January, 2021

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Why Organizational Culture Is a Competitive Differentiator 

Achievers

“You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your organizational culture and propel you forward.” — Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO at The Muse . Organizational culture doesn’t mean that you own the trendiest or coolest business — it means that you operate a positive workplace with a strong values and an even stronger identity, a place that drives business success. .

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Announcing Hireology at NADA 2021

Hireology

The pandemic can’t stop NADA 2021 ! The auto event of the year will take place virtually this year, and we’re excited to announce our attendance and can’t wait to connect with you! . Join thousands of dealers, dealership managers, exhibiting companies, and the world’s leading auto industry representatives virtually at this year’s NADA Show. For three days, award-winning dealer education, franchise meetings, industry networking and the NADA Expo, will deliver non-stop content to help you c

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Your Role in Building Trust on a Remote Team by @KevinEikenberry

Take It Personel-ly

One of the presumed “facts” about working remotely is that trust will be reduced the longer people work remotely. While reduced trust is possible, it isn’t inevitable if people are aware of and take actions to maintain and build trust on a remote team. Here are some things you can do. It Starts With You […].

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Select the Best Candidate Faster: Employment Background Checks

HR Bartender

(Editor’s note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Paycom , a leading provider of cloud-based human capital management software. For the eighth consecutive year, Paycom has been named to The Oklahoman ’s top workplaces list. Congratulations! Hope you enjoy the article.). One of the things that’s amazing to me about the hiring process is that organizations will spend hours screening, interviewing and discussing candidates, but when it comes time to make a final decision, they rush i

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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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Regards? Or is it ‘Thanks’? Here are the worst email mistakes

HR Digest

From cringey sign offs to annoying email faux pas, these are the worst email mistakes everyone makes. Work collaboration may have moved on to work sharing apps that collate, use calendars, schedule appointments, and whatnot, but a vast majority of workers still use emails to communicate officially. And when using this method of communication, there are bound to be some pet-peeves that people have about how people write and what email etiquettes to follo w.

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5 Reasons Your Employee Turnover Is on the Rise

Achievers

Even wonderful employers face the occasional loss of a worker. The employee turnover rate across all industries is 10.9 percent, representing a range between 13.2 percent in the technology (software) industry and 10.8 percent in financial services. These figures have been rising steadily as the economy grows stronger and workers feel more confident.

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6 Ways to Address Employee Burnout in Your Agency

Hireology

One of the many knock-on effects of the pandemic is an increase in employee burnout. While the healthcare industry hasn’t seen the hiring freezes and mass layoffs that plagued other industries last year, the increased demand for home healthcare services has created an influx of work with fewer hands to perform it. Burnout is an industry agnostic problem, but the home healthcare industry sees a tremendous amount of turnover related to burnout due to the demanding schedules and arduous nature of t

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5 Simple Ways to Make Positive Change in 2021

Take It Personel-ly

As 2021 gets off to a new start, finding a way to start fresh is very important. As the prior year had many challenges and negativity, finding a way to change and improve yourself and the world around you is very important. There are five simple ways that anyone could make a positive change in […].

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Keeping an Open Line of Communication with Your Employees

PeopleKeep

As an employer, effective communication is key to running a successful organization. Whether discussing job duties, explaining HR policies, or outlining a benefits package, it’s important that there’s a clear line of communication between employers and employees. Open communication encourages higher quality work, understanding of important policies, and a relationship of trust between employers and employees.

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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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Put Employer Branding at the Core of Your Strategy

HR Digest

Employer branding is an essential strategy for any organization—be it market perception or attracting the right talents to the organization. What is employer branding? . It is managing your reputation as an employer among job seekers, employees and key stakeholders. It includes everything your organization does or stands for to become an employer of choice.

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What leaders can do about workplace factionalism

Insperity

What happens when two teams in the same company can’t – or won’t – work together? Workplace factionalism can result from a number of things, including: Limited resources Competing needs Competitive mindsets Poor communication Silos of information and responsibilities Perceived favoritism from higher ups Ego-centric beliefs and behaviors Lack of alignment between leaders.

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Why Employee Recognition is Important and Key Benefits

Achievers

Employees are struggling with burnout, disconnection, and low morale more than ever before. But there’s a clear solution: recognition. Recognition is the number one ask from employees in this new normal. The vast majority — 82% — wish that they received more recognition. And meeting this desire can have a huge effect on key contributors to your bottom line, like employee engagement and retention.

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Addressing the Recruitment Challenges of Rural Community Healthcare Organizations

Hireology

Our friends in rural communities see plenty of challenges that some of the more densely populated communities don’t have to manage through. . For one, rural healthcare organizations have to contend with attracting talent away from urban areas where candidates received their training or face understaffing, which leads to increased workloads, overtime, and limited scheduling flexibility.

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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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The Journey to Developing a Healthier Lifestyle

Take It Personel-ly

How healthy are you? This is that many people do not ask themselves. Even when you ask them, they are likely to ask you to consider more important things. Currently, many people are living with health on the periphery. Individuals focus on their jobs, education, and making more than healthy. Every other aspect of life […].

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Top 10 HR Trends To Help Shape Your 2021 Strategy

15Five

Last year will go down as one of the most infamous years of our lifetime. But we know that where there are challenges, there is also tremendous growth. In typical 15Five fashion, we set out to understand the biggest learnings from 2020 that will impact HR leaders in 2021 and help them prepare for what’s next. After gathering feedback from our network of leaders, academics, and experts, we uncovered a list of ten top HR trends we believe will be crucial for leaders to consider this year, and beyo

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Rethinking the Gig Economy

HR Digest

The gig economy, alongside the future of work, has become a well-known subject of conversation. The gig economy involves working arrangements that are closer to “gigs” than traditional jobs. This originates from the idea that work is turning out to be more similar to playing a music gig at a bar, with no assurance of continuing with work, and workers are free to choose where to work next.

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What’s the purpose of human resources (HR)?

Insperity

Have you or any of your peers in the business world ever asked yourselves: What’s the purpose of human resources (HR)? And why should we value it? For starters, the purpose of HR is to provide the structure for your organization and serves as the engine that keeps it running smoothly on a daily basis. It governs important aspects of your business, such as: The people on your team Workplace culture Policies and procedures Compliance with employment laws.

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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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5 Creative Virtual Employee Appreciation Ideas

Achievers

With the onset of COVID-19, the “future of work” arrived sooner than expected. For years, thought leaders predicted a virtual work environment where technology would replace the traditional structures and paradigms that dictated how we worked for decades. While technology has certainly changed some of these structures, like video conferences in lieu of in-person meetings, what hasn’t changed is the deep-rooted human need to belong and be acknowledged for our contributions.

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A Blueprint for Your Home Health Aide Job Descriptions

Hireology

The rate of hiring in the home healthcare industry continues to grow at a rapid pace. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the home healthcare services industry will have 22.6% more jobs in 2029 than in 2019, and overall employment for home health aides and personal care aides is projected to grow 34% from 2019 to 2029. . Your home healthcare agency is competing for top talent to fill your open roles, so it’s a good time to double check your home health aide job description to ensure yo

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How to Improve Work-Life Balance While Working From Home

Take It Personel-ly

As the US transitioned to a work-from-home economy in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many were unprepared for how to manage the blurred lines of work and home life. Suddenly the home became office space, unseparated by a commute or even a morning routine, leaving many to feel like they live at […].

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Five top learning and development tools for 2021

cipHR

As employees find their way in the new world of work in 2021, learning and development takes centre stage – we highlight five top L&D tools. 2020 showed us that rapid adaptability is key to recovery. Managers and employees have had to quickly learn new ways of working, from new onboarding processes to remote career development, and effective L&D teams have provided the support and training required.

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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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How To Win With People Analytics

HR Digest

Machines, both simple and advanced, have been used in past several decades to help workplaces determine outputs of work and, to replace work through automation using artificial intelligence (AI) tools and applications. What sorts of “insight” are expected from technologies? How do organizations use personal data accumulated by machines and make predictions of different types of intelligence?

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Business decision-making: 4 common mistakes and how to overcome them

Insperity

As a business leader, you’re responsible for making decisions that impact the long-term success of your company and the well-being of employees. Examples: Personnel decisions ( hiring , firing, promoting and disciplining) Selection of benefits programs Annual goal setting Budgeting and financial planning Adjustment to new laws and regulations Improvement of customer service.

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How to Address High Turnover With Retail Employees

Achievers

Here’s a not-so-fun fact: Retail employees leave their positions at a rate that’s over four times higher than the average turnover rate in all other industries. According to Human Resources Today, that translates to $19 billion in costs related to hiring and training new employees. The highest turnover rates are for hourly employees: 65% of them will leave their jobs for greener pastures, and it costs a full 16% of their annual salary to replace them. .

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Offer Letters: a Game Changer For Cavender Auto Family

Hireology

Hireology recently launched a product update that allows our customers to manage offer letters inside our platform. This feature allows for a fully customizable experience with personalization tokens and an option for an eSignature field, making your entire hiring process — from attracting applicants to onboarding new employees — all the more seamless.

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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.