Wed.Oct 30, 2019

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Where do you fall on the data maturity curve for engagement analytics?

Workify

Big things are happening in the world of HR. One of the key trends we are seeing right now is the rise of ‘strategic HR’. This is the revitalization of HR leaders to become more data-driven, and focused on reaching specific KPIs. The new duties of the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) have granted these previously underutilized professionals a seat at the high table of executives, and a close relationship with the CEO.

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5 Strategies for a Successful Open Enrollment Communications Campaign

PlanSource

It’s no secret that HR and Benefits Managers spend countless hours planning for open enrollment. Negotiating rates with carriers, scoping out innovative new programs to remain competitive and configuring the benefits enrollment system are just a few of the tasks that take up time before, during and after OE. However, how your benefits are promoted is just as important as how they are designed!

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Taking Care Of Every Employee So They Bring Their Whole Self To Work

15Five

When one area of an employee’s life feels neglected, it has a tendency to become the only thing that person can focus on. Because of this, there has been a push for organizations to make sure employees are fully taken care of in their personal lives as well as their professional lives. Of course, there are appropriate and reasonable boundaries, but there are many ways your company can ensure each employee is bringing their whole self to work.

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Recruit & Retain: 3 Tips to Working Smarter

Sterling Check

Your employees are the heart and soul of your business, connecting each department, driving quality work, and serving as your brand ambassadors. The interaction and impression customers have after interacting with your salespeople ultimately is what will reflect on the reputation of your brand. To continue to grow and expand your brand in an extremely competitive hiring landscape, it’s critical that your employees are aligned to your company’s values, goals and culture.

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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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Sirenum Celebrates Sixth Birthday With Revolutionary New Scheduling UI and Improved Mobile App

Sirenum

Dynamic Workforce Management technology leader announces major new release of software platform and improved multilingual support within its mobile application LONDON, UK, 30 October 2019–Sirenum, the leading UK-based provider of technology solutions for innovative temporary staffing agencies, is proud to announce the general availability of its Autumn 2019 release, a massive update to the platform [.].

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How is Severance Pay Determined? How to Calculate Severance

Intoo USA

While companies are not required by federal law to provide severance pay to terminated employees, many voluntarily choose to do so. This brings up a crucial question for HR experts: How is severance pay determined? Providing departing employees with a financial cushion of course helps smooth these workers’ transitions to new jobs, but the practice benefits the company too.

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Do you pay for your brand ambassador?

COATS Staffing Software

Do you pay for your brand ambassador? Where do you feel the greatest sense of professional belonging? Through the years, it’s been known that men in particular often define their self-worth almost solely through their ability to provide for their family, which ties directly to their job. In 2019, the company they work for contributes the most to their sense of self-respect and esteem.

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Incorrect ITINs Will Cause Havoc With ACA Compliance

ACA Times

3 minute read: Earlier this year the IRS announced that roughly 2 million ITINs are set to expire December 31. This could pose a significant risk to your organization’s Affordable Care Act compliance process that could lead to penalties. An ITIN, or An Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, is a tax processing number issued by the IRS. The IRS issues ITINs to process and account for tax returns and payments from individuals who are not eligible for Social Security numbers.

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How is Severance Pay Determined? How to Calculate Severance

Intoo USA

While companies are not required by federal law to provide severance pay to terminated employees, many voluntarily choose to do so. This brings up a crucial question for HR experts: How is severance pay determined? Providing departing employees with a financial cushion of course helps smooth these workers’ transitions to new jobs, but the practice benefits the company too.

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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 Ways to Build a Culture of Teamwork in the Workplace

Reflektive

Building an effective team is one of the great challenges — and rewards — of management. According to recent research conducted by Reflektive, the vast majority (81%) of the survey group said that they frequently work as part of a team; however, teamwork is still a major pain point. . Forty-six percent reported working on teams is difficult due to different working styles, and more than 90% of workers find it difficult to contribute in a meaningful way in teams of six or more people.

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7 things employees get wrong about ‘wrongful termination’

HR Morning

A wrongful termination claim can be filed in a court of law if an employee believes he or she has been ‘illegally’ fired from the job. Such claims result from an alleged violation of federal or state anti-discrimination laws, employment contracts or labor laws, including whistle-blower laws. A wrongful termination claim can also be filed when an employee believes the termination was due to sexual harassment or in retaliation to a complaint or workers’ compensation claim.

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Choosing The Right 360 Degree Feedback Software

Engagedly

A feedback culture where employees enthusiastically participate by receiving and giving feedback to their managers, colleagues and their direct reports drives employee engagement and helps the organization stay productive. This is where 360 degree feedback plays a prominent […].

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How eSignature Software Helps You Minimize Business Operational Costs?

SutiHR

Organizations need to track their business processes continuously throughout the year in order to minimize operational costs and enhance productivity. Particularly, small businesses with low budgets seek ways to gain a competitive advantage to stay ahead of their competitors. However, out of various operational costs, traditional processes, and paper workflows costs it has been proven to drain more business resources in the long run.

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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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Top 10 Books on Change Management

TinyPulse

Implementing change at any organization is a complex and daunting process, so if you’re looking for guidance, you’re not alone. To help you on your journey, we’ve put together a list of 10 books about organizational change management processes, along with summaries for each. But before we dive in, what exactly is change management?

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Is the Goal creating Enduring Professional Stories or Temporary Ones?

Babette Ten Haken - Professional Development

Enduring professional stories are the stories clients and colleagues remember, long after you leave the room. First, your message sticks in their brains: motivating their actions beyond today. Then, that message catalyzes their professional behavior and mindset tomorrow and in the future. Why? Because your stories stick. Do you tell enduring professional stories or temporary ones?

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Why Qualtrics – Suzanne Scharer – Principal Customer Success Consultant – Provo, UT

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Suzanne’s “Why Qualtrics” story. I’ve been given so many unique opportunities & so much support (both personally & professionally) that I live life by paying it forward. While I will always leverage my mentors, I’m at a great point in my life where I can support others on their way up.

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Mental Habits that Support Lifelong Learning

QAspire

No significant learning happens only through consumption of insights. It happens when we act on what we learn, go through the experience, take risks and then develop insights through the lens of that experience. Just like organizations need to build right mental models for creating a learning organization, individuals need to build mental habits that enable lifelong learning.

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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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Key takeaways from Unleash, Paris 2019 – Part 3: The People Analytics Journey

Littal Shemer

Photo: Littal Shemer Haim ©. Key takeaways from Unleash, Paris 2019 – Part 3: The People Analytics Journey. This blog is a part of four blog series that covers my key takeaways from sessions and demos at Unleash, Paris 2019. The 1 st blog was focused on the future of work and learning. The 2 nd covered new technologies for career paths. The future blog will explore insights about the digital transformation of HR.

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Harnessing The Positives Of Perfectionism

Forbes Coaches Council

Failure is a critical part of growing and learning; by avoiding mistakes at any cost, a perfectionist just makes it harder to reach their own elevated goals.

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Faced with Signing a Noncompete? Here’s What You Should Know

GetFive

So you’ve found a new job that seems very promising, but the HR department has asked you to sign a noncompete agreement. You’re far from alone. Still, you’re aware that signing such a document could be a hindrance to your future employment options. Can you refuse to sign it and still keep your job? Probably not. But certain legal limitations are applied to such clauses by state (California has the most).

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Five Ways To Reenergize A Stalled Job Search

Forbes Coaches Council

It’s critical to define the attributes most important to you and then do your research so you cast the widest net possible during your research phase.

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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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5 Telecom Companies With the Most Innovative Talent Strategies

Paddle HR

Here at Paddle HR, we (literally) wrote the book on internal mobility (that you can access below). Our team has worked with a variety of Fortune 1000 companies improve their internal mobility programs and understand their internal talent movement. And we’ve helped clients across a few different verticals, including telecommunications, financial services and retail companies.

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How to Assess a Candidate’s Skills before an Interview

Outmatch

According to new LinkedIn research , 69% of professionals believe that skills are more important than a college degree when looking for a job, and 76% wish there was a way for hiring managers to verify their skills so they could stand out amongst other candidates. Recruiting teams share the same wish – to see a more complete picture of a candidate, beyond the resume.

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Healthy Boundaries

EverFi - HR

Teaching boundaries to your students is essential to their emotional development and intelligence. It helps them to become self-aware as to what they will and will not tolerate, builds confidence, sets them up to have successful relationships, and fosters traits, such as respect and empathy. One way to define boundaries to your students is to have them envision an invisible fence between themselves and others.

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4 Tips for a Smooth Maternity/Paternity Leave

Newmeasures

In our previous blog , Kyla Holcombe shared her experience of being on maternity leave. Her blog got me thinking – maternity leave is not just about the person going on leave. It also can affect one’s team, supervisor, customers etc. When you manage a team and one of your direct reports tells you she is going on maternity leave, it sparks a reaction.

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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 embed neurodiversity into your people management practices

HR Zone

People Embracing neurodiversity at work.

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boss refuses to wear hearing aids, putting strengths in your email signature, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Putting strengths in your email signature. I work at a relatively small private university. Like many universities, we have a transition-to-college one-credit course for first-semester undergraduate students. I am an instructor for one section of this course, but this is in addition to my actual job.

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7 Tax-Free Employee Benefits

Commuter Benefit Solutions

The federal government, and maybe your state, is taking a slice of your earnings each paycheck in taxes. Two of those benefits, Social Security and Medicare. But there are benefits that you could get from your employer without paying any taxes on them.