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People don’t tend to think of HR unless they’ve got problems with their paycheck or a question about their health benefits, and maybe when they want to report misconduct. So you’re either seen as a fixer or an enforcer. But HR is much bigger than that.

We believe that a vibrant company culture which supports and nurtures our employees is so important that it is the key to our success.

Download this ebook to find out how to level up your onboarding game and help your organization and your people becoming onboarding rockstars.

By investing in your managers, you can improve both morale and performance at your organization. However, connecting the skills involved in both leadership and management takes an intentional development effort.

To help you develop the leadership skills you need for today’s workplace, BambooHR and 15Five have compiled advice from some of today’s top thought leaders on leadership, culture building, emotional intelligence, and management.

This ebook is for HR professionals who need a starting point for delivering actionable, data-based insights to their organizations that will help create better, more successful places to work.

The most successful individuals, teams, and organizations set clear goals to reach success. Goals help us achieve more, faster, with less. In the end, the benefits of goal setting lead to one outcome: better employee performance.

As an HR professional today, you have more opportunities than ever before to work as a strategic partner in your organization. In this ebook, learn from HR leaders on what it means to be strategic in HR and how to achieve it in your organization.

Download this ebook from BambooHR and Spark Hire to explore how HR software can make a difference throughout the employee lifecycle, from first contact to the most recent review.

Instead of dissecting everything that can go wrong with compliance, look at how compliance can build a positive company culture by focusing on what's most important in your organization - your people.

In a competitive hiring market, now more than ever, candidates expect a fast, convenient, and transparent hiring experience—and organizations know they’ll be left behind if they can’t deliver.

Small-business HR needs the tools to administer comp, benefits, and PTO, along with the understanding to shape culture and employee development. Download this guide designed to help small business HR handle these issues and create great places to work.

An excellent new hire onboarding checklist isn’t about ticking off steps — it’s about designing your employee’s journey so all the roadblocks to success have been swept out of the way.

An employee recognition strategy is vital to engaging and retaining today's workforce. The latest research from Quantum Workplace and BambooHR uncovers secrets and stats around employee recognition to help fuel your employee appreciation strategy.

This guide explores why feeling valued is key to sustaining great work and performance. It includes an overview of signals that show when employees don’t feel valued and steps you can take to make sure that they do—no matter their job description.

Engagement is much more than a buzzword—it is a strategic business initiative with huge potential.

In this ebook, we’ll explore the interplay between recruiting promises, compensation, and actual experience throughout the employee life cycle. We’ll also show some changes that can make a lasting difference in your recruiting ecosystem.

When you tie onboarding into the entire employee experience, you can get a much better picture of what to do during recruiting and new hires’ first days and weeks.

Is your company stuck in the Wild West of time tracking? HR professionals rank time and attendance management as 1 of their top 3 productivity killers. What do time tracking challenges cost your organization? Check out the ebook to find out.

This ebook features insights from Payscale and BambooHR on how to optimize both halves of the employer brand equation, ensuring that your pay and people practices are fair, transparent, and modern.

Join BambooHR and League to explore how to go beyond wellness resolutions so your organization can reap all the benefits of a healthy workforce.

This guide features insights from four software providers in specialized aspects of the HR field: BizLibrary, Officevibe, PayScale, and BambooHR. It explores the impact that HR tech can have on your culture and how to get executive buy-in.

The New Definitive Guide to Onboarding follows in the footsteps of the original Definitive Guide, bringing new insights and valuable ideas to help you understand the impacts onboarding is having on your people and your organization.

At a time when financial capital is readily available but human capital isn’t, there’s an urgency to increase Employee Lifetime Value. But to do that, we have to understand the employee journey.

Keeping your best employees motivated and engaged can have a real impact on your organization's bottom-line success. So how do you encourage your most talented people to stick with your organization and do great work?

Modern workplaces demand modern pay practices. With this ebook, we’ll explain how to most effectively use compensation to motivate performance within your organization.

Matching clients with the right HRIS can make all the difference. Here’s the ideal progression that your clients should experience after your HRIS recommendation, broken down into five steps.

With the right preparation, you can turn compensation conversations into opportunities for employee engagement and organizational growth. Download the ebook today.

Setting up pre-employment drug tests is a necessity in certain industries. If you’re convinced that pre-employment drug testing can help your company or industry, download these basic steps to start putting a program in place.

Download the free ebook now to make more of each workday and accomplish your company's most important goals.

A system that includes both frequent feedback and a thoughtful compensation plan will work to attract great hires, keep employees engaged, and develop internal talent for the future.

Follow the journey of Ned the new hire bear and Heather the HR hare as they show us exactly how to make a great first day through effective onboarding. This first step to smart onboarding leads to many great days to come.

Read this cliche-free ebook now to discover seven performance management lessons we can learn from sports.

Read this ebook to discover how recruiters can avoid bad hires and the breakups they’re bound to cause.

Employee engagement is a puzzle with many pieces to it. Most of us are working on defining the term, learning what drives employee engagement, and planning out how programs that improve employee engagement can move the needle on key business outcomes.

Learn why employee turnover really matters and how you can manage it in your organization by focusing on your people and your culture.

In this checklist, we’ll uncover the three keys to improving employee engagement—ask, analyze, and act—and offer steps within each to reach optimal engagement.

Is your organization at risk of losing employees because of a poor compensation strategy? Get smart about compensation now—it’ll pay off for years to come.

Traditional performance management is driving your employees crazy. Learn what employees really want from their organization’s performance management system, and how you can provide it.

If you’re going to build an effective performance management system, you need a great software sidekick to help. Learn what you need to know before selecting the best software tool for your organization.

Did you know that organizations with engaged employees outperform competitors by 202 percent? And that disengaged employees cost billions of dollars in lost productivity each year? We’ve created this step-by-step checklist and calendar to help!

Download this ebook from BambooHR and Zane Benefits to discover the roles compensation and benefits play in developing the right experience for your employees.

Emtrain and BambooHR teamed up on behalf of managers and executives to share best practices for effective, results-based coaching. Learn more now!

Dig into this ebook for their best insights on designing, communicating, and executing a total rewards program in your organization.

Download this free ebook to learn nine best practices that will help you master the new, ongoing performance management model.

In this ebook, learn how to think about diversity in the 21st century, consider issues like fair pay and bias, and use diversity to strengthen your workforce and transform your organization.

Download this free comprehensive guide to see the latest and greatest HR technology weighed head to head, and find the right fit for your organization

Everything we as HR and compensation professionals try to accomplish within an organization hinges on effective communication.

With over 20 years of industry experience to look back on, Glassdoor was happy to provide their insights into hiring, interviewing, company culture, and more.

Download this Talent Pulse ebook to discover how People Analytics gives leadership the tools to make talent decisions with a combination of data and experience.

Each of your employees has a personal narrative, a story about his or her life and where it’s headed. Your company can use smart rewards, targeted recognition, and retention strategies to help align these narratives with your company’s values.

Keeping and engaging your best people is crucial. Learn why reward and recognition helps you do just that, 13 ways to reward and recognize the right way, and how to get your boss onboard.

While vacation time has clear benefits for your employees and your organization, crafting a vacation policy isn’t as straightforward. Download this quick guide on the specifics of unlimited vacation.

Reward and recognition programs aren't just needed to make employees feel happy and appreciated. Learn how they increase productivity and retention, and why they deserve to be a top priority.

Download this ebook to learn five real benefits that come from encouraging your employees to take real vacations with their time off, both for their personal health and for your organization’s operations.

If you wish you had more time to hire, develop, and retain your people, it's time to learn how HR software takes care of the tedious and menial hurdles of your job, giving you the time to get to what you love.

Download this free ebook to learn how you can master your beginning onboardings and offboarding ends, including step-by-step maps and checklists for each.

Is performance management dragging your company culture down? You're not the only one, but it doesn't have to be this way! Learn how to change that trend.

Are you tracking your HR data manually or entering duplicate entry (or using scrolls)? It's time to ditch that stone-age system and discover how efficient HR software can make you.

Ironically, the review process designed to help companies increase their employees’ performance rarely receives a performance review itself? Learn four ways to improve your performance reviews.

When it comes to tracking time off, benefits, sick days, and the hundreds of other things you track in HR, the old-school spreadsheets just don’t cut it. In fact, they stink. Learn how to move on.

Whether you're aware or not, spreadsheets can hold you captive. Learn 13 ways they keep you from doing the important work you want to do, and more importantly, how to break free.

HR is saving the business world, one task at a time. Discover the ten ways HR is a hero and exactly what that means for you and your business.

If you want to spend more time focusing on the growth of your company, but spreadsheets keep pushing you down, it's time to push back. Learn 11 ways to overcome the big, bad, spreadsheets.

Companies with engaged workforces vastly outperform those without, but only 32 percent of US employees are engaged. What prevents us from engaging employees, and are there practical solutions to improve engagement?

Too many small business leaders handle HR duties all by themselves (or don't both with it at all). For those DIY business leaders, we’ve created a DIY guide to master HR best practices.

How you handle compensation will have an impact on your organization’s ability to engage its employees, attract new talent, and retain your best people in a competitive market.

Spreadsheets used to work well enough as a go-to data-collection method. But now there are more secure and efficient ways of managing employee data.

Unexpected ACA costs add up quickly and can total millions when organizations get slapped with penalties. We understand how daunting ACA can be, and we’re here to help.

Competing for talent is only getting tougher. Learn 13 ways to improve your ability to attract and retain the best employees as well as tips for getting quick recruiting and retaining wins

Are your top candidates becoming average employees? Learn six things you can do to buck this trend, increase engagement, and ensure long-term success for your talented people.

Is your relationship with spreadsheets starting to take a downhill turn? Many professionals are realizing it might be time to bid farewell to their old solutions and hello to new opportunities.

Money Matters! But just how much does money matter? Download this mini eBook to learn 10 things about money we think every HR person should know