Tue.Sep 22, 2020

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The 5 Types of Power in Leadership

Quickbase

A study showed how different types of power affected one’s leadership ability and success in a leadership role.

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DOL Clarifies Who Is an Independent Contractor in Proposed Rule

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to clarify when a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act or an independent contractor.

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United Airlines Takes a Lawsuit Over Preferential Treatment of Blondes.

The HR Capitalist

A recent lawsuit filed versus United Airlines shows how complicated/dangerous staffing decisions involving customer-facing positions can be. A rundown of the lawsuit appears below. Embedded in all of this is the perception of what customers want, the concept/definition of bias, and the obligation a company has across employment law when staffing decisions for premium assignments are made in a manner inconsistent with established norms.

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Unlock Psychological Safety At Scale With The Best-Self Kickoff

15Five

Getting to a point of mutual understanding with your employee can take a lot of trial and error. And that delay can have damaging effects on a relationship. The best way to begin building quality connections early on is with 15Five’s Best-Self Kickoff. This strategic onboarding feature helps managers and employees build strong relationships, unlock psychological safety, and create long-term engagement—right from the start.

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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: Understanding the Employee Experience PART 1 – Before, During, and After COVID-19

DecisionWise

In this episode, we’re joined by a panel of leadership experts, who discuss the following: Why employee engagement has increased, during the COVID-19 pandemic—what companies are finally getting right What COVID-19 has taught us about how companies should re-examine the Employee Experience The central role of the manager in Employee Engagement The impact of Work-From-Home on the future of employee engagement, and how we need to adjust for it.

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Reflektive Customer Series: Driving Talent Management at Physicians Insurance

Reflektive

Physicians Insurance is a company where employees want to stay for the long-term and grow their careers. Case in point – Yelena Neuman, Human Resources Manager, has been at the organization for nine years, and the average employee tenure is over nine years as well. But building a culture around talent management did not happen overnight. Read our below Q&A with Yelena to learn how Physicians Insurance fostered employee development within their performance programs.

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Digital Transformation, Empty Pockets, and the Future of Talent

Allegis Global Solutions

After months of economic uncertainty, budget cuts, layoffs, and hiring freezes, many organizations began to question the relevance of talent acquisition. Companies reduced their internal recruitment teams, and the demand for external talent acquisition solutions dropped as well.

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Influencers or Analysts? Who has the most impact on your brand?

The Tim Sackett Project

The worlds of Influencers and Analysts have never collied more than they are right now in the HR industry. Most of this has to do with the popularity of Influencer Marketing that has taken off in the past decade, and like most things in HR, we are now just catching up with the marketing trend. Traditionally, in the HR space, companies selling products, technology, and services only really cared about two things: 1.

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The taboos we don’t talk about: managing lifestyle conditions in the workplace

HR Zone

People The taboos we don’t talk about.

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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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dealing with recruiters when phone calls make you anxious

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a recent college grad on the job hunt. About two weeks ago, I posted my resume and number under a job board profile and got swarmed with recruiter calls and voicemails. The job hunt has brought out the worst side of my anxiety disorder and some things, like phone calls, seem insurmountable at times. I just couldn’t bring myself to call them back until my period of anxiety had passed.

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Effective Ways of Managing Employee Absenteeism

6Q

Backlog, reduced productivity, and an eventual loss in income are just some of the effects of employee absenteeism. This article explains. We might often think that employees being repeatedly absent only affects the organisation, but this is not true. It affects the rest of the staff as well. The continually absent team member can harm team dynamics, pose a safety risk when less qualified employees are called to fill in for the absentee, and even affect morale.

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The Reskilling Revolution versus the ‘clay layer’

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

News reports and blogs are filled with references to the need for reskilling and upskilling large swaths of the global population over the next 5-10 years. Reskilling initiatives abound in government legislative agendas and corporate strategic plans. As a society, we see the need for reskilling as technological advances and automation make existing job roles obsolete and create new job roles that didn’t previously exist (e.g., artificial intelligence and robotic process automation).

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Employee Financial Wellness During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Best Money Moves

Financial wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic. How COVID-19 is impacting financial stress, and how financial wellness programs can help. The vast majority of U.S. employees – 84% – expect the COVID-19 pandemic to impact their long-term financial wellness, according to a new study from Northwestern Mutual. The annual Planning and Progress study also found that while the pandemic is financially distressing, it actually inspires resiliency and some positive behavioral change. .

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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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Four Tips For Mentoring Amid Changing Climates

Forbes Coaches Council

The demand for this skill is growing now more than ever because mentors can play a crucial role in retaining talent, maintaining an inclusive workforce and building organizational commitment amid crises.

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HR Tech number of the day: workplace tech

HRExecutive

80: Percentage of HR professionals who believe workplace technology helps support their role as a strategic contributor to the business. Nearly all HR professionals say workplace technology helps support their role as a strategic contributor to the business, according to Paychex research. The payroll firm surveyed 575 HR decision-makers at U.S. companies with 50 to 500 employees.

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3 Ways Liquidity is Important for Your Financial Wellness

Payactiv

PayActiv EWA makes your money flow when you need it, so you can focus on your financial wellness. The post 3 Ways Liquidity is Important for Your Financial Wellness appeared first on PayActiv.

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Flex Launches Bentegro Benefits Platform for Brokers

FLEX

Flex is excited to announce the launch of the Bentegro benefits platform. Bentegro is a comprehensive online benefits platform that has true end-to-end capabilities and serves as a central point between carriers, brokers, employers, and employees.

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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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How To Build An Ideal Customer Profile: 11 Critical Questions To Ask

Forbes Coaches Council

Tired of barking up the wrong customer's tree? To help, we asked Forbes Coaches Council members what critical questions marketers should answer to build the most ideal customer profile. See their thoughtful responses here.

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Everything You Need To Know To Pass The PHR Certification Test

SwipeClock

Updated September 22, 2020. Hello ambitious PHR exam preppers! The SwipeClock team understands how difficult the PHR exam is. We’ve put together a PHR exam prep guide for Human Resource professionals pursuing this important milestone in their HR career. First, a little context. Then we discuss the tips. Skip forward if you don’t need any background info.

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13 Savvy Tips Leaders Can Use To Get Better At Prioritizing

Forbes Coaches Council

While setting smart priorities for the business is a must-have skill for leaders, drilling down to the most important tasks or initiatives takes some savvy. Check out these tips from Forbes Coaches Council members to improve your prioritization skills.

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Driving at night? These tips will keep you awake and safe on the road

Take It Personel-ly

Driving at night? These tips will keep you awake and safe on the road Do you enjoy driving at night? The cool evening air, the quiet with less traffic on the roads, city lights in the distance…it certainly has its privileges. However, driving at night also comes with added risk, and not everyone is a […].

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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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Off-beat Wellness Perks to Consider For Remote Teams

marenated HR

Although COVID-19 has limited our interactions with others, employee wellness should not go on the back burner. Keeping employees productive and reducing turnover is essential, and implementing wellness benefits and perks are a great way to start. Healthy employees mean happy and productive employees, and happy workers are 13% more productive. Offering wellness perks can encourage happier, healthier employees all year long.

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my coworker screams awful things at her kids during video calls

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have been with my organization for a few years, but I recently switched to a new department about four months ago. Every morning we have a Zoom call to discuss upcoming tasks and current status on projects and sometimes our supervisor will assign tasks. The meeting can only be 30 minutes long because there’s another meeting right after with a different department that uses our Zoom room.

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16+ types of employee benefits you should consider

Genesis HR Solutions

For many small businesses, the struggle to compete with larger companies for talent is an uphill battle—particularly when it comes to benefit offerings. While you know recruiting and retention is important, you may not be sure if the benefits you offer are a selling point to your potential employees. This list of benefits (and their definitions) can help; compare the 16 types we’ve listed here to what you currently have available, and see if you’re offering things prospective employees are reall

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How to shut down office bullies

HR Digest

Bullying in the workplace is a critical situation, be it in the workplace, home or outside. One should take strict action and steps to address bullying proactively. In a workplace, it is upon the HR department and organizational system to address issues of bullying. Suppose the bullying situation leads to a “conflict”, violence and threats, or sexual harassment that concerns the worker/customer safety.

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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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Trigger Warning: You're missing out on 99% of applicants

ApplicantPro

After talking with several employers I've noticed a hiring trend in what I like to call the "post and pray method". Essentially this means, they'll grab the same job ad that they've always used, throw it out on the job boards (post), and assume (pray) that any available and qualified talent will see their ad and apply. They've become comfortable with the assumption that what they get is what they get, and if they don't get enough applicants it simply means there's not talent available for hire.

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Employment Law Changes for September 2020

BackStitch

Welcome to the backstitch HR law blog, a series where we provide the latest updates on upcoming and recently in-effect legislation. Our blog series will provide short snippets of State, Federal, and Global changes in HR and employment law, so your organization can continue to stay up to date in the legal world.

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CIPHR maintains G-Cloud listing for seventh year

cipHR

CIPHR’s full range of solutions – including HR, payroll, recruitment and learning software – are all included in the G-Cloud 12 listing. CIPHR is pleased to be listed as a G-Cloud 12 supplier on the government’s Digital Marketplace , for both cloud software and cloud support. This marks the seventh consecutive year that CIPHR has been listed on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud framework , which enables public-sector organisations to procure IT services and technology for digital