Fri.May 17, 2019

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Game of Thrones Finale: Are Workplace Distractions Helpful or Harmful?

HRWatchdog

No need to burn employees for participating in Game of Thrones excitement. The long-awaited “Game of Thrones” (GOT) series finale is Sunday; on Monday, your employees may either be distracted as they compare notes of who finally sits on the Iron Throne or miss work completely. Cultural phenomena like GOT can distract employees at work, but while these disruptions may cost employers lost productivity, they can also improve your office morale.

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6 Ways to Upskill Your Employees and Bring out Their Best

GroSum

Your greatest asset is your staff. The people who come in every day and collect a paycheck each month will determine whether your company barely survives or successfully thrives. Your employees can disengage from their work and do the bare minimum, or they can push themselves to do better and learn more – it’s all […]. The post 6 Ways to Upskill Your Employees and Bring out Their Best appeared first on GroSum Blog.

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Bite your tongue! When old idioms become a new headache at work

Workplace Diva

Do you live in fear of saying something that your coworkers could deem insensitive, or offensive? These days, knowing what not to say can be even trickier than knowing what to say. Just the other day, I was reading an online thread where a commenter asked everyone to stop using the old phrase "chop, chop" (as in, "hurry up") because it is offensive to Asian culture.

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4 Ways to Kill Employee Trust

HRExecutive

A wide range of tools and technologies now in use by HR organizations around the world are collecting volumes of employee-related data. Outside of HR, companies are using systems that assess employee emails for network analysis, record conference calls and video meetings, and monitor employee activities through badges. While such information can certainly be useful, it can also be a huge liability when misused.

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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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Using Talent Sourcing Platforms To Save Recruiter Time

Select Software Reviews

Talent sourcing has become an incredibly important part of any recruiting strategy. This is especially true in a world where unemployment rates have fallen to sub 4% levels and the best talent has become even harder to reach. Source cfo.com. In response, recruiters have been forced to rely more and more on outbound means to engage potential hires. Or, organizations have homegrown their own dedicated sourcing teams which spend their days hunting the right talent.

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How to Give Negative Feedback to Employees: 10 Best Techniques

TalentLyft

Want to learn how to deliver negative feedbac k fairly and effectively? In this blog post, you’ll discover 10 best techniques and examples of giving negative feedback to your employees. Use them and turn negative feedback into a powerful tool for increasing employee engagement and productivity! Read More.

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Modern leadership: is neuroscience the solution to toxic leadership?

HR Zone

Culture. How to combat toxic leadership.

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5 Tips for Sticking to Your Workout Routine

Take It Personel-ly

Like many people, you no doubt struggle to get your workout routine to stick. All it can take is a quick change to your schedule or your day, and all of your progress grinds to a halt. Worried that might be you? Then there are some useful tips for making sure you stick to the […].

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Transforming Leaders with Virtual Reality

DDI

Virtual reality has tremendous potential to transform how leaders see the world and practice leadership. Learn more about the most important leadership tool you aren’t using.

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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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How to Spot — and Address — Employee Disengagement

Evil HR Lady

Employee engagement is sure to be at the forefront of any employer’s mind, but how often do you hear someone talking about employee disengagement ? You can have a great work environment , but even if 90 percent of your employees are happy and engaged, there are bound to be a few stragglers. Now, some employers think that one or two unhappy employees won’t have that big of an impact on their business.

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How to Use Artificial Intelligence to Guide Health Benefit Choices

WEX Inc.

Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Benefits. Second only to compensation, health insurance is one of the most important benefits employers offer. Yet with rising health care costs and an increasing number of options to choose from, whether employees understand their benefits plan - or not - continues to be a challenge for employers and HR pros alike.

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Reacting to the Next Recession

SHRM Resources

?AUSTIN, TEXAS—It's the tightest labor market in 50 years, but fear of a looming recession is out there. Even though no one's really certain about when it may happen or what might cause it. So is talk of a recession a false alarm?No, according to Jed Kolko, chief economist for job search engine Indeed. "It's when, not if," he said, speaking to attendees at Indeed Interactive 2019, a conference for recruiting professionals held May 13-15.

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Happiness And Profit Are Synergistic

Forbes Coaches Council

Focusing on increasing real well-being has effects on how well companies attract and retain talent, which in turn significantly influences how well a firm creates value and meets its goals.

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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 Journey to #SHRM19 MEGA Edition: An Interview with Sarah Noll Wilson

SHRM

We are a little over a month away from the premier HR event in the world; the 2019 Annual SHRM Conference and Exposition ! On June 23, 2019, HR professionals/business leaders from across the globe will journey to Las Vegas with one shared goal in mind, and that is how we can all improve the quality of life for the people we’re serving by creating better workplaces.

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How to Improve Employee Engagement

Commuter Benefit Solutions

If your company is like many today, you’re pursuing employee engagement principles in hopes of creating a better and high performing workforce. But a survey by G2 Crowd, the peer-to-peer, business solutions review platforms, highlights what others before it have found: more work needs to be done.

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7 questions to ask your CEO

Jostle

The attitude of the modern workplace has changed drastically over the years and with that, so have the attitudes of CEOs. No longer are they these behind-closed-doors figureheads who emerge once every quarter to address the masses. Modern CEOs take a more hands-on approach to running an organization, preferring to keep those doors open or even do away with them (and walls) altogether.

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#RedBranchWeekly: Creating a Winning Company Culture

marenated HR

By Tridia Tshimanga: When it comes to building your workplace and teams, your ultimate goal is to create a culture where your employees feel empowered , engaged, productive, and excited to stay at your company for a while. But fostering a vibrant and connected culture doesn’t happen overnight, or by accident. Thanks to our partners from ClearCompany, Good&Co, and Inspire Software, we’ll dive into everything you need to know about cultivating a winning company culture that can pro

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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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How to Build a Good Relationship with Your Boss

Dr. Nadine

We all report to somebody. Having the key to how to handle your manager can make or break your career. It’s true that all managers are different, but in my experience, managers are more alike than different. 1. Respect their time I am sure that your manager likes you. But your manager will like you more if you don’t waste their time. So don’t linger, babble, or be obtuse.

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HRExaminer v10.20

HR Examiner

Leadership and Legitimacy. HRExaminer Weekly Edition v10.20 for May 17, 2019. Why do poor leaders remain in their roles, even when almost everyone in their organization agrees they should go? Mary Faulkner has the answers in her article, Leadership and Legitimacy. “There are a remarkable number of people whose poor decision-making costs their careers.” Dr.

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5 Ways Hiring Seasoned Employees Spices Up Your Workplace

General Information Services

There’s a lot of literature out there concerning diversity and the consequences of bias in hiring. There’s a good reason for that of course; minority groups are disproportionately affected by bias of all types, but bias isn’t limited to minority. Visit the HireRight Blog to read the full article.

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5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Summer

ACI Specialty Benefits

Summer is a great time to start something new, whether it’s a hobby, work goal, or frame of mind. Even if the closest beach is a thousand miles away, make the most of Summer 2019 with some creative ways to stay happy and healthy all summer long. Go Local. Taking a long and expensive vacation might not be in the cards this year, and that’s okay. Research local free park concerts, art showcases, performances, sporting events, and support local businesses and communities by exploring local hotspots

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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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What Impact Does Life Stage Have on Employee Benefits Decisions?

Benefitfocus

Benefitfocus' 2019 Consumer Benefits Coverage Index™ Report reveals key differences in employee benefit spending behavior based on a worker's stage of life or career.

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weekend free-for-all – May 18-19, 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 Mother-in-Law , by Sally Hepworth, in which the mysterious death of a family matriarch causes all sorts of relationships and secrets to unravel.

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Criteria Corporation Raises $56 Million for Employment Assessments

WorkTech

$56 million to Criteria Corp, which by all accounts is a very traditional assessment company with very traditional assessment deployment. From VentureBeat: Criteria Corp, a market leading SaaS based employment analytics platform, today announced that Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) has made a $56 million strategic investment to accelerate product innovation and growth.

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New risk: EEOC now suing over small claims

Business Management Daily

Employers haven’t worried as much about being sued by the EEOC in smaller, less unique cases. But that’s all changing. The post New risk: EEOC now suing over small claims appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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How To Avoid The Pitfalls of a Not-My-Job Attitude

Dr. Nadine

In every company, there are those vital odd jobs that don’t naturally fall to a specific person. And as companies change and are pushed to capacity, this becomes worse. Here are 5 things you can you do to encourage everyone to participate in those necessary but tedious tasks. 1. Make it clear right from the get-go that everyone contributes when it’s needed This should be part of the initial interview before the job.

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open thread – May 17-18, 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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Creating a Productive Talent Management Strategy for Your Business

InfinityHR

Many businesses today are now realizing the value of investing more into their talent management strategy. They are beginning to piece together the ingredients that truly support and make a business successful in their industry. And those include: Investing more capital into improving technology to support employee enablement, training and succession opportunities.