Achievers
AUGUST 15, 2016
Employee performance reviews are often awkward and uncomfortable. Feedback, whether positive or critical, can be difficult to deliver or accept. Yet providing feedback to employees is an important way for a company’s leadership to guide the organization. Employees also want feedback; employee engagement increases when employees get more feedback, more frequently; and, they’re less likely to quit.
HR Bartender
AUGUST 18, 2016
There’s an interesting dynamic in today’s workforce. It’s the proliferation of the gig economy , which is an environment where temporary positions (such as freelancers, contractors, and consultants) are common. There are advantages to this approach, the biggest being that organizations can tap into specialized talent when they need it. The challenge is that organizations need to engage temporary talent if they expect to keep them.
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UpstartHR
AUGUST 15, 2016
[link] I’m just a little bit excited today. I am part of a set of new hosts joining the HR Happy Hour Podcast Network with a new show, We’re Only Human. It’s a play on words and gives multiple meanings, because for starters, despite the pressure on us as HR leaders, we’re still only human. It also gives me a chance to talk about how, despite automation and other factors, we need to be looking at our people as human beings with needs and desires, not simply data points or
Insperity
AUGUST 18, 2016
Are you feeling out of touch with the rank and file? Or do you want to know what’s really going on in a department or the company? If so, it’s time to add regularly scheduled skip-level meetings to your arsenal of leadership tools. A skip-level meeting is simply a meeting where a manager’s manager meets directly with employees, without that manager in attendance.
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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.
cipHR
AUGUST 16, 2016
Working remotely is a normal practice for the majority of businesses around the world. With reported benefits including increased productivity, cost savings and employee morale it's hard to understand why some companies are still resisting letting their workers telecommute. Maybe the below statistics (which are just a small selections from the vast number of findings associated with allowing employees to work from home) will help to convince business leaders. 1.
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UpstartHR
AUGUST 15, 2016
We’ve probably all heard the axiom that 10,000 hours of practice is what it takes to be world-class at something (speaking, skiing, dancing, etc.) But what if that has been misquoted all these years? A new book called Peak is out , and it’s a look at what it takes to get to a world-class performance level. The author was the originator of the study years ago that confirmed the 10,000 hour mark, but he is very careful to point out that it doesn’t simply mean doing the thing for
Insperity
AUGUST 16, 2016
Expanding your team across state lines by hiring remote workers is a smart business strategy for many companies. For example, hiring home-based customer service reps in other states and time zones could help you provide longer support hours to your clients. Adding remote sales staff in new states could help significantly increase your revenue. Or, maybe, you’re looking to hire employees with specialized skills.
HR Bartender
AUGUST 19, 2016
Sometimes I am amazed at the things I read on the internet. I’m sure you are too. You read a quote and say to yourself, “They said what?!” And I’m not even talking about political candidates. Just like we say a company brand paints a picture of what the organization is like, well, a personal brand tells people what we’re like. Our brand needs to be authentic.
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Take It Personel-ly
AUGUST 18, 2016
2016 has been a very challenging year for me so far. I have gone through a lot of ups and downs – more downs than ups lately. I struggle to even write this post, as so much of what we portray online and allow others to see of ourselves on social media, blogs and other […].
15Five
AUGUST 17, 2016
Great workers don’t necessarily make for great remote workers. Knowing how to manage your time and stay accountable completely independent of an office or manager close-by, are vital skills that employees in an office don’t necessarily have to master. Before hiring a remote worker who will be operating from a distance, you need to look closely at their communication skills, work ethic, and time management skills.
Winston Benefits
AUGUST 18, 2016
More employers than ever are realizing the effect that financial stress has on employees, and how it affects their productivity. To alleviate this, many are offering financial wellness programs to educate employees about budgeting, retirement planning, estate planning and even college savings. Could your staff benefit from more financial education? The following articles can help you decide whether a financial wellness program is right for your organization.
Hppy
AUGUST 15, 2016
A significant part of your life is spent in the workplace. As this is a place where you spend so much of your time, it is vital that your working environment does not have a negative impact on your health. There are steps you can take to prevent this from happening and the following tips will help you to stay healthy in the office: Sitting Comfortably.
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Take It Personel-ly
AUGUST 17, 2016
It is one of those things which all business probably spend a lot of time thinking about. It is no great surprise, of course, that business requires you to save money wherever and whenever you can. After all, you don’t want your business suffering in the long term because of a few silly mistakes early on. If […].
15Five
AUGUST 18, 2016
SaaS startups are always seeking ways to improve the product experience for their customers. They want their products to be best-in-class solutions that their customers can’t live without and use habitually. But habits are not formed arbitrarily. Indeed there is an art and a science to creating an experience that customers return to repeatedly. Since we want our customers to build great companies by regularly checking in with employees , we sought some advice to understand the phenomenon of crea
Winston Benefits
AUGUST 16, 2016
Vision & Learning Month is a great time to revisit the vision benefits you’re offering to determine whether they’re as good as they can be. A lot of carriers are bringing products with more features and options to market, as I mentioned in when contacted for a recent article in Business Insurance. And employees are responding: According to the latest annual Employee Perceptions of Vision Benefits survey, vision is the only benefit to experience increased enrollment.
Hppy
AUGUST 19, 2016
The thirst for outdoing your peers and making the optimum use of your potential to search for something better than your current circumstances, is what drives people to succeed. Getting a good job with a decent salary are no longer the parameters for a successful career, employees are aiming at upgrading their skills for better job prospects or posts in the same organisation.
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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?
HR Bartender
AUGUST 14, 2016
During this year’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference, I had the opportunity to attend a luncheon hosted by the SHRM Foundation. I consider the Foundation to be one of SHRM’s best kept secrets. Their mission is human resources research and education. At the luncheon, we were given a report co-sponsored by AARP and ReACT, titled “ Determining the Return on Investment: Supportive Policies for Employee Caregivers ”(PDF).
PeopleStrategy
AUGUST 16, 2016
If Dante had worked in modern business, he would have added a tenth circle to his Inferno — spreadsheet hell. Extracting critical data from multiple systems, and trying to manipulate that data, challenges and frustrates employees. HR professionals deal with this problem every day in an effort to meet critical compliance requirements or to generate reports for their executive team.
Hppy
AUGUST 16, 2016
There has been a visible surge in companies with remote workforce in the last couple of years. There are teams that function beautifully without being located in the same office. But managing a remote team is very different from managing a co-located team. Since team members are usually spread across several time zones, there can be unnecessary bottlenecks and delays.
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Hppy
AUGUST 18, 2016
Working in the finance industry can be one of the most interesting jobs but it can also become a bit stale after a while, depending on whether or not an employee has the drive and ambition to become a top performer. The key question here is, what motivates each employee to excel in whatever his or her position is and is there anything you can do, as the boss or team leader, to motivate them?
Hppy
AUGUST 18, 2016
With online courses, podcasts and new tech tools giving employees more ownership over their professional development, what role should HR now play in learning & development? Even if learning is not directly administered by HR, the department can still play an important facilitator role, using design thinking. Adaptive learning. There is no more one size fits all solution to L&D.
Hppy
AUGUST 19, 2016
Welcome to yet another edition of #FridayFinds, the weekly wrap-up of our favorite reads. Here are this week’s best, most talked about articles in HR and Employee Engagement: Want to Double Your Employee Loyalty? Science Says Provide These 3 Things. Back to neuroscience , Christine Comaford, author of the New York Times Bestseller Smart Tribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together and neuroscience expert, tells us that 90 percent of our behaviors are driven by our emotional brain.
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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.
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