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16 Leadership Tips For Recently-Promoted Employees

Forbes Coaches Council

An employee who has recently transitioned into a leadership role may feel uncomfortable about their new dynamic with their former peers. Here's how to handle that disconnect in your work relationships.

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Marijuana at work: How to navigate the marijuana laws

Business Management Daily

Marijuana use in the United States is more acceptable now than ever before. In many states, it’s legal to use marijuana recreationally. While others have varying levels of acceptability from providing medical marijuana access to there being no legalization of marijuana or CBD. With the varying marijuana acceptability throughout the US, it’s essential to know the laws in your area, have policies surrounding marijuana use at work, and know the signs to look for in your employees who mi

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Streamline employee access to the skills they need

TemboStatus

It should be easy for employees to find the people and the skills they need to be productive at work. In an article for Reworked, Martin White explores the state of corporate expertise, defined by the moment we’re in and the tools we use. “All search vendors have significantly oversold the role of expertise search,” says White.

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Improve Workforce Productivity with Advanced Shift Scheduling

SutiHR

Scheduling employee working hours is crucial for every organization, especially for warehouses, healthcare facilities, and transportation depots, where every shift needs to be covered. Without proper scheduling techniques issues can easily arise when some employees receive more working hours than the others, when someone tries to swap shifts once the schedule has already been posted, or when certain shifts end up being under-staffed.

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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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Podcast: Creating A Sense of Connection at Work

DecisionWise

In this Engaging People Podcast episode, DecisionWise VP of Consulting, Christian Nielson discusses the topic of creating a connection at work. Connection is a sense of belonging and feeling like we’re part of something bigger than ourselves; a team, an organization, a mission. We have such a strong need for connection as human beings that some will even forgo physiological needs to reach it.

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my coworker told me to stop flirting with a student employee

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am part of the HR department at my workplace, and we hired “Andre” a few months ago as a part of our student group. He’s only 18, but he’s been a hard worker and always takes initiative around the office. I was part of Andre’s interview panel, so I’ve always been in contact with him and friendly with him since we brought him on board.

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4 Prescriptive HR Measures for Troubling Times

Kazoo

4 Prescriptive HR Measures for Troubling Times. We’re going through a global pandemic. We’re going through a global movement for racial justice and social equity. Economies are faltering. Businesses are shuttering. These things require a strong, sound organizational response. As business leaders, we know that we need to know how employees are feeling.

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Swiss Require Equal Pay Audits with Third Party Verification

Trusaic

Switzerland recently took a major step forward in ensuring pay equity for Swiss workers. Effective July 1, 2020, amendments to the Swiss Gender Equality Act require businesses with 100 or more employees (including part-time) to 1) conduct an internal gender pay gap analysis (also known as a proactive pay equity audit) every four years through 2032, 2) verify the results of the audit with a third party, and 3) publish the result of the audit to workers, shareholders, or the public (depending on w

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4 Prescriptive HR Measures for Troubling Times

Kazoo

4 Prescriptive HR Measures for Troubling Times. We’re going through a global pandemic. We’re going through a global movement for racial justice and social equity. Economies are faltering. Businesses are shuttering. These things require a strong, sound organizational response. As business leaders, we know that we need to know how employees are feeling.

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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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Virtual Onboarding: The New Reality

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Virtual onboarding is a new reality for most companies. Now that working remotely is much more common, technology plays a more crucial role than ever.

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Solutions and strategies to ease the return-to-workplace

HRExecutive

Many employees re-entering the workplace in this COVID-19 environment are encountering an onslaught of new and creative HR strategies and technologies that may make them feel safer at work than at home. The solutions run the gamut and address the many aspects of physical interaction that have been impacted by the virus. For instance, RightCrowd Software uses Bluetooth technology and digital ID badges to continuously monitor social distancing.

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How to maintain employee social wellbeing while working remotely

HR Zone

Culture Sustaining workplace friendships.

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Embrace the Suck

Jason Lauritsen

Embrace the suck. This is a familiar phrase for those who have served in the military. It’s a way to remind yourself or others that what you are doing is hard but important and that you need to keep going. The difficulty and discomfort of the experience are a necessary part of the mission or process, so there’s no point in wasting energy complaining.

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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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Coronavirus resource spotlight: Virgin Pulse’s return to work service

HRExecutive

Here’s a look at the health company’s tool for employers, which combines live health coaching, screening, monitoring, analytics and more. What it is: Virgin Pulse’s VP Passport. The new app, which can be configured to reflect employer-specific cultures, structures and protocols, leverages components of Virgin Pulse’s wellbeing platform in an effort to help organizations safely reopen their workplaces amid COVID-19.

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Overload Harms Workers and Productivity

SHRM

The way we work is not sustainable. Sherwin knows this well. He has 20 years of experience as a skilled information technology (IT) professional and is one of the many professionals and managers we interviewed in a Fortune 500 company we’ll call TOMO. Sherwin estimates he works about 70 hours per week. He starts work with calls at 5 a.m., pauses to get his kids ready and off to school, works a full day, prepares dinner and supervises their homework, and then routinely works, at home, until m

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20 questions to ask in a corporate culture audit

ThoughtFarmer

U pdated July 13th, 2020. Culture plays an enormous role in the health of an organization, but it can feel invisible to those immersed in it. And because many of us don’t see it, we have difficulty understanding what our corporate culture is, and more importantly, what areas require improvement. This is why a culture audit is a good idea. . Whether your corporate culture is in need of a minor tweaking or, a major overhaul, it’s never too late to begin the journey of improving your culture.

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What ICE’s Extension of Virtual I-9 Verification Means for HR

Cisive

Because of the challenges presented by the Coronavirus pandemic for employers and new employees, in May the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced temporary flexibility in the requirements for completing the Form I-9 while employers are operating remotely. Employers with employees working remotely due to COVID-19 will not be required to review the employee’s identity and employment authorization documents in the employee’s physical presence.

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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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Leading People During Uncertain Times: A Focus on Clarity, Connection, and Conversation

Root

Here’s an assumption I’m making – you’ve got your communication strategy nailed down for the change you’re engaging in. Having cohesive messaging that all leaders are aligned on is critical when working toward change. But we all know that people don’t do things just because they are told. Anyone who’s been around small children knows this. I think I control my 3-year-old daughter, but in reality she controls me!

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Catalyze Your Team’s Collective Intelligence With Five Practices For Crisis Time

Forbes Coaches Council

Catalyzing your team’s collective intelligence with those five practices in crisis time will accelerate the leadership development of your coworkers, helping them to build more confidence in themselves, in their team and in you.

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benefitexpress Extends Industry Leadership Earning Two Badges on Shortlister Q3 Top Vendor Report for HR Technology

WEX Inc.

Schaumburg, Ill. July 1, 2020 —benefitexpress™, a leading provider of cloud-based technology software and services for employee benefits administration, announced today their receipt of two badges on the Shortlister Q3 Top Vendor Report for HR Technology. This marks the fourth consecutive quarter benefitexpress has been recognized by Shortlister in its quarterly report.

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Study Reveals Certain Types of Workplace Trainings Increase Job Satisfaction Among Stressed Employees

Pollack Peacebuilding

Summary of: Zamiri, A., Heidari, A., Asgari, P., and Makvandi, P., “The effectiveness of organizational intelligence, workplace-life skills, and employee empowerment training on job satisfaction and organizational culture of employees with job stress” (2020). International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 14(1) , 13-19. Background & Theory: A number of past studies have shown the negative effects job stress has on employee well-being, job satisfaction , and organizational climate.

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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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Cafe Classic: Google's Big Data Insight. People Should Make People Decisions!

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Well here's a golden oldie (circa 2014). Does Google still stand by this conclusion? In age of AI and machine learning, do we? . As we in the rewards field move forward to better understand and embrace the promise of data and analytics, we do well to heed the lessons of the forerunners in this field. Who better to learn from than Google, famous for making all manner of decisions based on data crunching?

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Digital Health in COVID-19: Learn Trends and Solutions Here to Stay

EX Program

COVID-19 has forced employers and health plans to take a close look at how best to promote health and wellbeing in a time of high stress, social isolation, economic uncertainty, and health disparities. The unprecedented respiratory precautions have also focused attention on tobacco use and the increased risk among smokers and vapers for more serious [.].

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HRA Eligibility By Type of Small Business Owner

PeopleKeep

A Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) is a flexible tool for small business owners to increase their tax savings and to offer tax-free health benefits. An HRA may reimburse for qualified medical expenses such as co-payments, deductibles, and personal health insurance premiums. HRAs are often used as a small business alternative to group health insurance.

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I was laid off, and my less experienced coworker was hired back

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a hotel in an area that is one of the hot spots for COVID. I’m in event sales, focusing on social events. The entire sales team was furloughed in March. At the beginning of June, they announced that they were permanently removing two positions, they were bringing back the regional leisure sales guy, and we other three sales managers should be expected to come back by the end of June.

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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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Support through Challenging Times

eni

Quarter 2 2020. The post Support through Challenging Times appeared first on eni.

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26 Great Companies to Explore on The Muse Right Now

The Muse

If you’ve been thinking about changing jobs, now’s the perfect time to get started.

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Moving into a New Home — The Ultimate Guide & Checklist

Take It Personel-ly

You did it! You finally found the perfect property to call home. But, your moving responsibilities are far from over. Now that you’ve officially signed the paperwork and the deal is done, it’s time to start planning the move, which can be very time-consuming and stressful. It’s a good idea to consider using a moving […].

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