Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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Bridging the Distance

Engage2Excel

The relationship between managers and their direct reports has undergone severe stress testing during the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, according to a Career Builder survey, 58% of managers have never received training in people management. In turn, HR leaders should not expect that managers are well equipped to support remote employees. So, what do managers need to do differently to engage remote workers?

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Working From Home Tips for New Parents

Take It Personel-ly

There are many people working from home now, even those of us who would never have imagined working from home before. From the customer service manager who now has to manage customer queries from their home office, to the IT technician that has to try and work around the challenges that distance working has created. […].

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Ashley Furniture Saved ~$5 Million with Employee Retention: Featuring Humantelligence on We’re Only Human

UpstartHR

“So you’re about to go into a meeting physically or remotely, you click on the team on the calendar invite and it’ll pull up the culture of that meeting. Imagine EQ everywhere, and you’re delivering emotional intelligence insights where every person can communicate, collaborate, and connect.” Juan Betancourt, Humantelligence.

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Facial Recognition and Workplace Privacy – What Employers Need to Know

Hppy

Whether used for monitoring remote employees in regulated industries or streamlining recruitment , facial recognition has massive potential for companies in every sector. However, just like any technology, facial recognition has a dark side. As employers leverage employees’ biometric data through facial scanning, they unknowingly widen their exposure to potential privacy abuses.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Top five record-breaking Roulette facts and wins

Take It Personel-ly

As one of the most popular casino games of all time, it’ll come as no surprised that Roulette has made a name for itself when it comes to breaking records! Some people out there are just lucky, and on a handful of occasions, they’ve brought that luck with them to the Roulette table. What’s more, […].

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How to Remain Productive When Working From Your Bedroom

Take It Personel-ly

The new normal has seemingly come to stay. Whether you are working full-time remotely or have a hybrid schedule of both in office as well as your home, it’s imperative you optimize your home office to the best of your ability. If you have smaller living quarters, your bedroom may be the most realistic option […].

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9 BAM features designed to make the lives of marketers easier

Papirfly

Even if you have an abundance of project managers, marketers and creatives a-plenty, the life of a marketing team is often erring on the border of chaos. The nature of the industry means that things are constantly moving – perceptions shift all the time and the way we deliver always needs to be reinvented as we learn and grow.

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Snag These #BlackFriday & #CyberMonday Deals for #HR Leaders

Workology

At Workology, we’re all about elevating HR and workplace leaders with resources, information, and training. We’re focused on providing training and coaching in two areas: 1) HR. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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weekend open thread – November 28-29, 2020

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: Saints for All Occasions , by J. Courtney Sullivan. Another epic family saga, this one told from alternating points of view and about two sisters who leave Ireland for America.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Social responsibility: How to pivot to virtual volunteering during Covid-19 and beyond

HR Zone

Employees Key lessons on virtual volunteering.

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HRExaminer v11.00

HR Examiner

Group of business people in protective masks sitting at their workplaces and working on computers at office during pandemic. Pandemic Workforce. HRExaminer v11.00 for November 27, 2020. We’ve got a whole week of amazing videos from John Sumser covering different impacts of the pandemic on the workforce. Dive in below. This Week's Articles. Pandemic Workforce: The Demise and Rise of the HR Safety Department John Sumser walks through the historical demise of the HR Safety Department and

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. 1. I’m excited to share that after a very difficult fellowship and a very difficult fellowship, I got a job offer that I’m really excited about! I’ve been reading your blog religiously for a couple of years largely because I started a fellowship two years ago with a Horrible Manager.

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The Life-changing Moment That Continuously Reminds Me to Feel Grateful

Thrive Global

Three years ago, I was riding the bus on my way back home from work when I received the news that I had cancer. I cried for 20 minutes, thinking of what would happen to my 12 year old son if he had to grow without a mother. I quickly put my fears aside and focused on my favorite memories and all the things I have to be thankful for. Three years have passed since then, and I am still here with another chance to be thankful.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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open thread – November 27-28, 2020

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Bringing back the Mojo in Remote Working

Hiring Plug

The initial liberty and excitement of working from home, is fast culminating into fatigue & inefficient. Is virtual world really the reason for unproductive meetings?

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A Proposed Work-from-Home Tax and Remote Work Advantages

BerniePortal

With the end of the year quickly approaching, employees will need to keep FSA and HSA spending in mind. From use-it-or-lose-it deadlines to FSA-eligible products, it’s important to remind your employees how — and when — to use their funds.

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Biden Needs a Transformation Team More than a Transition Team

Thrive Global

Shortly after it became clear that Joe Biden had won the Presidential election, CNN Chief Political Analyst, Gloria Borger , opined that he will need to create a transformational team more than a transitional team. It was one of the many lines that political pundits throw away in their commentary, but that one landed for me and stuck. She may not have known it, but why her statement was so important is that it supports the notion that you can’t solve a transformational problem with transac

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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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Peer Insights – an Important Component of Risk Metrics

360 factors

A major advantage of living in the information era is that businesses now have access to more data than ever before. Banks track a lot of risk metrics and leading indicators to stay ahead of the market and detect any upcoming risks or opportunities. External metrics help a bank understand the market, while internal performance metrics help the bank understand its own vulnerabilities and strengths.

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Resources for a Resilient Future

Thrive Global

This article endeavours to unpack what we’ve been through personally, professionally, and as a collective whole in just a few words. It provides practical recommendations for dealing with stress. The year 2020 has been one we’ll never forget. What started off as a typical new year, albeit with news of a strange virus in Asia, we in North America continued in a relatively standard fashion.

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Top 6 Recruitment Trends to Look for in 2020

HR Cloud

The recruitment process has seen a huge shift from traditional recruiting to new recruiting techniques in the past decade. Due to the agility in modern technology, recruitment specialists are obligated to adapt to the new changes if they want to stay in the game.

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4 Steps To Overcome Tough Times

Thrive Global

Anytime we overcome tough times, we become stronger and grow. However, although we all know this, going though challenging situation is often hard. When we find ourselves in difficult circumstances, we always have a choice: we can either let our problems affect us and control our feelings and actions?—?maybe for the rest of our life?—?or we can take control and face the situation.

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2024 HR Calendar of Important Dates

64% of HR managers lack the time and resources to meet HR compliance challenges and 50% of HR professionals lack confidence in their ability to keep up with ever-changing rules and regulations ( UpCounsel ). This free calendar from Paycor can help.

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Burnout: The Empty Teapot

David Zinger

Burnout. Carol B offers her personal metaphor for burnout in Christina Maslach ‘s quintessential, and my favorite book on burnout: Burnout the Cost of Caring. “When I try to describe my experience to someone else, I use the analogy of a teapot. Just like a teapot, I was on the fire, with water boiling – working hard to handle problems and do good.

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“Refocus on your operational plan.” With Delali Dzirasa

Thrive Global

Refocus on your operational plan. Businesses should have a strategic plan- whether it’s 3 years or 5 years. But when you have a once in a lifetime event like a pandemic, it is okay to revisit those strategic plans and evaluate if you are still headed in the right direction, or does the existing operational plan still make sense for your business. Assess if you need to pivot- are there areas that are really important to your customers that you need to double down on.

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Amazon to shell out $500 million in holiday bonus to frontline workers

HR Digest

It’s not hard to imagine that one of the largest online retailers in the world is exempt from workplace controversies. In recent years Amazon has time and again come under fire for its cutthroat management style which has created a struggle for survival among its workers. The company is now facing unionization threats that call for changes to policies for disciplining, firing and safety.

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How to Boost Employee Engagement with 360 Degree Feedback?

Synergita

Remote working has become the new normal since the beginning of the pandemic. Companies have not yet decided whether to move back to the familiar normal, stay in the new normal, or create a hybrid model. No matter how the workplace changes, there are a few features that have to be effectively executed to manage the employees’ performance and also get higher productivity.

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DEIB Reimagined: Navigating Change and Shaping the Future

Speaker: Lachandra B. Baker, MBA, CTA, CDP - Founder/Principal Consultant at LBB Edutainment, Keynote Speaker, and Author

Join us for an insightful session where we delve into the evolving landscape of DEIB. Discover the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities that have emerged over the past year and explore what lies ahead. This webinar will equip you with actionable strategies, best practices, and reflection tools to effectively lead and inspire change in your organization.

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Driving diversity across the employee lifecycle

LACE Partners

Suki Sandhu recently spoke to LACE Partners’ Co-Founder Aaron Alburey and the HR Guild’s Annette Andrews about the importance of ensuring businesses bring diversity into the entire employee life cycle, not just the hiring process. Catch up on the In The Spotlight podcast series by the Guild of HR Professionals. “We want to hire a female CEO”. For a long time now when I have spoken to senior executives at businesses I work with, I have heard this as a mantra, or “We want to hire a female board me

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5 Open-Ended Questions You Should be Asking in Your Employee Engagement Surveys | Xoxoday

Xoxoday

Strike deep conversations with these open-ended employee engagement survey questions that get down to the bottom of what’s going on with your employees.

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Listening To The Answer of “Are You Ok?” Is As Important As Asking

Thrive Global

Gina Cicatelli Ciagne, CLC. We have been reminded, most recently by the Duchess of Sussex, that asking “Are you ok?” can make a huge difference to someone who is not ok whether from depression, anxiety, or whatever ails them. While the question is so important, the way the answer is received is just as critical. You may not be able to relate to their suffering.

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