Rethink HR: Recent Episodes
Melissa Anzman
Are you a Human Resources professional looking to increase employee engagement? How do I deliver more strategic HR work? What is the employee experience and how can it help me at work? And the biggest question of all, how can I do work that matters? These are just some of the big questions that leading HR strategist, Melissa Anzman, digs into on the Rethink HR podcast. In addition to HR best practices and step-by-step guides, each episode is designed to for you to take immediate action. Melissa’s specialty is sharing exactly what works and how you can implement it. Are you asking, how can I reduce turnover? Not sure where to start with HR metrics? Want to retain your top talent? Are your employee communications making an impact? Want to up-level your leadership skills? Find out more at bettHR.com.
In today’s episode, I share four easy ways you can uncover the HR metrics around you, without needing a complicated HRIS system, a data analyst, or a dashboard. Instead, it's about using the information you have at your fingertips and learning how to create a story around what that data is telling you.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/36
In today’s episode, I share seven signs that it may be time for you to reboot or rethink your HR metrics strategy (including if you even have one or need one!). With the idea of having meaningful HR metrics and analytics to share with your organization.
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In today’s episode, I share six secrets for every HR professional to bust some myths about creating HR metrics that have prevented you from getting started. Learn how to get started with the data you already have access to without any additional spend.
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In today’s episode, we discuss four metrics to start with, if you are an HR business partner or generalist, along with the calculations for each. These metrics are important for you to show the connection between the great work you do every day in HR and the company's bottom line, showing an ROI.
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In today's episode, we get started with HR metrics specifically which metrics to start with, within Talent Acquisition or Recruiting. We're starting here because this is where employees start their journey with us and we likely have easy access to data through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
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In today’s episode, learn how to get started with your first HR metric, even if you're not a numbers person or aren't sure if this whole "metrics thing" is for you. By asking these four questions, you'll be able to identify exactly where to start with your first HR metric.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/31
In today’s episode, it's taking the leadership lessons from previous episodes about how to use your leadership to positively influence your team's employee experience. To do that, it's how to be a coach by creating conversations that enhance discussion using the techniques shared this episode.
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In today’s episode, we discuss how your leadership style is critical to the success of your overall employee experience. You'll learn all about "gravity issues," how to create your own leadership blueprint, and setting the ideal communication cadence calendar to ensure ongoing dialogue with your team.
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In today’s episode, we talk about how each leader has an important role in influencing the employee experience (inside or outside of HR). Using the same framework with a different perspective, can instantly improve your overall engagement and create positive experiences for your employees and your team's culture.
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In today’s episode, we get tactical about how to actually write HR communications that deliver value and impact. Using a super easy system to ensure each message you write is read by your employees and creates more positive experiences and engagement. It's easy to start right now by ensuring these five things are included every time.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/27
In today’s episode, I walk through exit interviews - why they are so important in any talent market, why they haven't worked in the past, and how you can create an exit experience that matches with your company's ideal employee experience and gets you great feedback about your culture.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/26
In today’s episode, I share four tips on how to become a people-first culture, even if you're not sure you're able to influence your entire company's culture. It starts with deciding what people-first means, if your company actually aligns with being people-first (and what to do if it doesn't), and how to build into your HR world, employee first thinking and actions.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/25
In today’s episode, we go deep about employee engagement surveys. How to use the survey that you have and the results that your vendor provides you, to improve the employee experience which drives real engagement. Included are the five steps to take to go from survey results to action plans painlessly.
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In today’s episode, we share everything you need to know about creating a virtual benefits fair for open enrollment/annual enrollment - quickly and cost-effectively. Bonus: Your virtual benefits fair will likely have higher attendance and engagement, and will be seen as a huge upgrade.
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In today’s episode, we go deep about your onboarding process for new employees. The offer to onboarding process provides the biggest opportunity to create ongoing and long-lasting negative experiences for your new employees. Which leads to long-term disengagement and constant headaches. Instead, you can create onboard employees in a consistent and effective manner, in a few easy steps.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/22
In today’s episode, we review why your candidate experience is so important, and how the starting point - the application and open requisition stage, is so critically important to set your company and candidate up for success using the Employee Experience framework. Recruiting Brief resource shared in the show notes.
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In today’s episode, we focus on performance management as a whole and why it's so important to the employee experience, especially in our current workplace. Specific tactics are shared on how to give feedback quickly and easily so your employees receive it, and an overview of PIPs - performance improvement plans. Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/20
In today’s episode, it's all about your total rewards. Why it's so important to focus on your differentiator, when to talk about your total rewards package, and when and how to over-index on the right benefit or perk. Pro-tip: Annual Enrollment is the perfect time to revisit your total rewards key messaging.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/19
In today’s episode, we talk about using this unique moment, to create real culture change at your company using the Employee Experience Framework. It's our opportunity in HR to create a culture that is safe for all of our employees, while also making sure our stated culture matches exactly how our employee experience our culture on a daily basis.
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In today’s episode, the conclusion of our open enrollment/annual enrollment series, we bring everything together so you can implement the strategies and these new tactics, with a vendor partner or in-house. All with the goal of creating an inclusive and effective open enrollment campaign. I share how one of our clients updated their previous communications to save money and create a better employee experience, and specifics of how you can turn your current collateral into something exceptional.
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In today’s episode, part four of our open enrollment/annual enrollment series, I provide three considerations for creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) experience for your employees during open enrollment. Considerations include: evaluating your benefit and total reward offerings as a whole; ensuring access to information is the same for all employees; and changing how we insert diversity into our collateral.
Get full show notes and more information here: RethinkHRPodcast.com/16
In today’s episode, part three of our open enrollment/annual enrollment series, I share four different ways you can create a better employee experience during OE, while saving a LOT of budget dollars. Included tips are how to leverage your benefits administrator vendor, create a microsite, consider alternatives to big-spend decision-making tools and enrollment interactive tools, and refreshing your communication strategy.
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In today’s episode, I outline how to create more effective communications for open enrollment (annual enrollment), in the age of COVID and social unrest. Included are three steps to be successful this year: have a clear message; explore relevant and inclusive communication channels; and communicate for comprehension.
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In today’s episode, we kick-off a series about open enrollment (annual enrollment), with the most important tool for your ROI - microsites. I review what a microsite is, why it's worth the minimal investment for the employee pay-off, and how it's the heartbeat of your OE campaign.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://RethinkHRPodcast.com/13
In today’s episode, I walk through an example of how your onboarding experience could be directly tied to your key talent turnover rates, and how you can use the Employee Experience Framework to create a better candidate experience.
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In today’s episode, I'd like to open the dialogue about race and social injustice at work, and HR needs to lead the way. I share two very specific ways HR can step-up and start the conversation and change at work, to create safe work environments for all employees.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://RethinkHRPodcast.com/11
In today’s episode, I share how considering your external experience, and how your candidates interact with that experience, greatly influences your retention rate. Using the Know, Feel, Act, and Touch framework, you're able to influence your company's reputation and connection, once your candidate becomes an employee.
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In today’s episode, I walk through the four components of the Employee Experience Framework for you to review before each new HR project, campaign, activity, or message. Easy to implement and drives an ROI on your HR work.
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In today’s episode, I share three strategies about how to be an effective HR partner while working remotely. And don't miss the engagement versus experience mini-rant.
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In today’s episode, I share three considerations and revised (or renewed) expectations when it comes to how we partner with our vendors in HR, with a hint about how to make the right investments to show a positive ROI.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://RethinkHRPodcast.com/7
In today’s episode, we talk all about how one simple shift in your perspective, to the Storytelling for HR framework, can instantly improve all of your HR communications and ultimately, your employee experience.
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In today’s episode, I share three things you can do right now, to start moving employee morale in the right direction (while being realistic about the current situation). Join me as I breakdown why these simple fixes can be very effective to create more positive employee experiences, even now.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://RethinkHRPodcast.com/5
With our current forced pause, now is the time to consider how you want to emerge from this situation. What kind of HR leader do you want to be? How do you see HR changing and truly becoming more strategic? What do you have to start, stop, and continue to be able to focus on delivering better employee experiences, versus employee engagement? In this episode, let's pause and consider the other side and how we can shape our new normal in HR.
We have a lot of stress and demands piling up during this crisis, and it's more critical than ever for HR to be strategic and focus on mental wellbeing. In this episode, I share how to more into a more strategic role to focus on only the work that matters and shows an ROI to your CEO, and how to help and support your employee's mental wellbeing (yours included)!
For many companies during this time of uncertainty, Reductions in Force (RIFs), also known as layoffs, are likely happening. Being in HR, we tend to be at the center of these coordinated events - which is how we are able to rethink the way we handle the next RIF. In this episode, I'll share some examples of what not to do during a RIF that I've seen other companies stumble over, and some things to consider before your next layoff event. Helping to ensure your HR team stays legally compliant while delivering a best-in-class employee experience for your company, your employees, and your career.
During uncertain times, HR is at the forefront of how companies manage the situation - as decision makers and the bearers of bad news. In this episode, we're going to review how to let go of gravity issues, how to shift your perspective, specific ways to help your employees get through this time, and how HR can keep their sanity.