Wed.Nov 22, 2017

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Is Your Fitness Franchise Staffed Up for New Year’s Resolutioners?

Hireology

As New Year’s resolutions get set each year, fitness is top-of-mind for many people. In fact, data from Nielsen found that staying fit and healthy, and losing weight are the top two New Year’s resolutions among U.S. consumers. The New Year is sure to be a profitable time for your fitness franchise – but how can you ensure you’re offering the best customer experience possible and encouraging members to stick with your fitness franchise for the long haul?

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How Gratitude Can Increase Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Do employee engagement and gratitude go hand in hand? Gratitude is a concept valued universally as a pro-social aspect of human culture. It’s an idea that takes mindful practice in our personal lives, in our families, and even in our jobs. Recently, scientists have researched this concept and have found interesting connections with many aspects of well-being.

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Does Diversity Reduce Employee Turnover?

Hppy

We’ve made some enormous progress in the last few years when it comes to the importance of diversity in the workplace. Despite ongoing problems some industries (such as the tech industry) have in successfully creating a diverse workplace, most people agree that diversity in the office has many benefits. It’s been shown to increase revenue and give companies a competitive edge by driving innovation, creativity, and providing new perspectives.

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Career Ladders vs. Career Lattices - Tools for Employee Development

EDSI

The difference between career ladders and lattices. You may have no idea what the difference between a career ladder and lattice is, because they pretty much sound like the same thing. Or maybe you’re somewhat clued in thanks to the appropriate climbing object analogies they’ve earned. That’s right folks, ladders are simply a vertical rung of steps moving you upward, and lattices have rungs in horizonal and vertical directions!

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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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Why Most Change Efforts Fail and Seven Guidelines to Ensure Your Team Succeeds

TalentCulture

Chances are you will initiate a change that affects your whole team or start a major team project in the near future. And chances are it will not make the impact you had hoped for. A 2008 study by IBM found that over 60 percent of change efforts fail to fully meet their objectives, and a 2013 Towers Watson study revealed only 25% are sustained over time.

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Employer Branding Ideas- How Do Facebook and HubSpot Attract Talent

TalentLyft

Employer Branding ideas are essential for building a strong and attractive employer brand. Since many companies have started investing more in their employer branding strategies, I decided write about some real-life employer branding ideas and strategies. Companies like HubSpot and Facebook have mastered their employer branding and recruitment marketing efforts, and here is how!

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This Thanksgiving, Say ‘Thank You’ to Others

TLNT: The Business of HR

I’m coming off a whirlwind of events where I had the opportunity to share my passion for creating more human workplaces by helping millions of employees feel noticed, valued, and appreciated for who they are as well as for what they do. As always at these events, I learned more from the other speakers and from conversations with attendees. So here I share with you my two biggest takeaways from the events.

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Parents’ Biggest Workplace Concerns Might Not Be What You Expect

Great Place to Work

Childbirth requires time off. Toddlers get colds. Schools close for the holidays. Teens’ activities can overlap with work hours. Challenges like these inform the assumptions employers make about parents’ needs in the workplace. But research from our ranking of the 2017 Best Workplaces for Parents found that employees raising children value their experience in the workplace as well as the pay, benefits, and programs that help them support their families.

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3 ways your company is wasting time

Replicon

We all say “time is money,” but too often we fail to recognize the different ways our companies are losing time (and thus money!). While employee engagement, solid leadership, and strongly discouraging Facebook and Netflix use on the clock are all positive steps toward saving time and optimizing your workday, we also need to consider […]. The post 3 ways your company is wasting time appeared first on Replicon.

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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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Crazy Thankful

NoExcusesHR

Ah, yes. Thanksgiving. That special time of year when we get really thoughtful about those who mean the most to us. Those we love, those we miss, those who make a profound difference in our lives. It's really powerful when you think about it. Then, of course, the next day we open up the shopping mosh pit and beat the crap out of each other at Target trying to save $100 on a TV we don't need.

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Why investing in employee health is good for business

HR Zone

People. Why investing in health is good for business.

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No answer on legality of cutting hours under ACA: Dave & Buster’s settles ERISA suit

HR Morning

If you were hoping a court ruling on a recent ERISA lawsuit involving Dave & Buster’s would offer some clarity into whether it’s legal to cut employees’ hours to avoid having them count as full-time employees under the ACA, you’re going to be disappointed. After trying — and failing — to get a high-profile lawsuit dismissed, Dave & Buster’s agreed to pay $7.425 million to settle the suit, which accused the restaurant and entertainment chain of il

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Parents’ Biggest Workplace Concerns Might Not Be What You Expect

Great Place to Work

Childbirth requires time off. Toddlers get colds. Schools close for the holidays. Teens’ activities can overlap with work hours. Challenges like these inform the assumptions employers make about parents’ needs in the workplace. But research from our ranking of the 2017 Best Workplaces for Parents found that employees raising children value their experience in the workplace as well as the pay, benefits, and programs that help them support their families.

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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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It’s not personal, just business - reflections on the CIPD's Essential Interpersonal Skills Course

HR Zone

People. It’s not personal, just business.

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Real-life Scrooges: The cheapest holiday gifts bosses have ever given their employees

HR Morning

When it comes to gift-giving, it’s the thought that counts. But things can get pretty awkward when gifts are downright thought less. . Almost everyone has received a gift that was either unusual or lame, but FastUpFront , a small business news blog, has assembled a list of the cheapest or most insulting gifts that had employees wondering why their companies even bothered: An employee received a gift certificate for a free medium soda or banana from the theme park where she worked.

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How to Combat International Assignment Failure

TLNT: The Business of HR

Global brands spend an incredible amount of money on overseas assignments. On average, over $300,000 including comp is invested annually in the practice, either for the purpose of transferring employees to fill empty job roles or to have senior staff take over foreign domestic management.

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HRE Column: LinkedIn One Year Later

Steve Boese

Once again, I offer my semi-frequent reminder and pointer for blog readers that I also write a monthly column at Human Resource Executive Online called Inside HR Tech that can be found here. This month, I take a look back at the Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn which (although it seems like a lot longer), only closed officially about this time last year.

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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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What Will Happen When You No Longer ‘Own’ Talent?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Needs-based employment is hardly a new phenomenon. Since even before the Industrial Age, when a business needed a toolmaker, an accountant or some other skilled worker, it hired one. It then “owned” one, as Bryan Clifton describes the relationship.

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a colleague is hitting on me and I don’t know how to respond

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a mid-sized association. As such we are run by our members, anything we do comes through our committees, these are made up by our most devoted members. I’ve been at the association for about a year now and have attended multiple of these committee meetings. It’s not unusual for our staff to have drinks/dinner/etc. with members after meetings.

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Why Today's Workplace Needs You to Be Fast on Your Feet

45 Things

You know those picky and demanding customers who drive you nuts? Or, those employees who endlessly complain that things could be done better? Instead of running away from those you may consider annoying, it’s time to start listening to them, says Amanda Setili, a strategy consultant who has worked with Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines and Home Depot. That’s because those who complain – whether employees or customers – are doing so because they have ideas about how things can be done better.

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Givinga Enhancements November 2017

Givinga Blog

Over the past several months, we have been hard at work constantly improving and enhancing the Givinga platform based on the feedback that our users have provided. I wanted to take a minute to tell you about a few significant enhancements to the platform that we have recently launch based on feedback we received. Charity Access. One of our biggest improvements was related to the number of charities accessible from our platform.

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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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How to Fire a Friend and Opens Her Mouth and Lets Fly

Workplace Coach

Question: I’ve known “John” since fifth grade. He had career success in his twenties, but it’s been downhill for him ever since. Recently, he got laid off, let me know he had almost no money and would do “anything.” A couple weeks later when my company needed someone to replace one of my entry-level employees who unexpectedly quit, I gave John’s name to our HR department.

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Ranking the Thanksgiving turkey(s) and sides: The Employer Handbook Top 20

The Employer Handbook

This is not up for debate. Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows **kisses fingers**. Macaroni and cheese. Stuffing. Homemade mashed potatoes. Cornbread. Gravy (bonus points for sausage). Turkey. Canned cranberry sauce. Corn. Roasted vegetables. Homemade cranberry sauce. Brussel sprouts. Green bean casserole. Turducken. Instant mashed potatoes or any other wannabe mashed potatoes such as cauliflower puree.

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What Benefits Are Employees Most Thankful For in 2017?

Benefitfocus

The value of employment has become increasingly tied to benefits. Here are the ones your employees will be most grateful for this Thanksgiving.

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Jamil Qureshi: ‘Act Differently, Think Differently’ if You Want to Maximize Potential

Workday

Performance coach and psychologist Jamil Qureshi specializes in maximizing potential, having worked with 22 of the world’s top golfers. He was also the first official psychologist to work with the 2010 European Ryder Cup team as they made history in winning by a record-equaling margin. At Workday Rising Europe last week, Qureshi discussed his mantra of “act differently, think differently” in order to maximize the potential of leaders and teams.

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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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The Art of Startup: How to Build a Brand Your Customers Can Trust

Effortless HR

Trusted brands find it easier to sell their products and services. Imagine household names like Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and HP. All of these names have been around for years and have amassed fortunes as they lock in a consistently growing customer base. As a budding entrepreneur and startup CEO, building trust and rapport with your customers is vital for your business to survive and thrive in the long haul.

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How to Develop Rock Solid Town Hall Meeting Ideas

POPinNow

It is common knowledge that happy employees are more productive than their restless counterparts. Unfortunately, only 13% of employees report feeling engaged while at work. To alleviate employee dissatisfaction, many managers have come up with town hall meeting ideas. Town hall meetings have worked for many a leader. In fact, the most recent presidential election utilized the town hall meeting model for its debates.

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Survey Incentives:  What You Need to Know

crewhu

Offering an incentive for customer feedback is tricky, but profitable. Most of us have been asked to take a customer feedback survey , but unless we’re blown away by a service, or angry as a badger, it’s unlikely we’ll justify taking the time to submit to the request. That’s where incentives come in – you scratch our back, we’ll scratch yours.

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