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The Importance of Taking Your PTO
In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive work environment, it’s all too common to see employees pushing out their time off. Since summer has started and everyone usually schedules their time off normally from Memorial Day to Labor Day it’s important to encourage our employees to use their time. As in most work environments, the higher…
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Navigating the Waters of Difficult Employees
Managing teams comes with built-in challenges, and among them is dealing with difficult employees. Whether it’s conflicts with colleagues, poor performance, or attitude problems, these situations can disrupt workplace harmony if not handled effectively. As a leader, it’s essential to address these issues promptly and constructively. As managers, we spend 80% of our time dealing…
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Succession Planning: Securing the Future of Your Organization
In the ever-changing landscape of the business world, one constant remains: change. As Leaders, it is our responsibility to ensure the continuity of our organizations, even as key individuals transition out of their roles.
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Succession Planning
Succession planning is a process that very few companies do well. The keys to succession planning are creating a process including areas to evaluate each candidate and you need to stick to it for that period.
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Dealing With Difficult Employees Breakfast Discussion
Join HR Live for stimulating conversations on building your management and leadership teams around the company culture. Each month we will host a breakfast discussion on different topics within the human resources industry.
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Employee Retention
Employee retention is critical to the success of an organization. High turnover rates are costly and can affect the organization in many ways. Not only does it create productivity issues, but it also hurts morale and future recruitment efforts for the organizations.
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Auditing your HR Program, Policies, and Procedures
As we start the new year, it might be a good time to review your HR program, including your policies and procedures. Too many accept the status quo and never consider modifying, dropping, or adding new policies to address today’s work environment.
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Are Compensation and Benefits Earned or Entitled?
When does a benefit earned become a benefit entitled? In many businesses, all employee benefits start as earned. That can include healthcare coverage, time off, annual increases, savings plan contributions, and bonuses, even work schedules.
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Setting Performance Expectations
As we start the new year and think about achieving success for the company and as individuals, it is important to set targets and expectations to measure performance. Many businesses look at the overall performance or year-end results and consider how to measure this, and how various aspects should be weighed based on their importance…
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Employee Recruitment in Today’s Business World
Employee recruiting has changed completely since the COVID-19 pandemic. It started with interviews and meetings being conducted virtually via Zoom or Teams.
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Hiring Behaviors vs. Technical Capabilities
In today’s recruiting environment, there is an important debate going on about whether you should hire for behaviors or technical expertise. Employers are seeking candidates who can not only perform the job but also align with the organization’s culture and values.
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Employee Benefits – Open Enrollment
Open enrollment is fast approaching for the majority of businesses and it’s time to start thinking about your employee benefits. As an employer, you will be looking at your cost expectations and managing the costs against budgets while trying to maintain programs that offer great coverage and reasonable cost share for the employees.