Fri.Jun 26, 2020

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Summer is here … let’s just keep working?

Business Management Daily

Summer is officially here, but many professionals plan to keep their noses to the grindstone, new research from global staffing firm Robert Half shows. Blame the coronavirus pandemic and all the workplace upheaval it has caused. Factor in that vacation destinations and hotels may not be open or operating at full capacity—plus the public’s reluctance to board commercial aircraft—and there are signs this may be the summer Americans just stay home.

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Five Key Aspects of Emotional Intelligence for Recruiters

Engage2Excel

I n the face of any social or economic upheaval, you'll usually find a slew of articles urging recruiters to use emotional intelligence (EI) in difficult times. While this is true, EI is always crucial in recruiting. Strong EI can enhance all areas of your life, but let's focus on why it is essential in recruiting. There are many definitions of EI out there, but this one by Bradbury and Greaves, from Emotional Intelligence 2.

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Sharita Hanley Pivots to Her Dream Career as a Writer Amid the Coronavirus Crisis: A Candidate Success Story

Intoo USA

Sharita Hanley always loved writing—so much so that she served as president of an International English Honor society as an undergraduate at Spelman College. But at the time she received her bachelor’s degree, many large publications were conducting layoff, and writing jobs were scarce. “When I graduated from undergrad in 2011, the job market was pretty bad.

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Using data, accountability to make the D&I difference

HRExecutive

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series related to diversity and inclusion around remote employee strategies and priorities for HR leaders. *. In light of COVID-19 and the simultaneous growing awareness of racial disparities and injustice, experts believe now might be the perfect time for HR leaders to focus on bolstering their commitment to diversity and inclusion.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Sharita Hanley Pivots to Her Dream Career as a Writer Amid the Coronavirus Crisis: A Candidate Success Story

Intoo USA

Sharita Hanley always loved writing—so much so that she served as president of an International English Honor society as an undergraduate at Spelman College. But at the time she received her bachelor’s degree, many large publications were conducting layoff, and writing jobs were scarce. “When I graduated from undergrad in 2011, the job market was pretty bad.

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DoorDash, Uber Eats Sued for Misclassifying Workers

SHRM Resources

Two popular on-demand food delivery services have been sued in California for allegedly misclassifying delivery workers as independent contractors, in violation of state law.

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Are we about to see a mass exodus of female workers?

HRExecutive

While joyful reports of unexpected work-from-home productivity abound for some employers during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research found that, for many working women, the situation is far from a dream scenario. The survey was conducted by WerkLabs, the insights division of The Mom Project, whose CEO and founder, Allison Robinson, will speak on a panel about retaining and engaging women during Women in HR Tech this fall.

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How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Keep Working Remotely Post-COVID

The Muse

If this unexpected remote work experiment has shown or confirmed to you that you’d prefer to work from home, there are steps you can take to try to make it permanent.

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Should Your Organisation Consider Remote Work for the Long Term?

6Q

For many organisations, the last few months has meant employees working remotely, often from home in isolation. So should this become the new normal? This article shares ten great reasons you should consider remote work for the long term. When the pandemic hit us, what WHO suggested containing the virus was to go under lockdown to limit its spread and to keep things under control until a more reasonable solution comes along.

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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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50 creative intranet launch ideas

ThoughtFarmer

Updated June 26th, 2020. A new intranet can significantly improve your workplace; but that success isn’t going to happen on its own. To ensure the success of your intranet you need a focused, dedicated, and creative intranet launch strategy. Here are 50 real-world intranet launch ideas you can use to propel your intranet (or extranet ). We’ve grouped launch ideas to correspond with your intranet launch timeline and stages.

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Meet the Student Winners of the National Financial Literacy Bee

EverFi - HR

During April’s Financial Literacy Month, EVERFI partnered with 27 financial institutions to launch the first-annual National Financial Literacy Bee, a digital learning challenge that enabled high school students to learn about important financial literacy concepts ranging from budgeting and saving to employment and income, investing, and insurance. The challenge drew nearly 40,000 student participants!

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Post-Lockdown Mode: Transitioning Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

With Boris Johnson announcing that UK shops will now be allowed to open from the 15th of June, businesses across the country are gearing up to come out of lockdown. Outdoor markets and car showrooms may open from June 1st provided they observe social distancing, and hospitality services may open later in July. “Non-essential” retail […].

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weekend open thread – June 27-28, 2020

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. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Perfect Little World , by Kevin Wilson. An 18-year-old sleeps with her teacher, gets pregnant, and becomes part of a scientific project studying what happens when 10 families raise their children collectively.

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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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3 Ways to Improve Processes to Make Up for Lost Revenue Due to COVID-19

Quickbase

Earnings in the first quarter of 2020 took an enormous hit as companies worked to adapt and respond to the coronavirus pandemic , whether or not companies were ever forced to shut down. Across the board , companies have had to shrink their workforce, cut spending, delay or cancel big, transformative projects, and reduce their expected revenue for the year.

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Trivie Raises $5 Million Series A for Learning Assessment

WorkTech

Trivie announced a $5 Million Series A to assess employee knowledge and then reinforce learning through gamification. Source: Trivie Secures $5 Million Series A Financing to Expand Knowledge Retention Platform. The post Trivie Raises $5 Million Series A for Learning Assessment appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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Everything Depends on the Right Kind of Goal Setting. Here’s Why

Engagedly

We all agree to this point that goal setting helps us focus and achieve things faster. Good goal setting brings good results, but poor goal setting brings poor results. . So now you may ask, what is good goal setting ? And what are the consequences of poor goal setting, in that how does it affect the company’s bottom line. We’ll help you explore these two main ideas in this article. .

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. Thought I could share – I’m an avid reader and have used your advice to handle more than a few sticky situations at work. Unfortunately I found myself in a somewhat toxic workplace – everyone was underpaid, overworked and unappreciated unless you were the “technical” staff.

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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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Three Best Practices for Maintaining OKR Alignment

Betterworks

OKRs provide a way for organizations to focus their effort around the same important initiative. This alignment is a core concept to OKRs. In fact, it is the golden ticket to OKR success. But alignment isn’t something you can set and forget. You must make sure OKRs are aligned up front and stay aligned throughout the quarter. When we talk about OKR alignment, we’re referring to the notion that all of an organization’s OKRs support the achievement of the same overarching goal.

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Are You Struggling to Find Happiness at Work?

The Tim Sackett Project

In 1942 Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist, was taken to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents. Three years later, when his camp was liberated, his pregnant wife and parents had already been killed by the Nazis. He survived and in 1946 went on to write the book, “ Man’s Search For Meaning “ In this great book, Frankl writes: “It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.” What Frankl knew was that you can’t make happin

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9 Tips To Help Your Employees Avoid Distractions While Working From Home

Vantage Circle

With the current COVID-19 pandemic having brought the entire world to a standstill, companies have started implementing work-from-home policies to ensure their business operations keep running smoothly. Even though work-from-home or remote working is not a newly invented practice, it is gaining popularity among employers right now. As employees cannot go to their workplaces due to COVID-19, working from home is the best way to ensure that work is being completed.

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Why crisis management can be an innovation catalyst

Qualtrics HR

“I think we need to scale back, or maybe even stop…” Have you been on the receiving end of an email to that effect from a senior leader in your organization in response to an uncertain, challenging, and difficult situation? Or maybe you’re a CEO, executive, or someone drafting such an opening yourself, or thinking about it? Wait. Don’t send it. Here’s why.

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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 Power of a Porch

WeSpire

My front porch has emerged as the hero of our house this year. Previously it received very little love, serving primarily as a place for packages to land. With our driveway behind the house, we enter through the back door and we encourage those who know us best to do the same. Occasionally we would throw a porch party, but most days the stately porch was empty, wisteria untamed and alone.

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Humanly Raises $800K Seed for Its Conversational Recruiting AI

WorkTech

Humanly announced an $800K Seed Round for its Conversational Recruiting AI. Focused on candidate screening, scheduling, and engagement Humanly joins an increasingly crowded category of HR technology where competition is stiff with emerging vendors gaining increased traction like Paradox or Meet and Engage, and platform players like Symphony Talent. Humanly graduated out of the Y […].

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When it Comes to Hiring, Choose Affirmative Action

A Slice of HR

I am a white person. ,So white that people used to tell me I looked like Laura Ingalls as a kid. ,So white that you can see my veins through my skin. ,So white that my small children need to help me with the pronunciation of their friends’ names that just come rolling off their tongues: , Licketh, Tati, Ojas , ,I acknowledge my own white privilege, that my business community is dominated by white people, and that there are plenty of people out there with direct experience with racism in ways tha

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Employee Engagement Strategy: “3 Ways to Improve Employee Engagement in Your Organization” by Marie Johnson

The Incentive Solutions News blog

Employee Engagement Strategy: Improving Work with Marie Johnson. Incentive Rewards. Our Incentive rewards inspire motivation in your participants and produce the most ROI for your brand. Choose from online rewards or gift and debit card rewards. Incentive Programs. Our incentive programs are strategically designed to help produce measurable growth for your business.

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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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Here’s why companies should care about LGBTQIA inclusion

Shortlist

Given that it’s June, an annual celebration of Pride, we have seen the social space abuzz with conversations around LGBTQIA equality, inclusion, and policies. We’ve also seen rainbow logos. We’ve also seen some policies changing and some companies leaning into inclusivity. During Pride, we’re reminded that as employers, it is our responsibility to make our […].

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5 Ways You Can Help Improve Employee Satisfaction

Effortless HR

Do you ever get the feeling your employees are not happy with their jobs? Maybe you are dealing with high turnover at your company? Or, maybe your team could be more productive? If you have unhappy employees, you obviously risk losing valuable staff. You also limit your abilities to make as much money as possible. Check out this list below for five ways you can help improve employee satisfaction. 1.

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Ask Madison: Should I expand my rewards and recognition program to include contractors?

Madison

Changing the Traditional Rewards and Recognition Program. The workforce is evolving and the structure of the employee population in many organizations may very likely be dramatically shifting. As we witness the rise in remote workers , we are also experiencing a change in the classification of workers that are being hired, beyond the permanent, full-time employee.

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