Mon.May 21, 2018

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This is the Problem With Workplace Friendships

45 Things

I'm sure you've experienced this in your career: There are people you become friends with on the job, and feel so grateful to have found such relationships. Then, there are the people you work with who you wish would get a job on Mars. Having friends at work can be a blast. The days go faster, are more fun and it seems so reassuring to know that someone always has your back.

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Here's 3 Things You Can Do With Talent Claiming "Disruptor" Status.

The HR Capitalist

If you're in the business of thinking about management and leadership, you'll get this post. We love to celebrate the disruptors, right? Big ideas, crazy results, etc. Of course, the dirty little secret is that we only love the disruptors that don't get capped at the knees by the cultures they are trying to change. The disruptors who don't make it?

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Helping Employees Move to a Growth Mindset

Reflektive

How does a person’s way of looking at themselves factor in to their success in life? It isn’t a simple matter of self-belief. We all know people with a wildly inflated sense of self-worth without the track record to back it up. Nor is it a matter of being born “talented,” as we’ve also seen promising musicians fade from the charts overnight. What quality allows some people to transform failure into success?

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coworker uses icebreakers in every meeting, is it wrong to fake enthusiasm in a job interview, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker uses icebreakers in every meeting. One of my coworkers runs a lot of the meetings at my workplace. He’s good at his job and generally well-liked, but I’ve noticed that he almost always schedules an icebreaker for meetings — even small ones with only three or four people.

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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 Long Should It Take a Candidate to Make a Decision on a Job Offer?

The Tim Sackett Project

When you make a candidate an offer, how long do you give them to tell you they want the job or not? 24 hours? 3 days? 1 week? Immediately? For two decades I’ve been in the camp of a candidate should be able to tell you ‘yes’ or ‘no’ immediately, or you (the recruiter and hiring manager) did something wrong in closing! But, I think I’ve changed my stance on this, if “fit” is really important for the position, your culture, etc.

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Paid Time Off Policies: 5 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know

Zenefits

As a small business owner, you may wonder about your rights and obligations as well as popular trends when it comes to paid time off policies (or PTO). . Am I required to offer it? And if so, just how much paid time off are my employees entitled to? What are other companies of my size offering? “I opted for a PTO system with my law firm,” says Jesse Harrison, founder and CEO of the Employee Justice Legal Team , a law firm that practices employment law and labor law matters. “ Worthwhile PTO pol

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TED Talk Tuesday: Understanding Work-Life Balance

Cornerstone On Demand

This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. There's no such thing as a perfect work-life balance, but to achieve a lifestyle that makes employees highly functional both at work and at home, they must first set realistic expectations, author Nigel Marsh says.

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Paid Time Off Policies: 5 Things Small Business Owners Need to Know

Zenefits

As a small business owner, you may wonder about your rights and obligations as well as popular trends when it comes to paid time off policies (or PTO). . Am I required to offer it? And if so, just how much paid time off are my employees entitled to? What are other companies of my size offering? “I opted for a PTO system with my law firm,” says Jesse Harrison, founder and CEO of the Employee Justice Legal Team , a law firm that practices employment law and labor law matters. “ Worthwhile PTO pol

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#Unleash18 Humans + Bureaucracy: Control No More

The Aristocracy of HR

000020000000 “Bureaucracy is a global thing. “ ~ Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School I had the opportunity to sit in on a Q&A session Day 1 with Gary Hamel, Professor at London Business School at Unleash 2018 in Vegas. Long before this Q&A, he had wooed me with his words and refreshing […].

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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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#WorkTrends: The Future of HR Tech

TalentCulture

Technology is disrupting everything, and HR is no exception. The tools and platforms available for today’s HR teams are light-years […]. The post #WorkTrends: The Future of HR Tech appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Did Google Fake its AI Demo? A Lesson for Employer Communications

UpstartHR

If you’re a nerd or just a casual technology news consumer, you might have heard about the recent live Google Duplex demo with the company’s CEO. In essence, the technology will assist you with those mundane or annoying times when you need to schedule an appointment. Simply tell your device to schedule an appointment for you and it will take care of the whole thing, phone call, scheduling, and all.

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Here’s How to Get Employees to Make Better Benefits Choices

TLNT: The Business of HR

Human resources, at its core, exists to support the organization as a whole by helping employees perform at their highest level. This support is provided through a wide range of activities: recruiting talent, helping employees make the right benefits decisions, providing professional and educational support, keeping employees engaged within the organization, providing performance guidance and feedback, creating and encouraging wellness initiatives – the list goes on and on.

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Sorry, Busta Rhymes. You don’t get a “celebrity exception” for settling your wage-and-hour claim

The Employer Handbook

By Mikamote [ CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons Generally, if a wage and hour dispute arises in the workplace, the parties need approval from either the U.S. Department of Labor or a federal court to resolve claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. When parties agree to resolve these claims as part of litigation, two things often happen: A court must approve the settlement; and.

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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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New to HR? I Have My Degree…Now What?

Workology

Spring graduations have been put up on social media over the last few weeks and we still have many to go. It’s exciting to see people completing the college journey and finally earning their degree, no matter what degree or what age. Sadly, many college graduates finish the same way they started college, confused. You […] Source.

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Latest Features Of SutiHR

SutiHR

SutiHR’s new features provide organizations with greater flexibility in their workforce management processes. The advanced capabilities include innovations to expand its unified solution, drive performance and streamline important tasks for recruitment, onboarding, and employee management. HR managers now have an option to upload documents that are sent by the candidates under the Employment Details section.

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DecisionWise and the GDPR - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

At DecisionWise, we are committed to keeping your data safe, and we are on track to comply with the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) by May 25, 2018. I am the Data Protection Officer for DecisionWise, and I am writing this article to describe our current efforts to comply with the GDPR requirements. DecisionWise is a tech-enabled service provider to employers and leadership teams around the globe.

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How to Work With a Micromanaging Boss

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you haven’t worked for a micromanager , you’ve heard about them. Employees buzz about these bosses over lunch, complain about them around the water cooler, and chew them up at the dinner table with their family.

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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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I’m sick of being the office printer lady

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: In our small office of about 10 people, I happen to sit the closest to our only printer, located in a room about 20 feet from my desk. The printer will display an error message on the screen when there is an issue (paper gets jammed, the printer is out of paper, etc.) Since I sit so close to the printer, every time someone in our office goes to retrieve their print job and sees an error message on the screen, they immediately call for me to come help (I assume because I sit so c

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Where Did We Go Wrong with Leadership Development?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Most of us seem to intuitively understand the connection between leadership and success, because collectively we invest a lot of time and money in self-help classes and books intended to improve our leadership skills. In 2011, the self-help market in the U.S. was worth a whopping $10 billion. Although a significant portion of this money goes to health, fitness, and weight-loss programs, these are closely followed by financial, business, and personal development products.

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SocialChorus Is a Finalist for the Employee Engagement Awards

SocialChorus

Gallup’s recent State of the Global Workplace reports 85 percent of employees are disengaged at work – causing an estimated $7 trillion in lost productivity. Despite the dismal stat, change is happening. Many companies are taking the right steps to rethink their management styles and develop communication strategies to improve employee engagement. The Employee Engagement Awards (EE Awards) is the first and only global award to recognize excellence in the type of engagement that inspires action

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[Webinar] The Ongoing Importance of Drug Testing for the Healthcare Industry

Precheck

[Webinar] The Ongoing Importance of Drug Testing for the Healthcare Industry May. 22, 2018. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Healthcare providers play a critical role in today’s society – providing care for hundreds of thousands of Americans each year. As an industry, they have seen firsthand the devastating impact of drug use and abuse today.

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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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what to do if you hate your job

Ask a Manager

I wrote this for LinkedIn’s Weekend Essay this weekend. If you’re miserable at work, you’re not alone. Having written Ask a Manager for more than a decade now, I’ve answered questions from literally thousands of people who hate their jobs. Whether it’s due to a difficult boss, unpleasant colleagues, mind-numbing work, or a toxic culture, there are a lot of people toiling away at jobs they’d rather not be in.

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Five Key Takeaways From the 2018 APA Congress

Replicon

Last week, payroll experts from all over the world came together in Maryland for the the American Payroll Association’s 36th Annual Congress. With five full days of excellent knowledge, advice, and insight, it’s difficult to condense the experience into one post – but I did leave with 5 important takeaways: 1. Change is in the […]. The post Five Key Takeaways From the 2018 APA Congress appeared first on Replicon.

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Using Employee-Created Content to Increase Engagement

Reviewsnap

This is a guest article courtesy of TechnologyAdvice. Study after study supports an idea that’s grown to be a core tenet of the entire HR discipline: Engaged employees are crucial to your company’s well-being. Consumers trust employee opinions an average of 16 points more than the CEO on key points like employee/customer relations, innovation, industry issues, or programs addressing societal issues.

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7 Things to Consider Before Joining the Family Business

Take It Personel-ly

Being part of a family-run business, especially one that has succeeded for generations, comes with a sense of major pride and responsibility. As the next generation takes up the charge, they must ask themselves if they’re truly ready, willing and able to keep the business going. Family businesses make up 64 percent of the U.S. […].

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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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my boss’s dog keeps attacking my coworkers

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small nonprofit in a city where many offices allow dogs. The organization I work for is still run by its founders, and they have maintained nearly full control of all operations since the organization’s inception. In other words, the place is pretty dysfunctional. The co-founders adopted an abused dog who has serious behavior problems.

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Customers Keep Quick Base Top Rated on TrustRadius 

Quickbase

Our customers are pretty amazing, and that’s a fact. They are pioneers of a sort, who can blaze a new trail, forecast challenges ahead, and bring together teams internally for the greater good of their organizations. They’re capable of some amazing feats (just check out the latest Customer Awards Finalists) and are always proud to highlight their success […].

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Workers Indicate Need for More Education and Guidance on Health Care

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey conducted among 1,100 American workers reveals their need for education and guidance when it comes to their healthcare benefits. The survey, conducted by Zogby Analytics on behalf of WEX Health, a healthcare financial technology platform provider, sought information about how consumers view and engage with their healthcare benefits by asking workers about their employer-sponsored health insurance, decision-making processes, healthcare spending habits and challenges, and preferred