Thu.Jan 31, 2019

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How to Handle Toxic Stars

HR C-Suite

When it comes to high-impact recruiting, attracting and keeping industry superstars is hard enough. But that’s nothing compared with drawing the line with them if they start turning toxic on you. It may be one of the most painful things managers will have to do. But it’s essential, especially if you have built a company […].

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How wearables data solves workforce issues

CultureAmp

When wearables were first introduced to the workplace, they became the star technology in corporate wellness programs. However, the use of wearables in the workplace now extends far beyond just tracking the health and fitness of employees. Take this example from Bank of America.

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my coworker doesn’t want me to have a communal candy dish because of temptation

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I keep a candy dish on my desk – have done so for years. It’s communal. I often fill it. Others contribute. It sits alongside some Aleeve and Tums that are also communal. Lots of people express happiness that it is there. Many people say they enjoy the candy. It can go long stretches being empty. The last few weeks it’s been filled with chocolate kisses.

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Are leaders really committed to talent development?

HR Zone

Development. Talent development: are leaders committed to it?

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Benefits of Hiring a Small Business Consultant

HR Digest

Majority of small business owners believe in individual effort for all the imaginable success. They are willing to multi-task just to get the work done. For these offices, seeking the help of a small business consultant makes no sense. But no matter how innovative they may be, some benefits still elude them for neglecting the services of a business consultant.

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10 Leadership Tips For Playing To More Than Your Strengths

Forbes Coaches Council

Break away from the generality of “playing to your strengths” and truly grow as a business leader with these tips from members of Forbes Coaches Council.

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Recruiter Job Description [Template]

Workology

Job descriptions are really the foundation of effective hiring. They provide insights on the job role and help set expectations on the requirements of the job opening for a role like HR Coordinator. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Getting Past Pushback: 12 Approaches To Building Trust With Clients

Forbes Coaches Council

Coaches can find that clients are reluctant to try new approaches to older problems. Here are some things people can do to build trust in order to help people embrace change.

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Rise to the top: how to nurture successful teams

HR Zone

Culture. Rise to the top: how to nurture success.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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The Latest Global Talent Trends from @LinkedIn

The Tim Sackett Project

LinkedIn recently released their 2019 Global Talent Trends and it’s loaded with great data for HR and TA Pros! Take a look at the Top 4: 91% believe that “Soft Skills” is the biggest trend in the future of work! Really!? Can we discuss this?! What do does LinkedIn mean by “Soft Skills”? Here’s how it was defined in the report – Creativity.

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Top 5 Employee Training Software For 2019

Kitaboo - Employee Training

Enterprises are expected to conduct regular training sessions for employees, in order to upskill them and to make them aware of new technologies. But they might find that pulling people off the production floor could affect their productivity. You can’t simply keep taking them off work to sit in training rooms. In a corporate environment, every hour counts.

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how do I deal with pregnancy talk at work when I’m dealing with miscarriages?

Ask a Manager

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I work in a large-ish department (about 40 people), and the majority of my colleagues are women my same age (20s and 30s). Because of the age range and gender of our department, we almost constantly have a pregnant woman in the office. I think at the moment we’re going on four years with continuous pregnancies!

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Authenticity: One of the Most Important Qualities of a Good Manager

Quantum Workplace

At some point in your career, you’ve likely had that boss – the one who treats every employee the same and doesn’t make any effort to develop relationships. They see employees as means to an end, instead of as individuals with unique personalities, backgrounds, and needs. These are not qualities of a good manager, and this inauthenticity is one of the most disengaging qualities a manager can have.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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update: I accidentally hugged the CEO

Ask a Manager

One of my favorite letters ever was from someone who accidentally hugged her CEO in the elevator one morning. And now there’s an update! I’m the reader who accidentally hugged her CEO. I heard your podcast episode on awkwardness and figured I’d send you an update. In short, everything turned out fine. My burning mortification has morphed into a hilarious party anecdote.

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Effectively Hiring for Soft Skills in Prospective Job Candidates

Rise

With the rise of technological automation in the workforce, organizations must not underestimate the value of soft skills in the workplace and the impact of soft skills to the future of work. According to LinkedIn’s Global Talent Trends 2019 report, 92% of HR professionals say soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills, with 80% recognizing that soft skills are increasingly important to company success.

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New Year, New Benefits: 5 Simple Ways to Improve Employee Health & Productivity

Benefitfocus

Benefitfocus’ Director of Product Management shares the five most important actions benefits administrators can take to help employees boost health and productivity in 2019.

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How Much are the Best Benefits Worth to You?

Commuter Benefit Solutions

Would you forgo a 56 percent pay increase if you could go from the worst job benefits and perks to the best? If you answered yes, then you agree with a new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study showed people switching from a job with the worst mix of perks and benefits to the best was worth 56 percent in increased wages.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Retirement Savings? HSA, IRA or 401(k)

Benefit Resource Inc.

We all have the best of intentions. We want to save for retirement, but reality kicks in. Choices need to be made. We can’t fund everything. Here are three rules to follow: First, don’t leave money on the table. As the saying goes, “Don’t leave money on the table” This is very true when considering your approach to retirement savings.

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Brokers: Steal and Use This Open Enrollment Overview Template Now!

Jellyvision

Pat yourself on the back and pour yourself an adult beverage: you just enrolled 80-90% of your book of business in the last three months. Now there’s just one last OE to-do: Email your clients a post-enrollment overview. Or even better: Run through the overview (gasp!) in person. Some of you already do this. To […]. The post Brokers: Steal and Use This Open Enrollment Overview Template Now!

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Stalking and the Workplace

The SHRM Blog

This year something that had once been an academic exercise became a reality. Myself and a few other managers in our building were asked to come to a conference room and we did not know why. A very senior manager in another department gave us a “heads up” that one of her employees, a medical trainee, was being stalked and threatened. This behavior was also exhibited towards another one of her employees.

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Stalking and the Workplace

SHRM

This year something that had once been an academic exercise became a reality. Myself and a few other managers in our building were asked to come to a conference room and we did not know why. A very senior manager in another department gave us a “heads up” that one of her employees, a medical trainee, was being stalked and threatened. This behavior was also exhibited towards another one of her employees.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Six Consistent Action Steps Successful Sales Leaders Take

Forbes Coaches Council

The key to closing sales deals, boosting revenue and seeing success lies within the make-or-break choices of sales leadership.

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Working On Your Goals When Your Motivation Fades

Engagedly

Staying motivated is a problem that everyone has at some point in their career. You may set out with the best of intentions, but with unexpected emergencies, new initiatives, and competing priorities for your time and attention, it […].

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This is the Year for Complete Endpoint Defense

Symantec

You can’t build real endpoint defense while taking a black-and-white view of cyber security

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Benefits of Background Screening Based on Job Type

Accurate Background

Identifying the type of background checks you should be running on candidates, while trying to stay within budget constraints and being under pressure to hire faster, can make it hard to make decisions about how comprehensive your employment screening should be. Although background checks are necessary and should always be viewed as an investment, there may be an opportunity to reduce cost and turnaround time by reviewing the background checks you are running across position types at your organi

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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12 Tips For Managing Coworker Relationships After You've Been Promoted

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share tips on managing workplace relationships after earning a promotion.

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Changing of the Guard

Symantec

Symantec says goodbye to Vice President of CR Cecily Joseph as she leaves the department in Jaime Barclay’s capable hands

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U.S. Adds Over 300K Jobs in January

SHRM Resources

The 35-day federal government shutdown didn’t hinder the labor market’s historic streak of positive job gains from continuing in 2019, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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