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Here’s how it should work for someone covered by an employer-sponsored health plan: You work hard. You need health care. You visit the doctor, who identifies a current or potential issue and provides the care you need. A month later, you aren’t agonizing over whether you should pay the rent, send your kids to summer […]
Disruption today is now business as usual. HR leaders are no longer responding to isolated events. They’re instead leading through a nonstop stream of workforce, reputational and regulatory disruptions. The business stakes are high and employee expectations are even higher. This moment demands more than a tactical response and reaction. It requires strategic foresight, cultural […]
There is no doubt that learning and development within any organization is paramount for its ongoing success. Irrespective of the type of business, employees must have the relevant amount of knowledge, enhanced skills, and abilities so that they are able to do their job successfully.
As we approach the end of another year, some of you may be gearing up for the year-end performance evaluation season. Conducting proper performance evaluations can play a critical role in your organization’s ability to address issues with poor performing employees, as well as retain your good employees. The purpose of this article is to […]
There’s a good chance that your company performs exit interviews when employees move on, but have you ever considered conducting stay interviews? Today, we take a look at the value of stay interviews in an article by Erin Pappo, client services director for Camden Consulting Group.
America is facing a job problem. It’s not the creation of jobs but filling them – and especially filling jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Added to this challenge is the fact that people are leaving the workforce in droves: in November 2021 alone, 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs according to […]
Last week, we reported on the recent training Starbucks offered its employees and the benefits to proactive versus reactionary training. Today we’ll focus on what Starbucks employees thought about this training.
Recruiting has become a 24/7 process. To adjust to this reality and attract the best talent, companies must find ways to modernize their talent acquisition. Here are three items to consider along the way.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that “closely held” for-profit companies can — on religious grounds — opt out of a federal requirement to provide certain contraception coverage is rife with implications for self-insured and other employer-sponsored health plans. The ruling is unlikely to lead to a wide variety of religiously inspired opt-outs, benefits attorneys held, […]
We know that managers need to make sure that employees are meeting their numbers or deadlines and keep track of their team’s performance. But if managers spent more time engaging their employees, they’d get much better results. According to Wikipedia, “An ‘engaged employee’ is defined as one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about […]