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4 signs an employee is about to quit

Achievers

When employees quit, it has a multiplying negative impact: their co-workers may feel over-burdened and discouraged, while the company suffers from a drop in productivity. Furthermore, the expense of recruiting, hiring, and training replacements is substantial. To proactively retain your top talent , it’s important to understand why employees quit and monitor for signs that someone might be ready to leave.

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Do You Know Why You Were Hired?

HR Bartender

It seems like such a simple question. Do you know why the organization hired you? One of my former bosses took me out to lunch one day to tell me why she hired me. She said, “Because you didn’t come from the industry.” She wanted an outsider who would ask questions and challenge the status quo. She felt that was what the company needed. If organizations want employees to be engaged and successful in their roles, they have to tell them why they were hired.

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6 ways to promote a positive workplace culture at your company

Insperity

You might think that trying to cultivate a positive workplace as an elusive, time-consuming waste of important resources, but studies show that the opposite is true. Creating a positive company culture begins with fostering happy employees. Happy employees are 85 percent more efficient, experience a 60 percent drop in absenteeism and stay twice as long in their jobs as their less happy colleagues, creating a measurable impact on engagement, retention, safety, wellness, employer brand and even co

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How to Increase Your Retention Rate for Millennials

Take It Personel-ly

Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce, and they’re totally different than the generations of workers that came before. They want more than just a job. They want to feel like they’re doing something that matters. They don’t want to mindlessly do tasks — rather, they want to be engaged with their work […].

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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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How to improve your 1:1 manager meetings

Achievers

Holding regular one-on-one meetings with your employees is a major component of employee coaching and good management. Not only are they a great way to build individual relationships with your employees, but there is often information that’s not appropriate to cover in a group setting. Handled correctly, these meetings offer abundant benefits for you, your staff, and your entire company.

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6 Proven Ways to Promote a Positive Company Culture

Insperity

You might think that trying to cultivate a happy workforce as an elusive, time-consuming waste of important resources, but studies show that the opposite is true. Creating a positive company culture begins with fostering happy employees. Happy employees are 85 percent more efficient, experience a 60 percent drop in absenteeism and stay twice as long in their jobs as their less happy colleagues, creating a measurable impact on engagement, retention, safety, wellness, employer brand and even cost

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2016 Career Planner From Career Solvers

Talent Culture

Are you happy with your job? Are you happy with your life? Career Solvers has created a career planner designed to guide you in taking a look back and looking ahead. Most important, it will help you identify, define, and clarify your personal and professional goals. This is not about setting resolutions. It’s about goals. It’s about dreaming about what you want your life to be like and putting plans into place to make it happen.

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How To Fight For Your Rights As An Employee

Take It Personel-ly

As an employee, you need to stand up for your rights. It can be difficult if you’re in an oppressive environment with an employer keen to take advantage. But that doesn’t mean that you should take it. There is some risk involved with pushing to advocate for yourself and your colleagues. However, that’s mostly […].

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Your Hiring Process Must Fit the Job – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

I know I spend a lot of time being a “technology evangelist.” There’s a reason for that. I believe technology can bring real value to business. I also understand that the amount and type of technology a business requires is dependent upon the business. Larger organizations, in order to scale, might have more technology than smaller companies. But that doesn’t mean smaller organizations have an excuse for not adopting technology.

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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 to Improve Accountability in the Workplace in 5 Steps

Insperity

Sometimes managers will let employees avoid accountability because they dislike confrontation. But a lack of individual accountability is bad all around. It’s bad for the employees who likely know they aren’t performing well. For instance, a salesperson will probably know he is the only one who didn’t meet his sales goal. Without the encouragement and push to improve, he may feel ignored, discouraged and devalued, which may lead him to quit.

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Personalized Workspaces

Asure Software

Look no further than Google as your model to create personalized employee work spaces. The lobby at Google’s Sydney, Australia office makes visitors feel like they’re about to embark on an Outback safari expedition rather than drown in a concrete jungle. While personalizing spaces at work to fit the geographic locale or the personal tastes of employees has become common in the modern workplace employees’ digital spaces are also benefiting from a personal touch.

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Ways to Help Your Business Achieve Its Goals

Take It Personel-ly

For your business to succeed, it has to achieve its goals. But how can you make sure that happens? Here are some tips to help you discover ways that your business can make, and achieve its goals. Let Your Employees Set Their Own Goals It’s always better if the team as a whole sets their […].

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Engaging Employees with Technology Choices

UpstartHR

Last week I had the chance to speak with a local HR leader. She was lamenting her company’s hideously awful HR module that was an add-on to the company accounting software. The firm paid plenty of money for the module, but it is ineffective, inefficient, and virtually useless. It looks like it was coded/developed in 1993, if that tells you anything.

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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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10 Types Of People You’ll Meet While Networking For A Job

Talent Culture

Mobilizing your network during a job search is a lot of work with many ups and downs. People don’t always react to your requests for guidance and information as you’d like them to, and many report learning who their friends really are during a search. After coaching hundreds of job search clients, I’ve seen pretty much every networking interaction possible.

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World Health Day 2016 Focusing on Diabetes Epidemic

Winston Benefits

World Health Day is April 7, and the theme this year is “ Beat Diabetes.” It’s no wonder this is such a big focus. Diabetes is a very serious illness, and its prevalence is growing. It can affect nearly every system in the body, including your eyes, kidneys and nerves. It even increases your risk of heart attack and stroke.

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How to Spot a Recruitment Scam

cipHR

Searching for and getting a new job is a stressful enough experience without the added potential nightmare of being scammed. Unfortunately recruitment scams aren't uncommon and can trick you in a plethora of ways. While looking to further your career you'll undoubtedly upload your CV and share your information to multiple sites and platforms in the hope that a genuine recruiter or employer will contact you.

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AssuredPartners Announces Bynum Insurance Joins the Organization

AssuredPartners

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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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Personalized Workspaces

Asure Software

Look no further than Google as your model to create personalized employee work spaces. The lobby at Google’s Sydney, Australia office makes visitors feel like they’re about to embark on an Outback safari expedition rather than drown in a concrete jungle. While personalizing spaces at work to fit the geographic locale or the personal tastes … Continue reading "Personalized Workspaces".

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Last-Minute Tax Tips for HR

Winston Benefits

The IRS personal income tax deadline is just around the corner, and chances are you’ve got some employees who are just getting started on their tax forms. HR can play a helpful role for employees at the last minute, so be ready for questions and concerns as the deadline approaches. These are some of the common issues or questions you might face in the next few weeks.

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Air Business endorses CIPHR SaaS

cipHR

Air Business have 4 sites in the south of England with a total of 400 employees. They have been operating for 30 years and specialise in Mail and Distribution for publishing. The post Air Business endorses CIPHR SaaS appeared first on CIPHR.

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Responsibility For Employee Engagement, Leadership Insights From Pixar Co-founder, Money As Motivation, And The Risks Of Sedentary Work #FridayFinds

Hppy

While we were getting ready for our website makeover and content update for Hppy (which I invite you to explore in detail), we managed to sneak a few breaks for some truly inspirational and eye-opening articles. Take a look at this week’s finest articles from the world of employee engagement and HR: Joint responsibility for employee engagement. Accountability is an essential part of any strategy.

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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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More choices for our members.

SnackNation

New specialty boxes launched – Marvelous Meat Lover’s, Bar Bonanza, Health Champion, and No Chips No Problem. The post More choices for our members. appeared first on SnackNation.

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The Pros and Cons of Multi-Rater Performance Reviews

HR Bartender

Multi-rater or 360 reviews gather feedback from multiple sources. Those sources include the employee, manager, co-workers, staff members, and sometimes customers. The idea being that these individuals will provide insights and their collective comments will provide greater feedback for the recipient. Some examples include: In a traditional performance review from the manager, that’s one person’s point of view.

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HR SaaS at Rugby School

cipHR

Rugby School had a heavy reliance on spreadsheets and paper for a number of their HR processes. Tom Roach, Head of HR, recognised that this method of working was not meeting their requirements and sought to remedy this by implementing a new HR SaaS solution. The post HR SaaS at Rugby School appeared first on CIPHR.

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March Madness: Picking Your HCM Bracket

PeopleStrategy

For many, myself included, March Madness, is one of their favorite times of year. College basketball fans across the US take more time than they should completing the infamous “bracket,” while others simply choose their favs or the team with the cooler uniforms. Regardless of your selection process, filling out a bracket means you have a vested interest in almost every game, even those your typically would not watch (unless you are an alum).

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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.