Fri.May 10, 2019

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Tandem HR

What can employers do to break the stigma of mental health in the workplace? May is Mental Health Awareness Month! With approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experiencing mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health , it is imperative that today’s employers focus on breaking the stigma around mental health in the workplace.

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The Bottom Line on Community Engagement

SHRM

Community engagement is one of those phrases we hear frequently. We share that we’re involved and that we give back, but what does this really mean for the bottom line of workforce management? After several years in the cyber security community I can tell you it means a lot, not only to your bottom line but also to your retention, recruitment, and training efforts.

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#WorkTrends:How to Make 2020 a Transformational Year

TalentCulture

We talk often about the future of work here at #WorkTrends — and this week’s guest says the future will be arriving pretty soon. Brent Colescott is the senior director of business strategy and transformation for SumTotal, and he says 2020 is going to be a transformational year for the workplace. When a man whose job is literally transformation tells you that transformation is on the way, you tend to listen.

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Collaboration vs cooperation: what's the difference?

Jostle

Collaboration and cooperation are two words which are often used interchangeably, especially in the workplace. Both terms are so overused that their distinct meanings have blended into one. They’ve effectively become buzzwords. But contrary to popular belief, they don’t in fact mean the same thing.

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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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An Antidote For Stress? Create A Morning Ritual

Forbes Coaches Council

Giving yourself white-space time through a morning ritual where you have no formal agenda, no deadline and nothing specific to get done can help you renew your resources before your day gets underway.

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Why Do 360 Feedback Programs Fail?

Engagedly

360 degree feedback programs can be useful as they provide rounded perspectives on employees. However, very often, the problem with 360 degree feedback programs is that they fail because of a few glaring oversights on part of the […].

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Talent Acquisition: 3 ways HR can guide those picky hiring managers in the right direction

HR Morning

Your people make or break your company, but finding the right hire in this tight labor market is a big challenge for HR pros. . Something that can make it even more difficult? A meddling manager with unrealistic expectations about their ideal new hire and how the process should go. Problematic requests. This is what John Vlastelica, founder of online hiring resource Recruiting Toolbox, addressed at the recent ERE Recruiting Conference in San Diego.

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Nine Methods For Improving Workplace Diversity

Forbes Coaches Council

Diversity and inclusion are vital for long-term success. Here are some ways leaders can create a culture that welcomes wider perspectives.

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a happy ending

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve been reading your blog for many years, starting when I was miserable and stuck in a role with an awful manager, and your advice has made a big impact on how I approach work and applying for jobs. Most recently, I was laid off last fall from my job at a small nonprofit. (My experience there is its own insanity – the executive director and founder is also president of the board, and she just started a new “sister” for-profit business that’s actua

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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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Want Innovation? Bring Family Values To The Workplace

Forbes Coaches Council

Innovation only happens when there is trust and a sense of belonging, as it is only through this stability that team members takethe risks required to innovate and keep your company ahead of the competition.

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Tips to Boost Your HR Department’s Productivity

Criteria Corp

Human Resources is the core of any company. They set the tone for the entire organization by helping to make decisions about who gets hired, how those employees will be compensated, and how interpersonal issues between coworkers will be resolved. The responsibilities of any HR department can be vast and, quite frankly, overwhelming, which is why efficiency is critically important.

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6 Tips for Merging Competency Models in Healthcare

DDI

Competency models are too important to not get right. This is never more important than when healthcare organizations merge.

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Meet an Internal Communicator: Dave Cordero, PGA Tour

Advanced Learning Institute

Dave Cordero is the Director of Internal Communications at PGA Tour and a speaker at ALI’s 6th Annual Strategic Internal Communications conference. He sat down with us to discuss the challenges of internal communications and his advice for overcoming them. Can you tell us a little bit about your background? I love sports and I love to write, so naturally I aspired to become a beat writer covering sports for a major daily newspaper.

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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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Understanding the Benefits of Employee Wellness Programs

Bonusly

Healthy businesses need healthy employees, and when companies prioritize employee well-being, its benefits are reflected in the well-being of the company. The two go hand-in-hand. ??. More companies than ever are implementing employee wellness programs, typically as an effort to reduce health insurance costs. In this article, we’ll dive into how these wellness programs benefit your bottom line — and everything above it.

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HRWins eBook: Harnessing Tech to Power Your 2019 Campus Recruiting Program

WorkTech

Just in time for campus recruiting season comes the latest HRWins eBook. In this report you'll learn: Why 2019 may be the most competitive campus recruiting season EVER Which capabilities you need for an effective campus recruiting tech stack The three prime areas to focus your recruiting technology Members can sign in and download it […]. The post HRWins eBook: Harnessing Tech to Power Your 2019 Campus Recruiting Program appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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11 Leadership Tips To Follow If You're New To Managing A Remote Workforce

Forbes Coaches Council

The remote workforce is growing—and it's here to stay. Check out these 11 tips from Forbes Coaches Council experts on how leaders can manage their first remote team.

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OFCCP’s (Possible) Disaggregated Minority Placement Goals

Berkshire Associates

In what may come as news for some federal contractors, OFCCP may now require placement goals to be set for specific racial/ethnic and gender subgroups when the percentage of a particular minority group employed is substantially less than would be reasonably expected given the percentage of that group available for employment.

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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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Tech Recruiting Database humanpredictions Raises $1.16M

WorkTech

humanpredictions aggregates available public data then claims to use it to identify talent, tell you when it’s best to contact them, and what message to deliver. Largely focused on tech, they apply data science and machine learning to help identify talent and predict engagement outcomes. Another entry to a very crowded intelligent talent sourcing category. […].

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HRExaminer v10.19

HR Examiner

The Infantilization of the American Workforce. HRExaminer Weekly Edition v10.19 May 10, 2019. Paul Hebert wonders if your organization’s attempts to improve employee satisfaction and engagement may instead lead to The Infantilization of the American Workforce. The last thing your employee wants to think about after their loved one passes away is whether or not they’ll be able to take bereavement leave.

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Don't Focus On Breaking Bad Habits Or Beliefs

Forbes Coaches Council

Whether it is habits you want to break or limiting beliefs you want to break free from, use the power of your three brains and stories from the future to set your new path forward.

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Should I Suspend an Employee While I Investigate?

Evil HR Lady

A patient has accused one of our employees of a HIPAA violation. The patient says the employee looked up her medical records and shared the information with her neighbor. We are, of course, conducting an investigation, but this is our first HIPAA investigation, so we’re not sure what to do while it occurs. Should the employee be suspended while we investigate?

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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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Boosting Team Togetherness: 11 Activities You Can Use

Forbes Coaches Council

Here are some approaches, from outside volunteer work to internal culture changes, you can use to help your team grow together.

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open thread – May 10-11, 2019

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. 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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Four Steps To Bridging The Digital Gap In The Boardroom

Forbes Coaches Council

Making boards more ready for the future is crucial, but this new norm does not come without challenges.

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weekend free-for-all – May 11-12, 2019

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. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: The Farm , by Joanne Ramos. This is one of my favorite books of the year so far! It’s about a luxury baby surrogate business and gets into class, race, inequality, and motherhood in interesting and disturbing ways.

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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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Barback job description

Workable

Use this Barback job description template to find entry-level employees for your bar, nightclub or restaurant. Before publishing on job boards, feel free to tweak this job description for Barback based on your needs. What is a Barback? This is a junior role for someone who wants to work as a barista, bartender or even bar manager, in the future. Barbacks usually undertake simple tasks and mainly support the more experienced bar staff before they’re able to take orders, serve customers and mix dr

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4 Benefits Messages to Send Your Employees in June

Jellyvision

#1. Think about putting more money in your HSA June is a great time for your employees to take stock of their healthcare costs for roughly the first half of the year—and plan ahead for the second half of the year. Here’s a breakdown you can send to help them save money and have more […]. The post 4 Benefits Messages to Send Your Employees in June appeared first on Jellyvision.com.

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Taking Stock of Regulations Can Help You Avoid Seasonal Employee Offboarding Issues

ADP

Make your holidays happier with employee offboarding best practices. Here are five steps to stay compliant and in the know.

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