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Discover the key behavioral interview questions that can reveal the true potential of your candidates.

The art of mastering leadership skills is more crucial than ever, with employees ranging both nearby and remote (and sometimes both). Our aim is to guide you in leveraging performance management to enhance your leadership effectiveness. This resource can be used to review the pivotal strategies of staying aligned as a team, fostering accountability, and being acutely mindful of biases. We will explore the core principles of nurturing employee growth, empowering and engaging team members to bring out their best, and the importance of steering clear of the pitfalls of micromanagement.

Engaging remote employees can feel like a complicated task, both to the employees and their managers. The physical separation of remote employees, whether it’s all employees working from home or just a few, can turn into feelings of isolation quickly if managers are not genuinely and regularly supporting and interacting with them. Remote employees that feel that involvement from their manager are more committed to achieving their goals, both professionally and personally. Check out our infographic on engaging those performance powerhouses we call remote employees to find out some ways you can stay in touch with them, no matter where they are.

LightWork Software excitedly announces its newest partnership with Spirence, a virtual mental health literacy platform for employers. Spirence offers self-paced mental health prevention tools designed to develop and deepen the skills everyone needs for emotional, social, and psychological well-being. The Spirence offerings include a mental well-being video library of hundreds of videos on a variety wellness topics, weekly live webinars, family support sessions, coaching, seminars, in-person wellness retreats, critical incident stress debriefing (CISD), and access to treatment services. Every Spirence team member is required to adhere to the Spirence Standard, which consists of expertise in the mental health field, an above and beyond attitude towards helping and empowering others, and a commitment to deliver the highest quality experience, tools, and education to their members.

Collecting employee time is a critical task for any business. Accurate tracking of all hours worked is essential for payroll, project management, and compliance with labor laws. Traditional methods of timekeeping, such as paper timesheets or manual entry in a computer system, are prone to errors and are time-consuming. Biometric time clocks are a modern solution many businesses have adopted to streamline their time and attendance processes. Let’s continue exploring the benefits of biometric time clocks and what they can do to improve your business's timekeeping accuracy and efficiency.