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Fun Alternatives to the Typical Office Holiday Party
It has been a tough 18 months, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns and physical distancing meant companies and their employees had to adapt the way they work. Some employees are working from home, some are in the office, and some are working a hybrid schedule. The office holiday party didn’t escape the virus’s clutches…
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How to Provide Career Development for Employees
4 Steps to Career Development for Employees Are you in tune with your employees’ goals and aspirations? Today’s workforce expects more guidance and feedback than ever before. As their employer, you should be exploring plans surrounding career development for employees. Taking this step can be good for everyone. Learn why career development is important to…
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Best Practices for Employee Onboarding
We understand! Hiring new employees for your organization can be a long and tedious task. The process isn’t just time-consuming, but it poses challenges and requires investment. Therefore, it is essential you retain the employees you onboard. To achieve this, consider your employee onboarding process. After all, this is the first real taste a new…
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How Can You Assess the Productivity of Remote Workers?
Measuring the Productivity of Remote Workers Are your remote employees working hard or hardly working? Cliches aside, it’s important to know what your remote team is accomplishing in a day…and if progress is beginning to slow down. But how do you measure the productivity of remote workers? Because evaluating remote workers isn’t the same…
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How to Have a Difficult Conversation at Work
How to Have a Difficult Conversation at Work — An Employer’s Guide There are some conversations that are more difficult than others to have in the workplace. Whether you’re sitting down with an employee to discuss inappropriate behavior, an error, or a failure to pull their own weight, knowing how to have a difficult conversation…
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Modifying and Extending Shelter-in-Place
As part of Governor Pritzker’s Executive Order modifying and extending shelter-in-place, Illinois businesses must post this notice in common areas to notify employees of their rights. Other highlights of the order include: Continuing to encourage remote work All businesses must evaluate which employees can work from home, and businesses “are encouraged to” facilitate employees to…
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HR Strategy is crucial in times of crisis.
What COVID-19 has taught us about HR Strategy. COVID-19 has made a significant impact on business as we know it. So many organizations are struggling to keep afloat. Some will make it, while others will not. A strong HR strategy makes a significant difference in the survival of an organization, especially in times of…
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The Importance of Providing Sexual Harassment Training
Sexual Harassment Roger Ailes. Matt Lauer. Bill O’Reilly. Harvey Weinstein. Kevin Spacey. Louis C.K. Mark Halperin. We’ve seen over a dozen high profile sexual harassment cases in the media over the past year. Victims began the #metoo movement in late 2017, a hashtag used on social media to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault…
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Ask An HR Expert: How Can I Engage Remote Employees?
Hello! My name is Katie Stewart and welcome to Ask An HR Expert where we answer any of your HR questions. Today’s question is: How can I engage remote employees? 3 Tips to Engage Remote Employees Tip #1 Make sure you are intentional in your program design. Your program design should have remote workers in…