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FMP’s New Employee Ambassador Program
Starting a new job is a huge transition and can be accompanied by a range of emotions and experiences. You’re required to reorient yourself to new ways of working, meet new people, and learn how to navigate a new organization—all of which can make onboarding seem like a herculean task. When you are required to…
How Can You Strengthen Your Onboarding Approach?
Effective onboarding sets the tone for a new hire’s experience within an organization. Additionally, a thoughtful onboarding program presents significant organizational benefits, including reduced turnover, increased productivity, and a stronger company culture. This blog includes several methods for strengthening your onboarding approach and testimonies from three of our newest FMPers, Julia Dillon, Molly VanDorick, and…
Practices to Maximize your DEIA Learning Curriculum
Over the past few years, the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) has been at the forefront of many minds. Despite this, unfortunately “checking the box” on implementing DEIA initiatives continues to be a pervasive issue. Instead of making meaningful and systemic changes to policies, processes, and programs, organizations often complete performative, compliance-focused,…
New Year, Better You – Let’s Talk about Mentoring!
At FMP, we tend to take professional development pretty seriously. After all, we design, develop, and implement learning programs of all shapes and sizes for our clients. But when it comes to our FMP Mentoring Program, we place a lot of energy and emphasis on ensuring that our program effectively matches mentors and mentees to…
Employee Spotlight: Adrien McCulloch
Today’s spotlight is on Adrien McCulloch! Adrien is currently a Consultant at FMP with a special focus on performance management, leadership development, strategic planning, and process improvement. He received his master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology in 2022 from George Mason University. Read on to learn more about Adrien! What brought you to FMP? I was…
Managing Effectively in a Hybrid Work Environment
Managers across the US find themselves facing rapid and sometimes disruptive change resulting from the pandemic. A broad swath of the workforce has experienced remote work or policies that allow them to work from home at least part of the time. Many organizations find they cannot retain high performers or hire quality candidates unless they…
Intrapreneurship at FMP: Mindfulness Month Challenge
FMP Consulting Human Capital Consultant II, Summer Sconyers, challenged her fellow FMPers to a month of mindful practices including meditation, gratitude, and breathwork. The challenge spanned the month of July (2022) and afforded employees the flexibility to participate in the way that best served them. For this installment of the Intrapreneurship at FMP blog series,…
Employee Spotlight: Kayla Reid
Today, we will be spotlighting Kayla Reid, a Consultant II here at FMP. Read on to learn more about Kayla! Tell us about your professional/educational background: For my undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, I majored in Anthropology and Psychology. For grad school at the University of Edinburgh, I earned a Master of Science…
Pulse Surveys: A Valuable Source of Workplace Data and Insight
Now more than ever, organizations need to act fast, adapt quickly, and derive data-based insights rapidly to remain competitive. An increasingly popular data-based tool for enabling this sort of rapid adaptation is the pulse survey. Pulse surveys represent an efficient method for gathering employee feedback and/or assessing perceptions1. Compared to “traditional” surveys, pulse surveys are…
A Look Into FMP’s Season of Gratitude
What are we grateful for at FMP? This is a question we tend to ask ourselves as we move into this time of the year. Gratitude is mindfully appreciating the good in our lives and being thankful for what we have. In the swirl of daily life, it can be hard to pause and notice…