May, 2019

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Cutting Costs? 5 Employee Benefits You Should Never Cut Back On

Achievers

During the lean periods when finances are stretched too tight, and you need a quick solution, employee benefits are often first on the chopping block. While this might seem like a necessary course of action, it can be a detrimental shot to the team morale. Evaluate your employee benefits. Reducing or eliminating employee benefits can affect motivation and amplify “retaliatory behavior,” says Sigal Barsade, professor of business management at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Conference Swag HR Pros Want Most #SHRM19

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I asked the question, “ What’s your favorite type of conference swag? ” A huge thanks for sharing your thoughts! I must say that I’m a bit surprised at the results. Here they are: Food and drink related items were at the top of the list. I wasn’t surprised at the requests for Yetis – they’re one of my all-time personal faves. But I was happily surprised at the mentions of stainless straws and chip clips.

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Dealing with difficult employees: A 5-step plan

Insperity

As a business owner, manager or HR leader, you need to be an expert at dealing with difficult employees. A difficult employee is not just a problem between one employee and another. If one person makes life difficult for the company, discontent can fester and become a major distraction. The air of dissent affects everyone and can cause a dramatic decrease in productivity and the departure of other employees.

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How to Keep Employees Engaged and Happy

Take It Personel-ly

A 700-person experiment conducted by the Social Market Foundation and the University of Warwick’s Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy in Britain showed that productivity increased by an average of 12% in employees who were happy, and reached as high as 20% above the control group. These results show that happy employees are […].

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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An Interview with Tesla’s Felicia Mayo on Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

HR Digest

Creating an Environment that Encourages Cognitive Diversity In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Felicia Mayo talks about the value of cognitive diversity in the global business sector and what makes a great leader. “The ability to inspire, motivate and create followership is nirvana,” she says. “When you have a leader that exhibits this strength, that leader can rally employees towards the impossible.

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The Three Things Your Job Description is Missing

Achievers

Long gone are the days where we simply checked in and checked out of work. With the average American working 47 hours a week , and many working over 50, work isn’t just something we do, it is an indicator of who we are, who we spend our time with, and what problems we are interested in solving. Why then is it 16% of the global workforce is engaged, and only 17% here at home are engaged ?

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5 Must-Have Benefits for Millennial Employees

Best Money Moves

Two million students will graduate with a bachelor’s degree this year and enter the workforce. MAVY Poll surveyed recent graduates on behalf of the American Institute of CPAs to determine which employee benefits would most help them achieve their financial goals as they begin their job search. “The job market, and therefore the employee benefits market, is constantly evolving.

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Learning from failure: 5 inspiring life lessons

Insperity

You’re not perfect and that’s OK. Once you’ve accepted that, you can begin to reorient your mindset from feeling bad about making mistakes to recognizing your faults and learning from failure. Sure, you want to succeed. Everyone does. But you must realize that the road to success is often littered with past failures. The difference between successful people and everyone else is their determination to turn failure into life lessons that strengthen their resolve.

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Is Coworking the Office of the Future?

Take It Personel-ly

Modern working life is evolving – fast. Whether you’re an employee or an employer it’s hard to ignore this fact, though plenty of companies do seem to be burying their heads in the sand about this fact. For that reason, it’s important to consider the factors which will soon be affecting the workplace. And one […].

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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Race Against Bias: Are we aware of our own unconscious bias?

HR Digest

Unconscious bias is hard-wired into our brains. It’s a survival mechanism, so basic and below our conscious radar. It helps us better sift through the constant stream of information to make accurate decisions based on instinct rather than logic. What’s more, everyone harbors them and takes them into the workplace. In fact, studies demonstrate bias across nearly every organizational activity and for nearly every group of people.

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5 Must-Watch TED Talks To Help You Build Leadership Skills

15Five

Every great leader possesses unique leadership skills that have propelled them to the top, but one quality they all share is a strong commitment to continuous learning. Take Bill Gates, the legendary founder of Microsoft, who reads over 50 books a year. This is Gates’ primary way of gaining new knowledge and testing his understanding. But in case you’re not ready to average four books a month, we’ve gathered five powerful TED talks below, each focusing on a particular facet of leadership, from l

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Is Your Talking Style Mental Health Friendly? Three Tips to Improve Your Conversations at Work

Achievers

Do you know a professional with a superhuman ability to welcome criticism? Of course not, yet for over a century employees have been expected to leave their emotions at home and assume a Teflon-like ability to handle anything that’s said to them. Cognitive science has discredited this crazy notion by proving we can’t choose to be unemotional any more than we can chose to live without breathing.

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How to Reduce Stress in the Workplace: 3 Tips to Start

Best Money Moves

How to reduce stress in the workplace: 3 tips to start. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and here are three ways employers can reduce stress, boost morale and attract talent for better employee morale and a more productive workplace. Forty-eight percent of employees have cried at work when stressed out, according to a recent report by Gin g er. More than 80 percent of employees say they are stressed on a regular basis and 45 percent of workers under 40 are extremely stressed on a daily basis

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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12 Greco-Roman leadership quotes that can improve your HR

Insperity

We are in the age of information inundation. With countless stimuli and information sources competing for our attention, it’s easy to overlook wisdom thought up last week, not to mention more than 2,000 years ago. But business leaders can derive immense wisdom from understanding powerful leadership quotes of ancient Roman and Greek philosophers. After all, it was during this period that the principles and ethics of Western society were first formulated.

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Creating a green workplace

Take It Personel-ly

Many people want their business to be green, sustainable, and align with their values. The challenge is that many business owners are unsure of how to do that, or where to start. Fortunately there are many green initiatives that you can adopt in the office that will make a difference. To help jump-start your sustainability […].

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Peter Fasolo, CHRO at Johnson & Johnson, On the Value of Transformational Growth and Innovation

HR Digest

"Creating Opportunities for Multigenerational Workforce" Peter Fasolo, Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer at Johnson & Johnson is widely considered one of the world’s most influential human resources leaders and Johnson & Johnson, one of the most admired companies. A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold.

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How Workplace Feedback Can Create A Cultural Revolution At Your Company

15Five

How many times have you heard the phrase, “communication is key?” If you’re anything like me, the advice has now become trite, losing any significance or weightiness it once had. But ignoring this advice with any relationship can be detrimental to the deep connection you are trying to create with another person. When we aren’t intentional with the way we communicate, things can turn sour quickly.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Solving The Leadership Development Dilemma

BetterUp

by Dr. Damian Vaughn, Chief Programs Officer at BetterUp. Organizations today face a common challenge: they are struggling to develop leaders of tomorrow. The pace of change in business is head-spinning. Advanced technologies continue to reshape business models, customer and employee expectations, and entire industries—creating a complex and uncertain workplace.

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How to Retain Hourly Employees

Best Money Moves

How to retain hourly employees. Research by Shiftboard uncovered what matters most to these workers to help you improve job satisfaction and reduce hourly worker turnover. Half of hourly employees would take a pay cut for more control over their schedule or better health benefits, according to recent research by Shiftboard. “There are nearly 82 million hourly workers in the U.S., and they make up more than half of the American workforce,” said Steve O’Brian, Vice President of Marketing at Shiftb

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Dear leaders, please stop making assumptions – here’s how

Insperity

If you want to be an effective leader, you must learn how to stop making assumptions. Otherwise, you risk destroying your credibility. In life, there’s no such thing as perfect information. Countless daily decisions are made based on an incomplete picture of the world, and those gaps in knowledge are often filled in by assumptions. Assumptions can be harmless (like assuming your commute to work will take 30 minutes) or even positive (a football coach setting the perfect defensive trap after accu

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7 Major Factors That Make Great Company Culture

Take It Personel-ly

A great company culture leads to many things – happier and engaged employees, high performance and high retention. More and more candidates want to join a company that has a positive company culture. So, before you come up with recruitment strategies, focus on building a great company culture. Here are 7 ways to do so. […].

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Paul Wolfe, SVP And HR At Indeed On How To Create A Positive Work Culture

HR Digest

The importance of having a positive work culture can never be overestimated. Employees are a company’s most important assets. Ensuring that they feel valued and are happy, is crucial for every company. However, creating a positive workplace culture where employees can thrive and work to their full potential, is a daunting task and requires continuous efforts from everyone involved in leadership.

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Shannon Arvizu, Ph.D: The Science of Building Psychologically Safe Professional Relationships

15Five

Welcome back to Talk Nerdy To Me, 15Five’s academic blog series where we get nerdy, talk to the world’s best thinkers, and break down the latest academic research that you can apply to your workplace. This time around, I spoke with Dr. Shannon Arvizu on the topic of professional relationships. Shannon is a tech sociologist and founder of Epic Teams where she applies her unique background in behavioral science, positive psychology and team performance to help Fortune 500 companies and startups de

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Is poor sleep affecting your performance at work?

cipHR

Disrupted sleep makes it harder for us to think creatively and complete tasks. So why does sleep often come last in our hectic lives? And what can we do to fix bad habits? “I only got six hours of sleep last night and I feel terrible.” “I know how you feel… I haven’t slept properly for weeks.”. Sadly these sorts of conversations with friends, family and workmates are becoming more common as our busy lives make sleep less of a priority for many people.

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How (and why) to Make Mental Health in the Workplace a Priority

WEX Inc.

We all know the saying ‘check your baggage at the door.’ In a professional setting, that means separating aspects of your personal life from work life. Easier said than done. The truth is, what’s going on with employees outside of work is also going on at work. This is especially true when it comes to an individual’s mental health. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 1 in 5 adults in the United States experiences mental illness in a given year.

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.