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Are You a Big Picture Thinker or Detail-Oriented?

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5 Soft Skills That Will Boost Your Employability

Take It Personel-ly

In the current job market, there’s a lot of pressure to stand out from the competition. With prospective employers setting out high demands for qualifications and experience, and certain skills increasingly outsourced to technology and AI, it can feel like mere mortals don’t stand a chance. Don’t despair! The personal qualities that you bring to […].

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No HR (background) For You! Next!

Robin Schooling

Yesterday I felt the need to respond to a post on LinkedIn (lord knows why) that led off with the statement “You don’t need to have a background in HR to lead HR” and then linked to this article. Loads of happy-clappy folks chimed in about how the best skill set for HR is to “care for people” and similar thoughts that practically brimmed with smile emojis.

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Moved to a High Covid Risk Job. What Are My Options?

Evil HR Lady

I’ve been out on FMLA helping my elderly parents. Dad had Covid. I recently returned to work. One day last week and 1 day this week. My employer was moving me to another unit, which I haven’t worked on in years. My permanent spot was a dementia unit. I’ve been at my job for 20 years, so I thought I had seniority. Upon returning to work where they’re are Covid patient, I felt very unsafe since I live with my parents, who continue to need my help.

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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 on Earth Is HR Supposed to Prepare for 2021? (3 Tips)

Digital HR Tech

Neelie from AIHR: Can you write an article for us? Me: Sure. Any topics? Neelie: Perhaps how in the ^*!&#$ HR is supposed to prepare for 2021? Ahh, this is such a good question. HR people have to plan – we have cyclical things we plan for. We know that the fourth quarter brings performance appraisals and year-end raises, and the fiscal year ends in July, so we need to be prepared with a budget.

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5 Takeaways from BambooHR’s HR Virtual Summit 2020

Kazoo

Didn’t get a chance to attend the BambooHR 2020 Virtual Summit? We’ve got you covered! Kazoo was proud to sponsor the event, which drew more than 47,000 registrants in the human resources, L&D, and DE&I workspaces. Here’s what we learned. 1. “Employee-obsessed is the new customer-obsessed”. BambooHR CEO Brad Rencher opened the summit with a hard-hitting question: Were we wrong to focus on customer experience before the employee experience?

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Embrace design thinking to advance diversity, equity and inclusion

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Design thinking encourages a forward look, playing chess rather than checkers. And design thinking principles can assist us to holistically solve more complex and intertwined DEI challenges today.

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Innovative New HR Tech Vendors Emerge: CultureAmp, Valamis, Lattice, Hitch, Eskalera, and More

Josh Bersin

It’s Fall and it’s HR Technology time. Not only is the big HR Technology Conference coming up, but I’m starting to finish up my big report for 2021. In the meantime, I want to highlight just a few important innovations in this critically important space. 1/ Amplify: Conversational Microlearning by CultureAmp. The first announcement is.

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13 Questions To Solicit High-Quality Employee Feedback

15Five

In business, we are often so results-focused that we can discourage the outside-the-box thinking that drives innovation. But curiosity is vital for building thriving companies and for fostering healthy relationships between managers and co-workers. When you ask your employees the right questions, you’ll get quality feedback that sparks creativity, puts out potential fires, and helps employees show up as their best selves.

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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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If You Work From Home, How Bad Do You Miss the Commute?

The HR Capitalist

I've been blessed to have mostly worked from home over the last 10 years. When I do commute weekly, it's doozy - 3 hours, one overnight and then back the next evening. And you know what? As hard and shitty as that commute was going in and out of the ATL, I miss it a bit. A commute is a great time to get quality calls in. It's a great time to throw on a podcast.

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Supporting Your Employees During the New Normal

Hppy

The shockwave of the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt worldwide. Many employees feel the financial pinch of limited hours or reduced pay, and the mental pressure of mitigating the fallout from this health crisis. Unsurprisingly, the World Bank estimates that the pandemic will plunge most countries into a recession in 2020, with per capita income reducing in the most considerable fraction of countries globally since 1870.

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Could AI improve mental health?

HRExecutive

Employees are overwhelmingly experiencing the most stressful year of their lives. Rates of depression , anxiety, burnout and stress are soaring as the pandemic and its associated uncertainties are wreaking havoc on employees’ work and personal lives. But can technology help improve workers’ mental health? New research indicates it may, pointing to big potential for employers as they look for ways to help.

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Culture shock: how to maintain the momentum of organisational culture change post crisis

HR Zone

Culture How to overcome the Covid-19 culture shock.

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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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Here's to the Real Innovators: R.I.P. Eddie Van Halen.

The HR Capitalist

If you celebrate innovators, flags at half mast this week for Eddie Van Halen. You can’t celebrate Jobs and Musk without pouring one out for this brilliant artist who changed everything for a generation of GenX minions. Long before there was social media, YouTube or anything else that created stardom from nothing, there was Van Halen. While the initial Van Halen had another star in David Lee Roth, the cornerstone was Eddie Van Halen.

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my coworker told everyone we’re married … we’re not even dating

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Last year, I left on a leave of absence for a few months to take care of my elderly parents. Then I returned to work. Apparently during that time, one of my coworkers began telling people we were married … not as in “work wife,” as in legally married, and everyone believed him. Honestly, I had no idea he had any feelings for me and I don’t think he knew I would be coming back.

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Open enrollment: How can HR succeed in a pandemic?

HRExecutive

Open enrollment is already a complicated, high-stress time for HR and benefits leaders. Employees, confused and frustrated by their choices, historically spend little time choosing benefits. Most don’t research their options even though they aren’t literate on benefits, leaving employers struggling to make a significant impact. But add to that a largely remote workforce and a global pandemic that’s making not just health offerings, but an array of benefits, critical, and those challenges are eve

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Offboarding: an overlooked step in the employee lifecycle?

HR Zone

Employees What’s your offboarding strategy?

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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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Make Flexible Work Scheduling Happen for Your Team

marenated HR

At Red Branch Media, work-life balance is important. And what’s a better way to enhance that balance than flexible work scheduling or a 10-hour shift, so employees have a three day weekend? They still get 40 hours in, but they have a full day off during a typical person’s workweek. What we once knew as normal has changed. How can we expect to run our business like we used to?

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Fun Activities That Can Be Turned into a New Skill

Take It Personel-ly

If you’ve always wanted to learn a new skill, but don’t know where to start, consider a new skill-building activity to build your confidence. Whether you want to learn how to ride a bike or how to tie your shoes, there are several fun activities that can be turned into a new skill. This doesn’t […].

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Why it’s time for HR to head to the ‘factory floor’

HRExecutive

To make it in human resources, in which we are known for our agility in handling unusual and delicate interpersonal situations, one needs to quickly learn how to be an adept tactical problem solver. Nobody in the office can clean up a mess, work themselves out of a jam or be quite so clever as HR can. And if you were to ask many HR professionals what their strengths are, “problem-solving” would likely be near the top of their lists.

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How to nurture employee wellbeing through rewards and recognition

HR Zone

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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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The Benefit of Employee Engagement: Improving Your Bottom Line

EngagementMultiplier

CEOs spend a lot of time pursuing profitability improvement. Business process optimization, supply chain management, investment in AI-driven service models are just a few strategies companies take in the effort to improve profit margins. However, a rich opportunity to generate double-digit increases in profits is frequently overlooked when companies chart strategies for increasing their net gains.

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Top 5 Unconscious Biases While Hiring and How to Avoid Them

Celarity

Unconscious biases are stereotypes formed when someone engages with another person or group of people. For example, when meeting a new coworker we typically will form bias based on their appearance. Our own biases often are influenced by our own experiences and/or culture. Our brains make judgments (unconscious biases) about these new individuals, even if we aren’t realizing it. .

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How this HR exec built the function from the ground up

HRExecutive

Michelle McGovern. Michelle McGovern. Director of human resources and operations. American College of Surgeons. Chicago. Key HR Challenges: Building an HR function from the ground up for the organization, which had little in the way of HR when McGovern arrived. Lacking succession planning, staff training, applicant tracking, guidelines for recruiting and interviewing or even a basic HR infrastructure, ACS was seriously in need of a complete HR transformation.

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Why you should not cut your engagement and culture budgets in the current climate

HR Zone

Culture The budgets you should NOT be cutting back on.

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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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8 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams (and How to Build One)

Quantum Workplace

Why do some teams perform better than others? What sets these teams apart from the rest? High-performing teams are composed of individuals with specialized expertise and complementary skills who are goal-oriented and hyper-focused on achieving clear, outstanding results. Together they collaborate and innovate to produce work at the highest levels.

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What Thieves Can do With Your Social Security Number

Take It Personel-ly

Your Social Security number is worth your weight in gold, but the possibilities for nefarious activity with your number are limited only by the imagination of a thief. This is why it’s so important to keep a close eye on your credit history and never be duped into disclosing your Social Security number. Lest you […].

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Why Colleagues & Clients do not Trust Shifting Story Narratives

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

When you use shifting story narratives to persuade, justify or invite people to join your story, the effect is just the opposite. Instead of saying yes, they can become skeptical: of you, your solution and even your organization. Why? Because people do not intellectually or emotionally co-invest in stories that shape-shift. And considering that, overall, trust is at a premium these days, what stories are you telling?