Wed.Mar 27, 2019

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Soft Skills are Hard. We need to stop calling them soft. #Workhuman

Jason Lauritsen

I’m just back from spending four epic days in Nashville at my favorite conference event of the year, Workhuman. As is always the case after this event, I’ve got a lot of ideas swirling in my head from the great content and conversations. Sidenote: I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. If you believe that we need to make work a more human experience, you need to get to this event next year.

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Bring Your Human to Work

Root

The following is an excerpt from Erica Kewsin’s Bring Your Human to Work: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Design a Workplace That is Good for People, Great for Business, and Just Might Change the World. The book translates key practices of the most human companies into applicable advice that any business leader can use to a “human workplace.” In addition to her role as author, Erica is the Founder of the Spaghetti Project, a platform devoted to sharing the science and stories of human connections with glo

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What is Your Company Story?

DISC Assessments

Every company, big or small, has a starting point. That starting point represents the beginning of your company’s story. Scott McKain explains how to use your company’s story to help connect with customers, inspire loyalty, and keep them coming back! If you are able to communicate your own company narrative in a way that is interesting and intriguing, you increase your potential for lasting success and customer loyalty.

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Sirenum Announces Strategic Partnership with Wagestream to Simplify Worker Access to Earned Wages

Sirenum

Leading Dynamic Workforce Management Platform Integrates With Industry Leader for Worker Instant Payment and Financial Education London, UK--Sirenum, the leading UK-based provider of technology solutions for innovative temporary staffing agencies, is proud to announce today that it has entered a strategic partnership with Wagestream, the leading UK provider of solutions for employees to regain financial [ ] The post Sirenum Announces Strategic Partnership with Wagestream to Simplify Work

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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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Top 5 Employee Engagement Trends for 2019

Reflektive

Increases in technology and employee management strategies have driven home an important point: employee engagement is important to business success, and yet woefully ignored. Gallup reports only 15 percent of employees worldwide are engaged in their jobs. American workers are twice as likely to be engaged, but even so, that leaves 70 percent of employees who are disengaged at work.

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7 reasons why collaboration is important

Jostle

As people’s skill sets get increasingly specialized, collaboration as a practice becomes more important than ever. But what does that mean exactly? What is collaboration?

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How Unhappy Employees Can Cost You Millions

Hppy

Employees are an integral part of any organization. A lot depends on the happiness of your employees. They have the power to make or break your company’s reputation. It is well known how organizations have lost millions due to unhappy employees. When the world is on the brink of the great depression, it is one of those things which should be in the to-do lists of companies to garner happy employees.

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Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.

Symantec

Although heavily focused on the Middle East, Elfin (aka APT33) has also targeted a range of organizations in the U.S. including a number of major corporations.

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Here’s How HR Will Target Its Tech Dollars

HRExecutive

HRE recently conducted a pulse survey of nearly 200 respondents on the topic of HR technology, which found almost one-third (31 percent) of respondents say their HR tech spend will increase in 2019. We asked a trio of HR tech experts—Christa Manning, director of human capital management innovation at Ultimate Software; Stacia Garr, co-founder and principal analyst at RedThread Research; and Kyle Lagunas, research director for emerging trends, talent acquisition and engagement at IDC—to interpret

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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 Can HR Contribute to Improving Employee Experience

Engagedly

Employee experience is everything that an employee experiences at work from their on-boarding, interactions with their boss and other teams to the process of their work and their exit interview. It is about offering the best working experience […].

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someone is taking phone calls while using the toilet in our shared bathroom

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: This is such a niche and gross question. I work in a very upscale building in a large city, where we have high-end, VIP, A-list celebrity clients on our floor at least several times a week. Needless to say, it’s important for us to always look and act in the most professional manner possible. There are four office suites on my floor, and all of the employees in all offices are generally very courteous and kind and very professional and discreet.

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Outcomes of Leader Humor Depend on Gender

IO At Work

Gender stereotypes play a role in how costly or beneficial humor is at work, including potential implications on perceived leadership and performance.

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Be Precise About Essential Job Functions

SHRM Resources

Written job descriptions are strong evidence of what constitute essential job functions. Employers are afforded deference here. Taking the time to have accurate job descriptions that specify what functions are essential can literally carry the day for employers in court.

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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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Why Is No One Listening? That Sometimes Invisible World of Internal Communications

Advanced Learning Institute

Creating inspiring and impactful internal communication that connects with your audience does not happen by accident or chance. Careful thought and strategy need to go into the creation of compelling communication that yields business results and desired outcomes. Surely that is stating the obvious. But is that what really happens in most organizations?

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5 Things You Must Do When Providing References

45 Things

Once an employer gets around to checking your references, you may be feeling quite confident that a job offer is coming your way. Hold on. According to an Accountemps survey , one in three candidates are removed from job consideration after checking with their references. The problem is often that references don't know that they're your references because you neglected to ask them.

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Worried automation in the workplace kills jobs? Think again.

Business Management Daily

Theories that automation in the workplace could eliminate millions of jobs in the U.S.are starting to get debunked. The post Worried automation in the workplace kills jobs? Think again. appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Five Simple Steps For Transforming And Eliminating Communication Obstacles

Forbes Coaches Council

Oftentimes, people aren't really listening to each other. They're coming up with their own version of what was said and how things happened.

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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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The Reviews are In! Kronos HCM Cloud Suite Recognized for Excellence in HR, Payroll

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced a trio of new honors for the Kronos Workforce Ready human capital management (HCM) cloud suite, which has been recognized by Constellation Research, G2 Crowd, and TrustRadius as a top solution for human resources (HR) and payroll.

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The Journey to #SHRM19: Best Job Ever!

SHRM

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.” Our journey together to the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition has officially begun! I can promise you it will be a truly special time for everyone in attendance. I’ve attended this event on many occasions since I began my career in HR, but the last serval years have been the most memorable.

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The Journey to #SHRM19: Best Job Ever!

The SHRM Blog

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.” Our journey together to the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition has officially begun! I can promise you it will be a truly special time for everyone in attendance. I’ve attended this event on many occasions since I began my career in HR, but the last serval years have been the most memorable.

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How to Stop Data Loss in an Office 365 Cloud-Centric World

Symantec

Symantec’s ISTR reveals that 49% of cloud hacks and exploits come from email, file sharing, and instant messaging

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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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Pre-Employment Testing 101: Webinar Recap

Criteria Corp

Curious about pre-employment testing? 82% of companies are already using some form of pre-employment tests to evaluate their candidates in the hiring process.

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Career Confessions from Gen Z: Tips to Being Successful

The Tim Sackett Project

Everyone’s goal is to be successful. There are little changes that you can make each day that can have a big impact on your success. Three things that are not taught in a college lecture hall, but that will make you stand out among your coworkers and be successful are: 1. Being on Time. Being on time is so important no matter what it’s for. Punctuality is great for work, attending a sporting event, or meeting friends for dinner.

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Major Pitfalls that DS Companies Face in Recruiting and Retaining Distributors

Rallyware for Human Resources

According to the WFDSA, the global direct selling community involves more than 116 million distributors. In the US, this number totals 18.6 million people. However, these figures seem not so big if we take into account that between 70% and 80% of new distributors never take any further steps after they join a company. So why is there such a high level of inactive distributors?

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Why Qualtrics – Isabel Schmidt – Account Executive – Munich, Germany

Qualtrics HR

What is your ‘why’? How does Qualtrics connect with your ‘why’? Things usually come easy to me and I don’t have to give 100% to get good results. But I get quickly bored in such an environment. That is why I love being challenged. In demanding situations my brain starts using its full potential. I also need progress – always.

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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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Oracle and Monster Partner Big for Small and Midsize Business

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written By: Sarah Lambert, Director Oracle HCM Cloud, Product Marketing. No matter the size your organization is, finding the right talent—and having the tools to attract, hire, and engage them—can be just as hard as finding new clients. For small and midsize companies , it can be even trickier due to a lack of employer brand recognition or a complete talent acquisition team or even the lack of sufficient budgets to advertise jobs.

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my employee lied about a reference

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I wanted to run a scenario by you that happened to a friend of mine the other day. He told me that one of his direct reports had asked him for a reference for a part-time weekend gig to make some extra money. He said that this staff member was a high performer – in fact, he views him as being one of the best – and so therefore he didn’t have any qualms about giving him a reference.

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15 ways to engage employees in building a new intranet

ThoughtFarmer

Modern intranet software has changed the rules of successfully launching an intranet. Today, we’re seeing more robust and vibrant intranets with social and mobile-enabled features to support the rise of the digital workplace. While in the past it was quite helpful to involve employees throughout the process, today it’s a necessity. Today’s intranets serve as an online community space.