Posts by admin
Why Are Employees Leaving? HR Case Management Can Provide Answers
Authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman wrote in their 1999 bestseller, First, Break All the Rules: What The World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, that people don’t leave jobs, they leave managers. If anything, that statement rings more true today than ever before. And it’s even more sobering when you consider the most recent findings from…
Read MoreWant to Support Talent Development? Get Vision Into Your Workforce
You probably wouldn’t think so, but Helen Keller had some advice for today’s HR leaders. “The only thing worse than being blind,” Keller wrote, “is having sight but no vision.” Today, HR leaders in enterprise organizations often have access to huge piles of data. It sits before them, a sight to behold, a mountain of…
Read MoreAssessing Attitudes Toward Employee Benefits with an HR Help Desk
If you’re in a competitive industry (and who isn’t today?), you need to know with confidence that your organization’s benefits and compensation plans are helping you find top talent and retain your best performers. But with the increasing complexity of plan designs, and with the rapidly changing demographics of the workforce, how do you gain…
Read MoreAssessing Attitudes Toward Employee Benefits with an HR Help Desk
If you’re in a competitive industry (and who isn’t today?), you need to know with confidence that your organization’s benefits and compensation plans are helping you find top talent and retain your best performers. But with the increasing complexity of plan designs, and with the rapidly changing demographics of the workforce, how do you gain…
Read MoreRisk Reduction and the LBi HR HelpDesk
Corporate life is full of risks of all shapes and sizes. The playing field is riddled with hazards that range from employee lawsuits stemming from a manager’s misconduct to federal sanctions and fines for failing to comply with the reporting guidelines of Sarbanes-Oxley. LBi HR HelpDesk can mitigate risk for the organization across these areas…
Read MoreDigging for Treasure in the HR Data Mines
We dig, dig, dig, the whole day through To dig, dig, dig is what we like to do It ain’t no trick to get rich quick If you dig, dig, dig with a shovel or a pick So sang the dwarfs in the 1937 Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Sneezy and the…
Read MoreIt’s Alchemical: HR Data Is Transformed Into a Higher-performing Workforce
Today’s HR systems are capable of creating mountains of data, which begs the question: What are you supposed to do with all of it? What should you do with the tsunami of facts and figures, streams of employee records, and seemingly bottomless online file cabinets filled with digital documentation of every transaction between employees and…
Read MoreRiddle Us This: How Is an Automated HR Help Desk Like the Federal Budget Sequester?
The answer: Just by implementing it, you’ll cut your costs. Unlike the budget sequester, however, an automated HR case management system is highly unlikely to stir debate over whether you should have taken a different path. One proven advantage of a fully featured, automated HR case management system is that it will reduce HR department…
Read MoreAn Employee on Autopilot: A Potentially Costly Frenemy
If you don’t know the term, a “frenemy” is the friend whose words or actions hurt you, regardless of whether you believe that’s their intention. A frenemy is the friend you ought to get rid of, but don’t. Why? Because as the Urban Dictionary puts it, “they’re nice, they’re good … you’ve had good times…
Read MoreEmployee Engagement — Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water
For a while, it seemed that American business was federally required to include something about employee engagement in every single human resources and talent management conference or publication. Then the recession hit. Employee engagement took a back seat to nearly every other aspect of trying to navigate a successful business and do more with less.…
Read More