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7 Fun Ways to Host Team Meetings

Achievers

Team meetings are renowned for being boring and, to many employees, a waste of time. In fact, one survey shows that over 75% of meeting participants are annoyed by meetings they deem unnecessary, and many more will agree they find them boring, even if it’s just from time to time. So, as a meeting host in your business, it’s up to you to spice things up and bring a spark that will keep everybody engaged.

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Employees Are Not Seeing Their Feedback Turned Into Results – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

You’ve heard me say before that one of the worst things organizations can do is ask employees for feedback and then not do anything with it. This HR Bartender reader knows it’s true and is wondering what to do about it. About four months ago, I incorporated ‘Feedback Friday’ at my organization, and have received very positive comments. However, I still struggle on what to do with the results, besides just sharing them.

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The salary history ban: 5 steps to determine pay in the don’t-ask era

Insperity

“How much did you make at your last job?”. Until recently, it was fairly standard practice to ask job candidates about salary history in interviews or on job applications. But not anymore. Now, it’s becoming increasingly off limits. More and more states are adopting laws that prohibit asking job candidates about their salary history. The laws are part of a recent effort to fight gender discrimination and narrow the pay gap between men and women.

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Here’s Why Your Team Needs to Hire a VP of People

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. It’s been exactly eight years since we launched this software company. Now that we’re clocking in at just under 150 full-time employees, it has become plainly obvious that our senior leadership team is missing a critical seat on the org chart.

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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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5 Things to Consider When Building Employee Surveys

Achievers

Did you know that 88% of employees don’t have passion for their work? Even worse is the impact employee disengagement has on economy: employee disengagement costs more than $500 billion per year to the U.S. economy alone. Knowing all of this, I ask you, “What can your business do to address this major disengagement issue?”. Start with listening to your employees.

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4 Effective Tips For Creating a Strong Employer Branding Strategy

Hppy

With today’s job market and unemployment rates, there’s a big focus on branding oneself to be as attractive as possible to employers. But companies need to brand themselves as well—not just for customers, but to attract the best possible candidates. We’ve already explored some of the branding mistakes and pitfalls that companies often encounter. If you want your employer branding to truly shine, here are some helpful strategies and techniques that you should keep in mind.

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15 Office Layout Ideas to Match Your Company’s Culture

SnackNation

15 Office Layout Ideas to Match Your Company’s Culture. New ideas for your office layout do not have to be time consuming or expensive! Whether you’re moving to a new space or trying to improve an existing one, you can refresh your office by following a few simple tips and tricks. Sure, it’s nice to perfectly recreate all those pictures you found on Pinterest, but if you don’t have the resources, don’t sweat!

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5 Ways to Earn Employee Feedback to Improve Your Company Benefits Package

WEX Inc.

Do you know which benefits your employees find valuable? Which benefits they like the most? The least? Do you have the mechanisms in place needed to help collect this constructive feedback? Use the following five steps as a guideline to earn employee feedback to improve your company benefits package.

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Organizational Trust Is the Key to Innovation

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the first time, Kronos was named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work. Congrats to them! Enjoy the article.).

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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 to reboot an unmotivated employee

cipHR

It’s not uncommon for employees to lose their motivation from time to time. We explore the signs and dangers of a lack of motivation, and six ways to get your staff back on track. Despite your best efforts, it’s possible that even the best hires can become demotivated over time – in fact, nearly a third of UK workers are unhappy in their current job, according to 2017 data from Investors in People.

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Lessons I’ve Learned Working in Benefits

Winston Benefits

Meredith Beam, vice president of employee solutions at Winston Benefits, was honored last year by Employee Benefit Adviser as one of the most influential women in benefit advising. Her development efforts and keen insights have helped clients fully automate their enrollment and administrative processes while serving their bottom-line strategies. Here are some lessons she’s learned in her career in benefits.

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3 ways to take charge of your HR career

PeopleStrategy

Think you’re deserving of a promotion or raise this year? Don’t wait for someone to come to you; be your #1 advocate and take charge of your HR career! Here are three actions you can take to get started: 1. Seek out new experiences . We all know how easy it is to fall into the same comfortable daily routine. But that probably won’t get you noticed.

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Every Bias Is Not Necessarily a Bad Bias

HR Bartender

That was my takeaway from David Rock’s presentation on The Neuroscience of Breaking Bias from last year’s Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference. All biases are not bad. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address them. Here’s why: Think of bias as our tendency to generalize or group people or information. Each of us gets our biases from a different place, so we can’t treat all biases the same.

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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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Will Your Employee Promotion Strategy Improve Or Harm Your Work Culture?

15Five

When you think of workplace culture , what comes to mind? You may think of how your team interacts in a meeting, if employees hang out with one another after hours, or if there’s a table tennis tournament lighting up your office. But culture goes beyond that , and is created by the sum of your—and everyone else’s—behaviors and actions. One important element that defines and reinforces work culture is employee promotions.

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Why Effective Mentors Focus On Building High Trust Relationships

Hppy

Trust – an easy word to say however not always the easiest thing to build. It is difficult for us to build trusting relationships on an individual basis let alone in an organization. For an organization to build a high trust culture it takes commitment and it takes strong leadership. In other words, it all has to start at the top. A quick look at Fortune 100’s top 10 organizations and you can begin to see the degree of effort that is required to create that high trust culture.

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Why the GDPR will change how HR treats employee data

cipHR

New regulations will prompt cultural changes in HR’s attitudes towards collecting and protecting sensitive employee data, experts argue. Any HR professional worth their salt will be aware that significant changes to how employee data is collected and stored come into effect on 25 May 2018 , when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will be enforceable across the EU, including in the UK.

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How to Get the Employee Experience on the CEO’s Agenda [eBook+Webinar]

UpstartHR

Short version: I’m co-hosting an upcoming webinar focusing on the employee experience and how to get executive attention and investment in building your own firm’s employee experience. Read on for details about how to sign up and how to get a free copy of the new eBook! It’s hard to turn around today without hearing about the employee experience.

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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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Single Touch Payroll Product Bulletin | March 2018

Ascender

Preceda – Single Touch Payroll Update. Ascender wish to advise that as of March 27, 2018, all Ascender payroll platforms are now covered by a Single Touch Payroll (STP) deferral issued by the Australian Tax Office. Each Ascender solution has been issued with an individual Deferral Reference Number (DRN). Whilst most Ascender solutions will be ready for STP by the due date of July 1st, the deferral has been obtained to assist customers in moving to an STP compliant release and being ready t

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Top Employee Engagement Learning Trends

Hppy

Most employees are thinking about one of three career-related decisions. It is time to search for a new job, stay with my company or go back to school to improve their education. A complicated reality to accept for most retail business owners is retaining top talent to save the expense of hiring new employees. Have no fear. We researched the latest employee engagement trends for you to use at your company. 1.

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Opinion: Why ‘bad’ data can be good news for your organisation

cipHR

When HR professionals talk about data analytics , generally they focus on the good stuff. But every employer is at a different point in their data journey; some we work with have very little or even no people data to draw on at all, while others use a balanced scorecard to identify their financial, internal, customer, learning and growth metrics. Although, on the surface, these more sophisticated HR data practices might look like they are giving the board what they need to see, it’s often data w

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Indonesia: Everything an Employer Should Know

Global People Strategist

Are you opening an office in Indonesia? Already operating there? Looking for an employer compliance framework that can be applied to any country? Please join us for a webinar on Thursday, April 12, at 11am EST, as Global People Strategist President and Co-Founder, Priya Licht, presents Indonesia and everything you need to know about being an employer in that country.

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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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Episode 26 | Why Daniel Katz Wants to Move Back Into His Office, with No Cow founder Daniel Katz

SnackNation

Episode 26 | Why Daniel Katz Wants to Move Back Into His Office, with No Cow founder Daniel Katz. Daniel Katz might have the ultimate entrepreneur story. Sleeping under a desk? Check. Half a million dollar mistakes? Check. Breeding reptiles and flipping houses in high school? Also check. Daniel is the founder of No Cow, makers of non-dairy, low sugar, high protein snacks that people just love.

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GDPR In The Workplace And How To Implement It

Hppy

As one of the world’s largest social media sites faces backlash from sharing private consumer information with an analytics site, it should be no surprise that regulatory agencies are taking extensive steps to keep companies from invading the privacy of customers and others who visit their websites. In particular, the 28 nations of the European Union have banded together to create new data regulations to keep its citizens safe from invasive advertising.

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Hireology CEO Featured on Dealers Compressed Podcast

Hireology

Hireology Co-Founder and CEO Adam Robinson sat down with Image Auto Founder and CEO Paul J Daly at NADA 2018 to discuss the importance of human capital management to dealer success. Image Auto recently launched a podcast, Dealers Compressed , and a video series, Compressed , focused on helping dealers remain profitable in the face of margin compression, and making the retail automotive industry better as a whole.

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HCM, HRMS and HRIS: 5 HR software misconceptions debunked

Insperity

What does HCM stand for? What’s an HRMS? And how are they different from an HRIS? If your quest for HR technology has you drowning in alphabet soup, you’re not alone. There’s a lot of confusion around these three acronyms, but once you get past some common misconceptions, it’s a lot easier to understand them. Here are five myths we’ve debunked to help you gain some clarity around the different types of HR software and make sure you choose the best platform for your business: Myth #1: HCM, HRMS a

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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.