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Five Tips to Optimize Team-Building

Ceridian

Team-building activities have a polarizing reputation. A majority of companies have them, spending billions of dollars a year for programs designed to create stronger teams. When I am asked for a team-building exercise, two of the questions I always ask are, “What are you trying to accomplish?’

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CX Day: Secrets to a Winning Customer Experience

Ceridian

Previously, the relationship between customers and businesses was largely transactional and one-sided – the business provided a product or service to a customer, the customer acquired or used it, end of story. Not only does it help us to improve our solutions, but this feedback drives our R&D initiatives for product innovation.

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Hiring Students is a Win-Win-Win Scenario

Ceridian

By Gerry Hawkins, Mobile Development Manager, Ceridian. The value of Co-op and Internship programs go beyond just the benefits the students receive, their teams and the companies who hire them also win. In my experience students bring a different creative energy and perspective to your team. I disagree. Wins for the Company.

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Keeping employees motivated through the height of winter

Ceridian

By Deb LaMere, VP of Employee Experience, Ceridian. Even if you don’t live in a place subject to volatile weather patterns during this time of year, maintaining productivity can still be difficult. Mix this with flu season, and what should be a productive winter can quickly become one of absenteeism.

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Three Ways to Get the Most Out of Multi-Teaming

Ceridian

Over-leveraging your employees can lead to a drop in productivity, loss of engagement, and personal and team burnout. According to HBR, a survey of more than 500 managers in global companies found that 81% of those working on teams worked on more than one concurrently. When building the team, don’t only focus on efficiency.

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Should You Start with Team Building to Increase Engagement?

Achievers

Inevitably, one of my VPs or directors would call and ask for team building efforts. When I receive these requests, I can’t help but think that this is sort of like a patient asking a medical doctor to prescribe the latest pharmaceutical product as seen on TV. When someone requests for team building, I always ask why.

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Four ways to motivate your multi-generational team

Ceridian

And the friction can increase when work patterns bring together employees of differing ages in constantly changing teams. Fostering communication and collaboration across groups creates opportunities for new energy, enhanced productivity and potential business success. Related: Five tips to optimize team-building.