Fri.Apr 05, 2019

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Sparking Motivation Is The Key To Beating Stress And Burnout, And To Improving Employee Engagement

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Let us kick off Stress Awareness Month by looking at the opposite of stress. Certainly, there are times when stress is telling us that something in our lives is straining our capacity—a stressor we need to identify and deal with. However, often times, stress can be a sign that something is missing.

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PwC’s Energy Audit: Unlocking the Secret to Energizing People and Productivity

Great Place to Work

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Does Employee Engagement Software Impact Retention? The answer might depend on who you ask.

TinyPulse

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Want to Know What Your Peers Are Doing to Strengthen Talent Acquisition?

HRExecutive

With seven million open jobs and six million unemployed in the United States, 2018 marked the first year since the turn of the century with more job vacancies than available workers. With low unemployment numbers in the Eurozone and Asia-Pacific as well, we’re facing a global-scale talent shortage. Hiring costs are on the rise as companies compete to identify and acquire top talent.

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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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Webinar on the Challenge of Creating Effective Work Schedules in California

HRWatchdog

Live webinar is mobile-optimized for viewing on tablets or smartphones. Under California’s watchful eye, specific laws regulate the hours and days that nonexempt employees work. Many wonder if the state will eventually follow the trend in California cities of predictive or advanced scheduling. Optimal schedules are always the goal to retain good employees.

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What Security Means to Us at Reflektive

Reflektive

Here at Reflektive, we are proud to have recently completed our second year of SOC 2 Type II certification. We are acutely aware of how critical it is to our current and future customers that we appropriately safeguard their data and ensure that our solutions are always up and running. As a cloud-based software-as-a-service provider, we know security will always be complex, and the constantly evolving landscape of digital threats will continue to surprise and challenge us.

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Is your SMB ready for HR technology?

PeopleStrategy

Today, the scope of technologies available to help us perform our jobs more efficiently and successfully is broader than anything we might have imagined just a few years ago.This has been particularly true in the area of human resources with new tools and technologies appearing on the scene at a crazy pace. The introduction of Cloud-based HR platforms has made technology more affordable for small and mid-sized businesses who often rely on manual, paper-based processes and spreadsheets to manage

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Talent attraction: Why Maslow thinks your job ads suck

Workable

Are you a recruiter in a terrifyingly drab business park 30 minutes from the “cool” downtown core or city center? Getting crickets when you’re trying to fill those crucial developer roles in your non-tech firm, knowing that talented developers are constantly being wooed by software giants or exciting startups? Struggling to attract candidates to your mid-sized “everytown” locale when they’re moving en masse to Silicon Valley, NYC, London or another über-fantastic metropolitan hub?

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#WorkTrends: Limitless: A New Framework for Employee Engagement

TalentCulture

When Laura Gassner Otting was working as an executive recruiter, she had a revelation: success does not always equal happiness. Over time, she’s come to see that the people who are happiest in their jobs have achieved what she calls “consonance.” “It’s people who have carved their own path, who have figured out, ‘This is the one that I really want to do,’” she says.

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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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How the Workforce Learns in 2019: User-Generated Content

Degreed

Traditional L&D isn’t obsolete, but it is incomplete. According to a soon-to-be-released survey of nearly 800 workers, managers, and leaders we’ve just done with Harvard Business Publishing (stay tuned…), people give their employers’ learning and development opportunities an overall Net Promoter Score of -25. So we’re here to fill in the gaps by honing in on the data and insights that impact how people — and companies — learn, so you can make smarter decisions in your most valuable ass

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Workplace investigations: Handling employee complaints and problems successfully

HR Morning

We live in a litigious world, and nowhere is that truer than in the workplace. Especially since the #MeToo era began, workplace investigations have come under increased scrutiny. Two leading investigators – Alison West and Michael W. Johnson – recently conferred with the folks at XpertHR to talk about how to handle a workplace investigation that’ll both be successful and keep the company out of trouble.

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4. Building a team of Recruiters

Recruit CRM

(This is part of a series of articles on becoming a Recruitment Entrepreneur. These articles are meant for first-time recruitment entrepreneurs and the more experienced recruiters may find some parts elementary. I shall start dwelling deeper into each aspect once we get done with the basics. If you wish to contribute to this topic please write to ajay@recruitcrm.io I will be happy to incorporate.

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We're Using Digital Devices To De-Stress, But Is It Working?

Forbes Coaches Council

Digital devices might offer a temporary reprieve from stressful situations. But turning to our devices to destress too often may also be fueling our tech addiction.

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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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Open Office Productivity: A Broken Promise

Bonfyre

In the last two decades, a wave of organizations implemented new open floor plans on faith of a promise. Open office productivity, collaboration, and innovation would be far greater than it was in their old floor plans. Today, many of these organizations regret the decision. They feel they were sold a false bill of goods when the purported benefits failed to materialize.

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How to Reduce Employee Turnover

Payactiv

While you may think your employee’s financial wellness is not a business concern, the reality is that improving an employee’s personal life can positively affect their performance. The post How to Reduce Employee Turnover appeared first on PayActiv.

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FREE Webinar - Common Employer Practices that May Impact Individuals with a Disability

Berkshire Associates

Join us on April 24, 2019, from 1 to 2 p.m. EST to learn more about common employer practices that might come under scrutiny this year. In this session, Lynn Clements, a former OFCCP and EEOC official who now serves as the Director of Regulatory Affairs at Berkshire Associates , will review what the government thinks of employer policies related to use of leaves of absence as an accommodation, attendance practices, and pregnancy-related restrictions.

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Three Key Leadership Lessons For Promoting Cultural Cohesion

Forbes Coaches Council

When leaders foster diversity and inclusion, build loyalty through authentic virtue and overcome challenges with grace and agility, they set a precedent for the rest of us.

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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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Are You What Your People Eat?

WeSpire

Saturday Spark #8. By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO. Last year, WeWork rocked the business world. Not for the staggering amounts of capital raised or opening more than 200 new locations, but for a simple and yet profound announcement signaling their values. The headline read: We Will Not Serve or Pay For Meat. The policy included all company events and employee expenses.

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3 Tips for Switching Benefits Administration Providers

WEX Inc.

How do I login for benefits? Who do I contact for help? I don’t understand my benefits options. These are just a handful of all-too-common-questions benefits administration professionals hear from their employees on a regular, if not daily, basis. Try as your team or contact center might to answer them all individually, you probably find yourself thinking " there's got to be a better way.".

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hiringplug™ - Empowering Gig Recruiters

Hiring Plug

hiringplug™ empowers Freelance / Gig recruiters and boutique recruitment agencies to expand their business by providing free access to a variety of job mandates and productive tools.

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the Ask a Manager book is on sale right now

Ask a Manager

If you don’t already have a copy of the Ask a Manager book, now is a great time to buy it — because now through Sunday, the e-book version is on sale for only $1.99. Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work is all about tricky conversations at work and walks you through principles for speaking up effectively at work in general … how to frame your concerns to your boss so that you get taken seriously … way

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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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When Introducing Organizational Change, Tell Stories From, Not About, The Future

Forbes Coaches Council

Stories from the future — that we can feel ourselves living in now — engage our heads, hearts, and guts. They tap into our emotions.

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Five for Friday: Leadership and Trust

Jostle

Leadership and trust go hand in hand, each informing and influencing the other. In many ways trust is the foundation of effective leadership: if your people don’t trust that you have their best interests in mind, they might have trouble believing in your vision, and they may not come to you when they need help. This week’s Five for Friday rounds up five articles that take a closer look at why trust is so important to good leadership.

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Develop Your Resilience With These 13 Leadership Strategies

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share tips to help leaders to become more resilient.

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Why Temperature Control is Essential to Workplace Productivity

Effortless HR

Having the right temperature settings inside your workplace can benefit you and your staff in many ways. According to a Helsinki University of Technology study cited by Chron , the ideal temperature in a work setting is between 69.8 degrees and 71.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Not only will adequate temperature control allow your employees to feel more comfortable, it can also help increase work productivity.

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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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How to write a compelling job posting

BerniePortal

A job posting is more than just a description of an open position—it’s an advertisement. Yes, job postings should clearly and honestly communicate position details, but they should also articulate why a candidate would enjoy working for your company. So, where to start? Let’s take a look!

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HRWins Insights: Workplace Intelligence Report: Is Talent Management Evolving? Part 3 In Series

WorkTech

The post HRWins Insights: Workplace Intelligence Report: Is Talent Management Evolving? Part 3 In Series appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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Coming To Terms With Our Approach To Conflict In The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

By first gaining self-awareness, engagement with others can be more thoughtful and considerate — an important step in improving one’s work situation and achieving professional objectives.

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