Wed.Mar 15, 2017

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How a Little Flexibility Can Help Fix the Gender Pay Gap

Cornerstone On Demand

“Eighty percent of companies say they offer flexibility, but it's a black market topic. You raise it [as an employee] and you're not taken seriously," Annie Dean, former attorney and current entrepreneur, told the New York Times last month. Dean founded Werk , a company dedicated to helping people find flexible work schedules. And while there aren't solid numbers to back up Dean's statement, it rings true to many of us.

Study 265
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Applying Domain Expertise to Big Data Analytics

Visier

Despite years of hype, development, and openhanded spending, big data and business analytics haven’t lived up to their massive potential. Software vendors are having a hard time creating sustainable value, and customers aren’t getting an adequate return from their investments. And yet, where others are struggling, Visier is thriving. I believe it’s because of their unique and innovative approach to business—and more specifically, human resources—analytics.

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9 Strategies to Recruiting Better Salespeople

Entrepreneur

It's not impossible to find great salespeople if you know where -- and how -- to look.

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What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Employee Feedback

Reflektive

Picture a boxer in active stance, fists up next to her face. Then, picture your loved one, waiting for you at the airport, arms out wide when he sees you walking up. Each of these scenarios triggers a response in our brains. It’s not unlike the response an employee has to a manager when a conversation starts with, “There’s something we need to talk about.” Extrinsic motivation can actually lessen the impact of intrinsic motivation Click To Tweet.

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Smart Tools & Strong Teams: A People-First Approach to AI in Sales

Speaker: Matt Sunshine, CEO at The Center for Sales Strategy

AI isn’t replacing salespeople—it’s empowering them. The most forward-thinking sales organizations are using AI to enhance human performance rather than eliminate it. From coaching and messaging to prospecting and pipeline accountability, artificial intelligence is giving managers and SDRs the new tools they need to work smarter, sell better, and close more.

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Build a Long-Lasting Internship Program with Our Downloadable Guide

Justworks

So you’re ready to create an internship program. Bringing on interns is an exciting prospect for any company. It offers the opportunity to build a collaborative, potentially long-lasting professional relationship and mentor an up-and-coming employee. You may even pick up some savvy social media skills from your digitally enlightened counterparts. But maintaining a long-lasting internship program should take thought and intention.

Company 135

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8 Powerful Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Innovation is often discussed as an activity available only to a select few people or companies. but it is an incredibly powerful tool for companies, especially when we seek ways to use our HR influence to drive a culture of innovation. [ Click here to listen to “8 Ways HR Can Drive Enterprise Innovation “] In this episode of the We’re Only Human podcast, we point out 8 key ways that HR leaders can create, reinforce, and drive innovative behaviors in the business.

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How to Get onto Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For List

Kazoo

Fortune recently released its 2017 List of Best Companies to Work For. Many of the same companies make the list year after year. So how can a company crack into this coveted list? We took a look at some of the criteria used to define a company as the “best” and have offered ideas for how your company can take steps closer to joining this elite group.

Company 113
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Salary Packaging Basics: How To Manage Your Salary Package

EmployeeConnect

Salary packaging or salary sacrifice is a mutual arrangement between you and your employer, where it is pre-decided that you will pay for some services or items directly from your pre-tax salary. For instance, you may salary package cars, computers, super funds, and child care, etc. The advantage of salary packaging is that it reduces your taxable income thereby enabling you to have more money in your pocket.

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3 Companies Launching Programs to Advance Working Women

TalentCulture

Here are some innovative equal opportunity initiatives that we think are worth replicating. Companies are beginning to notice the value in equipping employees with the resources they need to excel in their industries, and that the best way to do that is to offer compelling programs and initiatives to help drive that success. The 50 companies on Fortune ’s second annual “Change the World” list are doing just that.

Company 107
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Unlock The Hidden Value Of Group Medicare Advantage For 2026

Speaker: Youseline Poteau-Young and Renide Jean, EdD

Group Medicare Advantage is no longer a trend; it’s the prevailing model for Medicare-eligible retiree coverage. As costs rise and benefit expectations evolve, HR leaders are rethinking how to deliver sustainable, high-value retiree plans in a shifting health landscape. With Group Medicare growing in adoption and sophistication, 2025 will be a defining year for benefits professionals looking to modernize retiree offerings while managing long-term financial and administrative impact.

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When It Comes To Healthcare, Are You Grandfathered Or Grandmothered?

ACA Times

The Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released a notice at the close of February, announcing that insurance companies may extend coverage of certain non-grandfathered individual and group plans that are currently not ACA compliant for another year. Plans renewed on or before October 1, 2018 provided that they end by December 31, 2018.

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How Tech is Transforming Recruiting: 5 Tips to Leverage the Best New Tools [Webinar]

TalentCulture

Odds are your HR department is no stranger to technology , but is your team leveraging the right tech when it comes to recruiting? With so many companies competing for the best candidates, your business needs to keep its competitive edge in the recruiting process. Technology can take you there. . Want the specifics? Good news: Our friends at gotTalent will be hosting a free webinar on March 28, 2017, from 1-2 PM CDT to explore the most effective ways to use technology in the recruiting process

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5 Unique Types of Rewards for Employees

Kazoo

The best employee incentive programs might help a leader in the short run, but for sustainable employee engagement, leaders need much, much more. Can you think back to something your boss did this week that inspired you to give 101%? Did she listen and support you in a unique way? Did he reinforce the outcomes of a project you nailed; or, challenge you try a different approach?

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The Best Way to Advocate For Growing Your Team

Everwise

If you’ve ever worked for a startup or high-growth company, you know how much time, work, and energy each person invests in their role. There are long hours, sleepless nights, and grueling work involved. Oftentimes, you find yourself doing the work of multiple people, which isn’t sustainable and leaves you feeling like you could accomplish much more if you just had a bit of help.

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Why Equity-Driven Talent Strategies Are The Competitive Advantage You Need

Speaker: Anise Wiley-Little

In today’s rapidly shifting workplace landscape, this presentation explores how Human Resources professionals can lead the transformation toward inclusive, equity-centered practices that don’t just align with organizational values but drive innovation, retention, and long-term profitability. Framed through the concept of the economics of belonging, we’ll examine how inclusive design across hiring, development, and leadership pipelines creates measurable value for both for-profit and nonprofit or

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How to Get onto Forbes’ Best Companies to Work For List

Kazoo

Forbes recently released its 2017 List of Best Companies to Work For. Many of the same companies make the list year after year. So how can a company crack into this coveted list? We took a look at some of the criteria used to define a company as the “best” and have offered ideas for how your company can take steps closer to joining this elite group.

Company 100
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How to Grow Better Leaders

TLNT: The Business of HR

The quality of an organization’s leadership almost always foreshadows its chances for sustained success.

How To 93
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Are competing priorities impacting your health?

HR Zone

Culture. Are competing priorities impacting your health?

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12 easy ways to improve workplace teamwork

Jostle

Being part of a great team at work is a phenomenal feeling. You know that feeling? When your team is ‘in the zone’? It’s a sweet cocktail of emotions - excited, challenged, safe, successful. You’re pumped to get out of bed in the morning and energized throughout the day.

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New Research-Backed Strategies to Empower Managers as Culture & Engagement Leaders

Speaker: Beth Sunshine, SVP, Up Your Culture

When culture isn’t consistently lived out across the organization, engagement suffers—and it often starts with a disconnect at the top. In this session, Beth Sunshine, SVP of Up Your Culture at The Center for Sales Strategy, will reveal how HR and executive leaders can close the gap between vision and execution by equipping frontline and mid-level managers to become culture carriers.

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my coworker won’t stop talking about how stressed she is, and it makes me stressed out too

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have this colleague, Belinda, who’s kind of a stresshead. We are on the same level of seniority and she works more closely with her line manager than with me, but some of our work does overlap. We’re all busy and juggling multiple priorities, but with her it’s somehow more on display, if that makes sense. This isn’t the sort of place where people are unreasonably overloaded with excessive workloads.

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HR Can Build Trust By Doing Nothing

TLNT: The Business of HR

At a meeting last fall of the Raleigh-Durham DisruptHR Erin Mille was talking about trust.

Meeting 82
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I can’t get back to my desk if I forget my access card, my boss is upset with my new employer, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I can’t get back to my desk after using the bathroom if I forget my access card. My workplace handles sensitive information and, as such, must keep the place locked up. The area with work desks is behind locked glass doors that require an access card to get to. I appreciate this, but the bathrooms are in the lobby, which is not locked and is available to the public.

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Leadership Lessons: Understanding and Appreciating Differences

WorqIQ

We are all different. And our uniqueness brings strength to our workplace just like a forest needs all types trees to survive. Appreciating differences you encounter is important — it's good for you and your organization! Read More» The post Leadership Lessons: Understanding and Appreciating Differences appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Is Your Organization Ready for Real-Time Payments (RTP) and FedNow?

Faster, more flexible payment isn’t a future goal — it’s happening now. Real-time payments and the FedNow® Service are transforming wage disbursement, offering instant deposits, stronger compliance, and a better employee experience. This guide outlines the opportunities, compliance risks, and operational best practices finance and payroll leaders should know.

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I can’t work for my old boss again — and the job I’m in the running for might be hiring him

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’d like to ask you about this situation I find myself in. The funny thing is, it may not exist. It’s all based on presumptions, but here goes. I am currently in the running for a specialist position at a company I would LOVE to work for. Ten-minute commute, amazing culture, lots of growth opportunities. I got some really great feedback from the internal recruiter on the interview I had with three people in upper management and she said I’m their top candidate.

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Employer’s wage and hour defense foiled by a comma. Yep, a damn comma!

The Employer Handbook

This is all a gigantic excuse to play Comma Karma Chameleon and Karma Police. Unless you operate a business in Maine, enjoy Culture Club, or just like Oxford comma jurisprudence, there’s really nothing to see here. Still, a special thank you to @IAmOxfordComma on Twitter, which reduced the First Circuit’s decision in O’Connor v.

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Five steps to improving organizational communication

PI Worldwide

By Jillian Phipps.

Company 80
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What to Consider When You Self-Fund Your Health Plan

TLNT: The Business of HR

When deciding to use a TPA (third-party administrator) to administer your self-funded healthcare plan , the first consideration is often what your healthcare provider network will look like.

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AI in HR: 20+ Prompts to Use Now

AI is reshaping the business landscape, including HR. This guide is designed to help you understand and implement AI effectively for tangible benefits and a more strategic approach. Learn how to: Automate routine tasks Boost data insights Enhance employee experiences Drive HR’s strategic value Download the guide today!

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should you post your resume on online job boards?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a job I really enjoy, but the salary is low and turnover is very high. We’re constantly hiring as people cycle out — mostly through school job sites, but also largely through one particular recruiter, though she’s become less responsive as the turnover has stayed so high. I’m learning a ton so I want to stay awhile longer.

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5 Culture Lessons from 100 Best Company Salesforce

Great Place to Work

Salesforce is honored and humbled to once again be named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® among so many other inspiring companies. We are incredibly proud to be on the list for the 9th year in a row. What makes this accomplishment especially remarkable is the fact that we've been able to stay on the list, and even rise up the list from #23 to #8 this year, while growing our employee population dramatically.

Company 75
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Welcome Julia Zelenock to #teamexaqueo

exaqueo

Employer brand has come a long way from its early days--rooted in designing better job ads and recruitment advertising. Modern, effective employer brands are strategic, well-developed, and rooted in research. And perhaps most importantly, aligned and supportive of an organization's master and consumer brands. While our team to date has exceptional, pioneering experience in employer brand, there's so much we can learn from consumer brand.