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Celebrate Global Employee Health & Fitness Month

Achievers

May is Global Employee Health & Fitness Month (GEHFM) , so it’s a great opportunity for you to inject some new energy into your employee wellness programs and introduce new measures for improving employee wellbeing. Healthy, well employees are more likely to be productive, happy, and engaged. Here are some ways you can help your employees achieve higher levels of health and physical fitness, based on suggestions made by the nonprofit sponsors of this special awareness month.

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Employees: You Need to Read This

HR Bartender

Some of the best things about technology are the traditions they’re challenging. We’re beginning to change the way we do business because technology solutions allow us to do things differently. But traditions are kinda hard to change. Take, for instance, the employee handbook. Companies have been writing, printing and distributing employee handbooks for decades.

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Leadership vs. Management: How to Strike the Right Balance in Your Business

Insperity

Being a leader sounds exciting, powerful. Everyone wants to be a leader who inspires the troops. Being a manager sounds boring, like someone who spends all day forcing workers to sweat over the assembly line. The problem with this either-or thinking is that both are needed in a well-run enterprise. Leaders focus on high-level objectives such as inspiring and motivating the team to success, which can be exciting and powerful.

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5 Companies That Are Responding To The Needs Of The Millennial Workforce

15Five

As of last year, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest generation in America. At 33%, they also have the greatest numbers in the American workforce – a number that is projected to hit 50% by 2020. As you probably know by now, members of this latest generation are quite demanding. With over 75 million people aged 18-35 either working or searching for work, you’d think that business owners and managers wouldn’t have to worry about pleasing these seemingly replaceable member

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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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99 Ways to be More Productive According to Quora

cipHR

Getting answers to your questions is what Quora's all about and there's some very interesting conversations happening around all sorts of topics. One question asked recently was " What are some uncommon ways to work smarter instead of harder? ". Below is a summary of some of the great answers given by members of the site. Learn to say "No.". Sleep at least 8-9 hours.

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Focus on Workers’ Wellness During Employee Health & Fitness Month

Winston Benefits

May is Global Employee Health & Fitness Month , making it the perfect time to look over the wellness efforts your company offers. Wellness programs have been touted as tools to keep health insurance costs down, but are they worth it? The return isn’t always clear, so here are some articles to help you get the most out of your employee wellness program.

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The 10 Questions These Top Influencers Ask Their Teams

15Five

What questions do you ask your team? Why do you ask them? The best managers and leaders are intentional about how they communicate with their employees. They consider what they ask, why they ask it and they engage in the practice of Q&A regularly. We believe that listening to employees and understanding them is far more valuable than telling them what to do.

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Why You Can (and Should) Ignore the New FMLA Poster

Business Management Daily

The feds just published an updated version of the mandatory FMLA poster. But employers shouldn't rush to tack it onto their "Here's How to Sue Us" wall of posters in the breakroom. Here's why.

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AssuredPartners Hires New Vice President of Operations

AssuredPartners

Joe Guercio will join AssuredPartners in Lake Mary Headquarters. LAKE MARY, Fla. – May 2, 2016 — AssuredPartners, Inc. is proud to announce that Joe Guercio will assume the role of Vice. President of Operations for AssuredPartners. In this role Joe will be. responsible for successfully integrating new agency acquisitions and. achieving overall operating excellence throughout the existing platforms and offices for AssuredPartners.

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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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Critical Care Insurance 101

Winston Benefits

It’s easy to understand that coming down with a critical illness or going through a health emergency could be devastating for your family. It’s harder, though, to quantify exactly how much that emergency or illness might cost, which makes it difficult to prepare for it. May is Critical Care Awareness Month, which makes it a good time to look into health care coverage that can help mitigate large hospital bills for certain health issues.

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People Success in an Agile Workplace

Asure Software

Achieving WorkFORCE Results Through Smart WorkPLACE Initiatives The business landscape is ever-changing. Although cliché, that statement could not be truer than in today’s work environment. We are in the middle of a workplace revolution. Globalization of markets and talent, the mobilization of employees, and rapid technology advancements are changing the game for companies.

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[Infographic] Privacy At Work: Know Your Rights

Hppy

Pay and working conditions for employees today are vastly different to how their predecessors were treated. This is down to major advances in workers’ rights, and means that many employees are no longer expected to work overtime without being paid for it or work in unsafe conditions for example. Whilst these positive factors provide the modern worker with a much better pay and working conditions than they would have had to accept in previous generations, it should not be forgotten that employees

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Improving the Candidate Experience in Franchising

Hireology

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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 10 Habits of High-Performing Employees

HR Bartender

I’ve never worked with an organization that said they didn’t care about performance. Quite the contrary, I’ve always worked with organizations that cared about performance. A lot. Specifically, they wanted high-performance. In individuals and in teams. But what does it take to identify a high performing (HiPo) employee? And once you’ve identified them, how can managers continue to develop their skills and abilities ?

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Managing remote teams: how to lead from a distance

Achievers

Now that technology has made it easier than ever to telecommute, companies are relying more and more on teams of remote employees. However, these long-distance workers can pose unique challenges for the managers who supervise them. Without the traditional trappings of an office, coffee breaks, and face-to-face communication, managers need to find new ways to coach and connect.

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Pursuing Meaningful Work, Autonomy – The Key To Happiness, Modern Day Commute And The BYOD Trend #FridayFinds

Hppy

Another busy week for HR content writers who took on some of the latest trends and workplace issues and detailed them in these inspiring articles. Here are this week’s most interesting and informative stories from the world of HR: 7 lessons about finding the work you were meant to do. At some point in our lives, we all face the question of what our true calling is.

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Should You Celebrate When Employees Leave?

UpstartHR

I was talking with some HR professionals last week, and the conversation of transparency came up. What happens if managers care so much about their employees that they help or prepare them to leave the company to pursue the next step in their careers? Is that a good thing, because you’ve successfully grown someone to the level that they are prepared for that?

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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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Help Fight Employee Stress: 15 Burnout Busters

Insperity

Even a superstar employee can suffer from burnout. Some experts theorize that the American culture that prizes workaholism makes burnout almost inevitable. Add stressed managers, more responsibilities due to layoffs or pressures from home, and you’ve got a Petri dish just right for breeding burnout. Burnout rarely has one cause. It usually results from a combination of issues, including an unrelenting, heavy workload , onerous procedures, lack of autonomy or flexibility, lack of reward and a tox

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Aligning The Employee Experience To The Customer Experience Standard

Hppy

As a term, customer-centricity became a trending expression when organizations started adopting customer relationship management, due to its frequent use by vendors of CRM software. Today, it encompasses both business processes and cultural mindsets, but also the actual way of doing things within a given company. A customer-centric approach has been proven to add value to a company, as a cultural and branding element but also as a business differentiator.