Fri.Aug 02, 2019

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#WorkTrends: Why Every HR Pro Should Think Like a Marketer

TalentCulture

Look at your company’s org chart. Since you’re reading this, odds are you’re comfortably nestled in HR, and marketing is somewhere far away. The marketers at your organization have one job, and you have yours. Perhaps you meet up a bit to think about recruitment or engagement, but your jobs are separate, right? Not really, says Donna Scarola, interim head of digital strategy for talent development at Johnson & Johnson.

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Wellbeing in the Workplace: Strategies that Work – Part Two

Newmeasures

This is the second of two blogs that explores the topic of wellbeing in the workplace. Previously, we illustrated why having a multifaceted wellbeing strategy is essential in today’s world of work. We explained why it’s important to first get employee feedback about what they’d like to see before you go about designing or revamping a wellbeing program.

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Note to Managers: Just Ask

HR Bartender

I’ve been having a series of small breakthroughs in my home office. This might sound weird, but I work with three computer monitors. Yep, three. I worked with two for the longest time then someone suggested that I try three. I thought, “I don’t know. That seems pretty extravagant.” And it is. But I found myself in a place where I could get a couple of reasonably priced monitors, so I decided to give it a try.

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15Five Raises Over $30 Million In Series B Funding To Meet Demand For Employee Development Software

15Five

Despite what we have been told, human beings are not fixed. Every person possesses the ability to learn, grow, and transform into better versions of themselves. No one has to stay mired inside limiting beliefs or circumstances, and we as business leaders have the responsibility to guide our people towards greatness. This profound realization is what led to the creation of 15Five.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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SCOOP! PA businesses may have to allow employees to use medical marijuana outside of work

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Pixabay.com. This definitely caught me flat-footed. An implied duty to accommodate? I think not. Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law specifically states that no employer must “ make any accommodation of the use of medical marijuana on the property or premises of any place of employment. ”. But the law is silent about whether an employer must accommodate someone who takes medical marijuana at home but never uses it on the job.

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Obvious Signs That You Need a Break from Work

Take It Personel-ly

Many people, especially those who are career-driven and hardworking, tend to overwork themselves. This can sometimes be a good thing because you can easily impress your boss and quickly get the promotion that you have always wanted. However, working too much has its downside. You can end up feeling tired and burnt out if you […].

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Using Passion To Drive Purpose: Three Tips For Writing Effective OKRs

15Five

When a company and its leaders aspire towards a common goal, success. isn’t merely achievable, it’s the natural result. Connecting ambition to purpose is how the impossible becomes attainable, especially in the. workplace. Through the use of company Objectives and Key Results ( OKRs ), many leaders have successfully created high-performing teams who feel engaged and fulfilled at work.

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Personal Development: Seven Ways Busy Leaders Can Pursue Growth

Forbes Coaches Council

Pursuing personal development doesn't necessarily require setting aside long hours for reflection. Sometimes, even small moments can make all the difference.

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4 Elements of Leadership That Are As Impactful In The Office As On The Battlefield

15Five

“What?!”. We couldn’t believe what we were hearing. This officer wanted our team of mentor-Marines to patrol the route that held the record for greatest number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ever found in our area of operations. On foot. At night. With Afghan military partners we had just met, and who we didn’t fully trust yet. Our previous set of partners had attacked us, their own mentor team, inflicting 25 percent casualties.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Healthcare Benefits are Broken. Fixing Them Requires Redefining the Industry.

TalentCulture

Much attention has been paid to fixing our country’s broken healthcare system. But what often gets missed are the problems with employer-sponsored health benefits and the role they play within the broader healthcare crisis. Employers in North America alone are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to provide healthcare benefits to their teams. In fact, the current cost is estimated to be $15,000 per employee, with 49% of the U.S. population relying on employer-provided health […].

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Best-Self Management Podcast, Episode 4: Present and Impactful Leadership

15Five

At some point in our lives, we’ve all experienced what it feels like to be around someone who, for lack of better words, sucks the energy out of the room. Their negativity has an overpowering presence in even the best of environments. While this attitude can be hard to ignore, someone with magnetic positivity may be even harder to look past. Either way, our energy is what most affects the people around us, more so than the words we use.

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Your Employees are Leaving. Do You REALLY Know Why?

SHRM

In today’s booming labor market, organizations cannot afford to lose one of their most important assets: their employees. This is the first time in decades that there are more jobs than there are employees to fill those jobs. There are all kinds of theories and bodies of research out there about why employees leave their jobs from being underappreciated, to not being compensated competitively, to bad managers.

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15Five Earns A Spot On Inc.’s 2019 Best Workplaces List

15Five

Through the power of our performance management solution and Best-Self methodology , 15Five has officially secured a spot on Inc. Magazine’s. 2019 Best Workplaces list. (Ok, that’s old news given this was. announced in May, but we wanted to wait to share with each of you until. we actually had a feature in Inc. to share.) The below is exactly that, and can be found on page 59 of the July issue.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Words matter! If you want more gender diversity in your applicants!

The Tim Sackett Project

New data study released by LinkedIn this week titled “ Language Matters Gender Diversity Report ” has some awesome insight to how the words we use in job descriptions and job postings have a dramatic impact to who actually applies to jobs. We’ve known some of this for a while, but the LinkedIn data is very robust and compelling at a new level.

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15 Ways To Get A-Level Skills And Work Ethic From Your Whole Team

Forbes Coaches Council

Help encourage your employees to go the extra mile -- for themselves and their work -- with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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The Right Fit: 13 Entrepreneurs Share Their Difficulties With Hiring New Staff

Forbes YEC Women

Expert businesswomen of Young Entrepreneur Council dish on the biggest struggles they face when bringing on new employees and how they've managed to overcome them.

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HR Social Media - The Social Round Up | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

Social media updates come and go quickly, and it can be difficult to stay up-to-date on your favorite topics. Fear of missing out? Not anymore! Our new bi-weekly series, the Social Round-Up , will keep you updated on our most popular and exciting posts that you may have missed in your feed. To kick things off, we are starting with a few of our recent social media updates.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Senior Leaders: HR Does Not Own Organizational Effectiveness, You Do

Forbes Coaches Council

Before senior leadership can delegate any part of organizational effectiveness to HR, they first need to model and take appropriate ownership for achieving successful results.

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Multi-Generational Workforces Mean the End of the One Size Fits All Learning Approach

SumTotal

Five generations now work alongside each other. Accommodating the different expectations and demands from each group is no small task. As the demographics shift and millennials and Gen Z together begin to outnumber the other groups, it is increasingly evident that companies need to restructure their learning opportunities to better align to this disparate group.

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Are ‘Superminds’ the Next Step in Tech Disruption?

HRExecutive

I’m wondering when we will start seeing the arrival of intelligent tools that make work better. There are tons of really interesting experiments by vendors who aim to improve current workflows. They tackle assessment, recruiting, workforce planning, benefits administration, performance management, nudging, communications, learning, coaching, network mapping and employee sentiment.

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Employees Are Not Engaged – What You Can Do About It

Partners in Leadership

Without establishing a culture of accountability, leaders focused on employee engagement fall short of target business results. The post Employees Are Not Engaged – What You Can Do About It appeared first on Partners In Leadership.

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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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Could employee recognition support workplace wellbeing?

Workstars

Low wellbeing and feeling unable to cope with day to day activities are accepted as having a negative impact on how productive.

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It’s August and All of Europe is on Vacation. How Do You Run Your Global Business?

Evil HR Lady

Paid vacation time is mandatory in the European Union–four weeks is a minimum. That number can seem crazy to people in the United States where it takes 20 years of service to reach an average of 20 vacation days a year –and even when we have it, we don’t use it all. But, in my experience, Europe embraces vacation–sometimes in ways that make no sense.

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Amazon pulled into yet another flap over wages and hours

HR Morning

About two dozen night-shift workers at an Amazon delivery facility in Chicago have filed a complaint with the Illinois Department of Labor claiming the company did not pay them for overtime during Prime Week in July. “We’ve followed all applicable wage and hour laws and are committed to speaking directly with employees to help them understand their pay,” Amazon said in a public statement.

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5 financial industry HR challenges and how to solve them

PI Worldwide

Most companies today are responding to an increasingly tight labor market, especially when it comes to tech talent. The financial industry is no exception. As technology emerges to help streamline processes, financial organizations are among the many industries engaged in digital transformation processes. To accommodate that change, they need to adjust their talent and business strategies—and do so cost-effectively.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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weekend free-for-all – August 3-4, 2019

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: The Floating Feldmans , by Elyssa Friedland. The matriarch of a squabbling family turns 70 and decides to take the whole family (kids, spouses, and grandkids) on a cruise.

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7 Great Ways to Instil Integrity in the Workplace

Vantage Circle

Do you know what’s the most common thing that the top organisations in the world share? It’s their high degree of integrity in the workplace that they adhere to in everything they do. Organisations with a high level of integrity enjoy better stability, exceptional growth, improved workflow and heightened workplace satisfaction. Of all these, the most important outcome is a strong employer branding.

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open thread – August 2-3, 2019

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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