Sat.Mar 09, 2019 - Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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Using Epiphany Moments to Improve Employee Engagement

Bonusly

Employees are your most valuable resource, whether you’re building a new startup, growing a mid-sized company, or staffing an established retail giant. But with historically low unemployment rates , retaining the employees you’ve recruited can be a real challenge. Understanding critical moments in your employees’ lives and careers can help you reconnect with them and strengthen employee engagement.

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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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Keys to effective succession planning: Talent management special report

HR Morning

Are changes in your market forcing a change in strategy that will demand new talent? Have one or more of your long-time stars started thinking about moving to a competitor or retiring? Or are you just trying to make sure the wheels keep turning for a few weeks or months if one of your top people gets sick or dies unexpectedly? Succession planning is a talent management must-do for organizations of all sizes, whether a global corporation, a small non-profit, a mid-sized college or a family busine

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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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4 Ways to Attract High Performing Talent

Employment Metrix

If you had to put a price tag on your top sales executive, how much would they be worth? What about the web developer you struck gold with? Or, your all-star digital marketer? As the Harvard Business Review notes, a high performer is estimated to have a 400% higher productivity level than the average performer. Given the world of difference between quality talent and the rest of the workforce, employers that house an army of top performers will outdo competitors, enjoy elevated levels of human c

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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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Using Mindfulness To Infinitely Increase Your Capacity At Work

15Five

What can you do to take control of your nervous system when your schedule feels jam packed, you work in an open office, and there are dings and whistles from your phones and emails all day? Perhaps you’ve heard of the term, mindfulness , but don’t know exactly how to be more mindful. Aren’t you using your mind all the time? The answer? Meditate my friend.

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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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Talent Mobility: How to Get Line Managers On Board

UpstartHR

In the last few years, it seems like I’ve become the expert on internal talent mobility (the process of moving people inside the organization via promotions, transfers, etc.). I’ve published multiple pieces on the topic, written several white papers (one linked below if you want to check it out), and spoken about it to various audiences as well.

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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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4 Recruiting Trends That Will Make You Feel Lucky

Spark Hire

With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner, let’s talk about luck. In the recruiting industry, skill is absolutely essential but you have to admit, it doesn’t hurt to be lucky. All in all, it is a lucky time to be a recruiter. Current trends and technology make it easier to find great talent quickly and effectively. We talked to four experts about what’s making them feel lucky when recruiting right now.

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our new manager is pressuring the women on our team to use menstrual cups

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: This question is on behalf of a friend who works at a small 30-person property management company (we both live in the UK if that makes a difference). My friend has recently got a new manager to head the 10-person team she is a part of, and in which she is in the middle seniority-wise. The new manager is very eco-friendly, and has given her team aluminium water bottles to cut down on plastic, got the company to stock the kitchen with biodegradable teabags and a coffee machine to

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#SXSW – Avoid Diversity Myths to Avoid Diversity Failures

Reflektive

Though great strides have been made on diversity and inclusion in the workplace in recent years, there are still several misconceptions and myths that are preventing businesses from creating truly inclusive environments for their employees. Many of these myths come from a lack of understanding about the overall goal of D&I efforts, so in an effort to clarify these misconceptions, Jason R.

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What Generation Z Expects from the Candidate Experience

TalentCulture

Generation Z is moving into the workforce, causing more disruption in the job market. They’ve arrived during record-low unemployment and when the search for talent at all levels is extremely competitive. These workers, the oldest of whom were born in the mid-1990s, may be the first digital natives your company hires, and the role of technology during their candidate experience will be crucial.

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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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SXSW Exclusive: The Rise of the Empathetic Leader

Workology

I’ve written recently about the skills needed to be a great leader that Google revealed after talking to their employees for a 10-year study. Empathy, concern, and respect are critical to a. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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An Unexpected Reminder of the Power in Genuine Appreciation

Jason Lauritsen

This week, while staying in Chicago for work, I ventured out to find a nearby sports bar to watch a basketball game and grab some dinner. In fairness, this wasn’t just any basketball game. I was planning to watch my beloved Duke Blue Devils play. And, I was appropriately dressed in Duke gear to show my allegiance. The bar I chose based on Yelp reviews was called Theory.

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A Crash Course in Empathy and Leadership

Reflektive

Empathy now sits at the top of the list of desired job skills for candidates, outranking work ethic and communication. But why? What is empathy, and why is it important for business leaders? That’s what Michael Ventura, CEO of Sub Rosa, covered in his packed SXSW session: A Crash Course to Empathy in Leadership. What is Empathy? Empathy starts from one of the fundamental facets of human behavior: a desire to understand and be understood.

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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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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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Resilience at Work: Turning Personal Challenges into Strengths

Workology

You Can’t See Within the Fog You know when it’s foggy, I mean really foggy outside? It’s tough. You just can’t see anything. It’s hard to drive, hard to walk up the street, etc. If you need to work. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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the overtime pay law may finally change

Ask a Manager

Back in 2016, the federal government announced it was making major changes to who is eligible for overtime pay. Currently, if you earn less than $23,660, you must receive overtime pay (time and a half) for any hours over 40 that you work in a week. In 2016, the Department of Labor announced it was raising that threshold to $ 47,476, which was going to make an additional 4.2 million American workers eligible for overtime.

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10 steps guide on how to manage remote teams

Hacker Earth

Technology has been an enabler at workplaces. With the advent of solutions such as the Cloud, employers are now empowered to hire and manage a workforce that is no longer confined to brick-and-mortar offices. Gone are the days when organizations had to follow an office-based work culture and suffered losses when the employees couldn’t make it to the office.

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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 Benefits of 360 Feedback for Leaders

Engagedly

Being a leader can sometimes feel like living within an echo chamber. Opinions almost always match your own and you might not always get to hear dissenting opinions or harsh feedback, especially from employees who are below you […].

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How Self-Care Can Help You Achieve Your Career Goals

Take It Personel-ly

Advancing your career takes hard work and a tremendous amount of effort. At times, it’s likely you may have to put in hours outside of your scheduled work day in order to complete the tasks at hand. However, going above and beyond can lead to exhaustion which in turn causes us to “let ourselves go.” […].

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#WorkTrends: Build a Better Candidate Experience

TalentCulture

With the rise of LinkedIn and job boards, it’s easier to find qualified candidates now more than ever. However, with a robust job market and so branded recruited experiences, engaging with your candidates is actually even more challenging than it has been in the past. In recruiting, the candidate experience is more important than ever, from how you engage with a candidate online to actually bringing them in for an interview.

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5 Benefits of Creating Professional Development Goals with Employees

Quantum Workplace

When a manager and employee sit down to create goals , the conversation typically centers around what the employee will do for the organization. What is expected of the employee over a certain stretch of time, and how will their productivity impact other team members? What steps can the employee take to contribute to the organization’s success? However, it’s just as important that managers flip the script in the goal creation process and focus on what the organization can do to support employees

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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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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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Putting the ‘human’ back into human resources

HR Zone

Development. Putting the ‘human’ back into human resources.

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30 Thought-Provoking Company Culture Quotes

Vantage Circle

For any organization to thrive it requires vision and strong company culture. If you observe all the big companies like Apple or Amazon, the common thread you would come across is its strong company culture. Since employees are the building block of an organization, their vision must align with yours. It is therefore important to build a foundation where employees work collaboratively and help build a strong culture.

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