June, 2020

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4 Small Ways Companies Can Improve Team Morale

Hppy

Team morale is an essential element in building any successful venture , but it is also one of the most neglected elements in smaller companies, unfortunately. An event, an activity, or a step that boosts team morale doesn’t always have to be anything that costs a lot of money or resources either, it can be something small but meaningful as well. On that note, let’s now discuss four small methods that HR can use to boost team morale effectively.

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11 Companies Where LGBTQ Equality Lasts Beyond Pride Month

The Muse

Want to work somewhere that’s truly LGBTQ inclusive? Check out these companies.

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What it really means to be an ally.

LifeSpeak

June 2020 has been a rollercoaster of emotions. With police brutality, systemic racism, gender discrimination, and LGBTQ+ rights on top of everyone’s minds, you might be wondering what meaningful steps you can take to fight oppression. The term “allyship” has been gaining traction as more people recognize their privilege and the unique position it gives them to support marginalized groups.

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#WorkTrends Getting Real About ATS

TalentCulture

We may be at a tricky point in the economy, but hiring is on many company’s minds — along with what tools can help. So Meghan brought in Doug Coull, founder and CEO of APS, Inc.— the makers of SmartSearch talent acquisition and staffing management software — to talk ATS. They spent this episode of #WorkTrends […]. The post #WorkTrends Getting Real About ATS appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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ENGAGEMENT MAGIC®: The 5 Keys of Employee Engagement

DecisionWise

In our blog, “ Are Your Employees Engaged or Just Satisfied ,” we reviewed some of the differences between employee engagement and employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees operate under a transactional relationship—“Because the company gives me X, I am willing to give X worth of effort.” As Herzberg would say, these elements are “hygiene factors ”—they must be present, but do not necessarily result in engagement.

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Guess Who’s Disrupting HR Tech Now? Facebook. Yes it’s Facebook.

Josh Bersin

I’ve never been a big Facebook user – it always seemed like a poorly designed platform and I don’t like sharing my personal information all the time. So when the company launched Workplace from Facebook I was not expecting much. The initial product, developed for internal collaboration inside the company, was just a “gray” version.

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Promoting Diversity in Startups: Your 5-Step Hiring Action Plan

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Diversity in startups will make or break your business plan. Here’s your 5-step guide on how to be proactive about inclusive sourcing and hiring.

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ask the readers: how to unionize your workplace

Ask a Manager

A lot of workplaces have a lot of reasons to unionize right now , and organizing could be your only option if your employer is behaving badly and refusing to engage in reasonable dialogue with you and your coworkers. This is not my area of expertise, so let’s hear from readers with experiencing with unionizing. What advice would you give people wondering about forming a union, especially around protecting their jobs from retaliation?

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Return-to-Work Communication Best Practices for Coronavirus | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

These tips and best practices help craft your message communicating a return-to-work plan to your employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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Company survey: What are the best skills for remote work?

Workable

Or not? The style of “working remotely” has brought up challenges (distractions, barriers to productivity, etc.) that many employees have suddenly come face to face with for the first time over the past few months. As a result, new and existing skills have been brought into the spotlight. The ultimate question arises: What are the best skills for remote work?

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100 days

HRGem

This week we reach 100 days in lockdown, or so I read on Twitter. It has been long and long. Those early pandemic, strange, discombobulated and anxiety filled early days have mostly passed.

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Workday People Experience Arrives: The ERP Landscape Evolves

Josh Bersin

The enterprise software world has been attacked by the Coronavirus. Most of the big, complicated, multi-year ERP implementations have taken a pause and companies decided “we have to get something out immediately.” So they lashed together the tools they had to build communications programs, testing and feedback apps, training programs, and all sorts of programs.

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What I Wish I Knew: Advice for Those Just Getting Started in HR

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Given the chance, what career advice would veteran HR leaders give to their younger selves?

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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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To Boost Productivity, Hack the Stress Curve

TalentCulture

A lot has been said about stress in the workplace over the years, and for good reason. Stress takes a serious toll on employees, both in terms of physical and mental health. It’s largely known as a productivity killer — but is that the whole story? Or is there another side to stress that is […]. The post To Boost Productivity, Hack the Stress Curve appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Racism: When HR is Part of the Problem

Robin Schooling

HR professionals are the architects of the employee experience. They’re the ones responsible for ensuring their workplaces are free from unlawful discrimination and racism. They’re charged with nurturing a culture that promotes diversity, inclusion and equity. In challenging times, when people are confused and hurting and taking to the streets to protest for issues of basic human rights, employees rely on their HR team to communicate and reassure.

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Survey: Upskilling and reskilling in 2020

Workable

What’s more, one-third of them say their companies aren’t even able to cope with workplace disruptions from technological and market changes. Albeit pre-COVID, the spirit of that survey still stands. Skills gaps exist, and they continue to exist (here’s how to conduct a skills gap analysis in your own organization). If you’re reading this, it’s likely a challenge in your own company as work environments become more volatile.

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What the Supreme Court Ruling on DACA Means for Employers

SHRM Resources

The June 18 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provides relief not only for the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants it covers, but also for the organizations that employ them—but only temporarily.

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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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Reframe: Strategic Thinking When You Need It Most by Nick Noyes

Take It Personel-ly

Strategic thinking is always important; it’s a critical foundation skill for effective leaders. But in crucible leadership moments like the present, it has outsized importance. When rapid change is happening all around us, even the immediate future is wildly uncertain, and the potential range of outcomes is vast, this is when strategic thinking is most needed.

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How to Support Your Employees During Times of Crisis

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

2020 has impacted everyone differently and in some ways, permanently altered the way we see the world. Natural disasters, economic downturns, pandemics, and social movements all bring about challenges to society and, therefore, provide the leadership of an organization with an opportunity to recommit to its people.

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Empathy, Action: What HR Can Do Now

TalentCulture

Recently I published an article on Forbes.com about the elephant in the room. It was one of those pieces I had to do. I had to go out on a limb and just say it. We talk about diversity all the time — and on TalentCulture we’ve published many articles on improving diversity and inclusion. […]. The post Empathy, Action: What HR Can Do Now appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How to Talk to Kids About Racism and Discrimination

LifeSpeak

Q&A with Dr. Kira Banks, Psychologist and creator of Raising Equity*. There is so much in the news about George Floyd’s death at the hands of police and the pervasiveness of racism. How can we approach the conversation with our children? I think it’s important for parents to give age-appropriate responses. Depending on how much the news is on, some kids might not be aware of the murder of George Floyd.

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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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Asynchronous communication in the workplace: benefits and best practices

Workable

Asynchronous work and its unique issues – for example, communication delay or tech hiccups – are not new territory for many businesses. Many employers have had distributed teams for years now and they’ve been willing to share their best practices to shed some light on remote work first-timers’ biggest problems and solutions , including tips for effective asynchronous collaboration.

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How to boost employee experience during crisis

HRExecutive

Over the last few years, tight talent pools had us confronting the realities of our overall employee experience—from onboarding to last day. With flexibility and remote working steadily bubbling to the top of employee expectations in workplace trends studies, many of us in HR leadership were working on multi-phased plans to address these new demands—before COVID-19 and work-from-home directives.

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Two simple and cost-effective ways to improve employee wellbeing

HR Zone

Employees Two cost-effective ways to improve wellbeing.

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Why You Need Storytelling for Diversity and Inclusion Success

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Thought leadership on the business need for diversity and inclusion in workplaces, explained by CultureCounts's expert diversity and inclusion consultants

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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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It’s Really Hard to Judge People!

The Tim Sackett Project

I was out walking with my wife recently (that’s what middle-aged suburban people do, we walk, it makes us feel like we are less lazy and it gets us away from the kids so we can talk grown-up) and she made this statement in a perfectly innocent way: “It’s really hard to judge people.”. She said this to ‘me’! I start laughing. She realized what she said and started laughing.

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Why 'going back' to the office is the wrong language and possibly the wrong choice for employee engagement

Pay Compliment

Going back. What do you think of when you hear the term going back ? Progress. Learning. Innovation. Expansion? Those types of words don't spring to mind for me. Instead, I'm triggered into thoughts of Regression. Constriction. Convention. Familiarity. and perhaps even comfortableness. When businesses are talking with workers about 'going back' (or returning to), there is an implicit message that things were better before, and worth going back to; that there is not much worth keeping from enforc

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Closing Analytics Talent Gaps: College to Career

TalentCulture

Nearly all organizations are struggling to find top talent and identify best practices for aligning college and career pathways. Moreover, there is a substantial talent gap when it comes to early-career hires. Recent research from Strada/Gallup found that while 95 percent of chief academic officers felt graduates were prepared, only 11 percent of business leaders […].

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