Tue.Jul 02, 2019

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6 Quick Team Building Activities That SkyRocket Teamwork and Performance

Jason Treu

Teamwork is the most important and least developed soft skill. Arguably everything we do is dependent on other people. Performance and outcomes are dependent on how well the team works together. Just like a flower, unless we give it constant attention and care, it will wither and die. The same goes for teamwork and relationships with teammates. Too many talk about how important culture and teamwork are without prioritizing it and taking action.

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Emotions in the Workplace: Yep, Employee Engagement is a Coping Strategy

Quantum Workplace

Coping mechanisms are the tools and strategies we use to deal with stress in our lives. Our various ways of coping eventually create a coping strategy. You can cope with stress in positive or negative ways. A negative coping strategy might be to ignore your problems and emotions, hoping they just work themselves out (but that’s bad for your health ).

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Why Should Companies Use A Competency-Based Assessment Approach?

HR C-Suite

In order to perform any task well, a person needs to have the required competencies. Each competency is a set of measurable skills and characteristics that enable a person to do a particular job successfully and efficiently. Competencies are also qualities which people can develop and modify throughout their career and life. Even though scientists […].

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Why Your Organization Still Struggles with Top-Down Communication

DecisionWise

Why Your Organization Still Struggles with Top-Down Communication. By. Cecily Jorgensen. •. July 2, 2019. Did your employee engagement survey come back with a low score in “top-down communication?” If it makes you feel any better, you’re not alone. DecisionWise consultants notice many patterns as they review company results, identify critical themes, and prepare recommendations for next steps.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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5 Secrets for How to Be a Great Place to Work

UpstartHR

One of the annual occurrences here in North Alabama is the “best place to work” competition. It’s a regular staple for HR leaders and employers to try and prove they are, well, one of the best places to work. One of the firms that I know fairly well has actually won the contest multiple times, walking away with awards virtually every year.

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Do I Have to Buy a Standing Desk for My Employee?

UpstartHR

Spoiler alert: people have a love/hate relationship with standing desks. Some people swear by them, others can’t stand the thought of standing all day long on top of their otherwise demanding job. With a standing desk you can practice these kinds of awkward standing poses all day long! :-). But this is a real issue that HR teams are dealing with almost every day.

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Best-Self Management Podcast, Episode 2: Life-Changing Company Retreats

15Five

Corporate offsite. Even typing the words makes me cringe. They’ve gained a reputation for being dry, forced, and inauthentic. A company retreat is not about transferring corporate bureaucracy to a different setting for a few days. Retreats are about transformation… Welcome back to the Best Self Management Podcast blog series! In episode one , we unpacked the journey that brought us to 15Five, and shared how we’ve created a highly engaged organizational culture and leadership team that empo

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People analytics: why some companies are making a fortune while others are losing out

HR Zone

Business. People analytics: are you losing out on a fortune?

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Q2 2019 Global HR Tech Venture Capital Review

WorkTech

Q2 continued the HR technology VC momentum across all categories. Here are a few things that stood out to us as we tracked and compiled the data: You won’t find a slow down here. We tracked $1.448 Billion USD of VC investment in Q2 2019. That’s bigger than any quarter in 2018. At the mid […]. The post Q2 2019 Global HR Tech Venture Capital Review appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Lying in the hiring process: How to handle the candidate

HR Morning

Do you know how well your company is protected from false claims on employment applications? During the hiring process, the ability to disqualify an applicant from consideration for a job, or to fire a candidate who lied on their application, hinges on what you have in writing. It’s a common problem. A recent study showed 85% of employers have caught applicants lying on their resume or job application.

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Using Social Media for Recruiting and Hiring

HR Digest

Social media platforms have in recent years become effective recruitment tools. And the concept is quite simple and straightforward. Find and connect with top talents from around the world. The use of social media for recruiting became even more prevalent since HR managers started welcoming the idea of having remote employees. It’s not difficult to see why the concept is yielding excellent results.

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How the Stars are Aligning Around Zero Trust

Symantec

The proper implementation of Zero Trust depends upon a well-defined strategy focused on a holistic approach towards protecting your data wherever it resides

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Top Tips to Be an Effective and Powerful Girlboss

Take It Personel-ly

Being a woman in business comes with its own fair share of obstacles. Even though there are many powerful women entrepreneurs out there, it still sometimes seems as if we have to work extra hard just to prove ourselves. Because we all deserve to be the ultimate girl bosses we were born to be, here […].

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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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Improved recruiting process for a better ‘candidate experience’

HR Morning

This case study is adopted from a presentation by Olivia Melman , manager of recruiting operations, Digital Ocean , as presented at the ERE Recruiting Conference, San Diego. It’s no secret the hiring process can be confusing and frustrating for candidates. A lot of times they never hear back after submitting an application, or they don’t know what to expect from an interview.

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HR Tech: What Puts the Intelligence in Intelligent Software?

HR Examiner

“It is easy to feel overwhelmed by emerging technology of any kind. The following is intended to give you a simplified foundation for understanding the new technologies that many in the market still call AI, but is better labeled Intelligent Software.” – John Sumser. The Technology that Powers Intelligent Software. Intelligent technology is being applied to a variety of problems across the HR spectrum.

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PODCAST: e3 - This is HR - Employee MBA Debt, Employer Brand Lies, EEOC Male Dress Code Hardships

The HR Capitalist

(Email subscribers, if you don't see the podcast player, click here to see the podcast ). In this episode of THIS IS HR , Tim Sackett (President of HRU), Jessica Lee (VP of Brand Talent, Marriott) and Kris Dunn (CHRO at Kinetix) cover the following topics: -- recent research from BusinessWeek that shows Top Tier MBA programs saddle 50% of their graduates with six-figure debt.

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Ep 23 – Your Blockchain in HR Guide In Just 5 Minutes

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Paid Sick Leave Laws By State

Paycor

Everyone, at one time or another, has worked with that person who comes to work with a bad cold (We’re hopeful it wasn’t you). Not only is it annoying, it also jeopardizes the health of other employees. But have you ever stopped to think that maybe that co-worker came to work because they didn’t have enough paid sick time available and wouldn’t get paid for a missed day or two?

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Declare Your Independence From Disparate HR Systems

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Is your organization facing the need to revolt against inefficient and ineffective technology? Declare your independence from outdated technology so you can enjoy the true freedom of seamless cloud HR solutions that make work more human. Industry leading organizations are making the shift away from maintaining legacy systems, putting digital transformation at the forefront of their agendas, and moving from disparate HR systems to cloud HR technology.

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Bye-bye 9-to-5: A flex schedule is the new norm

Insperity

Whether you are looking to bring in the absolute best talent or to find ways to maximize the productivity of employees already in your workforce, the flexible work schedule, or flex schedule, is quickly becoming a cornerstone of many successful organizations. Like any evolutionary process, it has taken some time and adjustment for companies once wedded to the expectations of a 9-to-5 workday because “that’s the way we’ve always done it.”.

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Why Being A Leader Worth Following Requires You To Look Inward

Forbes Coaches Council

The key is working to become the best version of yourself. People have to trust you’re headed in the right direction, and they won’t do that if you’re not worth following.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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What’s new in CustomerXM? The latest experience innovations from Qualtrics

Qualtrics HR

It’s been a busy few months here at Qualtrics, with plenty of new updates to the CustomerXM platform. We always strive to connect customer needs for building a great customer experience with direct impact to their business. Did you know that for every 1 star increase in an online review revenue can increase by up to 11%? That insight, combined with customer feedback, is why we launched Online Reputation Management which enables brands to amplify, analyze and interact with customers and the revie

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Business Get Some Bad Press? Try These 12 Tips To Bounce Back

Forbes Coaches Council

When a news story or social media comment goes south, make sure your company has a plan for getting back on track with these tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts.

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How The Right Incentives Technology Can Drive More Channel Growth

Workstride

While the idea of incentivizing salespeople has been around since the dawn of commerce, only in recent years have channel incentives become truly streamlined through the use of digital tools. These days, a well-designed channel incentives platform that’s optimized toward partner success can go a long way toward making partners want to participate in your programs.

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Six Ways Technology is Reshaping Time Management in Construction

Replicon

This post was a collaboration between Replicon and our friends at Handle, who offer an automated collection process of unpaid construction invoices. It’s easy to look back and say things were better “back in the day”, when simpler times afforded less screen time and smart devices – but that would be discrediting the tremendous advances […].

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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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How to Build Culture When Managing Remote Teams

Partners in Leadership

Effectively managing remote teams requires a system for establishing objectives and maintaining communication in a way that promotes cultural cohesion. The post How to Build Culture When Managing Remote Teams appeared first on Partners In Leadership.

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Why a VUCA business environment can be a positive thing

HR Zone

Change. Modernising our VUCA world.

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coworkers treat me as a therapist and I just want to get back to talking about work

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m trying to figure out how to deal with a situation I’ve been facing quite frequently. I’m a (younger, female) assistant professor. Rather frequently, (mainly but not always) male students mistake me for their therapist. To be sure, I’m happy to help students navigate campus/academic life beyond the scope of my class, but I am not a therapist and so when the “here are the 90 terrible things that happened to me this week” and the “IR