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Want to Learn to Talk?

HRExecutive

Some experts are reporting Gen Zers have badly under-developed face-to-face communication skills after growing up interacting with their friends more via text than talking together in groups. Start-up Ambit offers a new app for that, which is already being used in some Top 10 business schools, including Harvard. We all know schools like Harvard and Stanford are too busy teaching finance to instruct students in how to manage people.

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Your Guide to Pride Month at Work

Namely

It’s officially June and there’s already something to celebrate as the nation kicks off Pride Month. As millions of individuals and allies celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, workplaces are looking for ways to support their employees. From legislative wins to employee resource groups , we’ve come a long way in enabling individuals to bring their authentic selves at work—but there’s still a long way to go.

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How To Use Recruitment Marketing To Attract Top Talent

Take It Personel-ly

Recruiting top talent in today’s marketplace is massively different than in the years past. Today, this process is sometimes called recruitment marketing. With the advent of the internet and social media, it is no longer difficult to get top quality job applicants even if you are just starting your own company. Here are some tips […].

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New High-Performance Benefits: Concierge and Errand Running

ACI Specialty Benefits

The demand for corporate concierge is booming. As companies compete for global talent in highly-competitive industries, winning organizations are prioritizing employee experience and investing in concierge and errand running benefits to stand out. In fact, 32 of the top-ranked Fortune 100 offer corporate concierge and 36% of large companies plan to offer high-touch concierge services, up from 28% one year ago.*.

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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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How market research platforms are redefining research agencies

Qualtrics HR

Market research agencies no longer have to choose between driving ROI for clients or driving ROI for themselves. There’s a widening gulf between old research agencies modeled on the past and new market research service agencies modeled on the future. New agencies have learned how to deliver client ROI without sacrificing their own. New agencies use technology to automate advanced analysis.

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update: tubs of butter are taking up all the room in our tiny fridge

Ask a Manager

I am on day 3 of illness and do not have the ability to write a short-answer post for today, so instead please enjoy this update from the letter writer earlier this year whose tiny office fridge was crammed full of tubs of butter. Thank you for answering my question. Unfortunately getting a larger fridge was not going to happen. The building manager laughed when I asked.

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What to Do at SHRM 2019

TalentCulture

In just a couple of weeks I’m headed to Vegas! And not just to gamble and lounge by the pool — although I’m very good at that. If it’s June in Las Vegas, it means SHRM Annual, the world’s biggest HR conference. I’m on the #SHRM19 blogger team, and I’ll be documenting my experience on Twitter and Instagram. I’ve been to SHRM many times over the years, and I know just how overwhelming it can […].

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Questions to Ask your Manager in 1:1s

Reflektive

The post Questions to Ask your Manager in 1:1s appeared first on Reflektive.

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3(21) vs. 3(38) Fiduciary: An ERISA Attorney Breaks it Down

ForUsAll

What does it mean to be a fiduciary? How is a 3(38) fiduciary different from a 3(21)? And honestly, does my plan really need either one? If you’ve been asking yourself these questions, look no further. We asked those (and more) when we sat down with Carol Buckmann , an ERISA attorney who’s spent over 35 years helping hundreds of 401(k) plan sponsors navigate their fiduciary responsibilities.

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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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Future-Proof Your Workforce: Webinar Recap

Criteria Corp

In today’s competitive hiring market, employers are facing a steep challenge when it comes to finding candidates with the right combination of skills and experience. The perfect candidate rarely exists, especially in high-demand fields, and many hiring managers are having to rethink what qualifications they need to look for when identifying the applicants with the highest potential.

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U.S. Job Growth Slows in May

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers added 75,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate held at 3.6 percent, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report.

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Ep 16 – Wages Expected to Grow in the Next 12 Month in U.S.

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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Workplace mental health: how to be caring, not just compliant

HR Zone

People. Mental health: being caring, not just compliant.

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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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Starting A Business At Any Age: What Female Entrepreneurs Need To Know

Forbes YEC Women

There are some factors related to age and point in their lives that female entrepreneurs may want to consider before developing a startup.

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what’s the worst case of helicopter parenting you’ve seen at work?

Ask a Manager

In response to last week’s post about the father who got on the phone with questions during his daughter’s job offer, some readers asked to hear more about parents trying to interfere with their adult children’s careers. So, what’s the worst case of helicopter parenting you’ve seen at work? Share in the comments … You may also like: will my parents sabotage my job offer?

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4 Big Challenges Facing HR Professionals in the Healthcare Industry

BambooHR

The healthcare industry has always had to operate under a certain amount of pressure. Since their work is critical to the health and well-being of.

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Six Tips To Overcome Age Discrimination At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

Present yourself as a person of impact with skills and wisdom. Concentrating on your positive attributes will take attention away from your perceived negative attributes.

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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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Health and Wellness Blogs You Need to Read Now

WEX Inc.

Delivering innovative health and wellness programs is an evergreen goal for benefits administrators. Whether the objective is candidate recruitment in a tight labor market - or improving employee retention rates, a compelling, comprehensive benefits program is at the heart of employee engagement. And yet - the journey comes with a list of rules and regulations, budget restrictions, and many questions.

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What Being A Nurse Can Teach You About Entrepreneurship

Forbes Coaches Council

Nurses have mastered soft skills, critical thinking, fierce conversations and delegating tasks, while entrepreneurs have an unshakeable passion to help others that pushes them forward through thick and thin.

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4 Common Mistakes Organizations Make When Purchasing New Technology

SumTotal

The relationship between an organization and its software vendor is in many ways similar to a marriage or committed relationship. Both require a lot of work and mutual respect and may go through difficult or rough patches. Although each party gives and takes, at the end of the day, we’re on the same team, trying to achieve a common goal. It is this shared objective that often drives organizations to acknowledge that the time has come to change their software.

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'Agile Leadership': 13 Definitions Of A Successful Professional

Forbes Coaches Council

Forbes Coaches Council experts explain the true definition of "agile leadership" and why it's important for a successful business.

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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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People Analytics: Job Hopping and The Science of Fit

Analytics in HR

Recently I sat down for dinner with a bunch of agency recruiters in Singapore. Being new to a talent function, I was curious to understand how they assessed candidates before submitting their resumes for review. One of the most interesting insights I heard was “I never forward resumes of “job hoppers – they never work out” If you are not familiar with the term, a “job hopper” or “job jumper” is a recruiting prospect who has had short tenures with several employers.

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11 Ways Small Businesses Can Attract Top Employees

Forbes Coaches Council

Smaller companies offer a host of advantages larger firms may not be able to offer. Here are some things to consider when preparing to reach out to potential candidates.

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Transformation Takes Commitment: SharePoint & O365 Strategies Conference Roundup

Advanced Learning Institute

ALI Conferences hosted the Sharepoint & O365 Strategies for Internal Communications , May 2019 in beautiful San Diego. Communicators from across the country came together to discuss their biggest challenges, proven solutions, and best practices for implementing a new digital workplace. Whether they are using SharePoint or O365, these engaging sessions gave attendees what they needed back home to develop new strategies.

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Three essential elements to implement retail training

PI Worldwide

People often assume that big brands like Starbucks have everything figured out. It’s true, in many ways, Starbucks is a leader in how they onboard and train new retail employees. But getting to that place wasn’t easy. It took effort and required learning from mistakes. After more than a decade of implementing retail training at Starbucks, I learned three essential elements to make training a success. 1.

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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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How to Solve Communication Challenges in Manufacturing

BackStitch

The manufacturing industry is vital to almost every economy around the world. For any business that produces a physical product, they need someone to construct that product, and this is where frontline workers come in handy. Having a great manufacturing team can mean the difference between a company becoming incredibly successful or going under. This is exactly why all companies should make communications within their manufacturing departments a top priority.

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update: my office wants us to celebrate by wearing pink and blue by gender

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose office wanted to celebrate Nurses Week by ordering their nurse to wear pink and blue by gender and to bake things? Here’s the update. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my apparently not-so-Lone Cranky Feminist heart, for all of the thoughtful and encouraging feedback from you and the AAM community. I felt nervous about taking action, but then I pictured an ARMY of Lone Cranky Feminists (of all genders, wearing mostly purple and periwinkle scrubs!

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Confronting Bad Behavior to Protect Employee Engagement

HR Examiner

“Before long, you feel like you are trapped in a hostile work environment where no one is in control and you aren’t even sure why you are there anymore.” - Jason Lauritsen. Bad behavior is contagious. I was reminded of this recently at my nine-year-old son’s soccer game. It was the second game of the tournament and our boys weren’t playing very well.