Fri.Aug 23, 2019

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5 fun workplace activities (with hidden benefits)

Jostle

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Ready? Here it is: It’s good to have fun.

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Are All Insights Equal?

Perceptyx

This article originally appeared on Raconteur , who we thank for the opportunity to share here. Perceptyx contributed insights for the article, which details how tools like artificial intelligence, 360 degree feedback, and stretch-level assessments are allowing performance management to move beyond sales and profit metrics to gain a better understanding of workforce strengths.

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Headphones at Work - Individual Contributor vs Manager of People.

The HR Capitalist

In case you missed it, new research from AVS Forum polled 800 individuals for perceptions of people who wear headphones at work, at the gym and on public transportation. The full summary graph appears below (email subscribers, click through to my site if you don't see the graph). TL:DR: Headphones don't make you viewed as pretentious as you might think - they've never been more accepted in the workplace, which makes 100% sense given the open floor plans in most of our organizations.

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How Employbridge is Fighting Record-Low Unemployment Rates

Penn Foster

Finding Solutions to Unemployment.

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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 to Streamline Scheduling and Time Management for Wholesale and Retail

Mitrefinch

Businesses in the food, hospitality, wholesale and retail industries face many challenges on a daily basis. From creating the perfect menu, to designing a space with nice ambiance, to providing customers with an enjoyable experience, there are a lot of moving parts a business owner in these industries has to juggle to ensure things run smoothly. Maybe more so than other industries, they also must face the substantial challenge of creating complicated employee schedules, updating those schedules

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Monsters Under the Bed — the IR35 Danger You Overlooked

Allegis Global Solutions

Some time ago, you learned that IR35 would apply to the private sector, and you immediately started preparing. You examined your contingent workforce, spoke to your suppliers, and built a framework to determine tax status repeatably and to a high standard.

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#WorkTrends: How to Give Your People Story a Heart

TalentCulture

Quick — tell me your organization’s story. If you can’t do that then you’ve got a problem, says Tiffany Sauder, founder and president of marketing agency Element Three. In today’s candidate-driven employment market, employer branding is more important than ever, and businesses that can’t tell their story in an authentic, meaningful way run the risk of losing out on great candidates.

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5 steps to creating a recruiting dashboard (template included)

Hacker Earth

Recruitment is at the core of any organization. It is a well-known fact that today’s recruitment strategies are highly data-driven. Recruitment metrics such as the number of applications, screening calls, interviews, and more are often tracked in an Excel sheet. However, making sense of all the recruitment data your organization collects can be a daunting task, even for the most tech-savvy recruiters.

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How to Keep your Star Employees from Walking out the Door

Take It Personel-ly

Have you ever looked at an employee and wished you had more of them? Star employees do more than just do a good job. They exude a positive attitude and improve on tasks instead of simply finishing them. They go above and beyond and may even set higher standards for their work than you did. […].

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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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7 Affordable Ways to Boost Morale

SHRM Resources

?You don't have to spend a lot to make a big difference in your workplace. We asked HR practitioners, via the SHRM Connect online community and LinkedIn, to share their ideas for easy, affordable ways to boost morale in the work environment. Many of the ideas show how effective HR can be by simply helping employees relax, connect and enjoy each other’s company.

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Goldilocks and Financial Wellness: Helping Employees Get to 'Just Right' with Benefits

Benefitfocus

Each year millions of workers go through the benefit selection process, yet many are left wondering if they made the right decisions. Find out how to help employees achieve the Goldilocks status of 'just right' when it comes to employee benefits and financial wellness.

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Do You Believe Paper Invoices Belong in the Past?

SutiHR

Today, in this modern competitive business world, one might be astonished to find that vendors are still sending paper invoices. Snail mail is still the most common invoicing process in some parts of the world. But this does not indicate that your accounts payable department need to be stuck with the traditional paper stacks on their desks and late-night shifts of entering data manually.

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How To Be A Leader Of Leaders

Forbes Coaches Council

The ability to lead a team of people toward a successful business outcome isn’t as easy as you’d think.

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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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5 Ways to Reduce Employee Financial Stress

Payactiv

Blog › What Employers Can Do 5 Ways to Reduce Employee Financial Stress By Insights Team on August 23, 2019 When your employees clock in to work, you want them focused on their job so they can put forth the best possible results. But if someone is stressed or struggling financially, they may be distracted by personal and… The post 5 Ways to Reduce Employee Financial Stress appeared first on PayActiv.

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How Leaders Can Provide Effective Informal Feedback

Forbes Coaches Council

It is informal feedback — the in-the-moment, casual conversation with a person regarding their performance, behaviors or interactions — that makes the most significant difference.

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Signs That Your HR Department Is Overwhelmed

Engagedly

With the changing industry trends, the need for having a responsible HR system has increased. The roles and responsibilities of HR have changed drastically over the last decade. While the former HR focused only on recruiting and compensation, […].

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15 Signs You're Experiencing A Life Crisis (And How To Survive It)

Forbes Coaches Council

Sadness and major life changes affect us all, but when does everyday stress turn into a life crisis? Forbes Coaches Council experts share their insight.

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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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Open Enrollment and Remote Employees | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

Open Enrollment and Remote Employees. It's no secret that remote employees can sometimes feel "off the grid" or isolated from other team members. From team outings, birthday lunches, donuts on Friday, or simply just meetings, there's a lot of things remote employees can't participate in - and open enrollment shouldn't share that same sentiment.

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Has the Push for Productivity Gone Too Far?

SHRM Resources

Employers are constantly pushing for greater productivity, and technology provides them the means to measure it. But how much is too much?

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Role of Personality Tests to Foster Entrepreneurial Spirit

EverFi - HR

Last year, I watched the Netflix documentary “Walt: The Man Behind the Myth” and found myself feeling inadequate inspired. (Let’s be honest…maybe a little of both.) Walt Disney brought fairytales to life, built timeless rides like Space Mountain and showed us that dreams do come true. And he did it against all odds: loss, rejection, bankruptcy, homelessness.

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Jumping Back Into the Workforce, at Mid-Life

SHRM

Q: I’m a 50-something looking to re-enter the workforce after a decade-long absence during which I was a “trailing spouse”. My husband’s career had us relocating every couple of years; during that time I also received my Ph.D. I’m concerned about explaining the “gap” in my work history given that most online applications are first reviewed by computer algorithms.

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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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15 Ways To Stand Out In The Saturated Coaching Market

Forbes Coaches Council

Give your coaching business a competitive edge by following these tips from those who have succeeded -- Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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Onboarding Doesn’t Have to Be a Catastrophe!

marenated HR

By Hannah Wilson: Do you ever feel like the emoji with its head exploding while onboarding a lot of new clients? Gaining multiple new clients at once is super exciting, but it can become stressful if you don’t know how to keep track of them all. Having a streamlined onboarding process is a must, but there’s more to it than walking new clients through a one-size-fits-all checklist.

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Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence: How Do Others React To You?

Forbes Coaches Council

When you consistently ask yourself this critical question, you are poised to be a great leader.

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weekend free-for-all – August 24-25, 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: Reasons to be Cheerful , by Nina Stibbe. I don’t know how to describe this book. On the surface it’s about an 18-year-old who moves out, takes a job as a dental assistant, and starts becoming an adult.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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How Gamification can benefit your recruitment process?

Cognisess

Gamification is a common buzzword in HR. However, what actually is it —and more importantly— how can it help your recruitment process? What is gamification? Gamification is more than just adding a game into your application process. These scientifically-backed games are an opportunity to truly assess a candidate’s behaviour, abilities and job performance.

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open thread – August 23-24, 2019

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Here’s How You Can Get the Skinny on HR Transformation

HRExecutive

From employee experience to data analytics, HR leaders have been hearing nonstop how important it is for the function to “transform” itself in order to stay ahead of the macrotrends rippling through today’s global economy. But what does transform actually mean, from a practical standpoint? At the upcoming HR Technology Conference , attendees will have the opportunity to learn—directly from fellow HR practitioners—what transformation actually involves, the opportunities it prese