Everyone knows the way to a person’s heart, but who knew the way to attract employees and keep them healthy is also through their stomach? With the relationship between and diet and health so closely related and well known today,…
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Are You Really Going to Do Everything on Your To-Do List?
As an experienced professional, you may think you know your way around a to-do list, but do you really? Possibly you’ve gotten a bit off track. Is that list you’re putting together really a to-do list, or just a big pile of…
The Important Benefit No One Talks About
When candidates are weighing job offers, employer-covered benefits are often a deciding factor. In fact, Glassdoor reported that nearly 60% of workers place benefits as their top consideration when determining a job offer, and 80% would even choose additional benefits…
Corporate Social Responsibility Programs Make the Spirit of the Season Last All Year
Did you know that generosity leads to happiness and even an improved physical well-being? Not only that, but being generous begets more generosity—meaning an act of kindness can inspire someone else to “pay it forward.” Between work, family and personal obligations, it’s…
The Unconscious Factors That Make Annual Reviews So Subjective
Objectivity is the most important part of having an effective performance appraisal system. What you want is a process in which your top performers are recognized and then given opportunities to advance their skills. Meanwhile, rather than being discouraged, low…
The Details are Critical When Your Sponsored Workers Leave the Country
With holidays already upon us and many coming up over the next several weeks, organizations with foreign national workers are likely dealing with travel requests from their sponsored employees who are planning international vacations. Especially now, in this time of…
Don’t Be Afraid of Poor Analytics
If you’ve taken any analytics or statistics courses, you’ll have been bombarded with cautions about how analytics can go wrong. For example: Random outcomes appear meaningful to the untrained eye. Small sample sizes give misleading results. Without good control groups,…
How High Performing Employees Can Intimidate or Inspire Others
Have you ever been in a situation where you were inspired to work harder because of a teammate or co-worker? Or felt nervous because you were worried about looking bad when compared to those around you? If you are like…
It Matters What You Do For Parents After the Baby Is Born
Being a new parent is an exhilarating experience. But despite the joy that a new baby can bring, parents will sometimes get depressed or otherwise experience negative feelings immediately following the birth of their child. Sometimes these feelings are relatively mild…
What Do You Do When Bosses Go Wild?
“I see the classic image of the boss as a total anachronism. It may work in certain connotations like ‘organized crime boss,’ ‘union boss,’ or ‘pit boss.’ But being bossy per se is not an attribute that I have ever…
With Paid Leave Laws Expanding, You Need to Update Your Attendance Policies
Minnesota might not stand out as a trendsetter (plaid shirts aside), but three cities have recently jumped on the national trend of paid sick leave laws. Last May, Duluth joined its counterparts Minneapolis and St. Paul in passing an ordinance…
Internal Movement – The Ultimate Productivity, Development and Retention Tool
Talent advisors have in most cases failed to make senior executives fully aware of the extremely high ROI generated by a “wonder tool” that directly improves performance in multiple talent areas including productivity, retention, recruiting, motivation, as well as skill…
What You Can Do to Avoid Bad Hires
20% – We’re sure this is a number you’re familiar with when it comes to the cost of turnover. Ever since the well-known 2012 report came out putting the average cost of replacing a worker at 20% of that employee’s…
Every Cellphone Is a Security Risk, So What’s Your BYOD Policy?
In the space of just a few years, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has transformed from an irregular practice to an integral part of the modern workplace. By 2016, 59% of surveyed businesses allowed the use of personal devices for…
Why You Should Customize Your Job Offer
We currently live in the era of personalized everything: Personalized medicine, personalized shopping, personalized playlists, the list goes on. People have a seemingly infinite amount of choices on how to customize and personalize their experiences in the world, whether it’s…
From Candidate to Hire: Get Them Talking Diversity
You’re interviewing a strong candidate and the conversation is coming to an end. You’ve talked about their current role, skills and career goals. You wrap up by asking, “What questions do you have for me?” Without a pause, the candidate…
What Will Immigration Find If It Inspects Your Business?
When University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts was murdered in July 2018, it was discovered that her killer, Cristhian Bahena Rivera, was in the country illegally, with the aid of forged documents. Four years earlier, he had managed to gain…
Here’s What You Need In a People Analytics Leader
You need the right People Analytics Leader in order to build an effective and strategic people analytics function. This person is the key evangelist and visionary for data-driven decision making, and ensures the use of people analytics always delivers values…
What Do You Say If Your Contractor Wants to Be Paid In Bitcoin?
Note: The use of cryptocurrencies — a digital or virtual currency — is far from common, though interest is growing particularly among digital sophisticates concerned about financial transaction security and privacy. As companies increase their hiring of remote independent contractors,…
5 Advantages to An Onboarding Learning Program
When bringing new talent into the fold, most employers tend to focus on paperwork and how quickly the employee can become productive. Bu with 30% of new hires quitting in 6 months, changing how you onboard makes smart economic sense….