Tue.Jun 21, 2022

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7 Strategies to Improve Employee Performance and Productivity

ClearCompany HRM

The workplace upheaval we all experienced in 2020 ushered in a new era of performance management for many companies. Some traded in traditional annual performance reviews for more frequent, informal check-ins. Others adjusted the performance metrics their employees needed to meet or adapted review processes to a remote or hybrid work environment. Despite concerns about how the abrupt changes would affect work, PwC research showed that 57% of companies surveyed actually beat their performance and

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Managing A Total Talent Workforce – The Impact Of The Gig Economy

Accurate Background

Organizations that wish to gain a competitive advantage in today’s candidate-driven job market must embrace a total talent workforce. . . This article investigates how shifting workplace culture and the rapid rise of the gig economy are driving an increased need for a total talent workforce management strategy. As well as outlin ing the benefits associated with a total talent workforce , this piece will advise on the best way to ensure all workers are hired and onboarded effici

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How Applicant Tracking Systems Improve Productivity

Manatal

Businesses from all industries have, in recent years, turned to data to drive productivity and performance. For recruiters and HR teams looking to overcome talent shortage, an applicant tracking system puts in place a single stream for critical data on recruitment strategies. This allows businesses to collect data and organize prospects based on their skill sets.

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The Way Of Setting Smart Career Goals for HR Managers

Hppy

Payroll, recruiting, hiring, safety, and workforce management are just a few of the many responsibilities that HR professionals must efficiently handle. It’s possible to break down major projects and ongoing activities into bite-sized sprints by using the SMART strategy, which aids in the establishment of your company’s key indicators (KPIs) and key outcomes (OKRs).

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Prevent Toxic Work Culture and Protect Your Peoples’ Physical and Mental Health

The U.S. Surgeon General's warning about the role of the workplace on mental and physical health states that employers have an opportunity to turn workplaces into “engines of mental health and wellbeing”. Discover what it takes to foster workplace wellbeing and how to prevent a “toxic work culture”.

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Drive DEI by Leading with Empathy

Kazoo

What’s at the very core of your DEI strategy? Driving everything else should be ensuring employees feel heard, understood, and truly accepted. In a word – that they experience empathy. Empathy is about understanding another person’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. It’s something we all need. And here’s the good news: empathy isn’t fixed, it can be learned – by individuals and organizations.

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Drive DEI by Leading with Empathy

Kazoo

What’s at the very core of your DEI strategy? Driving everything else should be ensuring employees feel heard, understood, and truly accepted. In a word – that they experience empathy. Empathy is about understanding another person’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. It’s something we all need. And here’s the good news: empathy isn’t fixed, it can be learned – by individuals and organizations.

Survey 130
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#SHRM22 – A Call for Mental Health Support

SHRM

1 in 4. If you were to have a one in four chance of winning the lottery, you would play. Those chances are a no-brainer. Those same odds represent the number of employees who feel hopeless today. That is a hard sentence to type. 25% of our employee population struggle with some sense of hopelessness. At the SHRM Annual Conference, these numbers were shared with the roughly 13,000 attendees.

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my boss wants 6 months notice, quirky backgrounds on video calls, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my boss wants 6 months notice, quirky backgrounds on video calls, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss wants six months notice. I’ve been working as a consultant with my boss for eight years, full time for five. We are the only two full time employees—we have freelance contractors, but I handle half the clients and he handles the other half.

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4 Things Harvard Business Review Got Wrong About People Analytics

Analytics in HR

Recently, Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article on people analytics titled “ Are People Analytics Dehumanizing Your Employees? “ In the article, the authors provide a bleak and one-dimensional view of people analytics that, if not seen in context, will damage the field and dilute the current and potential contribution that people analytics can make to HR.

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The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey

The 26th Annual HR Systems Survey, conducted by Sapient Insights Group, is now open for participation through July 1, 2023. Your voice is the future of HR technology! This survey is valuable for anyone supporting their organization's HR systems and practices, interested in sharing their vendor experiences, and giving back to the HR community. All responses are confidential and only used in aggregate results.

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How Executives Can Help Their Companies Recover From Bad Press

Forbes Coaches Council

As an executive, the task of making key decisions as a plan is created to limit potential damage to the company's reputation and simultaneously provide a more positive narrative to consumers will often fall to you.

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Corporate Pride: What’s Under Your Rainbow? (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Rolling out rainbow-themed products and events each June is a popular corporate practice—but do those rainbows spell authentic alignment between a company's stated values and its actions? Burger King is serving a limited-edition "Proud Whopper" this month. The iconic burger is wrapped in rainbow paper that reads: "we're all the same on the inside.

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9 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity in a Remote Workplace

Hppy

The main advantages of remote work arrangement are that the worker has a great deal of flexibility in terms of hours and location and can often avoid the need for childcare or other forms of support. However, staying motivated and focused when working from home can be difficult, and there is also the potential for isolation from colleagues and peers.

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update: I’m afraid people at work will think I’m being abused

Ask a Manager

This post, update: I’m afraid people at work will think I’m being abused , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the naturally clumsy letter-writer who was afraid people at work would think she was being abused (#2 at the link)?

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Ace Your I-9 Compliance: How HR Can Navigate the End of I-9 Virtual Review

Speaker: David Secunda, Co-Founder and CEO of WorkBright

Did your company inspect I-9 documents virtually? Hot off the press from ICE, you have until August 30th, 2023 to document a physical inspection of those documents! If you’re not sure what exactly this means for your organization or are struggling to physically review I-9 documents with remote employees, join WorkBright for a 60 minute deep-dive and Q&A on the end of I-9 virtual review.

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I Quit My In-House Employer Branding Role and Joined an Agency. It Taught Me More Than I Ever Expected.

Blu Ivy Group

I worked in-house for many years in employer branding roles — and the prospect of leaving for a position at an agency always seemed daunting. Certainly, there would be rewards, I figured — but I imagined that such a transition might leave me stressed out, overburdened with work, and without the same sense of belonging I enjoyed working for a global asset management company.

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Business Coaching: Everything You Need to Know

BetterUp

Jump to section. Enabling a trusted partnership. What is business coaching? Soft and hard skills development. Business coaching results. Is business coaching a “must have"?

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14 Unique Challenges Solopreneurs Face (And How To Alleviate Them)

Forbes Coaches Council

With so much on their plates, solopreneurs often face unique pressures that other entrepreneurs and small-business owners may not experience.

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Asking for a salary range: How to start the conversation

BetterUp

Jump to section. When to ask about salary range. How to research relevant salary ranges. How to ask for a salary range. Why employers ask about your salary expectations.

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Employer Guide: End of I-9 Virtual Review

Attention employers! If you virtually inspected I-9 work authorization documents during the COVID pandemic, you are required to physically inspect those documents before August 30th, 2023! WorkBright has consolidated all the information you need to properly manage this unprecedented scenario in an end of I-9 Virtual Review guide. They've got you covered on: Understanding whether this applies to your organization Deadlines for virtual review and physical inspections Overview of the reconciliation

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updates: I walked in on the company owner having sex, coworker sent a horrible email company-wide after a janitor won our contest, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, updates: I walked in on the company owner having sex, coworker sent a horrible email company-wide after a janitor won our contest, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past.

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Elevate your organization's employee experience

Jostle

Employee experience is often a topic that’s nebulous and hard to wrap your head around. It starts when someone applies to an open position and lasts till their departure from the company.

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Does Your Expense Reporting Need an Overhaul?

Replicon

Expense reporting is essential for any business to manage and track the expenses related to their workforce. It can be as basic as tracking existing expenses to more complex activities like calculating taxes and deductions. However, expense reporting can be.

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Why It’s Important to Set Savings Goals

Payactiv

We all have big financial dreams. Maybe yours is buying a new car, going on vacation, buying a home, or sending kids to college. These are admirable goals, but they’re not cheap. Setting a savings goal is essential to making your most expensive financial dreams a reality. You Can’t Achieve a Goal You Never Set. Let’s say you want a new car, as many of us do.

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The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing HR Operations: How to Select Your New HR Software

Speaker: Patrick Sayers, President of Newcastle Research

Are you tired of struggling with outdated HR software? Are you interested in unlocking your organization’s productivity potential? It’s no secret that with tech-dependent remote work on the rise, it's more important than ever to successfully implement an HR platform that can provide actionable insights to help you hit all your key workforce KPIs. But with so much variation, how can you find the most optimal HR software platform for your team?

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Why Money Doesn’t Motivate Employees

Replicon

For many people, work is simply not working out. The latest survey from Gallup shows that only 36% of US employees were actually engaged in their work, while 15% of employees were marked ‘actively disengaged’ in the year 2021. Engaged and motivated.

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Employee Benefits Communication: What Clients Need to Know

Extensis

Quick look: Effectively communicating employee benefits is essential during open enrollment season but can also make a positive business impact for clients year-round. One-third of workers say benefits are as important to them as salary, yet nearly double that don’t feel they can turn to their employers with benefit-related questions. Brokers can share these benefit communication tips with clients to help them optimize costs, boost benefit awareness and enrollment, and attract and retain talent

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Top 8 HR books to add to your summer reading list

Rise

Making your next team book club selection or looking for recommendations for your own professional L&D initiatives? Start with our list of must–read HR books, newly updated for 2022 to help address the current challenges faced by HR. 1. The Essential HR Handbook by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell. This classic HR guide, now in its 10th edition, covers the fundamentals of modern HR—including how to recruit through social media, creating highly attractive and retentive benefits packages,

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Corporate social responsibility 101: Everything you need to know

Insperity

Still wondering what corporate social responsibility really is? The adoption of “corporate social responsibility” is a trend that has really gained traction in the last 10 years. If you’re still trying to figure out what it is and what it means for your organization, you’re not alone. Let’s put it this way: We know what a “good human citizen” looks like and the characteristics that go along with that, right?

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Report: Insights on Global Fertility at Work

Fertility is not only a global healthcare concern, but also an important workplace issue. To better understand how fertility impacts the workplace, Carrot Fertility surveyed 5,000 people across the U.S., UK, Canada, India, and Mexico. Carrot asked questions to get a sense of how people around the world feel about fertility topics at work and how they want to be supported in their fertility and family-forming journeys.