Sat.Apr 03, 2021

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How You Can Help Your New Hires Adjust and Be Comfortable In the Office

Take It Personel-ly

Beginning a new job can be intimidating for many people. There is the feeling of wanting to prove your worth and succeed to show that you are best for the position. However, there is also the intimidation of an entirely new office environment and set of co-workers to get to know and adjust to. You […].

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A Post-Pandemic Opportunity for Partnership

Dave's Weekly Thought

As we emerge from work-from-home solitude and head back into the office, the role of Human Resources has never been more critical. In a time when policy foreshadows strategy all eyes are on HR. The workforce is crammed into the starting gate waiting for a bell to sound. Here are the big questions to ponder: When will we return to the office and in what form?

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3 Tips to Help Combat Seasonal Allergies

Take It Personel-ly

Do you often have a runny nose, watery and itchy eyes during certain seasons of the year? If you do, you are probably allergic to particular things. For instance, you might be allergic to grass, pollen, trees, or weeds. The allergic reactions caused by these allergens can make you feel uncomfortable. Therefore, it is important […].

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How To Improve The Efficiency Of Your Construction Business

New to HR

If you want to make sure that your construction business is running at the highest level of efficiency, then there are a few changes that. The post How To Improve The Efficiency Of Your Construction Business appeared first on New To HR.

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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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The New Hybrid Work Model Will Require Hybrid Skills

Thrive Global

For more than a year, we’ve been wondering what work will look like when the pandemic ends. And for an increasing number of companies, the answer is a hybrid model that combines in-person and remote work. The conversation has now moved to what will happen to the commercial real estate market , how office and desk design will change and what tech tools we will need in our new hybrid future.

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Heart Healing Binge-Watch: AppleTV’s Ted Lasso

Thrive Global

I wrote a book that helps people heal their broken hearts and bring them to a place where they can love and be loved more. Well, my new quarantine binge-watching opportunity, Ted Lasso, may do a better job of bringing people to that mighty aspiration than I ever could. Full disclosure: I’ve watched it three times already. I meant to write this right after I discovered it a couple months ago (yes, I’m late to the Ted Lasso game — it came out in August 2020, smack dab in the middle of the p

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A Guide to Using the V2MOM Goal-Setting Model

Zenefits

V2MOM is one in a series of cascading goal-setting frameworks that companies use to promote and achieve their objectives. Cascading goal systems often start with the leadership team rolling out the company’s broader objectives to each descending level in the organization. The purpose is to communicate the company’s goals and make sure they’re aligned with managers and employees’ goals and expectations.

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8 Steps To Make Catnapping Boost Your Productivity

Thrive Global

More companies are encouraging catnaps on the job because it fuels accuracy and productivity. getty. Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon but not anymore. March 15th is National Napping Day and March is National Sleep Awareness Month. A Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps. I’m one of those people who enjoys his midday snooze.

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Reasons Why Wristwatches Are The Best Gift For Women

Take It Personel-ly

Choosing gifts for a lady isn’t always the easiest decision to make. There can be plenty of reasons to choose a different item over the other. There’s also the important consideration of what kind of person is the recipient. It can be stressful and time-consuming before you can figure out what would make a great […].

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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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Intermittent fasting, a safe alternative for weight loss

Revolutionary Wellness

Eating is one of the pleasures of life, and we don’t want to stop. It is essential to receive nutrients and stay healthy. Plus, you have those social and cultural elements that turn eating into an unforgettable experience. But food availability in our modern world is quite different from what it used to be. Evolution shaped our body when food was scarce, and the period between waking up and eating for the first time was extended after gathering, hunting, preparing, and cooking food.

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Terry Sears of Tuesday’s Children: “Being your best cheerleader is key”

Thrive Global

Throughout the day, pour on the positivity and congratulations. Being your best cheerleader is key. In this interview series, we are exploring the subject of resilience among successful business leaders. Resilience is one characteristic that many successful leaders share in common, and in many cases, it is the most important trait necessary to survive and thrive in today’s complex market.

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U.N. Warns: A Bloodbath In Myanmar Is Imminent

Forbes Leadership Strategy

On March 31, 2021, UN Special Envoy on Myanmar called upon the U. N. Security Council to “consider all available tools to take collective action and do what is right, what the people of Myanmar deserve and prevent a multi-dimensional catastrophe in the heart of Asia.”.

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Lexie Sims of The Good Board: “Provide health, including mental health and wellbeing programmes”

Thrive Global

Create cultures that are inclusive where different voices can be heard. Ensure employees have access to development programmes to support them in their current roles, but also to equip them for future roles. Provide health, including mental health and wellbeing programmes. As a part of our series about “How Diversity Can Increase a Company’s Bottom Line”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lexie Sims.

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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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You Have What It Takes To Lead In Disruption, But You May Not Be Using It

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The disruption of this time calls for a dynamic mix of energy patterns; knowing what these energies are, leaders can use the right one at the right time.

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Art Cooksey of Let’s Talk Interactive: “Cash does not always flow freely and easily”

Thrive Global

Cash does not always flow freely and easily. I blew through cash after selling my first company and went back to the corporate world to make ends meet and fix my credit. Ultimately you want to have salaries and a marketing budget in the bank for a year and not take that cost on yourself. Luckily I set this company up to grow as needed and sell shares, eventually hoping we’ll go public.

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US economy adds 916,000 jobs, unemployment rate is down to 6%

HR Digest

The US economy added 916,000 jobs in March, pushing the unemployment rate down to 6 percent on the back of the $1.9tn stimulus package. The non-farm payroll data released by the Labor Department showed the biggest improvement since last August in job recoveries. The vaccination rollout and the onset of the summer months, which have seen the virus receding a little, has brought in more confidence in the economic recovery.

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Answer These Three Questions And Beef Up Your Resilience

Thrive Global

“We choose to be victims. I am not a victim. It’s not my identity. It’s what was done to me. I am a whole person who can have joy and passion rather than being in the past and becoming a hostage of the past.” — Dr. Edith Eva Eger, Holocaust survivor. The Oxford Dictionary defines resilience as ‘”the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

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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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Half Of The American Workforce Under Stress

Thrive Global

Job stress is taking a toll on American workers–even as they work remotely. Getty. April is Stress Awareness Month—dedicated to raising awareness about the impact of the stress epidemic and finding healthy ways to cope with stress. This year is a particularly important time as we’ve passed the one-year anniversary of living with the pandemic. The American workforce is as stressed and burnt out than ever—whether they’re essential workers on the front line or working remotely with little-to-

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Why ‘Work-Life Balance’ Has Become A Dinosaur

Thrive Global

The old-fashioned term “work/life balance” has been replaced. Getty. Many years ago when I first started speaking about work/life balance, I asked people to consider four quadrants of life: work , play , relationships and self-care and to ask which area needs more time and attention. While this is a beginning way to think about where balance might be missing, it no longer gets to the heart of how we can create healthy balance to offset stress and burnout.

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How to overcome overwhelm when writing a speech or creating a new presentation

Thrive Global

Have you ever felt overwhelmed and stressed by some looming speech or presentation you had to deliver? You procrastinated like crazy, say by tidying your desk yet again or scrolling mindlessly through your social media feed – anything other than attacking the task at-hand! And then you felt disgusted with yourself for your lack of progress and you beat yourself up afterwards for wasting all that time and not being “responsible”.

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Bob Bickel of RunSignup | GiveSignup: “Thinking your idea is new and unique”

Thrive Global

The thing I find most frustrating is the untapped potential in the world. When I look at the U.S., the disparity in opportunity that many segments of our population face holds our entire country back. If you were born poor, non-white or female, you simply are not playing with the same deck of cards. Education is constrained. Often there is a lack of role models.

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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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Daniel Nicholson of NadaMoo!: “Does the messaging have staying power?”

Thrive Global

Does the messaging have staying power? How well does it resonate with the core of the brand? Does it do the job of differentiating the brand from the competitive options in the marketplace? In our opinion, these are some of the questions that if answered positively are signs of a very successful brand building campaign. If the campaign succeeds at creating a lasting impression on the consumer in the marketplace, your team and the campaign has done its job.

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Dave Hurst of ‘Achieve Any Dream’: “Practice reframing”

Thrive Global

Practice reframing. Train your resilience every week before the ‘big event’. We are creatures of habit and our brain will follow the thought patterns we use repetitively. This is why positive thinking is so important. Like training a muscle, it will become our default. Try this for resilience: practice reframing. Every time someone upsets you or something doesn’t go our way, focus on a) breathe deeply and wait a few seconds and b) try to choose a response that is empowering to you, or let the en

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Locked in on an Outer Hebridean Isle

Thrive Global

Locked in on an Outer Hebridean Island. Sweet Cicely. Coronavirus (Covid-19) hit my Outer Hebridean Isle at a time when the days were lengthening, and skylark song had returned. Primroses were popping up in sheltered rock crevices and in few weeks, Islanders might have dared to whisper, ‘Summer is coming.’ Indeed, the heat from the the sun increased, but so did harsh travel restrictions and a whole new concept that of social distancing and wearing masks.

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The Small Steps That Help Solve Any Relationship Challenge

Thrive Global

From life experience and nearly 25 years of metaphysical studies, I have identified what I consider to be the single most important skill that we must develop in order to build and maintain thriving interpersonal relationships. . We must become sensitive to – and consistently responsive to – our own internal guidance system. All relationship problems begin and then gather momentum because we are not tuned into our feelings. .

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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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Jeffrey Lee of FitTrack: “Start getting resourceful!”

Thrive Global

When you’re not getting what you want in life, it’s never really about the lack of resources but your lack of resourcefulness. Start getting resourceful! As a part of our series about cutting edge technological breakthroughs, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Lee. Jeffrey Lee is an entrepreneur and growth marketer who is transforming the DTC space through funnel and creative hacking.

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Resiliency 2021 Requests The Honor Of Your Presence

Thrive Global

You’re invited to Resiliency 2021—the largest resiliency webinar on the planet. And guess what? You get to come for free, and you don’t even have to leave your home. The last two years have been a challenge for all of us with many people worldwide stretched to the max. Resiliency 2021’s mission is to promote strategies for building resilience skills and personal empowerment for mind, body, and soul.

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Amy Yoder: “Communicating your idea can be challenging”

Thrive Global

From an agricultural perspective, I don’t see any unintended consequences from utilizing our technology. From a manufacturing basis, our carbon footprint is less and we’re able to reuse existing facilities, so we’re not having to build anything new. We can repurpose organic waste and our technology is able to be utilized by all farmers on every acre?