Sat.Dec 14, 2019

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update: interviewing while missing several front teeth

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. . Remember the letter-writer in 2018 who had to interview while missing several front teeth because she was in the middle of extensive dental work? (#2 at the link) Here’s the update. In January 2018, you replied to my question about interviewing while in the middle of major dental work.

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Best 360 Degree Performance Review Tips

Engagedly

Performance reviews may seem like a pain, but they are important for organizational growth. Here are some amazing performance review tips for managers who want to make sure that reviews run smoothly and for peers who want to […].

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weekend free-for-all – December 14-15, 2019

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: Us , by David Nicholls. Hoping to save his marriage, the somewhat uptight and rigid Douglas Petersen embarks on a month-long tour of Europe with his much more laid-back wife and skeptical teenage son. * I make a commission if you use that Amazon link.

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What Is The Ideal Distance From Home To Work?

New to HR

Besides a brief lull in the early 2000s, the American commute has grown longer over the last four decades. A one way trip to the office now takes an average of 27 minutes, more than a five-minute increase from the 1980s. The post What Is The Ideal Distance From Home To Work? appeared first on New To HR.

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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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8 Fun Vacation Ideas Your Family Will Love

Take It Personel-ly

A family vacation is a perfect way to shake off the cobwebs of everyday life and spend time with the people you cherish most. There are many different places and activities you and your family could enjoy while on vacation. Here are some fun ideas for your next family vacation. Go on a beachside vacation […].

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McDonald’s Wins Big at the NLRB. It’s Also a Win For Small Business

Evil HR Lady

The last time you ordered some Chicken McNuggets or a Big Mac, was it a McDonald’s employee who took your order, made the food and handed it to you? The National Labor Relations Board just handed down a ruling that decries that most likely, it was not a McDonald’s employee, but an employee who works for a McDonald’s franchise. Over 90 percent of McDonald’s restaurants are franchises –that is owned by people other than McDonald’s corporate entity.

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Finding Your Pole Star

Thrive Global

Photo: Sharon Christina Rørvik on Unsplash. From here I can see forever. Ever see the truck commercial where the vehicle is sitting at the tippy top of a rock overlooking the entire Arizona Painted Desert, with red rock buttes overlooking the 360° horizon? Did you wonder what it might be like to be at the top of your world and have a panorama of possibility?

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Rohingya Muslims: The Name That Aung San Suu Kyi Did Not Want To Say

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On December 10, 2019, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, begun a hearing in the case of the alleged genocidal atrocities in Myanmar.

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Learning To Love Yourself

Thrive Global

Loving yourself is one of the most difficult relationships you can embark on. Yet, learning to love who you are is the one way to make you stronger and happier. You’re more likely to put forth the effort to reach your goals when you appreciate your value. Because YOU ARE VALUABLE. You’re bound to feel more content because you’ll treat yourself with compassion and respect, and seek out others who will do the same.

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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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How Tech CEOs Cope With Challenges

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Even though today’s advancements in technology have made tech company building far easier and more accessible, the CEOs of tech companies still have to deal with numerous hardships on their journey to success.

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Hallmarks of a Strong Finish

Thrive Global

If you are like me, you are probably in the hustle and bustle of the season. I am trying to get my shopping done, attending Christmas parties, and trying to stay focused on my work and my goals. It can be challenging to balance everything with the holidays fastly approaching. However, as someone that has consistently achieved results, I know that how I finish this year will determine how I start 2020.

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This Family Holiday, How To Stop Pretending - Great Questions To Foster Connection

Forbes Leadership Strategy

if your chest is starting to tighten, you feel unease in your gut, or words are forming unspoken in your throat, like millions of other people, you could be experiencing the holiday dread of having to pretend.

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It’s Christmas…

Thrive Global

As the winter draws in and the end of the year beckons towards that magical time of Christmas many will be feeling less than cheerful. Shops soon start to fill with decorations and seasonal goodies while the shop tannoy’s belt out festive hits. Our televisions will be showing endless commercials depicting gatherings of friends and family sitting around a picturesque tree exchanging gifts and pleasantries.

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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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Billionaire Electronic Health Records Pioneer Judy Faulkner Warns Of Cambridge Analytica-Type Data Risk

Forbes Leadership Strategy

At the eighth annual Forbes Healthcare Summit, the Epic founder talked about the current landscape for standardizing patient information including potential parallels to Facebook users’ jeopardized data.

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How Dogs Can Reduce Stress in Life

Thrive Global

If a person has a furry friend at home, they don’t need scientific studies to know that dogs make us feel better. We come home from a long day of work, and the pup runs up to us like it is the best day of their life. No one can help but smile and feel loved when they see their excited dog. But, if a person doesn’t own a dog, and are maybe looking to adopt one into the family, there are scientifically proven ways that dogs can make us less stressed and overall happier in life.

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The NBA Has A New Game Plan For Mexico

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On December 12, 2019 20-year-old star Luca Doncic led the Dallas Mavericks to victory against the Detroit Pistons in front of a sold-out crowd of 20,064 at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City.

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How a person’s mindset plays an integral role towards success

Thrive Global

Mindset – often discussed as a temporary collective of thoughts at a given moment – actually has more permanence than most give it credit for. A person’s mindset plays an integral role towards influencing their environment and those around them. For leaders, a great mindset requires that one is prepared to serve rather than to be served. Simon Sinek, an author and motivational speaker well known in startup and innovation circles, has made mindset an overarching theme since his first published bo

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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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Beware Of These Behavioral Biases When Launching A Startup App Idea

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The first stage in minimizing the effect of behavioral biases is awareness of those biases. Beware of these 5 common biases when launching a startup app idea.

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Executing a New Year’s Resolution: Dirty Dishes

Thrive Global

I have not been one always to set a new year’s resolution or to implement them for an entire year. However, the year I set off to not have dirty dishes has been a success. That year of having a clean sink is coming to a close. You may be thinking, what type of resolution is that? Or why would she make that her resolution? It is beyond dirty dishes.

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Women|Future Conference Poses Questions and Answers to Advance Women in Business

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The conference brought women in business together from all over the world to connect, learn from and share with one another.

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How to motivate Gen Z at work?

HR Digest

Gen Z includes the new generation of people who were born between the years 1995 and 2015. They are very much different from the millennial that represented an earlier generation. The basis of differentiation is due to the factors that this new generation has been brought up when the world observed economic depression that started from the year 2008.

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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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How To Be Your Authentic Self At Work (And Why It Matters)

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Employees today have very different expectations of their leaders than they did a decade ago.

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Spotlight on HR: Derek Zeller

Recruiters Lineup

Spotlight on HR series: A Conversation With Derek Zeller, Senior Sourcing Lead at Lockheed Martin. We’re putting together a series of articles with innovative and interesting human resource professionals. This is an opportunity to learn from other HR managers and exchange best practices, advice, and general experience. If you’d like to participate in this series and gain exposure to relevant networks, we’d love to hear from you!

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Need a Mentor or a Coach? Be Sure You Know the Difference.

Thrive Global

Photo Credit: @lindseyamiller | Pink Mentor Network ‘s “How Female Leaders Succeed Within Fast-Growing Organizations – 11/12/19 at Passport Labs, Inc. Charlotte, NC. One of the most common questions I receive is: “What’s the difference between mentorship & coaching?”. Based on my experience coaching individuals how to find mentors & helping organizations build cultures of mentorship, there are three clear differences: Process, Approach, & Price.

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What is Continue Education Units?

Course Ministry

Continue Education unit credits can decidedly affect your profession in a few different ways, yet they can likewise profoundly affect your self-awareness venture. And grow your personal and professional skill for your carrier. Industries are continuously changed and grow with the time and they change their working style also, which always difficult for their employees and work force to deal with it.

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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.