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How Is Onboarding Related To Employee Retention?

ExactHire

Employers are facing more challenges than ever as they march into 2021. The pandemic, social unrest, and the general chaos of the past year have brought otherwise healthy companies to the brink, while decimating others that were unstable in the best of times. Our turbulent and uncertain era has illustrated one truth: the corporations that succeed will be the ones that don’t waste their financial resources.

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5 Tips for Making a Great First Impression in Any Setting

Take It Personel-ly

A first impression can stay with you for a long time, and rectifying a bad impression is difficult, which makes it important to get the first one right. With the recent trend in remote office work, we are beginning to see a lot of people choosing where they want to live, offering more and more […].

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Sumser: Here’s how to get a true sense of quality of hire

HRExecutive

I recently scanned a conversation on Linkedin about measuring quality of hire. I am intrigued and appalled by what seems to be our desire to measure the quality of people. I suppose it’s not that different from how we treat cattle. The underlying question is part of an eternal squabble between recruiters and hiring managers: Whose fault is it when a candidate doesn’t work out?

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How to create a business plan that helps optimize your HR strategy

Insperity

A written plan is the foundation for a successful business launch, major expansion or change in direction. But writing an effective business plan can be a challenge, starting with the structure your plan should take. What, you might ask, does creating a business plan have to do with human resources (HR)? As you better define and understand your business and customers, you can: Optimize how you organize and manage your people to best achieve those business goals Identify areas where you might nee

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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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Why Internal Mobility is Key to Building a Diverse Workforce

Visier

Ensuring people from diverse backgrounds have a fair shot at C-level positions is crucial. But often, leaders “miss opportunities to unleash diverse talent at lower levels,” states DDI’s recent diversity & inclusion report , which analyzes responses from over 17,000 human resource executives and leaders globally. This could explain why representation levels are unbalanced for so many organizations.

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Why remote hiring isn’t going away and what that means to HR

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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7 Strategies to Promote Your Recognition Program

Achievers

The right recognition program is a key driver in building your company’s success. Deloitte research found that “employee engagement, productivity and performance are 14% higher in organizations … that use recognition progr ams.” However, just having an employee recognition program outlined somewhere in your company policy is not enough to make it successful.

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6 Different Ways to Improve Collaboration in Your Workplace

Hppy

Collaboration is a vital part of any business and is something that everyone should work on. The ability for your team to work cohesively with others is going to allow the quality of work to improve and overall enhance your company culture. It’s also vital in growing your business to reach new heights. In this article, we are going to discuss six different ways to improve collaboration in your workplace.

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The Boston Globe Names Workhuman a Top Place to Work for 2020

WorkHuman

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – December 1, 2020 – Workhuman ® , the world’s fastest-growing Social Recognition ® and Continuous Performance Management platform, has been named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in medium-sized company category in the 13th annual employee-based survey project from The Boston Globe. This marks the seventh year that Workhuman has been named to this prestigious list. .

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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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update: my employee keeps getting deadnamed by a coworker

Ask a Manager

It’s the launch of this year’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager! Every day this month, I’ll be running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. To kick us off…. Remember the letter-writer whose employee kept getting deadnamed by a coworker ? Here’s the (epic) update. Hearing from Alison and all of the commenters made me realize that I needed to talk to John about what he wanted to do.

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Recruitment in Covid: How a positive candidate experience can be a silver lining for job seekers

HR Zone

Acquisition Two ways to create a positive candidate experience.

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Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety? How about with high psychological safety? Chances are you could probably answer these questions without even knowing the full definition of this concept. We have worked in both situations, and the differences in effectiveness are stark. We have been part of teams that came together rapidly, agreed on a common understanding of next steps (though it took challenging conversations to come to agreement), executed flawlessly and then disba

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Overcoming Common Barriers to Innovation

Take It Personel-ly

Innovation is key to business potential and growth. Without new ideas, updates, products or services, a business will slowly die because consumers are looking for the next best thing. Unfortunately, many businesses throw up barriers to innovation and discourage the very thing that can make their business more successful. Not Acting on Trends Some businesses […].

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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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Microsoft’s creepy new “productivity score” tells your boss how often you attend meetings, answer email, and use Word

Ask a Manager

If your workplace uses Microsoft Office products, be aware that the company launched a new “Productivity Score” feature this month, which lets employers track how their employees use Microsoft’s tools across 73 different measures — including things like how frequently you send emails, how often you turn your camera on during virtual meetings, how often you contribute to shared documents and group chats, and the number of days you used Word, Excel, Skype, Outlook, and other Microsoft tools in the

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Artificial Intelligence: Leadership’s Friend Or Foe?

Forbes Coaches Council

Leaders should not see artificial intelligence as a threat to organizational purpose, but rather a support for leaders to have the time and space to engage with aspects of their higher purpose.

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Upskilling is Key to Your Business Recovery Strategy | Degreed State of Skills Report 2021

Degreed

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the global skills crisis cost trillions of dollars in lost GDP. . Now, millions fear that the crisis as we’ve known it is worsening — that the gap between high skill jobs and the skilled workers available to fill those positions is growing at a faster rate. . Navigating this conundrum is of the greatest talent challenges of our time.

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9 Ways to Keep Growing in Your Career During COVID-19

The Muse

Here’s how to keep developing professionally during COVID-19 and the surrounding economic downturn—even if you can’t land a new job or promotion right now.

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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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Employee Mental Health Needs: Everyone Loses with A Reactive Approach

TalentCulture

It’s now starkly obvious that the coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of our lives — not the least of which is the mental health of our employees. Rates […]. The post Employee Mental Health Needs: Everyone Loses with A Reactive Approach appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Dancing with Diversity: From Inclusion Illusion to Authentic Belonging

SHRM

We’ve heard this so many times: diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance. BUT – what if you don’t dance? I am not talking about your performance at work. Alas, doing your job well - or even exceptionally well - does not guarantee inclusion. I am talking about the allegorical dance, the social aspects of organizational functioning that add up to the ultimate outcome of inclusion – the sense of belonging.

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Facebook Sued for Discriminating Against U.S. Workers

SHRM Resources

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued Facebook for allegedly setting aside thousands of jobs for foreign temporary guest workers, rather than advertising those jobs to available U.S. workers as required by law. The company is cooperating with the investigation and declined to comment on pending litigation.

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Want a more diverse and inclusive business? Run a book club

HR Zone

Culture How book clubs promote D&I.

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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 ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Building Workforce Diversity

TalentCulture

The evidence overwhelmingly supports the business case for workforce diversity. So why are companies still failing to achieve their diversity goals? Diversity has become a higher priority on the corporate […]. The post The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Building Workforce Diversity appeared first on TalentCulture.

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The 7 Best Books on Managing People

BambooHR

It’s hard to fully grasp the nuances of managing people. While effective people leadership runs on simple principles, there’s a difference between understanding these concepts.

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5 Tips to Help Workers Upskill and Adapt to Artificial Intelligence

SHRM Resources

The. World Economic Forum says technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) will displace 75 million jobs by 2022 but will also create 133 million. new roles. That's a net gain of 58 million new jobs. To prepare workers for these new jobs, organizations will have to provide significant resources for upskilling their workforces. And employees will need to take personal responsibility for their career development in a context of rapid technological change.How can HR professionals prepare e.

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How to Navigate Year-End Reviews for Employees

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Year-end reviews for employees are challenging – even for the most skillful of leaders. The reasons are varied. For instance, the way they’re scheduled in a concentrated fashion forces those with many direct reports to spend weeks on end planning and conducting non-stop conversations. The way they’re structured favors documentation of meaningful dialogue.

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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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How to Write an Employee Termination Letter During the COVID-19 Crisis

TalentCulture

Writing an employee termination letter is a most unpleasant situation for HR professionals. But it’s also something you can’t put off or avoid. Writing such a letter becomes all the […]. The post How to Write an Employee Termination Letter During the COVID-19 Crisis appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Breastfeeding and Smoking on Zoom. What Would HR Say?

Evil HR Lady

Is it okay to breastfeed on camera on a video conference? The Society for Human Resources asked this question. SHRM Connect: Breastfeeding on Zoom Calls… What Would You Do? [link] #SHRMConnect pic.twitter.com/tXMSNFPcf1 — SHRM (@SHRM) December 2, 2020. I’m glad whoever wrote that is not this woman’s HR person either. Because here is what I would do.

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Double Duty Takes a Toll on Working Mothers

SHRM Resources

?Alma Miranda was excited about landing a job at a company with a reputation as a great place for women to work. Her enthusiasm deflated quickly.Miranda started as an accountant at North Chicago-based pharmaceutical firm AbbVie Inc. just as the pandemic hit the U.S. last spring, and was quickly thrust into juggling her new paying job with an unpaid position as de facto teacher to her three children: Cosette, 16; Isaak, 13; and Alyssa, 9.

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