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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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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site maintenance

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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Simple Solutions To Your Customer Service Problem

New to HR

Each and every business on the market needs to focus on their customer service at some point. Your business isn’t going to get very far. The post Simple Solutions To Your Customer Service Problem appeared first on New To HR.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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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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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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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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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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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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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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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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Resilience

Thrive Global

Honestly, we can all say that 2020 has been a very interesting year, to say the least. We have seen our lives interrupted, we have been forced to change the way we do life, and we have witnessed the world come to a screeching halt. As we are now embarking upon the fourth quarter of 2020, I hope that you have not embraced the toxic cancel culture mindset of many.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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The Nurse Log

Thrive Global

My father and I surveyed the forest After the storm, And found that a great oak had fallen. I knew the tree well, How its reddening leaves held the last light each fall, How its branches cast enough shade in summer to cover two picnic blankets end to end. How the crook in its trunk matched my spine so perfectly, I used to rest against it, daydreaming, Until I’d fall asleep.