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Which Habits Drive Superior Employee Performance?

Achievers

By: Andrew Sykes. Founder & President, Habits at Work. In our previous blog , we explored how a company’s destiny is intimately linked to the Pivotal and Work Habits that its employees practice. Employers have traditionally been inattentive to the design of employee habits, focusing instead on results produced. While this is a reasonable approach, employers have missed the opportunity to create environments that makes it easy for employees to practice both Pivotal and Work habits, which prov

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4 Ways to Measure the Success of Your HR Programs

HR Bartender

Any time you create a program, it’s necessary to measure the results. Even the incredibly informal “Let’s do it and see what happens.” approach considers evaluation. But the measurement and evaluation portion of any program needs to be well thought out. Measure the wrong thing and the program can look like a failure (when it’s not) or vice versa. I’ve always been a fan of the Kirkpatrick model.

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How To Improve Employee Engagement in the Workplace [#Infographic]

Take It Personel-ly

If you’ve ever put salt in your coffee instead of sugar, you can understand the awful taste disengaged workers leave in employers’ mouths. When an employee plays video games or yaks it up on personal calls at work, it can feel like an insult to the company and to the hiring personnel who brought them … Continue reading How To Improve Employee Engagement in the Workplace [#Infographic].

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How to self-coach using the power of neuroscience

Insperity

Coaching is one of the most powerful tools for career and personal development. It can help you continuously improve as a person and a leader and bring your goals within reach. Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system and brain, is used increasingly in coaching to assist leaders in discovering how their brains work and how they can use this knowledge to achieve their objectives.

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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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Engage Blog: Top 10 HR Blogs of 2016

Achievers

By: Kellie Wong. Social Media & Blog Manager, Achievers. How fast time flies! Can you believe it’s already 2017? Every time a new year rolls around, I like to reflect on the previous year. For Achievers and the Engage Blog, 2016 was extremely eventful. For starters, Achievers’ Customer Experience (ACE) 2016 was a huge hit, with amazing keynote speakers, including famous journalist Joan Lunden and CNN commentator Mel Robbins.

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Is It Possible To Cut Learning Time In Half?

Take It Personel-ly

Back in 1879, Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German scientist, decided to create a bunch of incredibly long nonsense words for an experiment. The idea of the experiment was to see how much harder sets of words were to learn, the longer they got. It turned out that as the gibberish words got longer, the amount of … Continue reading Is It Possible To Cut Learning Time In Half?

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Contesting unemployment claims: A quick guide for employers

Insperity

Contesting an unemployment claim may seem like a pretty straightforward process, but it’s not always as cut and dried as you might think. While the rules vary from state to state, there’s one consistent underlying theme: To qualify for unemployment insurance, employees must have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. This leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

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How To Determine If You Have A Culture Of Innovation

Hppy

You can spend months on analysis. You can create as many scenarios as you can imagine. You can employ all the tools available to mitigate risk. But you will never be able to predict the outcome of trying something new. There are simply too many variables in the equation: competitor moves, economic shifts, regulatory changes and technology disruptions are always in play to confound the outcome of any action you take.

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Definitions Bring Consistent Answers – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

When I was younger, I would ask my mother questions and if she didn’t give me the answers I was looking for, I’d go ask my father. I’m sure that I’m not alone in using that tactic. When I started in human resources, I discovered that employees sometimes do the same thing. They ask one supervisor and if they didn’t get the answers they were looking for, they’d ask another supervisor.

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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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Time for Change: 3 Tips for a Successful Career Switch

Take It Personel-ly

Choosing the right career path can be extremely difficult. You may have left school or university with preconceived notions of what a particular job will be like, but until you’ve experienced it for yourself, it can be impossible to know if it’s right for you. If you’ve settled on a career path, only to find that … Continue reading Time for Change: 3 Tips for a Successful Career Switch.

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3 ways your brand can benefit from an employee leaving

cipHR

The experience an employee has while leaving a brand can have profound effects on recruitment, sales and virtually all elements of the business. Turnover has many negatives but should also be viewed as an opportunity for a company to benefit too. Here are three ways in which an employee leaving can be beneficial for a business. 1. Brand advocacy. Just because an employee is leaving doesn't necessarily mean that they'll suddenly dislike your brand.

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How to Help Employees with 2017 Resolutions (Now That the Party’s Over)

Winston Benefits

The decorations have been taken down and packed away, and everyone’s back from their holiday break. In many places, the weather is miserable, and people might find that their New Year’s resolutions aren’t sounding nearly as exciting or achievable as they did among all the confetti and party horns. Setting resolutions is easy; keeping them is hard.

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Employee is Having an Affair With the Boss – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

We’ve answered a lot of questions about the workplace, but never one like this. Hi Sharlyn, I really enjoy your blog. I’m hoping you can provide me with some advice. One of my employees is having a sexual relationship with my boss, our department vice president. She told me about the affair a year ago, and I suspect it is still going on. I haven’t disclosed the relationship to human resources because I don’t want to betray her trust.

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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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Why Dehydration Matters in the Workplace [#Infographic]

Take It Personel-ly

When it comes to tackling inefficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace it can be difficult to know where you start. A common problem area can center around the mid-afternoon ‘3pm’ slump, which is known and renowned for downtime of productivity. Everything from coffee to naps to yoga has been offered as a cure, but … Continue reading Why Dehydration Matters in the Workplace [#Infographic].

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5 ways to love your job again

cipHR

We all go through patches where we're not as enthused about our day job as we could be, it's natural. If you've been feeling unhappy in your role for an extended amount of time, then it's a good idea to consider the below in order to improve your situation. 1. What is it that you value? Figuring out what it is that you DO like, and value, about your job is as important as establishing what it is that you don't like.

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Employees Want More Information About Benefits

Winston Benefits

Now that open enrollment is ending, benefits communication in many workplaces will slow as the topic is shelved until 2018 approaches. However, studies indicate that employees need more information about their benefits to help them make more informed choices when the time comes. Employees differ on what types of communication they prefer, be it digital or in-person conversations, but the studies indicate they tend to want a combination of communication methods and more information overall when i

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Easing the Pain of New Benefit Plans

Asure Software

A new year often means benefit changes for your employees. Even if the plan an employee selected is the same named plan from a previous year, there can be changes to the plan itself that might impact coverage. If you’ve changed carriers or plan options, and most if not all, of your employees will be … Continue reading "Easing the Pain of New Benefit Plans".

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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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Determining Where Missing Data Has Gone (& How To Get It Back)

Take It Personel-ly

As a business owner you need to acknowledge that should data go missing, it can be an incredibly stressful and worrying time. There’s no way to know what has happened to it immediately. You need to take the time to work out what’s gone wrong so that you can deal with the cause accordingly. Of … Continue reading Determining Where Missing Data Has Gone (& How To Get It Back).

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Top Ways Technology Can Help Improve Business Practices

Hppy

Technology has been becoming more and more important in every field of work over the last decade. Business owners, in particular, have been significantly affected by this trend and indeed, many entrepreneurs use software these days to save time, money, and energy throughout their day. Read on for some key ways you should be utilizing technology today to make your work day easier and to improve results.

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10 Years Later: Are People Really More Productive Working Remotely? (Infographic)

15Five

We did it! We lived through that whole extra second in the last minute of 2016, and have begun setting our sights on a successful 2017. (Wait what extra second? Is it the end of days!? Nah. Every so often the Earth’s rotation doesn’t line up perfectly with the atomic clock, so scientists cheat a little.). 2016 was a highly transformational year, and the workplace was not immune from these shifts.

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How Technology is Impacting Recruiting in 2017

Asure Software

According to a recent survey conducted by CareerBuilder, the hiring outlook for 2017 is the strongest it has been in over a decade. Of the over 2000 hiring managers surveyed, 40% expect to hire full-time employees this year and a third expect to add part-time, permanent staff. Half expect to add temporary or contract workers … Continue reading "How Technology is Impacting Recruiting in 2017".

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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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Five Habits of Effective Executive Job Seeker

Talent Culture

After working with thousands of executive job seekers, certain patterns have emerged regarding the practices of those that succeed. Here are a few I have witnessed. 1. Follow up on all introductions. Surprisingly, many job seekers don’t follow up on introductions made on their behalf. Even if you are not sure it the person you are being introduced to can help you, follow up.

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[Infographic] Top 10 Best Workplace Incentives

Hppy

Gourmet meals. Vacation bonuses. Game rooms. These are the latest and greatest perks companies are using to keep their employees happy. But are incentives like these actually worth it? The short answer is, yes! Here are three reasons employee perks are worthwhile: 1) Reduce turnover. Everyone has the occasional bad day. But when a bad day becomes months of work-induced stress, employees are more likely to seek happiness elsewhere—joining the 2.7 million people who quit their jobs each month.

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5 Surprising Secrets Of Successful Office Managers

SnackNation

5 Surprising Secrets Of Successful Office Managers. March 1st, 2017: 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central, 1PM Eastern. Set your text alert here. See you there! The post 5 Surprising Secrets Of Successful Office Managers appeared first on SnackNation.

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Easing the Pain of New Benefit Plans

Asure Software

A new year often means benefit changes for your employees. Even if the plan an employee selected is the same named plan from a previous year, there can be changes to the plan itself that might impact coverage. If you’ve changed carriers or plan options, and most if not all, of your employees will be … Continue reading "Easing the Pain of New Benefit Plans".

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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.