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Identifying Team Engagement – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

We’ve talked often about individual engagement. But what about teams? That’s what this reader note is all about. Hi Sharlyn. What are the most important questions a company should ask to know if the team is engaged? What are the tale-tell signs that company should look out for on disengagement? I think this is a great question. So much of the work we do involves teams.

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How a System of Empowerment Will Change Your Business

EmployeeConnect

A ROCKSTAR company culture leads to ROCKSTAR employees. Great company culture is really important, and not just the visible components, but it’s the invisible components which really matter. The attitude of employees towards one another and towards the organisation are extremely important. Culture influences everything that goes on in an organisation that’s why it is vital to cultivate a great company culture.

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4 Changes HR Needs to Make Now to Better Engage Employees

Kazoo

It’s no secret that HR departments understand why they need to focus on better employee engagement but the focus has now shifted to how to actually make change. Here are two changes that can be made to help increase employee engagement. Stay tuned next week as we share two more. Change takes time but you can start engraining some of these behaviors in your workforce starting today.

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Busywork Won't Achieve Your Business Goals

ATD Human Capital

You can safely assume that all employees in your organization are responsible for at least one time-consuming task that they consider loathsome, inefficient, and possibly nonessential. Rather than question the task itself—or empower employees to focus on high-value work—we’ve trained our people to stay busy and “just get it done.

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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.

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Employee Productivity, Happiness and Success

Survale HR

Whether it was Dale Carnegie or Zig Ziglar or any of the other countless success-seeking sages over the years, we’ve all been told that one of the big keys to success is making those around you successful and happy. Help others achieve their goals and you build a team of people who naturally want to help you achieve yours. This is a tried and true technique for improving results in everything from business to personal relationships.

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is it normal to complain about coworkers behind their backs, I opened a love letter to a volunteer, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Is it normal to complain about coworkers behind their backs? I wanted to ask about office norms when it comes to expressing irritation about colleagues. I’m currently working at my first job, and will be leaving in a couple of months due to studying. One of the things that really bothers me about this office is the amount of complaining about people behind their backs that goes on – I understand venting, but a lot of this has a rea

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Contingency Planning: Do You Feel Lucky?

HR C-Suite

A hilarious break in a busy day happened one day when staff members dropped off in my office a policy entitled “Undead Rising and Zombie Attack Situation.” The well-written policy stated its purpose is to provide guidelines for decision making to protect the safety of customers, staff and resources in the event of a rising dead […].

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What Makes a Team Great

QAspire

Last week, during an internal team event, we organized an interesting activity. Team members were asked to form a human chain by holding hands. A round hoop was then passed through one end of the chain and participants had to pass the hoop through themselves to other end without breaking the chain. The team that passed hoop across in least time would win.

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Don't just sit there! Top 10 ways to get your workplace moving

Reward Gateway

In case you didn’t think it before, it’s time to get moving. Physical inactivity has been named as the largest public health crisis of the 21st century in both the UK and in the States , both pointing to the damages that sitting down too long can do to our health and wellbeing.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Integrated Payroll Services Eclipses 100,000 Pay Statements Per Month with Kronos SaaShr HCM Cloud Platform

Empower Software

Kronos SaaShr, Inc. today announced that Integrated Payroll Services (IPS), a St. Louis, Mo.-based human capital management (HCM) services provider for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), has surpassed processing more than 100,000 pay statements per month on the Kronos SaaShr HCM cloud platform.

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HR Haka !!

Everyday People

A new workweek is upon us. How are you doing? Are you ready for what’s ahead? Have you bought into the pattern that Mondays are supposed to be horrid and a sluggish way to start the week? Are you someone that needs some motivation to get moving that even coffee can’t address? Worse yet, are you filled with dread or anxiety? It is astonishing to me that we have perpetuated the idea that workweeks are destined to start poorly, work to some roller coaster hump mid-week, and then careen

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Calculating Accumulated Sales with QuickBase

Quickbase

Calculating accumulated sales with QuickBase, a video demonstration.

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Checklist: Employer Branding Tools and Tactics Every Modern Recruiter Should Know

Linkedin Talent Blog

The year was 2010. I just landed a new job running recruiting and innovation at NPR. My past experience included ‘traditional’ recruiting leadership roles at companies including Ticketmaster, Magento, and Intersperse. I soon learned a traditional recruiting approach would fail in this new role. Working for a non-profit in a highly competitive and complex market forced me to find new ways to attract the right talent by sharing our employee experience, culture, and talent - and fundamentally chang

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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10 Small Ways to Make a Big Impact on Employee Happiness

TinyPulse

Many organizations go for the one-a-year big hoopla or think driving employee happiness takes expensive outings. But remember, it's really the little gestures that make the biggest impact on employee engagement.