Thu.Jul 11, 2019

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How To Unlock Your Remote Workforce Engagement

15Five

Working remotely has previously been an exception few companies were willing to make for their people. In fact, up until the early 70’s, telecommuting was unheard of. Office optics determined how you were perceived by your manager and co-workers, and being “absent” meant you were not contributing. But new companies are now rethinking their remote workforce policies along with other cultural and performance strategies.

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Why workplace diversity is important to business success

Vibecatch

We live in a highly connected and diverse world today; and the corporate environment is no exception. People from all generations, industries and walks of life are moving around the globe to expand their careers, and in doing so, bringing with them an exciting opportunity for businesses to explore some bigger-picture benefits. This diversity should be embraced, as it has been shown to improve a business’ culture, creativity and innovation , and overall revenue success.

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How to Build a Resilient Workplace

Achievers

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4 Ways HR Leaders Can Establish a Reputation as a Service Leader

TalentCulture

Your reputation is everything as an HR leader, and it’s composed of a variety of inputs from your colleagues, clients and partners. These inputs include elements such as the quality of your work, timeliness to meetings and your ability to work well with others. But one major aspect of reputation that’s often overlooked is the level of service you deliver to your colleagues, clients and partners.

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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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135 Powerful Resume Action Verbs for Creative Positions

HR Digest

It’s easy to get resume action verbs wrong. That’s probably why they’ve gotten such a bad reputation – most people dump action words to get past automated scanning tools. It’s even worse if your expertise doesn’t line up cleanly with the position you’re applying for. A better approach is to be specific about your goal and how you intend to bring your skills and expertise to the position.

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Overtime Rule May Be Issued Faster Under New DOL Leadership

SHRM Resources

Employers can expect to see change more quickly at the Department of Labor (DOL), including issuance of a final overtime rule perhaps as soon as by the end of the year, now that it’s under new leadership—new Acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella.

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A diversity of thoughts on diversity of thought

HR Examiner

“While there can be value in talking about cognitive diversity as a different kind of diversity, there is no way to truly divorce it from identity.” – Joe Gerstandt. I used to focus quite a bit of my work on diversity of thought, or cognitive diversity, which speaks to differences in thinking styles, heuristics, and perspectives that exist between people.

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How to improve culture with real-time feedback?

Take It Personel-ly

Feedback is essential to every organization and individual in order to grow. It seems, though, that some organizations are stuck with annual feedback. This means employees only receive feedback on their work once a year in an official meeting. In order for them to really improve and thrive, employees need more than that. Real-time VS […].

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Refusing to Rehire Worker Who Filed EEO Charge Is Unlawful

SHRM Resources

Claims of retaliation—mostly in the forms of demoting, disciplining or terminating employees—are the charges most frequently filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). A recent lawsuit reminds employers that refusing to rehire someone who filed a discrimination claim against the company is also illegal.

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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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8 Easy Ways to Boost Employee Morale with Tips From HR Leaders

Rise

Employee morale is determined by your people’s views and opinions towards their work environment and their overall level of satisfaction towards serving as an ambassador of your company. Employee morale has a direct effect on employee engagement, productivity, and retention. When employee morale is high, satisfaction and productivity rise. When employee morale is low, progress sinks, and it’s time for employers to reevaluate how they can better connect with and motivate their teams.

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how can I tell if I’m a good manager?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: In the last few months, I’ve gone from being an individual contributor to now managing a team of several employees. While I absolutely love my new role and feel alive doing what I do, I’m not oblivious to the fact I’m still very new at managing people and have lots of room to develop. In fact, one of my commitments this year has been to grow my self-awareness.

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Modernizing Your HR and Talent Strategies – Tips for Getting Started

ADP

As HR leaders and practitioners look to establish or modernize their HR and talent strategies, the options can be downright confusing. Talent.

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Are You A Problem Solver Or An Obstacle Remover?

Forbes Coaches Council

The role of leaders in any organization is not simply being problem solvers and fixers, but to remove the obstacles that prevent others from working efficiently and effectively.

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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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The Structure-Culture-Development Connection

Julie Winkle Giulioni

If you lead an organization, work in an organization, or even set foot in an organization, you know that we are living in a time of significant structural change. Many forces and factors are contributing to these changes, including: The significant proportion and importance of knowledge work – and the unique challenges associated with managing it. Escalating customer expectations means that the bar continues to be raised in terms of innovation, quality, and cost.

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3 YouTube Trends to Boost Your Marketing Campaign

marenated HR

By Guest Author, Josh Wardini: Since time immemorial, people have been captivated by images, pictures, visuals—whatever you call them. Studies have shown that humans are wired to respond faster and better to visual stimuli in normal circumstances. It’s no wonder that people have a great fascination for videos. The combination of the auditory and visual stimuli captures the attention and engages the mind for a length of time.

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How to Boost Organizational Commitment via Social Support

IO At Work

Relational needs fit is a concept that employers may want to pay attention to if they want to increase organizational commitment.

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5 Forces That Have Shifted Performance Management

Quantum Workplace

Just a few short years ago, Deloitte released its. Global Human Capital Trends. report. O. n. e chapter’s headline declared: “Performance management is broken.”. Not long after the report, many large companies began making drastic changes to their performance management systems.

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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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US Jobless Claims Fall; Single Mothers and Minorities Face Lower Barriers in Jobs Market

HR Digest

The closely watched claimant-count level of US unemployment declined to a three-month low last week, suggesting a robust labor market that could help support U.S. economic growth. US unemployment rate edged up to 3.7% but was still near 50-year lows. US Jobless claims dropped to 209,000 in the week ended July 6, which included the July 4 holiday, according to Labor Department data released Thursday.

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How and Why Does a Healthy Work Culture Matter?

6Q

Have you ever thought that what makes a work culture unique from others? Is it mindset, work strategy, products, positive environment or healthy work culture? Want to know why a healthy work culture matters? We all know how that having a healthy work culture helps a lot. An ideal organisation is all about a group of employees working for the success of their ideas.

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How to Keep Tenured Service Techs Satisfied

Evil HR Lady

It takes a lot of effort to find a new job. Because of that, people tend to stay in their positions as long as they aren’t completely miserable. That’s why if the pay is OK and the manager isn’t a total jerk, chances are that your technicians will stay with your service organization for a long time. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average tenure in the repair and maintenance profession is four years.

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How Digital Transformation is Challenging Security

Symantec

The traditional bounds of the enterprise are getting upended, presenting IT leaders with new, sometimes overwhelming security challenges

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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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15 Tips For Helping You Keep Focus And Get More Done At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council experts share their best tips for ditching the distractions and finally getting your focus back at work.

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Recruitment: how aligning words and actions to values can ensure candidates are the ‘right fit’

HR Zone

Acquisition. Why values matter in recruitment.

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How Leaders Can Onboard The Hearts And Minds Of Their New People

Forbes Coaches Council

Take the time to create a well-thought-out onboarding program that will benefit the new employee, the team, the customers and your organization.

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How to have the best Q4 ever

BerniePortal

Open enrollment doesn't have to be a headache. Who wants to be buried in paperwork at the end of the year? With open enrollment right around the corner, now is the time to strategize your Q4 game plan. BerniePortal sales team leader Craft Hayes shared his advice for strategically planning the fourth quarter for smoother renewals in our “Best Q4 Ever” webinar.

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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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When Should Recruiters Not Bother with Employment Applications?

The Applicant Manager

For many applicants, today’s online application process is the black hole of the job search. Candidates wade through a bureaucratic employment portal that requires a login, a resume upload, and redundant manual entry of the same data already found on the CV. Often, these portals have technical problems that cause hiccups in the application process. If you do make it through, the automated system may discard you immediately because you don’t have enough keywords to fit the job.

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Top 5 Insights from WBR HR Healthcare 2019

Sterling Check

On June 18th and 19 th , over 200 healthcare industry professionals met in Austin for the WBR HR Healthcare 2019 conference. Attendees had an opportunity to discuss challenges facing the industry, network with peers and hear from industry thought leaders. In a recent blog , we discussed how to manage the challenges of background screening in the healthcare industry while also limiting regulatory exposure and reputational risk.

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5 Employee Onboarding Tactics to Turn New Hires into Long-Lasting Team Members

WEX Inc.

Discovering qualified candidates and keeping positions filled is a top concern for even the most sought after companies. So, how can human resources professionals combat these issues for continued organizational growth? We recommend building an effective onboarding process for new employees. An employee onboarding strategy is a key component in helping new hires acclimate to their positions and become valued members of the team.

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15 Effective Ways to Engage Employees and Increase Employee Loyalty

CoreCentive

According to a recent study, 81 percent of workers are willing to leave their current position for the right job offer. Clearly employee loyalty is suffering. This is a staggering statistic that employers cannot ignore, especially considering the average cost-per-hire is now over $4,000 and low unemployment has made the competition to hire top talent fierce.

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