Hello First name / there. Welcome to the January Edition of HR Essentials, Sussex HR Hub's up-to-the-minute monthly newsletter!
 
Read more to understand how to remove unconscious bias from your recruitment process, how to utilise visual employee communication and find your template for creating a professional development plan.
 
 
IF YOU THINK YOU ARE TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TRY SLEEPING WITH A MOSQUITO!
 
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HOW-TO GUIDE
 
How to Remove Unconscious Bias From Your Recruitment Process
 
Ensuring a healthy balance of diversity and inclusion within your business can foster creativity and productivity, boosting your brand image and company appeal. As well as a social and moral responsibility to champion a diverse workforce, promoting diversity has a multitude of business benefits which can accelerate your growth in 2023.
 
It is crucial to safeguard your hiring process and ensure that unconscious bias is not hindering your ability to recruit an inclusive workforce. The most vital step to eliminating unconscious bias is understanding and accepting that unconscious bias exists. Read our How-To Guide to learn more. 
 
 
 
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
 
Visual Employee Communication
 
 
Visual communication is a way to reach your employees by sharing information and thoughts using visual components. Sharing and consuming visual content has never been more straightforward and is a great way to avoid information overload for your employees.
 
Visual communication can benefit your business by helping employees to learn, engage and retain information more efficiently, increasing speed and accuracy.
 
There are plenty of tools at your disposal, and this article shows how to effectively set up visual employee communications. 
 
 
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BUSINESS TEMPLATE
 
Creating a Professional Development Plan
 
Promoting an environment for success will be imperative to ensure the survival of your business in 2023. Providing your employees with the best opportunity to be motivated and productive is a proven way to cushion your company from uncertain economic conditions.
 
Introducing a professional development plan is a great way to kick-start this initiative. Beginning with onboarding and continuing throughout your employees' careers, a development plan will be an indispensable evaluation tool to align your company goals and objectives with your employees' aspirations. 
 
Click the link below to locate your professional development plan template.
 
 
 
ON THE BLOG
 
Fostering Human Leadership in the Workplace
 
In last month’s blog, we discussed areas of importance that need to be addressed in 2023, so what better way to start the year than an in-depth look at human leadership and how to implement this in the workplace? 
 
HR research carried out by Gartner hails human-centric leadership as the next step in succeeding in a modern workplace; however, only 29% of employees surveyed believe that their leaders delivered this. The characteristics of a human leader are broken down into three components - authenticity, empathy and adaptivity - learn more on the blog.
 
 
See you next month,
Dianne
 
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