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Verified First, Our Background Screening Partner, Wins HRO Today Competition

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Here at Agile HR, we partner with the top companies that can provide value to our clients. Here’s exciting news about how Verified First, our background screening partner, is providing new features to improve the hiring process: We’re proud to announce that our background screening partner, Verified First, was named the winner at HRO Today’s 2018 iTalent competition.

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Rethinking Performance Reviews Part 2: How to Develop Strengths

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In our previous blog post, we discussed strategies to change performance review systems by maintaining ongoing communication with employees. It is essential that managers can initiate difficult conversations, helping to shed light on potential problems or gaps in the employee’s performance. As you maintain these conversations, it is natural to find areas where the employee needs to strengthen their skill set.

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Performance Review Transformation: How to Design a System to Support Employees and Improve Results

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Business owners will often agree that they are checking the boxes with performance reviews, but don’t seem to be getting the desired results from these efforts. The old methods of annual or quarterly reviews are outdated. Often managers and employees are just “jumping through the hoops” for review requirements… if the reviews are completed at all. Some companies are choosing to implement smaller, ongoing reviews in an attempt to maintain ongoing conversations.

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Rethinking Performance Reviews Part 1: How to Have Hard Conversations

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Businesses across the nation are breaking the rules when it comes to performance reviews, with some executives throwing the traditional review systems out the window. In the HR industry, it has been common for companies to use the standard method of quarterly and/or annual written reviews, but professionals are now seeing that these methods might not be effective enough.

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Performance Conversations that Matter

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How often does it happen that a manager sits down with an employee regarding a performance evaluation, but the conversation doesn’t change the behavior of the employee? Performance reviews and systems are designed to support the employee in growth and career development. But, too often these practices are implemented without the real intent behind the system.

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Affordable Care Act: What Employers Need to Know

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Insurance coverage has been a hot topic this year with the new president in office. There has been a lot of discussions related to the potential changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Even though efforts have been made to change the law, many of the ACA mandates are still in place. Time will tell whether upcoming laws will alter requirements for business owners and employee coverage.

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Peer Reviews: Are You Doing It Right?

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Building a strong, team-oriented workplace is essential if your business is going to thrive. So, you should be looking to implement systems where employees and managers can work together for the higher good of the company. Managers can oversee the daily activities to identify the slackers and the productive employees. But, the real information needs to come from the trenches: coworkers see the interactions and activities that are completed each day.