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Creating A Workplace Where People Want To Work

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How can the workplace be made more attractive and fulfilling especially to young millennials who have so much talent and energy to offer?

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How to Change and Improve a Toxic Workplace

DISC Assessments

As we find ourselves competing in today’s global and fast workforce, the associated pressures can lead to previously unseen levels of high stress. Unfortunately, a by-product of increased stress is oftentimes a toxic workplace. Workers are under pressure from deadlines, performance expectations as well as their own personal goals and standards.

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Are Your Employees invested in Your Company Story?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

Your company story is compelling, at least to the leadership team. However, are your employees as invested in this story as you are? As the saying goes: “It is hard to read the label when you are inside the bottle.”. You sit at the helm of a large, 100-year old company. Or, you are part of the leadership team for a small business. Either way, how you tell your story to employees is just as important as the time and effort put into telling the story to acquire new business and/or stockholders.

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Discussing Mental Health: Best Practices for Managers and Employees

Justworks

As anyone with mental health issues knows, you don’t simply leave things at the door when you walk into the office. The things that are on your mind tend to stay there, and they can interfere with our focus and productivity, our relationships with colleagues, and career ambitions. To get the help and support you need, it may be worthwhile to broach the topic with your company or manager.

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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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Employers Must Correct IRS Errors to Avoid ACA Penalties

ACA Times

3 minute read: . We are all human, including the people who work at the IRS. And like all of us, sometimes they make mistakes. The only difference is that errors made by the IRS can cost you money. If for some reason you received a Letter 226J penalty notice from the IRS for not complying with the Affordable Care Act, you will want to review the notice carefully.

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How Continuous Feedback Improves Performance Reviews

Engagedly

One of the main gripes of annual performance reviews is that employees rarely get enough feedback because usually, performance reviews come around only once a year. A lack of feedback impacts many aspects of the review process. And […].

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Millennials in the workplace: How to manage and engage them

Workable

As of early 2019, the ages of millennials in the workplace ranged from 22 to 38 years old. This demographic represents the largest generation in the U.S. workforce , and that segment of the workforce will keep rising as previous generations slowly retire – in fact, they’re projected to make up 35 percent of the global workforce by 2020. (Fun fact: the number of millennials in China is higher than the entire U.S. population.).

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Soft skills: how to increase empathy in business

HR Zone

Change. Increasing empathy in business.

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Millennials in the workplace: How to manage and engage them

Workable

As of early 2019, the ages of millennials in the workplace ranged from 22 to 38 years old. This demographic represents the largest generation in the U.S. workforce , and that segment of the workforce will keep rising as previous generations slowly retire – in fact, they’re projected to make up 35 percent of the global workforce by 2020. (Fun fact: the number of millennials in China is higher than the entire U.S. population.).

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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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Beapy: Cryptojacking Worm Hits Enterprises in China

Symantec

Cryptojacking campaign we have dubbed Beapy is exploiting the EternalBlue exploit and primarily impacting enterprises in China.

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Ep 178 – Making Our Cities Smarter & More Accessible

Workology

Welcome to a new series on the Workology Podcast we are kicking off that focuses on the future of work. This series is in collaboration with the Partnership on Employment & Accessible. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Welcome to a new series on the Workology Podcast we are kicking off that focuses on the future of work.

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15 Ways To Trick Yourself Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Forbes Coaches Council

Pushing your limits and stepping out into the unknown can be daunting for any professional. The leaders over at Forbes Coaches Council give their tips for ways to combat the comfort zone.

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Career Confessions from Gen Z: Welcome to the Workforce!

The Tim Sackett Project

Within the next month, several college students will be graduating and entering the workforce. This post is targeted towards you. First of all, if you’re about to graduate and haven’t found a job yet, don’t freak out. It’s hard to land a full-time position before you graduate. Many businesses are looking to get employees in right away and may be turned off by the fact that you can’t start until after graduation.

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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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A heterosexual employee sued for sexual-orientation discrimination. Really?!?

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Oh, did I mention that the plaintiff was the HR Manager? Bruh…. And she made an incendiary Facebook post. Well, that I can believe. (I’m friends on Facebook with several HR folks.) Then again, I don’t recall seeing a post like this. Let’s check out the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to see what she had to say: “So meet, ROBERTa!

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Best Employee Benefits in the Banking Industry

Winston Benefits

The financial industry is well-known for intense work that often comes with long hours and stressful decisions. Keeping employees engaged and excited about their work can be difficult, but benefits are a terrific way to ensure that your top talent remains enthusiastic. To maintain your competitive advantage for keeping employees as well as attracting new talent — more than 70 percent of employees say fringe benefits will impact future job choice — follow the lead of these standout benefits from

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12 Tips For Starting Out As A Professional Coach

Forbes Coaches Council

Starting out as a professional coach can be intimidating. To help you start off on the right foot, the experts at Forbes Coaches Council share the best lessons they've learned throughout their careers.

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It’s All in Your Head: How Mental Health Initiatives Are Good for Business

Criteria Corp

Corporate culture and mental health initiatives are more than just buzzwords to attract millennial job seekers in a candidate’s market. U.S. employers lose about $226 billion each year due to conditions like stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Therefore, it’s no surprise that more companies are implementing wellness programs than ever before.

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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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Blue Collar Employees Need Recognition, Too!

Bonusly

No matter what industry and employee population, we all recognize the need to engage, appreciate, and motivate our workforce. Fortunately, there are plenty of creative solutions to engage employees, encourage both peer and management recognition, and deliver rewards. Not all recognition occurs in offices or startups, either. Construction, mining, manufacturing, and energy are a few industries with similar limitations around employee appreciation.

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SocialChorus Unveils Four New Product Features at FutureComms

SocialChorus

Features automate and extend communications across the enterprise and improve employee experience. SAN FRANCISCO and FutureComms 2019, NEW YORK CITY — April 24, 2019 — SocialChorus , a global workforce communications platform, announced an array of new product features today at FutureComms 2019. Designed to change the way companies communicate, these new capabilities enable team and frontline managers to create their own content, employees to quickly search for and find information they need, an

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I’m required to speak in meetings and I don’t know what to say

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My new manager expects for me to ask a question at every group meeting and to contribute something. I don’t always have a question about the material covered, nor do I always have something meaningful to add. If I don’t, I will be looked at poorly. I don’t know why this scares me so much but I can’t come up with stuff on the fly. I need time to process things.

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3 Most Overlooked Steps in Distributed Workforce Onboarding

Rallyware for Human Resources

Onboarding has always been the focal point of a new recruit’s success—or failure. A number of studies by Deloitte , CEB , HBR have proven the connection between onboarding and workforce retention, productivity, engagement, and motivation. HR and L&D professionals worldwide keep sharing their experiences and tips on how to onboard employees to accelerate reaching their full proficiency and to retain the best talent for years to come.

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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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The Essential Role Of Coaches: Develop Learners Who Become Leaders

Forbes Coaches Council

By placing the emphasis on learning, people can continue to transform themselves over the course of a lifetime.

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2019 W-4 Update And Future Changes

Paycor

2019 W-4 Update. Now that Tax Day has come and gone, you can breathe a sigh of relief. But don’t get too comfortable, big changes are around the corner. The IRS is preparing to release a new W-4 form that will ensure the amount held back for taxes each paycheck is more accurate. That means come April 2020, taxpayers should not owe money or receive a refund.

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The Challenges Of Adopting A Coaching Mindset, And How Leaders Can Overcome Them

Forbes Coaches Council

As a leader-coach, when you find yourself adopting a belief that is not conducive to a coaching mindset, your first challenge is to replace that belief with one that will support a coaching conversation.

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The Most Misunderstood—and Crucial—Skill Every Leader Needs

DDI

Empathy isn’t about approval or validation. It’s about making people feel that you hear them and understand them.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Google Walkout Leaders Now Claim Retaliation

Evil HR Lady

Last November, thousands of Google Employees participated in a walkout to protest everything from forced arbitration to transparency in sexual harassment investigations. Google listened and granted much of what the protesters asked for. So why are the organizers, upset and in the news again? Retaliation. Illegal retaliation happens when you punish an employee (either overtly or covertly) after they make a protected claim.

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my boss sends me work to do when I’m out sick

Ask a Manager

A reader asks: I work for the finance department of a nonprofit. Whenever I call/email in sick, I receive multiple emails from my boss (on my work email) asking me to complete tasks as though I am in the office — things like making lunch reservations, printing off documents for him, fixing something on his computer, etc. I have to send him multiple messages for him to finally understand that I’m out sick.

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Why Creating a Health-Conscious Environment Is Important

Effortless HR

Maintaining a healthy workforce is crucial to any organization. According to Harvard Business review, employees who worked despite an illness have cost employers about $150 billion to $250 billion. That is 60 percent of the overall cost allotted to worker illness. But before planning and launching a health-and-wellness program within the workplace, it’s important to realize there is more to keeping employees healthy than just the desire to maintain productivity within the team and to avoid addit