process Performance reviews have been getting a bad rap recently as we at Sprigg know only too well. Why? We believe that a large part of …
Making Performance Reviews More Measurable
Data-driven employee analytics Let’s face it, historically performance review stimulated notions of a series of opinion-oriented questions where workers are rated in ways often open to criticisms of subjectivity and …
Jilaine Parkes Interviewed on Popular Radio Show About Career, Bruce Croxon and Sprigg
Sprigg President Offers Insightful Interview on HR Radio Show This week Sprigg’s President and Founder, Jilaine Parkes, was a guest on the popular Toronto based radio show Career Buzz with …
Sprigg President to Talk on Career Buzz Radio Show
Jilaine Parkes to offer insights on her career and the power of performance management software Sprigg’s very own HR thought leader, Jilaine Parkes, will be the guest on tomorrow’s Career …
Workplace Flexibility: Engaging Managers for Success
Here’s another great article from Huffington Post on how being flexible on working hours and location can create greater levels of engagement. From “Why women can’t have it all” to …
Competition For Best Talent Remains Strong Despite Growth in Jobs
Employers face a “fierce” battle to attract and retain the highest skilled workers even though the supply of labor has grown considerably in the past two years, research from EY …
Study Finds Attitude of Manager Key to Staff Retention
A good leader brings out the best in his or her team. Poor attitudes of supervisors, however, can send workers running! as a Development Dimensions International study demonstrates. Sprigg believes …
Talent Management: A Necessity, Not a Choice?
Here’s a great blog from the Post Tribune which re-emphasizes the importance of talent management in modern organizations. Many, when hearing “talent management,” may think of human resources or HR. …