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8 Habits of Highly Successful Employees

Achievers

An employee’s success at a job can’t be predicted by his or her resume and experience. That piece of paper doesn’t tell you the full story. Sometimes, an individual’s soft skills or personal habits are a better indication of their aptitude and potential to succeed. If you can identify these common traits that successful employees share, you can find high-quality employees who will help your company thrive.

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Employee Engagement: The Best Time To Do It Was 20 Years Ago

HR Bartender

Mr. Bartender mentioned what is believed to be an old Chinese Proverb the other day. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” It reminded me that the same philosophy applies to employee engagement. The ideal time to deal with engagement was decades ago. Developing organizational culture takes time. Training managers takes time.

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3 smart strategies to help you screen job candidates for emotional intelligence

Insperity

As companies change to meet the demands of an ever-evolving world, emotional intelligence, or EQ, is one of the most common skills cited as important for job candidates to succeed in the future. Not sure what emotional intelligence is? Simply put, it’s the kind of qualities and characteristics you’d find in someone your grandmother might describe as a “nice, smart person.

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New Study Shows Employers Are Contributing More to HSAs

Winston Benefits

Consumer-driven health plans can play a robust role in your health program strategy. These low-premium, high-deductible health insurance plans can help control employer costs and put more control in the hands of employees. They are often paired with Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or flexible spending arrangements that employers contribute to.

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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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How To Create A Culture Of Successful People – It’s Magic

Hppy

If every individual in an organization understood how to successfully exploit each opportunity they were given, the culture that would be created would produce sustainable success for the enterprise. Individual success would beget constant performance improvements for the organization and a guarantee of long term health. The problem is, however, most individuals don’t understand how to deal with a change in opportunity or position in the hierarchy.

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3 key questions for determining what’s behind ineffective leadership

Insperity

They’re your most trusted business advisors. Your leadership team has likely been with you a long time, many of them probably from the start. But now that your business is growing, does it seem like some managers are in over their heads? Before you reach the conclusion that someone in your inner circle is no longer the right fit, consider the possibility that they may simply be complacent or uninspired, rather than incapable.

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Workplaces Woes: What To Look For In A New Office Space

Take It Personel-ly

If you run a business, creating a positive and productive workplace should be high on your list of priorities. If you’re new to the game and you’re on the lookout for suitable premises, or you’re worried that your workplace may be holding you back, you’ve come to the right place. Here are some tips to … Continue reading Workplaces Woes: What To Look For In A New Office Space.

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5 Smart Best Practices to Engage Customers

Hppy

If you want to swiftly boost the success of your business, you should create best practices for your employees to follow. When companies put best practices into place that ensure the customer is always the center focus, they soon see their businesses start to grow. People will continue to come back when you treat them well. Here are five smart best practices to put into place to engage customers and grow your business. 1.

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A Senior Management Change Can Interrupt Company Culture

HR Bartender

A key theme during this year’s Great Place to Work Conference was developing talent. Are organizations asking their managers the question, “What are you doing to develop talent? And specifically, your replacement?”. You know I’ve always felt the primary role of a manager is to hire and train their replacement. It goes without saying that a big interrupter can occur in company culture when there’s a change in management.

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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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Screen job candidates for emotional intelligence: 3 smart strategies

Insperity

As companies change to meet the demands of an ever-evolving world, it’s increasingly important for companies to screen candidates for emotional intelligence, or EQ. Not sure what emotional intelligence is? Simply put, it’s the kind of qualities and characteristics you’d find in someone your grandmother might describe as a “nice, smart person.” In today’s language, someone with a high EQ is self-aware, mature, and has social skills and the ability to establish and maintain rapport with othe

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Payroll systems compliance: An engagement opportunity for HR Leaders

Ascender

Most businesses care about their employees and legal obligations, and are not intentionally non-compliant when it comes to paying what they owe. The threat of fines, the risk of reputation damage and the resulting impact on your bottom line are all significant and realistic consequences of non-compliance. But what about the impact of day-to-day errors and oversights, or legacy payroll systems that aren’t as efficient as they could be?

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8 Steps You Can Take In Hiring Your First Employee

Hppy

As a business grows, there will come a point where everything can’t be done by just one person. Sooner or later, the help of another employee is necessary to further the company’s success. Hiring your first employee can be a vague and daunting task. This action should be dealt with extra caution as it can be costly to commit to another person’s salary and benefits.

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Benefits Snapshot - 7/5

WEX Inc.

Every day on our LinkedIn , Twitter , and Facebook pages, we share need-to-know industry information for benefits pros.

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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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8 Habits of Highly Successful Employees

Achievers

An employee’s success at a job can’t be predicted by his or her resume and experience. That piece of paper doesn’t tell you the full story. Sometimes, an individual’s soft skills or personal habits are a better indication of their aptitude and potential to succeed. If you can identify these common traits that successful employees share, you can find high-quality employees who will help your company thrive.

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How your social footprint will make you succeed (or fail)

cipHR

Social media is arguably the most powerful communication tool on the planet. World news, connecting with friends and family, collaborating with colleagues and generally communicating with your network(s) are all made faster, easier and more efficient using any one of the number of social networks used largely for free by over 2.5 billion people worldwide.

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Fostering a Healthy Multigenerational Workforce

Hppy

While generational rivalry in America is nothing new, it may seem a bit more widespread and aggressive these days thanks to the internet. Popular online question and answer platform Quora has a trove of leading questions that highlight just how much animosity, stereotyping, and arguing takes place between, and among, the generations: There are countless iterations of the timeless question, “ What is wrong the new generation?

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Successful Franchises: Attracting Multi-Unit Owners to Your System

Hireology

Rather than selling single franchise units to individual owners, the most successful franchises have a strategy in place to attract multi-unit franchisees. Not only can attracting multi-unit owners lead to quicker growth and more revenue opportunities in the long haul, but it can lead to costs savings from the start, as you’ll have to get fewer owners up to speed on your brand.

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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 Great Leaders Do Before Retiring

Hppy

Being a leader carries much responsibility, including the foresight of knowing when it is time to pass the torch. At the moment, there are about 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day, meaning you are not alone in thinking it’s time to move on. The following are some things you should think about before retiring. Also read: Mentoring and Finding Purpose.

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