Healthcare reform’s preventive coverage rule that kicked in last year is already making big waves, according to the latest report from the federal government. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just announced that the healthcare reform law provided approximately 54 million private health plan participants with at least one new free preventive service […]
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by admin
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Career Advisory Board Recognize This! – Forcing an “understanding” of a group of people based on an arbitrary designation will lead to incorrect assumptions and disengagement. When you think of your workforce as a whole, how do you categorize them in your mind? By generation or by life stage? A good deal of press and […]
Posted on March 7th, 2012 by admin
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Recognize This! – It’s our responsibility – every one of us – to create a work environment in which our peers, colleagues, superiors and subordinates want to engage. I’m co-hosting a complimentary webinar tomorrow with BlessingWhite Employee Engagement Practice Leader, Mary Ann Masarech, on the key drivers for increasing employee engagement and creating high performance […]
Posted on March 6th, 2012 by admin
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Since the Department of Labor’s last set of Family Medical Leave Act forms expired at the end of 2011, employers have been waiting for new ones. Well, they’ve finally arrived, and here’s what’s changed about them: Not much. The most significant change was to the expiration dates. The new model forms state that they are […]
Posted on March 6th, 2012 by admin
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Recognize This! – Annual feedback (if that) does little to motivate, inspire or keep employees on track. Our semi-annual survey of U.S employees, the Globoforce® Workforce Mood Tracker™, found an overall dissatisfaction and disconnect among U.S. employees regarding both the frequency and effectiveness of performance reviews. (Read the news.) • 53% received a performance review […]
Posted on March 6th, 2012 by admin
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Recognize This! – Is another “initiative” the way to go to help employees overcome lingering recession fears and re-engage in the workplace? The press in the UK has been buzzing these last couple of weeks with news of the reinvigoration of the Employee Engagement Task Force initially launched after the publication of the Engaging for […]
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by admin
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Brace yourself. You’re about to read an unvarnished account of what top execs detest about HR people. Meredith Soleau, writing on the Fistful of Talent website, recently interviewed five CEOs of companies of various sizes to find out what really tees them off where HR’s concerned. Here’s a look at the high (or low) points […]
Posted on March 5th, 2012 by admin
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Recognize This! – “If managers just increased their praise and recognition of one employee once a day for 21 business days in a row, six months later, those teams as opposed to control group had a 31% higher level of productivity.” Please, if you do nothing else with anything you read in my blog, take […]
Posted on March 4th, 2012 by admin
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Recognize This! – It really is as simple as Listen, Tell, Praise. Psychometrics Canada came out last month with a study on employee engagement. One of the findings buried in the report was more interesting to me, though: “Those working in government (80.3%) and business (74.4%) sectors are more likely to identify engagement as a […]
Posted on March 4th, 2012 by admin
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Maybe HR’s concerns about employees misusing social media sites are unfounded. A recent survey says users are starting to be a lot more careful about who they’re “friending” and what they’re posting. Social network users are getting a lot more careful about pruning and managing their accounts, according to research from Pew Internet: 63% of […]
Posted on March 4th, 2012 by admin
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