Kanjoya

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Few things could be worse for a company that is aspiring to build the best employee experience than a breach of employee data. Not only would it cause employee anxiety, anger, and frustration, it would also jeopardize employee trust. Moreover, the company would likely incur the hard and soft costs of legal fees, compensatory damages, and lost employee productivity. If so, how frequently? 3.

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Kanjoya

APRIL 19, 2015

For many HR professionals, understanding millennials, or generation Y, is currently top of mind. It is also an area I have been pondering lately. I am a millennial, and I find the following questions fascinating: What differentiates my generation? What do we desire in terms of employee engagement? How are we different from employees of generations past? Awareness and Appreciation of Diversity.

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Kanjoya

MAY 23, 2015

The development of Kanjoya Perception for Diversity has been inextricably connected to several key tenets, tenets which have also been core to our other solutions and general philosophy. have presented them here with the hope that they will also be helpful to you – as you embark on or continue your journey to attain a more diverse, inclusive, and engaged workforce. 1.

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Kanjoya

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As someone who works on a product to increase diversity in the workforce, it has been exciting to witness the media attention around diversity issues this year. Articles abound, dominated by reports of diversity statistics and pledges at leading tech firms, discussions of measures, like the Rooney Rule, to increase the number of diverse candidates in the pipeline, and coverage of diversity lawsuits. While I am encouraged by the discourse and the positive changes it can foster, I have become increasingly aware of what is largely left out of the conversation. Kanjoya Can Help.

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

Kanjoya

AUGUST 27, 2015

As competition for talent intensifies, business and HR leaders are scrambling for insights to attract, retain, and motivate the right employees. Surveys are a great start. But if they’re chock full of quantitative, ranking, and categorical questions, they will not give you a genuine view of employee attitudes, motivations, and intent. The challenge : you have a lot of it. management? Figure 1. How

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Kanjoya

JULY 20, 2015

People are the fabric of company operations. They make decisions and take actions that impact the products and services companies offer. Companies collect data about their people and house it in HR and human capital (HCM) solutions and other point applications. Yet only a handful of companies are using that data in strategic and tactical decisions. HR-Specific Strategy and Tactics. If not, why not?

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Kanjoya

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Kanjoya Product Manager, Melanie Goldstein, was a featured panelist at the “Using Tech To Eliminate Bias In Recruiting, Hiring, Performance Reviews, & Promotions” at the Cutting Edge Conference in San Francisco, CA, September 21-22. Joining Joining Melanie on the panel were Kieran Snyder, Co-Founder & CEO of Textio, and Kédar Iyer, Co-Founder of Gap Jumpers.

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Kanjoya

JULY 1, 2015

People are the most important assets to a business, yet investment decisions to optimize the employee experience are made with (at best) half the sophistication and data used to justify technology, business process, and capital investments. The upshot? Poor decisions and sub-optimal results. This post shows you how to avoid these traps. Others are more skeptical. Conclusions.

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Kanjoya

MAY 8, 2015

If your company’s annual or pulse survey is your sole or predominant source for measuring employee engagement, you are missing critical insights about your employees and culture. Leverage other key sources of employee opinion and feedback to generate a full picture of the employee experience. Employee surveys have become the workhorses of employee engagement initiatives at companies of all sizes.

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Kanjoya

MARCH 27, 2015

“Glassdoor information is useful, but it keeps me up at night,” admitted an HR Director to me last week. Her comments reflect (a) the increasing importance of Glassdoor as a critical source of information for job seekers about the inner workings of a company and the employee experience and (b) the conflicting emotions HR and business leaders have with the site. csv) file. negative.

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Kanjoya

MARCH 9, 2015

As the topic of diversity heats up in Silicon Valley, I wanted to share a story which demonstrates the power of Kanjoya technology  applied to these important issues. Using Kanjoya, one customer immediately discovered unconscious bias in their organization. First a bit about the Kanjoya approach to diversity: Kanjoya harnesses big data analytics, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning to take the guesswork and ambiguity out of improving diversity and provide metrics to quantify previously nebulous issues. Do you have a diversity strategy?

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Kanjoya

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

A constant challenge for managers is balancing immediate concerns with employee development and growth. Too often, in the rush to meet deadlines, prepare deliverables, and focus on direct revenue producers, we don’t find the time to discuss our reports’ career goals and development. Instead, we put these conversations on the back burner, and relegate them to the periods, once or twice a year, when performance reviews take place. Despite good intentions, we all do it, and it’s a constant struggle. But research shows that professional development does impact the bottom line, in measurable ways.

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

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Kanjoya

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

If the topic of this article piques your interest, your business is in growth mode. Congratulations! You’re experiencing an exciting time in your company’s history. But growth is often accompanied by growing pains that force you to rethink investments in people, processes, and technology. Here are 7 glaring signs your employee engagement solution cannot scale with your business: 1. leadership?

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Kanjoya

MARCH 17, 2015

In today’s world, we laud innovation as essential for businesses seeking to remain competitive in the global marketplace. We know that innovation, and growth and progress, are critical for companies’ success, but what about the less attractive word underlying these processes–change? While innovation sounds exciting, it is no secret that change can be messy, and hard. Most of us thrive in our routine, and changes can interrupt flow and productivity in the short term. But change is clearly at the core of any initiatives related to innovation, growth, or progress.

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Kanjoya

APRIL 14, 2015

Kanjoya and Twitter Co-Present New Model of Employee Engagement: An (Even) Better Workplace and a Competitive Advantage. Kanjoya CEO Armen Berjikly and Twitter Director of People Analytics Shane McCauley took the stage at the HCI Summit in early April to present Twitter’s new model of employee engagement, powered by the Kanjoya Perception™ solution. The new model is designed to help Twitter build an engaging workplace that builds a competitive advantage and successfully attracts and retains employees who thrive at the company. The may not know what truly drives their engagement.

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Kanjoya

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Deploying employee surveys and acting on them demonstrate your commitment to employees. People appreciate their voices being heard and seeing the changes they initiate. However, most employee surveys are structured or analyzed in ways that oversimplify or distort the meaning or intent of employee feedback. The outcomes? You overlook true employee concerns, or you build an employee experience or invest in action plans that are irrelevant to what employees need or want. These mistakes could compromise employee trust, loyalty, and motivation. DO survey frequently, but don’t be annoying.

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Kanjoya

AUGUST 5, 2015

I recently read Mary Meeker’s “ Internet Trends 2015 ,” and wanted to share my perspective on the report,  as both a millennial, and someone who works as a software engineer in tech. In this blog, I’ve decided to focus on how the growth and proliferation of the internet has affected the development and consumption of consumer-based products and services. In this regard, I believe there are three key takeaways from “Internet Trends 2015”: Businesses should be focusing on mobile first, capitalizing on the Indian market, and on fulfilling desires for on-demand services. Mobile First. workforce.

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Kanjoya

AUGUST 2, 2015

Kanjoya is pleased to announce our partnership with Workday. By selecting us to join its list of Connect Partners, Workday has recognized Kanjoya Perception ™  to be a solution that solves critical business challenges and complies with the quality and security requirements of the Workday platform. Benefits for Workday Customers. Under this partnership, Workday customers can now integrate with Kanjoya automatically, and keep their employee directories updated in Perception effortlessly — in other words, with no maintenance necessary. Want More Info?

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Kanjoya

JULY 28, 2015

A few weeks ago, Armen Berjikly, the CEO of Kanjoya, sat down with the Spanish newspaper El Pais. The topic was unconscious bias and how technology could be leveraged to minimize its impact. have included select quotes from that conversation below. On unconscious bias: Berjikly believes that “most bias is not intentional or ‘evil’– it is unconscious, or learned without our being aware of it, over the course of our lives.”  “People generally have very different expectations of men and women (and other diverse groups), and the issue is that they don’t realize it.”

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Kanjoya

APRIL 29, 2015

In the past year, stories regarding diversity and inclusion have increasingly permeated national news. Most of these narratives present the problems we continue to face as a society–few speak to a solution. It is unclear “where we go from here,” how things will change, and even if they can. Building a Better Future. At Kanjoya, I have been fortunate to be exposed to a different kind of story. The more that we understand, the more empathetic we become. Through technology, tangible progress is within reach.

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Kanjoya

JUNE 9, 2015

Design. If you’ve ever designed a survey, you know how difficult it is. After defining the objectives of the survey, you must attempt to construct unbiased, unambiguous questions whose answers provide actionable, pertinent insights and metrics. For each question, there are many possible formats and wordings, each of which may produce a very different response. And what about burn out? Analysis.

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Kanjoya

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In our inaugural appearance at Workday Rising (September 28-October 1, 2015, Las Vegas), Kanjoya is showcasing our data science capabilities that enable Workday customers to reveal employee motivations and intent from unstructured, text-based data. Our algorithms can identify the theme(s) without employees explicitly using terms like “benefits/compensation” or “leadership” in their feedback.

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Kanjoya

JUNE 15, 2015

We all know employee engagement is important. But just how important? These stats might make your jaw drop–they convey the extent to which employee engagement is a problem, as well as the costs associated with engagement and disengagement-related churn. I’ve included them here with the hope that they will be helpful to you, as you consider how to best construct and prioritize employee engagement initiatives at your organization. Engagement Across the Workforce. More than half of employees, or 51%, are “not engaged.”. 17.5% are “actively disengaged.”. The Cost of Engagement.

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Kanjoya

JUNE 30, 2015

We are excited to announce that Moritz Sudhof, Chief Data Scientist at Kanjoya, will be presenting at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium on July 15th at 2:35-3:00pm. The Symposium features some of the brightest minds in the industry, and will be held July 15-16 in New York City. Moritz’s talk, “Measuring and Combating Gender Biases in the Workplace,” will illuminate the groundbreaking technologies developed by Kanjoya to identify, quantify, and track issues of unconscious bias. He earned his BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he served as a Mayfield Fellow.

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

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Kanjoya

JUNE 2, 2015

I recently returned from the National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) Summit on Women and IT. The The event brought together change leaders from across the United States to discuss strategies to increase the number of women and girls in STEM fields, and to thoughtfully consider the obstacles associated with doing so. The process was inspiring and informative, eye opening, and encouraging–as we delved into both the real challenges associated with improving diversity in STEM fields, and the real solutions devised by many of the visionaries in attendance.

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Kanjoya

OCTOBER 12, 2015

During the Amazing New Startups session at the HR Technology Conference, Kanjoya will showcase how it’s pushing the frontiers of people analytics to understand and predict how people will behave and perform. What matters to high performers, and what can you do to keep them? What changes should you make to the workplace environment to attract and retain a diverse workforce? Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

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Kanjoya

JULY 6, 2015

Moritz Sudhof, Chief Data Scientist at Kanjoya, will be presenting at the Sentiment Analysis Symposium on July 15th at 2:35-3:00 pm. The Symposium features some of the brightest minds in the industry, and will be held July 15-16 in New York City. Moritz’s talk, “Measuring and Combating Gender Biases in the Workplace,” will illuminate the groundbreaking technologies developed by Kanjoya to identify, quantify, and track issues of unconscious bias. In advance of his presentation, we sat down with Moritz for a preview. Can you spill the beans on what you will be discussing?

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Kanjoya

MARCH 6, 2015

Before I became a manager, I was always puzzled whenever I would be asked, in employee surveys, if I felt I had a best friend at work. Why would my employer care? Through my experiences as a manager and as a professional working with employee engagement solutions, I’ve learned why. Having a best friend indicates engagement, which in turn, correlates with productivity and other performance metrics. So employers ask this question to evaluate their likelihood of retaining and motivating employees. In fact, barring a “major” personal loss, I would be mortified if I cried at work. No, not really.

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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory.

Kanjoya

JANUARY 14, 2015

Many studies conclude that employee engagement has a positive impact on culture, productivity, and the bottom line. But how much of a problem is the flipside, disengagement? What are the risks, and what can we do to remedy its effects? The Problem. Let’s examine the landscape of workplace disengagement. Traditionalists are the most engaged generation, at 42.2%, and engagement increases with age.

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Kanjoya

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over the last decade, Fortune 500 and other large businesses have embraced employee engagement initiatives to drive performance.  As these companies have rolled out supporting programs, they have amassed mountains of employee data and information — yet have done nothing with them! This is a mistake. After all, old data is stale data: time erodes the value and relevance of data. Keys to Success.

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Kanjoya

AUGUST 14, 2015

At this year’s National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Summit, Karen Ashcraft delivered a fascinating keynote address. Ashcraft, who has published widely on the impact of gender on “organizational and occupational formations — such as identity, culture, and mode of governance,” urged change leaders to reframe and reconsider their approaches to bringing more women and minorities into tech fields. Exclusive focus on diversifying the pipeline can lead to unfortunate side effects, which she explains is a “painful truth.”. The Painful Truth. Happy Ending. Epilogue.

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Kanjoya

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Diversity is a hot topic in Silicon Valley at present–hardly a day goes by without a flurry of articles. As companies refine and bolster their diversity strategies it is important that they keep a pulse on employee sentiment around these initiatives. Specifically, they should optimize the means by which they collect and act on employee feedback. Impromptu Responses: Dashboard Insights.

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Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now

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