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7 Strategies to Improve Employee Performance and Productivity

ClearCompany HRM

The workplace upheaval we all experienced in 2020 ushered in a new era of performance management for many companies. Some traded in traditional annual performance reviews for more frequent, informal check-ins. Others adjusted the performance metrics their employees needed to meet or adapted review processes to a remote or hybrid work environment. Despite concerns about how the abrupt changes would affect work, PwC research showed that 57% of companies surveyed actually beat their performance and

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Managing A Total Talent Workforce – The Impact Of The Gig Economy

Accurate Background

Organizations that wish to gain a competitive advantage in today’s candidate-driven job market must embrace a total talent workforce. . . This article investigates how shifting workplace culture and the rapid rise of the gig economy are driving an increased need for a total talent workforce management strategy. As well as outlin ing the benefits associated with a total talent workforce , this piece will advise on the best way to ensure all workers are hired and onboarded effici

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The Way Of Setting Smart Career Goals for HR Managers

Hppy

Payroll, recruiting, hiring, safety, and workforce management are just a few of the many responsibilities that HR professionals must efficiently handle. It’s possible to break down major projects and ongoing activities into bite-sized sprints by using the SMART strategy, which aids in the establishment of your company’s key indicators (KPIs) and key outcomes (OKRs).

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Drive DEI by Leading with Empathy

Kazoo

What’s at the very core of your DEI strategy? Driving everything else should be ensuring employees feel heard, understood, and truly accepted. In a word – that they experience empathy. Empathy is about understanding another person’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. It’s something we all need. And here’s the good news: empathy isn’t fixed, it can be learned – by individuals and organizations.

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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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Not Getting Enough Connection? You’re Not Alone. Here’s What To Do.

BetterUp

Jump to section. Lack of connection hurts all workers. Your career needs you to connect more, too. Workplace connectedness: What’s your type? What to do to boost your connectedness. If spending hours seeing colleagues’ faces over video isn’t making up for the feeling you used to get after a good day in the office, you’re not alone. Though we now know a lot more than we did before about things like Zoom fatigue that zap us of energy in new and complex ways, there’s another piece to the puzzle.

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#SHRM22 – A Call for Mental Health Support

SHRM

1 in 4. If you were to have a one in four chance of winning the lottery, you would play. Those chances are a no-brainer. Those same odds represent the number of employees who feel hopeless today. That is a hard sentence to type. 25% of our employee population struggle with some sense of hopelessness. At the SHRM Annual Conference, these numbers were shared with the roughly 13,000 attendees.

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How Executives Can Help Their Companies Recover From Bad Press

Forbes Coaches Council

As an executive, the task of making key decisions as a plan is created to limit potential damage to the company's reputation and simultaneously provide a more positive narrative to consumers will often fall to you.

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4 Things Harvard Business Review Got Wrong About People Analytics

Analytics in HR

Recently, Harvard Business Review (HBR) published an article on people analytics titled “ Are People Analytics Dehumanizing Your Employees? “ In the article, the authors provide a bleak and one-dimensional view of people analytics that, if not seen in context, will damage the field and dilute the current and potential contribution that people analytics can make to HR.

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4 Women Who Went Public With Pay Gap Stories—and What Happened Next

The Muse

Talking about pay is still taboo in the U.S., but that’s starting to shift. These women shared their stories to help others facing similar situations.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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9 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity in a Remote Workplace

Hppy

The main advantages of remote work arrangement are that the worker has a great deal of flexibility in terms of hours and location and can often avoid the need for childcare or other forms of support. However, staying motivated and focused when working from home can be difficult, and there is also the potential for isolation from colleagues and peers.

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14 Unique Challenges Solopreneurs Face (And How To Alleviate Them)

Forbes Coaches Council

With so much on their plates, solopreneurs often face unique pressures that other entrepreneurs and small-business owners may not experience.

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update: I’m afraid people at work will think I’m being abused

Ask a Manager

This post, update: I’m afraid people at work will think I’m being abused , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s a special “where are you now?” season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the naturally clumsy letter-writer who was afraid people at work would think she was being abused (#2 at the link)?

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I Quit My In-House Employer Branding Role and Joined an Agency. It Taught Me More Than I Ever Expected.

Blu Ivy Group

I worked in-house for many years in employer branding roles — and the prospect of leaving for a position at an agency always seemed daunting. Certainly, there would be rewards, I figured — but I imagined that such a transition might leave me stressed out, overburdened with work, and without the same sense of belonging I enjoyed working for a global asset management company.

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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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Business Coaching: Everything You Need to Know

BetterUp

Jump to section. Enabling a trusted partnership. What is business coaching? Soft and hard skills development. Business coaching results. Is business coaching a “must have"?

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Top 8 HR books to add to your summer reading list

Rise

Making your next team book club selection or looking for recommendations for your own professional L&D initiatives? Start with our list of must–read HR books, newly updated for 2022 to help address the current challenges faced by HR. 1. The Essential HR Handbook by Sharon Armstrong and Barbara Mitchell. This classic HR guide, now in its 10th edition, covers the fundamentals of modern HR—including how to recruit through social media, creating highly attractive and retentive benefits packages,

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Asking for a salary range: How to start the conversation

BetterUp

Jump to section. When to ask about salary range. How to research relevant salary ranges. How to ask for a salary range. Why employers ask about your salary expectations.

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Imposter syndrome is holding women back

HR Zone

Strategy Why women need to fight imposter syndrome now.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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5 Ways to Enhance Career Pathing

Emergenetics International

Remember the old days of career development? It tended to resemble neatly laid concrete with clearly marked directional arrows pointing toward next steps. Now, the routes may look less like a paved road and more like a path in a forest, where there are many trails, untraveled offshoots and few signs to guide the way.

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Elevate your organization's employee experience

Jostle

Employee experience is often a topic that’s nebulous and hard to wrap your head around. It starts when someone applies to an open position and lasts till their departure from the company.

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Why Mobile Accessibility is a Must Have for Your Intranet

BackStitch

Too many companies have operated with the assumption that people don’t have a computer in their pocket. However, many possess the ability to access any information anywhere. Nearly 85% percent of the US owns or has access to a smartphone. It’s time to change that misconception.

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Does Your Expense Reporting Need an Overhaul?

Replicon

Expense reporting is essential for any business to manage and track the expenses related to their workforce. It can be as basic as tracking existing expenses to more complex activities like calculating taxes and deductions. However, expense reporting can be.

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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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Why It’s Important to Set Savings Goals

Payactiv

We all have big financial dreams. Maybe yours is buying a new car, going on vacation, buying a home, or sending kids to college. These are admirable goals, but they’re not cheap. Setting a savings goal is essential to making your most expensive financial dreams a reality. You Can’t Achieve a Goal You Never Set. Let’s say you want a new car, as many of us do.

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Why Money Doesn’t Motivate Employees

Replicon

For many people, work is simply not working out. The latest survey from Gallup shows that only 36% of US employees were actually engaged in their work, while 15% of employees were marked ‘actively disengaged’ in the year 2021. Engaged and motivated.

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Take 10: How To Decrease Your Workplace Stress With Intentional Breaks

Forbes Coaches Council

Ten minutes may seem like the blink of an eye to some and an eternity to others, but with a little intentionality, you can maximize your 10-minute breaks and become reenergized.

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PreCheck Product Highlight: Immunization Tracking

Precheck

PreCheck Product Highlight: Immunization Tracking Jun. 22, 2022. Jenni Gray Copywriter. In this PreCheck Product Highlight, we’ll review key tools to consider when screening your workforce, as well as the top benefits and features available with PreCheck. This month’s highlight is Immunization Tracking. What is Immunization Tracking? Why is it important?

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Corporate Pride: What’s Under Your Rainbow? (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Rolling out rainbow-themed products and events each June is a popular corporate practice—but do those rainbows spell authentic alignment between a company's stated values and its actions? Burger King is serving a limited-edition "Proud Whopper" this month. The iconic burger is wrapped in rainbow paper that reads: "we're all the same on the inside.

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'Diving For Pearls' And Exploring The Four Levels Of Engagement In Workplace Coaching

Forbes Coaches Council

This framework is designed to help managers in the workplace coach their employees as they produce pearls of brilliant quality in their teams.

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CDPH Alters Cal/OSHA COVID-19 ETS Definitions

HRWatchdog

On June 8, 2022, the California Department of Public Heath (CDPH) issued an order updating definitions for “close contact” and “infectious period” as they relate to the CDPH isolation and quarantine requirements. Employers should be aware of these changes as they affect employer’s obligations under the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS).