Sat.Oct 17, 2020

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Do You Know The People You Are Recognizing?

Engage2Excel

When you want to give recognition to your employees, it’s vital to know their recognition preferences. Recognition is mostly an intangible expression of acknowledgment and valuing of an individual or a team, their positive behaviors, personal effort, or contributions. The key is making your recognition very personal. Let’s explore how you can do that.

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Ask a Manager

I’m doing some maintenance on the site and comments will be turned off for part of the day. You can read but won’t be able to leave a comment. (When that changes, I’ll remove this post.) After this is done, you should see some performance improvements in the site’s functioning! You may also like: how should I handle this unprofessional interviewer?

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Tips to Make the Process of Becoming a U.S. Citizen Smooth

Take It Personel-ly

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or USCIS, has some of the best tips to become a citizen of the United States. There are a few important things that a person must learn about these services to ensure that they get their application approved. When someone applies to the USCIS for a green card, […].

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weekend open thread – October 17-18, 2020

Ask a Manager

The site has been down for maintenance but I’m hoping we’re good to go now. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Leave the World Behind , by Rumaan Alam. A family vacationing in a remote area and the owners of the house they’re staying in get trapped when a mysterious global disaster strikes.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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3 New Scientific Studies Say, “Mask Up!”

Thrive Global

Three new scientific studies published this month show that the COVID-19 virus can spread in more ways than we once knew. Research from various parts of the world considered three separate factors in each study: low humidity, public restrooms and airborne dust. The implications from all three of these studies? Mask up! Low Humidity. A study just published in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases confirms an earlier study conducted in the Greater Sydney, Australia area during the early stages of th

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New Study Shows The Benefits Of Doing Good Deeds

Thrive Global

Previous studies have suggested that people who engage in helping others are happier and have better mental and physical health than those who don’t spend as much time helping others. During hard times such as the pandemic, a body of research suggests that helping gestures assuage worry and concern. Often during emergencies and crises, people start performing acts of kindness at random.

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How To: Build Meaningful Relationships with Your Students Virtually or In-Person

Emergenetics International

For some kids, teachers may be one of the few constants that they can depend on. Their teacher is there for them every day and serves as a steady, guiding light in their lives. In my previous role as an assistant principal, when kids were in an elevated state, I would ask them to identify […]. The post How To: Build Meaningful Relationships with Your Students Virtually or In-Person appeared first on Emergenetics International Blog.

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Rise Above the Noise

Thrive Global

Rising Above the Noise. It seems as if this past week has been the longest one in an awfully long time. In a year filled with long weeks for one reason or another, this one felt truly taxing. Staring down at some of life’s challenges this week, I took out my well-worn copy of the Tao Te Ching. I have always been moved by the words of peace that are found in this Book of the Way.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. A pandemic of this scale has not emerged in many countries in well over 100 years (i.e. Spanish flu). And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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One routine at a time

Thrive Global

COVID-19 has created a state of restless fear for many. The fact that we do not know what the future holds—for ourselves; for our families, friends and colleagues; or for our residents and members—is driving a lot of us to put our lives on pause. We are waiting for answers before we move forward. But what happens when we put our lives or businesses on pause?

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Top Training Management System Features: Training Reporting Capabilities to Better Understand and Interpret Your Data

Training Orchestra

In our Training Management System Features blog series, we’re exploring the key features needed to ease the complexity and optimize these core training back-office processes: Operations and logistics, scheduling and resource management, financial performance and budget planning, reporting, and sales cycle management. For training leaders, capturing the right data, including logistical details like schedules, available resources, and registration lists, in addition to costs, financial perfo

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Part 3: When Work became a Job.

Sergio Caredda

Our Ultimate Quest for the Meaning of started with a Brief History of Work , where I tried to analyse the evolution of the meaning of work across time, with a specific focus on western culture. It then moved to explore the concept of the Discourses of Work that evolved, trying to establish how Work impacted societies and cultures (and was impacted by them) over time.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. A pandemic of this scale has not emerged in many countries in well over 100 years (i.e. Spanish flu). And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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Employee Apps

Strategic HCM

I quite often post here on the digital workplace and if you're interested in this (and you should be), you may well be interested in this new report on Employee Apps that I was working on over the Summer as an associate for ClearBox. The report assesses 17 employee apps in detail, with at-a-glance attributes, and precise scores based on real-world business-scenario capabilities, not merely features.

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An Urgent Need for Funny Cat Videos

Thrive Global

Cross posted at Change Your Mind Change Your Life and christinebradstreet.com. I’ve been picking up a shift in people’s moods recently. Clients, readers, neighbors, and friends have been talking about ramped up stress and heaviness from the global coronavirus pandemic, a high stakes election season, and rapid fire distressing events in the news cycle.

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It’s Time For Inflation Hedges: Consider Gold, Mining Stocks And Farmland

Forbes Leadership Strategy

It’s time to start worrying about inflation. Although inflation has been low and fairly steady in the past decade, prices will begin accelerating in 2021 and 2022. There is no asset that is obviously a slam dunk for an inflation hedge, but gold, mining stocks and farmland should be considered.

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New Research Finds Link Between Stress And Depression

Thrive Global

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein in the brain that is important both for the function of the mood-regulating substance serotonin and for the release of stress hormones. The findings, which are published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, show that after experiencing trauma or severe stress, some people develop chronic stress.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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What Is Happening In Nagorno-Karabakh?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

During the final days of September 2020, media outlets reported on the escalation of a conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.

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What Is The Distinctive Role Of Human Resource In Quarantimes?

Thrive Global

Who manages to organise the conduct of the business? The boss, no! The human resource department takes care of maintaining equilibrium in the company. It is to be specific for a company owner to stand a strong pillar that caters the demand of the situation. You must be aware of the tantrums that companies show to direct the salaries, leaves and perks of an employee.

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What Is Happening With Solar Energy?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

According to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020, photovoltaic solar energy is already the cheapest source of electricity in history. We are not talking about the future, but about the present, about current installations.

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Moodle VS Paradiso LMS: Who is Leading the Race

PSB

Introduction. Today’s business world is highly crowded and competitive. Every organisation is striving hard to find an ideal market strategy and is continuously probing for an ideal LMS for their internal training and overall organizational growth. To tick all the desired requirements with one solution could be a hefty task for an organization. LMSes can act as a catalyst to nurture the digital learning and training environment by providing self-paced, intriguing learning paths, and course creat

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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5 Compelling Reasons Not To Hire An Executive Coach

Forbes Leadership Strategy

If you’re wondering about hiring a coach, here are five good reasons not to.

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How losing what I thought was everything in 2008 reminded me I will get through 2020.

Thrive Global

I’m going to start by saying this—You Are Enough. In the middle of April, I started a community initiative ‘ find your power in the middle of chaos ‘ as news of a pandemic wreaked havoc onto the lives of many. It wasn’t my intention to start a movement of any kind, all I knew at that time as I still do now, was that I needed to do my part.

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Post Pandemic: How Must Colleges And Universities Reinvent Themselves?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

We’re all being disrupted right now because of the pandemic. But I think it’s fair to say that higher education has been forced to change more than anyone else. Many of these changes have been fiercely debated for years. And then suddenly, boom. It’s done and they’ve had to adapt. But what's next?

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He Taught Me To Be Fearless. Then I Taught Our Kids.

Thrive Global

I met my husband, Dean R. Wellington, when I was twenty-three years of age. Two years later, we were married. He stole my heart from the very first evening we happened upon each other. And as the story goes, he told his sister that same night that “he had just met his wife.” Together, we created a very real fairytale…not the perfect kind.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Why We Lie, And The Neuroscience Behind It

Forbes Leadership Strategy

We are liars. All of us. We lie to save face, to avoid hurting other people’s feelings, to impress others, to shirk responsibility, to hide misdeeds, as a social lubricant, to prevent conflict, to get out of work, and many more reasons. And we lie a lot.

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The Most Important Speech YOU will Ever Give

Thrive Global

Have you ever had to deliver a eulogy? I believe a eulogy is the hardest… most emotional speech you will EVER have to deliver. It is in those moments that our ability to connect with others and provide them comfort/understanding… when they need it most…when YOU need it most … tests our greatest capabilities as well as confronting our greatest fears.

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Covid-19 Disinformation: Why Russia’s Been Blamed For Bizarre Vaccine Conspiracy Theory

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The race to create—and then sell—a coronavirus vaccine is not just the number one priority in global healthcare. It is now a battleground in global politics.