How to Expand Your Employee Benefits Offering

One of the most common questions in the HR world is “How do I keep employees happy?”. Well, aside from having a great company culture, one of the major ways of retaining your employees and keeping them happy is by offering them a good benefits package. Many small business owners make the mistake of thinking they cannot afford to offer benefits, but the truth is that offering a robust benefits package to your employees will have a positive effect on your bottom line. After all, it’s your employees who keep the company running.

Recruitment Strategies to Help You Attract Top Talent

Attracting and retaining top talent has been one of the major priorities in Human Resources for years now. As the market gets more and more competitive, it is our job to come up with original and successful strategies to attract that talent. If your organization’s recruitment strategies haven’t changed in the past few years, then it is time to consider doing so. Here’s why.

Four Steps to Building a Company Culture that Promotes Collaboration

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock over the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard of business guru and entrepreneur Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. When it comes to running a business, Musk does pretty much everything right. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, so I make a point to take whatever he has to say about running a business pretty seriously. I certainly don’t run my own business, but my job is to be a thought leader in the business and HR world, so I jump at any information I can pass along to my readers that will help them run their business. Musk is a big proponent of transparency within a business. Recently, an email he sent to his employees at Tesla, Inc was published on Inc.com that demonstrates his firm belief that communication within any business must flow unobstructed from top to bottom and front to back. So often even those companies that claim to be all about transparency and communication end up with red tape that has to be navigated when working interdepartmentally. If true success with this notion is to be achieved, there are a number of steps you can take in order to streamline communication within your business that will help your departments collaborate together instead of working against one another.

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Fun & Creative Ways to Build Your Team and Improve Your Company Culture

In order to have a successful and productive team, it is important to unite your employees by working on their strengths and weaknesses as well as boosting their morale. Having a strong workplace culture has become a main concern for businesses, so as a manager, it is your job to help make this happen. The most successful team building activities can not only help your team get stronger and closer, but it can also help them get away from the monotony of work. A team that communicates effectively and is on the same page while being positive and having great energy are the main parts of building your company culture. If you are not sure how to build your team to improve your company culture, here are some fun and creative ideas.

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5 Tips to Attract and Retain the Best Talent

Recruiting nowadays has become rather difficult. Applicants are very picky when applying to companies as they want the process to be as smooth and easy as possible. Usually, if the application process involves writing a cover letter, creating a profile, or anything other than just filling out a simple application form and submitting a resume, they skip it and move on to the next. These are probably the people you would not want to have working in your company. When a good applicant is searching for a new job and is fully committed to landing one, they will do whatever it takes to stand out from the rest of the applicants and get a job offer. These are the people you want to hire and keep in your company. However, that doesn’t mean your applicants should be jumping through hoops in order to apply. Even the most dedicated candidates can easily get turned off by a poorly designed application process. The following are just a few tips you can follow in order to attract and retain the best talent.

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Ways to Encourage Employees to Have Work-Life Balance

Promoting a healthy work-life balance is very important. Lately, work-life balance has become a buzzword among corporations and small businesses alike. Work-life balance is being able to juggle workplace stress with other daily pressures and responsibilities, such as family, friends, and one’s self. Our schedules are getting busier and busier, so it is important that we are able to save time for ourselves, our friends, and our family. According to pingboard.com, nowadays employees are demanding more control over their lives and a bigger say in the structure of their jobs. Companies are now emphasizing work-life balance in their job descriptions in order to attract talent since it is becoming more and more important for people.

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4 Steps to Building a Good Company Culture

It is a known fact that company culture is very important to keep employees happy. It is also a known fact that every company has a culture, just like every person has a personality. Nowadays, when people are searching for jobs, they no longer just focus on salary and benefits; they also consider the company’s culture. After all, the workplace is where adults spend most of their time, outside of their own home

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How You Can Retain More Employees Without Spending More Money

Employee engagement has literally become a full-time job in some organizations. You have companies such as Google and Twitter, who offer their employees free meals, massages, haircuts, and so on, which isn’t attainable for most small to medium sized businesses. There is good news, though! You don’t have to offer all of those perks to attract and retain talent; actually, there are quite a few things you can do in order to keep your employees happy at little to no cost to you.

Human ResourcesMarketing TeamFebruary 24, 2017Human Resources, Employee Retention, Top Talent, Company CultureComment