Sun.Dec 08, 2019

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Professional Networking Today: Think On and Offline

HR Bartender

Building a professional network is important. We use our professional network for information, support, and sometimes assistance. It takes a long time to build a network and forever to maintain relationships. But building a professional network today isn’t the same as it was a decade ago. Because now we have to think about building and maintaining two networks: 1) an online network and 2) an offline one.

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5 Ways Payroll Software Can Boost Employee Happiness

Justworks

Improving company culture and boosting employee happiness are two sides of the same coin. Boosting one tends to positively affect the other, and both positive culture and workplace happiness are tied to increased company productivity. They also both rely on making small business employee experiences easier to manage and more engaging. The less time people think about busywork, technical challenges, and bureaucratic obstacles, the better.

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A Beginners Guide To Effective One On One Meetings

Engagedly

Effective and frequent communication with team members is a problem commonly faced by managers these days. When employees do not see open lines of communication with their manager, or do not understand what is expected of them, they […].

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Office Christmas Party Invitation Email Templates

HR Digest

It is the time of year to spread cheer and good tidings and what better way than to celebrate it with your colleagues and co-workers. With the year coming to a close, most offices are planning the annual holiday party. It is well known that a positive, social environment boosts morale and productivity at work. In recent times the traditional get together at the workplace has taken a back seat with most people finding not much to cheer 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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How HR Can Return to the Roots of Employee Wellness

6Q

Wellness has become a booming business, with the industry now worth around $4.2 trillion. It might seem like we have lost sight of what wellness should be about, however, countries like Sweden, have employee wellness embedded in their lifestyle. Is it time for HR leaders to follow their lead? You only have to look at the likes of Goop, a wellness and lifestyle brand that is worth around the $60 million mark, selling everything from vampire repellent, to crystal-infused water to understand that w

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Payroll in Asia Pacific: Getting Payroll Right Across a Diverse Region

Ascender

The post Payroll in APAC: Getting Payroll Right Across a Diverse Region appeared first on Ascender HCM.

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5 Benefits of Cycling to Work – Health Improvements for 2020

Take It Personel-ly

I am fortunate to work in a city and region that encourages people to cycle. There are bike paths in the downtown core, places to rent bikes and lock them up, and a hug network of bike paths that provide a scenic tour as well as challenging ones through wooded areas. There is even Sunday Bike […].

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Are You happy? The question you need to answer without feeling like an impostor.

Thrive Global

Close your eyes and answer this simple question – are you happy? Now imagine being asked this question every day by a loved one, over and over and over again. what would be your answer? For me, it was my boyfriend, and for 30 days, I had to answer that question quietly, and it felt so hard to say a word without feeling like an imposter. Yes, That’s exactly how I felt, like an impostor to me, a fraud to my conscious voice, a different person rather than my true self.

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Everything You Need to Know About IRS Form W-2

Patriot Software

If you have employees, you are responsible for many tasks like running payroll, withholding payroll taxes, and distributing IRS Form W-2. As you might know by now, Form W-2 can be uber confusing. Who receives a form? Where do you send it? When is it due? Get the answers to these questions and more by […]. The post Everything You Need to Know About IRS Form W-2 appeared first on Patriot Software.

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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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Goal Setting: A Guide to Setting and Achieving Your Goals

Thrive Global

There is a clear process you can undertake for goal setting and achieving your goals. Written down goals that are specific and measurable harness your emotional energy. When you commit to goal setting and achieving those goals, it creates. powerful actions that act as a guide to achieving your biggest goals. But many people fall at the first hurdle.

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HR strategy in the 2020s - have you been paying attention?

Strategic HCM

Yes, it's prediction time again, and I'll be sharing a few thoughts in a couple of different places. First up, in HRZone on HR Strategy. You'll hopefully know that I think strategic HR is all about focusing on people, not ever tighter alignment with the business (eg this post recently ). My new article is about all the stuff going on with people that explains why this focus on people is essential (and that therefore, if we don't do it, someone else will!

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what to say to an insulting “joke,” I don’t want to stop posting YouTube videos of my work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. What to say to someone who keeps making an insulting “joke”. This is a hindsight question; the incident happened a few years ago, but I still think about it from time to time. At a previous job, one of our vendors/consultants made a holiday gift of a box of gourmet cookies for each person on our team.

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Reasons God Entrusts Us With Trials

Thrive Global

If I am serving God, shouldn’t God make my life easier, not harder? ?I have always wanted my life to glorify God—to live a life that shows God’s infinite power and worth so that he gets all the praise, not me. In fact, this was the main reason I went into missions. The Bible is filled with stories of people who God used to show his power. Reading these stories, my heart says “Lord, use me for your glory, show your power through me!

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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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updates: the long car ride with coworkers, the late payments, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. I don’t want to be in a car with coworkers for eight hours a day (#2 at the link). My boss is unfortunately still against me staying the night during trips to our site and continues to make the trip in one day.

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Unlearning to Learn

Thrive Global

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and. write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn” -Alvin Toffler. When we are born, we are ‘pure’. There is purity of thought and action. The. influences of society have not yet encroached upon us. As early as a few months we are subject to the bias of our parents, siblings, and all. those who encounter us.

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Lending Options For A New Business

New to HR

As a new business, your lending options may be more restricted. In this post, we will discuss the different options you may want to consider. Log book loans There are many different lending options available for those that find themselves. The post Lending Options For A New Business appeared first on New To HR.

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You Should Hire People, Not Talent

Thrive Global

If you do a quick search on the phrase “Top Talent” you’ll see a variety of articles about “Finding Top Talent”, “Finding the Perfect Candidate”, “How to Hire the Best”, and the list goes on. But recruiting and hiring will make you crazy if you believe that there is a perfect candidate out there. Or if you believe that only this type of candidates will have success.

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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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How To Work Through Conflicting Ideas In The Office

HR C-Suite

No workplace is free from employee conflict. Disagreements and misunderstandings occur from time to time between colleagues. And when it escalates, it can put other people in an uncomfortable situation. But conflict in itself can be a catalyst for change – only if it stays healthy and encourages new ways of thinking. So how do […].

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5 Ideas of Where to Work to Make your Entrepreneurial Journey Less Stressful

Thrive Global

Image: Pixabay. One of the things that most entrepreneurs and freelancers struggle with, is the mundaneness and loneliness that comes with working from home. The idea of being stuck on a laptop for hours on end can not only be very lonely, but it can also affect ones mental, emotional or even physical health. It’s not healthy to stare at a screen for hours on end and yet so many of us do this on a weekly basis.

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Worker Bee No Longer: 6 Key Steps To Becoming A Boss

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Many bosses are often wrong but never in doubt. You don’t need to be quite so hubristic, but you do need to recognize the advantage of shutting down excessive internal chatter and quieting your own impostor syndrome.

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Work on things you care most about: from burnout to entrepreneur

Thrive Global

Do you truly care? Answer me honestly: Do you really care about what you are working on today in your job? “Truly care” means what you do is a way to address what is of your ultimate concern. Like me and 80% of the population, you probably say: my ultimate concern is my end of the month paycheck. But, take a minute to think about it. Don’t you want to be engaged at work in a way that honors what you care most about?

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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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The Most Disturbing Immigration Stories Of 2019

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Danger for asylum seekers, fewer refugees and the murder of immigrants in El Paso are among the most disturbing immigration stories of 2019.

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HABITS, CHOICES & GOALS. New Year’s Resolutions?

Thrive Global

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”. Most people think that the New Year is a great time to start again! Maybe it is, but why not start today? Usually, we set goals: I will do this and that and will accomplish that and this. In my experience, many of my resolutions have always panned out! Why?

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Why Every Business Leader Needs To Know About Narrative Economics

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Robert J. Shiller’s new book, Narrative Economics, has serious implications for every business leader.

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How to Reframe and Reset to an awesome life

Thrive Global

Are you feeling there has to be more to life than this? If this is you, the answer is yes! Change often seems elusive, lurking around trying to get our attention. You know when something is wrong. Maybe you wake up dreading the day. Perhaps, it is becoming harder to find the energy to get through the day. I understand how you feel, I was there too, not long ago.

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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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20 Ways To Create An Amazing Customer Experience In 2020

Forbes Leadership Strategy

With all the focus on how AI, data, personalization and more can create a better customer experience, I thought it might be fun to go back to some basics and look at different ways we can connect and build better relationships with our customers.

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How your fear of photos may be based on past trauma.

Thrive Global

I am very camera shy. I usually, unconsciously, just avoid having my photo taken. Obviously as the face of my own business, Dijolife, this is not sustainable. This week I decided to do some journaling to recognise the trigger to this anxiety. I simply don’t want to feel pressure every time someone says smile. Last night, during the witching hour, I had a huge breakthrough when I dreamt of my grade 6 class photo.

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De-gigging the Gender Pay Gap

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The gender pay gap is alive and well in the sharing economy.