Thu.Mar 14, 2019

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Empathy in leadership: Perspective is the secret sauce

Insperity

As a leader, it’s likely that a can-do, never-give-up attitude helped drive your success. It’s possible that a soft skill like empathy, which should be considered an essential skill in leadership, wasn’t ever on your radar. But empathy can have powerful results – for you, your employees and your business. It’s all about perspective. To be empathetic, you need to go beyond caring for others – that’s what we call sympathy.

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employee constantly uses astrology to analyze coworkers, former employee published hit piece on our company, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Employee constantly uses astrology to analyze coworkers. This will seem like a small issue, but it’s like sand in our collective bathing suits and may actually be a problem. I supervise a small team in a very large nonprofit, and we collaborate a lot internally and externally, and frequently bring on shorter-term interns and other placements.

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Sirenum to Sponsor Collaboration in the Gig Economy Europe 2019

Sirenum

Dynamic Workforce Management Platform CEO and Founder to be Featured on Keynote Panel of Leading European Conference for Staffing Agencies and Their Clients London, UK–Sirenum, the leading UK-based provider of technology solutions for innovative temporary staffing agencies, is proud to announce its sponsorship of Staffing Industry Analysts’ Collaboration in the Gig Economy Europe 2019.

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3 Tools to Help You Manage Your Digital Life

HR Bartender

I recently published a list of cybersecurity resources from TechCrunch and Google. If you haven’t seen them, it’s worth checking out. Technology continues to fill our lives, which means we need to find ways to manage it. I’m not talking about taking digital vacations, although establishing boundaries is a good idea. When we use technology, we open ourselves up to risk.

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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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Better Together: Performance and Engagement

Reflektive

In today’s tight labor market, competition for talent is fierce. HR leaders know that to retain their best people, employee engagement is critical. Yet being able to keep a pulse of actual employee engagement is a struggle. It’s hard for companies to understand employee engagement on a continuous basis, and even harder for them to act on their engagement insights.

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Interesting, Challenging and Fun: Do These Words Describe Your Job?

Engage2Excel

We’ve all heard the phrase “married to our job.” For many people, the hard truth is that one-third (or more) of our time as adults is spent at work, and at times you may even spend more time with your work family than your nuclear family. There are quite a few similarities between the two types of relationship as well. Employees want a job that provides a sense of meaning and offers them the opportunity to feel accomplished, fulfilled and satisfied.

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Pursuing talent: how existing employees can help you recruit

HR Zone

Acquisition. How existing employees can help you recruit.

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Disrupting the Attack Chain Through Detecting Credential Dumping

Symantec

Credential dumping is an essential step in the attack chain. Symantec’s defense-in-depth portfolio detects and blocks credential dumping and associated attack events.

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don’t drunkenly email your boss this St. Patrick’s Day

Ask a Manager

In preparation for St. Patrick’s day … a reader writes: Back in 2010, I sent the most horrifying email to my boss (by accident!) and I thought you might get a kick out of it. For context, there was a St. Patrick’s Day parade that a group of friends and I attended for several years. It was the kind of thing where you’d start the day with coffee and Bailey’s at 9 am, be dancing at a club by 3 pm, and somehow still be at a pub at midnight.

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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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Company Dress Codes: Professional or Passé?

Criteria Corp

In an era in which dress codes are quickly going out of fashion , many companies are hesitant to jump on the no-dress-code bandwagon. In 2017, only 10% of companies had no official dress policy. However, 30% had business casual every day, 23% had one casual dress day per week, and 22% had casual dress everyday, indicating a shift toward less-formal workplace attire.

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Agile working: what HR teams can learn from the software industry

HR Zone

Strategy. Agile working tips for non-tech teams.

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Guest Blog: Top 6 HR Technology Trends to Watch in 2019

Employee Engagement Group

Top 6 HR Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 By: Amy Champigny, Deltek Gartner’s 2017 CEO survey found that CIOs must scale up digital business initiatives. Digitalization was on the periphery of most CEOs only a few years ago. The time for transformation is now. No matter which way we look at this finding, it. [Read More]. The post Guest Blog: Top 6 HR Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 appeared first on The Employee Engagement Group.

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Tips for Finding the Right Mentor

Take It Personel-ly

No matter what industry you’re in, or how long you’ve been in that industry, it’s likely there’s a lot you could learn. Seeking out and successfully finding a mentor could make you better at whatever it is that you do. If you’re feeling stuck in a rut, your mentor could help reinvigorate your passion. Here […].

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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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New HR Recertification LEARN by Workology Courses

Workology

To celebrate these new courses we’re offering a $50 discount through April 15, 2019 for annual plans. To claim your $50 discount, sign up for LEARN. LEARN is an on-demand resource for HR and. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Better Internal Communications for your Workforce – Now is the Time

SocialChorus

It’s 2019, and our workforces don’t look like they used to. Thanks to technology tools and globalization, internal communicators face a lot of new challenges. Doing internal communications right means happy, effective, productive employees that positively contribute to the employee experience; while doing it wrong can leave employees confused, unproductive, and disconnected from company initiatives.

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13 Methods For Business Leaders To Help Staff Re-Focus After Layoffs

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share their insights on the most important things a business owner or executive must do to keep the remaining staff focused and productive after downsizing.

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Are Robots Better Employees? Some Managers Think So

HRExecutive

The robots are coming! But humans have nothing to fear because soft skills are valuable traits that can’t be replicated, or so we’re told. Some of the results from MindEdge and Skye Learning’s second annual Robomageddon: Future of Work Study don’t offer the security we’re used to hearing about robots in the workforce—nearly 60 percent of the 1,000 U.S. managers who responded to the survey think that robots and artificial intelligence perform higher-quality work than humans.

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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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Employee Loyalty: An Open Letter to Loyal Employees

Evil HR Lady

Yes, the new hires make more than you, the company party was a bit of a disaster and open enrollment won’t bring anyone joy. Please keep those suggestions coming! Dear Loyal Employees, Thank you so much for, uh, working with us for the past few years! Employee loyalty is very important in our business, and we’re happy that you are happy here.

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How can HR build new bridges for future work?

HR Zone

Change. Building new bridges for future work.

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#1 Getting your “Agile-on” Defining how to engage employees and enable human factors for success in 2019

Peoplescape

The “Agile Organization” has been the buzz word for a while now. It started with product development and progressed to an organization style. But are organizations ready? Do we even know what it requires? In an Agile culture, we shift the focus from the process to the outcome. The main question to answer, at each […]. The post #1 Getting your “Agile-on” Defining how to engage employees and enable human factors for success in 2019 appeared first on Peoplescape Consulting Group.

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Prevent costly employee turnover with Culture Amp’s predictive analytics

CultureAmp

With the gig economy thriving, and tenures at an all-time low, employee turnover is a common, and expensive, part of talent management. Some estimates put the cost of employee turnover at 100% - 150% of the incumbent’s salary. When taking into account job board advertising, interviewing, and onboarding a new employee, the costs can be as much as 200% of an employee’s annual salary.

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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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do I have to help someone I can’t stand?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: “Monica” is a few years younger than me and is a friend of my parents through a church community. Smply put, she irks the heck out of me. There are a number of little things that she does that get under my skin, so I just try to avoid her in my personal life. At my most recent former job, Monica ended up interning while she worked on her Master’s degree.

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13 Tips To Help Businesses Decide Whether To "Stay The Course" Or Embrace The Latest Tech

Forbes Coaches Council

How can business leaders know when to “stay the course” with the technology they’re already using or providing versus pursuing innovation? Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer their advice.

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Busting the Top 10 Myths of Background Checks

Sterling Check

Some potential employees look so great on paper that hiring managers mistakenly think that all they need to do to screen them is check their references and job history. However, to avoid hiring mistakes that can not only be costly, but also put an organization’s entire reputation at stake, it’s imperative to expend further scrutiny to every candidate by conducting background checks.

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fighting “out of sight, out of mind” when you work from home

Ask a Manager

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I’d like your input on excelling as a remote worker. I’m a full-time employee working from home in a state that differs from where my department is located. For the past few years, I have been working in this capacity for a large, multi-national company. I was the first in my area to be granted this arrangement (after a decade or so of tenure there), and others have followed (partly since I demonstrated

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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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When resilience training isn’t the answer

HR Zone

People. When resilience training isn’t the answer.

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It Feels You: Harness The Arrival Of Emotion-Detecting Software To Promote Workplace Well-Being

Forbes Coaches Council

As emotion-detecting software transforms our work and lives, there will be many questions and concerns. If we get ahead of the game, we will be able to leverage emotion-detecting software to our full advantage.

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Quantum Workplace Introduces New Talent Pipeline Solution

Quantum Workplace

Ushering in a new era of talent management, Quantum Workplace introduces Employee Vitals , a breakthrough approach to managing your talent pipeline. Keeping a pulse on your talent pool is no easy feat. Managers, leaders, and HR struggle to evaluate, develop, and retain individual employees, all while delivering business results. Important talent decisions are often made in silos, and leaders lack the data they need to understand talent gaps and opportunities.