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How to Find Employee Recognition Programs That Work

Achievers

There are countless employee recognition programs on the market, and they all claim to be the best at raising employee engagement. But how can you find employee recognition programs that work? More importantly, when you do find the right program, how do you successfully and effectively implement it? There are a few reasons why programs might not work, and key elements to look for when choosing the best employee recognition option.

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I’ve Done HR But I Don’t Have an HR Job Title [Reader Question]

UpstartHR

One of my favorite things to do is answer reader questions here on the blog. If you have a question you’d like answered (I answer as many as possible!) just shoot a note to ben@upstarthr.com. . Hi Ben, I’m a Business Administration major. I’m in my last year and I’ve chosen 5 Human Resource courses as my electives to assist me with gaining a basic knowledge of the career I want to pursue.

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3 Ways HR Pros Can Use People Analytics to Help the Bottom Line

HR Bartender

Organizations are regularly faced with a variety of challenges. Right now, many are faced with finding and retaining the best talent. Some companies might be experiencing a slump in sales. Some organizations are finding that a new technology is disrupting their market. Regardless of what challenge the organization is facing, HR and the rest of the senior management team are being asked to help develop and implement solutions.

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Five Creative Ways to Increase Employee Morale

Take It Personel-ly

Even though many people love their jobs and coworkers, morale can always be improved at the office. Work can easily become stressful and overwhelming, so there must be positive encouragements and attitude boosters to keep employees motivated on their bad days. Fortunately, there are many creative ways to increase employee morale at the office! Have […].

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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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Beyond Workplace Communication: Cultivating Relational Mastery

15Five

Slack, email, this blog… the myriad ways of communicating have no end. But what is the point of all this communication software if we fail at effectively conveying our message, building authentic relationships, or winning at work. Has our technology surpassed our humanity in this realm? Not if we learn how to cultivate relational mastery. In previous episodes of the Best-Self Management podcast we went into how leaders can Create a Powerful Shared Context with the vision, mission, values,

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5 apps for HR Management that make you instantly productive

HR Digest

It’s no surprise that a couple of clicks on the app store could make your life easier. Productivity apps are in heaps and bounds on the market, but very few cater to the ever-evolving needs of the human resources departments. Here we have five apps for HR management to help you streamline your everyday work life and make managing people much easier!

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24 Powerful Diversity And Inclusion Quotes for a Stronger Company Culture

Vantage Circle

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. ~ Mahatma Gandhi. Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together. ~ Jacqueline Woodson. Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do. ~ Marco Bizzarri.

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Workplace Wellness Trends for HR Managers in 2020

Flimp Communications

There are plenty of new ways HR managers are thinking about workplace wellness in 2020. This is leading to new products, new technologies and new ways of thinking about employee benefits. Younger generations of workers are entering the job market and replacing retiring baby boomers, causing a shift in the demand for certain workplace wellness benefits and perks.

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How to deliver high-value workplace perks that employees love

Insperity

Employers that offer the right set of workplace perks can realize benefits to their business and their workforce. Take, for instance, an increasingly common and inexpensive option: flexible work schedules. Flexible work schedules reap benefits for both the employee and employer, such as: Productivity increases. Not only are employees given more control over how they put their time in, they’re also provided an environment of autonomy.

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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 an Early Interest in Tech Shaped One Hireologist’s Career Path

Hireology

This post is part of our Hireology employee spotlight series. Continue reading to learn more about a day in the life as a Hireologist! Name: Andre Joseph. Team: Engineering. Role: Site Reliability Engineer. Andre joined the Hireology team as a Site Reliability Engineer in February 2019. He recently won the “High Five Award” at our team’s annual company kickoff, for continuously exemplifying all five of our Hireology core values.

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Best Workplace Comedies on Netflix

HR Digest

Netflix is becoming immensely popular nowadays, with millions of subscribers around the world and increasing at a fast pace each day. The online streaming site features everything from movies to web series to webisodes, television programs to what not! These features cover every genre and aspect of entertainment. However, with the recent success of "The Office" on Netflix, there been a rise in workplace comedies and demand.

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8 Foolproof Tips To Becoming The Best Manager Yet

Take It Personel-ly

Receiving a promotion is only the first of many exciting career opportunities that are on the horizon. And while there is much to celebrate about, your pay raise and fancy new office will come at a price. To secure your role as a head honcho, you have some leveling up to do. Here are eight […].

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What's Not to Love About These Social Media Updates?

WEX Inc.

We sure were feeling the love this week! Between wearing red on February 14th to raise money for the American Heart Association and our company-wide town hall meeting, we were able to submerse ourselves in company culture and grow as a team. However, it wasn't just all fun and games! We are busy wrapping up 2020 ACA reporting season and getting ready for our upcoming webinar on Thursday, February 27.

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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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How an Early Interest in Tech Shaped One Hireologist’s Career Path

Hireology

This post is part of our Hireology employee spotlight series. Continue reading to learn more about a day in the life as a Hireologist! Name: Andre Joseph. Team: Engineering. Role: Site Reliability Engineer. Andre joined the Hireology team as a Site Reliability Engineer in February 2019. He recently won the “High Five Award” at our team’s annual company kickoff, for continuously exemplifying all five of our Hireology core values.

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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

Retirement plans for a person are valuable benefits that impact both the present as well as future lives of the employees. However, offering retirement benefits to an employee can be a complicated process. As such, it is essential to understand the pros and cons of the process of providing retirement benefits. Here we bring to you precisely that information, with additional info about types of retirement benefits and the goals an employer would like to accomplish by offering retirement benefits.

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Things to Consider When Looking for Expert Family Lawyer

Take It Personel-ly

Most families experience disagreements which as a normal part of life. Some conflicts can be resolved by the people involved. But, there are instances when trying or offering a solution can result in an increasingly strained relationship and misunderstanding. The situation can be stressful and can affect almost all aspects of one’s life. When a […].

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Soft Skills: Why Are They Important in the Workplace?

Professionals Alternative

Soft skills in the workplace are arguably just as critical as experience and skill. Some people might even say they are even more important – after all, you can teach technical skills. Soft skills, like communication, adaptability, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills – these are seen as more challenging to develop, according to our staffing agency experts.

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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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Lessons learned from the first year of a corporate giving program

Business Management Daily

For the past year, our employees participated in a corporate giving initiative in which they donated goods and time to multiple organizations that seek to address hunger, need and homelessness in our area. When I became CEO late last year, I made it my goal to create and foster an open and collaborative culture, and I felt that encouraging our teams to work together towards a humanitarian cause would cultivate that culture while giving back to our community.

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How to Become a Wealth Manager: Skills & Duties for Portfolio Management

HR Digest

Wealth management is an investment advisory service offered by a group or an individual to clients. Financial instruments and strategies are formulated based on a client’s needs. To become a wealth manager, you need to have the ability to build a portfolio of assets of a client encompassing varied financial disciplines such as legal, estate planning, tax management, retirement planning etc., for a fee.

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Configuring your Payroll System for Increased Performance

Ascender

Shape your tools; empower your business. Life “in the cloud” and analytics have created a revolution in the traditional HR department. Critical HR deliverables, such as recruitment, onboarding, retention and development have been impacted considerably by new technologies. Advances in Payroll and HR systems have been at the forefront of this revolution.

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8 Ways to Motivate Healthy Living in Your Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

A healthy workforce is a happy and productive workforce. Employees who take care of themselves call in sick less and accomplish more while they’re on the clock. They’re also not as prone to debilitating conditions that force them from their job altogether. If you want to encourage increased well-being among your staff members, you can […].

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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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Help Millennials at Work Prepare for Retirement

Flimp Communications

Preparing for retirement in your twenties? Is that jumping the gun? Nope. Putting a savings system in place for the future is never a bad idea. To some millennials , retirement may not even seem real because it’s so far away. But there are major benefits to saving your pennies and getting a handle on financial wellness from an early age. Investopedia provides a few reasons why millennials at work should take saving for retirement seriously.

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Women-Centric HR Policies Pay Dividends for Companies

HR Digest

Women have been a part of the workforce in a big way since the industrial revolution. From traditionally holding down the fort at home, females now had the additional burden of earning a living alongside her male counterpart. Still, ironically her services came at a lesser cost. The reasons were myriad, their inability to do as much work in the given hours, they were the weaker gender, and the cultural bias of gender inequality.

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How to keep great employees

Hppy

Once you have spent weeks headhunting for staff , you want to keep hold of them. Long-standing employees are great for business. Not only are they great at their jobs but they are also invested in the business, which gives them the incentive to work hard. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep hold of employees. Increasingly, it is becoming more common for people to hop between jobs.

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5 Crucial Steps To Building Empathy In The workplace

Vantage Circle

How would you feel when you enter your office, and nobody gives any heed to your presence? Or doesn't even bother to wish you good morning. That can be disheartening sometimes, right? It's a human instinct that we like to work in an environment where people are more empathetic towards each other and mindful of others' feelings. And it builds from empathy.

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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.