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5 Simple Ways to Make Good Employees Great Employees

Hppy

Many companies have good employees. Several of these employees have the potential to become great employees. Recognizing this, it is your responsibility to take them from good to great. Employees can be motivated by a variety of different things. Anything from positive reinforcement to providing methods of professional development and upward mobility can have a desirable impact on employee development.

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5 ways you can help employees get the most from their benefits

Insperity

From employer-sponsored health insurance to retirement savings plans, an attractive benefits package can help you hire the best employees and ensure you retain them for many years to come. This can go a long way toward positioning your company to excel in the marketplace and securing your reputation as a stellar employer. But as incredible as it may seem, many employees don’t take full advantage of all the benefit options their employer offers.

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4 Tips for Understanding and Attracting an Evolving Workforce

HR Daily Advisor

Companies have always been tasked with attracting and retaining talent, but recruiters today are facing an entirely new set of challenges. There’s a different workforce evolving – driven by a new set of values than the candidates who came before them – and their approach to job hunting is different from anything we’ve seen in the past. Source: Rawpixel / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Anytime Fitness CEO Highlights 4 Traits That Make Leaders Stand Out

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Behind every great business growth story is a commitment to the people at the top. Anytime Fitness is the perfect example of what happens when the founders commit to creating competitive advantage through exceptional culture and people practices: for each of the the last eight years, Anytime Fitness has opened 300 new gyms, becoming the fastest-growing fitness franchise

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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my department will fall apart if I get pregnant and take maternity leave

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am currently an HR generalist for a medium-sized not-for-profit (health care). I work under the HR director and am also over one HR assistant. I learned that my boss will be moving in the next few months and my company wants to promote me to HR director. I am only 26, and have been trying to start a family with my husband for one year (with many failed attempts, loss, and much heartbreak).

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How to Evaluate the Success of Your Company’s Onboarding Program

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a global leader in Talent Activation. At this year’s HR Technology Conference and Expo, SilkRoad announced a strategic partnership with CareerBuilder to provide client companies an enhanced onboarding experience. Enjoy the post!). At some point, all company programs have to be evaluated.

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How Social Media Can Help You Grow Your Fitness Franchise

Hireology

Consumers have many choices when it comes to finding a fitness routine that works for them. The possibilities are endless – from full-service gyms to at-home fitness apps to studios dedicated to yoga, cycling, crossfit and more. And each time a new fitness center opens or app is developed, it can pose a challenge to your fitness franchise. How can your fitness franchise stand out from the competition and attract new members?

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Why Higher Credentials on Job Apps Don't Promise Stronger Job Candidates

Cornerstone On Demand

Every organization wants to hire top performers on a consistent basis. Unfortunately, this doesn't happen very often. In fact, in most cases, organizations fail miserably. One reason for this rate of failure is “ credential creep ": the act of raising minimum job requirements in the hope of hiring more qualified employees. Ironically, credential creep leads to the opposite result of what is intended and expected.

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How to Improve Recruiter Efficiency By Slaying Dirty Data Issues

Visier

As unemployment rates continue to drop and the competition for talent in key roles heats up, talent acquisition leaders have little choice but to work smarter. Recruitment’s impact ripples out across the employee lifecycle. Every time a recruiter gets the right person in the right seat, the benefits from measurable improvements in employee performance has an impact on bottom-line outcomes such as new sales, product improvements, or increased patient satisfaction scores.

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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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What’s Your Hiring Nightmare Story

HR Bartender

When you get a group of human resources professionals together, it’s possible that the conversation will turn toward our “nightmare” stories. You know, the moments when you’ve thought you had seen everything until that incident happened. I’m sure every profession has their own horror stories. I can tell you from experience, HR has some of the best. With Halloween celebrations coming up this week, our friends at HireRight decided to share a few hiring nightmares with us.

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HR Technology in 2018: Ten Disruptions Ahead

Josh Bersin

I’ve been an analyst following the HR Tech market for almost 20 years now, and this year things are changing faster than ever. In the report we just published, “HR Technology Disruptions. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Ted Talk Tuesday: Why Everyone Needs a Champion

Cornerstone On Demand

This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. Rita Pierson , like both of her parents and grandparents, spent her entire life as an educator. Although she taught all different ages and abilities over the course of her career, Pierson's philosophy on teaching remained constant: You have to get to know your students and support them in their growth, no matter how small, in o

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Here’s Why Companies Need to Rethink Employee Experience

Reflektive

Every company wants to create a culture that inspires employees to do the best work of their careers. And every company can list a variety of HR programs they employ to keep team members happy, inspired, and productive. But when you ask people how they really feel about their jobs, Gallup reports that 87 percent of them don’t feel engaged. There’s a disconnect between employee engagement programs and employee experience, and it’s likely hurting your team. 87 percent of employees don’t feel engag

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Bookmark This! Resources for Companies to Develop Innovation

HR Bartender

I ran across an old Fast Company article titled “ Why Innovation Matters ”. While it was written years ago, the concepts still apply. There was one sentence that really stuck out for me. “To succeed, companies need to see innovation not as something special that only special people can do, but as something that can become routine and methodical, taking advantage of the capabilities of ordinary people, especially those deemed by Peter Drucker as knowledge workers.” .

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How To Make A Culture Of Successful Renewal

Hppy

Every organization’s strategy needs regular updating regardless of how successful it’s been. It’s simply not good enough to develop a strategy and put it on the shelf, expecting that it will work indefinitely. They always need to be looking for and recording the factors that have changed since the last version of the plan was crafted. The business environment involves dynamics that are relentless and unpredictable and it’s better to be prepared for them by proactively renewing the st

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Over Qualified

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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What Do Employees Say About Service Awards?

Engage2Excel

More than three-quarters of all U.S. companies recognize employees’ tenure through formal length of service recognition programs. Yet, the question still remains… Do today’s employees still see value in service awards? Find out in What Do Employees Say About Service Awards?, a groundbreaking report based on a survey of 5,000 U.S. employees, representing all major industries and demographic groups.

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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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The Culture Series [Part 3] – Using Leadership to Establish Cultural Identity

HR Bartender

In the previous article of this series on cultural identity, we talked about the first two competencies organizations should focus on developing: 1) trust and 2) emotional intelligence. If employees are not self-aware and cannot build trusting work relationships, it will be very difficult to develop the other two competencies: leadership and agility. .

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Change Is Good!

What is Paul Thinking

I need 3 minutes of your time. 3 minutes to make my life easier. And you know it is ALL about me. But really, this will make YOUR life easier (and so much better.). If you’re getting this update via email you are subscribed to the “old” site. I already know that if you subscribed to my updates from this site, you are beautiful, handsome, smart, witty and most importantly, forward thinking.

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Creating a Grateful Perspective

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library Sometimes we may look outward for fulfillment. We may work to have "more" or look to others for validation. While it's great to seek growth, sometimes in our efforts to attain, we forget to pause and recognize the good already in our lives. Studies show that finding little ways to recognize the good in your life and incorporating that gratitude into your daily routine can help you find a fresh, happier perspective.

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California Bans Asking Job Applicants About Salary & Criminal History

Justworks

Fair hiring practices are important for employers and employees alike, helping to ensure the best candidates are hired for the right positions, without bias. In recent years, many states and municipalities have passed various pieces of legislation to further this goal. California is now following suit with the passage of two new laws around hiring new employees.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Ryan Fehr: “We’re still human beings when we go to work”

WorkHuman

How can gratitude in the workplace prevent employee turnover and fuel company resilience ? How can we think about gratitude in a broader scope to cultivate happiness at work? We recently chatted with Ryan Fehr, assistant professor of management at the University of Washington School of Business in Seattle. He researches positive organizational scholarship, ethics and morality, and leadership, with expertise in corporate social responsibility, ethics, and organizational behavior.

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5 Tips for Quickly Engaging Your Workforce

Hppy

We spend so much time at work, thinking about work, and commuting to work during the week that it’s pretty disheartening to find out just how many people are unhappy at their job. According to Gallup, only 32% of American workers were engaged with their work in 2015. Now, it’s unrealistic to expect most employees to be engaged at all times—work is work, after all.

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Why HRIS Is Wrong for Performance Management

Reflektive

After countless hours of research, you’ve finally come to the conclusion that your organization needs to implement a performance management system. Now, you might be tempted to stick with your HRIS’s performance management module, but here’s why you should consider otherwise. Clunky UI and Bad User Experience. After a simple comparison between HRIS and performance management software , you will notice the stark difference between user interfaces.

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The Neuroscience of Great Learning Content: Attention, Memory, and Exploration [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Ask any business leader, and they’ll tell you they invest in the development of their workforce with the goal of improving performance. Yet the training and content delivery methods of the past aren’t keeping pace with the needs of the modern learner. No longer can you throw an hour of eLearning at a problem or slap a speaker in front of an audience and hope that knowledge will transfer and behaviors will change.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Improving the open enrollment process: Part 2

PeopleStrategy

In Part 1 of this series , we looked at how HR professionals can better plan for the open enrollment period. With most companies right smack in the middle of Open Enrollment, let’s take a look at how to improve employee engagement during this time. High engagement is critical to increasing employees’ use of the benefits plans and packages your company offers.

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Mentoring and Hiring the Right People

Hppy

With the constant demand of searching for and then retaining the right people for your organization it is imperative that organizations have first class hiring processes in place. Empowering your managers to hire the right people is a key element of that hiring process. Ensuring that they have the right tools in order to be able to make those judgement calls is important.

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Innovation @ Work: How to Lead a HR Hackathon

Lighthouse

Last week I had the pleasure of joining nearly 300 HR leaders from around the globe at the inaugural HCI Innovation@Work event in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was in town not just to connect with and learn from the assortment of smart people, but to lead a series of innovation sprints or hackathons for the audience. Consider this–how many times have you attended an event and walked away feeling like you consumed plenty of content but made little progress toward your actual goals?