February, 2016

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Technology Can Boost Employee Engagement [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

By now, all of us understand that technology plays a big role in our personal and professional lives. And we’ve all seen at least one article talking about employee engagement and the lack thereof. What’s important to remember is that technology isn’t the cause of employee disengagement, unless of course, someone intentionally made it that way. In fact, when used correctly, technology can be a tool that helps engagement.

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30 fun, fresh ideas for Employee Appreciation Day – or week!

Achievers

Can I just start by saying, blog reader… you rock! Everyone here on the Achievers team really appreciates YOU for sifting through the vast interweb and landing on the [engage] blog, for spending time reading and sharing the articles we work so hard to create. We are all caught up in the spirit of Employee Appreciation Day, which is right around the corner on March 4 th.

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Quality Recruiting—Your Customer Service Depends On It

Hireology

We’ve all heard the sayings about teamwork before: “there’s no “I” in team” or “a chain (team) is only as strong as its weakest link.” If you haven't heard these sayings, just watch any Disney sports movie and you're bound to hear it once or twice. These type of saying are typically applied to sports, however they can—and should—be applied to any type of group of people working together.

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8 Must-Ask Behavioral Interview Questions

Insperity

It’s easy for candidates to recite their job history and learned skills in an interview. But how did they react in various situations? What kind of specifics can they offer regarding their achievements? How do they tailor their work styles to manage change? You need to ask questions that get down to the finer details of candidates’ behavior.

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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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What Makes an Office a Great Place to Work?

cipHR

Making efforts to provide a pleasant working environment for employees should be at the top of every business leader's priorities. It can affect turnover rates, productivity and, ultimately, profits. Listed below are some of the factors that should be considered when planning your office design for maximum results. Bring a bit of nature indoors. The benefits of live plants in the office are well documented; from improved air quality to noise reduction, introducing houseplants into your working e

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Everything Leaders Need to Know About Mindfulness

HR Bartender

Last year, I published an extremely popular post titled “ Future Leaders Need Organizational Mindfulness.” Since then, I’ve seen several articles about mindfulness and leadership. It made me think that this might be good time to step back and ask some basic questions about this practice and its place in business. So I reached out to Elad Levinson , who helped me with the first post.

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3 high-powered onboarding tips for new executives

Achievers

The cost of losing an employee at any level is significant. Losing an entry-level employee can cost you up to half their salary, but losing a senior level executive can cost more than 400 percent of their salary. Those are just the direct turnover costs. When you lose executives, there are other costs to the company, including loss of momentum and sometimes damage to the company’s reputation.

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Do Your Business a Favor & Improve the Candidate Experience

Hireology

What are you doing to make yourself better today? I know, the last sentence sounds like something a football coach or motivational speaker might say, but it’s applicable to all walks of life. When it comes to your company’s hiring process and the way you treat your candidates, this question of self-assessment is intrinsic to developing your employment branding.

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8 Must-Ask Behavioral Interview Questions

Insperity

It’s easy for candidates to recite their job history and learned skills in an interview. But how did they react in various situations? What kind of specifics can they offer regarding their achievements? How do they tailor their work styles to manage change? You need to ask questions that get down to the finer details of candidates’ behavior. Because, at the end of the day, you’re looking for people who can achieve results and fit well into your current culture.

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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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121 Creative Ways to Reward Employees – The Ultimate List

SnackNation

121 Creative Ways to Reward Employees – The Ultimate List. Rewards are a powerful tool used for employee engagement. Recognizing and rewarding your employees effectively is crucial for retaining top talent and keeping employees happy. The key to successful employee rewards is being creative and thoughtful. Many companies have even begun to use rewards as a recruiting tactic as they’ve become a part of their company culture (see #26).

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5 Office Organization Tips and Tricks

Take It Personel-ly

A clean workplace is a productive workplace. You need a clean environment to be productive, and you can’t be productive if you’re constantly cleaning your environment. Though it’s a bit of a double-edged sword, it’s worth investing some time into creating sustainable organizational methods for your office. An ideal office won’t take a long time […].

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Here Is What the Future of #HR Looks Like

HR Bartender

A wide variety of articles exist about the need for human resources to change. Often those articles talk about the need for HR to be more of a “business partner” or “strategic” or “transformational.” But rarely do we see articles that address what the future jobs in human resources will look like. Well, a group of human resources professionals has taken on the task.

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How to weatherproof your company against job-hopping employees

Achievers

Every business experiences turnover. Even engaged employees will move on from jobs they’ve loved for new opportunities, personal or professional. Millennials are some of the biggest culprits when it comes to rapid turnover. Forbes reports that most employees stay in their jobs about 4.4 years, but millennials expect to change jobs in fewer than three years.

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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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Updated Hireology Reference Check Reports

Hireology

Starting this week, you’ll notice a new look to finalized reference reports in Hireology making them easier to read and compare. This post summarizes the new additions you will start seeing soon.

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How to Stop Your Employees From Driving Each Other Crazy

Insperity

We’ve all encountered one. The loud talker. The perpetual throat clearer. The stinky food eater. In an office environment where diverse employees work in close proximity, these minor annoyances can become major distractions, and can even result in loss of productivity. But as a business leader, you don’t have time to address every employee squabble.

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What Forecasting Teaches Us About HR

UpstartHR

You know I’m a big fan of Freakonomics. I talk about them fairly often. This is due in part to the nature of the content–it’s not explicitly about HR, recruiting, or business. It just ties in nicely with what we do, as you’ll see in this post. During a recent episode , the host talked with a professional economic forecaster about what it takes to be great at forecasting.

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How Your Business Can Show Its Charitable Side

Take It Personel-ly

Business owners often wonder about the best ways to give back to their community. While some might only want to be charitable to please their customers, that’s not true for many. Plenty of entrepreneurs want to use their money and power for good, even if they don’t have much of either. You might feel like […].

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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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Make Training More Impactful With Peer-Based Learning

HR Bartender

I know this will sound really weird coming from someone who designs and delivers training for a living but, all learning opportunities do not have to be training. In fact, training can have a greater impact when it’s delivered in concert with other learning opportunities. It’s about bringing the right methods together to create the best experience for the learner.

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3 HR skills you need to be successful

Achievers

The business landscape is evolving rapidly, and HR skills that were once highly prized are becoming obsolete. HR professionals no longer spend their time keeping records, and new technology has transformed how employees engage with their work. The best HR leaders have traded in paper pushing and business-as-usual management methods and have instead become strategic business partners, actively contributing to company growth.

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The “Loyalty Challenge”—Retaining Millennials at the Office

Hireology

When it comes to the workplace, millennials rarely stick with one employer for a long period of time. Research has shown that majority of Gen Y employees don’t expect to stay at their current jobs for very long. According to The 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey , “64% of millennials expect to leave (their current jobs) in the next five years.”.

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Multitasking: You’re Less Productive Than You Think

Insperity

How good are you at multitasking? Surprisingly, those of us who believe we’re the best at juggling several jobs at once are almost always, in fact, the worst. In reality, only about 2.5 percent of people are gifted “supertaskers” – those who are truly able to do several things at the same time without sacrificing efficiency or quality – according to a study by Jason M.

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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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Best Benefits in the Hospitality Industry

Winston Benefits

Turnover is a big concern in the hospitality industry; after hitting a recent low in 2010, it’s been rising for the past few years, reaching 66.3 percent in 2014. A strengthening economy could boost that rate even further, so it’s important hospitality employers look over their compensation and benefits packages to ensure they’re competitive.

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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Tools of the Modern Empire

Take It Personel-ly

This week I am participating in the launch of the newly updated book, The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages. Featuring fifteen explosive […].

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How High Performing Companies Manage Change

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I published a post titled, “ High Performing Companies Know How to Manage Change.” I received a Twitter response to the piece suggesting that I add a little depth to the post. Let’s start by defining what a high performing company looks like. The best definition I ran across is an organization that delivers profit margins 50-150 percent above industry average.

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What is Topgrade interviewing?

Achievers

Employers today are more focused than ever on hiring for “fit.” They’re trying to find and vet employees that will jive with the culture, pace, and expectations that are unique to their workplace. With this evolution in priorities, there has also been an evolution in interviewing approaches. There are a wide variety of interview styles and question techniques out there, and Topgrading is one approach that claims to help you find better-quality candidates and reduce your number

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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.