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Employee Engagement Surveys: 4 Planning and Execution Must-Haves

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Readex Research , which provides expert survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). Two important pieces of any organizational initiative are planning and execution. Planning helps set the foundation for any project.

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4 Ways to Avoid the Dreaded High-Turnover Rate

Achievers

The cost of employee turnover is outrageously high. When a company loses a salaried employee, it can cost anywhere from six to nine months’ worth of the departed employee’s salary to hire a replacement. This means that if an employee is being paid $40,000 a year, the cost of everything from recruiting to training expenses will be around $20,000 to $30,000.

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[Webinar] Quality Over Quantity: Optimizing Your Job Board Budget

Hireology

An Automotive News + Hireology Webinar. Many dealerships believe the only place to get a high volume of quality candidates is through billion dollar job boards. Each year, dealerships spend anywhere from $500 to one million dollars on job boards only to be disappointed with the candidate traffic or lack of quality applicants. In the past year, Hireology analyzed major third-party job sourcing sites like Indeed, CareerBuilder, Monster and ZipRecruiter to better understand where retail automotive

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5 Signs It’s Time to Fire an Underperformer

Take It Personel-ly

The recruitment process isn’t quick, it isn’t cheap, and it isn’t simple. When we hire an employee, we have certain expectations and hopes that they will turn out to be a high-performing, engaged employee. We want them to be productive and surpass expectations but, unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Sometimes, your employees let you … Continue reading 5 Signs It’s Time to Fire an Underperformer.

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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 Find Bottlenecks In Your Talent Acquisition Process

HR Bartender

Being able to deal with constraints is an important part of business. Constraints are stages of a process that causes the entire process to slow down, be less effective, or stop completely. In the book “ The Goal ”, Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt outlines The Theory of Constraints as well as how to identify and manage them successfully. It’s a good read that HR pros should have in their library.

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An employer’s guide: How to discuss compensation with job candidates

Insperity

Discussing salary with job candidates can be tricky. To keep from wasting your time or the candidate’s, you need to make sure you’re both in the same ballpark when it comes to compensation. Think of your screening interview like a first date. You want to put a best foot forward and be honest, but it’s not the time to reveal everything. Staff members involved in the screening and hiring process need to know what to say about compensation, and how to say it.

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This Map Shows The Average Salary for Office Managers in Every State

SnackNation

This Map Shows The Average Salary for Office Managers in Every State. (click to enlarge). Earlier this year, we released the 2017 State of The Office Manager Report , a first of its kind study of the office manager role – and the intrepid men and women who fill it. In the report, we learned that the officer manager role has been steadily expanding, both in scope and strategic importance.

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INTERVIEW: Dave Ulrich on How To Win the War for Talent

HR Bartender

The term “war for talent” was first used in 2001 in a Harvard Business Press book by the same name. It refers to a competitive landscape in recruiting and retention. Given the recent shift to a candidate-driven market and other indicators like low unemployment, the use of war for talent seems very appropriate. Dave Ulrich and his colleagues have a new book out on the topic titled “ Victory Through Organization: Why the War for Talent is Failing Your Company and What You Can Do About It ”.

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How to leverage company values & boost engagement

Ascender

There are many ways to address employee engagement in a company. HR Professionals often have their own definition of what engagement means for them, however to their employees, it can mean something as simple as social activities, rewards or recognition. Principal and Founder of Bersin by Deloitte Josh Bersin says “The word ‘engagement’ often limits our thinking.

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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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What Does Employee Engagement Even Mean?

UpstartHR

What does engagement mean to you and your company? That’s a question I’m trying to answer with a new research study. I’m partnering with my friend Jason Lauritsen to examine the ins and outs of engagement in a very hands-on manner. Instead of just looking at the theory, we’re digging into the specific practices that YOU think drive the highest engagement in your workplace.

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Case Study: Growing Your Marketing Agency With Automated Employee Feedback

15Five

Every company has growing pains , especially as they reach certain size thresholds. When you reach around ten to fifteen employees, in-person status meetings are no longer tenable. I want to share the story of how a successful organization used technology to overcome their growth challenges. Influence & Co. , a con tent marketing agency that creates engaging content to fuel the marketing efforts of their customers and positions their key employees as influencers in their industries, has grow

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Logic Is Not Always Linear – Friday Distraction

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. The company was named of the 2017 Best Workplaces for Giving Back by Fortune Magazine. Congrats to the Kronos team! Enjoy the post.). I like to think of myself as a logical person. One of the definitions of logical is “(of an action, development, decision, etc.) natural or sensible given the circumstances.

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Do You Have A Copycat Culture? 

Hppy

The intent may be to create a highly innovative culture; employing new technologies to deliver unmatched capabilities and leading the market with cutting edge solutions. At the end of the day, however, it’s ACTION not INTENT that defines culture of any organization. Observe what individuals are DOING and listen to their CONVERSATION and THE culture of the organization is defined.

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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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The Pros, Cons and New Limits for HSAs

Winston Benefits

Health savings accounts, or HSAs, are back in the news. For starters, the IRS recently announced the 2018 savings limits for individuals and families, and announced changes for qualifying high-deductible health plans that would allow the use of an HSA. Also, HSAs are a big part of the ongoing debate on health care reform. The American Health Care Act, the bill that was recently approved by the House of Representatives, would increase limits to health savings accounts and expand what that money c

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Put The Social Into Social Media!

Take It Personel-ly

It’s become increasingly clear over the last decade that social media is not some kind of fad or trend that’s going to disappear anytime soon. Instead social media has fundamentally changed a lot of things about the way in which people interact with the world both on and offline. Because of this, there are few … Continue reading Put The Social Into Social Media!

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What Today’s Top HR Pro – SOCC Indoc #1

SnackNation

What Today’s Top HR Professionals Need To Know To Improve Company Culture. June 1st, 2017: 11AM Pacific, 1PM Central, 2PM Eastern. ☎Click here to get a text reminder☎. See you there! The post What Today’s Top HR Pro – SOCC Indoc #1 appeared first on SnackNation.

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Women in Finance Charter: What HR Should Know

Hppy

Gender equality within the workplace has always been somewhat of a concealed topic, but the conversation is increasing due to external influences. The finance industry in the UK sees senior male staff comprise a sizeable portion. This is particularly prevalent within the sector across the United Kingdom. In this article, we examine how this circumstance has prompted the HM Treasury to put into place the Women in Finance Charter.

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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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Best Employee Benefits in the Construction Industry

Winston Benefits

The construction industry has gone through some mixed performance lately, after years of solid growth. PricewaterhouseCoopers says private investment has grown in commercial and highway projects, while government funding for public infrastructure has in many instances dropped.

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Feature Highlight: Team Communication With @Mentions

Hireology

@Mentions makes it easy to collaborate with other hiring managers using Hireology. Use @Mentions to ask a team member to review a resume or schedule next steps with a candidate without the need to switch back to email. Once you make a comment using an @Mention, the user (or users) you tag get an email notification alerting them. Mention Anyone, Anywhere You Can Comment.

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What Today’s Top HR Pro – SOCC Indoc #2

SnackNation

What Today’s Top HR Professionals Need To Know To Improve Company Culture. June 1st, 2017: 11AM Pacific, 1PM Central, 2PM Eastern. ☎Click here to get a text reminder☎. See you there! The post What Today’s Top HR Pro – SOCC Indoc #2 appeared first on SnackNation.

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[Infographic] How To Improve The Self-Discipline Of Your Workforce

Hppy

Being a great manager is about more than regulating workflow and ticking off targets. A great boss takes the time to observe the way their workforce operates, and looks out for patterns within the individuals and groups with whom they work. Oftentimes, it is this attention to detail that creates the opportunity to help an employee truly bloom: to help them to progress from merely hitting targets to smashing them out of the arena and setting some new ones.

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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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Learning Anarchy: The Risks and Rewards of Informal Learning (Webinar)

UpstartHR

According to Deloitte , more than 80% of learning is informal in nature, yet many companies are still unsure how to harness this critical mass of activities to improve performance, minimize risk and deliver organizational value. Consider this: if you have a toddler, that child can probably pick up your phone, unlock it and open their favorite app. But it’s likely that you haven’t formally created content or delivered a course to the child on how to accomplish this task.

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Are You Asking the Right Questions to Evaluate Your Payroll System?

Hireology

Most businesses reevaluate their payroll systems every few years to determine if the system is meeting their needs and expectations. When reviewing your payroll system – and debating whether or not it’s time to switch to a new provider – it’s important to keep in mind that payroll is about far more than paying employees. The right payroll system should also include talent management capabilities to help streamline your HR processes, like onboarding, time and attendance, benefits administration,

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Communication Breakdown: Is All the Trump Talk Stressing Your Staff & Sapping Their Time?

Business Management Daily

When the combative 2016 election culminated in a surprise Trump victory last November, most people thought the inter-office political debates would ease as the calendar turned to 2017. In fact, all the workplace talk and tension has only increased, says a new study. How should employers respond, and can you ban political talk at work?

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[Infographic] What Your Office Desk Says About You

Hppy

Your desk at work is an incredibly personal place. It might not seem like it, but it’s true. The average office worker spends around 5 hours 41 minutes at their desk each day, so it’s not surprising that it almost becomes an extension of their personality. With that in mind, there’s actually a great deal you can glean from a person’s desk space in terms of their personality and their working habits.

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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.