Sat.Dec 24, 2016

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7 Secrets to Intrinsically Motivating Your Employees

Hppy

Motivating your employees requires more than just a bigger paycheck and a hearty pat on the back. Employee motivation strategies have to be designed to meet the specific needs of each worker. Below are seven ways that a manager can get the most out of employees. Find out Who They Are and What They Want. It’s not always easy to get a clear, definitive answer when you’re asking employees about their goals.

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Christmas weekend free-for-all – December 24-25, 2016

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school. If you have a work question, you can email it to me or post it in the work-related open thread on Fridays.). Recommendation of the week: The House of the Spirits , by Isabelle Allende. One of my favorite books of all time, it’s an epic family and political saga with magical realism, love, and good and evil.

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Listen to Your Gut, It’s Usually Right

Jeff Waldman

I consider myself both an optimist and a realist, which can be a challenge because they compete with one another when I’m making decisions, thinking about new ideas, evaluating and solving problems, and everything else that comes my way in life. Another perspective is that the competing forces between optimism and realism is what balances me. Whatever the situation, for me any final decision is a grounded one between my optimistic and realist tendencies.

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A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold

In Full Bloom HR

[I’ll get back to writing about my life after HR tech, about the murders I’m encountering along the way (as in murder mysteries), and about my increasingly portfolio life style, on Monday. But before we get to 2017, here’s the last reflection for 2016, on my childhood in the 50’s. The memories of those early years become more vivid rather than less so with the passage of time.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Tips for Creating a Strategic Comp Plan That Retains and Engages Employees 

HRsoft

Building a strategic compensation plan is one way organizations can engage and retain their employees. It’s a step-by-step process that requires you to first identify your top performers and assess your strategy. Once you’ve taken those to steps, you can then begin to hash out a plan that aligns with your budget and achieves the maximum possible return on employment.