Sat.Apr 25, 2020

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How I Learned to Be Steady in Life’s Emotional Storms

Thrive Global

My greatest teacher over the past few years—and quite possibly my life—has been grief. After my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly, I knew the role I needed to fill for my family. I vowed to look beyond the surface to consider what was really going on… to notice changes in behavior that might indicate attention and care was needed… to resist the urge to take unbecoming behaviors personally and recognize the painful root.

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How to Implement an Effective Performance Management System

Engagedly

Organisations constantly strive to standardise their administrative processes and tools to improve their overall efficiency. But are the organisations doing performance review right? Here are a few ways to find out! Before evaluating your performance review practices, let’s […].

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Avoiding Burnout During the Pandemic

Thrive Global

Maintaining work-life integration is no easy task, especially during the coronavirus pandemic , when many of us have experienced blurred boundaries between work and home, and some are also taking care of families while schools are closed. Working from home in the current environment requires considerable effort, and workers, especially leaders, often feel the need to log extra hours to get their work done — and to “prove their value.

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How Can You Find The Right Career For You?

New to HR

The job or career you choose will essentially shape your life and your identity, so it’s important to choose well. If you’re young and just starting out, here are some things to consider before making your choice. Think about what. The post How Can You Find The Right Career For You? appeared first on New To HR.

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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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Building Your Mind-Body Connection Every Single Day

Thrive Global

We’ve spent the past few weeks talking about the work of doing, and last week we introduced the work of being. This week, we dive deep into the practicalities of resilience. Specifically, how the mind-body connection can help us build our resilience muscles in small, incremental ways from the inside-out. The mind-body connection sounds like a fancy esoteric term, but in actuality its a very practical concept that we all unknowingly use in our daily lives.

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These 3 People Will Lose Their Jobs During This Crisis

Thrive Global

The coronavirus pandemic has already triggered massive layoffs and furloughs by some major companies. Some of these companies include: Marriott International New York’s Metropolitan Opera (the Met) ZipRecruiter Everlane. These are just a few of the many companies currently conducting layoffs which is why I want to talk about the types of workers who are most at risk.

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What Does The CEO Of An Early-Stage Startup Do?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The role of a startup CEO can change every day and the amount of time you spend on each role will vary and depend on the stage, unexpected tasks and priorities. At the end of the day, your job is to prove there is a business. This includes but not limited to these three positions.

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Are you a Rotting Fruit?

Thrive Global

I was taking out some fruit so I could add something healthy to my kids current diet of yogurt and cake and I noticed that some of the blueberries were bad. This was really disappointing since they are a lot harder to come by these days but there it was?—?this furry little section in the middle of these tiny blue fruits. It made me think about the first time I heard that if there is one bad apple in the bunch it will ruin the others.

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Be What You Wanted To Be When You Grew Up

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Now could be the perfect time to play, write, act or cook your childhood dream job back into your life, says entrepreneur coach Remy Blumenfeld.

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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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What’s driving your Pivot??

Thrive Global

Pivot. It’s a word that’s been used – if not overused – in the past few weeks, as entrepreneurs and business swerve this way and that to keep their businesses on track during the Covid19 Lockdown. Whilst some have responded like a deer in the headlights, others – both online and offline – have moved quickly to shift their business models.

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Hit Hard By Coronavirus, Russia’s Tourism Industry Seeks Easier Visas For Visitors

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The coronavirus has halted an upward trend in tourism to Russia. Now the Russian tourism industry reportedly wants the government to help it recover by making it easier for visitors to get a visa.

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The secret to sustainable happiness? Marry yourself first!

Thrive Global

“Everybody gets married! Everybody gets children! I feel like a leftover. My parents and friends stress me. What should I do, Dr. Nat ?” My answer: “ Let us start with focusing on what YOU want. Why don’t you…. …marry yourself first?!”. Before you arch your eyebrows and label this approach as egocentric, remind yourself of great minds like Voltaire who supposedly once said “ Self-love is the instrument of our preservation “; or Shakespeare : “ I to myself am dearer than a friend.

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COVID-19 And The Humanity Of Leadership

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Kevin Wijayawickrama is the Managing Principal at Deloitte who leads their work focused on the U. S. healthcare industry. His perspective on leadership has long been centered on wellbeing, mindfulness and purpose. In the midst of a health and economic crisis, it is an important one to learn from.

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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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Choosing Optimism Over Oppression

Thrive Global

Photo by Ron Smith on Unsplash. Our ancestors lived through wars, the Great Depression, the bubonic plague and other cruel oppressors, but COVID-19 crushed our way of life and proved to be the ultimate stress test to our survival. It opened the door to the beast of poverty baying outside and gave rise to panic and heart-wrenching pain. But it made us revisit something else too – the legacy of hope.

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Why Our Beliefs About BAME People Are Costing Lives

Forbes Leadership Strategy

With the overrepresentation of BAME coronavirus fatalities revealing deeper fault lines in our society, questions must be asked of why people of color are more vulnerable to the virus, and the part we all play.

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Driven By Gratitude Not By Circumstance

Thrive Global

Today more than ever it has been hard to not let my fears and disappointments rule over my faith and gratitude. I know I’m not the only one. This pandemic has been completely draining at times, emotionally, mentally, and physically. Even if you aren’t an essential worker putting yourself out there every day, we all know someone who is, or at least their story.

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No, Please, Not Another VideoCall!

Forbes Leadership Strategy

After a few weeks of lockdown I’m impressed at how quickly so many people have become comfortable using the technology to make video calls. But let's be honest: in many occasions, seeing the face of the people we're talking to adds nothing to the experience.

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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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Over Exposed

Thrive Global

My day began slightly differently than the seemingly endless blur of quarantine mornings. Instead of starting the day with my morning fix of caffeine and corona, I elected to leave the television off. If exposure was responsible for the gnawing anxiety all day long, I reasoned, then why not curtail the onslaught? For the first hour I felt an undeniable sense of peace and calm.

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Many Rural Hospitals Are Not Prepared For COVID-19 Surge, Here’s How They Can Be

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The pandemic presents a formidable challenge for rural hospitals, which have faced 120 hospital closures over the past decade and frequently struggle to recruit staff and balance the books.

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Patience…Maybe, Possibly, Hopefully

Thrive Global

The concept of mindfulness is gaining traction and recognition in the business world as a practice that can help reduce anxiety, organize thoughts, and manage stress. Can you imagine how this might help us get through our days during this pandemic? Can you imagine how remaining focused and present can help our relationships thrive, both at work and at home?

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From Lawyer To YouTuber: How David Freiheit Found His Niche

Forbes Leadership Strategy

After six years with one of the most prominent law firms in Canada, David Freiheit, lawyer, YouTuber, and ‘vlawger’ wanted to move on to something new. Freiheit was on the partner track at Borden Ladner Gervais, but on a Friday afternoon he told his manager that he was letting it all go.

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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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Top 10 Mental Health Benefits of Covid-19

Thrive Global

For the past month, we have been inundated with stories and news briefings of how this pandemic has impacted our world like no other. It’s killed thousands of individuals, ruined global finances, and severely slashed millions of jobs. Could there be benefits to this catastrophe, particularly in regards to our mental health? 1. Our connection to our loved ones have deepened.

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Regret Being A Stay-At-Home Mom? Would You Ever Admit It?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Stay-at-home moms are judged by other moms.

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SUP Yoga: Yoga on a Paddle Board

Thrive Global

Is your daily yoga practice becoming a bit old? If you’re looking for a new way to challenge yourself, yoga on a stand-up paddleboard will give you a renewed strength and push you to become an even better yogi than you imagined, and all this while experiencing the natural brilliance of surfing on water. And paddleboard yoga is not just for the fortunate people in tropical places like Bali.

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Lead Through The Pandemic: Here Are 4 Research-Backed Ways

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How do you lead and inspire employees amid a global pandemic? Here's how to satisfy the 4 universal needs all teams have.

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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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From Clinics to Computers: Gratitude to Practice Medicine in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Thrive Global

This blog post was co-authored by Sarah C. Bauer, MD, MS, and Meri Naumceska, MA, CCC-SLP. Burnout. Disconnection. Frustration. These words are contrary to why we became a physician and speech and language pathologist but have been part of the reality of our daily practices. With the COVID-19 pandemic , we are grateful to practice. Overnight, our practices were moved from clinics to computers.

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3 things that prove you have self-compassion and how it helps overcome burnout

Thrive Global

A birthday gift. “When my birthday came, my husband asked me what I wanted to have as a gift”, Emilie shared. “You can buy me small decoration stuff, I love it. That’s an easy gift. But there’s a gift I really want, but it’s more difficult. Do you want to hear”? Her husband was afraid of hearing that, so Emilie never told him. Her “difficult gift”, was the following.

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Behind The Title: Are You Going To Keep Going Around This Mountain?

Thrive Global

“I just wanted it more than anything. I enjoy it. The modeling industry is pretty dark, and I think I bring some joy and light to it with my positivity and my experience and knowing that this is just a job. It’s not life or death, and I mean, I just love it.” – Alex Ferguson. Hello Workwell founder Lydia Loizides gets to the essence of a person, beyond their job title in our podcast Behind The Title.