Mon.Feb 18, 2019

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What is EQ and How Do You Improve It?

Reflektive

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is increasingly seen as an important trait in the workforce that matters as much, if not more, as IQ. People with strong emotional intelligence tend to be happier and more successful in life, and are better able to manage stress and interpersonal challenges. So what is emotional intelligence, anyway? SEE ALSO: Managing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Age of The Millennial.

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Is It Time to Add Flexible and Remote Work Options?

nettime solutions

Remote and flexible work options sound great in theory. After all, who doesn’t want to at least have the option to work from home, or somewhere other than the workplace? Also, with so much technology at our fingertips, working remotely can be easier than ever. However, if you’re setting up remote work options for the first time, there’s plenty to consider before you send out a company-wide email.

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#DisruptHR HSV 2.0 is Coming April 2019

UpstartHR

TL;DR version: DisruptHR HSV is coming back to Huntsville! See links below for details. Early bird tickets available through March 31st. ————-. It all started with an event. A real, no-kidding live event. Back in 2009 I had just started blogging, and a friend and I set up a mini conference as a way to get people together, expand relationships, and learn together.

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Podcast: Meet the Consultants – Christian Nielson, MBA

DecisionWise

In this episode, we sit down with DecisionWise VP of Consulting, Christian Nielson, MBA. We discuss his career and his approach towards engagement, consulting, and leadership. As a Principal Consultant at DecisionWise, Christian leads a consulting team focused on leadership and organizational development. He and his team partner with organizations to identify unique improvement opportunities and bring about meaningful change.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Human Performance Deserves More Than a Review

TalentCulture

We know that people are happier and healthier when they know their work matters — and performance reviews can be a powerful tool to help us all know how we’re doing at work. But the performance management process in many organizations is broken. I think it’s time for a major change in how we think about performance reviews. In a 2017 survey by Gallup, only 29 percent of employees strongly agreed that the performance reviews […].

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Tell Me About a Time…Bringing Your Interviewing Game to the Next Level

SHRM

The resumes are in, the interviews scheduled, and you print up the same set of behavioral interview questions you’ve been asking for the last 5 years. But know, your candidates are prepared, they’ve researched, prepped, Googled responses to every interview question imaginable. You need to put in the same amount of preparation, your goal is to hire the BEST people, so your interview game needs to be next level.

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Human Resources KPIs: An In-depth Explanation with Metrics & Examples

Analytics in HR

“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion”, is arguably Edward Deming’s best-known quote. It is impossible to improve at managing people if you do not measure the results of your work. If you do not define what ‘good performance’ looks like and how you can measure it, how will you find out if you’re doing well? So in business, if you don’t measure your progress towards your HR goals, how will you know how successful you are?

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9 Questions to Ask Candidates' References

Entrepreneur

Job seekers aim to present themselves in the best light. But the very people they offer to validate their claims might point to other useful information.

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Just Say NO to Dangerous Winter Travel

Workology

The winter is upon most of us across the nation. For those in the northern half, we have had an extremely cold and blustery start to the new year. For many, getting to and from work has been a. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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6 key features your employee training program needs – and how LMS can help

HR Morning

Hiring the right employees is important, but keeping them around and happy is just as essential. One way to do that is to provide opportunities for professional development and training as a way to encourage workers to improve their skills and engage further with their jobs. While you likely have a solid training program for new employees to get them accustomed to your organization, the training options for ongoing employees are often more limited.

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The Wider Angle of the Employee Experience

Digital HR Tech

Employee experience is not only a top priority for organizations today. As d igital thinking is transforming our consumer habits and experiences in respect to every interaction we have with a person, product, place, service or company, the employee experience – which is defined by various moments – is gradually becoming an expectation from the workforce.

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How Healthcare HR Teams Can PROPEL Their Organizations to Improve

Precheck

How Healthcare HR Teams Can PROPEL Their Organizations to Improve Feb. 19, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Healthcare is rapidly changing. Amid the industry’s ongoing turbulence, physician and staff engagement are suffering. Burnout and turnover rates can be especially high, and can have particularly high costs, with dissatisfaction contributing to poor performance and preventable medical errors.

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Technologies You Can Employ to Increase Office Productivity

Take It Personel-ly

There is no secret as to how you can increase collaborativeness, efficiency, and productivity at work. In fact, it’s becoming harder to increase overall team performance these days because of distractions such as social media sites. This is why more and more companies are investing in productivity software in hopes that this will solve these […].

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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managers need to stop sugarcoating their feedback

Ask a Manager

I hear from a lot of managers who are frustrated with an employee’s work or behavior, feel they’ve addressed the issue, and wonder why it’s still continuing. Over the years, I’ve learned to always ask these frustrated managers, “Exactly what have you said to the person about this?” … because more often than not, it turns out that the manager has only hinted at the problem, rather than being direct about it.

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Escaping the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle

Payactiv

Blog › What Employers Can Do Escaping the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle By Insights Team on Feb 18, 2019 When you have a bill due, where do you look to pay? If you don’t have savings, you might find yourself with a tough decision. Do you go to credit cards to make ends meet or look somewhere else?… The post Escaping the Paycheck to Paycheck Cycle appeared first on PayActiv.

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The People Refrain: Caught in the Chorus of Talent

HR Examiner

“Deloitte’s 2018 Human Capital Trends Report found over 70% of respondents citing AI, robots, and automation as important. Yet, 52 percent of candidates are not even hearing back from employers 2-3+ months after they’ve applied, according to The Talent Board.” – Susan LaMotte. “We’re a people-driven business.”. “Talent is our most important imperative.”.

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Focus on productivity, not wellbeing (really!)

Human Workplaces

Just came across this great article about a company that has implemented a 4 day workweek (which is what we would call a “play” in your Culture Playbook). The crux of success for them? “ Focus on productivity, not wellbeing.” “Barnes says there are a few simple steps to follow to achieve a successful transition, and the cardinal rule is this: Focus on productivity, not wellbeing, when explaining the policy.

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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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A Potent Human Capital Strategy needs a Potent Client Retention Strategy

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

A potent client retention strategy is driven by an equally potent human capital strategy. Otherwise, stakeholder churn rates negatively impact your organization’s and association’s ability to hold on to the customers you work so hard to win. Yet far too many business models and hiring practices continue to segment and marginalize internal stakeholders into revenue generators or order-takers.

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my employee is being rude to others — but I think it’s from the stress of cancer

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a manager for a department of 11 people inside a large organization. One of my long time employees, Zed, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. When Zed was first diagnosed about three months ago, I asked if he might consider taking FMLA leave (our organization and state have very generous medical leave policies). Zed refused. I think it’s because being his job is a big part of his identity, so he wants to work as much as possible while he is going through chemotherapy.

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STEAM Jobs List: 10 Careers that Combine Art and Math

EverFi - HR

While it is easy to separate interests and careers into purely left brain or right brain, STEAM programs have shown that art is an integral part of science and technology learning. Whether your students have shown interest in advanced math, engineering, or even just love video games, there is a career path out there for them. Here is a list of 10 careers combining art and math skills to spark your students’ interests in more ways than one: 3D Modeler.

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The Viral Tweet that Explains the High Cost of Expertise

Evil HR Lady

Davy Greenberg summed up the feelings of a lot of us out there who make our living offering services directly : If I do a job in 30 minutes it’s because I spent 10 years learning how to do that in 30 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.– davy. (@davygreenberg) February 15, 2019. The tweet went viral (with 36,000 retweets and 123,000 likes at this writing) and evoked a lot of emotion.

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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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Creative Hiring in a Robust Economy with Low Unemployment

InfoMart

BLOG. Creative Hiring in a Robust Economy with Low Unemployment. Marco R. Piovesan. February 18 2019. Like many of you, I’m thrilled to see the US economy improving. It offers a job to nearly every American, who get to enjoy actual salary increases for the first time in years. This is an optimistic era in US economic history, with record GDP growth and low unemployment numbers.

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What Young People Today Need to Know About Leadership

6Q

What does it mean to be a leader? How can you bring people together? Answering these questions is typically a part of navigating adolescence and charting a course into stable adulthood, but that path may be more challenging today than ever before. After all, the young people of today often lack clear role models. The internet is a wonderful tool, but also scatters focus, weakening the significance of many traditionally-important teachers (parents, most notably) — and the all-pervasive social med

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Black Innovators Who Made a Huge Impact on Technology

Symantec

SyBER Lead Le Var S. Shares 6 Important African Americans You Should Know.

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5 Reasons to Go Gray

ADP

Why should you consider hiring mature workers? Despite pervasive biases against baby boomers, they can bring incredible value to your business.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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3 Popular Benefits Trend Predictions for 2019…and How to Take Action Now

Jellyvision

Since the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, we’ve been busy sipping hot chocolate and reading every article about 2019 benefits trends we could find, looking for trends in those trends articles. (We know how to have FUN.) Behold the fruits of our labor: three of the trends most frequently predicted for this year…and […]. The post 3 Popular Benefits Trend Predictions for 2019…and How to Take Action Now appeared first on Jellyvision.com.

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Minimize Workplace Violence

Tandem HR

Stop Workplace Violence Before It Begins. Nearly 2 million American workers report having been the victims of workplace violence each year according to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). While we recognize that homicide in the workplace, much like the live shooting of the reporter and photographer last August at Virginia television station WDBJ, may seem more prevalent than it actually is due to being highly publicized, many other forms of workplace violence occur on a reg

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The Henry Pratt Co. tragedy and six ways employers can avoid gun violence in the workplace

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Google Street View. According to multiple news reports, on Friday, shortly after the Henry Pratt Company communicated to a 15-year employee that the company was ending his employment, he began shooting. All told, he killed five employees (in a five-minute span). After police arrived, the shooter exchanged gunfire. Six officers were injured.