Sat.Nov 25, 2017 - Fri.Dec 01, 2017

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From Amazon to Carvana: How Your Dealership Can Learn From Disruptive Business Models

Hireology

Traditional dealerships are no longer the only option consumers have when it comes to car buying. Disruptive business models from Amazon, Carvana and others are transforming the automotive industry and posing a risk to local dealers. To compete with the latest innovative business models, it’s critical to turn your employees into your main source of competitive advantage.

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How to Navigate a Successful Culture Transformation Process (Part 1)

Achievers

How strong is your work culture? Are you in need of a successful culture transformation? With 21% greater profitability from engaged business units, a strong work culture can be the key to your business’ future success. It’s important to navigate your new culture shift with the right approach. SGEi has led transformation processes over the years to improve the culture of organizations, large and small, across multiple industries.

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How to Resign From Your Job Properly

HR Bartender

Over the years, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about the right way to get a job. I think it only makes sense to talk about the right way to resign when you leave a job. Because there is a right way to do it. Even if the organization is terrible and your boss is a jerk , it’s important to resign the right way. That doesn’t mean you can’t be honest and authentic.

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Striking gold: 7 savvy ways to tap into employee knowledge

Insperity

The business world is a dynamic place where every bit of knowledge and creative juice must be cultivated from each and every employee for your company to succeed. Done with purpose, identifying shareable skills within your current workforce can lead to more effective employee development, increased engagement and a greater sense of overall well-being throughout your organization.

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Balancing Cost and Care: 3 Key Considerations for Cost Optimization in 2024

Discover essential strategies for employers to balance cost optimization with care. The Top priorities for employers in 2024 are retaining talent, growing revenue and sales, and attracting talent. To achieve these goals, employers are turning towards comprehensive total rewards strategies informed by data-driven insights. Hear from industry experts on cost optimization strategies and how to leverage these approaches for a healthier workforce.

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How to Turn First Time Fitness Customers into Regulars

Hireology

Fitness customers today have countless options when it comes to getting in shape. From full-service gyms to at-home fitness apps to studios dedicated to yoga, cycling, crossfit and more, the possibilities are endless. And with many fitness centers offering first-time visitors a free week or month of membership, consumers often jump from free trial to free trial, rather than joining one fitness center for the long-term.

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Let Your Employees Know the Rules – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Today’s media has a lot of talk about rules. Specifically, about breaking rules. Remember the Marcus Buckingham book “ First, Break All the Rules ”? In a world where disruption is often truly valued, knowing how and when to break the rules is essential. And that’s the key – knowing how and when. Whether it’s one rule or a few thousand, today’s Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos reminds us that every once in a while, we have to abide by the rules.

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6 top tips for preventing ageism in the workplace

Insperity

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protects individuals 40 and over from discrimination in any decision made during the full cycle of employment – including everything from hiring, termination, pay, job duties and beyond. Fifty years after its enactment, one in four discrimination claims are still related to ageism, according to the EEOC.

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Hireology Research: The State of Retail Automotive Hiring Q3 2017

Hireology

Retail automotive continues to see 2017 as a milestone year. The industry experienced a year-over-year sales surge in September, much of which can be attributed to Hurricanes Irma and Harvey devastating lives and destroying hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Even for those who stayed out of harm’s way, the urgent shift of inventory to hurricane-ravaged regions may result in vehicle bottlenecks throughout the country that will continue to impact o

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How to Build a Team Like the NBA

UpstartHR

If you know me, you know I’m not a sports person. I don’t watch. I don’t follow. It’s not that I have some strong dislike for sports. It’s just that when I stopped doing them in high school, I lost all interest. I can watch them, if I am at a live event or if I don’t have an alternative. But when I’m listing things I look forward to each week, that isn’t at the top of my list.

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Individual Development Plan Template

There’s no way around it: sometimes employees need your help. Use this free template to clarify expectations, share resources, and set a timeline. Best case scenario, this process helps them improve. Worst case, your great recordkeeping keeps you compliant even if they move on. Download the template today!

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3 Ways to Communicate with Employees About Benefits

Winston Benefits

Excellent benefits communication is vital to the success of your employee benefits strategy. If employees aren’t fully educated about their benefits, they may miss out on features they really want — and that could lead them to be dissatisfied with what you’re offering. Deliberate communication is especially important in today’s multigenerational workforce that may be in multiple locations.

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The Millennial Turnover Problem in the Financial Services Industry

Hppy

The phrase “churn and burn” is commonly used to describe an industry’s high turnover rate. Based on recent data, it’s appropriate to use that phrase when describing the financial services industry. According to a Compdata survey, the Banking & Finance industry has an 18.6 percent turnover rate , which is one of the highest among all industries.

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How to attract the very best talent

cipHR

Engaging with and recruiting the best talent for your business is an ongoing challenge. With 65% of recruiters claiming that talent shortage is the biggest challenge in hiring, a well-planned recruitment strategy, supported by the right people and tools, is rewarded with the ability to stand out among employers and attract the very best talent to your brand.

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How to Avoid a Holiday Diet Fail

SnackNation

How to Avoid a Holiday Diet Fail. At the beginning of 2017, we vowed to make healthy choices all year. We’ve done a great job so far, but the biggest annual obstacle to healthy eating is just around the corner: the holidays. During the season of eating, we’ll be taunted by pumpkin-spice everything, stuffing with bacon (yes, it’s a thing!), cookies…oh, and MORE cookies.

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How to Wrap Up Open Enrollment

Winston Benefits

It can be tempting to close the book on open enrollment as quickly as possible. After all, you’ve put in plenty of long hours making sure everything goes smoothly — setting up benefits counseling sessions, putting out customer service fires and so on. But there are just a few more things to wrap up before open enrollment is over, and getting those right can set your benefits administration up for success into the new year.

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How Knowledge Base Makes Your HR Work Smartly And Effectively

Hppy

“The value of a business is a function of how well the financial capital and the intellectual capital are managed by the human capital. You’d better get the human capital part right.” – said, Dave Bookbinder. Human Resource is the lifeblood of an organization. Today, the role of HR has diversified from traditional ‘hiring and firing’ to ‘strategizing and controlling’ the overall activities in an organization.

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Harvard Meets GitHub: Using Evidence To Design The Future Of Performance Reviews

15Five

Most managers dread everything about employee performance review time. Performance reviews are tedious and time consuming, the technology (if any) sucks, and the conversation is always uncomfortable. In some circumstances, it’s even company policy to rank each of your team members. You probably hate narrowing down employee performance to a single number, but that’s just standard procedure.

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Episode 9 | How a Tragic Event Inspired This Mother-Daughter Duo to Build a Thriving Family Business, with Skinny Dipped Co-Founders Val and Breezy Griffith

SnackNation

Episode 9 | How a Tragic Event Inspired This Mother-Daughter Duo to Build a Thriving Family Business. with Skinny Dipped Co-Founders Val and Breezy Griffith. Food, family, and love. For the folks at Skinny Dipped, these three things are hard to separate. For one thing, it’s because co-founders Val and Breezy Griffith are family – mother and daughter to be exact.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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How to Get To the Root Cause of Employee Engagement Issues

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Workify , a tech-enabled service that helps companies establish more real-time feedback loops to uncover hidden engagement issues. Enjoy!) . Employee surveys are important. I’d like to think we all agree that asking employees for their feedback is valuable. However, the real impact of a survey is in what companies do with the data they receive.

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[Infographic] Does Working More Hours Lead to a Healthier Economy?

Hppy

If you work more hours, will you be more productive? This is a question that many of us wonder as individuals, and a question that businesses around the globe seek to answer. Approaching this issue purely from a mathematical standpoint, you could conclude that working more would lead to more productivity. After all, it would make sense that increased input would cause increased output.

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How to Be a Professional Troublemaker in HR [Podcast]

UpstartHR

This coming year, my wish for you is that you become more of a troublemaker in your business. Yes, you heard me correctly. HR has a longstanding tradition of being the administrative department. The party planners. The “that’s how we’ve always done it and let’s avoid the risk” police. But what if there was another way? What if we could be disruptors and troublemakers as a force for good?

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5 Top Tips for Choosing the Best Candidates

Hppy

A resume can only tell you so much about a candidate, such as their educational background and professional history. It fails to tell you the type of person a candidate is, and whether he or she will fit the company’s culture; employing a new person can be risky, and one that may not pay off well. To ensure you pick the right applicant, read the five top tips for choosing the best candidate. 1.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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4 Ideas For Rewarding Your Employees

Hppy

Good employees are hard to find; that’s why you want to secure ways to keep your superstars happy and engaged on the job. It’s worth your time and energy to come up with options that make your staff feel appreciated and causes them to express the opinion that they truly enjoy being at work. After all, they are valuable, and without them your company would not be the success it is today.

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Companies Need to Be Open To a New Definition of Family

HR Bartender

I ran across an article in Workforce magazine recently titled, “ How to Create a Single-Friendly Culture ”. It’s a good read so you might want to check it out. The big takeaway for me was that organizations need to realize that employees have lives outside of work. They have people and things that are important to them. Employees want to know that the company will be supportive of those things that employees hold dear.