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CAI’s Ovation Awards: 2011 Spotlight
CAI has presented Ovation Awards to a number of diverse companies for their even more diverse “people practices” for the past four years. CAI created the Ovation Awards in 2007 to honor exceptional...
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Improving and Maximizing Employee Efficiency
Productivity is the name of the game. It is easy for employers to fall into the trap of believing that high levels of stress combined with a busy work life create the most effective results from...
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Are You Using Social Media for Employee Communications Yet?
The post below is a guest blog from Stephanie Clark who serves as the Marketing Coordinator and Social Media Manager for CAI’s employee benefits partner Hill, Chesson & Woody Employee Benefit...
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Use Professional Development to Motivate and Retain Top Talent
Many organizations believe that increasing salary is the most effective way to retain their stellar performers. Although higher salaries might keep employees at their jobs, it is not a cost-effective...
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Two Key Considerations When Performing Background Checks
When people fib about their work history, educational degree, job titles or salaries, criminal background and substance abuse habits – the top five lies told by job candidates – the results can be...
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Workplace Friendships: Reap the Benefits and Avoid the Negatives
Companies hire people based on the skills and knowledge they can offer to help achieve business goals. Forming strong friendships with others is usually not a job requirement, but when considering the...
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Help Your Employees Save Money in a Down Economy
The cost for almost everything—gas, food, insurance, etc.—is currently rising. Unfortunately, due to the economic recession and other business factors, employees’ paychecks are not increasing at a rate...
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Why Employees Stay Long-Term
Granted, some reasons employees leave a company are out of your control. People may quit a job for reasons as varied as having a bad commute, a deterioration of their community, an industry downturn, a...
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Help Your Employees Achieve and Maintain Work/Life Balance
The uncertain economy has caused many employers to maintain a lean workforce. As a result, employees are often working additional hours to get their jobs done. The expanded workweek may prevent...
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Attract, Retain and Engage: CAI’s 2011 Compensation and Benefits Conference
On August 31 and September 1, CAI invited HR professionals and company executives to attend its annual Compensation and Benefits Conference at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh. More than 180 guests...
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Exploring Why Employees Stay With Your Company
In today’s post, Advice and Resolution team member Renee’ Watkins encourages you to think about your employee retention efforts. Renee’ Watkins, HR Advisor Every organization would like to see a high...
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Use Multiple Channels of Communication to Recognize Employees
Renee’ Watkins, HR Advisor In today’s post, Advice and Resolution team member Renee’ Watkins shares some new strategies to reach and recognize your employees. A recent survey conducted by the IBM...
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Creating a Consumer Experience for Candidates and Employees
We are all aware of the changing dynamics in recruitment, employment and retention. Companies should think of potential applicants and employees as consumers and create an experience that meets the...
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Why Top Performers Choose to Leave
During a declining economy, new hires for organizations would often come from an increasing pool of unemployed workers. Now, with an improved economy and the job market on the rebound, the paradigm is...
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The Labor Market Squeeze
The post below is a guest blog from Dax Hill who serves as Principal, Health & Welfare Consultant for CAI’s employee benefits partner Hill, Chesson & Woody. Many employers are expressing...
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How to Retain Millennials
It’s hard to think of an important aspect of management that is more neglected than individual development planning. As a consequence, companies typically pay the high price in the form of the loss of...
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For Millennials, Lack of Loyalty May Be a Sign of Neglect
The prevailing wisdom is that, in general, Millennials express little loyalty to their current employers and many are planning near-term exits. During the next year, if given the choice, 25% of...
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How HR Creates a Culture of Recognition
When you take into consideration the high cost of turnover and its disruptive impact on the business, it should get you thinking about your own recognition strategies. How can you expect employees to...
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Is Your Office Space Repelling Good People?
Millennials are considered by many to be the first generation since the 60’s to come with their own set of preferences as to what they desire in regards to various aspects of their daily life –...
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Address These 4 Employee Needs for Maximum Retention
Recruiting top employees involves a relevant understanding of what attracts candidates to an opportunity; what do they want, and what are their priorities. Once you have them on board, how do you...
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