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5 Ways to Recharge Employee Motivation

Achievers

No manager wants to deal with a team of unmotivated workers. Setting goals is like pulling teeth, small obstacles bring work to a halt and nobody celebrates when projects are completed. It’s unlikely that your workplace is this grim, but like most managers, you’re probably always looking for ways to increase your staff’s motivation.

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How to Boost Productivity in Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

As a business owner, you’ve already mastered the art of being productive. Whether you rely on a great playlist or a double shot of espresso to keep you on your A-game, you know how to conquer your to-do list. That said, you’re probably wondering—how do I achieve the same goal-smashing results in my business? Read […].

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5 Incredible Techniques To Develop An Innovation Culture

Vantage Circle

In the last two decades, humanity has made more progress than in the previous century alone. That says one thing about innovation- it’s inevitable. Cultivating an innovation culture is a must to ensure that your company is able to leave its mark. According to the Government of New Zealand , innovation can be defined as: The creation, development, and implementation of a new product, process or service, with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness, or competitive advantage.

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Why are employee handbooks important? Here’s 7 reasons

Insperity

In the daily swirl of building a business, juggling customer needs and working to attract and retain the right employees, the value of crafting and maintaining an employee handbook can be lost on busy employers. In the long run, however, having an employee handbook in place may help shield you and your company from conflicts and potential litigation.

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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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Why we must create a purpose-driven organization

HR Digest

One of the great concerns that companies have contemplated the most in recent years has been how to ensure their people are motivated, engaged and highly committed to their everyday roles and responsibilities. Companies are spending millions of dollars on employee engagement initiatives – from improving work conditions to embracing agile methodologies, leadership development programs, and now, proposals for employee well-being.

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Your Guide to 2021 Goal Setting

Business Management Daily

2021 goal setting presents a unique set of challenges. If 2020 taught us nothing else, it’s that you can’t predict the future – not even remotely – no pun intended. When you sat down to write your goals in 2019 for the new year, you couldn’t have imagined we’d be hit with a global pandemic, forced to wear masks, and for many, work, learn, play and eat from home.

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How Section 125 cafeteria plans work

PeopleKeep

Many working Americans have access to a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan at some point during their working career, yet many do not take full advantage of them. When utilized correctly, a cafeteria plan can increase take-home-pay without any change in expenditures. This article provides an overview of how Section 125 cafeteria plans work.

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Multiple layers of management: pros and cons of organizational structures

Insperity

Organizational structure plays a critical role for both a company and its employees. Many factors influence how a business, its style and culture ultimately develop. How you structure your organization – specifically, the layers of management you introduce into your company and how you arrange employees underneath them – impacts many critical aspects of how you do business: How your employees complete tasks and the processes that guide their day Who monitors employees’ performance and acts as qu

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Adjusting to Virtual Therapy During COVID-19

Take It Personel-ly

Even prior to COVID-19, which has rapidly increased the shift toward virtual healthcare, the practice was on the rise. A 2020 survey of 842 physicians revealed that close to half of all physicians (48%) are currently treating patients through telemedicine. It’s projected that by 2040, a large portion of healthcare services will be delivered virtually. […].

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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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Tips for Performance Management through 1-to-1 Meetings | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

With workforces still operating remotely—and many companies staying remote throughout 2021—performance management will likely be a key area of improvement for teams to focus on. How can employers use performance management tools like 1-to-1 meetings to strengthen team performance in 2021?

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50 Self-Appraisal Comments For Your Next Performance Review

Vantage Circle

Performance reviews can be jittering for anyone, particularly when it comes to self-appraisal or self-evaluation. It is often difficult to analyze what to say and what to omit while writing a self-evaluation. This article will help you see how self-appraisal is essential to performance management and learn 50 phrases that you can use during your performance appraisal.

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FAQ: What is a Section 125 POP (premium-only-plan)

PeopleKeep

This post is a follow up to the previous post about cafeteria plans (i.e. Section 125 Plans). One of the most common (if not the most common) forms of Section 125 plans is a premium-only plan (aka "Section 125 POP", "POP plan", "Premium-only Cafeteria Plans").

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How to Improve Your Staff and Patient Experience

Take It Personel-ly

How satisfied are your patients with your level of care? This doesn’t mean just your performance as a physician. It’s also your bedside manner and customer care that need to be top level. While you’re at it, you should be working to improve relations with your staff. Here are a few handy pointers on how […].

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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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Templates: Applicant Tracking Emails | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

When recruiting top talent for your company’s open positions, sending timely emails with the right information keeps candidates engaged and interested in the job. A key part of that communication strategy includes templates. Using email templates helps maintain a high-quality, consistent experience for candidates during the application process. Read on for email templates for five different applicant scenarios.

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A Guide to Holding a Formal Disciplinary Meeting

HR Digest

When an employee goes beyond the defined code of employee conduct, it is essential to schedule a formal disciplinary meeting to ensure the employee is on track and follows the code. Employers can set levelled expectations and be consistent with the office policies to ensure no breach of conduct. Doing this will also ensure that employees handle employee disciplinary meeting at work effectively and positively. .

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What you can—and can't—change mid-year in your ICHRA plan design

PeopleKeep

We’ve had thousands of conversations with organizational leaders interested in adopting the individual coverage HRA (ICHRA) over the last year and a half. One of the most common questions we get asked is whether plan changes can be made during the plan year instead of waiting for renewal. Read on to learn what types of ICHRA plan changes can and can’t be made during the plan year and why.

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A List Of Running Essentials

Take It Personel-ly

If you plan on getting fit in the new year and start going out for runs, then it is essential that you are prepared with the right equipment so that the whole process is one that you not only benefit from health wise but is also one that you enjoy too. To ensure that this […].

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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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Understand the Difference Between Exempt vs. Nonexempt Employees

Patriot Software

Employees want the wages they deserve. Employers want to avoid penalties and fines. Want the best of both worlds? Understand the difference between exempt vs. nonexempt employees. Then, correctly classify your employees. That way, your team gets the wages they deserve, and you can skip the penalties for misclassifying your employees. It’s a win-win … […] READ MORE.

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Putting the “Fun” in FSA Funds

Benefit Resource Inc.

5 Ways to Spend Your Funds Before the End of the Year. Congratulations on making it to the home stretch of 2020! Starting the new year with lost Fl exible Spending Account (FSA) funds probably doesn’t sound like y our idea of a good time. So, here’s a list of five fun ways to spend down your FSA and start 2021 off on the right foot! . New Year, New Frames!

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How to manage cybersecurity as workers become remote

Hppy

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on businesses – everywhere from their finances and marketing to their structure and growth plans. Perhaps one of the largest changes affecting organisations is the rise in working remotely. During the first lockdown, 46% of people said that they worked from home, with 86% of that number doing so due to the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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5 clever tricks for converting your loft in a cost-effective way

Take It Personel-ly

Converting a loft can be a very exciting project, especially due to the myriad of fresh purposes you are probably giddily imagining your transformed space could serve. Your loft’s days as simply storage for your childhood toys or Christmas presents could soon be firmly in the past. However, it’s not necessarily an inexpensive undertaking; in […].

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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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What Is Form 944, and How to Know If You Need to File One

Patriot Software

As an employer, you must withhold certain taxes from employees’ wages. Then, file and deposit them with the proper agencies. One form your business may need to file to report payroll taxes withheld from employee wages is Form 944. Read on to get the scoop on what is Form 944 and whether or not your […] READ MORE.

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Is It Critical to Have a Mentor to Succeed in Your Career?

Abel HR

In a recent survey by Zen Business, two-thirds of the 1,000 executives surveyed reported that they had a mentor at some point during their career. What is more interesting is that a whopping 86.8 percent reported that having a mentor helped to accelerate their career. But is help from an outside (or inside!) source necessary for career advancement? and is there any one type of advisor that is more influential than the others?

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An Ever-Changing Landscape: 5 AI Technology Trends in Recruiting

Hppy

A few decades ago, artificial intelligence was pure science fiction. However, developments in technology have made AI accessible for nearly everyone. AI has the capacity to help all facets of business, including recruiting. Here’s how you can use AI technology to find the best talent for your company: Automated Job Advertising. Remember how much time you used to spend writing job ads and then publishing them online?

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Why Everyone Should Own a Watch

Take It Personel-ly

How often do you dress to impress? If the answer is more than once in a little while, you probably already own a watch. This is due to a number of reasons that can be detailed here. But if you don’t own a watch, you are missing out on an essential element of style. It’s […].

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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.