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Key Strategies For Retaining Newly Hired Professionals
With the unemployment rate at 4.2% in Massachusetts (April, 2016) and fewer professionals available for hire, it is becoming increasingly important for companies to retain employees and insure the success of their newly hired employees. Studies have shown that companies lose an average of 25% of all new hires within…
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How HR Can Help Employees Flourish In Their Jobs
A major reason that employees may be feeling overwhelmed or disconnected at work is that they are not in roles where they can best flourish. One of the most important functions of human resources professionals is helping their organizations to ensure they have the right talent in the right place and…
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How to Manage Workplace Anxiety
In order to keep morale and productivity up and retain talent, executives and managers need to be sure that employees have the latest information about what’s happening, communicate it frequently, discover what the workforce is thinking, and invite input and feedback. ClearRock offers the following advice to managers on how…
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Management Walking Around More to Maintain Morale
More executives, managers and supervisors are getting out of their offices and out from behind emails and are interacting with employees where the work is being performed. They are utilizing Management By Walking Around (MBWA) as a way to be more visible, connect with employees, invite suggestions, improve morale, productivity, and employee engagement….
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Raise or no Raise? Tips for Employees & Employers
While annual performance reviews remain the main method for delivering raises, companies are increasingly adopting proactive performance systems. In these systems, employees develop goals and timelines against which they will be evaluated, and their managers meet with them more often than once a year. Annual performance reviews are not as…
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Guidelines for Giving Feedback
An effective way to get as much productivity as possible from employees is to provide timely, helpful feedback. However, giving feedback is one of the most poorly executed management duties. Most managers have never received any training in giving feedback and are especially reluctant to deliver negative feedback. But, many…
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The 7 New Ways to Mentor
Short-term. Multiple. Reverse. Two-Way. Informal. Virtual. Companywide. Mentoring has been revitalized and now comes in seven different forms to serve various purposes. Following are the seven ways mentoring is being used today: Short-term: Mentoring relationships can be very short-term – an hour or a day – or last weeks or…
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Has Your Boss Become ‘Toxic?’
In a tough economy, managers and executives may become “toxic bosses” due to inadequate management skills and their negative reactions to cutbacks in staff, salaries, raises, benefits, bonuses, budgets, and promotions. Layoffs and staff reductions may cause managers and executives to do more work with fewer employees and to work…
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13 Ways to Become a Better Manager
One of the best ways companies can improve their bottom lines is for their executives and managers to manage better. Managers can upgrade their management and leadership skills, team up with mentors, and clarify the objectives and career paths of those they manage. To retain talented employees in this slowly…
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Maintaining Better Workplace Trust is new Challenge
Trust in the workplace has been slowly recovering during the past few years. Employees today are more trustful of senior management and colleagues than they have been since the start of the recession, according to surveys. Improved trust in senior management has resulted from steps leaders have taken to cope…
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Seven Principles for Managing Change / More Employers to Address Being Overwhelmed at Work
One of the top human resource challenges of 2015 will be addressing the issue of employees being overwhelmed at work, which often spills over into their personal lives. More employers are seeing higher levels of employee burnout and stress and are addressing it at the organizational level. Developing policies and…
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8 Guidelines for Succeeding in new Job
Most people – especially those who have been unemployed for a while – devote almost all of their time and resources to getting a job, but are not nearly as prepared to succeed once they get it. Many new hires do not have a clear understanding of the most important…
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Job Rejections due to Lack of Cultural ‘Fit’
In cases where the qualifications of two candidates for the same job are roughly equivalent, cultural fit can be a deciding factor. Lack of cultural fit is one of the biggest contributors to the failure of newly hired and promoted managers and executives. Among the reasons new leaders do not…
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7 Recommendations for Employers on Retaining Talent
Retaining talented employees is takes on a higher priority when more jobs become available. With the cost of replacing workers who leave or don’t work out at two or three times their compensation, companies are advised to monitor and revise their retention programs in order to encourage employees to stay…
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Why Only 3 out of 10 Change Initiatives Succeed – 7 Principles for Managing Change
Employers are continually introducing changes into the workplace – from revisions to health care plans to new products and services to new human resource and management policies. However, as many as 7 out of 10 of these changes never fully achieve their desired objectives, according to ClearRock Inc. While that…
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