January, 2021

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Why Organizational Culture Is a Competitive Differentiator 

Achievers

“You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your organizational culture and propel you forward.” — Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO at The Muse . Organizational culture doesn’t mean that you own the trendiest or coolest business — it means that you operate a positive workplace with a strong values and an even stronger identity, a place that drives business success. .

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Announcing Hireology at NADA 2021

Hireology

The pandemic can’t stop NADA 2021 ! The auto event of the year will take place virtually this year, and we’re excited to announce our attendance and can’t wait to connect with you! . Join thousands of dealers, dealership managers, exhibiting companies, and the world’s leading auto industry representatives virtually at this year’s NADA Show. For three days, award-winning dealer education, franchise meetings, industry networking and the NADA Expo, will deliver non-stop content to help you c

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Your Role in Building Trust on a Remote Team by @KevinEikenberry

Take It Personel-ly

One of the presumed “facts” about working remotely is that trust will be reduced the longer people work remotely. While reduced trust is possible, it isn’t inevitable if people are aware of and take actions to maintain and build trust on a remote team. Here are some things you can do. It Starts With You […].

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Keeping an Open Line of Communication with Your Employees

PeopleKeep

As an employer, effective communication is key to running a successful organization. Whether discussing job duties, explaining HR policies, or outlining a benefits package, it’s important that there’s a clear line of communication between employers and employees. Open communication encourages higher quality work, understanding of important policies, and a relationship of trust between employers and employees.

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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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Regards? Or is it ‘Thanks’? Here are the worst email mistakes

HR Digest

From cringey sign offs to annoying email faux pas, these are the worst email mistakes everyone makes. Work collaboration may have moved on to work sharing apps that collate, use calendars, schedule appointments, and whatnot, but a vast majority of workers still use emails to communicate officially. And when using this method of communication, there are bound to be some pet-peeves that people have about how people write and what email etiquettes to follo w.

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Why Employee Recognition is Important and Key Benefits

Achievers

Employees are struggling with burnout, disconnection, and low morale more than ever before. But there’s a clear solution: recognition. Recognition is the number one ask from employees in this new normal. The vast majority — 82% — wish that they received more recognition. And meeting this desire can have a huge effect on key contributors to your bottom line, like employee engagement and retention.

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6 Ways to Address Employee Burnout in Your Agency

Hireology

One of the many knock-on effects of the pandemic is an increase in employee burnout. While the healthcare industry hasn’t seen the hiring freezes and mass layoffs that plagued other industries last year, the increased demand for home healthcare services has created an influx of work with fewer hands to perform it. Burnout is an industry agnostic problem, but the home healthcare industry sees a tremendous amount of turnover related to burnout due to the demanding schedules and arduous nature of t

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5 Simple Ways to Make Positive Change in 2021

Take It Personel-ly

As 2021 gets off to a new start, finding a way to start fresh is very important. As the prior year had many challenges and negativity, finding a way to change and improve yourself and the world around you is very important. There are five simple ways that anyone could make a positive change in […].

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Top 10 HR Trends To Help Shape Your 2021 Strategy

15Five

Last year will go down as one of the most infamous years of our lifetime. But we know that where there are challenges, there is also tremendous growth. In typical 15Five fashion, we set out to understand the biggest learnings from 2020 that will impact HR leaders in 2021 and help them prepare for what’s next. After gathering feedback from our network of leaders, academics, and experts, we uncovered a list of ten top HR trends we believe will be crucial for leaders to consider this year, and beyo

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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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Rethinking the Gig Economy

HR Digest

The gig economy, alongside the future of work, has become a well-known subject of conversation. The gig economy involves working arrangements that are closer to “gigs” than traditional jobs. This originates from the idea that work is turning out to be more similar to playing a music gig at a bar, with no assurance of continuing with work, and workers are free to choose where to work next.

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Business decision-making: 4 common mistakes and how to overcome them

Insperity

As a business leader, you’re responsible for making decisions that impact the long-term success of your company and the well-being of employees. Examples: Personnel decisions ( hiring , firing, promoting and disciplining) Selection of benefits programs Annual goal setting Budgeting and financial planning Adjustment to new laws and regulations Improvement of customer service.

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5 Creative Virtual Employee Appreciation Ideas

Achievers

With the onset of COVID-19, the “future of work” arrived sooner than expected. For years, thought leaders predicted a virtual work environment where technology would replace the traditional structures and paradigms that dictated how we worked for decades. While technology has certainly changed some of these structures, like video conferences in lieu of in-person meetings, what hasn’t changed is the deep-rooted human need to belong and be acknowledged for our contributions.

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Addressing the Recruitment Challenges of Rural Community Healthcare Organizations

Hireology

Our friends in rural communities see plenty of challenges that some of the more densely populated communities don’t have to manage through. . For one, rural healthcare organizations have to contend with attracting talent away from urban areas where candidates received their training or face understaffing, which leads to increased workloads, overtime, and limited scheduling flexibility.

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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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The Journey to Developing a Healthier Lifestyle

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How healthy are you? This is that many people do not ask themselves. Even when you ask them, they are likely to ask you to consider more important things. Currently, many people are living with health on the periphery. Individuals focus on their jobs, education, and making more than healthy. Every other aspect of life […].

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Top 7 Women's History Month Ideas For Workplace

Vantage Circle

It's time to celebrate women in your office because March is Women's History Month ! Employers worldwide are turning towards diversity and inclusion practices to incorporate a healthier working atmosphere for everyone. Your organization has the chance this March to honor the women of history who have fought the good fight for equal rights and fairness.

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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Machines, both simple and advanced, have been used in past several decades to help workplaces determine outputs of work and, to replace work through automation using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and applications. What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? How do organizations use personal data accumulated by machines and make predictions of different types of intelligence?

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Pooled Employer Plans: The Pros and Cons for Businesses | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

As of Jan. 1, 2021, pooled employer plans (PEPs) are now available options for employers. Established by the SECURE Act, PEPs operate as a new type of open multiple employer plan (MEP), changing the typical 401(k) and retirement plan landscape. What are PEPs and what do employers need to know about these retirement plans for their employees?

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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 Address High Turnover With Retail Employees

Achievers

Here’s a not-so-fun fact: Retail employees leave their positions at a rate that’s over four times higher than the average turnover rate in all other industries. According to Human Resources Today, that translates to $19 billion in costs related to hiring and training new employees. The highest turnover rates are for hourly employees: 65% of them will leave their jobs for greener pastures, and it costs a full 16% of their annual salary to replace them. .

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A Blueprint for Your Home Health Aide Job Descriptions

Hireology

The rate of hiring in the home healthcare industry continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the home healthcare services industry will have 22.6% more jobs in 2029 than in 2019, and overall employment for home health aides and personal care aides is projected to grow 34% from 2019 to 2029. . Your home healthcare agency is competing for top talent to fill your open roles, so it’s a good time to double check your home health aide job description to ensure yo

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How to Improve Work-Life Balance While Working From Home

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As the US transitioned to a work-from-home economy in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many were unprepared for how to manage the blurred lines of work and home life. Suddenly the home became office space, unseparated by a commute or even a morning routine, leaving many to feel like they live at […].

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Not All Employee Retention Is Good: Study Explores “Reluctant Stayers”

Wellable

Many articles, including ones on this blog, have touted the benefits of employee retention. For countless companies, employee retention is a primary driver for investing in enhanced benefits, including employee wellness programs, and it is often the focus of academic research. However, most studies focus on the costs of unwanted turnover, from loss in productivity to expenses associated with recruitment.

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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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5 Tips for Work from Home Parents

HR Digest

Five tips for work from home parents who want to maintain productivity by creating a distraction-free workspace. The coronavirus situation has forced a large part of the workforce to work from home. And if you are a parent with children also in lockdown, then the difficulties of putting in a full-day work are something you grapple with every day. Parenting while juggling calls, emails and an approaching deadline is not a laughing matter.

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Best Questions HR Should Ask a Candidate’s References | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Reference checks are about more than just double-checking a candidate’s resume. By talking to someone’s former manager or associates, hiring managers can gain insight into whether or not a candidate will fit in with the company culture as well as how they respond to feedback and challenges of the position. Read on to know what to ask when calling a candidate’s reference—and what not to ask.

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Five ways your HR team can build trust with employees

cipHR

How can HR improve employee experience? The answer lies in building trust through open communication and transparency. How many employees in your organisation do you think trust the HR department, and how many do you think feel neglected by HR? For employees who aren’t in senior positions, it can be easy to feel like the HR department isn’t on their side, but it’s now time for HR to take action to improve their relationship with all employees.

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Offer Letters: a Game Changer For Cavender Auto Family

Hireology

Hireology recently launched a product update that allows our customers to manage offer letters inside our platform. This feature allows for a fully customizable experience with personalization tokens and an option for an eSignature field, making your entire hiring process — from attracting applicants to onboarding new employees — all the more seamless.

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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.