Wed.Nov 21, 2018

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Nine Ways You Can Improve Your Work-Life Balance During The Holidays

Forbes Coaches Council

Managing time can be tricky, especially during the holiday season: There's simply too much you want — or need — to do. The right system can help.

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Looking Ahead to the Future of Work

HRExecutive

In this Instagram age of texts and tweets, it should come as no surprise that the most important and complex workplace challenge facing CEOs and CHROs is neatly summarized by the acronym FoW. Forget YOLO, FOMO or even VUCA, the Future of Work is top of mind for global leaders as they wrestle with exactly what it means and how to best prepare their organizations for a future that is increasingly hard to predict.

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3 Ways To Use Employee Engagement Statistics To Reduce Turnover

Perceptyx

Employee engagement has become increasingly important to HR and business leaders ever since the connection between engaged employees and higher profit was demonstrated in the early 2000s. Engagement impacts profits on several levels: highly engaged employees tend to be more productive and deliver better service—which in turn increases customer loyalty; they are also less likely to seek employment elsewhere, saving on recruiting, hiring, and training costs.

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parents in my office are sticking non-parents with all the holiday coverage

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: With the holidays coming up, things are getting tense in my office. There’s a divide between my coworkers who are parents and my coworkers who don’t have kids. I’m an associate director of a small public service office, and we are open on the holidays. Full stop, no exceptions, we are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

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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 Hiring Hunger Games are upon us

Hiring Plug

The future of Quality Talent supply is going to be fiercely competitive. The upcoming storm is full of opportunities but with a dark hue. To fight this battle for talent, you will need to keep Staffing firms by your side - Talented, Specialized & trusted. The concept transitions into Hunger Games when the storm is upon you and Its as Real as it can be.

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5 Items to Add to Your HR Budget in 2019

Kazoo

Regardless of company size, Human Resource departments are the lifeblood of successful businesses. Tasked with overseeing the entire employee lifecycle, HR professionals are often asked to drive serious business results with limited resources. But no matter your quarterly or yearly budget, there are a few areas and tools worth investing in to make your job easier and more impactful.

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What I'm Thankful for in 2018!

The HR Capitalist

Thanksgiving. Can't let it come and go without telling you what I'm thankful for. First and foremost, I'm thankful for an incredible family, my faith, the blessing of meaningful work, etc. . Next up? I'm thankful for the incredible melting pot of America. . I had the good fortune to be on a call with someone I met earlier this year at the HR Technology conference on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.

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Coaching Isn't Just Asking Questions

Forbes Coaches Council

The next time you’re coaching and have a burning desire to give a suggestion, see if framing your suggestion as an observation works better than masking it as a question.

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How Integrating AI Into Recruitment Can Benefit Companies Facing a Labor Crisis

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs intent on fast growth need to stay one step ahead of their competitors. That's where AI comes in -- or should.

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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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You Better Watch Out: Online and Offline Threats Endanger Payment Card Data

Symantec

Cyber attackers are using old tricks and new to steal customers’ payment card details from retailers this shopping season.

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Unlocking The Soft Skills Within Your Workforce (And Why It Matters)

Forbes Coaches Council

By creating the space for the next generation of leaders to reflect on themselves, their values, their good characteristics, and what they can work on, they become more confident to experiment, innovate and fail.

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Resilience

DISC Assessments

In this week’s story, Dr. Tony Alessandra tackles the topic of resilience. When we become discouraged, we have two options – we can either give up – or, we can pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off. In our professional lives, resiliency is critical. If we don’t maintain a positive outlook and the ability to persevere despite setbacks, it will hinder our success.

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Standing desks: 5 ways HR can facilitate change

HR Zone

Culture. 5 ways HR can implement standing desks.

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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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How To Make Learning A Habit You Enjoy

Forbes Coaches Council

Learning doesn’t have to be a discrete activity that begins when a bell rings or a deadline looms.

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Why You Should Customize Your Job Offer

TLNT: The Business of HR

We currently live in the era of personalized everything: Personalized medicine, personalized shopping, personalized playlists, the list goes on. People have a seemingly infinite amount of choices on how to customize and personalize their experiences in the world, whether it’s tailoring certain features in apps or using recommendation engines that serve up just the right content at just the right time.

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A word on coffee breaks

Jostle

Ah, the coffee break: a sanctioned 15-minute break during which you and your colleagues can step away from work, socialize, and sip a hot caffeinated beverage.

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why don’t companies give managers more training?

Ask a Manager

Would you ever hire an accountant with no bookkeeping training? How about a doctor who hadn’t been to medical school? We tend to agree that most skilled jobs require some amount of formal training – and yet for one of the jobs that is most key to companies’ success, we frequently throw people in with no training at all: managing. Many, many people get promoted into management jobs because they were good at something else.

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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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Why CIOs Will Be Responsible for Company Culture in 2019

SocialChorus

Company culture is critical stuff. According to research by Deloitte , 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct corporate culture is important to a business’ success. This is especially true when a digital transformation is in play. In fact, culture is often identified as a leading barrier to digital transformation for business leaders.

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The Complicated Role Comp Plays In Retention, Engagement and Satisfaction

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here at PayScale, we conduct ongoing research to understand the complicated relationship between compensation, how people feel about their salary and the many other factors that impact employee satisfaction.

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Should you threaten to quit to get a raise?

Evil HR Lady

I work in as an Executive Assistant and a Human Resource Officer (kinda). I am just about to graduate with a BS in Psych with an emphasis in HR. I have been gunning for an early promotion because I have cleared my career ladder (completed/accomplished all requirements at top of my career ladder) and I have taken on two other roles, HR and Office Manager.

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When Leadership Meets Personal Crisis: Four Survivor Mindset Musts

Forbes Coaches Council

True leadership requires you step back, assess your patterns and practices, and create your internal and external support systems.

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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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how to cope with a work problem you can’t change

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: We just recently hired somebody new at my office. We were thrilled to onboard her — everyone was spread pretty thin, and the idea of having her was great. The reality does not match the ideal, as it turns out. She constantly leaves for smoke breaks (upwards of 20-30 minutes!) and if she is in a mood, she throws temper tantrums.

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Follower-focused leadership: how to become a better manager

HR Zone

Strategy. Follower-focused leadership.

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Whatever the Court Decides It Won’t End the Debate Over Class Action vs. Individual Arbitration

TLNT: The Business of HR

The interplay between arbitration agreements and employment-based class actions has been the subject of extensive and often conflicting legal opinions for the last half-decade. While many hoped the issue would gain clarity and stability following last June’s Supreme Court ruling in Epic Systems v. Lewis (where the Court said class actions waivers in arbitration agreements are enforceable), cases pitting employment class claims against arbitration agreements limiting them continue posing new ques

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The workplace showdown: me vs you

HR Zone

People. The workplace showdown: me vs you.

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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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The Mysterious Chief Happiness Officer

Hiring Plug

Happy employees are more productive & Loyal. It is this enlightening new focus to boost "Employee Happiness Quotient", that has led to the emergence of "CHOs".

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Small Business Saturday: How Can You Prepare?

Evil HR Lady

Small Business Saturday success can make a big difference for your business during the holiday season. What is Small Business Saturday, exactly? Well, it’s the Saturday after Black Friday, which follows Thanksgiving. On this day, people are encouraged to do their shopping at small businesses rather than big chain stores. If you own a small business, you’ll definitely want to take advantage of this event.

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The 5 generation workforce

Hiring Plug

The composition of workforce today is like never previously seen. With up to five generations working together, employers face a unique challenge of keeping them engaged. Here's how they're dealing with it.

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