Givinga Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In 1970, economist Milton Friedman famously used his New York Times article’s headline to quip that a business’s only social responsibility was to increase its profits.¹. While that may have been true in the 70s, it’s no longer true today. Society is shifting toward a more socially and environmentally responsible marketplace where both individuals and businesses are expected to make regular, positive contributions.

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Vibecatch

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Agile working methods started life in the world of software development but quickly migrated to other sectors. Companies looking to gain a competitive edge through innovation began adopting the agile project management practices of Silicon Valley. So out went top-down, long-term planning. In came small, cross-functional teams working through short cycles or “sprints” to meet fast-changing customer needs.

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Sirenum

DECEMBER 11, 2018

There’s little doubt that the holiday season is prime time for the dynamic workforce. Only the back-to-school period really compares, but that’s limited to just a few sectors–education, retail, and transportation. But in the roughly eight weeks between Halloween and New Year’s Day, it’s not just those three sectors–hospitality and care are also really put.

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15Five

DECEMBER 11, 2018

What separates high performing organizations from all the rest? Research shows that quality 1-on-1 meetings — those indispensable conversations between managers and employees — are a huge factor! One-on-ones can range from dreaded, “check-the-box” status updates to energizing, even life-changing conversations. As we’ll see below, science shows the best conversations have several things in common.

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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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DecisionWise

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As our DecisionWise team recently completed revisions to our new book ENGAGEMENT MAGIC: Five Keys for Engaging People, Leaders, and Organizations , the “Engaging People ” concept stood out as a differentiator for organizations, leaders, and individual employees. Our research into what creates employee engagement clearly pointed to this double entendre, “engaging people,” as one of the most important tools a manager can bring to employee engagement.

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Achievers

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Employee engagement has been one of the cornerstones of successful HR management for the last decade. Measuring engagement is like putting a thermometer into various parts of the organization to get a pulse of how your employees are doing. It is vital that you accurately measure employee engagement in order to gather insight on your workforce and learn how to improve your engagement strategy moving forward.

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Hppy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you’ve got a happy workforce, their productivity will increase, and this is what will help your business to grow. Whether you’re just starting your company, or you have been in the industry for several years, it can be difficult to know what to do to make your employees happy. Sometimes, it only takes a few small changes to make a difference. However, there are also going to be particular times when a complete overhaul of procedures and working practices is required.

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PeopleStrategy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As a benefits broker, whether your client list consists of 25 or more than 100 companies, your goal is to serve each and every one to the best of your ability. These days, that means offering them assistance with more than just their benefits. It means helping them find the tools and resources to run their business more efficiently and maximize success.

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Engagedly

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The real test of leadership does not occur when everything is smooth sailing. Rather, leadership is oftentimes tested during a crisis. The way a leader behaves and acts during a crisis will establish their credentials as a good […].

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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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TalentCulture

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The year ahead is going to be amazing for those of you who purchase HR and recruiting tech. We’re witnessing an unprecedented proliferation of talent platforms, solutions and services — now complete with artificial intelligence and super-smart algorithms — which means our buying options in 2019 will be more plentiful and powerful than ever. But that’s exactly what will make the year so bewildering.

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Hppy

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Do you suspect that your employees might be bored at work? You’re probably right. Research by Gallup shows that over half (55%) of Americans are unengaged at work. Workplace boredom has a major impact on your bottom line. Workers who have mentally checked out at work are less productive and motivated than those who enjoy their jobs. What can managers do to eliminate boredom in the office?

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HR Zone

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Employees. Workplace wellness in 2019: seven quick hacks.

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Workology

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Oscar Wilde’s most famous quote, “Be yourself everyone else is already taken,” maybe the new mantra for the next generation of workers. It is amazing that he has been deceased for over a century and. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer who shared an office with someone who played extremely religious Christian rock all day long ? Here’s the update. So, I actually chickened out of talking to her about it for awhile after receiving that advice – sometimes I’m fine with confrontation, but other times I’m a total wuss, and this was one of the latter.

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Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Avoid the pitfalls and make sure your team grows with your company.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you’re the boss, finding the right gifts for your employees can be fraught with questions: How much do you spend? Should you spend the same amount of money on each person? And if you don’t know someone well, how do you make sure they like the gift while still keeping it professional? To be clear, managers don’t have to give their staff members gifts, but it’s a nice gesture if you want to do it – and in some offices it’s very much expected.

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Forbes Coaches Council

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the course of your professional career it's a near-certainty that you will, at some point, need to ask for help. It's important to feel comfortable reaching out for assistance. Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer tips for overcoming a reluctance to ask for help.

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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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Workology

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Oscar Wilde’s most famous quote, “Be yourself everyone else is already taken,” maybe the new mantra for the next generation of workers. It is amazing that he has been deceased for over a century and. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Forbes Coaches Council

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Though it may seem surprising, all of your actions — whether constructive and nurturing or destructive and impoverishing — have their originsin theid, theego, the superego or the soul.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Objectivity is the most important part of having an effective performance appraisal system. What you want is a process in which your top performers are recognized and then given opportunities to advance their skills. Meanwhile, rather than being discouraged, low performers should come out with the advice and motivation they need to improve their performance.

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Rallyware for Human Resources

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Today, call centers are far different from those that were around as recently as five to seven years ago. Contact volume keeps growing, customers are becoming more demanding and impatient, while technologies continue to expand, allowing companies to improve their outreach. Still, the prevailing majority of call centers experience the urgent need to decrease turnover rates, transit to a broader mix of channels, and facilitate interactions with customers through self-service tools.

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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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SocialChorus

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The end of the year is a great time to take stock and reevaluate your goals—and that includes internal communications teams. The best comms leaders continually reevaluate their internal communications strategies so they can set themselves up for future success. Here are three reasons they make reevaluations a best practice. . Reason #1: Many companies are undergoing digital transformations (and internal communications is key to their success).

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Compensation Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Some call it company culture. Others call it company personality. Everyone who knows anything calls it the most important component of truly successful companies. For many companies, the highest bar is an effective “ownership culture.” But what does that really mean? Can we build an ownership culture by granting it or selling it? Is it possible to communicate our way to this impressive goal?

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Compensation Force

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Revisiting this post at the HBR blog recently got me thinking about the importance of listening for compensation and HR professionals if we truly want our work to have impact. In considering some of the listening lessons my own experience has taught me, I came up with my own hierarchy of compensation listening levels, highlighted below for your consideration and reaction.

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Take It Personel-ly

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Your business most definitely does need a leader, and you might have thought instantly, ‘well it has one’. Your business needs a leader this time of year more than it does any other, but that doesn’t mean you can just have one big push at the end of the year, and relax back into the […].

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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 Tim Sackett Project

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I wrote a post a while back titled, “ The 5 Things HR Leaders Need to Know About Developing Employees “ In that post I had a paragraph: When I was young in my career, I was very ‘passionate’. That’s what I liked calling it – passionate. I think the leaders I worked with called it, “career derailer”. It took a lot for me to understand what I thought was a strength, was really a major weakness.

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CultureAmp

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Every organization has a unique employer brand, which is defined by their company values, mission, and culture. However, as most People Leaders know, the process of uncovering this brand and making it visible internally and externally can be challenging.

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Insperity

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Business leaders understand that long-term corporate success is achieved through a balance of generating profits and inspiring a sense of purpose in employees. Nonetheless, it’s easy to lose sight of the latter in pursuit of hitting growth targets, hiring staff and the daily rigors of operating a business. It’s natural and common for people to seek meaning in their life – by positively impacting their coworkers, their company or their community.

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