The 3 Things Millennials Secretly Want from You (Hint: It’s Not Higher Pay)

Labor demographics are changing rapidly, and as a generation, Millennials now make up the largest percentage of the workforce. As a result, this group has a strong influence on management practices. Smart employers are adapting to new ways of doing business in order to stay competitive. Those that choose to stick with traditional methods of…

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Sierra-Cedar 2016-17 HR Systems Survey

Is your HR organization performing at peak efficiency levels? Do you understand how your peers are managing their firms; companies with the same issues and challenges you face? They can only expose new and potentially productive ideas. How can you broaden your knowledge of industry trends and cutting edge business tools? The answer is in…

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Five Ways Data Analytics Can Help Your Business Succeed

As a company grows, it can become increasingly important to ensure that the daily running of the business is as simplified as possible. However, even in today’s modern technological times, the vast majority of companies are still using outdated methods for managing employees. As human resources departments face increasingly complex business changes, the use of…

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Top 10 Rules for PowerPoint

OK, PowerPoint is cool. You can add strange sounds, video, odd text shapes, weird slide transitions, squiggly paths for text entrance, and many, many other unusual effects to your presentations. If you don’t believe me, just look at the presentations your 3rd grade child is creating in school. But we are adults, presenting to adult…

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How Increased Employee Retention Enhances Your Bottom Line

Most businesses grossly underestimate the true cost of turnover, and they pay the price when they allow strategic engagement and retention planning to fall by the wayside. Such initiatives are more than just good public relations. They create a culture in which employees stay with the company longer, are more productive at work and provide…

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2016 Presidential Election

Presidential election time is here. Who needs the Olympics or World Cup!  Who knew this could be entertaining. For political junkies, 2016 beats (I won’t say trumps) the Super Bowl for the excitement and entertainment factor. Rarely has the choice for the presumed nominees in either parties not been decided by now (mid-April). This year,…

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Confidentiality is Critical for your HR Help Desk

The single most critical difference between LBi HR Help Desk and more generic IT help desk systems is the concept of confidentiality. Any help desk solution can automatically route tickets to a specific individual or group based on company workflow rules. Generic systems may also be able to prevent unauthorized eyes from opening and editing…

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The Upside to Workplace Conflict and How to Deal with it Successfully

The list of possible causes for workplace conflict is long enough to seem insurmountable, and a company completely free of inter-staff strife is rare. Any situation requiring the collective involvement of individuals with unique perspectives, strengths and weaknesses will result in priority differences that can lead to clashes. Rather than hope for the best to…

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How Big Data is Transforming Human Resources

Advances in technology have transformed the role of human resources (HR) professionals over the past 50 years. Today’s HR specialists are expected to take on strategic planning that adds value to the company’s bottom line — a big change from HR’s early days of basic data entry. In the very near future, the role of…

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