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I accidentally sent my boss a message complaining about her, boss wants to know my long-term plan, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I accidentally sent my boss a message complaining about her. I accidentally sent a message to my boss which was meant for somebody else and am very embarrassed. I’d had a long day. I had back to back meetings from 12 to 4. I started work at 7 am to allow myself some extra time to produce work products before the meetings started.

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RV Fast Facts, Statistics, and Emerging Trends RV Fast Facts, Statistics, and Emerging Trends

Take It Personel-ly

Whether it’s for work or leisure, traveling will remain an integral part of any person’s life. Visiting new places and creating precious memories is a joy unlike any other, but due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, traveling as we know it is changing. Since a vaccine is still unavailable, governments have restricted […].

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How To Spend Shabbat: A Day of Rest

Thrive Global

We all know the story of creation that is found in multiple religious texts. Regardless of whether you are a believer or not, the idea of taking a day off to rest has been woven into the very fabric of man’s existence. No matter what philosophy or religion you follow, there is a good chance that the idea of rest and relaxation is a part of your culture.

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Social Distancing 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Camping

Take It Personel-ly

Preparing for your first camping trip can be exciting but also possibly a bit overwhelming. When you have so much to pack and carry, it’s easy for even the most experienced campers to forget something. This is why it’s advisable to start packing a day or two before you head out. This also gives you […].

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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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Essential management skills for companies seeking growth in 2021

Manatal

For a company to grow out of the comfort of infancy, it’s vital that the workforce is not only prepared for future change but that each and every employee, especially on the management level, possesses a specific set of skills. . This is a matter of balance. The company hierarchy, especially that of a small business, requires an effective distribution of leadership skills across the board.

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Support the Fundamental Human Needs of Your Employees — and Everyone Benefits

HR C-Suite

The COVID-19 crisis continues to challenge us, social unrest rages in Portland and elsewhere, and a national election and economic crisis loom in the distance. Though we’ve been making strides as organizational leaders to support our teams through WFH initiatives and policy adjustments, we now realize the challenges are here to stay, at least in […].

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COVID-19 Staff Testing Checklist for Employers

HR Digest

An organization should be strategic about COVID testing and have a proper plan for what to do and follow positive results. Testing is most required in areas where there is possible substantial community transmission of COVID-19 and workspaces where employees work in close contact with each other or in public. Four Testing Checklist. There are four particular situations where testing is appropriate: Testing employees who show symptoms: If an employee has a fever during a regular temperature check

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How To Ensure Privacy For Your Patients, Clients or Customers

New to HR

Confidentiality is important for businesses of all types. Whether you have a healthcare business providing services to your patients or you have clients or customers. The post How To Ensure Privacy For Your Patients, Clients or Customers appeared first on New To HR.

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Setting Priorities for Your Family’s Finances

Thrive Global

As your life progresses, finances can be more challenging. When you have more people counting on you than just yourself, it is difficult to manage priorities on how you spend your money. Balancing day to day expenses with long-term goals creates stress in the strongest of relationships. Talking frequently with your significant other to ensure you are on the same page can help alleviate a great deal of the pressure associated with managing finances.

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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 Saving The Economy Or Tackling The Pandemic Is A False Dilemma

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On the one hand, biology: the clinical effects a virus has on our body, how it spreads, the deaths it causes, or our capacity to generate vaccines. On the other, the economy: a human construct that can be brought under control, stopped when necessary, or redefined based on new agreements or rules.

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The One Thing I Stopped Saying in 2020

Thrive Global

The news of Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death came two days before my birthday this year. And like so many I felt the shock, the confusion, the injustice…followed immediately by the awe at this man who had created so much in the last four years while carrying the burden – physical, emotional, mental – of the fight that he was in against mortality. His heroism, his bravery, was suddenly exponentially magnified through the lens of the knowledge that so many of us were just now receiving of his fight

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5 Simple Ways To Maximize Your Job Search

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Whether looking for a new job or a full-blown career change, these tips will help you maximize your results during these challenging times.

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Old Lives

Thrive Global

Do we cherrish old people enough? Needless to say that the numbers of old people are rising around the world. What does that mean to us, to me personally? I am convinced that the way, a society thinks about their old ones says more about their status of development than gross income. Do we – on a daily basis – realize the great importance of old people for our societies?

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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 Most Troubling Part Of Michael Cohen’s New Book? The Truth That’s Hard To Read

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Michael Cohen’s new book is already being attacked a litany of lies and falsehoods. But the convicted felon's new tell all demonstrates a troubling truth that is impossible to ignore.

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RED PILL or BLUE PILL?

Thrive Global

There is no denying that our world, as we have known it, has been turned upside-down. People all over the globe are scrambling to find their footing after the earth underneath them opened up and transported them to a reality they have only seen in the movies. No discrimination — rich and poor, famous and not-so-famous, all colors, all genders, all races, all nationalities — we are all in the same boat.

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Hate Your Job? You Are Not Alone

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The Cure For ‘Bullsh*t Jobs’ Is Agile Management.

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Small Steps Up the Hill

Thrive Global

Photo by Sage Friedman on Unsplash. There is nothing worse than needing to do something and not feeling motivated enough. Yes, even I get days where I just can’t. I can’t find the energy to write, I am unable to get my blessed rear in gear and get out there and do something. Sometimes, life requires us to change, change how we think, what we are doing either personally or professionally, and make choices that can be challenging.

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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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Key During Uncertain Times: Creating Customer Confidence

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The best way to describe the result of creating confidence is this.

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Leading, Living, and Loving Between Worlds

Thrive Global

Right now, it feels as though we are between worlds, and the need for compassion, and for wise leadership, has perhaps never been greater. This is almost always true, but the stakes and intensity appear particularly profound at this juncture. Major changes in world assumptions about race, communities, economies, politics, health care, and our food and water systems are collapsing and being reborn at the same time.

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5 Ways for Managing (Constant) Interruptions at Work

6Q

You may work in the most focused office environment on your best day, and you’ll still be exposed to at least one interruption. On a usual day in a usual working environment, you’ll be managing interruptions a few times. Messy email messages with no point, chat messages from your colleagues, gossip between teammates, important news that you have to read… the list is endless. .

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How to lead: Lessons on Listening & Learning

Thrive Global

I purchased both the Kindle and Audible version of the book – on the day it was released. Why? Because I thought it would be an opportunity to learn more about the ability to lead from those who have done so in diverse disciplines under diverse circumstances and from diverse backgrounds. I also attended the virtual book launch interview given by David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington.

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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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How Can Chatbots Improve Employee Experience?

TalentLyft

Chatbots can definitely improve the employee experience. But how exactly? Discover 5 tangible ways HR chatbots will improve candidate and employee experience in the years to come.

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The Future of Healthcare Education

Thrive Global

If there’s one thing that the recent COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, it’s that healthcare is a vital industry. In the past months, we’ve witnessed quick response times, tireless work, and genuine passion from healthcare professionals worldwide. While many of us may not stop to think about it, it takes an enormous amount of people, money, and dedication to keep our healthcare systems operated efficiently—even in the wake of unprecedented crises.

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How The Best Campaign Ad Of The Year Beat The Kennedys

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How a single video turned the tide against the previously undefeated Kennedy political machine.

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Workforce Resilience: What the Pandemic Means for Employee Wellness With Foyle Legal

Thrive Global

The current COVID-19 epidemic raises multiple problems for companies, including increasing the risk of elevated workplace diseases. However, the actual effect on workers ‘ compensation schemes may be much more severe, with higher volume of lawsuits for some sectors, increased payroll costs for many employers and more compliance pressures. Numerous sources claims the number of requests for total pay by employees during the pandemic may decrease as less people work.

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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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Call Trump’s Attacks On The 1619 Project What They Are — Censorship of American History

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On Sunday, President Trump attacked on the 1619 Project, threatening to withhold funding from schools teaching the popular project focused on the rise and impact of slavery in the United States. The question is: why?

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“Options are Power”

Thrive Global

I’m designing my first tattoo. It says “Options are Power.” It’s my mantra. Options give us the right, not the obligation, to make a change. Humans have a psychological and biological need to feel in control, to have options. Behavioral studies and neuroimaging work across pigeons, monkeys, rats…and humans.show signs of stress reduction, reward and motivation when we have options.

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Regulation To Restrict H-1B Visas Moves Toward Final Step

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The Trump administration will soon publish a rule to restrict H-1B visas. Companies are expected to challenge the rule in court.

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