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Top Do’s and Don’ts for Elevating the Employee Experience

Achievers

High levels of employee engagement are known to boost productivity, improve customer satisfaction , and bolster retention rates. It ’s these very benefits that have spurred companies across the country to invest in enhancing the employee experience. . Despite this investment, only 13 percent of today’s employees report feeling engaged in the workplace.

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Employee Absences: Plan for the Unplanned

HR Bartender

I must admit today’s Time Well Spent. from our friends at Kronos is a little funny to me for two reasons. Living in Florida, we often run into these “ the weather is absolutely gorgeous days ” where we want to play hooky and go to the beach. And sometimes we actually do it. We’re also famous for gloating in January and February about wearing shorts when our friends are posting snowstorm pictures on their Facebook pages.

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How to Lead by Emotional Intelligence

HR Digest

Traditional leadership tells us that traits such as assertiveness, dominance, physical stature, intelligence, and social sensitivity determine whether an individual is best suited for leadership. These characteristics certainly play an advantageous role but the most prominent of all is Emotional Intelligence (EI), which is one’s ability to regulate feelings and use them to guide our actions.

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26 Simple Yet Awesome Welcome Messages for New Employees

Vantage Circle

Crafting welcome messages for new employees is a tedious task. They say, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”. The quote holds true when we are talking about onboarding new employees to the company. Making every employee feel comfortable and familiar with their new working environment is the best way to start a healthy work relationship.

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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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High-performing employees: How to attract, retain and manage them

Insperity

A company with more top performers will usually outshine its competitors. How valuable is a high-performing employee? Studies have shown that one top achiever can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. As an HR professional, it‘s essential to know how to identify key personnel. That knowledge will help you recruit, manage and retain top performers at work.

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3 Ways HR Leaders Can Build a Winning Culture

HR Digest

Building a winning culture at work is not an easy feat. It takes more than hiring the right talent to build a company everyone wants to work for. Creating a positive work culture where everyone thrives comes down to the emotional and intellectual ways you support your employees. It may seem complicated but creating a winning culture is one of the simplest things you could do if you follow some of the steps mentioned below.

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Empowering Employees: How Millennials Drive Innovation in Business

Take It Personel-ly

We’re all familiar with the stereotype of millennials in the workplace: They’re lazy and entitled, are chronic job-hoppers and are incapable of taking constructive criticism. This stereotype has been hammered into our collective consciousness by nearly every major media outlet (we’ve all seen TIME’s now-infamous “The Me Me Me Generation” cover) and embraced by employers […].

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9 Time Management Techniques For Better Engagement

Vantage Circle

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. - William Penn. Time, as we all know is precious and valuable for everyone. In this ever-changing and fast-paced world, maintaining a steady schedule and keeping up with changes has become difficult. And people find it laborious to take out time to manage their tasks. With constant transformation going all around, the workload has increased.

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Don’t Make These 3 Common Open Enrollment Mistakes

WEX Inc.

It’s the final countdown! Open Enrollment is mere weeks away, and all the research, planning and preparations you’ve done are about to come full circle.

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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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How HR Leaders Can Build More Trust with Employees

HR Digest

Do your employees trust the company’s leadership? There’s a good reason they should – after all, trust is at the root of every good relationship. This includes the relationship between a manager and employee. The most thriving workplace cultures are where employees are fully engaged and work with a sense of purpose. According to Great Place to Work , the best company cultures are where employees believe that their leadership is made up of people they can trust.

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How to Motivate a Team: 9 Unbelievably Impactful Suggestions

Take It Personel-ly

How to motivate a team comes down to instituting a series of policies and changes that make people want to work harder. Here’s what we suggest… Teamwork makes the dreamwork! Unless, of course, your team isn’t feeling motivated to get that work done. In fact, draining energy and enthusiasm from your team can cause everyone […].

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New Comprehensive HR Training Courses Program

Asure Software

Asure Consulting has launched a comprehensive HR Training Courses Program, consisting of 47 modular segments, based on trending operations and… The post New Comprehensive HR Training Courses Program appeared first on Asure Software.

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Is the QSEHRA or the ICHRA better for my business?

PeopleKeep

As a business owner looking into health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) options, you may have been wondering whether the qualified small employer HRA (QSEHRA) or the i ndividual coverage HRA (ICHRA) is the best choice for your company. The QSEHRA was created in December 2016 and has been a great option for small businesses looking for an alternative to group insurance ever since.

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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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The Pluses and Minuses of Captive Insurance

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"As insurance premiums rise and underwriters are ever more assiduous in evaluating risk, insurance buyers find themselves more open to ‘alternative risk’ or ‘captive’ insurance options. Captives may at first seem complex and difficult to administer but understanding a few basic principles can help uninitiated buyers (and insurance brokers) decide if a captive is the way to go.

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Continue to Keep Hardcopies in a Digital World

Take It Personel-ly

With the advent of modern technology, many businesses have now completely minimized their documents and are going the paperless route. Even important contracts are created as PDFs, digitally signed, and disseminated online, which is then stored as digital data that is accessible for viewing to all the parties concerned. Though it is very convenient to […].

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The Purrrfect Bark Annuity - Coming Soon

The Teacher's Advocate

I'm pretty tough on the insurance industry, this is no secret. But I've been working behind the scenes with GTTD Life and Annuity to bring a new kind of annuity to the marketplace, a truly unique product never before seen. I'm super excited about how this one product could dramatically change the lives of my clients and hundreds of thousands of teachers across the nation.

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Employee Financial Wellness Statistics 2019

Best Money Moves

Employee financial wellness statistics 2019. New research looks at the spillover effect financial stress has on employee productivity. Greetings, New research by Morgan Stanley highlights the impact financial wellness has on employee productivity. . Nearly four in five employees (78 percent) with high financial stress say that they are distracted by financial stress at work and it’s not just workers with lower incomes.

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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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A Spark of Creativity for National Assisted Living Week

AssuredPartners

{"ops":[{"insert":"As an insurance and risk management partner to hundreds of assisted living communities across the country, we would like to extend a “Thank You” to our assisted living clients for providing care and services to those in need. In appreciation of all that you and your team members do, we join you in celebrating National Assisted Living Week September 8 – 14. nThe theme for this year, “A Spark of Creativity” aims to encourage residents to tap into their creative side, whether thr

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Why You Need To Pay Attention To Eye Health At Work

Take It Personel-ly

No matter if you own your own business, work remotely, work for a start-up, or work at a large company – being healthy while you’re at work is so important! On average, people work 40 hours a week, but that’s not an excuse to let your health fall to the wayside. Things like taking regular […].

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Social Round-Up: 3-2-1.Action!

WEX Inc.

The moment you have planned for all year is almost here: Open Enrollment. It's time to put your hard work into action.

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Millennial Financial Stress Statistics 2019

Best Money Moves

Millennial financial stress statistics 2019. Here’s how student loans, housing costs and savings are affecting the millennial generation. Based on the most recent data, Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce , surpassing both Baby Boomers and Generation X. Burdened with student loan debt, high costs of living and savings struggles, Millennials are also some of the most financially stressed employees.

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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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What is GINA? The federal discrimination law you need to know.

Business Management Daily

GINA, or the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, outlaws genetic discrimination. The federal law has been around for a decade, yet many employers still don’t know exactly how to comply. GINA essentially bars using genetic information in employment decisions and bars acquiring genetic information improperly. GINA bars employers from discriminating against or harassing employees based on their genetic information.

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4 Things You Need to Know About Starting a Franchise Business

Take It Personel-ly

If you are thinking about leaving the corporate world to start your own business, it is important that you think about the different opportunities in this industry that are available to you. Since there are different types of business startups that can be valuable to you and your pocket, you should make sure that you […].

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What Up or Out Policy Means to Workers

HR Digest

What is the Up or Out policy? How widespread is the up or out system? Where is it most effective? Up or out is a policy in some consulting firms where employees are expected to achieve a certain rank or level of progression within the business at a predetermined pace, over the course of a finite number of years. If they fail to do so, they are required by contract to leave.

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What the Multigenerational Workforce Needs From Employers

Best Money Moves

What the multigenerational workforce needs from employers. Millennials, Baby Boomers and Gen X need a personalized financial wellness program to reduce financial stress. In today’s rapidly evolving workplace, you’ll likely need specially designed strategies to keep up with the various needs of your multigenerational workforce. From Millennials to Baby Boomers to Gen X, each generation has specific financial goals and pain points.

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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.