Wed.Aug 14, 2019

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Simplify your working life

Jostle

Let’s face it: the modern working world is a bit of a mess right now. There’s the employee engagement problem , toxic company culture , and a pervading sense among employees and employers alike that our work has no meaning.

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Performance Pressure is a Double-Edged Sword for Employees

IO At Work

Why do some employees use performance pressure as a motivational tool to perform better, while others become stressed out and perform worse?

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The Real Impact of HR Technology on Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Prism HR

In today’s competitive labor market and shifting trends in human capital management, the responsibilities resting on the shoulders of HR professionals in small and medium-sized businesses are no easy feat. New practices in talent acquisition and retention, employee engagement, productivity tracking and management, and administrative tasks fulfillment make it a requisite for HR professionals to adopt new systems and solutions.

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How to Lay Off an Employee: Industry Best Practices

Intoo USA

Almost every company has an employee onboarding process to help new hires start their jobs on a positive note. In contrast, the employee offboarding process doesn’t get much attention. Yet how you manage an employee exit can have a gigantic impact on your company’s ability to attract and retain employees. This is because departing employees who feel mistreated or undervalued during the offboarding process are unlikely to return as boomerang employees, and more likely to leave negative revi

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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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How to Use WIOA Funds to Engage Out-of-School Youth

EDSI

It is estimated that over 5 million youth (16-24 years old) now referred to as “young adults” are not in school and are not employed. The challenge is how to serve these young adults and prepare them to succeed in today’s workforce. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title-l youth formula funds now provide state and local workforce development boards the resources needed to assist the youth in their communities.

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How to Lay Off an Employee: Industry Best Practices

Intoo USA

Almost every company has an employee onboarding process to help new hires start their jobs on a positive note. In contrast, the employee offboarding process doesn’t get much attention. Yet how you manage an employee exit can have a gigantic impact on your company’s ability to attract and retain employees. This is because departing employees who feel mistreated or undervalued during the offboarding process are unlikely to return as boomerang employees, and more likely to leave negative revi

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How can HR create a company culture 'to go' in an age of remote working?

HR Zone

Culture. Remote working: Can HR create a culture 'to go'?

Company 155
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8 Skills HR Business Partners Need for Success

HRExecutive

Why the HR Business Partner is An Evolving Role. In July, I convened a meeting with senior HR leaders from a range of companies, including Verizon, IBM, P&G, United Health Group, Medidata, BASF and Colgate-Palmolive. The meeting’s sole purpose was to discuss the role of the HR business partner in modern business. Throughout the day, we discussed how this role has changed over the years and what it looks like now; the traits and skills required; and the kind of training and development activi

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10 Downsides Of Using Artificial Intelligence In The Hiring Process

Forbes Coaches Council

There's no doubt AI is beneficial -- but is it also a hinderance? Forbes Coaches Council experts share some of the cons of AI during the hiring process and how to maintain the human element instead.

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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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ADJUST/EVOLVE: The Biggest Thing I've Learned In The Last 5 Years.

The HR Capitalist

Quick thought on a Wednesday. I've been lucky to have a great career in the world of HR and recruiting. I've been active on the side in basketball as well. The two are interconnected when it comes to times that I didn't get the results I wanted. At work, in projects, on the court, etc. Here's the common lesson I've learned in both: When I don't get great results, I can almost always look back and blame myself for not adjusting or evolving quickly enough.

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3 Things Productive Employees Do Before Noon

HR Digest

Many of us struggle to be more productive. Some struggle to get started, while others seem to have a problem maintaining consistency. The answer lies in developing productivity-boosting habits. In this article, you’ll learn what most productive employees do differently. Follow the 80/20 rule. Also known as the Pareto Principle , the 80/20 rule is a life-changing concept of time management.

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Toxic Company Culture: 11 Signs To Watch Out For

Forbes Coaches Council

The wrong kind of work environment will encourage people to pass the time doing rote work or avoiding notice at all costs. Here are some ways you can help shift your company culture toward something healthier for everyone.

Company 75
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my employees’ juice cleanses are getting in the way of their work

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I manage a team of five. (For context, we are all women and on friendly terms, and some of the women have closer friendships.). One of my staff, Hester, does some variation of a week-long juice cleanse or other liquid diet about once per year, and has for the four years she has been on my team. During that week each time, she arrives late or leaves early for three to four days due to headache, dizziness, or generally feeling crummy.

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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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Looking to Advance Your HR Tech Analytics Know-How? Here’s How

HRExecutive

Data has been used by companies to drive business strategy and decisions for decades. Analytics has the power to transform how HR functions as a whole, but it takes more than just setting up an analytics team to truly impact the organization. Here are three upcoming sessions at the HR Tech Conference and Expo to get you further down the road to analytics dominance: Slash Company Turnover With HCM Analytics Tools, Leadership Actions and Manager Accountability.

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Hiring a Sales Person? Avoid These Five Mistakes!

Affinity HR Group

So, you’re looking to hire a sales representative? That’s great news! Unfortunately, with this incredibly tight labor market, finding qualified talent, particularly in sales, is a significant challenge. That’s great news if you’re in sales – you have many more options available to you than in the past. That’s not so great news if you are the hiring manager because hiring salespeople can be tricky and challenging.

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One-on-One Meetings: 3 Ways to Stop Screwing Them Up With Your Employees

Jason Lauritsen

How important are one-on-one meetings between managers and their employees? This question comes up somewhat regularly because these meetings are time-consuming, and most managers are so overwhelmed with work that they are hunting for any excuse to cut something from the calendar. And I was asked this question again recently. Are these meetings really necessary?

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Transformative Innovation: First it was Blue Turf, now it’s Human Capital Management

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Jeff Haynes (Baker Tilly) and Jennifer Martindale (Boise State University). In any major people, process, and technology transformation, strong project management and end to end change management are critical for success. All organizations, regardless of industry, must consider these keys to transformation – but in higher education, one thing is certain – change comes about slowly!

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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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Berkshire Employees Roll Up Their Sleeves to Fight Hunger in the Community

Berkshire Associates

This week, Berkshire staff shifted gears from affirmative action to community action, rolling up our sleeves to volunteer at the Howard County Food Bank and Community Garden.

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5 Steps for Maintaining Momentum During Your Hiring Process

ApplicantPro

Imagine the following… you’ve recently posted a new job opening, you’ve filtered through all of the applications you’ve received, and finally found a candidate you’re feeling excited about. You pick up the phone and reach out to get them scheduled for an interview… Only for them to tell you they’ve already accepted another offer. Frustrating right? They JUST applied - how have they already found something else?

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my job is getting reposted for a lot more money than I’m making now

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m quitting my job in a month and moving to a new country to start graduate school. Hooray! I’ve been at this place for a few years and genuinely like it (except for the low pay and terrible benefits, but that’s nonprofit life for you), so I made sure to give my manager a very generous six-month notice since I wanted to give them enough time so they could hire someone new and I could train that person plus another new staff member on our very complicated datab

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How Partnering With an HR Outsourcing Company Can Benefit Your Business

HSD Metrics

Even if your company has the best staff around, it can sometimes be difficult to complete its work in all departments at a consistently optimized level. If things get busy, it’s not uncommon for items to slip through the cracks and for efficiency to slow down. For human resource departments, in particular, there can be so much information to keep track of regarding your incoming, current, and outbound employees that it’s not always realistic to be able to manage it all.

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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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I don’t want to move into a leadership role

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m in my mid-thirties and have a fairly successful technical career — I have a good reputation for dependable work, common sense, and seeing connections that people miss. Every year, in my performance evaluations, I’m asked how I want to move ahead: my manager sees potential in me, and keeps encouraging me to move up a ladder into leadership positions.

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7 Benefits of Having Strong Employee Relations in your Organization

Vantage Circle

Having good employee relations is one of the vital aspects of a successful business plan in today’s date. It won’t be wrong to say that the mantra to keep your business on track is having good mutual understanding and sharing a strong bond with the employees. It is your employees who are responsible for everything that happens in the workplace. However, the numero uno point for nurturing trust and understanding with your employees is to have a good relationship with them.

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Stop sabotaging your engagement survey follow-up!

Newmeasures

Each year at Newmeasures I have the opportunity to work with hundreds of leaders and provide guidance on how to respond to engagement survey feedback. After a year has passed from the engagement survey and discussions begin to plan for the next employee survey, it’s not uncommon for me to hear that leaders haven’t had enough time to take action on the feedback from the first survey.

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What Real HR Looks Like

Evil HR Lady

If you go to an HR conference or read articles about human resources (even the ones that I’ve written) you might get the idea that HR is full of exciting planning meetings, coaching managers, and designing strategy for succession planning. And that stuff does happen. For sure. But, the day to day–especially for generalists, employee relations, and HR departments of one or two–that’s not what it looks like.

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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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We’re sponsoring the Bath Digital Festival 2019!

Cognisess

Cognisess are excited to reveal that we are headline sponsors of the Bath Digital Festival 2019! The Bath Digital Festival is the biggest and most inclusive technology festival in the South West. The festival aims to bring people and technology together in Bath. Now stepping into its seventh year, the Bath Digital Festival will guarantee an excellent display of technology to explore and aid your digital discovery.

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#Nextchat RECAP: Boosting Candidate Attraction

SHRM

On August 14, @shrmnextchat chatted with Rob Shepard ( @rob_shepard ), industrial/organizational psychologist at SHL, and Christy Smith ( @ChristyGMSmith ), a talent strategy consultant at SHL about Boosting Candidate Attraction. If you missed this excellent chat you can read all the tweets here or below: .

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What Generation Z Wants from Leaders

DDI

Generation Z is quickly approaching the workplace. Learn what leaders can do to attract and retain their Gen Z employees.