Sat.May 06, 2017 - Fri.May 12, 2017

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4 Tips: How to Cultivate Mindfulness at Work

Achievers

Mindfulness by definition is, “the practice of maintaining a nonjudgmental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis.” Seems simple enough, right? However, achieving a state of mindfulness as defined above, while balancing the busy schedule of a working professional seems like another impossible task on the grand to-do list.

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3 Steps to Make Recruiting Your Competitive Advantage

HR Bartender

Prior to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Talent Management conference, I was able to attend the TAtech Spring Congress. The TAtech event was super interesting and I can’t wait to share with you some of my takeaways over the coming weeks. One of the big takeaways for me was a session by Jerome Ternynck, founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters.

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Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Review

Take It Personel-ly

If you do any type a graphic design, digital design, digital art and marketing graphics there will come a time that you will need some new equipment to take your skills and abilities up a notch. I highly recommend Wacom products. My 14 year old daughter loves to do digital painting and art and is … Continue reading Wacom Intuos Pro Medium Review.

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Six top tips to creating a better employer branding strategy

cipHR

Your reputation as an organisation extends beyond your customers. It is more important than ever to be viewed as a desirable place to work and have a good reputation as an employer. In a recent Linked in survey "72% of recruiting leaders worldwide agreed that employer brand had a significant impact on hiring." One of the key questions when creating your employer branding strategy is “what appeals to potential employees who are considering working for my organisation?

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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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4 mistakes managers make that can destroy trust

Insperity

When you’re leading your employees along the path to success, are you getting the results you want? Are they open to your suggestions, engaged and giving it their all? Or, do they push back, miss the mark and second-guess your advice? You may be wondering if you hired the wrong people for the job. Before you make any permanent decisions, you might want to consider a less obvious problem – an underlying lack of trust.

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Sourcing: How to Find Great Talent on Purpose [Podcast]

UpstartHR

[Email subscribers click through to listen to the episode] Sourcing isn’t a new activity in the talent acquisition world. There have always been hard to fill jobs, but we’re seeing more of this kind of issue than ever before. In fact, a recent CareerBuilder study puts the cost of open positions at nearly $800,000 annually, tallying up costs that ultimately hurt business performance.

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How to make employee life easier with HR technology

Ascender

The Australian workforce has become more diverse, largely due to people working longer – often beyond the retirement age of 65. For the first time in history, we are witnessing up to four generations employed under one roof. Keeping every one of them happy is vital to HR professionals today. Technology has fast become a key tool for driving efficiencies across HR – on the one hand improving the productivity of HR professionals, on the other increasing retention through staff engagement.

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8 surefire steps to handle employee attendance issues

Insperity

Maybe you’re the kind of business leader who prefers to create a work culture free from the corporate grind of time clocks, rules and rigid schedules. Or you don’t want to be that person at your company, the one who knows exactly what time everyone gets into the office. Whatever the reason, few business leaders relish calling out employees for being tardy or missing work.

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Recognizing Public Service Employees – #PSRW

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos recently announced that, for the 17 th consecutive year, they have been awarded the NorthFace ScoreBoard Award for excellence in customer service. Congratulations! Enjoy the post.).

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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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How HR Software benefits your business

cipHR

HR is perhaps one of the most crucial functions within any business as they're responsible for the welfare of your employees. Managing your employees can be time-consuming, regardless of the scope and size of your company. Whether you run a startup or a large brand with hundreds of employees, it's important to never underestimate the importance of human resources for the growth of your business, as well as the overall morale of your employees.

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The American Health Care Act Leaves Many Employers with Questions

Winston Benefits

The American Health Care Act, or AHCA, has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, and it has left many people with questions. The bill was approved quickly and, if it becomes law, it will pass many decisions to individual states. This leaves employers and consumers wondering what their state may decide in regard to various points.

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6 Creative Ways to Boost Employee Morale

Hppy

It’s Wednesday morning and your team looks like they’ve just had their brain cells electrocuted. What will you do to stir them back to life? Employee morale is one of the key elements that can make or break a brand’s success, which is why all managers should invest active effort and a part of the brand budget in maintaining it on an optimal level. Unfortunately, modern employees are much pickier than their parents when it comes to favourite morale boosters, and 21st-century HR experts therefore

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Employees Value Benefits Differently – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Organizations work very hard to provide consistency. They want customers to have a consistent experience. And I believe they want employees to have a consistent experience as well. That’s one of the reason companies develop benefit packages. They want to offer employees consistency in their workplace. There’s one challenge with that though…employees place a different value on things.

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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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Slideshare: How To Navigate These 6 Stumbling Blocks To Business Growth

15Five

The world is evolving rapidly, and new technologies or seemingly uncontrollable events can quickly render your offering obsolete. That’s why earlier this year we released The High-Growth CEO Handbook , for founders and executives to learn the fundamentals of steady and sustainable business growth. The book was written as a response to these 6 main themes that typically frustrate executives and founders: 1) Effective Talent Acquisition. 2) Maintaining Visibility. 3) Scaling Communication. 4

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The Truth About Employee Benefits: What Do Millennials Want?

Winston Benefits

It’s time to put aside the notion that millennials are flighty and unpredictable. Generally defined as people who were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, this cohort has moved out of its entry-level jobs and are now working as managers. High-potential employees have become high-performers, and companies are looking for ways to hold on to them.

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AssuredPartners Announces Acquisition of Preferred Guardian Insurance

AssuredPartners

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How Green Office Styles & Charity Helps Retention

Asure Software

3 Ways Sustainability Affects Workforce and Workspace Management Sustainability is an increasingly critical topic for stakeholders at all levels of business organizations—employees, executives, and even investors. However, the idea of sustainable business means something different to everyone, incorporating a wide range of issues, from the amount of nature in the workplace to the impact … Continue reading "How Green Office Styles & Charity Helps Retention".

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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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How Company Culture Affects Employee Productivity

Hppy

Running a successful company means attending to a multitude of different responsibilities. Products need to be delivered on time. Customer service must be attended to. Suppliers and partners must be dealt with professionally. However, how it all melds together also matters. This is where company culture comes into play. A strong company culture can pay dividends in regards to a company that runs like a well oiled machine.

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Why Recognition Is Essential to Employee Engagement

Achievers

When I entered the workforce in 1997, I wanted to find an employer that would offer me a long and fruitful career; a goal I shared with the Baby Boomer generation before me. While this has been the experience of my wife, who has enjoyed 17+ years of employment with the company that recruited her out of college, I’ve worked for six companies in the almost 20 years since I graduated.

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How Green Office Styles & Charity Helps Retention

Asure Software

3 Ways Sustainability Affects Workforce and Workspace Management Sustainability is an increasingly critical topic for stakeholders at all levels of business organizations—employees, executives, and even investors. However, the idea of sustainable business means something different to everyone, incorporating a wide range of issues, from the amount of nature in the workplace to the impact … Continue reading "How Green Office Styles & Charity Helps Retention".

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How Businesses Can Stay Flexible with Office Hoteling

Asure Software

Optimizing Your Office Space for the 21st-Century Workforce As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the workplace must adapt to accommodate the needs of a new generation of workers. Millennials grew up with ready access to computers at their fingertips, and so it should come as no surprise that digital workflows are becoming increasingly popular. … Continue reading "How Businesses Can Stay Flexible with Office Hoteling".

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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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How Businesses Can Stay Flexible with Office Hoteling

Asure Software

Optimizing Your Office Space for the 21st-Century Workforce As the world becomes increasingly digitized, the workplace must adapt to accommodate the needs of a new generation of workers. Millennials grew up with ready access to computers at their fingertips, and so it should come as no surprise that digital workflows are becoming increasingly popular. … Continue reading "How Businesses Can Stay Flexible with Office Hoteling".

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How To Build A Culture Of Execution

Hppy

Culture is the means to a strategic end – wrong culture, failed goals. What organizational culture expresses the strategic imperative to grow beyond “realistic” levels; to outperform others by orders of magnitude? Consistently beating your rivals and exceeding market growth expectations requires a culture of execution; a brilliant plan that can’t be flawlessly executed won’t get you there.

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The Pros and Cons of Hiring Contractors

Hppy

Hiring the right team is key for your business’s ongoing success, but you don’t always need to fill all positions permanently. Sometimes, it makes sense to hire short-term or even long-term contractors. Contractors are more common in some industries than in others, but they can be found in almost every sector of the workforce. As an HR professional, it can be difficult to know when you should hire an employee over a contractor, since each situation is unique.

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Benefits of Employing a Multilingual Staff

Hppy

In today’s market of global business, a multilingual staff can be a major competitive advantage. Staff and associates that are fluent in more than one language could prove to be a strong asset when it comes to managing customer relationships, crafting a more effective strategy or communicating with other businesses and organizations. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter how many languages your employees can speak if they aren’t trained properly.

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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.