Benefits
These two individuals are responsible for benefits for the US and for Canada
Who is Derrick Thomas for the US?
Who is Phyllis Hilland for Canada?
The frequency in which headcount is submitted to Juergen for approval
What is monthly?
This is unwelcome conduct from a boss, coworker, group of coworkers, vendor, or customer whose actions, communication, or behavior mocks, demeans, puts down, disparages, or ridicules an employee.
What is Harassment?
The name of the performance management process for Hexagon
What is PRIDE?
Performance Review & Individual Development
This document provides guidance and information related to the organization's history, mission, values, policies, procedures and benefits in a written format. It is also viewed as a means of protecting the employer against discrimination or unfair treatment claims. It is an easily accessible guide to the company's policies and practices as well as an overview of the expectations of management.
What is the employee handbook?
This is used for any absences, including sick and vacation time. The accrual rates increase based on your years of service.
What is Paid Time Off (PTO)?
Two-thirds (65%) of employees reported that they hear nothing, mixed messages, or discouraging messages about taking time off from managers, while 80 percent said if they felt fully supported and encouraged by their boss, they would be likely to take more time off. -Glassdoor
These two items must be presented to Craig before recruiting starts
What is the onboarding plan?
What is the job description?
This occurs when an employer punishes an employee for engaging in legally protected activity. It can include any negative job action, such as demotion, discipline, firing, salary reduction, or job or shift reassignment. It can also be more subtle.
What is Retaliation?
Timing is everything when it comes to managing conflict, and the best time to take action is when there is hard evidence/proof that an employee has a track record of wrongdoing that is negatively impacting the performance of others.
Leadership is about taking action and confronting the issues before it’s too late.
This HR leverage tool outlines specific steps for the employee to take to improve and goals for them to work towards
What is a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan)
According to 1,400 executives polled by The Ken Blanchard Companies, failing to do this is the most common mistake that leaders make. This failure deprives your team of the opportunity to improve their performance.
What is provide feedback (prompt)?
This work-based intervention program is designed to assist employees in resolving personal problems that may be adversely affecting the employee's performance
What is the employee assistance program (EAP)?
It is best to review/explain this document in person during the new hire's first week? (sales hires)
What is the compensation plan?
This document can be confusing and a bit complex to a new hire so be sure to review it thoroughly.
This is generally defined as unwelcome behavior that occurs over a period of time and is meant to harm someone who feels powerless to respond.
What is bullying?
Social bullying in the workplace might happen by leaving someone out of a meeting on purpose or publicly reprimanding someone.
Help to foster an organizational culture that prioritizes inclusion and doesn't tolerate bullying.
This offers a history of the employee’s improvement or failure to improve performance over time. It is chronological and a precise description of the employee’s actions, the manager’s actions, and events as they occur.
What is documentation?
This common management mistake prevents your team from having the support and guidance that they need to meet their objectives.
What is not making time for your team?
When you're a manager or leader, it's easy to get so wrapped up in your own workload that you don't make yourself available to your team.
Yes, you have projects that you need to deliver. But your people must come first.
Avoid this mistake by blocking out time in your schedule specifically for your people, and by learning how to listen actively to your team.
Once you're in a leadership or management role, your team should always come first - this is, at heart, what good leadership is all about!
This act requires employers to provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for birth, adoption or placement of a son/daughter or care for the same. It may be used for a “serious health condition” for spouse, parents or children.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
A skill is a learned competency. And while almost anyone can be taught a particular skill, this is much more rare and valuable.
What is talent?
Be sure you Hire Talent, Not just Skills. Don't let your own insecurities get in the way of hiring the best people. You'll have a stronger, more productive team and others will recognize your talent because they know A's hire A's and B's hire C's.
This type of environment can result from the unwelcome conduct of supervisors, co-workers, customers, contractors, or anyone else with whom the victim interacts on the job, and the unwelcome conduct renders the workplace atmosphere intimidating, or offensive.
What is a hostile environment?
This can be informal or formal, and it can be given as praise in the form of reward and recognition, or it can be corrective in the form of disciplinary or corrective action.
What is feedback?
The process of giving ongoing feedback reinforces effective performance and corrects less-than-desirable performance. When giving feedback, you should provide employees with information that highlights the relationship between what is expected of them and what they have accomplished.
This common recruiting related management mistake is typically made when a manager feels the pressure of an unfilled open role.
What is hurrying the recruitment process?
Hire slow, fire fast.
Filling a vacant role too quickly can be disastrous. The wrong person wastes valuable time and resources. Other team members will be stressed and frustrated by having to "carry" the under-performer. Be selective!
When a potentially disabled employee approaches you with accommodation requests, they set in motion this act's “interactive process.”
It’s important to be able to identify such requests as possible ____-covered requests and then alert HR.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
When a potentially disabled employee approaches you with accommodation requests, they set in motion this act's “interactive process.”
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
It’s important to be able to identify such requests as possible ADA-covered requests and then alert HR.
This is the process of resolving disputes or disagreements.
What is conflict resolution?
Timing is everything when it comes to managing conflict, and the best time to take action is when there is hard evidence/proof that an employee has a track record of wrongdoing that is negatively impacting the performance of others.
Leadership is about taking action and confronting the issues before it’s too late.
At Hexagon, we strive for every employee to have ______ and ______ that are aligned to the business strategy, encourage on-going two-way communication between employees and their managers regarding performance and challenge each employee focus on their professional development.
What are goals and objectives?
This management mistake can create bottlenecks around the manager and can also cause a manager to become stressed and burned out.
What is not delegating?
Delegation does take a lot of effort up-front, and it can be hard to trust your team to do the work correctly. But unless you delegate tasks, you're never going to have time to focus on the "broader-view" that most leaders and managers are responsible for. You also fail to develop your people so that they can take the pressure off you.