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7 ways to reduce employee stress around the holidays

Achievers

The holiday season is a cheery time, filled with lights, presents, and time with loved ones. Unfortunately, it’s also a stressful and exhausting time for employees trying to balance work and holiday responsibilities. So, in the spirit of giving, here are seven tips for helping employees deal with stress management in the office: Provide free flu shots at work.

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High Performing Companies Know How to Manage Change

HR Bartender

Want a competitive edge? The key is all about the way a company knows how to manage change. It totally makes sense. Dr. Peter Senge shared with us that learning organizations strive to continuous improve. And continuous improvement makes the organization better. Well, learning and continuous improvement involve the way we manage change. Change is a critical differentiator in today’s business world.

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10 Tips for Keeping Your Cool During Emotional Conversations With Employees

Insperity

Every manager dreads emotional outbursts. Whether it’s tears or anger, the extremes of emotion leave both the supervisor and the employee feeling embarrassed and stressed. How do you stay calm and still get your point across? How do you prepare? Can you minimize the chances of an employee getting emotional? Can emotional conversations still be productive, not destructive?

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Split Testing Your HR Approach for Improved Results

UpstartHR

One of the things that I have grown to appreciate over the past few years is marketing. One of the first things I wrote on the topic was actually around what Chief Marketing Officers can teach Chief HR Officers. There is quite a bit of activity that goes on in the marketing department that we should all appreciate. From tailoring your approach to your audience to relentlessly testing your campaigns, there are some great insights in how they operate.

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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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Dealing with difficult customers? Help your employees maintain morale

Achievers

Difficult, upset or angry clients create challenges for your workplace beyond the obvious need to turn dissatisfied customers into happy ambassadors for your business. When your employees routinely deal with difficult customers, the work environment can become highly stressful, and as a manager you have to take steps to guard against damage to employee morale.

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10 Tips for Keeping Your Cool During Emotional Conversations with Employees

Insperity

Every manager dreads emotional outbursts. Whether it’s tears or anger, the extremes of emotion leave both the supervisor and the employee feeling embarrassed and stressed. How do you stay calm and still get your point across? How do you prepare? Can you minimize the chances of an employee getting emotional? Can emotional conversations still be productive, not destructive?

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Handling a Negative Sick Pay Balance – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I hate to say it but sometimes doing someone a favor can create problems. Today’s reader note about sick pay is an example: I have a salaried employee that has accrued 10 hours vacation and -8 hours sick leave. Since he’s taken a lot of sick leave, I thought I would do him a favor and credit him those sick leave hours as. I figured he would not be leaving anytime soon.

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7 Things New Managers Should Do In the First 6 Months

HR Bartender

When you’re a new manager, it’s hard to know exactly the right things to do. New managers want to make a good impression but they have things that must get done. That’s the dilemma this reader is facing: Hello. i just got a new job as HR manager and this is my first experience in managerial role. i do have experience in human resources and I’m a certified professional (SHRM-SCP.

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How to Offer Big Business Perks on a Small Business Budget

Insperity

Free meals. Nap pods. On-site medical clinics. Exclusive resort. Sound like a vacation spot? Nope, this is work. With so many job choices available to today’s top talent, offering special perks gives your company a valuable edge. These perks can not only help you attract new candidates , they can also help you retain current ones. Little “extras” that add to employees’ work-life balance can even trump higher salary bids by competitors.

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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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How to Offer Big Business Perks on a Small Business Budget

Insperity

Free meals. Nap pods. On-site medical clinics. Exclusive resort. Sound like a vacation spot? Nope, this is work. With so many job choices available to today’s top talent, offering special perks gives your company a valuable edge. These perks can not only help you attract new candidates , they can also help you retain current ones. Little “extras” that add to employees’ work-life balance can even trump higher salary bids by competitors.

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