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3 Employee Retention Best Practices

Achievers

We’ve all faced retention struggles : turnover, absenteeism, low morale and sluggish productivity. But if you already offer competitive compensation, what else can you do to make employees want to stay? Employees join your company to make a living, but stay for the recognition. Recognition is that little something extra that gives people a good feeling—about themselves and their employer.

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Do you understand the 4 learning styles in the workplace?

Insperity

Just as in the classroom, you will encounter various learning styles in the workplace. That’s largely because people differ in how they prefer to receive information. By better understanding learning styles at work, however, you can communicate more effectively — especially when training someone on a new procedure or helping them improve their performance on a specific task.

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Friends in the Workplace Make For a Better World

HR Digest

Do you have a best friend at work? This question elicits frowns, outright dismissal of the concept or a tentative nod. Gallup, the analytics and advisory company, found that the inclusion of this question in their employee engagement questionnaire was the most controversial. Why is it so? The answer lies in the competitiveness that most people feel with their coworkers.

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Is Time Management an Issue for Your Small Business? We’ve Got Three Tips for You!

Take It Personel-ly

Self-employment is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding jobs you can have. You work long hard hours, often missing out on events with your friends and family and sacrificing nights and weekends to ensure your business stays afloat. A huge factor in the success of your business is time management. The ability to complete […].

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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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20 Creative Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day 

Achievers

Employee Appreciation Day is right around the corner — March 6, to be exact. This is the perfect opportunity to show your employees that you value their contributions and that you’ve been paying attention to their needs. . Why should you bother with Employee Appreciation Day? Because low employee morale will tank your productivity — costing America’s businesses up to $550 billion each year.

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HR Cost Cutting Measures to Trim the Fluff

HR Digest

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. We have a few suggestions and pointers to help you tide over the tough times in your organization.

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Why The Best Work Perks Are Role Specific

Take It Personel-ly

Engaged, happy and motivated employees are the key to a successful business. Without them, all the ambition and excitement around your revolutionary idea is for nothing. One of the best ways to keep your team in this state of mind is innovative work perks. Work perks have quickly become a key part of attracting the […].

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Appreciate Employees How They Want to Be Appreciated [Survey Data]

Achievers

Perks at work are great – it’s hard to argue against a free pizza party, a happy hour celebration, or in-office giveaways. But, you shouldn’t assume that these types of perks are motivating employees to do their best work (and what keeps them loyal to your company). Real motivation and employee retention are rooted in recognition. Unfortunately, a lack of recognition is the third most common reason employees leave their employers.

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Only 1 in 5 Employees is Engaged: 3 Tips to Drive Engagement

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Getting top talent excited about working on your team shouldn’t stop once the hiring process is complete. Keeping your employees engaged and excited is just as important — if not more so — than getting job seekers to join your team in the first place.

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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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Resume Builder Sites that will make your CV Employer-Friendly

HR Digest

Resume builder websites have interactive online resume templates and samples which allow users to input the information and build a good resume. . A resume and CV are an integral part of the job hunting session. Prospective candidates need to have the perfect resume highlighting the qualifications and experiences to send it to the employer and get selected.

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4 Things to do Before You Launch Your Startup

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So, you’ve come up with what you think is the next best business idea, and you’re ready to launch it through a startup. You’ve wondered whether you’ll be able to keep a startup going in this current climate, but at the end of the day, you won’t know unless you try, right? Trying is the […].

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6 Practices That Make Every Day Feel Like Employee Appreciation Day

15Five

Every year on the first Friday of March, companies across the world have a chance to recognize the hard work of their people by celebrating Employee Appreciation Day. But just like so many important holidays, it shouldn’t be celebrated just once a year. As VP of People Ops at 15Five, I’ve seen how implementing ongoing practices can make a big difference when it comes to creating a psychologically safe culture of engaged employees.

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Only 1 in 5 Employees is Engaged: 3 Tips to Drive Engagement

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Getting top talent excited about working on your team shouldn’t stop once the hiring process is complete. Keeping your employees engaged and excited is just as important — if not more so — than getting job seekers to join your team in the first place.

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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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A Checklist of HR Policies and Procedures to Have in Place

HR Digest

Before starting any new business, it is imperative to have human resource policies in place. This preempts any misunderstanding about the duties and obligations of both the employer and employee. It is very tempting for a new business or entrepreneur to concentrate more on the physical aspect of a new business, but the more prudent route is to have some form of HR policy in place even if it is a bare-bones one, one-page format.

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How to Rebuild Bad Credit and What to Do in the Meantime

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Sometimes, a bad credit score can feel like it’s putting your life on hold. You’ll have trouble getting approved for auto loans, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages and more. However, a less-than-perfect credit score doesn’t have to be debilitating. While it’s important to learn how to rebuild bad credit, it’s also important to understand how […].

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Medicare & Employer Health Coverage - a Coordination Conversation

WEX Inc.

While Millennials and Generation Z seem to be the talk of the town when it comes to generation-based employee benefits, Baby Boomers have not been forgotten. In fact, around 29% of boomers ages 65 to 72 are employed or actively looking for work, with their own unique set of medical and lifestyle needs to consider. Enter: Medicare!

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Empowering Women at Work

Hppy

Women have historically been a group not always welcomed in the workplace. However, these days they make up a significant portion of the workforce, but there are residual challenges left from being underrepresented in this space. While there have been major changes and improvements to the landscape that have helped empower women, there is still a great deal that needs to be done in this space.

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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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5 HR Interview Questions and Answers

HR Digest

If you need to prepare for a job interview, use our guide to top HR interview questions and answers to leave a lasting impression on the hiring panel and land your ideal position. For even the most seasoned industry professionals, job interviews are tough. Monster UK research notes that among the top things that make or break an interviewer’s first impression is the level of a candidate’s interview preparation.

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7 Key Things to Know About Starting a Coin Collection

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Starting a coin collection is a fun and potentially lucrative hobby. Some coins can sell for millions of dollars if you know what you’re looking for. In fact, a 1794 Flowing Hair Silver Dollar sold for $10 million in 2013! So, where do you start? Do you pick out a few cool looking quarters from your wallet […].

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How Will the Coronavirus Impact Your Business?

Best Money Moves

How will the coronavirus impact your business? Employers respond to the spread of COVID-19 with strategies to help employees who don’t want to get tested or take time off. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19. Over 40 cases have been detected in the U.S. since January 21, 2020, resulting in 17 hospitalizations and 2 deaths (the global death toll has now passed 3,000). .

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5 Tips for Making Your Employees More Productive

Hppy

When it comes to your company, you’re only as good as your weakest link. There’s a lot to be said for employee productivity, yet there’s a surprising number of CEOs and managers who don’t feel confident when it comes to this type of communication. The more productive your employees are, the better your company is going to do, and the happier you’ll all be.

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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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Imposter Syndrome: A real bogeyman for the upwardly mobile honchos

HR Digest

Imposter syndrome is tied up with self-value. If you measure your self-worth by how hard you work, your education, and how far you have made it in your career, then self-doubt is sure to creep in. Along with these self-defining measures, one needs a critical criterion — NOT to doubt one’s value in an organization and how to perceive oneself, adding value and contributing to the job and the organization.

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How to Search Windows 10 Explorer to Find and Remove Duplicate Files

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Do you feel that the performance of your PC is becoming slower? Having too little storage space is among the top reasons for slow PC performance. Often, it’s caused by having too many files in your computer’s storage. If you like to save your files on your local drive, there’s a chance you have more than […].

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Coronavirus and Financial Stress: How Will Employees React?

Best Money Moves

Coronavirus and financial stress: how will employees react? They’re worried about losing pay, their jobs and being unable to afford the costs of healthcare if they’re infected with COVID-19. There are more than 100 known cases of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in 13 U.S. states. At least 10 people have died as of this writing and there are over 100,000 confirmed cases worldwide.

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Winning Through Workplace Generosity: An Interview With Dr. Wayne Baker

15Five

Ever wonder how you will achieve the monumental tasks required of you at work? Few people realize that they’re already surrounded by all the resources they need to reach their goals. There are people around you who would be happy to help. All you have to do is ask, but most people simply don’t make the request. In Episode 17 of the Best-Self Management Podcast, we’ve brought in Dr.

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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.