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Why Conduct Employee Opinion Surveys? (8 Solid Reasons)

6Q

Getting organisations to conduct an employee opinion survey can be tricky. There always seems to be something else that is more “pressing” to pay attention to. In this article, we discuss why employee opinion surveys are worth investing your time and money in. As an organisation, your biggest asset is your workforce: people are the backbone of any organisation – not machines or buildings.

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The Performance Management System Is Broken

Engagedly

What is the purpose of performance management? We all can agree that the main purpose is to assess employee performance and help them improve themselves in the future. But is this the only motivation behind conducting performance reviews […].

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3 Ways To Help Your Sales Professionals Return To Work

HR C-Suite

If you have ever been out of work for an extended period of time, then you might remember the challenges with getting the momentum and motivation back up to where it was. Maybe it wasn’t due to a job loss. Maybe it was when your summer break ending and that first week back at school. […].

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51 Best Icebreaker Questions For Exceptional Team Building

Vantage Circle

The power of asking the right icebreaker questions is vastly underestimated. Monotonous meetings, disengaged employees, or for just a pick-me-up purpose- a well-intentioned ice breaker will help you aid in more genuine team bonding. The term ice breaker denotes the use of a certain medium to “break the ice” of a person’s outer surface and get to know his inner thoughts, ideas, and personality.

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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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I don’t know if I’m still invited to my customer’s wedding, my husband is borderline rude at work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I don’t know if I’m still invited to my customer’s wedding after I came out of the closet. I’m a woman working in agriculture, which is an incredibly male-dominated and conservative industry. One of my customers is a woman who’s right around my age (mid 20s) and we really hit it off!

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Single And Lonely? 11 Tips For Overcoming Depression During Isolation

Thrive Global

The world is trying to keep up with this new normal isolation. This mask-wearing staying home culture happened fast. People are losing jobs, and loved ones— while still trying to maintain a sense of normalcy and looking for ways to connect socially with people. Singles who want a partner can feel more alone than ever. And there’s a need to connect with someone on their search for love.

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3 Reasons Physical Offices & Face-to-Face Meetings Are Not Going Away

Workplace Psychology

The traditional, physical office is not going away any time soon despite advances in technology allowing people to work remotely , either at a home office, coworking space, virtual office, or another remote location (such as a coffee shop, library, or bookstore). Similarly, face-to-face meetings will not disappear, even though we can use email, phone, text, or virtual conference calls to conduct business meetings.

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Achieving Understanding

Thrive Global

If you have children, you’ll know that understanding isn’t something you serve up on a plate with the expectation that, once devoured, enlightenment will follow. Its generally accepted that a series of breadcrumbs will need to be laid out that ultimately lead to the intended goal, where the unsuspecting mind can exclaim at the new perspective and delight in it’s findings, therefore remembering both the experience and the context.

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Tips To Deal With Difficult Employees

New to HR

Difficult employees can be found in most organizations, but often there’s a reason for them. Whether it’s something they’re not happy with when it comes to the workplace, or it’s an issue with their attitude towards other staff members, it’s. The post Tips To Deal With Difficult Employees appeared first on New To HR.

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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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Let’s Not Be In A New Normal

Thrive Global

Working in the new normal. Navigating your new normal. New normal. Obviously, new normal is a phrase we are hearing a great deal of right now. It is my hope we are not in a new normal; instead, it is my hope we are in a transition and will have a post-pandemic status, which allows us to create a true “new normal.” I have an even greater hope that our post-pandemic period will be built with intention and integration.

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Why Women Smokers Need Your Help to Quit, Especially Now

EX Program

In the current crisis, HR leaders are quickly and strategically shifting benefits to better meet evolving workforce needs. With National Women’s Health Week kicking off May 10, more discussions about how to boost the health of female employees are likely to bubble to the surface. In addition to providing enhanced resources for stress management and [.].

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Uninformed: The New Path to Feeling Better

Thrive Global

OK, relax. I’m not suggesting burying your head in the sand or going into denial. I’ve spent much of my career working in TV news broadcasting, have hosted two podcasts, written blogs extensively, so I’m not indicting the media. I’m focusing on how to use news to improve your mood. The truth – wait, that’s a lovely thought – the truth is it’s difficult to know what’s true these days, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Practicing Employee Assessment and its Importance

Vantage Circle

The backbone of your organization is your employees and their overall performance matters in the long run. But keeping track of their improvement and their achievements during their tenure can become an extensive task. However, employee assessment can help you do that if it is appropriately planned and executed well. In this blog, we will be discussing how you can conduct employee evaluation in the right way and why it is essential.

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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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Branding your business in an isolated world: 5 marketing tips that will take you to the next level even in a crisis

Thrive Global

We do not live in the same world as we did before this health and economic crisis and just like many other things the ways you can brand and market yourself and your business has changed too. The lives of many people have changed, be it some losing their jobs or working from home in ways that are completely new to them. As a result of disruptions these people have new needs and view various marketing and promotions differently.

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6 Ways to Enjoy Your Work Break a Little More

Take It Personel-ly

If you work from home, it’s easy to forget to take a break. After all, your co-workers aren’t around to take a walk or grab a coffee with, so free time can feel a little useless. Fortunately, there’s so much that you can do to make your 15-minute break more productive and purposeful. Plus, what’s […].

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A Conversation with Wayne Shulick About Managing a Business and Taking Care of Your Family & Yourself

Thrive Global

Wayne Shulick has owned high-end retail stores and night clubs over the past 20 years. He has always been interested in fashion and design. It has been a passion for him. He started in the clothing business and built a chain, Premium Denim, and that led him into the night life business and his club, Denim Lounge. Wayne ran Denim Lounge from 2006 until he sold it in 2012.

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Working From Home: It's Time To Have The Conversation About What's Really Involved

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Once the emergency is over, working from home looks like a viable option for many workers, many companies and for the environment, especially if we consider doing so seriously and under the right conditions.

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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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Community Service and Personal Wellbeing in COVID-19

Thrive Global

It takes one piece to move so that other domino pieces can follow. . Despite the severity of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the increased levels of distress, I have seen the tremendous support of our community on helping the most vulnerable. It felt like a chain reaction of positivity, highlighting how human behavior can be tied to one another.

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Six Ways To Have Effective And Successful Meetings

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The goal is for people to be engaged and even look forward to attending meetings. Again, not easy, but doable. I connected with Axtell and asked for some tips on how to eliminate the “time-suck” and be more productive in meetings. Here are his ideas followed by my commentary.

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What my mum of 80 has continued to do during COVID 19

Thrive Global

They say you are never too old to do something different and that has certainly been shown by my mum, who has incorporated doing a few things differently as part of her normal daily routine. Celebration Time. We celebrated my mum’s 80th birthday by throwing her a surprise party 3 days early 7th March 2020. Bringing together her friends and family from around the country.

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How Innovative Can Companies Really Be After A Crisis?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The hope among many is that after this crisis, leaders will be more open to building innovation cultures within their companies. But it is also possible that leaders will simply tell their employees to get back to work.

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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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7 ways To Live Healthy Life

Thrive Global

Today every successful person is engaged in making himself better in every sphere of life. They is trying to take themself to a place where their life is full of happiness. To improve his life he finds new ways and keeps adopting new ideas. Many people succeed in achieving this success or their dreams, but there are many people who are not happy even after getting success in their lives.

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What Life-Saving Mothers Teach Us About How To Lead Through Hard Times

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Social entrepreneur Jane Chen tells what she's learned from watching thousands of new mothers deal with tragecy—and how a subtle shift in what we focus on makes an enormous difference.

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Helping Others During Covid-19 Can Really Be Helping Ourselves Frank Armijo.

Thrive Global

In order to help others, you first need to take care of yourself. Spending so much time by ourselves and with immediate family during the Covid-19 pandemic can be both an opportunity and a challenge. It’s important to have goals every day and ensure you are taking care of both your mind and body to stay in good spirits. Another powerful tool to keep us focused and our spirits high is being there for others!

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5 Signs You’re Overthinking A Career Decision

Forbes Leadership Strategy

According to experts, thinking too much can negatively impact job performance, cause anxiety, or even lead to depression.

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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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Today’s pain, tomorrow’s gain

Thrive Global

It’s been drizzling rain here on Mothering Sunday but still it remains warm. Yesterday when the skies were clear and blue I took a walk around the local area and stopped to gaze across the lake as the sun began to depart for the day and I asked the universe when will this all end? I watched the sun dip and the birds sweep across the water and remember thinking maybe it had ended and this was just the beginning, a new beginning.

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Mother’s Day And COVID-19’s Impact On Women Of Color

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Even before the pandemic, women of color often stood at the intersection of multiple barriers.

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5 ways to get out of your comfort zone and boost success

Thrive Global

Do you like getting out of your comfort zone? If we’re being completely honest, the thought of doing that doesn’t excite most people. I mean, if we’re out of our comfort zone, then, by definition, that means we’re in a place of discomfort – and who the hell wants that, right? Well, although it may not be the most enjoyable place to be, outside of your comfort zone is where the magic of growth and success happens.