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5 Ways Happy Employees Will Increase Your Bottom-Line

Hppy

We all know that stress kills creativity. According to a research , if a person is happy they will exude higher energy and creativity levels. Sadly, employee happiness has not been such a priority, and businesses tend to focus solely on keeping their customers and clients happy. However, there is a deeper connection between a happy employee and a satisfied customer.

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5 Tips for Successful End-of-Year Employee Performance Check-Ins

Reflektive

Employees want to know what is expected of them at work so they can be successful. They want feedback in order to understand if they are meeting or exceeding expectations. The end-of-year employee check-in should be constructive and informative for employees. Here are five tips for executing a successful year-end employee check-in: Create a Timeline.

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PSA from your gut microbes: Enjoy the holidays, but don't forget your fiber

Workology

Anyone watching their waistline this holiday season may want to pay attention to what their gut bacteria are eating. It's not just calories that matter in a healthy diet -- it's fiber, which can influence weight gain, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity, and colon health. Research with mice help shed light on how and why fiber has such a powerful effect on the entire body.

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Inbound vs. Outbound Recruiting: Which One is Better for You?

TalentLyft

Inbound and outbound recruiting strategies are two major recruiting methods used in Talent Acquisition. There has been a lot of buzz around these terms lately, but what do they really mean? And which form of recruiting is better for your company and your hiring needs? Read More.

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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 Self-Sabotaging Nature of Loving Drama In the Workplace.

The HR Capitalist

" Some men just want to watch the world burn ". -- Alfred in Batman. --. Short post today as you go into the holidays, shut it down and think about 2018. You've got people in your professional life who love drama. They're wired to create angst, conflict, infighting and many times, they're not even aware they're doing it. It's how they are genetically wired behaviorally.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. *This week’s Fundings: $110M+. Convercent raises $25M to keep companies out of ethical quandaries.

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Are You Accurately Measuring the ROI of Your PR Strategy?

HR Morning

Many startups and small companies put so much focus on gaining traction and improving their reach that they don’t realize success is more than just a numbers game. Measuring the ROI of a PR campaign goes much deeper than just subtracting money spent from revenue earned. Thanks to technology, measuring PR in the digital era is completely different than it was a few years ago.

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2018 HR Trends to Watch

Outmatch

Organizational Culture. HR Analytics. Systems Integration. They’re more than hot topics, these are the trends that will be top-of-mind for HR leaders in the coming year. From talent acquisition to performance management and learning and development, these trends will set the tone for your talent strategy , and drive critical initiatives to keep your business on the cutting edge.

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Meet Namely: Jorge De La Nuez

Namely

At Namely, our coworkers are one of the top reasons we love what we do. The Meet Namely series spotlights real Namely employees across the company. Read on to learn how our employees are helping us build better workplaces. After studying musical theater and performance, Jorge De La Nuez pivoted his career into the world of tech. Jorge joined Namely as an early employee in 2014.

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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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Why defining your organisation's culture could expose more suitable candidates

Papirfly

Let's define organisational culture. Organisational culture refers to employees' shared norms and beliefs as well as tangible aspects of the work environment reflecting those values. Defining your culture can give you a competitive advantage. Your company values shape the perception that current, potential and former employees have about you as an employer and what it's like working for you.

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Don’t Bring Down the Cheer with These Holiday Office Infractions

Acacia HR Solutions

The holidays are a great way to get your employees together and reflect on all that was accomplished during the year and look towards the future. Businesses can use the holidays as a way to unite your workforce and celebrate cultural differences. You’ve made it through another year together as co-workers- whether it was good. The post Don’t Bring Down the Cheer with These Holiday Office Infractions appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.

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3 Common HR Challenges and How to Fix Them

SutiHR

Employees are an organization’s best asset. Businesses that invest in the workforce will develop faster and outpace their competition. They should understand common HR challenges and be prepared to tackle them as their businesses and workforce grows. Here we present three common HR challenges and how technology helps solve them. Recruitment The major challenge for.

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DISC Personality Styles Under Pressure

Extended DISC

Whether you know what they are or not, each of your team members has a unique DISC style personality – and their assessed type has a direct impact on how well they perform and relate to others when the pressure is on. Will your top performing sales executive keep cruising along when the pressure mounts? Or, will she become a walking, fire-breathing nightmare everyone else tip-toes around?

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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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Online HR Software for A Better Work-Life Balance

SutiHR

A healthy balance between work life and personal life is important and something every organization should strive to achieve. Proper work-life balance not only helps individual employees but also increases the overall productivity of a business. HR software simplifies important administrative processes;every employee in an organization can have more time to focus on personal activities.

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4 ways to encourage internal mobility for your employees – and why you should

Insperity

Do your employees see a future for themselves at your company? Do they feel like they’re constantly growing? If your answer isn’t a resounding “yes,” there’s a good chance your retention strategy needs work. Your employees want to see that there’s potential for their rising career at your company. When they do, they’re more motivated to stick around and bring their best selves to work each day.

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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2017

Silkroad

As you put the final touches on your 2018 plan, be sure to check out SilkRoad’s most popular blog posts from 2017. Unsurprisingly, many are seeking ways to leverage metrics and strategies to attract and retain right-fit employees while driving engagement, alignment to organizational goals, and fostering growth with the organization over time. Onboarding Success in Today’s Talent Economy. 7 Ways to Measure the Effectiveness of an Onboarding Program.

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Why we’re taking a tech break this holiday season

Limeade

When was the last time you checked your phone? Or better yet, are you reading this on your phone right now? According to NYU professor Adam Alter , the average millennial picks up their smartphone 150 times a day – and it’s not just to text their loved ones. In fact, the average worker checks their email 36 times an hour. Yikes. We’re constantly inundated with emails, alerts and messages which not only distracts us from work, but also from our time to recharge.

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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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Does Facebook Facilitate Age Discrimination in Job Ads?

Evil HR Lady

Many, many companies recruit at colleges and universities. They hold meet and greets, provide free food (a guaranteed method of attracting college students), and conduct interviews that only students at that particular university are eligible for. We don’t call this age discrimination because, theoretically, old people (defined legally as over 40) are allowed to attend college and would be eligible to apply for such job.

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Do sports build character or reveal it?

Steve Boese

Regular readers will know how much of a sports guy I am, as I have probably spent about a third of my time writing about sports related topics on the blog over the years. And I spend way too much time in the Winter/Spring on NBA League Pass and poring over the box scores. But it's good to have a hobby I guess. Yes, I love sports but I also don't take them too seriously.

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Utilize Cloud Technology to Humanize Your Business

FingerCheck

It used to be that technology and the “human factor” were associated as two competing approaches to accomplish business outcomes. One was seen as the way of the future and the other, potentially replaceable. However, today cloud technology is widely utilized to enhance the efficiency of people-driven processes, empowering businesses to more easily manage their operations.

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It Really Is the Thought (and Effort) that Counts

Compensation Cafe

'Tis the season of gift giving and, for some, anxiety over the choosing of those gifts. That’s particularly fraught in the workplace. Do I give a gift to my close friend at work? How would that be perceived? What about giving gifts to everyone on the team? How about the boss? Can I give a token holiday gift or would that be perceived badly by others?

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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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New pro-employer NLRB gives HR an early Christmas present

HR Morning

If you had any doubts the GOP-controlled National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) would take a more employer-friendly stance on workplace issues, recent rulings should put those fears to rest. At the tail end of the year, the NLRB handed down four decisions that show the agency’s looking to chip away at Obama-era union protections and create a more employer-friendly climate for businesses.

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Three tested approaches to driving learning and development

CultureAmp

In 2017, implementing learning and development programs came into the spotlight once again as an important part of the employee experience.

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Gyrus Systems Earns Award For “Best Compliance LMS” By Talented Learning

Gyrus

Richmond, VA, December 21, 2017, Gyrus Systems, a leader in the Learning Management Systems (LMS) industry, proudly announced that Talented Learning named the GyrusAim® Learning Management System Honorable mentions for "Best Compliance LMS" category. Talented Learning is a news, research and consulting organization dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of extended enterprise learning technology solutions.

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The Best and WORST Holiday Gifts

Total Employee Recognition

End-of-year giving is a great tool to engage your employees and ensure that the new year starts off with a bang, but not any gift will do. You need to offer something that will have a lasting impact on your team while steering clear of items that can cause more harm than good. Our list of best and worst gifts is designed to help you do just that.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Rightsizing: 7 Tactical Tips for Managing a Team Through Change

Quantum Workplace

More than just a positive spin on downsizing, rightsizing is its own distinct process of workforce management. And as such, there are plenty of distinct ways to succeed in – and really screw up – the rightsizing process. Below are seven tips to help managers managing a team through this unique type of organizational change.

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58 HR Statistics You Need to Know Right Now

BambooHR

Like many, you may be keen to forget that 2017 ever happened. Perhaps you saw more political divisiveness among employees than in previous years. Maybe you had to handle more sexual harassment cases than ever before (and even though this reflects progress, dealing with sexual harassment is never fun). Regardless, as 2017 begins to flicker […].

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The Best Free Ways to Add Value to Your Hiring Process

Select International

By now, you’ve probably seen the statistics on how much a bad hire can cost. But you’re also likely familiar with how much it costs to find the good ones, too: selection systems are more robust than ever before , and the best ones don’t come cheap. Ideally, you would be able to invest in a top set of selection and assessment tools for every round of your hiring process.