February, 2019

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How to Convert a Disengaged Employee Into An Engaged One

Achievers

Disengagement is contagious and costly, and it’s your responsibility as a manager or HR professional to deal with this contagion before it spreads throughout your workplace. Overall, 16 percent of employees are actively disengaged, according to Gallup , but even one disengaged employee is one too many. You can spot an actively disengaged worker as someone who disrupts projects by dropping the ball, overburdens co-workers who have to complete undone tasks, and ruins team cohesiveness by undercutt

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How to Get Better Results In Your Work

HR Bartender

It’s a given that organizations want employees to perform at a high-level. But what about employees? I know there are some who might think otherwise, but overall, I’d like to believe that employees want to perform well too. No one wants to have a reputation for being a slacker or not doing a good job. Most people want to be known for delivering results.

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Florida Joint Report on Fraud and Non-Compliance

Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

The Division of Investigative and Forensic Services, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud and the Division of Workers' Compensation, Bureau of Compliance issued a joint report summarizing their respective efforts and activities in combating workers' compensation fraud and employer non-compliance.

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Walser Automotive Group Launches Women’s Resources Network: What Other Dealers Can Learn

Hireology

Walser Automotive Group, a dealership group with more than 20 locations in Minnesota and Kansas, recently announced the launch of its Women’s Resources Network, the first group of its kind in retail automotive. The network, called “ Women of Walser ” (WoW) has a mission to actively engage women at all levels of the company through diversity accountability, mentorship, leadership, and various networking events.

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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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12 Ways to Stimulate Positive Personal Growth

Take It Personel-ly

We all want the best things in life. We all have dreams and we all want to be happy and successful. But getting the most from what life has to offer starts with personal growth. However sometimes, easy as it sounds, it can be the most challenging thing in the world. Even if you do […].

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25 New Ideas to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Week

Achievers

Here at Achievers, we spend a lot of our time evangelizing about the importance of acknowledging your team on a daily, ongoing basis. We still love annual celebrations, though, because “positive emotions …actually help us to think better.” In the spirit of pure creativity and the fine art of recognizing each other’s diverse talents, here are 25 fresh ideas for your 2019 Employee Appreciation Week: Focus on Empowerment. 1.

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The Next Employee Challenge: Loneliness In the Workplace

HR Bartender

Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Being alone is … being by yourself. If you Google loneliness, it’s being “sad because one has no friends or company.” Often, we talk about loneliness in terms of older people. In the New York Times article, “ The Surprising Effects of Loneliness on Health ”, the author shares that loneliness can raise stress levels, increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and dementia.

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Meeting of the Three-Member Panel

Florida Regulatory Workers' Compensation News

On February 12, 2019 The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Workers' Compensation announces a public meeting of the Three-Member Panel that will be held on Monday, February 18, 2019, beginning at 1:00 p.m. in room 116 of the J. Edwin Larson Building located at 200 East Gaines Street, Tallahassee, Florida. This public meeting, to which all are invited, has been convened to facilitate the Panel's consideration of the following items: The Three-Member Panel 2019 Biennial Report R

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Reduce Financial Stress with This Type of Insurance

Best Money Moves

Reduce financial stress with this type of insurance. Research by Life Happens shows most Americans with life insurance experience less financial stress knowing their family is financially protected. Americans say feeling financially secure adds the most meaning to their lives, even more than being in love or owning a home, according to recent research by Life Happens.

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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 Day Work Week

Take It Personel-ly

Does It Work? Back in the day, people were working each day of their lives. The times were different then, and so was the work they were doing: feeding the animals, caring for the family, working the fields, and serving the needs of the community with trades that were only done by certain people – […].

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We’re Only Human 50: Hitting a Milestone (Plus Special Guests)

UpstartHR

Welcome to our 50th episode! In today’s show Ben takes a different approach with a solo show to catch up on some happenings at Lighthouse Research, some of the key activities coming up on the research agenda, and some personal reflections now that the book is out in the market. Listen in to hear from a handful of special guests that are very “close” to the show.

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5 Things Amazing Company Mission Statements All Have in Common

Achievers

What is it about your company culture that defines your organization’s identity and builds your employee alignment? How do you tell the world about the values behind your company? A mission statement keeps everyone on the same page with respect to why you’re even in business at all. While you may feel that your primary purpose for existing is to be financially profitable, no company will achieve long-term success if its only mission is “to make money.

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Rewards and Recognition Can Be Work Related – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I published a Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos about recognition and rewards. It was about the boss who gave every member of the team an ugly holiday sweater. I hope you’ll check it out if you haven’t already. This one reminded me of another aspect of rewards and recognition that we might forget. And that’s all rewards do not have to be personal.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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3 steps to build trust and respect in the workplace

Insperity

From fostering a leadership team with humility to confronting brutal facts, it’s not easy to take your business to the next level. However, when you really look at it, it all comes down to trust and respect in the workplace. In the book Good to Great, author Jim Collins set out to identify how to turn a mediocre, or good, company into a great one. The importance of trust and respect was a major theme of his conclusion.

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4 key employee benefit trends to watch

Business Management Daily

Emotional health, family-friendly perks, and employee-benefit tech trends lead the way in new ways employers are broadening their benefits efforts to meet the changing demands of their workforce. The post 4 key employee benefit trends to watch appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Three Great Team-Building Activities To Help Promote Better Corporate Culture

Take It Personel-ly

Team-building has a bit of an unfortunate reputation in the corporate world, and there are a lot of negative associations linked to it. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Used effectively, team-building exercises can make your office a better place to work, improving both social interaction and workplace culture. Here are a few […].

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2 Simple Strategies to Improve Office Culture

Best Money Moves

2 simple strategies to improve office culture. Poor company culture is one of the main reasons employees look for new job opportunities. Improve workplace culture and boost job satisfaction and retention in the process. 8 in 10 employees are likely to search for a new job after just one bad day at work, according to a study by Addison Group , a professional services and staffing firm.

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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 Integrate Recognition Into Your Everyday Work Life

Achievers

What are you doing to integrate recognition into your everyday work life? According to a 2018 report by Achievers and Aptitude Research Partners , companies identified recognition as having the greatest impact on employee engagement. This isn’t surprising considering 60% of companies plan to increase their investment in social recognition technology this year.

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Automation Is Not a Replacement for Interaction – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

I recently participated in a Twitter chat hosted by the Workforce Institute at Kronos on the topic of predictions. You can check out the chat recap on the Workforce Institute blog. One of the questions that we talked about was automation and machine learning. The idea being that machines can help us automate some aspects of work such as scheduling. That’s why I couldn’t help but smile at this Time Well Spent cartoon from our friends at Kronos.

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HR specialists reveal 8 employee retention strategies

Insperity

Employee retention strategies are critical to the health your company. This is particularly true for smaller businesses, which often don’t have the luxury of employing multiple people in the same role. Every team member is essential. Having a strong team can give you the confidence necessary to drive your business forward. When a star employee submits their two-week notice, that momentum is shattered.

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Tips To Cope With Change In The Workplace

HR Digest

Every employee should understand how to handle change in the workplace. It’s an important attribute of survival, mostly in this current economy where people easily move to a new division, group or even join a new company. Of course, employees can’t remain in one role throughout their life. Change is inevitable and every employee must be ready to deal with various forms of changes in the workplace in order to remain efficient.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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How to Acquire Time Management Skills for Success

Take It Personel-ly

Time management is a skill acquired by finding the best ways to utilize the limited time that is available to complete any given task. The best way to approach time management is to view time as an asset if it is used properly and a burden if it is wasted. To make the life of […].

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10 hard telecommuting questions to ask remote workers

Business Management Daily

There can be many side effects that go along with the perceived benefits of telecommuting. To avoid unpleasant surprises, ask these 10 questions. The post 10 hard telecommuting questions to ask remote workers appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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7 Ways to Fast-Forward Your Career

Achievers

In a survey of millennial employees, 32 percent stated they were actively seeking a promotion. Are you among those ambitious workers already laying the groundwork for advancing your career? If so, it’s never too soon to put an effective step-by-step strategy to work. Here are seven ways to fast-forward your career. 1. Refer to a Recent Accomplishment.

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Is it Time to Break-Up with Your Ben Admin Provider?

WEX Inc.

Like relationships, it can be hard to pull the plug from a partner who is not fulfilling your needs. Maybe you're experiencing broken promises, poor communication, or you were sold a field of dreams. Is it time to see what else is out there? You deserve a partner who will work overtime for you and value the relationship. Take our friendly quiz to reveal your relationship results!

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.