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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Wellable

MAY 31, 2021

Many employers offer incentives to their employees to encourage them to engage in wellness promoting behaviors. Many of these incentives are monetary in form (i.e., employers either give their workers money or something with a fair market value). By and large, these monetary incentives are taxable, but this may not appear obvious to many companies, largely because the federal paperwork that discusses the taxability of these incentives is tough to comb through and extract central themes from.

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Preparing for time out of the office for the holidays is frustratingly stressful. It’s supposed to be the most magical time of the year and somewhere amongst the gifts, parties, and holiday movies, we are still expected to carry our normal workload. The audacity! All kidding aside, most people see an uptick in workload both personal and professional around this time of year and as we look at the glorious “Out of Office” blocks on our calendar – we start to get overwhelmed

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The Assistant Room

AUGUST 23, 2021

Following on from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, office life has changed beyond measure and if you're a Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant or Business Support Professional; then more may have changed for you than for most. The post How to Onboard Virtually as an Assistant first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 19, 2021

Have you or any of your peers in the business world ever asked yourselves: What’s the purpose of human resources (HR)? And why should we value it? For starters, the purpose of HR is to provide the structure for your organization and serves as the engine that keeps it running smoothly on a daily basis. It governs important aspects of your business, such as: The people on your team Workplace culture Policies and procedures Compliance with employment laws.

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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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Insperity

MARCH 2, 2021

Today’s job candidates aren’t just looking for a job, they’re looking for a brand experience. Hopeful job hunters have transformed into savvy career consumers – behaving like customers shopping for the best product or service among many choices. These career consumer candidates are empowered in their search for the best-fit employer. By merely having LinkedIn, Indeed and Glassdoor accounts, they can: Keep tabs on new job opportunities in real time.

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Insperity

JULY 20, 2021

Probationary periods and employee learning curves don’t always match. Sometimes a new hire catches on to everything like a speed demon. Other times, the learning curve is seemingly paved with mud. What can you do to ensure your employee learning curves are free from roadblocks? Set up employee for success – before they’re hired. To clear the way for employee success is to start the learning process early from your side of the road.

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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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Insperity

APRIL 6, 2021

Companies often spend a lot of time and effort creating their mission, vision and values. But too often they take all of that work, put words on a poster, place it in front of their employees – and miss the opportunity to put those values into practice. The last thing you want after working on your values is for the poster’s content to become meaningless, something employees ignore while they grab coffee or heat up their lunch in the breakroom.

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Insperity

JANUARY 5, 2021

As a business leader, you’re responsible for making decisions that impact the long-term success of your company and the well-being of employees. Examples: Personnel decisions ( hiring , firing, promoting and disciplining) Selection of benefits programs Annual goal setting Budgeting and financial planning Adjustment to new laws and regulations Improvement of customer service.

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Savvy business leaders know that military members make great employees. Because of the diverse and valuable skills they acquire during their service, veterans can be an incredible asset to any organization. But what does it take to become known as a veteran-friendly employer? Let’s say you get an opportunity to hire a military reservist or veteran. Once you bring them onboard, you’ll want to do everything you can to retain them in your workforce for the long term.

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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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Insperity

APRIL 22, 2021

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel – COVID-19 vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic may be over in the foreseeable future. Undoubtedly, many aspects of how we traditionally carry out work had to change because of the risks of virus transmission. But the question remains, how will COVID-19 change the workplace for the long haul? Were the changes a temporary abnormal?

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Putting an employee on a performance improvement plan (PIP) is uncomfortable for everyone involved. However, a well-crafted PIP can help employees save their jobs and protect employers from liability. The key to an effective performance improvement plan is communication: Before a PIP is necessary When you must implement one During the PIP period When it’s complete.

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Insperity

MAY 27, 2021

What do you do when a team member is a great people person but is ineffective at their job? It’s a common challenge for managers – one that is difficult to deal with. An underperforming employee hurts everyone: the person, the team, the company and your clients. If you allow it to go on, it can damage relationships among team members and with clients.

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