Mon.Dec 28, 2020

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Minimize Penalties with ACA Best Practices for the Holiday Season

ACA Times

3 minute read: With the New Year around the corner, employers should begin preparing their ACA Forms 1094-C and 1095-C if they haven’t already begun to do so. Each year, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95% of their full-time workforce (and their dependents) whereby such coverage meets Minimum Value (MV) and is affordable for the employee, or

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“Authentically acknowledge your own struggles” with Shane Jackson

Thrive Global

Be vulnerable and authentically acknowledge your own struggles. This summer, I sat with several of our leadership teams and talked about the strain that COVID-19 had put on me and my family, and how I was personally battling the accompanying anxiety. I had many comments from people about how much it meant to hear that they weren’t the only ones struggling, that they weren’t alone, and that the leader of the company understood.

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Creative and Innovative Appreciation Ideas for 2021

Hppy

According to 2020 statistics from smallbiztrends , a full third of employees say they are minimally committed to their jobs. Several factors can explain this decline in productivity, including the global Covid-19 crisis. . However, 2021 brings new opportunities to rekindle employee engagement and get businesses back on track. Appreciation is a powerful tool in this regard, as it can reward employees for their hard work and motivate others to do the same. .

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Ways to Make Your Workplace Design Reflect Core Business Values

Take It Personel-ly

The most important factors in your physical workplace are functionality and practicality. However, it’s also smart to use your space to market your overall brand. Everyone who comes to your headquarters, no matter if employees, clients or business partners, need to read your company values right from the way you designed your space. But that’s […].

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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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HR Strategy for Small Business - The Top 5 Focus Areas

SHRM

Businesses require some kind of HR function as soon as they have one employee. However, it’s imperative to begin planning for a dedicated HR function early in development (SHRM recommends doing so once a company reaches 10 employees). However, to save money, research shows, 54 percent of small businesses handle employment matters themselves or have another staff member handle HR issues piecemeal.

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5 Virtual Meeting and Workshop Activities You Need to Try 

Workology

Virtual meetings, workshops, and conferences can make participation and engagement really challenging. What has worked for us for in-person events—like meet your team bingo, scavenger hunt. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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5 IT Services Career Paths You Can Follow

Take It Personel-ly

Information technology is the basis for modern business models. A business must incorporate an online strategy in its growth plan. This means that there is a soaring demand for IT professionals. The following is a list of IT career paths you can consider if you want to benefit from this technology trend. Computer Systems Analyst […].

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4 Solutions to Imposter Syndrome

45 Things

Imposter syndrome is something that affects most of us at one time or another, but many people don't know what to do about it when it hits them. Imposter syndrome is a "psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a 'fraud.'" I've interviewed many people over the years -- including c-suite executives -- who suffer from it.

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updates: the boundary-violating boss, the scars, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. I don’t want to tell my boundary-violating boss I’m pregnant. Sending that letter and reading not only your response but some of the comments really landed me where I am today.

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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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Sharpening Soft Skills: Seven Human-Centered Approaches For Leaders

Forbes Coaches Council

When a colleague is struggling, a direct report is languishing or you simply want to build a stronger relationship, give these human-centered approaches a try.

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update: can you fire someone solely for being racist?

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer whose company fired a new employee for racism ? Her friend, who worked in HR at another company, told her that he couldn’t be fired simply for being racist and that he should have been put on a PIP (!).

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Employee Disengagement And How To Fix It

Engagedly

Articles and reports on employee engagement or disengagement tell you how costly it is. They tell you the number one cause of disengagement. But rarely will they give you the fixes. It is not only necessary to understand why employees become disengaged, but it is also equally important to know how to fix it. Sometimes there are no outside factors that cause employee disengagement, rather internal factors.

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HRWS: U.S. to Require UK Travelers to Test Negative for COVID-19

HR Workplace Services

As of December 25, 2020, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is requiring British airline passengers to receive a negative COVID-19 prior to boarding their flight to the States. The U.S. in now the latest country to announce similar restrictions because of a new coronavirus variant spreading in Britain. The order specifies that airline passengers from the U.K. must receive a negative COVID-19 within three days of their trip and provide results to the airline prior to boardin

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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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How To Coach Your Way Through The Leadership Paradox

Forbes Coaches Council

Leadership roles, irrespective as to where they reside in the organization, are fraught with paradoxes that are rarely discussed until after they have occurred.

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How Self-compassion Can Help Us Avoid Burnout

Thrive Global

Self-victimization, negativity, and self-pity become habitual ways of thinking. These limitations manifest in the chronic patterns of living in which some people find themselves: jobless, alone, bored, miserable. The prison bars are the old judgments, fears, and worries that you erect from past hurts and fears, recycled through the present. Once you understand that it’s your limited view that prevents your life from working, not the reality of the world, everything changes for the better.

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The Mind: Is It Friend Or Foe?

Forbes Coaches Council

The mind is an amazing human asset. It’s attached to a complex organ — the brain — and possesses some characteristics that can periodically turn it against us and make it more of a foe than a friend.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Eugene Community Safety Payroll Tax

Patriot Software

Attention Oregon employers! Specifically, attention employers in Eugene, Oregon. A new type of payroll tax is coming your way in 2021. Learn all about the Eugene Community Safety Payroll tax and whether or not you need to withhold and remit it to the city. What is the Eugene Community Safety Payroll Tax? The Eugene Community […] READ MORE.

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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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Five Leaders Who Turned 2020 On Its Head And What We Can All Learn From Them In 2021

Forbes Coaches Council

These stories simply serve to remind us that our own lessons of leadership during these times are equally valuable and might simply have been overlooked.

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Compliance Management and the Concept of Wu Wei

360 factors

Philosophy has the virtue of being applicable everywhere – from our personal lives to our professional endeavors. There are philosophies which provide excellent insights into what bankers can do to maximize their success during different situations. Wu Wei is an important part of Confucianism and banks who understand the concept will be able to reap the benefits.

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What To Do When The Jobs Are Gone

Forbes Coaches Council

Human needs, social justice and ecological sustainability are the priorities, not material gain for its own sake.

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5 Healthy and Realistic Habits to Start In the New Year

Thrive Global

In December, we reflect on what we want to accomplish in the New Year, and we wait until the end of the holiday season to start pursuing the new goals. Going back to the routine in January, life gets busy and it’s harder to change old habits and create strategies to pursue new goals. Thus, 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by February. You can take advantage of the holidays’ downtime to start these five healthy habits that will give you a head start for your New Year resolutio

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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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16 Smart Ways To Boost Customer Retention For A New Business

Forbes Coaches Council

While acquiring new customers is important, it is just as critical to retain your existing customers as it is to look for that next sale.

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Kevin Foreman of Harvest: “Listen closer”

Thrive Global

I wouldn’t be so ticklish. You tickle someone to get a response or reaction, and in leadership, people will often tickle you through criticism that’s not constructive because it’s coming from people who have never constructed anything. People will also attempt to pull you into their disagreements and fights. I’ve learned just not to be ticklish. As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bishop Kevin Foreman.

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The 2020 Accelerator: Understanding Current Pressures And How To Adapt

Forbes Coaches Council

Here are a list of 10 tips that can help you embrace change, navigate the future and grow the skills needed to be an impactful leader.

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Caliper Certification Will Help Your Business Separate Performance from Potential

Caliper

This article on succession planning and leadership development was originally published in April 2019. All relevant statistics and copy have been updated as of November 2020. If given a dose of truth serum, many businesses would admit to not preparing sufficiently for the future. Sure, a CEO may consider the organization’s legacy and what that looks like, but there is frequently no clarity around who will bring that vision to life.

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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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Use This Three-Step Formula To Answer “Tell Me About Yourself?”

Forbes Coaches Council

The best elevator pitches are the ones that have a clear chronology coupled with compelling stories.

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updates: my company is doing drive-bys to check that I’m at home, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. 1. My company is doing drive-bys to check that I’m in isolation. Thanks for your advice and for the feedback from the lovely comments section. The drive-bys stopped two days after I wrote to you, actually.

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Personal Growth Lessons From The Fridge, Stovetop And Trash Bin

Forbes Coaches Council

External actions trigger deeper internal changes that develop effective universal skills necessary in life and careers.

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