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Why Leaders Need to Be Conversationalists Not Communicators

Achievers

It’s an open secret leaders are often poor communicators. “I’m not a people person” or “I’m not good with words” are often cited as reasons for avoiding conversations with staff and colleagues. Even though it’s well documented employee performance increases when leaders give staff feedback , many in authority choose not to put in the extra effort. Why is this?

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Employee Engagement and Commitment Are Not the Same Thing

HR Bartender

As recruiting remains a challenge, I believe organizations will focus their resources toward making sure that they can keep the employees they have. Just like it’s easier to retain a customer (versus getting a new one), organizations will realize the same about employees. . So retention will be a priority for companies, which means employee engagement will be a priority as well.

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Unhappy at work? Here are 10 ways to brighten up your day

cipHR

When you’re feeling the pressure it can be difficult to stay positive. Here are a few simple ways to enjoy a better day at the office. Most of us spend a great deal of our time at work, often in an office environment. Remaining happy in your job and knowing how to cope with all of the stresses and strains of working lives is essential to remaining physically and mentally healthy.

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10 Tips to Help When Working from Home

Take It Personel-ly

Working from home seems like a blessing. You’re in a comfortable space, you get to eat whenever you want, and your hours are more flexible. The downside of working from home is that it’s easier to get distracted, which means that your productivity levels can be lower. There are a few, small things that you […].

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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 GDPR Means to Payroll

Ascender

What does the introduction of GDPR mean for Payroll? Last Friday, 25th May, the European Union (EU) brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into force. This is one of the biggest changes to data protection rules over the last two decades, changing the way businesses collect, process, store, transmit and use two types of data: Personal data and, its subset, Sensitive data.

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3 Ways Your Dealership Can Get High School Students Excited About Fixed Ops Careers

Hireology

Between record low unemployment rates, Baby Boomers retiring at a rapid pace and fewer young job seekers interested in dealership careers, dealerships across the country are facing challenges with keeping fixed ops departments fully staffed. But with the added challenge of declining new vehicle profit margins, dealerships need ensure they’re fully staffed to turn their fixed ops department into a profit center.

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4 Ways To Push Your Employees Up The Career Ladder

Take It Personel-ly

Your employees are central to your business, and without them, your business wouldn’t be where it is today. There’s a lot to be said about company loyalty these days, and with people far less likely to enjoy a ‘job for life’ at one company like they used to, it can be difficult to retain talented […].

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5 fail-safe tips for motivating employees in uncertain times

Insperity

Motivating employees can be difficult, especially in uncertain times or when change is on the horizon. Some organizational changes are self-initiated, like mergers, acquisitions or layoffs. Others are uncontrollable, like natural disasters, lawsuits or legislative changes. However, any or all of these circumstances can easily impact your employees’ level of engagement and motivation – and, when mishandled, not for the better.

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Webinar | The Alphabet Soup of Carrier Integration: EDI vs. API

WEX Inc.

If you have ever compared benefits administration software vendors, you’ve likely heard the acronyms EDI and API presented as carrier integration offerings. At the core, both integrations transmit data from one platform to another, but what is the difference between the two? And, most importantly, why should you (and your clients) care?

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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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Episode 37 | How to Refresh Your Brand for Massive Growth, with Amir Haque (Mistress) and Alysse Burroni (SnackNation)

SnackNation

Episode 37 | How to Refresh Your Brand for Massive Growth. with Amir Haque, Partner at Mistress. & Alysse Burroni, Director of Brand Marketing at SnackNation. A logo that you designed yourself on a cross country flight. Package design you slapped together in powerpoint minutes before the first production run. A brand name that you landed on because, well, the URL was available.

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We Want More Flex Time – Work Perks

Take It Personel-ly

Think about all the things that makes your workplace attractive to you and other people. Maybe you just really like your co-workers, and find your team a creative, interesting, productive bunch. Or maybe there’s an incredible fitness facility as well as a commitment to healthy living as part of your company ethos. Or perhaps there’s […].

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Workplace wellness programs: Worth the investment?

Insperity

What’s in it for companies that devote time and money to workplace wellness programs? Lower health insurance premiums? Happier, healthier employees? The benefits of helping employees achieve better health can seem nebulous, and much of the research following such programs doesn’t show a profoundly positive return on investment. Still, employee wellness programs remain popular with businesses and employees alike.

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Help Clients Improve the Benefits Enrollment Experience for Millennial Employees

WEX Inc.

With four distinct generations operating in today's workplace, benefit advisers and consultants are wise to build strategies that can best advise employers on how to craft a benefits enrollment experience that feels personalized and intuitive to their multi-generational population. But with many human resource departments strapped for time and resources, which generation should they focus their efforts on first in order to receive maximum employee satisfaction and engagement throughout the open

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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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Retirement Research Will Blow Your Mind

Best Money Moves

In the Best Money Moves Roundup, we run down the latest news on retirement, student loan debt assistance, and retention. Will your employees be ready for retirement? The Federal Reserve’s recently published report shows some improvement in the economic well-being of U.S. households, but it also highlights some startling concerns. More than 60% of Americans are not on track with retirement savings.

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5 Important Things That Every E-Commerce Business Should Have

Take It Personel-ly

Running an e-commerce business takes a lot of hard work and dedication. There are many challenging steps and important decisions that need to be made along the way. Before starting an ecommerce business, you must first decide which e-commerce solutions are right for you. It’s important to be knowledgeable about your options before diving into […].

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[Infographic] Wasting Time At Work

Hppy

Unfortunately, we’re all guilty of wasting time at work in some way or another. The reality is wasting time at work is commonplace, with time being spent on Facebook alone costing the UK economy £25 billion, and with 35% of people spending more than an hour on the site alone every day. After all, time is money, and time wasting at work is costing businesses and the economy as a whole a lot of money, day in, day out.

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Whiteboard Wednesday: New EEOC Wellness Rules

Wellable

With the U.S. District Court’s decision to vacate the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC's) wellness rule effective January 1, 2019, employers are rightfully scrambling to determine how to react and what the rule revisions mean for their wellness programs. In Wellable’s first-ever guest appearance on Whiteboard Wednesdays, Al Lewis provides his perspective on how employee wellness programs will never be the same.

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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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What employers need to know about serving notice of dismissal

cipHR

Nina Robinson from ESP Law explains the ins and outs of dismissal, from statutory and contractual notice periods to garden leave and working the notice period. The recent Supreme Court ruling in Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood has brought the deceptively difficult principle of effective service of notice back into the spotlight. In this article, we explore the learning points from that case and explain what employers need to know about serving notice of dismissal on employees.

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5 Reasons Why Startups Win And Others Don’t

Take It Personel-ly

Many self-made billionaires in this era made their bones from small startup companies that they managed to grow into a billion-dollar industry. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Elon Musk (Tesla), Evan Spiegel (Snapchat) and many other CEOs owe their early success to their innovative startup companies that eventually made it big. Now it cannot be denied that […].

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5 (Unexpected) Things You Need To Include In Your Employee Handbook

Hppy

When it comes to the onboarding process, whatever you can do to streamline it, the easier the adjustment period will be for your new hire. And while you might be tempted to skip creating an employee handbook (too much work!), having one could help you reduce turnover and make happier employees. But First: Why an Employee Handbook is So Important. Nobody reads them anyway, you groan, so why bother creating one?

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Why is No One Talking About this Study?

AssuredPartners

Several years ago, legislation was passed, Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015. In this act, it was recommended that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) fund a study to evaluate the Safety Management System (SMS). In a recent issue of Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement , a study by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, detailed their findings.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Follow rules to set alternative workweek schedule

Business Management Daily

California wage-and-hour law can be complicated. For example, California allows establishment of something call­­ed alternative workweek schedules. Employees have to approve an AWS by voting via a secret ballot. The post Follow rules to set alternative workweek schedule appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Why corporate transparency is giving new impetus to diversity and inclusion

cipHR

The results of the first round of gender pay gap reporting, and government plans to require companies to publish executive pay ratios, mean organisations need to think again about D&I. It’s been a landmark year for pay transparency in the UK, as public-sector organisations and private companies with more than 250 employees were required to publicly report on their gender pay gaps for the first time.

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Workplace Wellness: How You Can Minimize the Costs of Employee Illness

Asure Software

Learn the most expensive medical conditions impacting your company’s healthcare plan — and bottom line According to the Centers for… The post Workplace Wellness: How You Can Minimize the Costs of Employee Illness appeared first on Asure Software.

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It’s Not Like It’s Written in Stone!

Global People Strategist

Well, sometimes you just might want it to be! A written contract is an agreement with terms documented and delineated on paper at least, if not stone. . While many countries, including the United States, prefer to leave employers with the flexibility to decide what should go into a written employment contract, it is usually much easier and safer for both parties to have a mutually agreed-upon written agreement.

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How to Implement Pay Transparency: A Comprehensive Guide

With pay transparency legislation on the rise globally, it can be difficult for organizations to navigate how to share salary ranges due to administrative complexities, lack of clear job architecture, employee reactions, and more. To help make this process easier, Barley's comprehensive guide shares how to begin implementing pay transparency while staying true to your compensation philosophy.