Insperity

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Having moved from strictly administrative functioning toward a more strategic role long before the pandemic began, a strategic HR plan is increasingly regarded as a powerful factor in a company’s success. Indeed, leaders have been driven to depend on and value HR guidance more than ever before. HR no longer owns just the transactional and compliance-focused activities of organizations, but has stretched to take greater responsibility for: Employee experience and wellbeing Company culture E

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Wellable

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Whether you’re exploring wellness programs for the first time or are a seasoned veteran looking for something different, choosing a new employee wellness platform can be a daunting task.

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The Assistant Room

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In a recent survey we opened to Personal and Executive Assistants around the world, over 2000 business support professionals answered 'As a PA/EA, what are some common misconceptions that you have either heard of or experienced from others regarding your role?' The answers did not surprise or shock us.and not in a positive way. The post The Truth About the PA Industry first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 1973, Kodak hired engineering graduate Steven Sasson to work on figuring out whether a device the company had invented a few years prior had any practical benefits. Two years later, at the age of 24, Sasson’s experiments lead him to invent the world’s first digital camera. Sasson ran a. Click to continue reading.

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Success

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Something great starts with, well, something. Bob had a big idea for the community, yet his first step was just asking a few people to meet to talk about it. Allen wanted to start a new business and he began by setting up coffees and lunches every day with those who could help him learn. Cynthia’s first step in changing the culture of the call center she worked in was setting aside time each day to walk around and listen.

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Quantum Workplace

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Retaining and recruiting top talent has become increasingly important, but difficult, after the tumultuous events of 2020. The Great Resignation has disrupted the momentum of business and negatively impacted organizational culture for many companies. Employees are looking for a change from their current jobs, while low unemployment rates have prompted large gaps in the job market.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Reviews are a critical part of your company’s performance management strategy. For example, traditional performance reviews in which supervisors provide feedback to their direct reports ? those employees formally reporting to the manager conducting the assessment ? can offer invaluable feedback. However, gathering comments from multiple sources at different levels of the organization can also be instructive.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 25, 2021

These days, it’s more important than ever to hold on to your employees. As the economy heals from the effects of COVID-19, companies are eager to hire new workers and retain their current team. From a worker’s point of view, it’s a great time to be on the hunt for a new job. Wide-spread labor shortages make for unprecedented opportunities to find new and better-paying jobs.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Business organizations that want to maximize their investment returns must focus on building a higher return on investment through effective training and development programs for their employees. As the adage goes, an organization’s most valuable asset is its employees. You should maximize the true value of this asset to transition. Click to continue reading.

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Success

OCTOBER 1, 2021

I can hear my client’s breath on the phone, and it feels like the sliding door of an elevator opening—that moment when you aren’t sure whether you’ll be alone on a seconds-long ride of life—when she exhales and says, “I’m not very good with dates and times. I can’t remember when it happened, just that it did.”. As a book writing coach, I hear this more often than not.

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Jen Lawrence

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There are good checklists, and there are ineffective checklists. I know…WHAT?! One of the easiest ways to stay productive, keep organized, and manage workflows is to create checklists of the actions that need to be completed. However, you need to be mindful of which type of checklist you will use as there are good checklists and there are ineffective checklists.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 12, 2021

In a tight recruiting economy, the pressure is on employers and their HR teams to hire the right people and engage them in their organizational culture. Using personality tests in the workplace can often address both of these needs. As a hiring tool, assessments may help you select better candidates and positively affect your bottom line by reducing turnover.

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Wellable

OCTOBER 13, 2021

When it comes to improving the health and wellness of employees, the common approach appears to be that weight loss is an unquestionably good place to start. This is unsurprising given that 74% of US adults are overweight. Since higher weight levels have been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, it makes sense to think that, by encouraging employees to lose weight, the overall wellness of one’s workforce will improve.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Trust is an essential component to an efficient workplace. Without trust, you have a group of people showing up for a paycheck but who aren’t truly committed to the mission or each other. However, when you successfully build trust, your team’s overall performance will soar to greater heights, and everyone will truly feel like a team. Not only does trust increase productivity, but it also leads to creative thinking as team members feel comfortable expressing and exploring their ideas.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 6, 2021

If you’re in the leadership space, it’s hard not to notice the ongoing debate over remote working versus getting everyone to return to the office. While every industry and organization has to decide for themselves what’s the best approach to take for everyone involved, there’s been a number of key. Click to continue reading.

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Success

OCTOBER 2, 2021

There’s a scene near the beginning of the film Steve Jobs , in which the titular character, played by Michael Fassbender, is about to go on stage and introduce the world to the Macintosh. It’s a moment he hopes will usher in the point-and-click future of personal computing and change the arc of history forever. But before he takes the stage, Jobs is fixated—absolutely obsessed —with a single, tiny, seemingly extraneous detail.

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All Work

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Neuro-architecture explores how art, color, lighting, and design can have a positive impact on our mood, productivity, and overall health. Our physiological state has a huge impact on our health, so the spaces that we spend our time in should be healthy for our mental wellbeing. Interior Design Director Jessica Shaw shares her top 10 tips for creating a workspace that boosts mental and physical wellness.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With the widespread prevalence and acceptance of remote work , senior managers are confronting a fresh challenge with frontline managers: How to tackle virtual leadership coaching? For instance, you may be wondering: How can I help managers improve their performance and skills, and ultimately lead their teams better, in this not-so-temporary situation?

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Wellable

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In recent years, an increasing number of employers have ditched marijuana drug testing. Their decisions have been met with mixed reactions from business leaders and legal scholars. To help employers determine where they stand, this post highlights the main points that have been raised both for and against the discontinuation of marijuana drug testing.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Extreme weather, bomb threats, combustible dust explosions: all events that require companies to switch on emergency gear. Since these situations invariably cause panic, having a solid emergency evacuation plan in place is the best way to handle them. OSHA has identified some crucial elements that should be included in every business’s emergency evacuation plan, and in this post, we’ve adapted them to include any visitors or guests you might have on your premises.

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Great Place to Work

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

We often credit Henry Ford as the benevolent figure behind the five-day workweek. In 1926, Ford Motor Company became one of the first businesses in America to institute that standard for its workers. But the events leading up to that concession stretched back some 40 years. On May 3, 1886, a large group of workers gathered at Chicago’s Haymarket Square to support a strike for the eight-hour workday.

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Go Burrows

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Nick Ginsburg is a passionate and innovative Executive Assistant and mental health advocate. By day he is the Executive Assistant to the Provost and Senior Vice-President at Monash University and by night he is the host of The Open Drive Podcast and Founder of The Collective, a judgment-free community for administrative professionals worldwide. Nick and I talk about authenticity, building and cultivating a community, and more!

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Insperity

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You probably know that a professional employer organization (PEO) can help you with benefits and payroll. But that’s not all it has to offer. Many PEOs offer several services that can be just as, if not more, beneficial to your employees and organization. Below are five little-known PEO services to consider before you choose a company. 1. Compensation services.

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Wellable

OCTOBER 27, 2021

An e-cigarette is an electronic device that allows users to inhale a vapor containing nicotine (the addictive substance in tobacco). They help cigarette smokers simulate the experience of smoking without breathing in any smoke in the process.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Do you need wayfinding digital signage in your office? The answer depends on two things: Will your visitors need to navigate from your reception area to a different location? Are you working with a limited staff without the ability to personally escort every visitor? If the answers to both of those questions are “yes,” it’s time to consider wayfinding signage for your office.

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Great Place to Work

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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Success

OCTOBER 3, 2021

As we sat down to plan the magazine this article originally appeared in , it quickly stood out to me that the official on-sale date—Oct. 5, the day this issue becomes widely available on newsstands—is exactly the 10-year anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. In honor of the visionary Apple and Pixar co-founder, who inspired countless entrepreneurs, we decided that Imagination was the only fitting theme for the November/December issue of SUCCESS.

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Quantum Workplace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Many people leaders see the importance of giving feedback, but may be resistant to receiving it. In fact, few fail to piece the two together and are unable to motivate employees to grow and succeed. Giving and receiving feedback is crucial to a successful performance management strategy—and it gets easier with practice.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Even with the most generous PTO policies and time-off procedures in place, it isn’t always possible to accommodate every employee vacation request. Your business needs to continue operating, after all. To guarantee you’re able to do so, that usually means you need to restrict the number of people who can take vacation days at any given time. The ability to award vacation time may also be impacted by how many employees are off work due to protected leaves or employer provided time off for other r

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Wellable

OCTOBER 6, 2021

To utilize our sense of touch, electronic devices (e.g., phone screens or video game controllers) can produce vibrations or other pressure sensations, otherwise known as haptic feedback. This technology is currently limited in terms of the kind of feedback it can provide along with the types of devices that it can be incorporated into.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The time has finally come to welcome your employees back to the office. But how? If this is the first time employees will be returning to in-person work since the pandemic began, it’s normal to have a ton of questions and concerns. After all, there’s no official handbook on how to safely return to in-person work. And this may be why a reported 39% of organizations still don’t have a finalized plan for how to welcome their returning staff back to work.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Get that Promotion! Strategies for Career Advancement”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. Let’s discuss the things that are being evaluated when you’re going for a promotion.

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Success

OCTOBER 3, 2021

When it comes to running a business , I’ve learned a lot of things the hard way, and that’s one reason I work so hard to help other entrepreneurs avoid making the same costly mistakes I did. Working with entrepreneurs all over the world means I’ve pretty much seen it all… the good, the bad and the shocking. But I never fail to be stunned by the number of companies that don’t market themselves effectively.

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Quantum Workplace

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Employee goals are the driving force behind business success. A productive workforce needs effective goals in place that provide a clear path to success and motivate employees to make their performance initiatives a reality. SMART goals can serve as a valuable tool to push action behind your overarching organizational goals. For employee goals to work for you and not against you, use a streamlined goal process that motivates and aligns your employees.

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Insperity

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Every organization should work to prevent disparate impact and disparate treatment of its employees, to create a healthy workplace culture, attract the best possible talent and avoid legal consequences. But what’s the difference between disparate impact and disparate treatment, and how can companies identify and correct potential problems? Disparate impact versus disparate treatment.

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Wellable

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As defined by the World Health Organization, occupation burnout is a state of psychological distress characterized “by feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion, increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one’s job, and reduced professional efficacy.”.

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