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Enriching the Employee Experience: 7 Guiding Principles to Creating Healthy Teams

Root

When it comes to health and healing , the patient experience – of care, quality, and service – is always paramount. Patients and their families must be at the forefront of all decisions physicians, nurses, and administrative team members make. But these aren’t the only people who must be a priority for health leaders. Their people must be a priority, too; in fact, the first priority.

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Here's Why Development is Better With Peer Learning Groups

FlashPoint

Photo by Todd Diemer on Unsplash. We know it, we see it, we live it. When designing and delivering development programs, we know we have to intentionally build in reinforcement in order to ensure sustainability and application. We know we have to be deliberate about building in accountability.

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How Multitasking Erodes Productivity And Dings Your IQ

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Multitasking hamstrings productivity by as much as 40 percent, increases stress, reduces meaningfulness and even your IQ. Our role as leaders must include minimizing this scattershot approach to task completion and instead applying our innate human strengths in a more focused way.

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Why companies must consider a strategic approach to employee education

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Corporations around the world face a people problem. While historically low unemployment is typically considered a welcome sign of a strong economy in the United States and the developed world, there are now more jobs available than skilled workers to fill them. In fact, nearly 3.5 million people quit their jobs every month to find greener pastures, according to the U.S.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Crucial components of any good employer value proposition

Papirfly

Great talent is hard to come by. Likewise, great employers can be hard to identify. Behind the fantastic perks and benefits lies the essence of a company – what it is they stand for and the kind of people they are looking to attract.

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Only 28% of employees say they feel connected to their company’s purpose

HR Morning

In order to cultivate a successful business with happy employees, it is highly important to have a clearly defined purpose. Many businesses don’t have a true strategy when it comes to describing their company purpose, choosing to fill in the blank with almost anything. Because many leaders have no connection with their outlined purpose, they aren’t capable of fully integrating it into their business operations – and employees feel less connected than ever.

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Corporate training behavior and future opportunities

HRNasty

All employees attend corporate training. How your participation level or lack of participation can kick start or shudder your career. The post Corporate training behavior and future opportunities appeared first on HRNasty.

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Walking on Sunshine: 3 Genuine Reasons It’s Important to Have Happy Employees

marenated HR

Everyone wants a company that thrives, and one great way to accomplish this is with happy employees. Happy employees: Work harder and smarter. Are more productive. Work better as part of a team. In fact, 39% of workers claim that being happier at their place of work would drive them to work harder. Happy and engaged are two words that go together; when your employees are happy, they are more likely to be engaged in their work and with their coworkers.

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How to easily onboard your new remote hire

SoapBox

Hiring a remote employee comes with many benefits; they have been shown to be happier, more loyal and generally productive…

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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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Developing the Workforce of the Future

hrQ

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is building the workforce they need before they need it. Too often, changed requirements in skills are discovered only when there is a problem with the proficiency or productivity of the workforce, or when particular skills become difficult to source in the marketplace. While the reasons for this are many, the continued rapid evolution of both technology and process, point to a need for different approaches to identifying and addressing futur

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Zillow’s VP of Community & Culture Rebekah Bastian on promoting equity and belonging in the workplace

Qualtrics HR

In this installment of our Employee Experience Visionaries series, hear from Rebekah Bastian, Vice President of Community & Culture at Zillow Group, CEO of OwnTrail and author of Blaze Your Own Trail, about: Why employees are their most innovative and productive when they bring their whole selves to work. How she turned her passion projects into a full-time role—and the culture that supported her employee experience.

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Why It’s Time to Add Organizational Network Analysis to Your Strategy

Visier

A few years ago, HR leaders from a trillion-dollar asset management firm encountered a puzzling trend within their workforce: Despite hiring an equal number of entry-level male and female employees, fewer women were receiving promotions. . To identify gender differences in developing productive working relationships, the company turned to its promotion data and Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).

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Love Starts with Leadership

TalentCulture

Around here we celebrate Valentine’s Day sentiments all the time. We tell each other how much we appreciate, cherish, are wowed by, awed by, impressed by, and value each other. It’s not in our culture deck (we don’t have one since we’re always flexing and morphing to grow and change with the world of work). It’s not in the rulebook and it’s not even in any of the job descriptions.

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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What do Employers Need to Know about OSHA?

Homebase

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) is a crucial law with which to familiarize yourself—and your employees—as a business owner or manager. The legislation is overseen by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) branch of the U.S. Department of Labor, who ensures employers are keeping work environments safe and healthful for all workers. .

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The Future of HR – Are You Ready?

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

It’s 2020 and HR professionals across the globe are planning for the future of their workforce and evaluating if their organizations are future-ready. When planning for the future, there are three key considerations that guide their understanding of today’s market dynamics: The rate of overall technological change continues to accelerate rapidly.

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The Hidden ROI of Employee Benefits Programs

Benefitfocus

For a financial leader, employee benefits represent a large fixed cost that needs to be mitigated. But what if you could look at benefits through a different lens? What if, instead of being a static cost, your employee benefits program was really an area of high ROI?

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What’s Keeping HR Up at Night in 2020?

HRExecutive

The number of job openings in the U.S. fell from 7.6 million in January 2019 to 6.8 million in January 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Is this an early sign that the talent shortage is dwindling? Maybe. But regardless of what those numbers reflect, HR professionals continue to worry about maintaining a skilled workforce. While the largest decreases occurred in retail trade (139,000 jobs) and construction (112,000 jobs), retaining key talent is HR’s chief concern, according to

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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how can we stop people from coming to work sick?

Ask a Manager

A reader write: What can I do about loose sick attendance policies in the workplace? In my office, people frequently come into work very obviously sick and many times get other people sick. Most people do not have the ability to work from home, so that isn’t an option for the masses. The director of the company even sent a firm-wide message telling people that he preferred sick employees stay home, as to stop the spread to the rest of the staff.

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Want to offer support for caregivers of aging relatives? Read this

Insperity

Have you considered how your company can offer support for caregivers? As the nation’s population ages, more employees are taking on the role of caregivers. And it’s a trend that’s only picking up steam. The number of Americans ages 65 and older is projected to nearly double, from 52 million in 2018 to 95 million by 2060, according to Population Reference Bureau’s “ Fact Sheet: Aging in the United States.

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How Healthcare Employers Can Leverage Brand Reputation to Improve Recruiting and Retention

Precheck

How Healthcare Employers Can Leverage Brand Reputation to Improve Recruiting and Retention Feb. 18, 2020. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Talent recruitment and retention remain among the top challenges facing healthcare organizations in the new decade. According to a SHRM survey, 46% of HR professionals rated highly skilled medical positions as very difficult to fill.

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Industry experts break down the Ultimate-Kronos mega-merger

HRExecutive

When Kronos Inc. and Ultimate Software recently announced they are soon to become one (the new entity’s name will be announced soon, according to the company), reactions were swift and varied to the projected $22 billion marriage. Past history, of course, tells observers that mergers are always a risk; some go on to become smashing successes, others just smash onto the rocks.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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Maximize Redeployment Rates to Boost Your Staffing Agency’s ROI

Hire Vue

Being a quitter has never been easier. With salaries on the rise after a long awaited economic recovery, more and more workers are jumping ship to take advantage of better pay. And who could blame them? . Turnover rates have hit a 17-year high. Just under half of all workers are leaving in the first 12 months of the job, and over half of those are making their departures within a mere 90 days. .

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2020 HR Challenges and Opportunities

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

The Changing Face of HR Services As more and more corporate clients turned to recruitment and staffing providers during 2019, in the wake of record-setting settlements in a host of HR-related litigations, rather than performing these services in-house, it is clear that the face of HR service providers is changing. We are no longer just tasked with providing our clients with highly qualified candidates for their critical positions.

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Soft Skills: Why Are They Important in the Workplace?

Professional Alternatives

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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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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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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Knowledge Management 101: Preventing a Knowledge Loss Crisis in 6 Steps

EDSI

If there’s one thing that remains true in business (and life in general) it’s this: a crisis can strike any company … anytime, anywhere. Imagine you just found out a valuable, tenured employee is leaving and taking all his or her critical knowledge and experience with him to a competing organization. Your only hope to avert this crisis? Advanced planning!

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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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High performance: driven by passion, not perks

HR Zone

Employees The secret to employee motivation.

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