Sun.Nov 22, 2020

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Grateful

Everyday People

I’m geeked about this week because one of my favorite holidays is happening – Thanksgiving !! I love intentionally taking time to pause, reflect and give thanks for life in general. Yes, it has its ups and downs and difficulties. However, I am grateful for every aspect of life. It’s not some false pretense or posturing. It’s how I choose to face each day – grateful.

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10 Phone Interview Tips to Get to the Next Round

HR Digest

There’s truly nothing more rewarding than hearing from the recruiter that you’ve landed a phone interview for your dream job. It goes to show that all your hard work and efforts – editing your resume, writing a cover letter, and filling out applications on the web – have paid off. Unfortunately, a few have the skills to leave an impression during the phone screening process.

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How to Use Coaching to Build Learning Agility

Digital HR Tech

Coaching and learning agility have a lot in common. In this article, we’ll take a look at their similarities. We’ll also discuss how both individuals and HR can build learning agility and what role coaching can play in that. Let’s get started! Contents How coaching and learning agility relate Tool vs. mindset How individuals can build learning agility How HR can build learning agility Coaching technology.

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HR won’t let me do anything about my horrible employee, coworker plays music all day, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. HR won’t let me do anything about my horrible employee. I have an hourly worker who routinely comes in 5 – 7 minutes late and leaves 5 – 7 minutes early. I’ve been told by our HR department I can’t “legally” require her to be here on time (start of shift) and stay until end of shift, because we have the round up/down policy — anyone who comes in up to 7.5 minutes late rounds back to the start of that h

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Positive Workplace Culture: Everything You Need to Know

6Q

No employee wants to work in a toxic workplace. Negativity in the workplace is detrimental to the productivity and mental stress of the workforce. So are those the only benefits from setting a positive work culture? What are the things that you should look at before making any change in your existing workplace culture? Negativity and toxic behaviours can spread easily in a workplace, and when it does, it drives away model employees and causes irrefutable damage to the employer brand.

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How Mission-focused Founders and Businesses Stand the Test of Time

Thrive Global

Building a successful business is hard. I should know. I started my career as an investor, backing privately-held companies on behalf of Goldman Sachs. I worked closely with the executives and entrepreneurs behind these businesses to support their key initiatives and I did so for long enough to realize that despite their own trials and tribulations, I wanted to be in their shoes.

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What Makes a Great Productivity App for Mobile Workers?

Skedulo

The post What Makes a Great Productivity App for Mobile Workers? appeared first on Skedulo.

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Why meditate?

Thrive Global

With the rise of anxiety, depression and illness today, the call to meditate has never been stronger. Meditation does more than just help you relax. When you understand your reality you will understand why meditation should be a part of your daily ritual. For those who have experienced the physical and subtle effects of meditation, it has been life changing.

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Future of Talent Acquisition

TalenX

Over the past couple of years, the term ‘talent acquisition’ has become incredibly common in the work culture. Talent acquisition can easily be defined as the process of identifying and recruiting workers whose skills match our organisational needs. In recent times, companies have dedicated talent acquisition teams that undertake the responsibility of assessing candidates and smoothening out the hiring process.

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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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Anita Erskine: “It is OK to ask for help!”

Thrive Global

It is OK to ask for help! Often too afraid to show that I didn’t know how something was done, I struggled with quickly having to learn on the job. The environment was so fast paced and everyone was always so busy, it felt I couldn’t pause to ask “can you help me?”. I had the pleasure of interviewing Anita Erskine. Now making appearances on international television and expanding her media profile in North America, Anita has risen to the forefront of the African broadcast industry to become a powe

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Top 5 Benefits of Strategic Workforce Planning

TalenX

Like many other companies, you may be considering implementing strategic workforce planning in your organization. That’s a good move. Strategic workforce planning helps you align your hiring processes with your company’s mission and vision. You become more mindful in your recruitment, choosing candidates who possess the right skills and competencies, which can add immense value to the company.

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Chloe Ray Warmoth: “Sometimes it’s not you”

Thrive Global

Sometimes it’s not you.? I have learned that even if I put everything I have into auditions andcallbacks, sometimes I don’t get the role because of things that are just completely out of my control. I have not gotten roles because of my hair or my eyes were the wrong color. I was too old, too young or I was just a little too tall, a little too short, you get the idea.

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From Great EX To Great CX - Employee Satisfaction Leads to Customer Satisfaction | Xoxoday

Xoxoday

Find out why employee experience needs to be a critical business priority and how to improve it in your organisation.

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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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Inspiration and Support through Social Media

Thrive Global

I, like you, am spending more time than usual “on screen.” By that I mean, using my computer to connect with the outside world, to expand my point of view and learn from others within my networks. I have connected with more people internationally than at any other time in my business. Reaching out and sharing great ideas have led to collaborating on new initiatives.

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What is Employee Branding and How is it Done? [+Checklist] | Xoxoday

Xoxoday

What is this marvel known as employee branding and how does it work? It’s more than just showing off what your workforce does during the day. Check it out.

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A World Away

Thrive Global

A rare blend of whimsy and refinement, W Punta de Mita straddles Mexico’s sea and jungle. Among the lush greenery, the resort boasts celebrations of the artistry of the indigenous Huichol peoples and the stunning natural landscape. The result is refreshing. It’s a twist on what we expect from luxury, sporting bright colors and bold mosaics — and it brings that same playful, transportive spirit to its approach to wellness.

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Four Open Enrollment Tips and Best Practices for HR | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Open enrollment is often difficult, time-consuming, and stressful. For many employers, benefits are the costliest expense outside of payroll. With this in mind, consider four ways you can approach open enrollment this season—and other best practices to help you finish the process strong.

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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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Be Grateful for What You Have

Thrive Global

I was put in jail because I was an immigrant. I didn’t realize the place I was in was a jail because it seemed to have everything. I looked like a complete home. My cellmates asked me what I was doing there and I told them I was waiting for them to take me into jail. They all turned to each other just for a second in silence before saying, “This is JAIL girl, wake up!”.

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Ten Business Predictions For 2021

Forbes Leadership Strategy

To make it perfectly clear, customers don’t just compare you to your direct competition; their standards are set higher by the best service they have ever received from anyone. Personally, I think this is good.

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Something Inside Me Said, MoveON!

Thrive Global

Have you ever found yourself or been told, why don’t you just settle down; why do you continually move from job to job; why are you running away from responsibilities or commitments…. In connecting the dots. back many decades, I have wondered and often been plagued by these statements. Was this way of being my mindset, my behaviours, my resistance to the status quo, what?

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Is It Too Much To Hope For A Future That Gives Us A Real Future?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Joe Biden’s imminent arrival at the White House with an ambitious environmental program is forcing Wall Street to prepare for a different future, one that gives us hope we might just have a future. What is that future and what does it mean for the business world?

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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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How to Help Your Team Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout

Thrive Global

No matter what way you slice it, 2020 has bee, for lack of a better word, pretty intense. The coronavirus pandemic has defined the year. Climate concerns abound. A presidential election is stressing everyone out. Additionally, a huge amount of the workforce is laboring remotely. If you’re working from home, you are likely well aware of how stressful that can be.

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DOJ Antitrust Fever Led to Google Lawsuit—Now Can They Win It?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Industry-watchers wonder whether lawsuits and other regulatory actions have any chance of making a difference, and if the government can realistically hope to prevail.

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How to Use the Japanese Tea Practice to Improve Your Writing

Thrive Global

Japanese tea practice is an art form. It is not limited to the mere pouring of the tea into the teacups but instead is a 4-hour long process where every stage is treated delicately with a distinctive technique. From the preparation to the drinking of matcha, it incorporates precise and beautiful steps. This art is known as (o)temae. According to the culture trip , the tea ceremony or the chad?

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Have Fewer, Better Meetings

Forbes Leadership Strategy

More than any other corporate initiative, push for growth, or effort to reduce costs, there’s nothing that can have a more immediate impact on performance and productivity than fixing meetings.

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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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Letting Nervous Nelly Out

Thrive Global

I’ve always been a worry wart, and let me tell you, it’s in the wiring. I cannot change this aspect of myself. Chances are, if you’re a Nervous Nelly like me, you already know this. You realize that trying to pinpoint the moment in your life when all of this angst began is pointless. No one looks back at their third birthday party, sees themselves frantically blowing out the candles on their Donald Duck cake and remembers, “Ahhhh, yes.

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The Digital Revolution Needs The Human Touch

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The Covid-19 pandemic has created an urgency that is fast-tracking change, and the changes will remain long after the pandemic is brought under control.

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Being Thankful To Those Who Don’t Deserve Our Thanks

Thrive Global

We all have people in our lives who we depend on. Be they family members, friends or mentors (literal and figurative). And it’s so easy to be thankful toward these people because we can point to tangible or intangible moments within the sphere of our own, personal little worlds and say “look, see how kind, good, compassionate and thoughtful this person is?

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