Wed.May 15, 2019

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The Importance of Leadership Transparency

DISC Assessments

In any relationship, business or personal, transparency is a key component in trust and confidence between the people involved. Now more than ever, leadership transparency is not only the respectful way to conduct yourself at the office, it is also the most efficient way as well. In this week’s story, Deb Calvert discusses just how important leadership transparency is both in terms of morale and your company’s bottom line.

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Cafe Classic: Employee Retention and How to Combat Wandering Eyes

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Derek Irvine with research, insights and an unhappy metaphor (picture two of ten employees actively working to sink your organizational ship?!) to call our attention to employee engagement and retention. More than half a dozen clients I’m consulting with currently tell me retention is a top priority for them. Indeed, they feel like they are constantly trading employees among their competitors, usually over a few dollars extra in pay.

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How AI Is Making the Employee Experience Better Than Ever

TalentCulture

If you’re in HR, you’ve undoubtedly heard two buzzwords as much or more than any others in the past few years: AI and employee experience. They’re topics we often link to automation — after all, the employee experience is a lot better when you’re freed from tedious, repetitive processes. But AI is actually improving the employee experience in other ways that are often overlooked.

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To manage change, unleash adaptability

The HRX

By Dr. Steven Hunt. About 2500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus observed that the only constant is change. This statement is not totally true in the modern digitalized, interconnected world. Now the only constant is an ever-accelerating rate of change. The implication this has for organizations is simple: Whatever a company is doing now is probably the wrong thing to be doing three years from now.

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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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Ramadan in the Workplace 2019: HR Best Practices

Kazoo

We recently published a series of blog posts regarding inclusivity in the workplace, and we wanted to broaden the conversation to include people who practice different faiths. The purpose of these articles is to bring awareness to specific holidays or traditions that aren’t widely covered in the U.S. – and to give you tips to make your workplace more inclusive to employees who celebrate them.

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Virtual Outplacement Services: How Do They Work?

Intoo USA

Being fired or laid off is never a pleasant experience, but one of the biggest concerns that an employee in this situation has is finding a new job right away. This is where virtual outplacement comes in. Essentially, outplacement services can mitigate the negative impact a termination or layoff can have on a brand. Unlike traditional outplacement, which takes place in a physical location, virtual outplacement happens online or over the phone, allowing former employees to communicate with career

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Ramadan in the Workplace 2019: HR Best Practices

Kazoo

We recently published a series of blog posts regarding inclusivity in the workplace, and we wanted to broaden the conversation to include people who practice different faiths. The purpose of these articles is to bring awareness to specific holidays or traditions that aren’t widely covered in the U.S. – and to give you tips to make your workplace more inclusive to employees who celebrate them.

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CMS Seeks Input from States on ACA Waivers

ACA Times

2 minute read: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the U.S. Department of Treasury have issued a request for information (RFI) to states seeking more ideas on potential programs and waiver concepts for a State Relief and Empowerment Waiver plan. The RFI specifically asks for ideas for additional waiver concepts that states could use that meet the requirements of the ACA’s Section 1332.

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Virtual Outplacement Services: How Do They Work?

Intoo USA

Being fired or laid off is never a pleasant experience, but one of the biggest concerns that an employee in this situation has is finding a new job right away. This is where virtual outplacement comes in. Essentially, outplacement services can mitigate the negative impact a termination or layoff can have on a brand. Unlike traditional outplacement, which takes place in a physical location, virtual outplacement happens online or over the phone, allowing former employees to communicate with career

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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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How to Ask for a Raise Before Your Check-In or Review

Reflektive

You’d like a raise. Heck, you deserve a raise. Unfortunately, your annual performance review is months away. Do you wait until then to bring up your reasons to ask for a raise, or do you bite the bullet and ask for a promotion right now? Yes, approaching management about increased pay can be nerve wracking, and asking for a raise outside of an annual performance review is unusual.

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How to Foster a Healthy Work Environment for Your Employees That’s Free of Bullying

Bob

As May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I would like to discuss one of the most influential factors on employee mental health in modern office settings; workplace bullying. Once regarded as incidents that only took place on school playgrounds, bullying is now running rampant in offices and other workspaces, leading to a high negative financial impact for companies.

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Ep 181 – Working and Leading With Dyslexia

Workology

Being a workplace that overlooks diversity and inclusion is not an option in today’s talent marketplace. Accessibility and accommodation aren’t take it or leave it – they’re crucial to. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How HR Should Work with Legal

HR Examiner

“Just like a cardiologist views everything as a heart problem, a lawyer sees everything as a legal problem. So you may want their opinion, but you may not always want to follow their advice.” – Heather Bussing. Human resources executives work a lot with laws and lawyers. The relationship between a company and its employees is one of the most regulated and litigated.

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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. Variable Pay for Recruiters

Recruit CRM

Motivating your team Now you have a team and have assignments to do. One of the most important elements of building a business is the motivation of your team to achieve organizational goals. Much as enough has been spoken and written about motivational factors and hygiene factors in a work […] Source.

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Gotta Go

NoExcusesHR

I've recently had the privilege to speak at several #DisruptHR events in Atlanta and Tampa. My talk focused on the potential for human resources leaders.and candidly, all leaders.to take risks, live their values, and lead with conviction. That's what is most important, right? HR Stuff Matters, But. It's not that updating policy manuals, going to the Forms Committee meeting, and ensuring open enrollment goes smoothly aren't important.

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15 Ways to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

SocialChorus

Mention diversity in the workplace and you’ll generally get a positive response from executives. That’s because most of them understand the many benefits of a diverse workforce. They know 1) innovation and 2) terrific customer service are two key ways any company can stay competitive in tough markets and show consistent revenue growth. Diversity in the workplace benefits.

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How Men Can Stay Healthy at Work

Take It Personel-ly

Believe it or not, the average person spends ? of their lifetime at work. It’s said that our health is our wealth, which is why it’s crucial to be mindful of it, even while we’re on the clock. We all know self-care can help us achieve our career goals, so in light of Men’s Health […].

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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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Geoff Ho, PhD, Director of Organization Development Research, at Rogers Communications: Why HR is the secret sauce for innovation

Qualtrics HR

In the latest installment of our Employee Experience Visionaries series, we hear from Geoff Ho , PhD, Director of Organization Development Research at Rogers Communications about: How his team uses “experience” and “operational” data to tackle employee engagement, performance, & turnover. How Rogers enables employees at every level to have their voices heard.

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Top 10 Las Vegas Restaurants for Conferences

Workology

Looking for more great Las Vegas resources as you plan for the SHRM Annual Conference? Sign up and join our SHRM VIP Party List or text ‘SHRM’ to 55678. So you’ve decided to attend the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Encouraging Passion In The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

When we make room for the personal to be brought into the workplace, we make room for passion to be brought into the workplace.

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Denver Public Schools

Workforce Software

Learn how DPS has been able to move from monthly to semi-monthly pay and has eliminated over 10,000 paper time sheets by implementing WorkForce Software.

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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 Reduce Stress in the Workplace: 3 Tips to Start

Best Money Moves

How to reduce stress in the workplace: 3 tips to start. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and here are three ways employers can reduce stress, boost morale and attract talent for better employee morale and a more productive workplace. Forty-eight percent of employees have cried at work when stressed out, according to a recent report by Gin g er. More than 80 percent of employees say they are stressed on a regular basis and 45 percent of workers under 40 are extremely stressed on a daily basis

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How to save your company from low engagement levels

Jostle

We’ve all heard the horror stories, or maybe even acted as supporting characters in them ourselves: droves of dissatisfied workers, silently hating their jobs, contemplating a swift exit. That is, the type of workplaces where engagement levels are dangerously, catastrophically low.

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Why Qualtrics – Caroline Mogford – Marketing Director EMEA – London, UK

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Caroline’s “Why Qualtrics” story. When I think about the roles I’ve enjoyed most in my career, they have all involved two basic elements: freedom and the chance to build something. I have loved building the Qualtrics EMEA marketing team from one person (the amazing Kate Goodison in our Dublin office) to the 15 people and 5 nationalities we currently have

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My coworkers won’t stop skinny shaming me. How do I handle comments about my appearance?

HR Digest

Skinny shaming can be as harmful as fat shaming. A coworker’s remarks on appearance at work can rise to microaggressions and lead to actionable harassment. Read Jane Harper’s take on how to respond to offensive comments at work. I lead a small team at a small-sized enterprise. To make Friday a little sweeter, and definitely, a day employees look forward to, we have lunch together.

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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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Making A Suggestion To Your Leadership Team? Stay Humble And Try These 12 Tactics

Forbes Coaches Council

Scared to speak up as a new or junior employee? The experts of Forbes Coaches Council offer 12 ways you can confidently share your ideas with your leader without stepping out of bounds.

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my interviewer was drinking a beer while sitting in a beanbag chair

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have been on the job hunt for a while and have had numerous phone/in-person interviews for administrative assistant positions. I seem to struggle a little bit with my general overall presence during an interview (which has gotten better thanks to your tips!) but I am still having a hard time gauging how I should behave in an interview.

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Test Your Knowledge of Federal Labor Laws

Homebase

How well do you know federal labor laws? Take the federal labor law quiz to test your knowledge , and share it at your workplace. As an employer , it’s your responsibility to remain in compliance with all applicable labor laws at your business. As an employee , it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with federal employment laws as well.