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10 persuasion techniques to help you get ahead at work

cipHR

Having trouble getting buy-in for your latest big idea? These simple tips will help. Whether you’re trying to secure a pay rise or promotion, or convince busy line managers of the value of your new HR initiative, your ability to persuade colleagues, peers and senior leaders plays a significant role in achieving success. Some people are naturally persuasive and are easily able to steer a strategy or conversation in their preferred direction.

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How to Keep your Star Employees from Walking out the Door

Take It Personel-ly

Have you ever looked at an employee and wished you had more of them? Star employees do more than just do a good job. They exude a positive attitude and improve on tasks instead of simply finishing them. They go above and beyond and may even set higher standards for their work than you did. […].

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Be 10x More Productive Using the Eisenhower Matrix

HR Digest

Are you ready to master your calendar and manage your time effectively and efficiently for maximum results? Get more done without distraction using the Eisenhower Matrix. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34 th President of the United States, who went on to serve two terms from 1953 to 1961 in the White House. During his presidency, he launched some of the largest public works projects in history: the launch of DARPA, NASA, and the peaceful use of alternative energy sources (Atomic Energy Act).

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Open Enrollment and Remote Employees | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

Open Enrollment and Remote Employees. It's no secret that remote employees can sometimes feel "off the grid" or isolated from other team members. From team outings, birthday lunches, donuts on Friday, or simply just meetings, there's a lot of things remote employees can't participate in - and open enrollment shouldn't share that same sentiment.

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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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Understanding the ADA’s interactive process

Insperity

Abby, a reliable and valuable employee for five years, was in a car accident and is in a wheelchair for a month as she recovers. John, who has only been with the company for six months, has been at least 45 minutes late every day for the past two weeks. He seems exhausted and haggard, and his behavior and tardiness are disrupting the workflow. On the surface, these two examples might seem like night and day.

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Seven signs you’re a micromanager – and four steps to letting go

cipHR

If you’re bogged down by the detail, and don’t trust your team to succeed without your input, it’s time to stop micromanaging and start delegating. When stepping up from being part of a team to leading one as a line manager, there’s a transition period when you stop focusing on the day-to-day tasks and start focusing on the bigger picture. But there’s a fine line between being interested in and supportive of your team’s work and being an unbearable micromanager.

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Yes, I Really Wanted to be in HR as a Child (and Why Now is THE Time for HR)

UpstartHR

I sometimes forget that some of you have been reading the blog for a long time (maybe the entire 10+ years it’s been going!) while others have just found it. It’s easy to run across something I’ve written recently and think that I have it all together and always have, but that’s certainly not the case. I started this blog when I was getting my first HR job because I wanted to share with others what I was learning and how to improve ourselves as HR pros.

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Temper your temper to be a better leader

Insperity

Leadership can be an inherently emotional process. In the course of leading a company, you become invested in its strategic outcomes, employees and business processes. This level of personal investment can lead to emotionally-charged situations that could cause you to lose your temper. Unleashing your anger at work incurs considerable costs. Hot-headed leaders create workplace drama , can lose their credibility and often struggle with clouded thinking when it comes to making business decisions.

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How to Prioritize Your Health As a Working Woman

Take It Personel-ly

Balancing a busy schedule and making time for your health is definitely a juggling act. However, with a few minor changes to your routine, you have the power to reset your lifestyle to make room for healthy habits. If you feel stressed, tired, or simply not in control of your life; it’s time to shake […].

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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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Persuasive Sentence Starters to be More Persuasive at Work

HR Digest

An average person will have 20 to 50 major arguments at work. These arguments are far from the usual encounters which begin or end with accusations, rolling eyes, screaming, and liberal use of expletives. A bad argument at work is often the result of failure to communicate the underlying message more ‘persuasively.’ We might expect that there might be a school and college courses on how to be more persuasive at work to get things done.

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The Art of Giving Recognition at Work

Vantage Circle

Workplaces are going through a dynamic transformation. Adapting itself with the changing norms of work culture is the only way for businesses to survive, sustain and thrive. One such major transformation is seen for most organizations in the employee recognition space. The power of recognition at work cannot be over-emphasized. Employee recognition is a psychologically proven way to spur motivation and development among employees.

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A Detailed Overview of Federal, State, and Local Minimum Wage Law

Patriot Software

When it comes to setting employee salaries or wages, you can’t pay any amount you want. You must follow minimum wage law. So, what’s minimum wage? Depending on your business location, you might have differing federal, state, and local minimum wage rates. To comply with labor laws, understand minimum wage. What is minimum wage? The […]. The post A Detailed Overview of Federal, State, and Local Minimum Wage Law appeared first on Payroll Tips, Training, and News.

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8 Ways to Improve Your Business’s Reputation

Take It Personel-ly

In the world of business, reputation means everything. It doesn’t matter whether you’re just a small business that started operating two days ago, or whether you’re a long-standing corporate giant, if you want to attract new clients, you have to maintain your image. As Warren Buffett — the famous business magnate and investor — put […].

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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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Workers’ compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 2

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

[For the first part of this discussion, see “Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1” at [link] or [link] ] In my previous post, I described the range of public policy insurance arrangements governments use in the workers’ compensation insurance market. As noted, the market for workers’ compensation is not a free market but one that is altered by government interventions and oversight.

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Elder Abuse / Neglect: A National Concern

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"As America continues to age, the number of people residing in nursing homes and assisted living communities is expected to increase. Abuse and neglect continues to be an issue for our frail and vulnerable elderly population in senior living communities. nAccording to the National Ombudsman Reporting System (NORS) 2017 data, 11,778 (22.69%) of 51,914 complaints reported to State Ombudsman programs involved nursing home abuse, gross neglect, or exploitation.

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5 Email Etiquette Rules Everyone Should Know

HR Digest

The average worker spends 28% of the workday reading and answering email, according to McKinsey analysis. For the average full-time worker in North America, that amounts to 105 emails per day. This means spending approximately two hours in a day sorting out emails. Research shows that embarrassing email errors can change the way people look at you. Shouldn’t this mean that we should be careful of how we exchange emails at work?

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How to Build a Brand Partnership

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Whether you’re looking to expand your market, generate more revenue, or make your customers happier – partnering with another brand or company can be a powerful tool to boost your sales and grow your business. You’ve seen how successful partnerships led to amazing things. There’s Taco Bell & Doritos, Casper & West Elm, BMW & […].

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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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10 Eye-opening Employee Retention Statistics You Should Take Note Of

Vantage Circle

New companies and new opportunities are coming up every day. With so much to choose from, employees don’t think twice before switching their job if their current one doesn’t suit them. To keep up with the changing times and changing needs, employers need to be mindful of how they manage their company culture. 1) 69% of employees who undergo effective onboarding are more likely to stay with an employer for at least 3 years, and 58% are more likely to stay on for more than 3 years.

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The In’s and Out’s of Corporate Non-Owned Hull & Liability

AssuredPartners

Imagine that your company’s Gulfstream G150 has to undergo emergency maintenance the day before you have to get yourself and few other employees to that annual corporate meeting in Atlanta. Or, what if one of your employees who recently obtained their pilot's license decides to lease an aircraft to use on company business? Would your business be covered?

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How Do You Retain Employees?

Best Money Moves

How do you retain employees? Forty-three percent of workers will look for a new job in the next year, putting employer focus on retention strategies. More than 80 percent of employers are concerned about retaining employees — and with good reason. Almost half (43%) plan to look for a new job in the next 12 months, according to research from global staffing firm Robert Half. . “In a tight employment market, workers have more options, and the grass may look greener somewhere else,” sai

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Understanding the Difference between Commercial and Advertising Photography

Take It Personel-ly

Photography and advertising have long been linked with one another. Photography helps to connect with the audience and develop emotional bonds. An image speaks authentically and impacts a component of collective humanity. Fortunately, today’s digital solutions have enabled businesses to leverage the power of pictures and create compelling, inspiring, and impactful advertising.

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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 Reasons to Drop Your PEO

Asure Software

You chose to outsource HR activities with the best of intentions. Initially, the appeal was there – 3rd party as… The post 5 Reasons to Drop Your PEO appeared first on Asure Software.

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What HR needs to know about parental bereavement leave

cipHR

Paid parental bereavement leave is due to be introduced in April 2020. We explain the new entitlements, and discuss how HR can support grieving staff. Sadly, bereavement is something that will affect all of us at some time in our lives. In fact, research suggests that 1 in 10 employees are likely to be affected by the death of a loved one at any given point.

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Interview with Charlene Li, Part 1: Acts of Courageous Leadership

15Five

In this two-part series, we sit down with Altimeter Group founder and Senior Fellow Charlene Li ahead of the release of her new book, The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail. Recognized as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company and as a top 50 leadership innovator by Inc. , Charlene is an expert on digital transformation and disruptive growth strategies.

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Saying Goodbye is Hard; Make it Easier with a Plan

Abel HR

In addition to the fact that baby boomers are retiring in droves—with estimates from Deutsche Bank suggesting that 10,000 Americans reach the standard retirement eligibility age of 65 each day —the real issue is that the folks who are leaving aren’t exactly the lowest ones on the totem pole! Instead, companies must brace for some of their most tenured, experienced, and knowledgeable employees to jump ship, and thus must have a plan in hand to guide them as they navigate these unchartered waters.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.