The Productivity Paradox—Understanding Different Positions in Your Organization
The WFH vs WFO Productivity Debate
As the world grappled with the challenges posed by the COVID-19...
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How a Position Control System Shortens Your Time to Hire
Now more than ever, efficient hiring processes are critical for success. One area that often suffers...
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Four Key Benefits of a Position Control System
As organizations strive for operational excellence and strategic workforce management, implementing...
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Position Control vs. Position Management
In human resources, the terms "position control" and "position management" are often used interchangeably...
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Your Organization is Made of Positions
You’ve heard it said over and over again: People are your most important asset. If you want to build...
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What is Your Turnover Rate Telling You?
Overcoming today’s turnover challenges requires efficient, well-informed retention efforts. Keeping...
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Are You Wasting Time and Money on Hiring Efforts?
In today’s job market, the case for internal recruitment is easy to make. In the US, job openings...
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Stop Scrambling—Start Filling Open Positions Efficiently
The need for strategic staffing solutions has never been more urgent than today. Job openings remain...
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Scenario Planning: A Proactive Imperative for Modern Leaders
Effective scenario planning can mean the difference between an organizational culture that is reactive
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What is Position Management (AKA Position Control)?
With all of the turnover happening as part of the Great Resignation/Reshuffling/Whatever, your organization...
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Identify your Critical Positions with 6 Key Questions
Creating a sustainable organization requires understanding which positions you need today and in the...
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How to Create an Org Chart
As organizations grow in size, they often grow in complexity as well. When an organization is small...
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Positions Come First in a Strategic Framework
We sat down with CEO and founder of Built, Brett Derricott, to understand how position management...
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How a Finance Giant, Football Club, and Tech Company Approached Succession Planning
Developing succession plans for your organization can feel like starting a race with no end in sight...
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Combating Turnover - Getting in the Minds of Employees
In the era of the Great Resignation, employee retention is a concern for many organizations. The...
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Scenario Planning for Organizational Sustainability
Whether your organization is experiencing rapid change or things seem calm for the moment, the future...
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Facing Demand for Greater Flexibility, Organizations Extend Remote Options
As businesses reopen to allow in-person work, our team was curious how our customers were adapting...
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Innovative Ways to Onboard and Connect Remote Employees
The pandemic forced organizations to adapt to a constantly changing environment. With each month that...
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5 Tips for Post-Pandemic Hiring
Many organizations came to a hiring stand-still during the pandemic. As the economy improves and we...
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Eliminate the Headaches Caused by Overlapping Vacation Requests
As summer rapidly approaches, don’t wait to streamline your process for handling overlapping time...
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Shifting Your Mindset Around Utilizing PTO
One year ago, as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the lives of people around the world, many organizations...
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Strengthening Relationships with Your Direct Reports
Working in the corporate world and becoming a people leader, it doesn’t take long to realize there...
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Facing Demand for Greater Flexibility, Organizations Extend Remote Options
People work better together when they get to know their team members on a deeper level. When you establish...
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8 Ways to Adapt Your Leadership Strategy for a Virtual Workforce
Quickly adjusting strategy has helped many leaders keep their businesses afloat and retain employees...
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Keeping Your Remote Workforce Connected
As organizations ride the rollercoaster of 2020 and discover new methods for operating virtually,...
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Fears About Returning to the Office
We recently surveyed thousands of U.S. workers to find out how they are feeling about their jobs due...
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5 Reasons You Need a Better Org Chart for Workforce Planning
Given all of the uncertainty in the world today, effective workforce planning has never been more...
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Your Staff May Be Leaving You
With millions unemployed around the world, your employees are grateful to have a job and wouldn’t...
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FFCR Act (FFCRA) Documentation and Tracking
Businesses across the country are scrambling to understand the new Families First Coronavirus Response...
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The Tools for Fixing Modern Management
Every year, millions of Americans start new jobs—in October alone, the U.S. economy added roughly...
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Benefits of an Online Org Chart
Organizational charts have been around a long, long time. The first org charts were reportedly created...
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Limited versus Unlimited PTO – Which one is Right for your Business?
Unlimited paid time off sounds too good to be true to some, but there are many companies out there...
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Understanding the California Sick Leave Law
Over the last few years an increasing number of states have created or updated their sick leave laws...
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What is PTO - A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Paid Time Off
What does PTO stand for? PTO stands for paid time off. Businesses may use this term instead of vacation...
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Questions to Ask During a PTO Software Demo
Before you choose a PTO tracking system, you’re likely to research several different options in the...
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Choosing a PTO Tracking System
It’s now 2019 and for a lot of companies that means the beginning of a new PTO year. With the new...
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How to Apply for a Job Confidently, Without Being Obnoxious
I remember being in a college class where one of our assignments was to create a resume and a cover...
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4 Common Resume Mistakes You Should Avoid
I review quite a few resumes. So far this year I’ve reviewed 268 resumes (I know this because of the...
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How to Track PTO as a Growing Company
A lot of small companies track paid time off using paper forms, emails, or spreadsheets. As these...
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How to Terminate an Employee and Not Feel Terrible Afterwards
No one wants to terminate an employee. It’s unpleasant for everyone involved! I feel fortunate that...
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PTO Accruals - Yearly Lump Sum or Per Pay Period?
Transitioning from a manual PTO tracking process to using an online, automated PTO tracking system...
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Ditch Your PTO Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets are great for a lot of scenarios within a business, especially those dealing with numbers...
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Death to 360-Degree Performance Reviews
Please prove me wrong on this. I want to buy into the 360-degree performance review process, I really...
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How to Manually Manage PTO
As the person responsible for overseeing your organization’s time off, yours is a big job! If you...
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Should the PTO Year Begin on January 1?
With the help of modern software, designing and managing your PTO policies is easier than ever. Many...
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Advantages of Offering PTO Rollover
Over the past few years as I’ve interacted with people searching for an online PTO tracking system...
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Finding Dedicated Employees - Four Questions You Don’t Ask, But Should
Finding hardworking, dedicated employees is challenging. You collect resumes, perform screening interviews...
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Three Ways to Ensure a Smooth Transition During Senior Management Changes
When upper management transitions occur, you want the process to be painless. This isn’t always easy...
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Five Benefits of Allowing Your Employees to Work from Home
Have you considered making the switch from a traditional office atmosphere to allowing your employees...
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Creating a Company Culture – Get Started in Four Simple Steps
Company culture. Remember that? It’s that topic you covered in chapter II of your employee handbook...
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