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How Government Agencies Can Simplify Their HR Paper Problems

Cornerstone On Demand

The federal government is the largest employer in the United States. But is it the most efficient when it comes to human resources? According to a collaboration between Cornerstone and the Partnership for Public Service, it may be less efficient by favoring old paper-based processes over newer automated and integrated IT systems. Many federal agencies are still relying on outdated processes for onboarding, performance management, timekeeping and departure, while others are doing double time wit

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Sometimes It’s Important to Compromise

HR Bartender

During this year’s Women in Technology event at the HR Technology Conference , one of the speakers made the statement, “I will not compromise my personal style.” I’ve been thinking about the comment for a while now. I get it, the spirit of the comment is that we should be our authentic selves. But, it also made me realize there are moments when we may need to compromise our style.

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Top 5 Soft Skills Gaps and How to Overcome Them

ATD Human Capital

Soft skills are one of the hottest topics in the human resource and business community, and rightly so. Mastery of these skills increases the chance for professional success. If you want to grow professionally, improving your soft skills is the place to start. Despite soft skills’ importance, many still struggle with them, and everyone has room to grow.

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Psychological Safety and Its Siblings Meaning and Capacity

15Five

Employee engagement is a hard thing to measure. What’s even harder is understanding what drives it. Just Google “How can I improve employee engagement” and you will get four million results. On the first page, all but one are “list” articles: 10 Secrets to Improve…. 25 Ways to Improve… 49 Employee Engagement Ideas… 6 Simple But Effective….

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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It’s Holiday Bonus Time… Or Is It?

Kazoo

On the whole, it’s good news for employees this holiday season. A recent survey of 500 HR execs found that 75% of them intended to hand out a cash holiday bonus, up from 67% last year. So, what are the other 25% of companies doing for employees this holiday season? Some indicated they’d be giving out non-monetary rewards. (Uh-oh. We’re crossing our fingers that no one ends up with a ham.).

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How to Spot Warning Signs In Candidate Questions

Spark Hire

Sometimes, when interviewing candidates, we can get so caught up in how the candidate’s respond to our questions that we forget the importance of the questions that the candidate is asking. Typically, towards the end of the interview, the candidate has a chance to ask questions. It’s important for you to realize as a hiring manager that these questions can tell you a lot about the candidate’s priorities and work ethic.

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It’s Holiday Bonus Time… Or Is It?

Kazoo

On the whole, it’s good news for employees this holiday season. A recent survey of 500 HR execs found that 75% of them intended to hand out a cash holiday bonus, up from 67% last year. So, what are the other 25% of companies doing for employees this holiday season? Some indicated they’d be giving out non-monetary rewards. (Uh-oh. We’re crossing our fingers that no one ends up with a ham.).

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A Holiday Survival Guide from the Hallmark Channel

TalentCulture

During the holiday season, “good will to all” is an easy leadership reminder. Have you considered the Hallmark Channel for a few more? This week begins my favorite television viewing time of the year. Early Fall is nice with the unveiling of new shows, and the sweeps months always offer excitement, but the holidays marks the Hallmark Channel’s “Countdown to Christmas.

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5 Tips for Maintaining a Productive Work Environment During the Holidays

Paychex

During the period between Thanksgiving and the New Year, you want to be festive and create space for your employees to celebrate with family and friends. But it's also critical that productivity levels are maintained and client expectations continue to be met. With advanced planning, it's possible to help spread good cheer while doing great work.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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#WorkTrends Recap: How Academia and Business Support STEM

TalentCulture

The world of education and business are at a precipice in relation to what we need to keep our economy chugging along without slowing down the advancements needed to remain an economic leader. This week Meghan M. Biro was joined by guest Rachael Mann to discuss the intricacies around how academia and business can and should work collaboratively in supporting our growing need for more technically trained people.

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Lessons from Running a Software Company: Compromise

Laurie Ruettimann

I’ve learned a valuable lesson over the past 12 months. Namely, running a software company isn’t like running a professional services company. As the owner of my HR/marketing consultancy, I’m 100% responsible for everything that happens in my shop. From business development to the quality of my work, the results are the outcome of my efforts.

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Coffee Break: CVs, HR business partners and millennial misconceptions

HR Zone

Culture. CVs, business partners & millennial misconceptions.

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Rising Up From Failure

Compensation Cafe

It's happened to me, more than once, and likely has happened to you as well. Rejection. Failure. The boss or even senior management didn't go for your idea. Maybe they weren't even nice about it. You might have thought that your recommendations were good ideas, but they didn't gain you the approval you had hoped for (too expensive, too controversial, too complicated. etc.).

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Overcoming Bias to Give Better Feedback

Workology

A growing body of research makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse teams perform better. For countless organisations, it’s a priority to increase the gender and racial diversity of senior leaders and executives. A major part of this effort entails understanding and addressing forms of bias. And one of the most challenging forms of bias to grapple with is implicit, or inherent, bias—that is, the unconscious and relatively automatic forms of prejudiced judgment and social be

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How to Tell Workers They Won’t Be Getting Overtime

TLNT: The Business of HR

This spring, an estimated four million Americans became eligible for overtime pay, with a new overtime rule doubling the salary threshold to automatic time-and-a-half compensation from $23,660 to $47,476.

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Quitting The Rat Race – The Best Jobs You Can Do from Home

Take It Personel-ly

If you don’t relish the thought of hustling to a workplace every day or you’re having a hard time securing a local gig, there’s never been a better time to work from home: More than 40 million Americans do it, according to the advocacy group Telework Coalition. And as the economy improves, more companies will … Continue reading Quitting The Rat Race – The Best Jobs You Can Do from Home.

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5 Benefits to Setting Performance Goals

WeSpire

The end of the year is approaching fast, making now a great time to sit down with your employees, reflect on their 2016 achievements and help set them up for success in 2017. Studies show employees who are working towards achieving their goals are more motivated and engaged in their work. This, in turn, helps the business as higher engagement rates lead to reduced turnover and a more productive organization.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Quitting The Rat Race – The Best Jobs You Can Do from Home

Take It Personel-ly

If you don’t relish the thought of hustling to a workplace every day or you’re having a hard time securing a local gig, there’s never been a better time to work from home: More than 40 million Americans do it, according to the advocacy group Telework Coalition. And as the economy improves, more companies will … Continue reading Quitting The Rat Race – The Best Jobs You Can Do from Home.

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Ready to Change Your Performance Process? Here’s How

TLNT: The Business of HR

There has been a significant increase in articles about performance management in my inbox lately, so for the last month, I saved them all with the intention of seeing if there was anything I could add. I kind of consider performance management my niche, and have always believed there was value in the process.

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don’t send anonymous notes at work

Ask a Manager

From time to time, I hear someone suggest sending an anonymous note to a coworker, a manager, or HR in order to let someone know about a problem without having to deal with the awkwardness of having a conversation about whatever the issue is — from “you smell” to “my manager is a jerk” to “Fergus plays on the Internet for five hours a day.”. But anonymous notes are rarely, if ever, a good way to handle a problem.

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Is Your Culture “Millennial Ready?”

TLNT: The Business of HR

Millennials — they’re different from any other generation of worker, and they’ll soon be the majority of the workforce.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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can I resign via text message?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Is it acceptable to send a text to your employer you are quitting and will not be returning to work? No. You should generally resign in a face-to-face conversation. If that’s not possible (because you work in different locations, or one of you is traveling or otherwise away from work, or whatever caused you to quit is so egregious that you’re not willing to return for the conversation), then you should call so that you can have an actual conversation.

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Retaining talent is hot right now

Fuel50

Get hot and sticky with your employees! Well, we don’t mean it like that – HR or legal would be onto you quicker than you can say sexual harassment! But, The post Retaining talent is hot right now appeared first on FUEL50.

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how to manage a project when you don’t have formal authority

Ask a Manager

In some ways, project management can be harder than people management, because when you don’t have formal authority over the people tasked to your project, you have to find other ways of getting things done and keeping people accountable. At QuickBase’s Fast Track blog today, I talk about the keys to managing a project effectively when you don’t have formal authority over the people working on it.

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A Gratitude Attitude: How to Re-Energize Your Workforce Over the Holidays

HR C-Suite

Thanksgiving and Christmas are a time for celebrating the things you are grateful for; and for any good business that should mean acknowledging the hard work of staff and colleagues as well as spending time with the family. This is the perfect opportunity to make sure that your staff feel appreciated, to show them that […].

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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update: employee keeps asking coworkers for food and money

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose employee kept asking for food and money from her coworkers ? Here’s the update. I wish I could say it has gotten better, but every few months I get complaints. What sucks about this for her is that she is a great performer otherwise. It is not a food scarcity issue because she also brings her own food every day.

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2/3 of Companies Are Reengineering Performance Management

i4cp

After years of highly publicized announcements from big-brand companies that they were abandoning traditional performance reviews, it’s no surprise that the allure of doing away with the unpopular practice continues to be a hot topic. What isn’t being publicized is what more companies are doing: reengineering performance management as a means to develop talent with an emphasis on continuous feedback conversations.

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Dear ReWorker: What Should I Do About a Lack of Learning Opportunities?

Evil HR Lady

During the interview for my current job, I emphasized that I wanted a job with professional development opportunities. The hiring manager said that professional development was important and definitely a priority. After six months, I approached my supervisor about a recognized professional certification that I wanted. It was an 18 month online course, so I wouldn’t miss work, but it was expensive.