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7 Lessons on Creating a Powerful Employee Experience

UpstartHR

I just finished reading a brand new book called The Employee Experience. It’s a great look at the relatively new concept of creating an experience for employees, not just trying to engage them or do some other one-off program that doesn’t deliver long-term results. 7 Powerful Lessons on the Employee Experience 1) Congruent customer and employee experiences I’ve long said that the customer experience will never exceed the employee experience.

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19 Easy Ways to Improve Communication in the Workplace

Justworks

As humans, we’re bound to misunderstand each other and get frustrated from time to time. However, taking concerted efforts to improve your workplace communication skills will go a long way in establishing strong relationships and getting important projects done. Communication doesn’t only feel good, it also shows results. According to a Watson Wyatt study, companies that communicate the most effectively are 50% more likely to report low turnover levels compared with the industry.

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The Difference between Knowledge Skills and Abilities

EmployeeConnect

To understand the primary differences between knowledge, skills, and abilities, try to answer this question: Do you know how to cut meat? It seems to be a rather simple question, doesn’t it? But if you reflection, you pretty quickly can distinguish between ‘knowledge’ and ‘skills and abilities’! In other words, it tells us that while most people know how to cut meat, that one action hardly makes them a butcher.

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The New World of Performance Management Webinar Q&A

Kazoo

In case you missed it, last week we hosted a webinar called, “The New World of Performance Management,” with Deloitte’s Josh Bersin and Patagonia’s Dean Carter. Attendees had so many great questions that we couldn’t possibly address them all during the hour-long session. You can find a few of the more common questions and answers from last week’s session below and you can also listen to the entire webinar on demand here.

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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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5 Ways to Shine After a Critical Performance Review

Reflektive

Performance review season recently wrapped up and you may not have received the results you were hoping for. You love your job and pride yourself in being highly motivated, but with the recent feedback it may feel difficult to get excited for the year ahead. A study on the performance review process led by Adobe revealed that this common HR practice isn’t as proactive towards employee improvement as you’d imagine.

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The IRS Audit Process Will Force Employers to Prove Their Case or Face Penalties

ACA Times

Post election, in December of 2016, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began to issue out notices to employers who may have failed to comply with the ACA. These notices appear to be the first salvo in the IRS ACA audit process. Failure to successfully defend this audit could mean significant ACA related penalties. These penalties, which include the Section 4980H penalties and Section 6721 and 6722 penalties, may be imposed on Applicable large employers (ALEs), namely, those employers with 50 or

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The New World of Performance Management Webinar Q&A

Kazoo

In case you missed it, last week we hosted a webinar called, “The New World of Performance Management,” with Deloitte’s Josh Bersin and Patagonia’s Dean Carter. Attendees had so many great questions that we couldn’t possibly address them all during the hour-long session. You can find a few of the more common questions and answers from last week’s session below and you can also listen to the entire webinar on demand here.

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HR and Branding – The Perfect Partnership

TalentCulture

Building Brands from the Inside, Out. What is a brand? Your company’s brand is the window of opportunity to link the internal and external sides of your business to impact the bottom line. In practice, it is the sum of the distinctive experiences your company delivers to your customers, prospects, media, investors, employees and other key audiences.

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How To Eat Well Under Pressure

Hppy

Stress is part of everyday life. According to NHS Choices stress becomes an issue when pressure becomes too great and creates feelings of being unable to cope [i]. Stress can be related to work , personally or both. When we are stressed adrenalin and cortisol are released – which are helpful in the short term – making us more alert, giving us more energy, and making us more able to focus on work deadlines.

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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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#WorkTrends Preview: Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction

TalentCulture

It’s not a well-kept secret. There is a lot of information showing how customer satisfaction and employee engagement are closely tied together. Given your employees are the first line of contact for customers, how they interact with the buying public can have either a positive or negative impact your customers’ perceptions and ultimately your bottom line.

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Managing the pitfalls of meaningful work

HR Zone

Employees. Managing the pitfalls of meaningful work.

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Reduce Job Stress: 6 Simple Strategies Anyone Can Follow [Infographic]

WorqIQ

You’ve downed your third cup of coffee since 6:30 am. Your next online meeting is in five minutes and the Blue Screen of Death taunts you from your computer screen. You get a message from your boss asking when you’ll be done with the draft proposal you promised you’d get to last week. An invitation to […] Read more. Read More» The post Reduce Job Stress: 6 Simple Strategies Anyone Can Follow [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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VIDEO: 4 Tips From KD On Driving 401 Contributions Up at Your Company.

The HR Capitalist

How do you drive your employees to do more of what you'd like them to do? Even things that are in their best interest like participating in or raising their contributions to your 401K? The answer - even in something as non-sexy as your 401K - is for HR pros to think more like marketers. Check out the video I did below for AXEX - I'm laying out four simple, time-tested tips for driving your employees to take another look at their 401(k) contributions—and put a little bit more into the coffers fo

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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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Here’s What’s Keeping You Up At Night

TLNT: The Business of HR

From concerns about how to motivate employees to meet company goals to worries over how to gain a “big picture” of company talent through data and analytics, a host of work-related issues haunted HR professionals in 2016, according to SilkRoad’s latest “What Keeps HR Up At Night?” report.

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Can Tech Increase Workplace Diversity?

Workology

Blind recruiting is a trending topic in HR. Part of the buzz is being generated by new software technologies that promise to remove gender and ethnic bias from the hiring process. Products range from. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Employee Retention: Engagement Through Opportunity

Compensation Today

Keeping good employees is no doubt complex. Avoiding a letter of resignation often requires blocking and tackling by managers, HR and executive leadership. Last week, I talked about whether learning and development is more important to employee retention than pay. This week, I talk about how focusing on engagement through opportunity can help keep good talent from looking.

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Start Being the Professional You Are

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is the fourth in a series of five articles from thought leader Jason Lauritsen. Called the 2017 HR Hitlist, each article outlines one practice or behavior that HR needs to eliminate in 2017 and how to do it. The articles originally appeared on the Small Improvements blog. Links to previous posts are at the end of this article.

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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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Beyond quotas: what are the ingredients for true diversity?

HR Zone

Culture. What are the ingredients for true diversity?

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I Quit Social Media in February

Laurie Ruettimann

I quit social media in the month of February. The thing about being in HR is that I have “industrial psychologists” for friends, and they don’t let me get away with anything. Apparently, I haven’t quit social media. I might be detoxing from social media by only checking my feeds in the morning and night. (During the shortest month of the year.

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Make Employee Experience the Heart of Your HR Strategy

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Guest written by Yazad Dalal, Head of HCM, Oracle APAC. A business can’t thrive without delivering the right customer experience. But what about the experience of employees? Oracle believes that the employee experience should sit at the heart of every great HR strategy. Putting the employee experience at the heart of HR means a shift in focus.

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Giving the Gift of Financial Wellness & Education

Ceridian

By Lisa Bull, VP of People Academy, Ceridian. As part of my job, I have the pleasure of developing and delivering programs which are designed to support employees and their families. In 2017 my focus is on two key areas – education and financial wellness. Here are 3 programs that will help address these issues which are good for both your people and your organization.

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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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Hiring Wisdom: Are You Telling Them What You Want to Hear?

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the most common errors perpetrated by interview training programs is exemplified by the excerpt below from a recent trade magazine article on hiring.

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No Love: 9 Ways to Completely Fail at Employee Recognition

Quantum Workplace

We’re all familiar with the benefits of employee recognition. When employees feel valued, they’re more engaged, more motivated, and more likely to go the extra mile for their company (just to name a few). But despite knowing the impact it can have on employee morale and business success, some companies still completely fail at employee recognition.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 275 - Employer Branding on a Global Scale at GE

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 275 - Employer Branding on a Global Scale at GE. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. Guest: Shaunda Zilich , Global Employer Brand Leader, GE. Listen HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, hosts Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane are joined by Shaunda Zilich, Global Employment Brand Leader for GE to talk about employer branding, recruitment marketing, and working with employees and the marketing staff to achieve employer branding goals.

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Wishpower

NoExcusesHR

I have a dilemma. I struggle with trying to figure it out constantly in my work. The answer seems obvious to me, yet the concept feels impossible to so many. On one hand I recognize the impact a robust employer brand can have on an organization's recruitment and retention efforts. On the other, I also recognize that most human resources, talent acquisition and other leaders do not have the will to develop their employer brands.

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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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Your Potential Odds of a Workplace Injury or Illness

Paychex

In 2015, roughly 3.7 million workers experienced injuries or illnesses at work. What are the odds of injury or illness in your industry? Find out with the interactive calculator!

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my boss won’t approve my time off for a video game competition

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: It was in no small part thanks to your advice that about eight months ago I was able to land my first professional job! I have been enjoying the job so far, and even though it is not in my desired field, it is related. My manager, Fergus, has some quirks but has overall been nice and reasonable to work with. However, I had my first problem with him this week.

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How to Minimize Stress in the Workplace and Get More Out of Your Team

Paychex

Stress in the workplace can have a negative and costly impact on your company's operations. Consider these insights on how to reduce employee stress, boost motivation, and keep your business on track for meeting customer demand.

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