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4 KPIs to Track Your Employee Engagement

Achievers

The time has come to start thinking about employee engagement as a measure of organizational success that is as important as growth and revenue. In today’s hyper competitive and connected world, true employee engagement may just be the differentiator between businesses that succeed and those that don’t. Because engagement is a critical business metric, you may be wondering, how do you accurately measure it?

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12 TED talks to inspire and motivate your employees

cipHR

Sometimes even the most driven employee has an off day and needs a bit of extra encouragement. Here are our pick of the 12 best TED talks to inspire and motivate your staff. “Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think.” “What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving ev

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Leaders Drive Organizational Culture [poll results]

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I asked the question “ Which comes first: Leadership or culture? ” Honestly, I must admit that I agree with the person who wrote me on LinkedIn to say this is the ultimate chicken or egg question. But you guys said in a 4 to 1 margin that leadership comes first. It totally makes sense. It also means that organizations need to understand how this dynamic impacts them.

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5 ways to embrace autism in the workplace

Insperity

As our society becomes more aware of autism, and the different ways it manifests in different people, we also must become more cognizant of the fact that autism in the workplace could be a reality for many businesses. And the number of autistic employees in the workforce will likely continue to grow. In fact, the CDC estimates that about 1 in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to estimates from the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Netwo

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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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Attention HR: What You Need to Focus on to Facilitate a Healthy Company Culture

Achievers

In my last blog , I talked about how culture is no longer an HR thing, it is a business thing. This means that every owner, executive, and manager needs to make culture a priority and make decisions that support the desired culture. But this is not to say that HR doesn’t play a critical role in culture. HR owns many of the mechanisms that influence the employee experience, and is an important part of facilitating the company culture.

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5 Activities You Do Not Want to Miss At the HR Technology Conference – #HRTechConf

HR Bartender

One of my absolute must-attend events in the fall is the HR Technology Conference and Expo (nicknamed HRTech). This year’s conference is being held September 11-14, 2018 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you’ve never attended HRTech, now is the perfect time. I don’t have to tell anyone the significance of technology in our personal and professional lives.

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Why Benefits Administration Outsourcing Is the New Norm

WEX Inc.

For HR professionals and advisers alike, finding the best way to provide employees with the smoothest, easiest benefit experience is a goal that can often be difficult to accomplish. From managing costs and administrative demands, to maintaining compliance, HR professionals have a lot on their plate - and enhancing the benefits enrollment experience does not always make the top of the priority list.

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The Beauty of #VisibleWomen and How to Utilize Hashtags to Get Your Work Noticed

Take It Personel-ly

Here’s an ugly truth: art is a male dominated field. From comic illustrations to fine art, men tend to dominate the fields of art and illustration, being paid more and being more recognized for their work. But there’s a hashtag on Twitter that is helping to change that. #VisibleWomen and #VisibleWoman are both awesome hashtags […].

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A Quick Guide on Employee Discipline

HR Digest

Dealing with employee discipline is a lot easier if you are running a company that has very specific rules for managing employee discipline. They provide a preliminary guide on how to discipline employees effectively, but only if you know how to use them, anyway. We can accept that bigger companies are the most difficult to manage, but not in all aspects.

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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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Digital Transformation: Small Activities Bring Big Results [infographic]

HR Bartender

At this year’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference , I had the chance to meet with the folks from Microsoft about digital transformation. Digital transformation is the idea that technology can help individuals solve their digital and non-digital problems. It’s about making processes more efficient and effective using technology.

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Looking to Save Money at Your Fitness Business? Rethink Your People Strategy

Hireology

With more than 34,000 fitness centers in the U.S. – and countless fitness apps and at-home workouts available – competition for attracting and retaining both employees and members can be tough. When it comes to ensuring your fitness business stands out from the competition and remains profitable, it’s critical to hire quality employees who can support a differentiated customer experience.

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HR’s top five hiring challenges – and how to solve them

cipHR

From improving the candidate experience to reducing costs, we explore the top recruitment challenge facing HR professionals today. Finding and hiring the right candidates for your organisation, at the right time, is a never-ending challenge for in-house recruiters and HR professionals. Macroeconomic factors certainly aren’t helping: UK unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million in the three months to June 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – the lowest figure for more t

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13 Unique Corporate Gift Ideas Your Clients and Customers Will Love

SnackNation

13 Unique Corporate Gift Ideas Your Clients and Customers Will Love. Looking for corporate gift ideas that your clients and customers will love? Well, you’ve come to the right place. We know you’re tired of sending gifts destined for the dusty corners of your client’s office, so we’ve scoured the internet to come up with a list of gender-neutral gifting ideas with enough originality and thoughtfulness to wow your clients and partners.

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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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5 Ways AI Will Shape The Future Of Employee Wellness

Wellable

Considering the rapid advancement of technology and ever-increasing priority of employee wellbeing, it comes as no surprise that AI (artificial intelligence) is expected to shape the future of wellness in the workplace. This advanced technology has many prospective applications for employee wellness industry and offers a promising future for the efficacy of company initiatives from all angles.

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Hireology Announces SMS Solution to Drive Candidate Engagement

Hireology

Text Messaging Streamlines Candidate Communication Throughout the Hiring Process, Speeding Up Time to Hire. Hireology is excited to announce an SMS solution to streamline communication with candidates during the hiring process. Using text messaging, Hireology customers can keep candidates engaged throughout the hiring process, speed up time to hire and decrease interview no-show rates.

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6 Ways Data Analytics Can Strengthen Your Role as a Trusted Insurance Broker

WEX Inc.

Data analytics are being used in innovative ways that can make your job as a trusted benefits adviser and insurance broker easier, helping you uncover insights to improve plan design, extend your reach, and save costs for you and your clients. If you are serious about strengthening your role as a trusted adviser, then investing in a benefits administration technology is no longer a luxury, but rather a necessity.

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When drug addiction & mental health meet the criminal justice system: Interview with Chief Judge David Nuffer

Business Management Daily

David Nuffer is Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Utah. In his interview, he discusses the interlocking problems of drugs, mental health and the criminal justice system. The post When drug addiction & mental health meet the criminal justice system: Interview with Chief Judge David Nuffer appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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And The Most Popular Employee Perk Is…Time

Wellable

A survey of 1,227 working U.S. adults asked respondents to rank their top five popular work perks in order of preference. For the purpose of the study, work perks were defined as non-insurance or retirement benefits. Although the results were not all that surprising, they are worth reflecting on because they provide clear insights on what employees want from a total benefits package.

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Hireology Employee Spotlight: Samantha LeVan

Hireology

This post is part of our new series of Hireology employee spotlights. Stay tuned to learn more about a day in the life as a Hireologist! Name: Samantha LeVan. Team: Product. Role: User Experience Researcher. Samantha LeVan has been with Hireology since 2016, read on to learn more about Samantha and her role on our UX team. Samantha, can you share a bit about what you’re working on?

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How to Create a Happy Workplace

Hppy

When you really break it down, we spend the majority of our time working, commuting to and from work, and thinking about work—even when we’re doing other things. If you want your employees to be productive, pleasant members of the team, it’s important to focus on creating a happy workplace. Everyone is in the building for around a third of each weekday, and finding ways to keep people feeling happy, healthy, and satisfied with their jobs has incredible benefits for everyone involved.

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How To Market Your Business On A Shoestring Budget

Take It Personel-ly

The best marketing is narrative. That’s because stories sell. When you first come across a new product, you’ll stumble upon a marketing story. On a website, for example, an About Us page will reveal an origin story. It will talk about how the product’s creator stumbled upon an idea or experience that changed his or […].

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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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How to Introduce Voluntary Benefits for the First Time

Winston Benefits

Voluntary benefits might give you the competitive advantage you need in a tight labor market. Attract and retain employees looking for extras like short- and long-term disability insurance, critical illness coverage and life insurance. If you’ve decided to add these voluntary offerings, what do you need to know to successfully introduce them for the first time?

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In the News: Hireology CEO Featured in Automotive News and Fixed Ops Journal

Hireology

Hireology co-founder and CEO, Adam Robinson, shared his retail automotive hiring expertise with Automotive News and Fixed Ops Journal for two articles published this week. Both articles focus on attracting and hiring quality fixed ops talent, an ongoing challenge for the industry. See below for more information about each piece. Automotive News – More Dealerships Are Creating Initiatives to Hire, Train and Retain Techs.

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Combatting youth obesity: Interview with MIKE’s Founding Executive Director Cheryl Neal, M.D.

Business Management Daily

Cheryl Neal, M.D. is the founding executive director of MIKE, Multicultural Integrated Kidney Education. For the past 15 years, MIKE has been working with schools to promote healthy lifestyles. Here’s my interview with her…. The post Combatting youth obesity: Interview with MIKE’s Founding Executive Director Cheryl Neal, M.D. appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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What to do if you’re invited to lunch with your boss’s boss

HR Digest

Whether you expected it or it came as a surprise, the date is going to happen and you sure wouldn’t want to screw it all up with one or two things you should have or shouldn’t have done. Remember, it’s a date with your boss’s boss, so it’s not a regular face! But, don’t be nervous! You might even cause more damage if you don’t get your peace together.

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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.