Insperity

MAY 6, 2021

Tapping into your emotional intelligence while working remotely is vitally important. But it can also be challenging, especially if your team is new to working from home or entered the virtual work world suddenly. Part of the challenge is that the bulk of our social interactions and cues are absent from the remote workday – the simple exchanges that help us connect on a social-emotional level, such as: Bumping into someone in the break room Offering coworkers a piece of gum after a lunch meeting

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Retain your best employees with these Top 30 Employee Retention Strategies and build a positive work atmosphere to promote engagement.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I mentioned in some of my episodes for my podcast “Leadership Biz Cafe”, 2021 marks the 10th year that I’ve been hosting this podcast. Although this is without question a major milestone to reach for any podcast, I never got around to making plans to celebrate this achievement on. Click to continue reading.

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact. By Jenn Lim. Author Jenn Lim knows a little something about happiness. She co-founded the workplace culture company Delivering Happiness with Tony Hsieh, the late CEO of Zappos.com. Their goal? To teach businesses how to make their employees happier while also improving their ROI.

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Quantum Workplace

MAY 11, 2021

Mental health and employee wellness are at the heart of a strong, engaged workplace. But today’s workers are under increasing levels of stress. And remote workers aren’t immune. While remote work has many advantages, it can create opportunities for extra stress.

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Eat Your Career

MAY 18, 2021

“Your company owns your job. You own your career.” Earl Nightingale. In my training programs, I cite the above quote more than any other…and for good reason! These words were originally coined by Earl Nightingale, an “old school” motivational speaker who grew up during the Great Depression and gained notoriety as a businessman and an award-winning radio broadcaster.

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Great Place to Work

JANUARY 27, 2021

Building a neurodiverse workforce is advantageous because neurodiverse people possess the skills particularly needed right now as businesses adopt more advanced technology. For example, artificial intelligence and robotics, and the demand for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) talent increases.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

This post, I’m working 2 full-time remote jobs — is this unethical? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: The WSJ and other media outlets have been reporting on white-collar workers who work from home, working two full-time jobs at once. The thinking is, since you don’t have to be physically present in an office and can theoretically manage your own schedule, why not earn two incomes and fly under the radar?

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TinyPulse

JULY 14, 2021

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Insperity

AUGUST 12, 2021

Even with the arrival of the COVID-19 variants, workplaces are starting to establish and navigate their new, post-pandemic normal. Yet there’s another rising issue with which employers must prepare to contend: post-pandemic employee turnover. According to the 2021 Employee Engagement and Retention Report , commissioned by the Achievers Workforce Institute, 52% of employees in North America will look for a new job in the near future.

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Insperity

JULY 8, 2021

Organizational change is ever present. Yet sometimes change happens rapidly — without regard for our mental well-being. And that can be overwhelming and exhausting, especially for your employees. Because change fatigue has the potential to impact your staff and their performance, it’s important to learn the appropriate steps to help employees address it.

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Insperity

AUGUST 3, 2021

Science is a diverse and often difficult field of study. Thus, there are many hurdles to becoming a professional scientist. But many of the men and women who have done so in the past have achieved great things for the good of all and helped to shape lives around the globe. Today, many of business leaders share similar aspirations – the drive to discover just how far we can go as a society and to leave the world better than they found it.

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Insperity

JUNE 29, 2021

Using an employee noncompete agreement could help prevent your staff from going to work for a competitor. But asking employees to sign one isn’t something you should rush into. There are many nuances about noncompetes from their legal enforceability to employee perceptions about them that you need to carefully consider. Here are seven factors to consider as you decide what’s best for your business. 1.

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Insperity

MARCH 16, 2021

Whether you embrace it or avoid it, running a company means having a public leadership presence in your community or industry. And you aren’t just the head of your company. You’re also a person with goals and motivations that go beyond growing your organization. Maybe you even have new ways of approaching your industry, and you want to be at the forefront of future innovation.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

An employee quitting without notice can feel like a shock. Yet hindsight may reveal they gave clear cues about their unhappiness. That’s because the best indicators of an employee reaching their limit can be subtle, fitting a pattern that experts call “disengagement.”. Learning to spot the signs and knowing how to talk with employees about why they’re disengaged can help you avoid losing them without warning.

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Insperity

MARCH 23, 2021

Holding grudges at work can diminish productivity, poison the atmosphere and increase turnover. It’s important to try to resolve these issues and prevent new ones from arising. Here are seven steps you can take as a manager or leader to help resolve employee grudges. You can also use these tactics when you must intervene in employee conflicts or have workplace grudges of your own to work on. 1.

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Insperity

AUGUST 31, 2021

Culturally, the concept of information overload has been around since the ‘70s when Alvin and Heidi Toffler first coined the term in their book Future Shock. At that time, car phones were about to become the latest communication craze, just like the computer before it. Information, it seemed, was about to come from everywhere. And now it does. What does information overload feel like?

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Many prominent surveys have shown that most employees want a permanently hybrid work environment – or at least more flexible workplaces. This is a shift that has been coming for some time – the pandemic simply accelerated it. For employees, hybrid workplaces combine in-person work and telecommuting. For organizations, this shift brings many questions about how to manage the new hybrid workplace.

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Insperity

APRIL 15, 2021

Are you making the effort to manage up at work? No? Not sure what that means? We all have external and internal customers at work. Your external customers are, of course: Your company’s actual customers Vendors Partners Government Media. These are valuable relationships that require care and maintenance on your part to be successful at your job and represent your company well.

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Insperity

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Part of having a great overall workplace culture is instituting a continuous learning culture. After all, learning isn’t a one-time event. You don’t earn a degree or a certification, or complete a course, and then you magically know everything and you’re done learning forever. In reality, there’s always something new to learn and trends to keep up with.

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Insperity

APRIL 29, 2021

There’s no getting around it – employers pay a hefty sum to provide health care benefits for their employees. The average private-sector employer spends an average of $2.65 per hour, per employee, for health-insurance costs, according to Sept. 2020 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These aren’t low numbers. And the smaller a company is, the more consequential these numbers get.

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Insperity

JANUARY 7, 2021

Inspiring unmotivated employees can be a challenge for managers. It can be an even bigger task – and more urgent – when one of your best contributors stops performing. If an employee your organization relies on to consistently deliver results, improve processes, delight customers or motivate others is suddenly flagging, it’s time to act. Intervening and working on a solution together can help your unmotivated employee get back on track and protect your organization’s innovation and productivity.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s a question with big ramifications that trips up many employers: Is my worker an employee or contractor ? To help you figure out whether your workers are classified correctly, we’ll cover: Basic legal resources and information you need to know Who enforces the law on worker classification, and what happens if you’ve misclassified workers (either intentionally or unintentionally) The most common mistakes you should avoid to stay out of trouble.

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Insperity

MARCH 9, 2021

When your employees stay in the same role for extended periods, they accrue institutional knowledge – or information and understanding about the systems, relationships and tactics that make your company run optimally. This valuable combination of loyalty and insider expertise is one of the major long-term benefits behind the push to increase employee engagement and reduce turnover.

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Insperity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As we move toward the post-COVID-19 workplace, here’s a phrase we’ll hear about with increasing frequency: virtual team building. Even after the coronavirus pandemic eventually wanes, remote work is likely to continue in some form for the foreseeable future. For some industries and occupations, it may remain a permanent feature of the modern workplace.

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Insperity

MARCH 30, 2021

Employers and business leaders must decide how to handle COVID-19 vaccinations for employees. It’s a hot-button issue that’s complicated by an array of factors. And, as with so many issues businesses have faced during the pandemic, there are no easy answers. There are several general points worth contemplating when considering your company’s best course of action.

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Insperity

JANUARY 26, 2021

What happens when two teams in the same company can’t – or won’t – work together? Workplace factionalism can result from a number of things, including: Limited resources Competing needs Competitive mindsets Poor communication Silos of information and responsibilities Perceived favoritism from higher ups Ego-centric beliefs and behaviors Lack of alignment between leaders.

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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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Insperity

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a leader, you know how beneficial one-on-one meetings can be. Whether with staff or colleagues, the challenge is how to hold effective one-on-one meetings. Tips and tactics abound, but ultimately, the goal remains the same: support. Whatever you do in planning, facilitating and following up on your meetings, the goal should revolve around support.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We all have habits – some good, some not so great. At work, certain habits can impact the quality and efficiency of our work, and how well we interact with people around us. They can also affect others’ perceptions of us. People who are mindful about cultivating and practicing good habits reap the rewards. Meanwhile, bad habits become a problem when they hold us back and prevent achievements, and strain relationships with others.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 21, 2021

With the new evolving landscape, it is more important than ever to be a good leader to retain employees and keep them happy. With the new year coming sooner than later, now is a great time to consider additional steps that you can take to improve your leadership skills. That. Click to continue reading.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2021

One of the hallmarks of a great leader is their ability to raise up and inspire a new generation of leaders. They don’t hoard their talent, instead they look for opportunities to invest in others and they find ways to mentor and produce new leaders. Using your influence to build. Click to continue reading.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

There is probably not a single corporate or business leader on planet Earth who will admit that the business they lead has no mission statement, business values or a sense of purpose. Yet a Deloitte study released in May 2020 when most of the world was in lockdown, the pandemic. Click to continue reading.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even before the global pandemic struck, many organizations and their leaders were limiting themselves to a short-term view at the expense of achieving any of their long-term goals. So how do leaders move past the current and persistent short-termism that’s often driven by a fear-based mindset, and instead embrace a. Click to continue reading.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There’s an annual tradition that plays out this time of the year for most leaders where they split their focus between making sure they close out whatever goals or plans they had for the last quarter, and looking ahead to the next year and what need to be the new. Click to continue reading.

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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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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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