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How to rehabilitate disengaged employees

Achievers

Disengagement in the workplace is a problem that’s all too common these days, and disengaged employees have a negative impact on both their coworkers and businesses as a whole. A Gallup poll found that fewer than 31 percent of American workers felt engaged in their jobs, while 17.5 percent were “actively disengaged.” Because these workers can wreak havoc on productivity and morale, you need to be able to recognize the signs of disengagement so you can address it as it happens.

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What Work Should Managers Delegate

HR Bartender

I ran across this blog post on the Management Skills Blog answering the question “ What to Delegate, What to Self-Perform? ” It’s a good post but I found myself wanting more detail. Delegation is an important activity. Managers who want to be successful, must learn how to delegate effectively. Managers will never be able to move up within the organization, take an uninterrupted vacation, participate in a special project, or enjoy a day of training if they can’t delegate.

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How Employers Can Help Generation X Save for Retirement

Insperity

How many employees do you have ages 35-50? Your Generation X employees are in prime earning mode, but studies show they aren’t saving for the future like previous generations. While it’s not really your job to make sure your employees are saving for retirement, having a 401(k) plan among other benefits can help you both. There are a few ways you can help Gen X – and your entire workforce – get on the retirement savings bandwagon: Have a good provider.

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How to make the most out of Pinterest for business

Take It Personel-ly

Pinterest is one of those social media giants in the making. If you think it’s nothing else than a simple mood board creator targeting mostly female audiences, you might be losing some great marketing opportunities. Not many brands know how to make the most out of their presence on Pinterest, so here are 8 tips […].

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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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Create a magnetic company culture with recognition and great data

Achievers

by Sarah Clayton, Communications and Campaigns Specialist . “ A Magnetic Culture is one that draws talented employees to the workplace, empowers them, and sustains an environment in which they are less likely to leave. ”. – Kevin Sheridan, Employee Engagement & Virtual Management Expert. At Achievers, we love to get like-minded people together, so we have been hosting regional events to discuss engagement and recognition strategies with our local clients and others in the business comm

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Foolproof Tips for a Compliant Hiring Process

Insperity

Hiring a new employee can be an exciting time for your company. New employees can help bring new initiatives to life, rejuvenate old processes and add new experience to the mix. In the midst of all the possibility, it’s easy to let compliance play second fiddle. But the hiring process has to be a careful dance. It’s full of technical moves, and your business can’t afford to miss a step.

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Why Culture Is No Longer A Nice To Have When Driving Business Strategy

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There are many reasons your business strategy may be stalled, but often the issue lies in a misalignment with your corporate culture. Through years of experience advising clients, it is clear to me that culture is the biggest obstacle leadership faces in executing business strategy. Your organization’s culture determines the values and habits that ultimately […].

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National Employee Benefits Day: An article roundup

Achievers

Today is National Employee Benefits Day! Providing your workforce with a competitive and comprehensive set of benefits is an essential element of employee engagement, retention, and talent acquisition. Many modern employers are finding themselves in a “perks war,” fighting for job candidates with an escalating series of add-ons that extend well beyond standard programs like health insurance and 401ks.

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You Need to Take Leadership Development Beyond the Classroom

HR Bartender

Leadership skills are not developed in classrooms. Yes, leadership models and theories can be learned in classrooms. Activities and exercises can be conducted to reinforce the learning and practice. But becoming a leader doesn’t happen in the classroom. It’s about what you do outside of the classroom. Years ago, I participated in Leadership Broward , an educational program designed to prepare business leaders for roles as community leaders.

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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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7 HR Software Show tips to get the most out of your day

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The CIPD HR Software show , taking place at the London Olympia on June 15th and 16th, is an excellent opportunity to meet with the UK’s leading HR software providers , all under one roof. Find out about the latest developments in HR technology , take a first-hand look at cutting-edge HR solutions and learn how they can drive your organisation forward.

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Health Savings Accounts Offer Many Tax Advantages

Winston Benefits

It’s nearly April 15 and many of us are thinking about our taxes. Is there something more we could be doing to ensure our financial wellness? Are there ways to protect our finances and our health?

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Spotlight on BookGrabbr! Learn how you can get free ebooks and enter to win $100 in cash!

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​BookGrabbr: A great way for readers to discover new books and an innovative marketing tool for authors. ​For Readers: BookGrabbr is a social media-marketing tool that allows authors to share both full books and previews of their books with readers. Readers, you can have access to these books by signing in through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn […].

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How to Instantly Have More Credibility with Your Data

UpstartHR

One of the challenges for HR pros is not necessarily gathering data. We’re pretty good at that, since we have access to recruiting, benefits, and a host of other business practices. The hardest thing many people have trouble with is actually in the delivery. How can I share this data so others understand? What can I do to get people to pay attention to this critical business area?

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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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Matts Munchies

SnackNation

Featured Snack of the Month: Matt’s Munchies. It isn’t often that a snack can transport you to a tropical paradise like Matt’s Munchies bite size fruit snacks. Watch the video below featuring two SnackNation members & office managers from MediaMath, an ad-tech company with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Monica and Boston.

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What Role Do Employers Play in Public Health?

Winston Benefits

The first week of April is National Public Health Week. While often seen as a community event, employers can play a strong role in public health as well. “Public health” efforts are those aimed at helping people live healthy lives where they live and work. It’s often focused on prevention of injuries and diseases, and includes educational and research efforts as well.

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[Infographic] 7 Tall Tales About Productivity: Myth or Reality?

Hppy

Happier people are productive, and productive people work all the time, right? That’s how they get so much done—yes? Nope, not at all: Productivity doesn’t actually have much to do with hours. In fact, there are several myths related to productivity that need some dispelling. For starters, those hours: More of them doesn’t equal more work done. In fact, it equals turnover and absenteeism.

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Lessons for Employers: The Equal Pay Lawsuit by U.S. Women’s Soccer Team

Business Management Daily

Last week, five members of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team filed an EEOC complaint demanding to be paid the same as members of the U.S. Men's National Team. Is your organization vulnerable to a similar claim? Take a close look at the U.S. Equal Pay Act.

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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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It’s Time to Change the Perception of Sales Jobs: Part I

Hireology

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Protected: Top Favorite Snacks

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This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Top Favorite Snacks appeared first on SnackNation.

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UK’s Happiest Workplace, Tough Conversations, Engagement Economics And Work-Life Balance #FridayFinds

Hppy

Although it’s tough to outshine a news like the Panama Papers leak, we’ll still going to try and bring into focus some of this week’s best articles in the HR world. Here they are: Inside the happiest office in London — where some employees get a $14,000 travel allowance. Glassdoor’s 2016 rankings named online travel company Expedia as the best place to work in the UK.

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How to Launch a Successful Employee Self-Service Hub

cipHR

Engagement and collaboration are the life blood of any successful business, and an employee self-service hub is a crucial tool to encourage both. Solutions such as CIPHR Net enable your brand to promote and nurture a greater sense of unity, improving the company culture, brand cohesion and employee productivity. When designing or choosing and implementing a new employee self-service hub, you need to consider a number of critical elements, including: 1.

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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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New Guide! The Ultimate Resource Guide for Franchise Hiring

Hireology

Tackling business issues is tough when you don’t where or how to begin. It’s stressful, as well as delays your ability to dive in and fix the issues at hand. Therefore, if you have the chance to make things easier, you take it, right? That’s exactly what Hireology is offering for all of those hiring in the franchise industry.

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Include Recruitment Marketing In Your Hiring Strategy [infographic] – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Before I made the decision to become a consultant, I interviewed consultants. I asked their advice and they were very gracious to share best practices and lessons learned. One person told me – “Never stop marketing.” They told me a story about landing a huge client which was very lucrative and thinking they could stop marketing (because they had this great client.