{"id":972,"date":"2018-05-03T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zestmeup.com\/?post_type=blog&p=972"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T17:11:41","slug":"real-time-the-hr-challenge","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/zestmeup.com\/en\/blog\/real-time-the-hr-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Time: The HR Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Talent management these days is all about being proactive. With techniques like proximity management and continuous feedback, the new watchword is \u201creal time,\u201d so you can be present when it matters.<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n

Talent management these days is all about being proactive. With techniques like proximity management and continuous feedback, the new watchword is \u201creal time,\u201d so you can be present when it matters.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t

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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>The corporate world, like everything else, has been shaken up by the digital revolution, and that means we need solutions that can keep up. Being reactive isn\u2019t enough. You need to be highly responsive so you can stay on top of workplace issues and nip problems in the bud.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019re talking about a radical evolution in HR and talent management: shifting the focus to your workforce. What role do employees play in the success of your business? What are their needs? Are you giving them effective ways to communicate\u2026 and are you hearing them?\r\n\r\nEmployees these days expect more from HR: more acknowledgement and more engagement. Focusing on their needs is a healthy shift towards a new way of doing business, and with new HR tools entering the market, organizations are readying themselves for the challenge.\r\n

Rethinking the employee experience<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nAsk employees why they\u2019re dissatisfied or disengaged, and you hear the same things time and again: lack of recognition (40% of employees feel that they\u2019re not getting enough acknowledgement, according to the latest annual study by Malakoff Mederic) and lack of feedback from management. According to a recent Gallup poll, managers are the number one reason why employees quit. Bad Boss or doormat, too picky or not supportive enough, it turns out management is the main cause of talent loss.\r\n\r\nBut let\u2019s not be too quick to judge. Managers have no choice but to work in a flawed system they didn\u2019t create, and we expect them to be the ones to reform it. Bad managers aren\u2019t responsible for wasting talent: bad management is.\r\n\r\nThe major issue that feeds into the employee experience is timing: our management frameworks create delays between event and response. The way to correct course is by getting ahead of what employees need, when they need it.\r\n\r\nA lot of businesses still perform evaluations and employee satisfaction surveys on a yearly or twice-yearly basis. They\u2019re required, and they\u2019re definitely important, but they\u2019re not enough to stay on top of employee concerns. What matters to the employee experience is being able to give and receive direct, frequent feedback, even if it\u2019s just on their mood of the day, their weekly objectives or monthly results.\r\n

Why work in real time?<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nWhat employees want are real time tools that respond to their daily need for acknowledgement and feedback. They want the ability to communicate about what is and isn\u2019t working so they feel heard and know what managers want.\r\n\r\nWhy wait weeks to congratulate a colleague on how she managed a difficult project? Or why wait until an annual review to raise an issue that\u2019s been bothering you for months? Wouldn\u2019t it be better to deal with it right away?\r\n\r\nReal time tools let you nip problems in the bud. More importantly, they let you build long-term engagement. You don\u2019t run away from potential conflicts, and you don\u2019t let your colleagues build up long-term resentments.\r\n\r\nUnlike a fixed yearly review, real time tools let you adapt your HR solutions to company needs. They remove vertical obstacles and rigid HR timeframes so you can directly engage with your workforce at the best time.\r\n\r\nThe logic of real time is that it lets you keep up with what\u2019s happening so you can respond at the right time. You don\u2019t have to deal with everything the second it happens. Instead, it\u2019s about keeping employees engaged and dealing with issues before they blow up.\r\n\r\nWith real time tools, you can replace the bad management habits that are failing to connect. Mandatory meetings and reviews twice a year aren\u2019t cutting it. When employees don\u2019t communicate with managers on a regular basis, they might see annual meetings as an opportunity to vent, or worse, they just don\u2019t engage. The typical feedback process doesn\u2019t meet their needs.\r\n

Gimme recognition<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nDig deeper and you\u2019ll find that most unhappy employees want nothing more than to be engaged and invested in the business. To them that means greater autonomy, responsibility \u2014 and recognition.\r\n\r\nA happy workforce is a productive workforce, and engagement is the visible proof that employees feel acknowledged. But if you\u2019re only giving them formal feedback and recognition a couple of times a year, can you blame them for not being invested?\r\n\r\nWith real time tools, you can master employee engagement and motivation to get the most out of your workforce. Working in real time means spending time on tasks with a high added value, so you can find a balance between recruiting and retaining talent.\r\n\r\nWhen companies ignore a lack of workplace satisfaction or blame unhappy employees for not being more engaged, they fail to take action. The solution is to listen to what employees are saying and give them feedback right away.\r\n\r\nIn an era of constant likes and shares, it\u2019s not surprising that employees are looking for instant recognition. On social media we\u2019re expected to comment on photos, events or ideas as soon as they\u2019re posted. We can complain about the fast pace or we can turn it into our greatest strength. All it takes is a desire to keep up.\r\n\r\nAre you ready?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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