Sat.Oct 21, 2017 - Fri.Oct 27, 2017

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Employee Coaching Works When It’s a Part of Company Culture

HR Bartender

I ran across an article in Chief Learning Officer Magazine titled “ 7 Ways to Create a Coaching Culture ”. It’s a good read that you might want to check out. There’s one sentence in the article that I want to elaborate on today. “The magic of a coaching culture is that it is infectious.” I get the point of the sentence. I’m just not sure that it’s quite as simple as the sentence implies.

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What Hourly Workers Really Want (It Might Surprise You)

Achievers

Hourly workers are among the most unhappy employees in the workforce. They often take fewer vacations, have worse benefits, and are passed over for promotions compared to their salaried counterparts. This isn’t surprising. When most companies hire hourly workers , they often focus solely on the dollar amount they must pay to attract qualified candidates, rather than the perks and benefits that can set them apart from other potential employers.

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9 creative and cost-effective employee training and development ideas

Insperity

Training and development initiatives are important because they help ensure your staff continually improves and keeps their skills current. They’re also a great way to boost employee retention. When you invest in your employees, they feel valued and are more likely to stay put. Unfortunately, many small business owners don’t have the budget for big-ticket seminars or workshops, so they assume all company-sponsored professional development is simply out of reach.

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Great Clothes That Can Accommodate Any Lifestyle! #fallforprAna

Take It Personel-ly

Early last week I did a post about a great clothing company that is helping to make the world a better place. That company is prAna. Their company motto is “Yoga, Travel and Adventure Clothes with a Conscience” Their commitment to sustainability, community, and doing right still inspires and pushes them to find innovative ways to do […].

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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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Employee Scheduling Drives Engagement – 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. Kronos was recently awarded a When Work Works distinction by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for their workplace wellbeing initiatives. Congrats! Enjoy the post.). I was chatting with a colleague the other day about working styles.

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5 savvy steps to recover from a bad hiring decision

Insperity

How often has this happened to you? After a long search, you’ve hired someone to fill a vital position in your company. During the interview process, he or she stood out from the pack with a great résumé, enthusiastic personality and the skill set you sought. Yet, after only a few weeks, you can tell something’s not quite right. Your new employee isn’t meshing with coworkers, and her performance is lackluster at best.

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Your Dealership’s Checklist for Building a Strong Employment Brand

Hireology

A strong employment brand can help your dealership stand out from the competition and attract top candidates in today’s competitive job market. And building your best team will ultimately lead to increased efficiency, productivity and revenue at your dealership. Your employment brand can even help you reach quality candidates who might not have otherwise been looking for a job – 84% of candidates would consider leaving their current company if another company with an excellent reputation or bran

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Professional Development for Learning and Performance Professionals – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

We’ve talked several times about how human resources generalists can develop their career. But what about the specialist functions within HR, like learning and performance? That’s what today’s reader note is about. I’m currently working in the hospitality industry and would like to eventually move into the learning / training and development department.

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Picwell and benefitexpress Partner to Help Employees Easily Choose the Best Benefits

WEX Inc.

Picwell and benefitexpress have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping employees reduce confusion during enrollment, and choose the best benefits.

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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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3 Proven Productivity Boosters for Your Mid-Day Slump

Take It Personel-ly

The dreaded mid-day slump is a real problem for many office workers, and the top three reasons include: warm work environment, not getting enough sleep the night before and large workloads, as reported by DailyMail. What’s the first thing you do when you feel it coming on? Head to the break room for a large […].

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Should I Get My Master’s Degree in HR?

UpstartHR

For most of you, I’ll go ahead and said it: You should not get a master’s degree in HR. Really. While that doesn’t apply to everyone, it does apply to a large number of the people that email, comment, and interact with me online. That’s mainly because this question looks a lot like this template: I just completed my bachelor’s in xyz. I have decided/now want/think I should get into human resources.

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Automating HR Tasks For Workplace Efficiency

Hppy

Many industries have been gravitating towards automation in their business processes. Automation has become increasingly common in the human resources industry, but has been met with much skepticism. In a survey of HR managers on behalf of Career Builder, 55 percent of them said that they believe that artificial intelligence will become a regular part of HR in the next 5 years.

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Enrollment Notices: Mastering the Method for Optimal Delivery

WEX Inc.

The DOL, PPACA, ERISA, COBRA, and HIPAA all have separate guidelines for the ACA marketplace notice for initial and open benefit enrollment. Untangle the requirements for your own notice and learn best practices for including the notice seamlessly in your benefits strategy. The presentation covers what needs to be in the notice as well as rules for delivering the notice to employees.

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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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3 Reasons Why You Need To Take Breaks At Work

Take It Personel-ly

Small business owners, entrepreneurs and leaders are almost always working, whether they’re in the office or not. But being always ‘on’ is not good for your mental and physical health. Taking time off and resting is better for your business in the long run. “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are […].

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How This Office Manager Transitioned to Supply Chain Manager in Less Than a Year

SnackNation

How This Office Manager Transitioned to Supply Chain Manager in Less Than a Year. Think of it as the role that gives you access to every department within a company. Working as an Office Manager can be the perfect way for young professionals to get their foot in the door at their dream company, prove themselves, and learn about the other departments.

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The CIPHR guide to the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition 2017

cipHR

Getting the maximum benefit from a show, such as the CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition in Manchester on 8th & 9th November, takes planning. From booking your travel and accommodation to your time with each vendor, it's important to prepare ahead of time. This years exhibition is described as: "The 70th edition of our Annual Conference will focus on the major shifts that are affecting organisations, the HR profession, and the world of work at large.

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Compliance Check: 2018 IRS Benefit Limits

WEX Inc.

As a benefits pro, you're an invaluable resource for your employees and clients. But what do you do when even you don't have the answers? Call in the compliance expert at benefitexpress, Larry Grudzien, for a Compliance Check.

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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 Winston Benefits’ Benefits Administration Technology Helped Update Benefits Communication and Streamline Enrollment for a Food Manufacturer

Winston Benefits

Today’s workforce poses new challenges for HR leaders, and old approaches that used to work in the past just don’t apply anymore. Manual administration often leaves HR little time to focus on other important initiatives. As a result, many of our clients, including a food manufacturer we worked with earlier this year, have transitioned from time-consuming manual processes to streamlined digital solutions.

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Upgrade Your Halloween with These 5 Healthy(er) Treats

SnackNation

Upgrade Your Halloween with These 5 Healthy(er) Treats. You may be a bit too old for trick-or-treating, but you’re not too old to treat yourself! Forget marching door-to-door demanding treats. Have a Halloween potluck and enjoy better-for-you snacks instead. Just find a friend who lives in a prime trick-or-treating location and rally your fright night dream team.

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[Infographic] How To Create A Better Work Atmosphere By Defusing Difficult Colleagues

Hppy

So much of our experience at work is defined by the people with whom we pass our days. Those rare occasions when you find yourself part of a team that positively pops and fizzes with creativity and friendly energy, you will remember for the rest of your life; the average day-to-day chemistry with a more or less agreeable team tends to be the standard at which most workplaces level out.

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[Infographic]: 2018 Indexed Figures for Qualified Plans

WEX Inc.

Included in this infographic are the 2018 indexed figures for retirement limits, flexible benefit related limits, and transportation benefits.

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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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Our Latest Product Updates To Encourage Employee Development, Accountability, & Alignment

15Five

We build software for human beings and that means people, not users. We believe great software should fade into the background, effortlessly supporting people in accomplishing what’s important to them and seamlessly integrated into the way they live their lives. That has been one of our staple design values since day one, and we continue to live those values every day.

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Episode 4 | How RXBAR Became the $600 Million Brand, with Co-Founder and CEO Peter Rahal

SnackNation

Episode 4 | How RXBAR Became the $600 Million Brand. with Co-Founder and CEO Peter Rahal. They’re the bar brand everyone is talking about. RXBAR make whole food, minimally processed protein bars that taste great and are made with only a handful of ingredients. Their bars are also famous for emphasizing what’s NOT in them – No Dairy. No Soy. No Gluten.

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4 Strange Interviewing Methods

Hppy

Hiring managers and HR professionals could probably conduct a standard interview in their sleep. The same tired questions, the same handshakes, the same cup of water (though hopefully not literally)—it’s no wonder that so many companies are trying to shake things up these days in the recruitment space. Trying out new tactics for pre-screening and interviewing isn’t just to make the process more interesting for HR though—it’s often to reveal certain skills and personality traits or ensure candida

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Benefits Snapshot - 10/25

WEX Inc.

IRS Benefit Limits / ACA Executive Order / Product Updates. Every day on our LinkedIn , Twitter , and Facebook pages, we share need-to-know industry information for benefits pros.

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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.