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The First Steps to Employee Recognition

EmployeeConnect

Has there ever been the case where you’ve forgotten the name of one of your employees? Their face is at the fore front of your mind, but you just can’t seem to match it with a registered name. As they walk off saying “Thanks, Greg!” you think to yourself of what possibly could be their name and stop abruptly in responding with “Th- anks – you”.

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Top 6 Mistakes Companies Make When Funding Employee Benefits

Trinet

As a senior benefits consultant for TriNet, I help many small businesses think about how to approach funding their benefits. What I notice is that companies seem to frequently make the same common. Visit site for full story.

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Addressing the Skill Shortage

EDSI

But for a minute, let’s imagine a scenario where, in order to become a new parent, you did have to pass an interview, just like in the business world. What if getting “hired” as a parent was contingent upon being able to hit the ground running and being able to perform all of the parenting-related tasks on day one? How are you realistically expected to acquire the skills that it takes to install a car seat, securely buckle a child into a car seat, and safely give an

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Design Thinking for the Modern Workforce

Everwise

Stef Miller has spent more than a decade growing companies and building teams using design thinking — a flexible, measurable and iterative process for problem solving and delivering excellent customer experiences. She realized the power of design thinking early on in her career and the result is an impressive track record in customer experience, demand generation, sales enablement and marketing strategy.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Managers don’t believe in recognition? How to shift the mentality

Achievers

Employee recognition is foundational in building your company’s long-term success. Employees who feel genuinely appreciated stay more engaged in their work because they understand the value that they bring to their team and the organization. This greater level of engagement will, in turn, stimulate higher productivity, a more pleasant workplace climate and much lower staff turnover rates.

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Get the Best Talent and Get the Hell Out of the Way: What You Can Learn From the Cleveland Cavs.

The HR Capitalist

On Monday, I shared a post titled Evolve and Hire Interchangeable Parts: What You Can Learn From the Golden State Warriors. The post celebrated the fact that the Warriors have done the math on the impact of the 3 point shot in professional basketball and while constructing a roster of shooters, had also taken care of something just as important - having interchangeable parts that can switch everything on defense.

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Mimicry

Laurie Ruettimann

My cats are all about monkey-see-monkey-do. Roxy observed how my cats liked to sit on our porch furniture. She went ahead and claimed a spot — just like the big kids. Roxy likes to poop at a particular time of day. Now Jake wants to poop at that same time. Emma uses the scratching post before she eats her noshes, and now Roxy does her nails before dinner.

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Leadership Lessons: Meet Jay Greaves

Ceridian

Welcome Jay Greaves, VP of Sales Effectiveness, to the Ceridian HCM Blog. Each month, Jay will be sharing with us lessons in leadership that he’s learned from his many years in the HCM industry. Here’s Jay to introduce himself! It seems like my entire life I’ve heard the way to learn something, anything, is to read a book, take a class, and get a degree.

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There's Something About Power

NoExcusesHR

It seems to me there is a direct correlation between the amount of power one has and their ability to think clearly. Yes, I said it. The more power we have, the less tuned in to reality we are. You can't argue, because quite frankly your primary rationale for arguing is to justify your continued level of power. Mmmmm.power. It feels good. Entitlement Why is that when someone moves into a formal position of authority they equate that with their own brilliance?

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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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The Game Is on in Recruitment

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Gamification—that is, using the mechanics of game playing in other areas, including business and education—is far from child's play. The gamification industry was expected to take in $1.7 billion in 2015, and eLearning Industry predicts that number will triple over the next three years. So, “ whether your brand is playing along or not, millennials are already playing with you ,” as the Harvard Business Review put it.

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5 Ways Emotional Intelligence Makes a Better Leader

Bonusly

Leading a team isn't easy, but some make it harder on themselves by ignoring a few basic principles of emotional intelligence. You don't need to be an expert, or focus an extraordinary amount of effort towards emotional intelligence (also referred to as EQ) for you and your team to experience the benefits. By following a few basic principles, you can improve your emotional intelligence, and as a result, improve many things, from employee experience to organizational performance.

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Businesses Shouldn't Underestimate the Real Benefits of Parental Leave

Entrepreneur

Employers who accommodate families are rewarded with more committed employees.

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The 10 oddest things HR managers have caught employees doing

HR Morning

A survey was just conducted to find out what’s stifling employee productivity, and HR managers revealed some disturbing things about their workers. . That is to say they shared a lot of the weird stuff their employees like to do while on the clock. Some of the more distributing things named in the survey: Employee was working on a scrapbook. Employee was decorating a cubicle with chains of paper clips.

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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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Know the Top 10 Principles of Employee.

About Human Resources

Want empowered employees who make decisions, accomplish goals, and don't seek supervision and frequent direction? Here are ten key factors in empowerment.

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The 2015 Season of the #8ManRotation is Here #SHRM16

True Faith HR

Often imitated and never duplicated, the 2015 Season (our 6th edition) of The 8 Man Rotation is here. While it may be mid-June, the takes from Steve Boese , Kris Dunn , Lance Haun , Tim Sackett , and myself are just as fresh today as they were when they originally written. The thing about sports and HR is the lessons one learn from the sports world remain timeless.

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How Much Do HR Managers Make?

About Human Resources

Want to know how much money a Human Resources manager makes a year? The range is quite broad depending on responsibilities and other factors. See how much.

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Identify Your Most Valuable Employee

Evil HR Lady

Your most valuable employee is someone who holds significant worth at your company. It’s easy to see which salesperson sells the most, but is that person truly the most valuable? It may be the receptionist who holds the foundation of the company together or the custodian who found a way to cut utility costs last year. How do you identify the most valuable employees and hire others just like them?

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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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Cutting Back for Business Growth

TalentCulture

We know that in all of our endeavors, we are at the center of all relationships. Regardless of how we interact with the world – as an entrepreneur, parent, or corporate executive, we have the personal power to influence our outcomes. If we want more out of business, we need to get focused on becoming more. For me, creating something new is healthy.

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Discovering Holistic Human Resources for a Better Workplace in 2016

WorqIQ

If you want to build a better workplace in 2016, you need to take a look at the big picture, a broad view of the people who make things happens, and make the shift to holistic human resources. Read More» The post Discovering Holistic Human Resources for a Better Workplace in 2016 appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Introducing Leading Indicators: A Key Safegagement Component

Total Employee Recognition

Engagement as a prerequisite to safety. For decades, C.A. Short Company has been assisting various organizations with their safety and incentive programs. Each day we aim to help facilitate and execute companies’ ongoing initiatives, while assisting employees and managers to better mitigate risk. Through years of experience, we have realized that the companies that truly thrive are those who go one step further and engage their employees on every level.

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3 stats that highlight the need for better work-life balance

Ceridian

Staples’ annual survey on workplace trends seeks to determine what makes employees want to stay, and what makes them want to leave. Work-life balance came into focus in this year’s Staples Business Advantage Workplace Index findings, and it’s clear some employers need to improve it. . Based on survey results, it’s obvious that Human capital management professionals should begin focusing more on employees’ work-life balance and access to technology.

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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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How Will You Tell Them They’ll Have to Punch In?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Looming changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime rules mean businesses of all sizes have to make some difficult decisions about how to control labor costs. While there are months to go before they take effect December 1, that’s not as much time as you may think. A crucial factor to consider? How best to have some tough conversations with employees who will be impacted.

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EEOC has some new pregnancy discrimination resources to feed your HR brain

The Employer Handbook

Head on over to the EEOC’s website ( here ) to check out: Legal Rights for Pregnant Workers under Federal Law ; and. Helping Patients Deal with Pregnancy-Related Conditions and Restrictions at Work. For an expert like me – -an employment lawyer with four young kids — this stuff is like tying my shoes. But for yooze, yinz, and the rest of yas, here are a couple of highlights from the new resources: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits more than just discrimination against

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Employee Wellness Program Benefits

Payactiv

Return to Blog Home A Tale of Two Benefits: Employee Wellness Programs By Maya Ahmed, June 15, 2016 --> The Untold Story of Millions who accumulate debt while waiting for payday Felipe is 40-years-old, a machinist in New Jersey and the breadwinner of his household. He has very little in savings, no credit card, and struggles on a weekly basis to make ends meet and provide for his family.

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EEOC has some new pregnancy discrimination resources to feed your HR brain

The Employer Handbook

Head on over to the EEOC’s website ( here ) to check out: Legal Rights for Pregnant Workers under Federal Law ; and. Helping Patients Deal with Pregnancy-Related Conditions and Restrictions at Work. For an expert like me – -an employment lawyer with four young kids — this stuff is like tying my shoes. But for yooze, yinz, and the rest of yas, here are a couple of highlights from the new resources: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act prohibits more than just discrimination against

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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my manager is coaching my new running group, jobs that require cars, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My manager turned out to be the coach of my new running group. I recently joined a running group outside of work. My manager is also a runner and I knew that she was involved with the same group, but I did not know to what extent. It turns out she will be the coach of the group that I have just joined.

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Are you ready to build and lead a culture of innovation?

HR Zone

Culture. Are you ready to build a culture of innovation?

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how to discreetly job search when you have a nosy boss

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: How do I manage a job search with a nosy boss? My boss sits 15 feet away from me in a semi-open floor plan. I have no privacy. So, if I get a call on my cell phone during business hours it will likely be noticed whether I answer and leave to deal with it. (It’s a casual enough workplace that this isn’t frowned upon, but a serious job search might make my cell distraction more frequent and observable.

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