October, 2015

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Office design: it affects employee engagement, health, and productivity

Achievers

When you’re looking for ways to increase your employees’ well-being, your thoughts probably turn to medical benefits, steps challenges, and perks like healthy snacks in the kitchen. It’s true that those considerations all matter, but there’s another factor in employee engagement and job satisfaction that’s pervasive, yet often overlooked: office design. “The evidence linking good office design and improved health, well-being and productivity of staff is now overwhelming,&

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Use Storytelling to Create Employee Engagement

HR Bartender

One of the key ingredients to organizational culture is its stories. At this year’s WorkHuman conference hosted by Globoforce, one of the sessions focused on effective storytelling. The speaker mentioned four principles from Steve Denning that are essential to effective storytelling: Be true. Be positive. Be succinct. Show growth. As I was thinking of these principles, it reminded me of the opportunities we have to engage employees with our storytelling.

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52 Epic Ways to Reward Your Employees

Insperity

Remember how you felt the last time someone told you what a great job you were doing? (Really think about it, and relive that moment of glory.). That’s why it’s so important to make time to praise employees for a job well done. Recognition makes people feel really good about themselves. It also motivates employees to keep up the good work.

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Sold Out: A Lesson on Event Content (and the Future of HR)

UpstartHR

This summer at SHRM I was looking through the sessions in the app in an attempt to figure out which I wanted to attend, and I saw this one right up front. SOLD OUT – #707: HR Metrics that Matter: The Process of Developing a Business Scorecard It made me stop and think, especially in light of some of the conversations I had with others at the event about what sort of content was being offered.

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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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PeopleStrategy® to Host Charity Golf Event to Benefit the Scarborough and Friends Foundation

PeopleStrategy

Atlanta-based HCM solution provider and non-profit organization join forces to help families in need. PeopleStrategy, Inc.® a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of end-to-end Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, will host a charity golf tournament on November 2, 2015 at White Columns Country Club to raise money for the Scarborough and Friends Foundation, which provides financial assistance and support to families with members who suffer from terminal, chronic and debilitating ill

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How to give feedback your employees will listen to

Achievers

As a manager, you need to be able to shape the performance of your staff and offer guidance and course corrections as needed. Giving feedback to your team can be tricky, however, since sounding too negative or critical may cause your listener to simply shut down. Here are a few feedback techniques you can use to guide your employees in a manner that encourages them to perform at their peak.

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Servant Leadership: Turning Hierarchy Upside Down

HR Bartender

“To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower.” – Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest Airlines. If you’re not following Josh Bersin’s writings, you should be. He’s written a couple of posts lately that deserve discussion. The first is on Forbes, and it’s titled “ Culture: Why It’s the Hottest Topic in Business Today ” and it addresses the employee engagement and retention crisis facing organizations.

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Your Employees: 5 Tips for Handling Diverse Work Styles

Insperity

We’re all familiar with assessments that show your employees’ strengths and where they fall on a work style or behavior chart. Regardless of the model you’re using, know that people typically don’t have just one style. Take John, for example: He’s a driven go-getter at work; but when he gets home, he spends time tinkering in his garage, absorbed in the details of rebuilding his 1966 Mustang.

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An Interview with DriveThruHR: The Analyst Life and My Favorite Work

UpstartHR

Last week I had a chance to jump on the DriveThruHR podcast and speak with Mike Vandervort, a good friend and host of the show. I was a last minute stand in, so the title of the show has someone else’s name on it. Don’t be confused, because in the 30-minute interview I talk about what life is like as an analyst , what my favorite thing to do is in my daily work at Brandon Hall Group, and how the transition has been over the past 12-18 months.

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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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A unique approach for #HRTechConf – no hype

PeopleStrategy

Just good HR technology from a great company. For the past few months, we’ve been preparing for the 2015 HR Technology Conference and Expo , known among the industry as “the world’s leading conference & expo on technology for Human Resource executives and professionals.” Last year was my first adventure into the chaos that is HR Tech – thousands of people, hundreds of booths and a schedule that is apropos in the City of Lights where no one sleeps.

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Transitional Reinsurance Fee Deadline Approaching

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"The deadline is Monday, November 16, 2015. Your self-funded health plan must submit your enrollment count and schedule your payments for the 2015 plan year. Are you prepared?nThe Reinsurance Assessment is a fee applicable to insured and self-funded major medical plans for calendar years 2014 through 2016. It will primarily be used to help cover the cost of high-dollar claims occurring within the individual market.

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How to retain your best employees when you can’t afford to give them a raise

Achievers

When employees have done great work, they expect some form of acknowledgment. In a competitive marketplace where your top talent always has their eye on the next stepping stone in their career, your organization must win employee loyalty through tangible appreciation. Budgetary constraints can be relentless, however, and often prevent appreciative managers from offering a raise.

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Competency Models Provide the Roadmap for Career Success – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF). As the philanthropic foundation of the National Restaurant Association, the NRAEF works to attract, develop and retain professionals for the restaurant industry. Enjoy today’s post!). I recently answered a reader question about developing HR competencies.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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8 Tried and True Time Management Tips for Business Leaders

Insperity

As a business owner or leader, so many things can keep you from focusing on your main roles – driving sales and pushing your company forward. That’s why guarding your time and managing it well is crucial to your success. It’s not just about getting it all done – it’s also about avoiding burnout and having a sense of contentment and accomplishment at the end of the day.

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Keep Fighting – Thoughts from a Nonprofit Conference

UpstartHR

Last week I spent several days with leaders at nonprofits from around the world at the LINGOS Global Learning Forum. It was a humbling experience, and I had some of my preconceived notions turned upside down. In the past I would have imagined (based on my own experiences working in and with nonprofit organizations) that many nonprofits and NGOs are backward at worst and behind the times at best due to limited resources.

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Burying the bad, sad joke of Safe Harbor and what it means for cloud users and vendors

Ahmed's Universe

LONDON Apart from famous Mozart and infamous Hitler, Austria is not known for its oversupply of men who will leave their mark on mankind. Since this week we must add to the list Max Schrems who, with admirable boldness, stamina and single-mindedness, has convinced the European Court of Justice to pull the plug on the charade that the so-called EU-US Safe Harbor agreement was.

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PeopleStrategy® to Exhibit at 2015 HR Technology Conference & Expo

PeopleStrategy

Atlanta-based provider of Human Capital Management solutions will offer live demonstrations of its Enterprise HCM Suite. PeopleStrategy, Inc.® a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of end-to-end Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions, will be exhibiting at the 2015 HR Technology Conference and Exposition from October 18 – October 20 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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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.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Canada! Have you thanked your employees yet?

Achievers

Employee engagement has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, as research repeatedly shows the link between engaged employees and high-performing organizations. However, the same body of research shows that many organizations believe they have far too many disengaged staff members. This is unfortunate, as the key to employee engagement isn’t much of a mystery.

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Use An “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) To Create Employee Engagement

HR Bartender

Reddit (like many social platforms) is a social community where users can post text or links. One of its well-known features is called AMA which stands for “ Ask Me Anything.” The Reddit community has interviewed politicians, comedians, and others asking them everything from their favorite condiments (Amy Poehler) to the chances of playing 007 (Idris Elba).

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No Pain, No Gain: 7 Tips for Coaching Employees Through Failure

Insperity

It’s a fact of business life. Mistakes happen. It’s also a fact that your role as team leader is to monitor when, how and why mistakes happen, and seek solutions. Some managers are daunted by the responsibility of coaching an employee through the aftermath of a mistake. How do you do it without killing their confidence or stealing their motivation?

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How Your Brain Works During Training

UpstartHR

I’ve been reading a slew of books lately focused on neuroscience. One line in the latest hit me, and I thought it would be interesting to pull together some of the thoughts from a few to share. Here’s the tidbit (emphasis mine): What do [scientific] studies show, viewed as a whole? Mostly this: if you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

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5 Trends to Help Your Organization Boost Job Satisfaction and Productivity

Treating your workforce as the organization’s top priority improves customer satisfaction and revenue growth and can boost job satisfaction and productivity. Read about five trends that are helping organizations around the country improve their people’s career well-being.

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The pipe dream of Catalan independence

Ahmed's Universe

BARCELONA The ugly face of intimidation Many a balcony in Catalonia are adorned with the would-be-independent state flag. Strangely enough, you rarely see the Spanish flag A frequent visitor to this vibrant Mediterranean city for two decades, it is high time I gave my two cents on the madness of Catalonia's independence project. Reading the headlines-obsessed and shallow international press I realize few people understand what is really going on.

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5 tips for creating your employee recognition road map

Achievers

Remember how good it felt in grade school when the teacher put a sticker on your test because you got a perfect score? If you’re like most employees, not a lot has changed. You probably like recognition and rewards just as much now as you did then. Employee recognition fulfills our intrinsic need to be acknowledged for our achievements, and motivates us by making us feel accepted.

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Rewards & Recognition + Community Relations = A Winning Combination

Achievers

At Achievers, we love our customers. We’re interviewing them to highlight their expertise, advice, and secrets to success. . Cox Automotive , a leading provider of products and services that span the automotive ecosystem worldwide, has nearly 25,000 employees working across more than 24 brands, including Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim, and a number of other best-in-class companies.

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Achievers fall product release – what’s new?

Achievers

by Rachel Heller, Technical Writer at Achievers. Making employee milestones matter. The newest addition to our end-to-end Celebrations offering for service anniversaries, the Celebration Card, makes celebrating employee milestones like service anniversaries not just easy for HR, who carry the bulk of the administrative burden, but also for managers and employees who are typically left to put something together to mark the occasion.

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Fertility Benefits for Every Age: A HR Roadmap from Gen Z to Baby Boomers

Speaker: Lauri Armstrong, SHRM-SCP - Sr. Director, People Operations at Carrot Fertility

Today’s workforce includes multiple generations of employees all looking for something different from their benefits package. While meeting these disparate needs can be challenging, a comprehensive fertility benefit can support everyone from junior staffers learning about their fertility health to senior leadership managing menopause and low testosterone symptoms.