Fri.Feb 07, 2020

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A Trusted Leader Leaves A Legacy

Forbes Coaches Council

How can you use trust to leave a legacy where you work and live?

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Increase Employee Engagement Platform Adoption | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

7 min read. This is the third post in our 3-part mini series on Employee Engagement , with insights from one of our HR Heroes, Cara Jordan, HR Advisor at PYBAR Mining Services. With over 800 employees mostly working in remote, underground mines around Australia, keeping people engaged and informed is no easy feat. In this post, Cara answers questions about maintaining momentum after launching a program and generating interest for an online platform among employees who are predominantly working o

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Effective Feedback: Key Elements to Keep in Mind

Vantage Circle

Delivering effective feedback is a task that has a positive outcome if done right. It requires the right skills, practice, the correct moment, and execution so that it is effective. With proper execution of feedback, it becomes quite easy for an organization to boost its employee’s morale, increase engagement , and improve the bottom line. Providing effective feedback has become crucial to bring the best out of the employees.

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California Freelancers Might Get Relief from AB 5’s Strict Limits

SHRM Resources

A controversial new independent-contractor standard in California limits the number of works businesses can accept from freelance journalists. After facing backlash from the freelancer community, the bill's sponsor said she is working to update and clarify the legislation.

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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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Unlimited PTO: The Pros, the Cons, and the Reality

Intoo USA

We all know that when it comes to sourcing and recruiting top talent, it’s tough to compete in today’s job market. Not only are job seekers looking for fulfilling positions, but they are also looking for a company that has ideals that align to their own personal values. They’ll also likely look for long-term growth opportunities and employee benefits that are anything but standard.

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Unlimited PTO: The Pros, the Cons, and the Reality

Intoo USA

We all know that when it comes to sourcing and recruiting top talent, it’s tough to compete in today’s job market. Not only are job seekers looking for fulfilling positions, but they are also looking for a company that has ideals that align to their own personal values. They’ll also likely look for long-term growth opportunities and employee benefits that are anything but standard.

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#WorkTrends: Email Still Matters: Etiquette for Today’s Users

TalentCulture

Here’s a term for you: email brick. It’s that dense blob of text in an email that starts at the top and doesn’t come up for air until the end. No line breaks, paragraphs or bullet points, and often, no readers. We tend to avoid reading those emails, eyeing them warily and opting to get back to them later. Much of the time, we don’t. When #WorkTrends host Meghan M.

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Top Features to Look for in a Good Paid Time-Off Tracking System

SutiHR

How do your managers currently track PTO? Do they still fill out Excel sheets, calendars, or are they still mainly paper-based? Then, you are not alone! Many enterprises have yet to implement the correct paid-time-off tracking system. For instance, your employees need to remain organized but may not have an easy way of handling every worker’s time-off requests or leave balances.

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January Jobs Gains Kick the Year Off with a Bang

SHRM Resources

Employers in the U.S. added 225,000 new jobs in January, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Payroll additions exceeded the 158,000 new jobs that were expected by economists, and when considered against an unemployment rate holding at a 50-year low, the report shows the economy still has room to grow even in a tight labor market.

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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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Ethics in the workplace: whistleblowing and transparency

HR Zone

Culture Whistleblowing and transparency at work.

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When Choosing an ACA Vendor, Make Sure They’re SOC II Compliant

ACA Times

2 minute read: Who do you trust with your data? The large-scale data breaches of the 2010s saw companies ask the question of whether their network security was sufficient to protect their sensitive data. As we enter the 2020s with ever expanding data privacy regulations, many companies are asking the question of from whom, how and why they are collecting sensitive data.

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Best Ways to Reward Your Employees

Hppy

Employee recognition is among the most crucial parts of running a business. With it, you can boost staff performance and productivity, encourage new people to join your team and establish a healthy work culture. There are a plethora of ways you can recognize and reward your most exceptional staff. We rounded up all the best ideas you can use below. Offer gift cards.

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Transform the candidate experience by conquering the 'applicant black hole'

Allegis Global Solutions

The applicant black hole is familiar to job hunters across the world. You spend time crafting your application, submit it online and never hear from the employer in question again. Indeed, research has shown that as many as 75% of applications fall into the black hole.

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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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5 Awesome Benefits of Branding for Employers

Blu Ivy Group

75% of job seekers consider a company’s reputation even before applying for a position. Will they find your employer brand compelling enough? Hiring qualified employees is an uphill task. Too many organizations are chasing too few available skilled workers. Once you employ these talented staff, retaining them is even harder. Thus, you need more than good pay to find top talent.

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Why It’s So Important to Make Yourself a Priority

Thrive Global

For so many of us, the idea of prioritizing our own needs can seem completely at odds with our instincts. We think it’s “selfish” or “self-indulgent” to put ourselves at the top of our priority list, so we don’t. The mistake we make is not realizing that when we ignore our needs and allow ourselves to be depleted to the point or exhaustion or burnout , everybody loses.

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4 Ways to Impress Your Boss

Take It Personel-ly

When it comes to your career and developing a relationship with your boss, you should be concerned with fostering as you develop in your work. While many employees find themselves distanced from their manager, it’s proven that befriending your superior can help you grow personally, professionally, and mentally. Here are our best ways on how […].

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Getting creative with your hiring process

ApplicantPro

A recent study found that the talent shortage is the top emerging risk for organizations worldwide. With everyone trying to attract, hire and retain qualified candidates the “fight for talent” is real and the competition for solid candidates is a never-ending battle. I believe that although it is necessary to be creative in the hiring process so you stand out against competitors, it is also important to be careful not to drive candidates away.

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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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Your Weekly Dose of Social Media

WEX Inc.

We use our social media platforms to share benefitexpress news and provide industry updates to keep you in the know. If you've missed a couple of our posts this past week, no need to worry. We recap our favorite social updates bi-weekly to keep you up to date on benefitexpress happenings and top HR industry news. This week's social media topics include: Upcoming Medicare Webinar on February 27, 2020.

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How to Prepare Your Company For a Recession

Great Place to Work

Recessions impact all companies, but they don’t impact all companies equally. Companies that emphasize workplace diversity and inclusion (D&I) not only survive recessions, but even thrive throughout them. Our data shows that companies who value diversity and inclusion outperform other companies by as much as 400%.

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Five Ways To Strengthen Your Personal Brand In 2020

Forbes Coaches Council

Like it or not, your brand follows you. You might as well get out in front of your brand and ensure that it is working for, not against you.

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Philly employers cannot ask applicants about salary history, rules federal appellate court

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Back in 2017, the City of Philadelphia became the first city in the country to pass a law forbidding local employers from asking individuals about their salary history. The purpose of the law was to help close the wage gap between men and women. Then the local Chamber of Commerce went to federal court to attempt to block the law.

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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 Society Can Better Support Sobriety

WeSpire

Saturday Spark #45. By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO. I just completed Dry January, that post-holiday ritual that one of my favorite executive tweeters defined as “(noun): Replacing wine with M&Ms for 31 days in an attempt to be more disciplined and healthy.” It’s the first year I have tried it in adulthood, unless you count the year I found out I was pregnant in January.

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The Unknown Cost of Conflict in the Workplace

Pollack Peacebuilding

From gossip to claiming turf, retaliation, culture interventions, and recruiting, there is a lot of company time devoted to processing conflict in the workplace. From time spent away from the work to customer headaches and the dollars lost in between, it’s important for managers and business owners to understand the true cost of conflict in the workplace.

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weekend free-for-all – February 8-9, 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.). Book recommendation of the week: Excellent Women , by Barbara Pym. I find Barbara Pym cozy and funny, while my sister finds her depressing. I don’t know what that says about us.

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What If The Things We Know For Sure About Coaching Just Ain't So?

Forbes Coaches Council

Why limit ourselves as coaches to using one approach when a different approach may be the better fit?

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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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How to Deliver Feedback and Help Employees Grow

Thrive Global

Let’s face it: it is uncomfortable to provide people with candid feedback. Whether you are managing a new or long-time employee, you need to build a foundation of trust with your direct reports and team to share feedback constructively. Ongoing feedback is more desirable and constructive than any other form. It gives everyone practice with giving and absorbing feedback, plus if feedback is common, then each expression becomes less weighted.

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3 Expert Tips from Strategic Internal Communicators at the ALI Conference

Advanced Learning Institute

This article first appeared on BrilliantInk.com , Feb. 5, 2020. What happens when you ask three internal communicators their thoughts on 2020 industry trends and best practices? You get nothing short of brilliance! Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at ALI’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference in San Francisco. My panelists were Jessica Brubaker (Director, Initiative Communications & Channel Strategy at McDonald’s), Laney Erokan (Employee Experience Lead at Ble

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Here’s How to Build Gratitude into Your Workout Routine

Thrive Global

If you felt as proud of yourself for simply showing up at the gym as you did for finishing your workout , your movement journey would probably feel much more fulfilling. More often than not, we’re so preoccupied with making it through that fitness class , or reaching a specific end goal, that we don’t take a moment to truly show up for ourselves and acknowledge the efforts we’re making along the way.

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