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It’s Nice To Be Important, But It’s More Important To Be Nice!

Brigette Hyacinth

For far too long, being nice has been mistaken for being weak. In reality, niceness is an necessary quality of leadership for the world we’re living in. It has become so rare that when someone does a kind act or goes out of their way to be nice to someone, it goes viral on social media. Being nice doesn’t mean you can’t make hard decisions or stand up to difficult people, it just means you are respectful, kind, and show empathy to your employees.

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Picking Up Pine Cones: A Lesson in Earned Wage Access

Payactiv

My grandfather was smart, hard-working, and generous. He poured his sweat, blood, and tears into his work as a mechanical contracting company’s purchasing agent. When I was a child, he taught me the importance of hard work and how it felt to receive my wages in a timely fashion. That, in turn, helped develop my… The post Picking Up Pine Cones: A Lesson in Earned Wage Access appeared first on PayActiv.

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Never Punish Loyal Employees for being Honest

Brigette Hyacinth

? ?. My new boss told me to never be afraid to give feedback. The next Monday morning in a meeting, I happily shared my viewpoint on a new policy. Thereafter, I noticed my boss’s disposition towards me changed. He stopped talking to me. I was shunned. I even felt the effects of this in my monthly performance appraisal, where he noted, I was not supportive of the organization, and I needed to be a better team player.

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The Challenges Of Having A Criminal Record

New to HR

Most people are blissfully unaware that with every small crime or misdemeanor committed, there’s a very real possibility of a hugely unpleasant future. People who commit small, petty crimes often do so without thinking about the lifetime consequences of having. The post The Challenges Of Having A Criminal Record appeared first on New To HR.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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What’s Self-Love Got To Do With It?

Thrive Global

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.” —Stephen King. February, known as the month of love, has become a commercial bonanza with $20 billion spent on Valentine’s Day cards and candy for loved ones in 2019. But what about you? While February is a time to remember the importance of love and compassion toward others, could it also be a time to include yourself?

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Leap Year Means Some Salaried Employees Work an Extra Day for Free

Evil HR Lady

Once every four years, you get an extra day to do whatever we want! Or, rather, because you have to work for a living, you have to work. But, if you’re a business owner, you just might get some free labor. This year, February 29 falls on a Saturday, but that means that instead of having a weekend of March 1st and 2nd, you have to be back to work on the 2nd and so do your employees.

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It’s Nice To Be Important, But It’s More Important To Be Nice!

Brigette Hyacinth

For far too long, being nice has been mistaken for being weak. In reality, niceness is an necessary quality of leadership for the world we’re living in. It has become so rare that when someone does a kind act or goes out of their way to be nice to someone, it goes viral on social media. Being nice doesn’t mean you can’t make hard decisions or stand up to difficult people, it just means you are respectful, kind, and show empathy to your employees.

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A Curated List: Mindful Living

Thrive Global

We live in a world of disruptions and non-stop movements. Smartphones, computers, social media, and the internet has changed the way we think and live. How can we reclaim our freedom as humans and reconnect with our bodies in this chaotic, fast-paced world? I’ve curated a list to help you get started. Recently I started engaging with the idea of “mindfulness” The word itself is somewhat foreign and incomprehensible to us, so I want to redefine it so that you better understand w

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Never Punish Loyal Employees for being Honest

Brigette Hyacinth

My new boss told me to never be afraid to give feedback. The next Monday morning in a meeting, I happily shared my viewpoint on a new policy. Thereafter, I noticed my boss’s disposition towards me changed. He stopped talking to me. I was shunned. I even felt the effects of this in my monthly performance appraisal, where he noted, I was not supportive of the organization, and I needed to be a better team player.

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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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Embrace Your Broken Parts: Unleash Love

Thrive Global

I think that the rawest, most brutal parts of our humanity… can be incredibly beautiful if we’re willing to see it that way. That’s the great disparity. … When we can really embrace every bit of our humanity, even the parts that shame us the most, there’s such great beauty in being cracked open. How much beauty there is in our brokenness. – Joe Henry, interviewed by Krista Tippett on On Being.

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Why You Should Focus On Your Return On Investment In Your Startup

Forbes Leadership Strategy

When you start evaluating all of your decisions around a return on investment in your startup, you unintentionally start eliminating the decisions, steps and ideas that will not take you where you need to go. And you don’t need to be a finance expert to do this.

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Feeling Anguish? Listen to Your Body. Not to Other People.

Thrive Global

The body says what words cannot. — Martha Graham. I love swimming in Austin’s amazing Barton Springs Pool — it’s cold and enlivening. Most of the time I swim there three times a week, year round. But last year my dad and my dog died in the depths of winter. It doesn’t get that cold in Austin, but it takes much more mental discipline and grit to jump into the cold spring water when it’s 25–45 degrees outside than when it’s 95!

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Managing Yourself When You Are Overwhelmed

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Feeling overwhelmed by your to do list is familiar to many ambitious professionals. Simply working harder rarely solves the problem. Coaches and executives share their advice for what does.

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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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8 principles to help you stay mentally balanced and happy

Thrive Global

If you haven’t got such a list for yourself already, I recommend you to make one. You might even get some ideas from this post. Allow yourself to suck. When you jump into something new, don’t expect yourself to be good at it straight away. It sounds obvious, but what is not so easy to grasp is how difficult some of those “simple” things can be. Many times, something that you try for the first time turns out to be brutally difficult.

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How Strong Leadership And Business Acumen Saved An Ailing Nonprofit

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Nonprofits face a range of challenges, including variable levels of donations, slow-moving government agencies and changes in regulations and policies. But to succeed they must try to behave like regular businesses.

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The Natural Revealing.

Thrive Global

Every day is a natural revealing of who you are. Not who you think you should be. Your self is a thought you learned to think about you. An image. An image that constantly needs to be maintained. An image that constantly needs to be improved. Which is why every day, you can also choose to return. Return to You. By releasing the thoughts that keep you hidden.

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Jessica Simpson, Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba, Lauren Conrad And Hannah Skvarla Share Their Advice For The Next Generation Of Female Entrepreneurs

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Create & Cultivate brought their highly anticipated conference back to Los Angeles including keynotes with Jessica Simpson, Eva Mendes, Jessica Alba, Lauren Conrad And Hannah Skvarla sharing their advice for the next generation of female entrepreneurs.

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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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It’s Possible To Thrive If You Drop the Story That You Can’t

Thrive Global

Crazy story. Women have to struggle in today’s world to make it. That’s part of the story that I have carried around for years. I believed that it was a man’s world. Men got all the high paying jobs. Men got life easy. They could drink, party and enjoy life, while women had to struggle through it. Finding it hard to find decent-paying jobs, dealing with our periods every month, being the ones that had to look after the house.

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Is Digital Delivery The Future Of Sports Broadcasting?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The new cord-cutting reality has, slowly but surely, forced television companies to create digital delivery products in order to reach viewers where they want to be reached. This creates opportunities for those who can provide more distributed and customized models.

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How to Get Over a Breakup

Thrive Global

Getting over an ex and getting over a breakup are two different things, but once you understand how both are connected, the process will be much easier to get over both. DON’T RUSH IT, TAKE YOUR TIME TO GRIEVE. So your significant other choose to break up with you. Now you are experiencing a lot of emotions; rage, sadness, regret, guilt, missing the person, longing, hatred, these are all completely normal feelings to experience.

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Without Trust, Teams Rust: How To Prevent Relationship Corrosion In The Workplace

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The higher levels of trust we have, the stronger our ability to navigate conflict and focus on solutions vs. defensive maneuvers. Many people reference the need for trust but have a hard time establishing it or repairing trust when it’s been damaged. Read on for tips to tackle trust building.

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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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Back to Fiction: What I’m Reading this Winter

Thrive Global

Jane Austen, Cervantes, and Upton Sinclair. I picked these three books because they are validating and highly relatable for me. 1. Jane Austen, Emma. Austen validated my view on loving and relationships. Impulsive, ruthless “love” is not real love; it’s just what is shown in American TV shows and movies. It’s meant to increase our dopamine so that we want to watch all that trashy stuff as a way to escape from our reality.

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Don’t Be A Hero: Good Leaders Call In Sick In The Coronavirus Era

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Coming to work sick had a certain heroic quality to it back in the day. A former mayor gave a talk years ago in which he shared various traits of good leaders. The first one was: “Real leaders never call in sick.”. The commitment is admirable--but the behavior should be obsolete.

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How to raise a confident child

Thrive Global

I’m yet to meet a parent who doesn’t want their kids to be successful. At least of the caliber of Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling or Taylor Swift. And, of course, what we’ve been repeatedly told by the media, gurus and teachers alike is that what makes it all possible is a powerful intangible thing called self-esteem. “You need to believe in yourself if you want to become someone in life” is an adage that’s been around for longer that we can remember.

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Can Socialism Win In The Suburbs?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The road to the White House will pass through every suburb in America; expect candidates driving socialist agendas to find that road very bumpy.

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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 to ask a coworker out on a date

HR Digest

Getting into office romance can be tricky, and asking a coworker out on a date is trickier. You will continuously have to make sure to be as discreet as possible, not be too forward on the coworker yet express your feelings. Office romances and office dating are typical, it happens across all offices at one point or another. However, the person should keep in mind not to make things in office awkward.

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The Importance Of Creating Community In The Workplace

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Community creates belonging. Belonging can motivate members to elevate their performance and dedication to what they care about most.

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10 Ways to Stay Focused In A World Full Of Distractions

Thrive Global

One of the most important capabilities you can develop is the art of staying focused on your most important projects and activities. In a world of distractions and complexity, mastering the simple art of being present and focused can set you up for success. If you want to achieve your biggest goals, you need to learn how to stay focused. When you are laser focused it’s easier to remove distractions.