Thu.Apr 18, 2019

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Why HR ‘doing things differently’ is the norm at Patagonia

Qualtrics HR

Patagonia is ‘a cause, disguised as a company’ according to CHRO Dean Carter. In our new HR Visionaries series , he explores what makes the employee experience at Patagonia unique and explains why doing things differently is business as usual for the Patagonia team. This piece was written with snippets from that series. Doing things differently doesn’t have to mean re-inventing the wheel.

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I bombed in an interview I asked for, employee wants to skip lunch and leave early every day, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I bombed in an interview I asked for. I’m in a customer-facing role at a large company, and I’m interested in advancing into a management role. I’ve held management positions in the past, but happily took a “step back” in this job because it’s a great company, good job in itself, and it supported a family-related interstate move.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Our weekly recap of fundings, mergers & acquisition, partnership and other interesting news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. FUNDINGS $300M+. HR Path Raises 100 Million Euros and Targets a Global Leadership in Services Dedicated to Human Resources. Triplebyte raises $35 million to match engineers with employers.

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Changing How Talent is Acquired: The Demands of Multi-Channel Global Sourcing

Allegis Global Solutions

Employers today have numerous options for sourcing talent. The right worker may be anywhere in the world, and that person may be reached through many different channels of communication and interaction. Social media, job boards, freelancer sites, agencies, and even the company’s own candidate database may all be sources of new talent.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Top Three Support Systems Your Business Needs to Thrive

Hppy

It is important to remember that a business is not a solo entity. It needs to rely on others to thrive, be it suppliers, customers or employees. Businesses are social, and HR managers and personnel are at the forefront of ensuring it is. After all, businesses are human-led, and therefore human resources is a critical aspect, but it is not the only support system an enterprise needs to succeed. .

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Disengaged Employees Cost U.S. Companies Over $400 Billion per Year

Reflektive

Employee engagement is no longer just HR’s problem. Business leaders, managers, and HR all need to come together to address the high level of disengaged employees in the U.S. and abroad. DOWNLOAD THE E-BOOK: The Ultimate Guide to Employee Engagement Surveys. In fact, a recent study by Gallup reveals that only 34 percent of U.S. workers are engaged. Since companies in the U.S. realize over 85 percent of their value from the contributions of their people, the high level of disengagement is no long

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Experience Kazoo at the 2019 Total Rewards Conference

Kazoo

Get excited! The 2019 WorldatWork Total Rewards Conference is coming up on May 6-8 in Orlando, FL. And guess what? Kazoo will be there at Booth #317! Cue the confetti dance. This year’s Total Rewards Conference is focused on: Innovating how you reward and engage employees. Exploring fresh perspectives for forward-thinking concepts. Putting your organization at the forefront of all things total rewards.

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3 Ways Employee Benefits Will Change in the Next 5 Years

TalentCulture

As the future of work continues to rapidly evolve and organizations across every industry battle for top talent, cookie-cutter benefits packages just aren’t going to be enough to attract the best and brightest workers. Smart organizations are turning to technology to reduce costs and deliver better benefits that lead to happier and more productive employees.

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What is an internal customer & how do you manage their experience?

Qualtrics HR

Over the last few years, companies have understood the necessity of providing an excellent customer experience (CX). Organizations across the globe have taken steps to delight their customers and turn fans into loyal fanatics. In fact, the customer experience management market is projected to be worth $ 16.91 billion USD by 2022. That’s good news for companies focusing on external CX.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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15 Incredibly Useful Tips To Drive High Team Performance

Vantage Circle

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” - BABE RUTH. The age-old question of how to bring teams together and encourage a culture of collaboration has troubled managers for decades now. You have the best employees in the market and yet that doesn’t convert to any results.

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what’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you at work?

Ask a Manager

The comments on last week’s letter from the person who had wet her pants at work were full of hundreds of stories from people who’d had similar things happen to them. I had no idea that stories of people crapping their pants could be so heart-warming, but they were. So, I pose you this question: What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you at work?

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Should I foster bottom-up ideas? Yes, here’s how and why

Insperity

The best ideas don’t always come from upper management, sometimes it is the bottom-up ideas that can help put a company on top. Whether the next great bottom-up idea will make a positive impact on your company’s bottom line may depend on what procedures are in place to communicate such suggestions. Ideas from the bottom can sometimes be lost, especially if no process is in place to facilitate communication from all levels of an organization.

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Recruitment: four common hiring mistakes and how to avoid them

HR Zone

Acquisition. Four hiring mistakes to avoid.

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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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Medicare Series: Part 2 – Understanding how Medicare and COBRA interact

Benefit Resource Inc.

Welcome to Part Two of our Medicare Series. Our first post addressed how Medicare and HSAs interact. It included two lessons about how HSAs and Medicare interact. This post will address how Medicare and COBRA interact. We will cover two main topics: When someone enrolled in COBRA becomes eligible for Medicare. Medicare extension eligibility. It can be a little complicated, but we’ve broken it down and provided examples to make it more understandable.

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Ep 2 – Google & Gig Workers

Workology

Welcome to the Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Here. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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The 5 Best Talent Acquisition Tricks to Show Candidates Your Location Is Great

Spark Hire

Think of all the reasons you love where your company is located. There’s your local cafe, where the barista has memorized your order. You have a picturesque park to take your kids to play. Every Friday, you and your co-workers gather at your favorite happy hour hangout. Your company’s town might not be perfect, but it’s home. So it stings when, as a talent acquisition professional, candidates are less-than-impressed with your location.

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If Your Company has a Chief Happiness Officer you Should Rethink Your Career Path!

The Tim Sackett Project

In the past three weeks, I’ve been pitched by some well-meaning PR person about a story on how Google, Salesforce, Zappos, Airbnb, etc., have “Chief Happiness Officers” and how important they are to corporate success. Or at least, how “Happiness” as a measure is important to corporate success. I’ve been pitched this idea four times, primarily so I would talk about their client, Snappy , which apparently is a chatbot of some kind that asks your employee questio

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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How ThoughtFarmer achieved a negative churn rate

ThoughtFarmer

When I first heard that our customer success team had achieved a negative churn rate, I thought it was a mistake. I mean really, a “negative churn rate?!” How is that even possible? But, as it turns out, they weren’t lying. It was real. Our customer success team really had achieved the impossible. If you have trouble getting your head around the topic of churn rate, let me break it down a little bit: customer churn is defined as when an existing customer, user, subscriber or any kind of return c

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Want a Low-Cost Small Business 401(k)? Read This Guide.

ForUsAll

Can my small business afford a 401k? How much will it actually cost? How time-consuming will it be to manage it? These are common questions from small business owners considering a 401(k). And those concerns are extremely valid. From the beginning, 401(k)s have been built and priced for big businesses - making them too expensive and time-consuming for the average small business to handle.

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15 Common Missteps Entrepreneurs Make (And How To Overcome Them)

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share the missteps they often see their entrepreneurial clients making, as well as their go-to guidance to get them through the situation.

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Introducing Degreed’s New Pathways: Helping You Learn Better and Together

Degreed

Degreed Product Insider is a monthly peek under the hood to make sure you’re getting the most out of your Degreed experience. Designed in Degreed’s earliest days, Pathways are a core tool for curating learning experiences. Users love the feature, so much so that over two-thirds of all content consumed on the Degreed platform comes from Pathways. Because the internet can get pretty confusing — especially when it comes to finding the best learning content — we built Pathways to curate content of a

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Is Wellness ROI Becoming Passé?

Sonic Boom

It should be. How’s that for cutting to the punchline? Companies looking for – and worse yet, companies claiming – an ROI on a corporate wellness program are typically engaging in what we call “magic math.” While we’d love to put out promotional materials claiming an impressive ROI, we won’t play that game. What’s the metric? Healthcare costs? Claims?

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Two Easy Steps For Selecting The Right Executive Coach

Forbes Coaches Council

Choose wisely and strategically, and you will build or develop quality leadership and carry your company to the next level.

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why don’t we teach new grads about workplace norms?

Ask a Manager

If you’ve worked with recent graduates who are just getting started in the work world, you’ve probably seen them make their share of professional faux pas. I recorded a piece for the BBC arguing that we need to do a better job teaching students and new workers about how to navigate an office (and I talk a little about those interns who petitioned to change the dress code).

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Three Practical Strategies To Determine The Length Of Your Executive Resume

Forbes Coaches Council

While the resume is a snapshot of your executive career, picking out the key career highlights and most flavorful items is what matters most in grabbing the reader’s attention.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Where’s your flexible working policy?

HRGem

Almost all organisations will have a flexible working policy, even if all it’s doing is stating the minimum requirements of the legislation. But where is it?

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Busy Commercial Interior Design Firm Maximizes Efficiency, Credits ADP

ADP

ADP helps us run our organization more efficiently Jones Commercial Interiors is a commercial interior design firm. We do everything from initial.

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Do I really have to run background checks?

BerniePortal

HR Best Practices blog series. Navigating the world of HR can be overwhelming—period. That’s why we’ve created a blog series to answer common HR questions. To help answer each question and define best practices, we have three HR heroes with very different approaches to HR: Bythe Book, Sam Blackheart, and Peggy Prag. You may find yourself relating to one (or more) of our heroes depending on the given situation.