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Even with the best of intentions, you can incentivize your best people to leave, says Stevens. Chally Group Worldwide is a global leadership, sales potential, and performance measurement firm. Here are Stevens’ top 10 mistakes in incentive contest design that drive the best salespeople away: MISTAKE 1: Trying to Keep Everybody Happy Poor performers needn’t […]
2020 seems to have decided to be the year that will live in infamy. COVID-19 hit the headlines early in the year and really swung into action in March. I strongly suspect everyone reading this post has had his or her life upset in one way or another by the virus.
In a previous post, we talked about the benefits to both the employer and the employee of promotions. For the employee, while a promotion comes with greater responsibility, it also typically comes with greater prestige, seniority, authority, and compensation.
by Anita Bowness, global practice leader, Business Consulting, Halogen Software As an HR professional, you know that a conversation about performance provides an equal opportunity for managers and employees to talk about what’s going well, what needs to improve, and how things are going in general. The challenge is, it doesn’t always go this way, […]
The COVID-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise, including the business world. Millions of Americans were given relatively short notice from employers that their physical offices would be closing temporarily in the wake of the pandemic. What many thought would be a short stint at home of maybe a couple of weeks has turned into […]
Yesterday’s Advisor featured tips for avoiding wage/hour suits; today, specific guidance on gender discrimination in compensation, plus an introduction to the very practical, time-saving 10-Minute HR Trainer. Without quite realizing it, employers can easily create situations that seem to smack of gender discrimination. And once there’s the appearance of discrimination, the lawyers will be looking […]
We’ve all heard the old saying “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” It’s pretty straightforward. The Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings describes it this way: “Don’t criticize another person’s work until you’ve tried to do it yourself; don’t judge another person’s life until you’ve been […]
It’s official. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has successfully expanded to television. While Marvel has had previous forays into this medium (including Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and various shows on Netflix), WandaVision was Marvel’s first television show explicitly interconnected with the happenings of the MCU, which previously was only portrayed in feature films. And while the […]
I am often asked about the types of jobs a person with a disability can do and my answer is always the same—“What do you have?” The reality is that the talent pool of people with disabilities remains underutilized, even though it includes job seekers with a wide and diverse range of education, degrees, professional certifications, work experience and skills.
In health care, acronyms abound—ACA, FSA, FMLA, CDHP, HSA, etc. It can be a bit overwhelming.