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Top Do’s and Don’ts for Elevating the Employee Experience

Achievers

High levels of employee engagement are known to boost productivity, improve customer satisfaction , and bolster retention rates. It ’s these very benefits that have spurred companies across the country to invest in enhancing the employee experience. . Despite this investment, only 13 percent of today’s employees report feeling engaged in the workplace.

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Engagement or Connection: Why the Connected Workplace Might Be Better

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at MindManager , a division of Corel Corporation. MindManager helps individuals, teams, and enterprises do great work faster by simplifying the way they capture, organize, and share information. You can try MindManager out for free here. Enjoy the article!). I’ve been seeing the term “connected” workplace showing up a bit more in my reading.

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How to Lead by Emotional Intelligence

HR Digest

Traditional leadership tells us that traits such as assertiveness, dominance, physical stature, intelligence, and social sensitivity determine whether an individual is best suited for leadership. These characteristics certainly play an advantageous role but the most prominent of all is Emotional Intelligence (EI), which is one’s ability to regulate feelings and use them to guide our actions.

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High-performing employees: How to attract, retain and manage them

Insperity

A company with more top performers will usually outshine its competitors. How valuable is a high-performing employee? Studies have shown that one top achiever can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. As an HR professional, it‘s essential to know how to identify key personnel. That knowledge will help you recruit, manage and retain top performers at work.

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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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Home Health Care Hiring: 5 Ways to Boost Candidate Engagement with Technology

Hireology

Home health care hiring is more challenging than ever before. Between record-low unemployment and limited interest in home health care jobs, agencies are finding it difficult to attract and hire qualified employees for open roles. . To improve home health care hiring at your agency, it’s important to first sell top talent on the opportunity joining your team presents, then keep candidates engaged throughout the hiring process once they’ve applied.

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3 Ways HR Leaders Can Build a Winning Culture

HR Digest

Building a winning culture at work is not an easy feat. It takes more than hiring the right talent to build a company everyone wants to work for. Creating a positive work culture where everyone thrives comes down to the emotional and intellectual ways you support your employees. It may seem complicated but creating a winning culture is one of the simplest things you could do if you follow some of the steps mentioned below.

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Empowering Employees: How Millennials Drive Innovation in Business

Take It Personel-ly

We’re all familiar with the stereotype of millennials in the workplace: They’re lazy and entitled, are chronic job-hoppers and are incapable of taking constructive criticism. This stereotype has been hammered into our collective consciousness by nearly every major media outlet (we’ve all seen TIME’s now-infamous “The Me Me Me Generation” cover) and embraced by employers […].

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Employee Financial Wellness Statistics 2019

Best Money Moves

Employee financial wellness statistics 2019. New research looks at the spillover effect financial stress has on employee productivity. Greetings, New research by Morgan Stanley highlights the impact financial wellness has on employee productivity. . Nearly four in five employees (78 percent) with high financial stress say that they are distracted by financial stress at work and it’s not just workers with lower incomes.

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Zappos Brings Music To Employee Wellness Program

Wellable

In partnership with legendary guitar maker Fender, Zappos now offers employees an exciting new wellness benefit. The program is called Strum for the Sole , and it gives more than 1,500 employees access to an onsite “jam room” at its Las Vegas facility. Employees can use Fender Play, an app that provides users with step-by-step music lessons on electric and acoustic guitar, bass, and ukulele, free of charge in the jam room.

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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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How HR Leaders Can Build More Trust with Employees

HR Digest

Do your employees trust the company’s leadership? There’s a good reason they should – after all, trust is at the root of every good relationship. This includes the relationship between a manager and employee. The most thriving workplace cultures are where employees are fully engaged and work with a sense of purpose. According to Great Place to Work , the best company cultures are where employees believe that their leadership is made up of people they can trust.

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How to Motivate a Team: 9 Unbelievably Impactful Suggestions

Take It Personel-ly

How to motivate a team comes down to instituting a series of policies and changes that make people want to work harder. Here’s what we suggest… Teamwork makes the dreamwork! Unless, of course, your team isn’t feeling motivated to get that work done. In fact, draining energy and enthusiasm from your team can cause everyone […].

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Millennial Financial Stress Statistics 2019

Best Money Moves

Millennial financial stress statistics 2019. Here’s how student loans, housing costs and savings are affecting the millennial generation. Based on the most recent data, Millennials are now the largest generation in the workforce , surpassing both Baby Boomers and Generation X. Burdened with student loan debt, high costs of living and savings struggles, Millennials are also some of the most financially stressed employees.

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Overcoming seasonal impacts on employee motivation

Insperity

Just as employees may struggle to keep their focus in the late afternoon, they may also show signs of seasonal slowdowns. Whether it’s the holiday hoopla at the end of the year, flu season at the start or summer vacation’s siren call in the middle, individual performance and the overall mood can suffer from the seasonal impacts on employee motivation.

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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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26 Simple Yet Awesome Welcome Messages for New Employees

Vantage Circle

Crafting welcome messages for new employees is a tedious task. They say, “You never get a second chance to make a first impression”. The quote holds true when we are talking about onboarding new employees to the company. Making every employee feel comfortable and familiar with their new working environment is the best way to start a healthy work relationship.

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Continue to Keep Hardcopies in a Digital World

Take It Personel-ly

With the advent of modern technology, many businesses have now completely minimized their documents and are going the paperless route. Even important contracts are created as PDFs, digitally signed, and disseminated online, which is then stored as digital data that is accessible for viewing to all the parties concerned. Though it is very convenient to […].

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Don’t Make These 3 Common Open Enrollment Mistakes

WEX Inc.

It’s the final countdown! Open Enrollment is mere weeks away, and all the research, planning and preparations you’ve done are about to come full circle.

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New Comprehensive HR Training Courses Program

Asure Software

Asure Consulting has launched a comprehensive HR Training Courses Program, consisting of 47 modular segments, based on trending operations and… The post New Comprehensive HR Training Courses Program appeared first on Asure Software.

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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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The Purrrfect Bark Annuity - Coming Soon

The Teacher's Advocate

I'm pretty tough on the insurance industry, this is no secret. But I've been working behind the scenes with GTTD Life and Annuity to bring a new kind of annuity to the marketplace, a truly unique product never before seen. I'm super excited about how this one product could dramatically change the lives of my clients and hundreds of thousands of teachers across the nation.

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The Power of Eye Contact

Take It Personel-ly

Learning how to make strong eye contact is one of the most important skills you can develop for your professional life. Humans are social animals, and we can tell a lot about how a person is feeling from just their gaze. Scientists believe that this is due to something called the “cooperative eye hypothesis,” where […].

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Study: More Employers Than Ever Planning To Increase Investment In Employee Wellness

Wellable

A recent study by Optum reveals that more than twice as many employers than ten years ago are looking to increase their investments in employee health and wellness. The 10th Annual Wellness in the Workplace study surveyed 544 employers with between 100 and 10,000 employees.

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9 Time Management Techniques For Better Engagement

Vantage Circle

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. - William Penn. Time, as we all know is precious and valuable for everyone. In this ever-changing and fast-paced world, maintaining a steady schedule and keeping up with changes has become difficult. And people find it laborious to take out time to manage their tasks. With constant transformation going all around, the workload has increased.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Social Round-Up: 3-2-1.Action!

WEX Inc.

The moment you have planned for all year is almost here: Open Enrollment. It's time to put your hard work into action.

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Why You Need To Pay Attention To Eye Health At Work

Take It Personel-ly

No matter if you own your own business, work remotely, work for a start-up, or work at a large company – being healthy while you’re at work is so important! On average, people work 40 hours a week, but that’s not an excuse to let your health fall to the wayside. Things like taking regular […].

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What is GINA? The federal discrimination law you need to know.

Business Management Daily

GINA, or the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, outlaws genetic discrimination. The federal law has been around for a decade, yet many employers still don’t know exactly how to comply. GINA essentially bars using genetic information in employment decisions and bars acquiring genetic information improperly. GINA bars employers from discriminating against or harassing employees based on their genetic information.

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What Up or Out Policy Means to Workers

HR Digest

What is the Up or Out policy? How widespread is the up or out system? Where is it most effective? Up or out is a policy in some consulting firms where employees are expected to achieve a certain rank or level of progression within the business at a predetermined pace, over the course of a finite number of years. If they fail to do so, they are required by contract to leave.

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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.