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7 Ways to Use Rewards Programs to Boost Employee Morale

Hppy

Your employees likely work hard and strive for excellence. They are making an effort to reach their goals and make you proud. However, the day to day grind can get tiring, leaving employees in need of a necessary boost. Your workplace morale has a huge impact on performance. By making sure employees are enjoying the time with their coworkers, you can promote stronger teamwork.

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Crisis Management: Small Business Tips for COVID-19

Namely

Due to COVID-19, the current business market is in upheaval. Customers are staying home, and businesses are forced to adapt their organizations on a daily basis. In particular, this pandemic has taken a significant toll on small businesses—especially those that are dependent on local foot traffic.

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7 Simple Ways to Attract the Best Candidate for Your Job Opening

Take It Personel-ly

Whether you’re an entrepreneur with a growing business approaching the staffing process for the first time or you’re a seasoned hiring manager, recruiting the “best-fit” candidate for your job opening is tricky. But it doesn’t have to be a painful or time-consuming process. Below, we will explore seven tips that will simplify and streamline your […].

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How to create a trusting relationship within a team

Hppy

Have you ever led a team whose members did not trust each other? If so, then you know how difficult it is. A team without a relationship of trust is not even a team; it’s just a group of people working together and sometimes achieving results. They may argue about rights and responsibilities, not share information or communicate with each other.

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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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Can You Trust the U.S. Unemployment Rate?

SHRM Resources

Erica Groshen discussed with SHRM Online how the monthly unemployment rate is calculated and how the misclassifications occurred and said it would be “basically impossible” to tamper with the reporting or the data without detection.

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The 21 metrics you need for Strategic Workforce Development

Analytics in HR

Most organizations, small and large, have a defined vision, mission, and strategy. It communicates what an organization of people believes in (vision), its goal (mission), and how they want to achieve this goal in the coming years (strategy). In order to execute this strategy successfully, the organization needs the right number of people with the right skills, background, profiles, and experience.

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5 Employee Engagement Trends In The Era of Coronavirus

15Five

The term “employee engagement,” isn’t a new one. But since its original concept in 1990 and now, the way we view engagement in the workplace has shifted dramatically. The emphasis is no longer on the employee to be happy, but rather, on the employer to ensure each employee feels fulfilled in their role, supported by their manager and leaders, and connected to the company’s purpose.

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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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How People Analytics Delivers Financial Impact [New Report]

Visier

The value of people analytics is different for each organization. However, the financial impact of having this data is something that organizations can’t afford to ignore. Customer research shows there are moments that matter that drive value from people analytics. These are the employee lifecycle activities from hiring to retention, as well as organizational effectiveness activities from optimizing planning to optimizing productivity. .

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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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#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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my boss won’t give me any direction — but then says my work is wrong

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m hoping you can give me a script to help me deal with a frequent and frustrating situation I am in with my manager. Frequently, my manager will assign me a project and not give me very much instruction about how to do it. When I ask questions, she tends to get frustrated and asks me to just figure it out. So I do my best! Then, later I come to back to her with the work mostly or completely finished and ask her to review it.

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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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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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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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HR leadership: five trends for the post-pandemic workplace

HR Zone

Change Five trends for the post-pandemic workplace.

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my career counselor says I won’t be able to work because of my monthly medical appointments

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a college senior majoring in Public Relations. I’m still not exactly sure what I want to do yet but I know what industry I’d like to work in. I have a medical condition that requires me to get a series of injections once per month. My doctor only works regular 9-5 hours so I would need a job that would be ok with me leaving early once a month.

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Why You Should “Brag Better” to Help Your Career—and How You Can Get Started Today

The Muse

Talking about your achievements loudly and proudly might feel daunting (and even icky), but Meredith Fineman believes you can teach yourself to “brag better.”.

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New Types of Jobs Emerge from COVID-19

SHRM Resources

?The number of jobs lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has far surpassed the losses seen during the 2007-09 Great Recession, and no one's sure how many of those jobs are coming back. But while around 40 million people have filed for unemployment benefits, the public health crisis has also created new types of work.Contact tracers, temperature takers, health monitors and workplace redesigners are jobs that are now booming.

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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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4 steps to reinvent recruiting in the age of COVID

HR Morning

With COVID-19 keeping many campuses closed and air travel remaining at a near standstill, employers are uncertain about what will happen this fall recruiting season. If things don’t quite go back to normal—which is looking increasingly likely—operating in the new landscape will require employers, students, and schools to explore unfamiliar options to prepare for any barriers.

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we’re supposed to forfeit all our vacation days if we’ve worked from home

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: As an HR person for a small employer, I take to heart a lot of your advice and work hard to push the management here to do better. They had plenty of issues before all this, but I truly believed they were trying to change. But with COVID-19, things went downhill fast and the management team has shown they are all talk when it comes to a positive culture.

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25 Diversity and Inclusion leaders to follow on Twitter

Qualtrics HR

Want to understand more about diversity and inclusion ? One small step to take today is to diversify your social feeds. Here are some crucial thought leaders to start following today. Learn strategies to create a culture of inclusion in this X4 session. We know it instinctively, but the facts back it up: the employee experience (EX) is bettered by inclusion and diversity.

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Averbook: Survey shows COVID accelerated digital transformation

HRExecutive

The survey for the week of June 15 addresses the realities of remote work. Click here to take the survey. Results and responses will be published soon. *. The time for digital transformation and designing for the workforce is now and it is more important than ever! That’s the takeaway from the latest LeapPulse survey, which measured the acceleration of digital in the workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Intermittent FMLA leave under FFCRA: When firms must allow or can deny

HR Morning

For many benefits pros, intermittent FMLA leave can be burdensome, but now it’s even more complex as to when to allow employees to take the incremental time off under the new Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). During the pandemic, the DOL is encouraging firms to be flexible in allowing employees who have children at home the intermittent time off.

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Ethics in the workplace: the renewal of trust

HR Zone

Culture The renewal of trust.

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How to Avoid the Trap of Short Term Goals as a Leader

6Q

Have you struggled to decide between making time for short term or long term goals? Every leader will face the dilemma of choosing to spend energy on current needs or future vision. “If I don’t focus on this project now, we won’t hit our target this quarter. But spending time on this project won’t help us in the long run. What do I do?” you ask yourself, pulling your hair.

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Is It Safe to Go Back to Work? 8 Questions to Ask If Your Company Is Planning to Reopen the Office

The Muse

As states and cities continue to reopen, offices are starting to reopen too. Is it safe? Here’s what you should be asking before you return.

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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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Risks to reopening: Crisis management in a post-COVID-19 world

HR Morning

It is an understatement to say “everything has changed” for businesses. While most companies had some kind of crisis management plan in place, the global scale and uniquely disruptive nature of the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a reexamination of what works, what doesn’t and the changes required for businesses looking to reopen and companies looking to not just survive, but thrive in a post-pandemic world.

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Many Professionals Dread Returning to the Office

SHRM Resources

?Even as states across the country drop COVID-19 restrictions and allow offices to reopen, many professionals dread returning to the workplace and a majority feel they're more productive at home anyway. A survey of U.S. professionals in early June found that half were afraid to go back to the office and 25 percent weren't confident their employer had created a safe and healthy workplace to return to.

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How to create an innovative culture as we head into a recession

HR Zone

Culture Innovation during a recession.

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