Thu.Mar 02, 2017

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4 Do’s & Don’ts: How to Motivate Employees to Work Harder

FingerCheck

Every organization operates differently, but one commonality they all share (and could all probably stand to improve) is the human factor. Employees are critical to driving businesses forward, and their happiness and productivity dictates how successful the company will be in attaining goals and reaching measurable success. When employees are engaged, motivated, and inspired, anything is possible.

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The 4 Elements of Analytics Storytelling

Visier

For decades, HR organizations have operated with a “softer approach” to business—relying more on intuition and less on hard facts to make workforce decisions. It’s an approach that allows HR practitioners to get the job done, but makes it more challenging to align HR strategy with business value. Thanks to the digital revolution, it’s now easier for HR departments to make workforce decisions based on concrete data.

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Are Some of Your Employees ‘Hard Wired’ for Engagement?

Cornerstone On Demand

Our Trends in Global Employee Engagement report shows that between 35 percent and 40 percent of employees around the world are Actively Disengaged or Passive at work. So, what can you do as a leader to engage your workforce? It’s a question that leaders often ask, but the truth is, there is no one thing. Your organization has to make engagement possible by creating an environment of trust, paying fairly and having a set of values that are known and lived throughout the organization.

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What You Need To Know About Today’s Job Seekers

Engage2Excel

Your company’s ability to engage job seekers in the recruitment process will significantly influence its success in the war for talent. Failure to understand and address differences in perceptions and preferences among today’s job seekers will results in fewer qualified candidates in your pipeline, lower offer-to-acceptance rates and higher voluntary turnover within the first year of employment.

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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 Select an Employee of the Month

EmployeeConnect

Employee satisfaction and workplace happiness can be achieved by promoting awards such as the employee of the month every month to generate healthy competition and motivation amongst the employees. Such award programs encourage the employees to enhance their productivity and work effectively. Organisations should make a note of employees who have excelled in the domain , select the best of the lot, recognise and award employees.

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6 Ways to Improve Diversity In Your Workplace

Everwise

Malcolm Forbes, American entrepreneur and publisher of Forbes Magazine, once described diversity as “the art of thinking independently together.”. It’s true. Valuing diversity increases your company’s viewpoints, skills and experiences. This leads to more powerful problem solving. As MIT economist Sara Ellison says, “Having a more diverse set of employees means you have a more diverse set of skills, which could result in an office that functions better.”.

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Gallup: The State of the American Workplace is Changing

Kazoo

Gallup recently released its latest State of the American Workplace report, which provides an in-depth look into engagement and changes within the work environment. Its data is used as a benchmark by HR teams that are looking to make performance and engagement change at their own companies. With the newest report, Gallup addressed how companies can negotiate the changing business world and hosted a webinar last week to talk through the findings.

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High Growth: It’s Not Just For Unicorn Startups Anymore

15Five

Growth. Almost everything written about business falls under the umbrella of creating more of it. Growth is highly coveted by investors , founders, employees… really anyone who touches your company. And customers of B2B software products want to know that if they invest their time, efforts, and money integrating your offering, that your company is here to stay.

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The IRS Won’t Reject Returns Without Healthcare Reporting, But You May Be Penalized

ACA Times

As we settle into the heart of tax season, the IRS has some new updates regarding how healthcare is reported on tax returns. The Affordable Care Act mandates individuals to have minimum essential coverage or run the risk of paying a penalty. Information on their healthcare is reported on their tax returns, indicating every month their status of healthcare coverage.

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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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Gallup: The State of the American Workplace is Changing

Kazoo

Gallup recently released its latest State of the American Workplace report, which provides an in-depth look into engagement and changes within the work environment. Its data is used as a benchmark by HR teams that are looking to make performance and engagement change at their own companies. With the newest report, Gallup addressed how companies can negotiate the changing business world and hosted a webinar last week to talk through the findings.

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Collaboration is the Key to Unlocking Innovation in the Workplace

Hppy

In today’s highly competitive environment, innovation has become the key to a company’s survival. It provides an edge in a world where evolving markets and exploding startups make turning a profit much more difficult to achieve. But how do we turn innovation from a buzzword into a reality? From my experience, the most effective way to achieve innovation is through collaboration.

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How Being Transparent Helps Scale Your Company

Entrepreneur

A culture of trust is the bedrock for success. It starts living your core values every day.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Top 5 Reasons To Use Assessments Today

TalentCulture

Workplace assessments can accurately measure total human potential, enhance overall productivity, reduce attrition, and reduce overall hiring costs significantly… yet not all companies are using them. On this week’s #WorkTrends show, host Meghan M. Biro was joined by special guests Kimberly Howell and Kelsey Stephens from PAN. They discussed the nuances and many benefits of the various assessment tools available to companies during recruitment.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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Creating Meaningful Employee Recognition that Motivates and Resonates

WorqIQ

Like the TSA announcements at airports – “see something, say something”, you might think when you see positive behaviors by your peers or employees, you should automatically recognize them for great work. Put the brakes on before you steamroll your good recognition intentions! It’s mission critical to learn your employees’ and colleagues’ likes, preferences and needs before you acknowledge them for their wonderful achievements.

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Is Your Diversity Recruitment Struggling? Maybe You’re Making These Mistakes

TLNT: The Business of HR

Lack of workforce diversity has placed a magnifying glass on the hiring practices of organizations in all industries. It’s about being more thoughtful in granting everyone equal access to employment opportunities and also opening your doors to a wider range of talent that may just the very thing you need to succeed in today’s business climate.

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21 Ways to Celebrate Your Best Workplace Status

Great Place to Work

Taking the time to celebrate your workplace wins with employees is important. Whether you’re commemorating getting Great Place to Work-Certified or announcing your new status as a Best Workplace , it’s a crucial opportunity to pause and take pride in what your team has built. Over the years, we’ve compiled quite a list of the different ways companies on our Best Workplace lists have shared the good news with their team.

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3 Powerful Ways to Navigate Politics in the Workplace

Paychex

The whole country is stressed out, regardless of which side of the party line you stand. So how to do you navigate the tough topic of politics while on the job? Check out these tips.

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The Essential 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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The Uber Thing: Now Is Your Chance to Get Funding for Leadership Training.

The HR Capitalist

By now you've heard the news coming out of Uber. We always knew that this startup darling had a rough and tumble culture, and let's face it - sometimes that's needed to spark innovation. But reasonable people know you can have a performance-based culture without creating an environment full of bad stuff - including harassment. . If you've always wanted to get budget for manager/leadership training, now is the right time to ask.

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Lifecycle Mastery: How to Do Onboarding Right

TLNT: The Business of HR

This is part three of a five part look at how employers can master the talent lifecycle in a way that will help build a high performing workforce. Today’s post examines onboarding. Previous posts are listed at the end of this article.

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The Start-Up Business

Laurie Ruettimann

I don’t understand how this start-up business works. You have an idea. You get excited about it. Some people say nice things to you, and some people don’t say nice things to you. You build something. You test your ideas. You get feedback. Some of it’s good. Some of it’s bad. There’s a group of smart individuals who might give you advice if you work hard enough to gain their attention.

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How Managers Can ‘Clear the Air’ Effectively

TLNT: The Business of HR

Over lunch years ago, Stephen (not his real name), a senior executive at an insurance company, told me about a conversation he just had that perplexed and worried him. He had just announced to his team about a bonus restructuring that would more fully reward performance.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

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Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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How to Rid Your Workplace of a Toxic Culture

Paychex

Many factors may contribute to a toxic work environment, but a business cannot expect to perform at its best with such conditions. Here are five actions you can take to help correct the problems and transform your workplace culture into an open, collaborative space.

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4 ways good managers can become great coaches

CultureAmp

Many people can remember a childhood coach that shaped who they are today. Maybe it was a little-league coach who helped develop skill in sports, or a school tutor who saw their potential and helped them fulfill it. As we mature in life, coaches might become less frequent, but they are no less important to our development. In the workplace, having a good manager is similar to having a good coach.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FEATURED HR TECH NEWS. SaaS-based Benefits Administration Leader Businessolver Surges in the Second Half of 2016.

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Co-working spaces: What every employer needs to know

Insperity

When co-working first came on the market, these workplaces were mainly marketed to independent contractors, freelancers and IT start-ups. The communal nature of co-working offices gave the self-employed some of the traditional benefits of working in a team environment, such as collaboration and professional interaction. Co-working office spaces will likely continue to grow in popularity as more and more businesses discover the conveniences they offer.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Harassment at Uber and Tesla: Hostile Work Environments Are Too Common in Tech

Workology

Last week Uber was in the news because of Susan Fowler’s open letter, describing the terrible work conditions at the company. This week we’re all reading a “profound apology” Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Why HR Doesn’t Protect You

Evil HR Lady

One of the common misperceptions of Human Resources Departments is that they are there to protect and advocate for the employees. They should be there to protect and advocate for the employees because happy employees are necessary for a business to succeed. That doesn’t mean that HR should always take the employee’s side. They should take the overall picture of employee happiness into consideration.

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Use feedback to get in tune with company culture

CultureAmp

Culture Amp's first People Geekup in Paris centered around the building blocks of culture and company values. Deezer hosted the event at their office and guest speakers from BlaBlaCar, Deezer and Scality spoke about their companies. Alexis Prades , a Culture Amp People Geek, presented the Culture Crunch report. The evening began with Deezer’s Camille Graux , Talent Development Coordinator, and Guillaume Grillat , Technical Talent Manager, speaking about their people strategy and employee experie

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