May, 2021

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5 Statistics to Help Build Your Case for an Employee Recognition Strategy

Achievers

Companies and employees are at a critical crossroad. For the last year, employees have operated in crisis mode as a result of the pandemic. Despite many employees demonstrating admirable flexibility and creativity amidst rapidly changing requirements, employee engagement has suffered, and employee commitment is not expected to last. In fact, employers may soon see a turnover “tsunami” —a mass exodus of employees quitting their jobs after the pandemic ends.

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6 Employee Strategies for Your Non-Desk Workforce

HR Bartender

One of the concepts that organizations will want to define in 2021 is what the hybrid workforce means for them. I’ve seen it referred to as when the workforce is more equally balanced between onsite and remote employees. I’ve also seen it defined as when employees have the option to work where it makes the most sense for what they do. And of course, there’s a lot of room in between to create your own version.

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7 Things to Communicate to Employees as we Return to Normal

Hireology

More than a year after the onset of the life-changing COVID-19 pandemic, life is slowly returning to normal. Thanks to widespread vaccination efforts, people are reverting to their pre-pandemic routines and businesses are beginning to open up to full capacity. Although a return to normalcy is great, big changes like these can cause stress and anxiety for your employees — particularly if they’re customer-facing.

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Increase your emotional intelligence while working remotely: 8 tips

Insperity

Tapping into your emotional intelligence while working remotely is vitally important. But it can also be challenging, especially if your team is new to working from home or entered the virtual work world suddenly. Part of the challenge is that the bulk of our social interactions and cues are absent from the remote workday – the simple exchanges that help us connect on a social-emotional level, such as: Bumping into someone in the break room Offering coworkers a piece of gum after a lunch meeting

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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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Things You Need to Think About When You Start to Expand Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

When you’ve reached a point in your business where you can begin to expand and scale up, you’ll face a series of new and exciting challenges. While it’s a lot of work, expanding your business can be massively rewarding in both personal and financial ways. Here are four things you need to think about as […].

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How to Respond to Compliments at Work: Examples and Tips

Achievers

Few things can transform your day like receiving a compliment — or giving one. But these interactions can be difficult to navigate, if you can even find the time to initiate them. Considering how to accept praise gracefully, whether you should return the compliment, the best way to avoid miscommunication — the recognition process can be anything but simple.

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Agile Talent Strategy: Why You Need It and How to Develop One

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad Technology , a provider of strategic onboarding solutions to drive workforce readiness and organizational transformation. They were recently recognized as one of Chicago’s Best Places to Work. Congrats to them. Enjoy the article!). Every day, more people are getting vaccinated and looking forward to their personal and professional re-entry.

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Product Update: Introducing Mass Transfer

Hireology

If you’re looking to hire for a new role quickly, you know that the best candidates are often those who have applied to roles at your company before. These folks are typically the most serious about working for you and if they’ve made it to the interview stage for a previous role, you already know that they’re qualified. To successfully re-engage these candidates, it’s important that you make it as easy as possible for them to apply for a different position within your organization without start

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5 Skills Every HR Generalist Needs

HR Digest

Human Resource as a term was coined in 1893 by John R Commons in his book, “Distribution of Wealth” However, it was only in the 20th century that Human Resource became an integral part of organizations to deal with addressing employee issues such as recruitment, administration, and any disputes that arose. Over the years, HR has evolved to encompass more duties under its aegis, such as payroll, recruitment, compliance, facility management, labor issues, technical adoption, skill, tra

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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 Ways To Build Communication With Clients

Take It Personel-ly

Communication is a vital piece of any relationship, including that of a business and a client. The better your communication with your clients, the clearer understanding you have of their needs and the fewer misunderstandings they will have regarding your services. Apply these four recommendations to build communication with your clientele and strengthen your customer […].

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8 common grammar mistakes to avoid in business writing

Business Management Daily

When you’re writing for business, you want to put your best foot forward, but when grammatical errors litter your writing, it can leave you looking less than polished. While perfect grammar is difficult to achieve for even the most highly skilled and published writers, you can avoid some common grammatical mistakes with practice. The following are common errors writers make, and if you can avoid these 8, you’re one step closer to being a more polished writer.

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What to do with nice, but underperforming employees

Insperity

What do you do when a team member is a great people person but is ineffective at their job? It’s a common challenge for managers – one that is difficult to deal with. An underperforming employee hurts everyone: the person, the team, the company and your clients. If you allow it to go on, it can damage relationships among team members and with clients.

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4 Predictions for the Future of Remote Work

Best Money Moves

4 predictions for the future of remote work. The COVID-19 pandemic has pivoted much of the American workforce to telecommuting. What does the future of remote work look like in a Post-COVID world? According to the Pew Research Center , 71 percent of workers who can work from home are. What’s more, 54 percent of those workers have expressed a desire to continue to do so, even after the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has passed.

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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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Support Your Staff During Mental Health Awareness Month and Beyond

Hireology

Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in the U.S. as a time to raise awareness of those living with mental or behavioral health issues, and to help reduce the stigma that so many face. Data from the CDC shows that one in five adults in the U.S. experience a mental illness, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 Household Pulse Survey revealed that 40% of U.S. adults have reported symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder during the pandemic. .

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Examples of Employee Engagement Survey Questions

HR Digest

Employee engagement is a necessity if your organization wants to achieve growth and progress. Fully engaged employees mean greater productivity, improved image and better work culture. Despite the obvious benefits of employee engagement, many companies struggle to get their employees fully on board, and with the new reality of remote work , the task has become doubly difficult.

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7 Tips and Tricks to Increase Employee Productivity

Take It Personel-ly

Keeping employees productive can help with numerous business goals from employee retention to contribution and overall efficiency in the workplace. There are many simple solutions and tricks to increase productivity and create an awesome workplace environment! Recognition A little recognition goes a long way in the workplace and occasional recognition has been proven to make […].

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Student and institutional success begins with the employee experience

Ascender

by Sandy Forrest, General Manager for Ascender ANZ Public & Enterprise Services. The higher education sector is one of Australia’s top contributors to the economy. The past decade has seen the industry generating A$30 billion in revenue year on year from 2016 until 2019 , with international education comprising around 20% share in these profits.

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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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Strategies for remote work-life balance and peace of mind

Insperity

The big switch to remote work has been helpful for public health, but it’s fueling some new work-life balance and mental health issues. Many workers report struggling to disengage from work when their new “office” is their spare bedroom or kitchen table. Some worry that the lack of face time means they’re being left out of opportunities, and this fear of missing out (FOMO) can spur them to overwork and experience more stress.

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Must-know Pay Frequency Requirements by State

Patriot Software

When it comes to paying your employees, you can’t pay them all willy-nilly. Instead, you must give them their wages on a consistent basis (e.g., weekly) and stick to one pay frequency. When you choose a paycheck frequency for your business, you need to follow state and federal payment laws. Learn about pay frequency requirements […] READ MORE.

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New In-App Background Check Packages for Added Peace of Mind

Hireology

At a time when hiring is harder than ever , it’s critical that anyone you do bring on board is the right fit. A great upfront screening process plus effective interviews are important always, but in some industries that’s not enough. You rely on background checks and drug screens for that extra peace of mind that you’re hiring someone fully capable of doing the job at the level you expect. .

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Building a remote team culture

HR Digest

Managing a team is never easy, and when you have a diverse team scattered across the globe, the task becomes doubly difficult. Remote work culture has become an accepted norm in Covid times and ease of doing business due to the tech and digital tools now available make the transition possible. The most common problems that are faced whilst managing a remote team are communication, different time zones, cultural and geographical differences and levels of engagement.

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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 Have a Stress-Free Moving Experience

Take It Personel-ly

While moving to a new home or office is one of the most exciting times of your life, it is also highly stressful. That is why you need to plan it strategically. Here are several proven tips to help you get the most out of your moving experience. Build a To-Do List Moving requires a […].

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The turnover tsunami is on the way. How can your business avoid it?

Business Management Daily

It is being widely reported that a turnover tsunami is on the horizon. With vaccines becoming easily accessible across the nation it will soon be time for employees to return to the office. However, they may not be returning to the same office that they left in March 2020. 27% of employees are planning to change jobs in 2021. Changing priorities and the desire to seize the day and try something different are driving employees to look elsewhere.

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Five tools every insurance agent should have

PeopleKeep

With thousands of Americans looking to agents and brokers for help navigating the confusing world of health insurance, qualified insurance agents are in high demand in the U.S. In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that employment of insurance agents is projected to grow 5% by 2029—that’s higher than the average for all occupations. Given this demand, it’s essential that agents today are prepared with the right tools to meet this growing need and aid the many Americans who need guidanc

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7 Payroll Reports Employers Need to File

Patriot Software

When it comes to running payroll, you have a lot of things to mark off on your to-do list. From gathering timesheets to distributing pay stubs, there can be a lot of steps that go into paying your employees. But after you pay employees, your payroll checklist isn’t finished just yet. You also need to […] READ MORE.

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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.