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How Organizations and Employees Can Start Focusing on Wellness

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Cubii, the world’s first smart under-desk elliptical machine. After their successful Kickstarter launch, Cubii is now available on QVC and at BestBuy, in addition to their website. To learn more about Cubii, visit mycubii.com.). An increasing number of companies are offering employee wellness programs.

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Are toxic employees ruining your workplace?

Insperity

Many managers tend to avoid addressing problem behaviors in the workplace under the belief that “we’re all adults here so everyone deal with it.” The problem with this laissez faire approach is that toxic behaviors, left unchecked, can lead to serious consequences that impact the bottom line. Although addressing toxic employees can be uncomfortable, you need to put a stop to destructive behavior quickly.

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Take the Quiz: Is Your Career Site Turning Away Top Applicants?

Hireology

Are you making a good first impression with online job applicants, or is your career site (or lack thereof) driving top candidates away? Take our quiz and see how you stack up. Did you know? Career sites are 20x more likely to source a hire than job boards. And the most engaged candidates take the extra time to read through a company’s career site to determine whether or not a job seems like the right fit.

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Avoiding A PR Nightmare

Take It Personel-ly

Business can be a very difficult field to work in. In your career, you’ll spend a lot of your time trying to make people happy. From investors and customers to the government and legal authorities, there’s always someone to try and please. To make this easier for yourself, you only have to adopt some basic […].

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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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The 4 Constituents in Today’s Blended Workforce

HR Bartender

We’ve talked about how today’s workforces need three key constituents: regular full-time workers, regular part-time workers, and contingent workers (i.e. freelancers, contractors, consultants, etc.) Each group involves a unique recruiting as well as an engagement strategy. Which we’ve also talked about before. BUY is where the company hires talent from the outside.

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How Health Insurance Costs are Changing: SHRM’s 2017 Employee Benefits Report

Winston Benefits

With benefits making up about a third of total compensation costs, it’s important that employers get the most out of them. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the average health insurance cost per employee per hour has gone up by about a third in the past 10 years, and employers are looking for ways to manage that cost. SHRM’s 2017 Employee Benefits Report highlights some of the trends, especially when dealing with health insurance.

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Succession Management, Leadership and Mentoring

Hppy

The fact that we are in the midst of a global leadership talent shortage should come as no surprise to the leaders in the majority of organizations. There are a lot of studies that have been done recently that support this and go so far as to identify the productivity and financial impacts that this challenge is causing. It is not getting any better.

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Bookmark This! #HurricaneHarvey Resources for HR and Business

HR Bartender

Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath continues to devastate Texas and Louisiana. As an HR pro who has been through hurricanes, I empathize with the people in the area. You’re trying to take care of your family. And you’re trying to take care of your “work” family. So, I wanted to put together a list of resources that might help. (Oh, and on an unrelated note, I have some news about HR Bartender that I’d like to share.).

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Advice On How To Rollout OKRs To Your Entire Company

15Five

By now, you have probably heard of the OKR methodology, or perhaps you already use it to keep people focused and successful at your company. Objectives and Key Results are used by businesses as large as Google , or as small as five person startup teams. These businesses meet periodically (usually quarterly) to set a handful of company-wide objectives.

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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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New Research Sheds Light on How to Build a Business Case for HR Technology

PeopleStrategy

In one of our blogs last year, we looked at the value delivered by HR technology as the gold standard that organizations should target in new technology deployments. What organizations are looking for from HR technology are a set of improved results. According to the 2016 HR Transformation Study by KPMG , 63% of companies expect their new cloud HR system to add value to the business, and our own research validates this finding.

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Are Customers Always Right? Reasons to Stand by Your Employees

Hppy

One of the most common maxims heard in business is “The customer is always right.” The consensus seems to be that keeping customers happy is essential to maintaining your company reputation and attracting more business. Clients in all industries may be difficult and demanding because they feel privileged simply due to the fact that they’re spending money.

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Leading the Team: Tips for First-Time Managers

Achievers

Congratulations, you’ve been promoted! Your hard work, enthusiasm, and initiative has finally paid off and you’ve been tasked with leading a team of your own. But how? Now that you find yourself standing in front of a sea of expectant faces, are you supposed to do that? Transitioning into a first-time manager can be a very stressful experience and the importance of effective management has never been clearer.

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Elevate 2017: Q&A with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Hireology

Elevate 2017 , the retail automotive industry’s first event focused exclusively on human capital management, is coming up in just a few short weeks. At the event, Hireology , along with Cox Automotive and NADA , will bring together more than 100 dealership General Managers, Dealer Principals and HR leaders to discuss strategy and tactically build their 2018 human capital management plans.

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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 Create the Ultimate Office Snack Station

SnackNation

How to Create the Ultimate Office Snack Station. There’s a reason USA Today called office snacks “ the key to happiness at work. ”. Whether you’re trying to impress new recruits, make a splash with VIP guests, or just keep your team fueled for maximum productivity, a supreme office snack game helps create the culture your company needs to succeed. Here’s the thing – buying the right snacks each month is the obvious first step, but it isn’t all there is to it.

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5 Solutions for Hiring During Busy Season

Hppy

When it’s your job to hire and recruit exceptional talent, you know the ins and outs of the business change with the wind. It’s a fast-paced world in which your job is to find the best of the best and provide those outstanding candidates to clients in need of someone with those skills. It takes a great deal of time and dedication to find someone good enough to fit the needs of your clients on any given day, but it’s especially difficult when you’re doing it in the midst of the busy season.

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Compensation Transparency: Advice for Getting the Balance Just Right

UpstartHR

When we think about tools like Expedia and Yelp, we realize the value of transparency in the marketplace. The underlying issue is information asymmetry – when one party has more information than the other, that party has additional leverage in a discussion or negotiation. Leveling the playing field between two parties in an exchange helps both to feel like they got a fair deal, which is essential in an employment situation.

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How to Choose the Right Partner for Your Franchise Hiring

Hireology

Your franchisees wear many hats to ensure their franchise locations are successful, and one way to make their jobs easier is by simplifying franchise hiring. To do so, consider partnering with an integrated hiring and talent management platform at the brand level to offer all your franchise locations a repeatable hiring process, and weed out potential bad hires sooner rather than later.

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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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Using HR Tech to Strengthen vs. Separate Your Company Culture

Achievers

How many of us have ever been out to dinner and looked around to see that every person at the table is on a mobile device? Or observed a group of young people hanging out “together” while barely lifting their eyes from a screen? When we see technology being used this way (or are guilty of too much screen time ourselves) it can be easy to assume technology is pushing human beings apart.

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Improving Cross-Functional Teamwork

Hppy

Imagine a manager in your office commiserating with you over the last disastrous team meeting. He complains that the people from the departments that make up the team just don’t seem to get it. They fight with each other, protect their own departments and are distracted by a hundred side issues and personal problems. Frankly, he is getting disgusted with this teamwork idea, and would rather go back to the good old days.

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Assert Your Right to Be Happy at Work

Hppy

As a freelancer you are your own boss. You may have chosen this path specifically because you want to be able to control your work, your time and your decisions. However, when interactions with customers, suppliers, technical contacts, and colleagues begin to infringe on your ability to manage your work the way you want to, you’re right back in the undesirable situation of being controlled by others.