June, 2020

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What is Employee Voice and Why Is It Important? 

Achievers

Do your employees believe they have a voice in the workplace? The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) publishes an annual list of?top 10 workplace trends and “capturing the voice of the employee” was on the list. It shared, “Employees’ voices will become more important to organizations as they focus on collecting employee feedback more frequently, utilizing innovations for capturing that feedback, and taking action to drive engagement based on those results.&#

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"Lawrence of Arabia": Sheer cinematic perfection

Ahmed's Universe

PARIS The 7 Academy Award winner has never looked so good Steven Spielberg was in his mid teens when Lawrence of Arabia opened and he saw it for the first time. Until then he had planned to go to medical school. After watching the movie and becoming "pulverized" by it as he said in this video , Spielberg decided to embrace a movie career. Watching David Lean's masterpiece for probably the 10th time last weekend on a giant screen at the Grand Rex in Paris, an Art deco marvel of a movie palace, ju

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Return-to-Work Communication Best Practices for Coronavirus | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

These tips and best practices help craft your message communicating a return-to-work plan to your employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Addressing Employee Health and Safety Through Your Employer Brand

Hireology

As businesses across industries adjust to the latest CDC guidelines , as well as state and local requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic , keeping both customers and employees safe is now more important than ever before. In addition to sharing the latest changes to your day-to-day business operations with your current employees and through any customer communications, it should also be a top priority to leverage your employer brand to let prospective job applicants know what your organizat

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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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Reframe: Strategic Thinking When You Need It Most by Nick Noyes

Take It Personel-ly

Strategic thinking is always important; it’s a critical foundation skill for effective leaders. But in crucible leadership moments like the present, it has outsized importance. When rapid change is happening all around us, even the immediate future is wildly uncertain, and the potential range of outcomes is vast, this is when strategic thinking is most needed.

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5 Tips for Recruiting Remote Workers

Achievers

The dominos are starting to fall as companies across the world are making the announcement : remote work is here to stay. With giants like Twitter, Square, Facebook, and Microsoft leading the way, distributed teams could be 100 percent virtual and (if it happens at all) it could take months for people to meet in person for the first time. With this change happening so fast, it’s time to consider how attracting and recruiting top talent changes, and what we can do about it.

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Organizations are Focused on Using People Analytics As a Competitive Advantage

HR Bartender

As organizations spend more time trying to recover from the business impact of COVID-19 , they will turn to data to help them. It makes total sense. Organizations have been using data to help them grow their businesses for years. This will be no different. What may be different is the type of data that organizations collect and how they analyze and make decisions from the data.

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Home office ergonomics – everything you need to know

Insperity

With more people working remote, home office ergonomics is taking on a new level of importance. Yet creating a space with ergonomically correct, comfortable furnishings can prove challenging. Although convenient, dining tables, hard chairs and tall kitchen counters aren’t comfortable for long stretches of time. And, if you’re routinely uncomfortable, will you perform your best?

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Dealership Hiring: Staff for Success in a Digital-First World

Hireology

Following widespread closures as a result of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, dealerships across the country are gradually reopening as states ease social distancing mandates. Due to the temporary closures, many dealerships and other businesses deemed non essential had no other choice but to make unfortunate layoffs. As your dealership gets back up and running, your employees are your top differentiator and will help you drive customer service and profit long-term.

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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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Improving Security During the COVID-19 Crisis: 5 Things You Need to Know

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It’s no secret that small companies have seen massive changes due to the coronavirus. Many continue to lose business as they stay closed, while others prepare to gear up for when their state decides to reopen. In any case, we can all agree that no one was ready for this virus – especially from a […].

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How to Calculate a Full-time Equivalent Employee for the PPP Loan, ERC, & More

Patriot Software

As an employer, at some point or another, you may have stumbled across the term “full-time equivalent employee.” Maybe you noticed it while researching information about the Paycheck Protection Program loan. Or, maybe you came across it while looking into COBRA. Whatever the case may be, you should know how to calculate a full-time equivalent […].

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How to Create Your Employee Experience Design in Uncertain Times

Achievers

If there ever was a VUCA era, this is it. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are being felt by people and organizations everywhere. Employee experience design has become more important than ever in supporting employee wellness and nurturing workforce performance. When faced with change, individuals experience a variety of emotional stages , ranging from anxiety and fear to complacency and moving forward.

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Career Development: 5 Activities You Can Do Today

HR Bartender

Right now, many of us are concerned about our career. Maybe you’ve been furloughed or laid off. Maybe you’re still working but are starting to hear rumors. Or maybe you’ve been thinking about making a career change for several months. Regardless of your situation, you should be thinking about your career and how to position yourself for opportunities.

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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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How to handle compensation during uncertain times

Insperity

When businesses go through a crisis resulting in abnormal (or interrupted) operations and significant economic challenges, many companies look to their compensation budgets as an obvious means of cutting costs. The delicate balance is: How do you handle compensation during uncertain times to protect the financial health of your business but without losing valued employees?

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3 Ways to Leverage Data to Reduce Hiring Costs

Hireology

As states take a phased approach to reopening in light of the COVID-19 pandemic , many businesses that might have made unfortunate layoffs or put hiring on hold are now eager to staff up with qualified candidates. . With organizations across industries looking to get back on track following COVID-19 closures, business leaders will be looking to drive cost savings wherever possible.

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How to Improve Your Outdoor Seating: 6 Tips for Restaurateurs

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When the weather starts to warm up, it’s a good idea to invest in your outdoor space and move your business outside for some fresh air. That said, alfresco dining involves more than tossing some tables and chairs on your deck and calling it a day. Good outdoor seating comes as a result of effective […].

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Top 30 Inspirational Work From Home Quotes

Vantage Circle

If you are here, searching for work from home quotes, chances are that you are feeling just as demotivated as me. And that’s okay. The world has changed dramatically in the fast few months and feeling lethargic, stressed out, or uninspired is very common. The pandemic has forced maximum forms of work to shift its base to a work from home arrangement.

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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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Meijer Leverages Recognition to Strengthen Key Business Metrics

Achievers

Grocery stores make up a large sector of the retail industry and there are more than 38,000 supermarkets in the U.S. alone. How are major grocery retailers engaging their hundreds to thousands of employees on a daily basis? Let’s learn top tips and best practices from Meijer , a family-owned superstore based out of the U.S. Midwest. Meijer is able to effectively engage and motivate their workforce of 70,000 team members and strengthen key business metrics through the power of recognition.

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Managing Remote Workers: 9 Things You Must Know & Do

Genesis HR Solutions

Managing employees in a “normal” office environment isn’t easy—but throw in a pandemic, civil unrest, and temporary (maybe?) work-from-home arrangements, and the question of how to be a remote manager gets a lot more difficult. But don’t freak out yet! Managing remote workers effectively, even under the challenging conditions described above, is possible.

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How to manage stress and fear at work

Insperity

Tight deadlines, massive workloads, micromanagement and uncertainty – all realities that make your employees want to cringe. Why? Because they all lead to stress. And if excessive enough, they could even cause your employees to become fearful about their jobs and their future with your company. Those emotions can be a slow poison to any business, not only affecting employee health but also their levels of production.

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Hiring Auto Technicians: Engage Top Talent to Meet Increased Demand

Hireology

As dealerships gradually reopen following stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, dealers face a variety of challenges with getting back up and running – one of which is attracting and hiring auto technicians. . While many dealership service departments remained open in recent months, as they were deemed essential businesses, they’re now facing a significant backlog of service appointments from customers who put off needed service.

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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 Ways to Fit Exercise Into a Busy Schedule

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Let’s face it, if you’re a mom, your life is busy. Your days are full whether you stay at home, work from home, own a business, or have a regular job in addition to your parenting responsibilities. While you might think working out is off the table with your complicated schedule, caring for yourself is […].

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Fun At Work: 6 Tips For Managers

Vantage Circle

The word fun is rarely ( if ever ) associated with a working environment. The idea behind it is that a workplace is a serious place where things get done. Nobody has got the time to have a little fun at work. It’s unprofessional, unproductive, and disruptive. Right? Well, not quite. For employees, having a fun work environment is an important variable that contributes to a great place to work.

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The Recognition Program Mistake 64% of Organizations are Making

Achievers

When it comes to your company’s recognition program, are you properly training your staff? Just one-third of organizations are training employees in how, when, and why to recognize their peers. . That’s the finding of Achievers Workforce Institute’s 2020 State of Recognition report , released today. With few organizations training employees on important aspects of recognition such as quality of content or frequency, it’s likely that individuals aren’t making the most of the recognition pro

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How To Have Clearing Conversations At Work

15Five

Tough conversations are a constant—and necessary—aspect of building a strong, connected, and diverse workforce. When you bring together different backgrounds, opinions, and priorities in the workplace, friction sometimes can’t be avoided. In a global study by CCP , more than 85% of employees cited experiencing conflict at work. So if disconnection is inevitable, how do we work towards clear and consistent conflict resolution?

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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.