Wed.Feb 03, 2021

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Why the Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout Showcases the Need for Supply Chain Agility

Quickbase

The Covid-19 vaccine is providing a ray of hope after a difficult 2020. Many experts and the awaiting public are now intently monitoring the rollout process. Companies like Pfizer and Moderna have developed and begun producing vaccines in a rapid timeframe, but the challenge has shifted to getting the shots into people’s arms. While this process has lagged in some states, the difficulty of “ last-mile delivery ” has come to the forefront.

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The SARA Model: Learning from 360-Degree Feedback

DecisionWise

Many people are surprised by the results from their 360 degree feedback report. Some are completely un-aware of other’s perceptions and have a difficult time dealing with critical feedback about themselves. They experience the same range of emotions that are felt by those who grieve for the loss of a loved one. We can experience these emotions with any type of dramatic change in our lives.

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Jarick Simbol Networks into an Unadvertised Role During the Pandemic: A Candidate Success Story

Intoo USA

After graduating from California State University, Long Beach in 2018, Jarick Simbol knew he wanted to work in film. He had majored in the subject, after all, specializing in video editing and spending the bulk of his free time in college working on smaller productions. He also knew what he didn’t want: extremely long hours and job insecurity. But a stable job in the film industry proved hard to find.

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6 ways to boost staff morale during the pandemic

Hppy

Remote working has meant that staff rapport and team morale has significantly decreased. According to a recent survey carried out on 2,000 UK adult workers, a third of employees have stated that lockdown has brought them closer to burnout. With 51% of respondents saying they are working, an extra 59 hours outside of their normal working hours, and 27% claiming that the lack of social interaction with co-workers was making the time even more difficult.

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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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Recruiters: get job candidate insight, especially from the largest segment of the workforce

COATS Staffing Software

Recruiters: get job candidate insight, especially from the largest segment of the workforce. Do you own, work or support a staffing company? You should know what your potential job candidates are thinking as we move further into 2021. ASA and ClearlyRated partnered. to conduct a 2020 Candidate Sentiment Study using an independent online panel to provide peoples thoughts regarding staffing firms and temporary assignments.

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Does That Job Posting Make You Look Like a Misogynist?

The HR Capitalist

There's a whole class of new tools designed to help you take various bias out of your job descriptions and job postings. While there are many benefits to these tools, there are some challenges. How are your job descriptions these days? They suck, right? Well, let's start this conversation with a couple of definitions: -- Job Descriptions: These are the common everyday items that drive a bunch of stuff in your HR back office.

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Upskilling Your People: Getting Started with Skill Data

Degreed

No matter how or why you’re upskilling your people, there’s a reliable way to make learning click: make it relevant. And one of the key ingredients to relevant learning is skill data. Familiarizing yourself with the concepts behind skill data doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Understanding what it is, where it comes from, and how to get it can open up a world of new information to your organization.

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Three tips for developing behaviours that drive your company values

HR Zone

Culture 3 tips for developing values-aligned behaviours.

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5 Tips To Help Maintain A Healthy Lifestyle

Take It Personel-ly

For many people, the idea of adopting a healthier lifestyle is scary because they focus too much on what they will be giving up. However, you can make important lifestyle changes gradually and without giving up many of the things you enjoy. In fact, you may find that some healthy options are enjoyable and welcome […].

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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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5 Amazing Ways To Make Your Employees Feel Valued At Work

Vantage Circle

An important part of a job that is considered "fulfilling" is greatly influenced by the person feeling valued at work. Cut that aspect off, and we are looking at a person who would rarely go above and beyond or even be satisfied enough to feel loyalty towards their place of work. To put in mildly, you’ll now have a disengaged employee at hand.

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The future of learning is humanity, with a side of technology

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Internal talent mobility is hard. It’s the great white whale that most companies continually chase, and the fact that the talent pipeline isn’t growing at the pace it needs to be is worsening the situation even more. Job posting durations are growing in some of the most in-demand fields, and 2020 freshmen enrollment numbers are down 22 percent compared with 2019 numbers , with the expectation they’ll continue to drop year-over-year.

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An Employee Listening Strategy is Critical to High Performance – Now More Than Ever (i4cp login required)

i4cp

A solid employee listening strategy is imperative to organizational performance both when times are good and in times of crisis. Prior to the events of 2020, the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s (i4cp) groundbreaking study, Culture Renovation: A Blueprint for Action found that 41% of high-performance organizations used frequent and short employee pulse surveys to gauge employee sentiment while only 28% of low-performance organizations utilized this approach.

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Rules for Effective Leadership: Tips for Novice Leaders

6Q

Nowadays, a lot goes into business excellence than having just the right ideas and the best team. While a good team and the right ideas would perform well, the key to unlocking their true potential lies in effective leadership. What does it mean to be an effective leader, and how does a total novice become one? Being an effective leader in the demanding world of today is not an easy task.

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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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4 Essential Ways to Make Your Workplace a Pleasant and Safe Place to Be

Effortless HR

Everyone immediately notices a workplace that is unclean and untidy. Visitors tolerate the mess because they can leave at any moment. Your employees have a harder time remaining focused on their duties when they constantly face clutter and disorganization. Review the following 4 ways to make a cleaner, more pleasant environment for your staff. Declutter.

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Q&A with HR Tech Influencer: Jeanne Meister

HRExecutive

The role of HR leaders has never been more important, as organizations struggle to keep up with near-daily changes to the world of work ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic and other global challenges, including the recent tumultuous presidential transition. With such a tall order for HR leaders, it’s beneficial to look to industry experts for their experience and guidance.

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our new hire started another full-time job the same week he started ours

Ask a Manager

This post, our new hire started another full-time job the same week he started ours , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: We recently brought on a new hire in a full-time role. Let’s call him Drew. Drew has been here for about a month now, and while I haven’t explicitly checked in with his supervisor, I haven’t heard any complaints about his onboarding or early performance.

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Which Leaders Will Psychologically Empower their Followers?

IO At Work

Psychologically empowered leaders are capable of passing their empowerment on to their employees. What factors predict whether or not they actually do it?

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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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How to Write Professional Emails That Get the Results You Want

The Muse

The basic elements of a professional email and how to make sure your messages are effective—plus three examples.

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9 Core Elements of a Future-Proof People Strategy

Digital HR Tech

A solid people strategy helps your organization improve performance and navigate transformations. How you empower your people determines the benefit they provide to your business. You need a plan to develop and enhance their skills to take full advantage of what they have to offer. The world is changing fast, and your people strategy must keep up by being ready for the unexpected and future-proof.

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A Borrower’s Complete Guide For E-Transfer Payday Loans Canada Application

Take It Personel-ly

If you have been in need of fast cash and are thinking about applying for payday loans in Canada through e-transfer, then you are in luck as we will be breaking down, one by one, all of the requirements that you will be needing. This article aims to provide you with information that can serve […].

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How To Live The Values Of Your Corporate Culture

Forbes Coaches Council

Even if you’ve never noticed because the guidance was so slight in your institution, every company has a corporate culture. Whether you've experienced it to a greater or lesser degree during your career, it was always there.

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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 Attract Top Talent Now That Remote Work Is Here to Stay

Limeade

Remote work isn’t exactly the powerful employee perk it once was. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to make working from home happen, and fast. It was an abrupt adjustment, but employees soon settled into their new commute-free work life. And now most don’t want to give it up. A whopping 86% of workers who started working from home during the pandemic are interested in continuing to do so, a new YouGov poll reveals.

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Three Steps For Maximizing Team Potential

Forbes Coaches Council

Bringing out the best in our teams means being aware of the biology of connecting, empathizing and optimizing all individuals’ unique perspectives and preferences.

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HR Strategy Sessions: How HR Leaders are Managing Performance in 2021

Engagedly

For almost a year now, a large percentage of us have been working remotely. The change has created ripple effects in the way we collaborate, engage, and manage people in our organizations. Given the impact of COVID-19 on employees’ work and professional lives, and on business objectives, people leaders are pondering over adjustments to their performance management process this year.

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How to write a Positive Employee Reference (with examples)

HR Digest

A reference letter is a letter of recommendation from a former company (outside source) to provide along with new job applications and to new organizations. The letter highlights the skills of the person, the qualifications, and the responsibilities portrayed in the former organization. Employees often seek an employee reference from existing companies.

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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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Nine Ways To Engage Remote Team Members In Charitable Efforts

Forbes Coaches Council

Volunteering, corporate giving and other forms of charitable outreach are all great ways for companies to build camaraderie among employees while doing good in the community. How can they achieve this same dynamic when teams are working remotely?

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First-Time Unemployment Claims Dip, Remain High

SHRM Resources

?States reported that 779,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Jan. 30, a decrease of 33,000 from the previous week's revised level. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to 4.6 million. About 18 million people are receiving some type of unemployment aid.Weekly unemployment claims have remained elevated since the coronavirus outbreak triggered widespread business shutdowns last spring and have generally tr.

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What Is Sick Pay?

Patriot Software

Your alarm clock goes off, you roll over to get ready for work, but then … ugh. You just can’t do it because you’re too sick. Ever have one of those days? Your employees have, too. Unfortunately, everyone gets sick. Between colds, the flu, and other medical issues, workers might have days where they’re not […] READ MORE.

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