Sat.Jan 09, 2016 - Fri.Jan 15, 2016

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Pricing and contracting with your cloud vendor: Tips and tricks

Ahmed's Universe

RIO DE JANEIRO As a new year starts, many of you will be busy working on an RFP for a new HR or ERP system. One aspect that draws little attention from the myriad reports and posts on system evaluation deals with pricing, contracts and other T&Cs (terms and conditions). This means that because of the inherent knowledge imbalance between vendor and customer, the latter is always the loser as they tend to learn after the fact (the reason for this knowledge imbalance being that vendors respond

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3 biggest talent management challenges for 2016

Achievers

The workforce is changing rapidly, and many companies are struggling to update their talent management process to keep pace with new workplace cultures. Companies that can’t keep up with the expectations of today’s employees will see a decline in engagement — and a corresponding decrease in their bottom line. A 2015 report by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) gives a look into current levels of staff engagement.

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Successful People Are “Givers”

HR Bartender

I had the privilege of speaking at the Massachusetts Conference for Women recently. I was on a panel with Joyce Maroney, director of the Workforce Institute at Kronos; Sue Meisinger, former CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM); and China Gorman, former CEO of Great Place to Work to discuss what it takes to create an engaging workforce.

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9 Tips for Communicating Decisions You Don’t Agree With

Insperity

A change in business hours, layoffs, a reduction in benefits, a department reorganization, an elimination of bonuses, elimination of casual Fridays: Change in business is as relentless as it is inevitable. While the rationale for such changes may be for the good of the company, sometimes these decisions are unpopular with your employees. And even if you disagree with the changes yourself, often, these decisions aren’t solely up to you.

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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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Time is Money: Prevent Time Theft, Rounding and Supervisor Fraud

Asure Software

Both you and your employee’s time is valuable to the company in terms of productivity and the salary earned, but sometimes you end up paying people more money than their time is worth. When an employee punches in or out too early, this is called time fraud. While it may not sound like a big deal, it is actually a major problem. Some businesses spend as much as 5 percent of their payroll on hours that no one actually worked. .

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Candidates Want to Work At the BEST Companies

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. The Workforce Institute at Kronos released the third book in its thought leadership trilogy aimed at developing and retaining a competitive and engaged workforce: It’s All About Bob(bie) – Strategies for Winning With Your Employees.

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9 Tips for Communicating Decisions You Don’t Agree With

Insperity

A change in business hours, layoffs, a reduction in benefits, a department reorganization, an elimination of bonuses, elimination of casual Fridays: Change in business is as relentless as it is inevitable. While the rationale for such changes may be for the good of the company, sometimes these decisions are unpopular with your employees. And even if you disagree with the changes yourself, often, these decisions aren’t solely up to you.

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Designing Effective Employee Engagement Activities

Hppy

Whether you’re the CEO of a small startup, or the leader of a large company, employee engagement should be one of your priorities. In today’s fast-moving economy, having a well-performing workforce with a high retention rate is essential for business growth. Smart leaders understand that and they also realize that the only way employee engagement strategies are going to work is if they are connected to business strategy.

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AssuredPartners, Inc. Acquires Church Insurance and Financial Services, Inc.

AssuredPartners

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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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6 Abilities Every Employee Needs To Be Successful

HR Bartender

In the past, I’ve written about the skills that every employee needs to possess. But what about abilities ? Abilities are equally important. They are those qualities that we need in order to be skillful…and ultimately successful. Over the past year, I’ve heard some words come up frequently when it comes to the abilities that organizations are looking for in candidates and employees.

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5 Critical Steps to Future Proofing Your Human Resources Strategy

Insperity

If you think it’s important to have a business plan and strategic vision, you need a human resources (HR) plan, too. It’s just as critical. An HR plan gets your people ready to execute on your business strategy and goals. It helps you prepare your current staff and anticipate the people you’ll need to add in the future. It preps your business for employee turnover and your managers for making future hiring decisions more strategically.

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Consumers or Creators aka artists

Asure Software

If we have automated the work from life, we are left to be either consumers, or creators. But what we create will be limited by the amount of creation machines will already have covered? In the same way the camera affected the appeal of realism in painting, so will the automation of machines change what is attractive for humans to create that can be “outdone” by the machine.

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A Twist on the Billion Dollar Question: Would You Invest Some of Your Winnings in Your Employer?

PeopleStrategy

How many times over th e past week were you asked, “What would you do if you won $1.5 billion?” At least three very lucky winners are asking themselves that exact question today. After being asked this question and reading the article, “Would Your Employees Keep Working in They Won the Powerball?,” I started thinking the real question to gauge employee “engagement” or job satisfaction should be, “If you won the lottery, would you invest some of your winnings in your current company.”.

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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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Candidate Experience 2.0 [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Lots of talk about the candidate experience these days. Lots! Almost to the point where I wonder if we’re starting to tune the conversation out. And we certainly should not because the discussion is more important than ever. I ran across a new term that intrigued me: Workspace Consumer. The idea is that workers will control where, how and when they work.

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5 Critical Steps to Future Proofing Your Human Resources Strategy

Insperity

If you think it’s important to have a business plan and strategic vision, you need a human resources (HR) plan, too. It’s just as critical. An HR plan gets your people ready to execute on your business strategy and goals. It helps you prepare your current staff and anticipate the people you’ll need to add in the future. It preps your business for employee turnover and your managers for making future hiring decisions more strategically.

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Archer A. Associates, Inc. Insurance Joins AssuredPartners, Inc.

AssuredPartners

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Time is Money: Prevent Time Theft, Rounding and Supervisor Fraud

Asure Software

Both you and your employee’s time is valuable to the company in terms of productivity and the salary earned, but sometimes you end up paying people more money than their time is worth. When an employee punches in or out too early, this is called time fraud. While it may not sound like a big … Continue reading "Time is Money: Prevent Time Theft, Rounding and Supervisor Fraud".

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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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To the Ends of the Earth-Returning to Guatemala

UpstartHR

Today we’re not talking about HR. Helping with the dental work I’ve been quite of late, because it’s difficult to write from a remote village without electricity. From the end of December to early January, I returned to Guatemala for a mission trip designed to encourage and uplift some of the poorest people on earth (materially speaking).

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Glenn Davis & Associates Insurance Agency Joins AssuredPartners, Inc.

AssuredPartners

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No one to lead

Asure Software

What about leaders, decision makers, movers and shakers? Think you’re safe because you are a leader of people? Do you head up a team? Are you a supervisor? Do you run a company? One question for a CEO, COO, CFO, C-whatever-O: what happens when there is nobody to lead? Follow my logic here. When the fast food restaurant automates order taking, cooking the food, delivering the food, unloading the truck full of frozen food, ordering more food when the inventory is low, do you really need a fast foo

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