Sat.Feb 01, 2020

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Workplace Spirituality: What It Is And How To Foster It

Vantage Circle

As human beings, we tend to focus more on the physical and material aspects of life than spiritual issues. We are so engrossed in the former that we barely find the time to think about the latter. But it is essential to know that we can only find unconditional happiness and peace if we enrich our inner spiritual lives. Similarly, we rarely pay heed to spirituality at work, neglecting it, and giving little or no importance to finding meaning at work.

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How to kick off a eventful Recruitment drive

HR Digest

Planning and plotting a recruitment event is tricky. If you don’t get the event right, you might end up with an empty fair with no potential candidates vouching up for the recruitment drive. If you do not acquire good companies and organizations, you might get bad reviews of the event and no more followers at the next season. So it is tricky, you see!

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State of the Union 2020 - the Super Bowl of Politics & its Impact on the Workplace

SHRM

This year, the State of the Union will take place on February 4 at 9 p.m. EST. This date is significant for several reasons. It takes place one day after the Iowa caucuses, amid a presidential campaign, and likely in the aftermath of the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. While the address takes place during a whirlwind political climate, SHRM remains focused on policy, not politics, advocating for positive workplace solutions.

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weekend free-for-all – February 1-2, 2020

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). This is Humphrey, our new foster cat. He was found crying in a parking lot on a freezing cold day. He’s clearly used to being an indoor cat but his family could not be found, so we are fostering him until someone adopts him.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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7 Hidden Benefits of Planning

Thrive Global

The premise is simple: planning helps you get more done so you have more time for fun. But how exactly; and what’s more effective: planning on paper or using digital apps? The real question is: why choose just one? Using digital planning tools has obvious conveniences like cloud storage and coordinating multiple real-time updates, but there are also a lot of hidden benefits of also planning in a paper planner that may surprise (and delight) you, including improving your cognitive functions, boos

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How To Raise Your Happiness Needle By 25 Percent

Thrive Global

How many of us gripe and complain about the minor inconveniences when our lives are already rich and full? After a project wraps, do you move on to the next item on your agenda without taking time to savor the successful completion of the one you left behind? Do you complain because you didn’t score the best restaurant table by the window, overlooking the fact that you have the means to enjoy a delicious meal with loved ones and awesome friends?

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How To Choose The Perfect Premises For Your Business

New to HR

Are you planning to expand your business? If so, the chances are that you are going to need a new building to accommodate your growing company. Growing a business is an exciting time in the life of a company, and. The post How To Choose The Perfect Premises For Your Business appeared first on New To HR.

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We Need Empathetic Healthcare Professionals, but Burnout is Harming their Compassion

Thrive Global

The experiences we have with doctors and nurses, the people we trust to care for us, can leave a lasting impact, for better or worse. I still remember being seven or eight years old and visiting a doctor who promised me— literally said the word “promise”—that he would not perform a swab on my sore throat, then proceeded to dive right in there and do it anyway when I unsuspectingly opened my mouth to say “ahhh.

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5 Things You Can Do To Create A Better Office Environment

New to HR

A happy workplace is an efficient workplace, and an efficient workplace is a profitable workplace, which is why creating a nice office environment can be beneficial for your business. When it comes to improving an office space, often it’s the. The post 5 Things You Can Do To Create A Better Office Environment appeared first on New To HR.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Avid At Work

Valentine’s Day 1991 The day before Valentine’s Day in 12th grade, I made chocolate chip cookies for the guy I had a crush on. It was my first attempt at cookies. “I made these last night. Would you like one, Christopher?” He picked one out of the bag. Then he made a face. OMG, what is he doing? The next thing I know, he banged it against his blue metal locker.

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5 Things I’ve Learned About Happiness

Thrive Global

5 Things I’ve Learned about Happiness. [Trying to Spread Happiness in 16 Countries Across 3 Continents Over 5 Years]. 1. Everybody wants it. “I want to be miserable every day,” says nobody ever. There’s a difference between wanting something and well, changing your daily behavior and mindset to get it. I mean, everybody wants that insta-worthy life where you work remotely from that balmy beach in Thailand, but there is a gap: a gap between the wanting and the doing. 2.

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University Of Toronto Shedding Light On The Situation In Cameroon

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On December 10, 2019, the University of Toronto launched a new initiative, the Global Database of Atrocities, to collect and store information on atrocities perpetrated in the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon.

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The Future of Healthcare with Dr. April Segal of Remedy

Thrive Global

More coverage of well-services. I would love to see more insurance companies offering options where people can choose more of the well-services that individuals might benefit from, such as gym memberships, supplements, and nutrition classes. If you are healthy, you typically cost the insurance company very little, I would love to see some of those funds being applied to reward people for staying healthy!

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Interest Rate Forecast: Remaining Low Throughout 2020

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Interest rates won't rise in 2020. Economic growth will be too weak for the Fed to worry about inflation, too strong for worry about recession.

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How Our Best Furry Friends Help Us Heal From Stress And Burnout

Thrive Global

The use of pet therapy in mental health isn’t new. Numerous studies show that animal-assisted therapy reduces pain and anxiety among patients with cancer, heart disease and PTSD. Observing an aquarium or stroking a bird, cat or dog lowers blood pressure and relaxes you. According to one study of four million people worldwide, dog ownership was as effective as medication, lowering the risk of dying early by 24%.

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Building Authentic Courage: The Essential Foundation For Successful Diversity And Inclusion

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Dr. Jacqui Brassey, Director of Learning and Development at McKinsey & Company and a “practitioner academic”, shares with me the essence of her new, coauthored book, Advancing Authentic Confidence through Emotional Flexibility and highlights key lessons for management and leadership training.

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What To Do When You Can’t Go On

Thrive Global

The Hustle Joyride: This Century’s Cocaine. Overextending yourself is this century’s cocaine, its problem without a name. Workweeks of sixty, eighty, even a hundred hours are commonplace in major law firms and corporations; tribes of modern-day male and female Willy Lomans, manacled to cellphones, trundle through the nation’s airports at all hours with their rolling luggage; cafes are filled with serious young people bent over laptops; young workers at dot-coms are available for work 24/7.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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3 Proven Ways To Find A Technical Co-Founder Quickly

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Can you build a startup on your own? You sure can, although research shows the chances of your startup succeeding are much higher with a co-founder. If you’re having a hard time finding a co-founder, here are 3 proven ways that can quickly get you in front of the right people.

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A Tribute to the Barefoot Doctor

Thrive Global

“People come into your orbit. People go out of your orbit. In, out. In, out. It’s the basic yin-yang, contraction-expansion motion of the ocean of existence itself.” ~ Barefoot Doctor, Stephen Russell , Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior. “It’s so hard to say, ‘goodbye, farewell, may your road be gentle and take you to beautiful places.” ~ Barefoot Doctor, Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the Tao.

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2020 Demands New Ways Of Thinking About Your Business

Forbes Leadership Strategy

It took less than a week for us to reach the brink of yet another Mideast war, and now we’ve got impeachment hearings in the United States, Brexit in the United Kingdom and a potential pandemic brewing in China.

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How to let go? My 5 favorite quotes

Thrive Global

Letting go means realizing you weren’t in charge anyway. Feel too much on your shoulders? Want badly something but have no control? Today, let go of your worries. Understand that we cannot, and do not need to be in charge of the world. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. Last year, when I was in difficult moments, my sister reminded me of this.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Why Microsoft Will Continue To Thrive After Its Blowout Earnings Announcement

Forbes Leadership Strategy

In the early 90s, Microsoft provided Seattle with its first tech boom as the stock’s meteoric rise coincided with the rapid adoptions of PCs with the Windows operating system.

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I Give Myself Permission to Feel Sad

Thrive Global

So many times when we have the emotion or feeling of sadness, we try and get rid of it right away. We never want to feel sad and when we do feel sad, it seems like a heaviness or burden is placed in our hearts. So what do we do? We dismiss it. We don’t allow it. We do anything and everything to get rid of the feeling of sadness. Or, worst of all…we wallow in it.

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Changing Of The Guard: What New Generations Of NFL Coaches Are Bringing To The Game

Forbes Leadership Strategy

An evolving competitive environment has brought changes in how coaches perform their roles and in the thinking they bring. The traditional demands of a successful NFL team coach have remained relatively static while new expectations have emerged.

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The Future of Healthcare with Healthline.com CEO, David Kopp

Thrive Global

Doctors should prescribe more education for their patients. There’s a lot of modern technology to assist in this. Consider this: you book a trip to New York. Over the next few days, you’ll get emails from your airline preparing you for the flight, such as entertainment options and discount offers for adjacent services like cars or hotels. In healthcare, if you go to your doctor and receive a diabetes diagnosis, you suddenly have the need for a lot of education on diet, glucose monitoring, insuli

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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The Only Way Limited Founder Les Wexner’s Successor Can Succeed

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Learn everything. Understand the parts. Then rearrange them for future impact.

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Connie Chi: “I would love to inspire young people to become entrepreneurs and have the courage to think outside the box”

Thrive Global

I would love to inspire young people to become entrepreneurs and have the courage to think outside the box. In today’s hyper-digital eco-system. it’s so important to harness the power of creative thinking, especially. with our youths. As. part of my series on strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of. interviewing Connie Chi who is the founder and CEO of The Chi Group, an. award-winning global marketing and branding agency humanizing brands.

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Will American Democracy Survive The Trump Swamp?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The Republicans in the Senate have voted down the possibility of calling witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald J. Trump. If they proceed to acquit him of abuse of power and obstruction of justice, the notion of three co-equal, mutually checking branches of government is at an end.

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