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Management
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Management
3 ways to fight burnout as a manager
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Management
A millennial manager's guide to the latest emoji use and slang
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Management
How to advocate for your team to do less
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Management
Ten words and phrases to avoid in feedback (and what to say instead)
Discover ten words and phrases to avoid in feedback and how to rephrase them positively.
Management
Positive thoughts to start your day
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AI
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Talent
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Management
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Management
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AI
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Featured
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Product
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Management
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Performance feedback
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Performance feedback
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Performance feedback
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Performance feedback
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Management
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Featured
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Management
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Performance feedback
Fostering equity and inclusion in talent development: A practical guide for HR professionals
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Performance feedback
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Talk about an upgrade—feedback quality rocketed by 67%: Velera's Textio success story
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Management
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Management
Tips for a middle manager: How to manage in the middle and own the message
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Management
How to give hard feedback at work when you can see the person is trying really hard (but it's not working)
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Management
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Product
Announcing AI-powered performance reviews with Textio for SAP SuccessFactors
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Management
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Featured
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Product
Introducing Generate a Job Post with Textio AI
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Performance feedback
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AI
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AI
What to do when your employees are using AI in performance reviews
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Here's why developing AI responsibly is so important
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Bias
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How certain performance review phrases affect employee engagement
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Performance feedback
We analyzed 2 years of performance reviews for 13,000 workers.
Poor or insufficient feedback leads to employee attrition. Our finding shows that not all feedback is equal.
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Unveiling Textio's DEIB wardrobe
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Hiring
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Recruiting
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Recruiting
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Data
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Performance feedback
How performance feedback quality impacts employee retention
Discover the troubling patterns of bias in performance feedback and the impact on employee retention. See findings from Textio's 2023 report.
Learn how pay transparency promotes fairness, reduces the wage gap, and attracts a diverse pool of talent.
AI
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Diversity
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Textio
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Diversity
How to craft a sincere equal opportunity employer statement
Data and tips for writing a meaningful and effective equal opportunity employer statement, including real examples and writing prompts.
AI
Textio talks AI and bias in Washington
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AI
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Talent
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AI
Mindful AI: Crafting prompts to mitigate the bias in generative AI
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AI
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Diversity
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Diversity
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Product
Textio language guidance is now available in Oracle Recruiting Cloud
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HR
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AI
ChatGPT writes valentines
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chatgpt
ChatGPT rewrites feedback
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AI
ChatGPT writes recruiting mail
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Hiring
“I came across your profile on LinkedIn”
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HR
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AI
ChatGPT writes performance feedback
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AI
ChatGPT writes job posts
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AI
I wrote thousands of documents with ChatGPT, and here’s what I learned about bias
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Product
Textio language guidance now available in SuccessFactors
Empower your team with language insights within your ATS
Webinar
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Ohio
The business culture Battle of Ohio
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Machine Learning
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Textio’s data-powered language guidance is unmatched in quality, accuracy, and business impact in recruiting and performance management.
Textio U
New Textio U certification: Equitable Performance Feedback
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Featured
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Culture
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Textio U
Announcing Textio U for all
Inclusion starts with understanding, and Textio U is a learning resource for every team
Talent
How to provide high-quality performance feedback
The best performance feedback is clear, actionable, and work-focused. Learn how to provide high-quality feedback at work with these tips and examples.
Performance feedback
Why goal-setting is a must for equitable performance management
Understand the importance of goal-setting in performance management. Goals help employees perform better and stay aligned, all while ensuring equity.
Textio
Leaving no one behind: a look at Textio's day of service
Every year Textios take a day off work to volunteer for causes they care about in their local communities or online organizations
Performance feedback
Personality feedback is holding certain groups back
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Performance feedback
How to create an equitable feedback culture
An equitable feedback culture is necessary for employees to grow and companies to thrive. Learn how to create a healthy culture of feedback.
Management
8 Equity-focused performance review templates
Adopt 8 templates that will help your team deliver higher-quality performance feedback
Performance feedback
How to improve employee morale during a recession
The stress of a recession can impact your employees’ mental health and job satisfaction. Try these 10 strategies to boost employee morale and engagement.
Finance
What you should know about your startup stock options
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Textio
Interrupt bias in your hiring process: New Textio U certification
Announcing Textio U’s first open-access course
Performance feedback
Performance review dos and don’ts
Employees need equitable and actionable feedback to grow. Read these performance review tips for managers to improve your next review cycle.
Recruiting
Attract talent with a growth mindset
Growth mindset language is more likely to attract talent inclusively
Performance feedback
How to give a remote work evaluation
Remote work evaluations can be tricky, but they're crucial for your team’s performance
Employer Brand
How to build a strong employer brand in 2022
A strong employer brand is no longer optional, but foundational to talent acquisition
Job descriptions
The 5Cs framework for inclusive job descriptions
5 things to keep in mind to write an inclusive job description
Textio
Staying connected: Our 2nd annual creative fair
Once a year Textios come together to share our creations outside of work
Language
Job performance feedback is heavily biased: new Textio report
Textio analysis reveals major biases in workplace language
Recruiting
5 policies that attract, engage, and retain top talent
In the “new normal” with increasingly fierce competition for talent, companies must demonstrate their long-term commitment to people-first policies to attract and retain top talent.
Product
Textio language insights now available in Taleo Recruiting
Bring the power of augmented writing into Taleo to empower your team where they already are.
Product
The power of using Textio everywhere
Make every word count with real-time bias interruption where you’re already writing
Inclusion
How today’s candidates are screening your culture
Job seekers are doing deep culture checks, and looking for inclusion
Awards
Textio named to Inc. Best in Business list
Textio is recognized as one of the most inspiring software companies of 2021 by Inc.
Diversity
How Shaw Communications shares its inclusive culture with candidates
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Shaw!
Awards
Textio named among fastest-growing tech companies by Deloitte
Deloitte places Textio on their Technology Fast 500 list
Inclusion
What to know about the 2022 talent landscape
Candidates are leading with values and looking for empathetic employers
Diversity
How Checkout.com’s inclusive language work inspires real behavioral change
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Checkout.com!
Employer Branding
Get certified in Inclusive Employer Brand: New in Textio U!
Announcing Textio U’s newest certification
Diversity
How Uncommon Goods brings DEIB into their workplace, marketplace, and community
Congrats to Textio Inspiration Award winner, Uncommon Goods!
Inclusion
Would you know ageism if you saw it?
A reflection on bias, neutrality, and inclusion in language
Customer Stories
Meet the winners of the new Textio Growth Mindset Award
Congratulations to these organizations for earning the first-ever Textio Award for upskilling
Customer Stories
And the Textio Equity Award goes to…
Congratulations to these organizations for earning the 2022 Textio Equity Award!
Inclusion
Announcing the 2022 Textio Awards winners
Congratulations to these organizations for earning the 2022 Textio Leadership Award!
Diversity
Does pay transparency bring inclusion? The data says yes
Early data from Colorado says showing pay bands increases appeal of a job post to women and people of all ages
Textio
Textio makes the Best Companies to Work For list!
Seattle Business Magazine names Textio to list for third time
Language
Big tech and the big empathy gap
Data shows major tech companies ignoring values that employees want
Recruiting
Textio language insights now available in iCIMS
Empower your team with augmented writing directly in your ATS
Language
Measurement matters in achieving your inclusion and belonging goals
Textio's language trend reports help you manage your inclusive language evolution
Employer Branding
Textio and Kelly win Stevie International Business Award
Kelly honored with “HR Team of the Year” award for work with Textio
News
Textio honored as an Inc. 5000 fastest growing private company
Textio lands in top 20% of the list with high growth rate
Executives
Textio welcomes Jackye Clayton as VP of Talent Acquisition and DEI
Acclaimed DEI leader joins during period of growth
Inclusion
500 reasons to get certified in Inclusive Recruiting
Textio U students share their motivations for getting certified
Diversity
Showing candidates you value inclusion, in all the places they’re looking
Textio guidance is now available in LinkedIn posts and comments
Tech
Cisco’s Shari Slate joins Textio Board of Advisors
Executive to shape inclusion and collaboration strategy at Textio
Employees
Announcing Textio U, our new hub for continuous learning
Earn your certification in inclusive recruiting with our first online course!
Inclusion
Zoom sessions consistently draining? Take an energy audit of your meetings
It’s impossible to eradicate meetings, but you can evaluate the value of each of your scheduled appointments.
Executives
Textio CEO honored with GeekWire CEO of the Year Award
Kieran Snyder recognized for leading Textio through a challenging 2020
Economy
Three ways to use language to build a more inclusive recovery
Lessons from looking at the language and unequal economic impact of the pandemic
Hiring
Customer spotlight: how to use Textio to make job postings more inclusive
The Tucows team shares their year of leadership in inclusive hiring
Gender Equality
The inaugural Textio Equity Awards go to…
These organizations had the largest share of gender-neutral job posts in 2020
Inclusion
Meet the winners of the Textio Transformation Award
Honoring organizations with the biggest Textio Score increases in 2020
Inclusion
Announcing the recipients of our first-ever Textio Awards
Congratulations to these organizations for earning the 2020 Textio Leadership Award!
Case study
How a workforce solutions company’s corporate recruiting team refined their candidate experience
Kelly® ensures every touchpoint for candidates and employees reflects their values
Diversity
A more holistic approach to inclusion and belonging
A stronger talent attraction system means cultivating belonging
Diversity
The power of language and its role in inclusion
How your words can amplify a virtuous cycle of belonging
Inclusion
Building a “flywheel” of belonging in your organization
A framework for creating and sustaining a culture of belonging
Language
What a president sounds like: Dominance vs. democracy
Comparing the inauguration speeches of Biden and Trump
Diversity
Be mindful of sports jargon in your talent content
That phrase may not be “nothing but net”
Remote Working
Lessons a writing company has learned in eight months of WFH
Status: WFH (Writing from home)
Inclusion
2020 didn't slow down Textio
Textio brought many new product innovations to our customers in 2020
Recruiting
Repeating yourself: How to fix the broken-record job post
Tips to reduce redundancy when writing job descriptions
Language
What do you learn by measuring language?
Cultural signals that only language data can reveal
Employer Branding
To build an inclusive culture, hire people who value inclusion
Textio now offers insights on the language of inclusion in your employer brand content
Diversity
A conversation with Denise Branch, Forbes-featured anti-racism educator
Insights on how to truly effect change with anti-racism work
Language
Understanding pandemic work and the limits of war language
Our media and politicians rely on war metaphors, but data reveals more effective, supportive language
Diversity
Avoiding harmful language in hiring content
Textio now provides expanded guidance for offensive phrases, developed from these helpful public resources
Diversity
Hiring language points to unequal economic recovery
Inclusive language in hiring content is suddenly dropping after years of improvement
Employer Branding
How a leading biotech company transformed its employer brand language
Amgen showcases their collaborative employee experience with Textio
Employer Branding
5 things talent acquisition and recruiting teams can do when hiring is slow
Tackle these projects today, to set your team and company up for success tomorrow
Machine Learning
Textio named to Forbes AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies
Forbes features Textio for second consecutive year
Diversity
Calling out microaggressions: one leader’s experience sharing her “Blaxhaustion™”
An instructive example of the total cost of experiencing microaggressions
Case study
How a 92-year-old insurance brokerage transformed and scaled its employer brand
How Gallagher uses Textio to empower recruiters, scale smarter, and write in one voice
Product
Textio brings augmented writing to Workday Recruiting
Data-powered language insights directly in your ATS
Equality
We need a new normal because the one we have is racist.
It is time to say it out loud, yell it out loud.
Employer Branding
How to build an authentic employer brand
Standing out from the crowd with the strength of your values
Jargon
Corporate jargon: A brief history and the best solution
Breaking the 50-year vicious cycle of jargon
Leadership
A CEO exchange on kindness and bravery: leadership in times of change
How two top leaders are supporting their teams
Employee engagement
Employee engagement ideas for the era of empathy
Keeping up morale and motivation in our new, more human world
Employer Branding
Empathetic recruiting: how to be considerate (but still compelling)
Reaching out with compassion—and getting a response
Employer Branding
Growth-mindset language is (still) better for employer brand
Four years on, the data still supports using growth-mindset language
Employee engagement
Internal communications planning: Best practices in critical times
Finding the right words is a matter of coming back to basics
Company culture
Boost employee engagement in tough times: Lean on company values
How reflecting your values in employee communications builds engagement
Company culture
Building a culture of innovation: How to change company culture
Welcome new ideas and those who have them to build a culture of innovation
Diversity
5 Slack best practices for inclusive companies
Foster a culture of belonging through your internal communications
Employer Branding
Employee engagement in a WFH world: what to know
How to support a newly remote workforce, based on language data
Featured
Bias interruption beyond gender
Textio’s augmented writing guidance expands to include both ageism and ableism
Diversity
4 overlooked types of bias in business writing
How implicit bias shows up in (and upends) everyday work writing
Hiring
Hiring fast, amid a fast-growing health crisis
A few tips to attract the right candidates and fill critical roles quickly
Diversity
It starts with the message you’re sending
How the County of Los Angeles is changing its candidate pipeline with language
Product
Fast Company again places Textio among the world’s Most Innovative Companies
2020 marks the fourth year in a row that the editors have recognized the team at Textio for innovation in data science and design
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