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Workforce Planning to Defend Your Agency’s Budget

Acendre

With a new presidential administration taking over next year, U.S. government agency HR departments will encounter enough scrutiny in keeping their current talent management budget “as is,” much less increasing it. New administrations, after all, typically take a hard look at federal budgets to find ways to cut spending. Incoming agency leaders will want detailed answers to detailed questions: Where are you spending your money?

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Why Are Culture and Engagement So Important?

EmployeeConnect

When business leaders are asked to name their biggest asset, what do you think most would pinpoint? Their answers could easily range from product to property, or the customer base. While these are all correct answers, the only true answer in my opinion is – employees. At the end of the day, your workers on the frontline ensure that customers are serviced well and the business continues to tick over, meeting the expectations of senior management, CEOs and stakeholders alike.

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Workforce Planning to Defend Your Agency’s Budget

Acendre

With a new presidential administration taking over next year, U.S. government agency HR departments will encounter enough scrutiny in keeping their current talent management budget “as is,” much less increasing it. New administrations, after all, typically take a hard look at federal budgets to find ways to cut spending. Incoming agency leaders will want detailed answers to detailed questions: Where are you spending your money?

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How to Handle Employees’ Emotional Reactions During Layoffs: Anger, Silence, Denial, Threats

Intoo USA

Employees can experience a range of emotional reactions during layoffs,and it is very difficult to predict how each employee will react to the news. Being prepared for the notification meeting will help you handle whatever comes your way. Here are pointers on how to respond to the most common reactions so you can stay in control of the meeting, and of your own emotions, throughout the layoff notification 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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Bad Managers Are Bad for Business: 6 Steps to Curbing Management Issues Before it’s Too Late

Trinet

Being a manager is hard and if you’re in the business world, you are bound to eventually encounter a boss whose management style is less than ideal. Sometimes, however, you find that you have working. Visit site for full story.

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To Audit Or Not To Audit: How An ACA Audit Can Save Your Company’s Pockets

ACA Times

It feels like the year of penalties for employers this tax season, primarily those classified by the ACA for an Applicable Large Employer (50+ full-time equivalents). This is due largely to the new mandates requiring ALEs to report information about their employees’ access to health coverage within their respective companies. Penalties can pop up in a few ways: from filing past deadlines to offering health coverage that’s either not qualified as minimum essential coverage and other requirements

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How to Handle Employees’ Emotional Reactions During Layoffs: Anger, Silence, Denial, Threats

Intoo USA

Employees can experience a range of emotional reactions during layoffs,and it is very difficult to predict how each employee will react to the news. Being prepared for the notification meeting will help you handle whatever comes your way. Here are pointers on how to respond to the most common reactions so you can stay in control of the meeting, and of your own emotions, throughout the layoff notification process.

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Manners Matter at Work

The People Equation

Far from being an outdated, quaint throwback, manners are still in vogue at work. “Please” and “thank you” go a long way towards greasing the cogs of social interaction in the workplace. You might be skeptical of my claim, given our country’s current election cycle. But look past the soundbites of the 24/7 news cycle, and you’ll find that people want to work for leaders who are civil.

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Are You Part of a Modern L&D Organization?

ATD Human Capital

Being part of a modern learning and development (L&D) organization can be easier than you think. It does not mean you have to buy and learn to use all the latest high-tech apps, software, and e-whatever. Instead, it means looking at the role of L&D through a different lens. Most L&D organizations are caught up in the rat race of trying to deliver more and more training to help employees stay up-to-date with their job needs.

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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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WEBINAR - Instagramming HR: 5 Filters HR Pros Can Use To Transform Into Better Recruiters

The HR Capitalist

You know it's true you're a great HR Pro, but you don't really like to recruit. That's okay, because you're good at a million other things your company values. But here's the thing: A recent Deloitte report outlined the need for HR Pros to grow their skills beyond what our functional area is traditionally known for. CEOs and division heads are expecting different things from HR, and one of those areas of need is. you guessed it.

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I saw my coworker wiping down our kitchen sink with Drano

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a junior staff member in an office of about 20 people. I have a colleague, Felicia, who is also junior and a good friend. Felicia is smart and a great colleague, and both of us are usually the first to arrive in the morning. Felicia also openly “jokes” about having OCD. (I insert quotations because I’m not really sure if she’s just kidding with the term, has actually been diagnosed, etc.

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6 Ways to Boost Team Your Productivity

WorqIQ

Today’s employees are focused on fulfillment, both personally and professionally, and want to feel they are contributing something of value. In order to boost your team productivity, you need to understand their goals, and help them work toward them. Read More» The post 6 Ways to Boost Team Your Productivity appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Hand Me My AR-15, the British Are Coming.Oh, Wait

NoExcusesHR

The gun control issue is so polarizing in the United States, that I almost decided against sharing this post. However, judging from the flood of comments I received when I hinted at writing on this topic, it speaks to the need for the dialogue to continue. T his is not a comprehensive policy proposal ; rather, it is a message about one component of the bizarre place we find ourselves in.regardless of which side of the "debate" you fall. -- I am pro-gun ownership.

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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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7 Characteristics Of A Social Leader

TalentCulture

Okay, it’s time to come clean: Besides HR and Talent Management – I’m obsessed with social media, community, leadership and continuous learning. And I have been for years. I feel like the world is catching up with what for three years I’ve (obsessively, publicly, passionately) and many others who are champions of social community and learning have been saying – this innovation is a game changer for the world of work.

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Form 5500 Responsibilities: Everything You Need to Know

Paychex

Here is a quick fact sheet detailing everything you need to know regarding your responsibilities with the Form 5500.

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Working With Your Spouse–And Making It Work

TalentCulture

Can you work with your spouse and make it work? It’s common nowadays to hear someone dedicated to their career say they are “married to their jobs,” especially in today’s non-stop workforce. However, it’s become more common to find couples working together behind the scenes of entrepreneurial businesses. My husband, Scott Thomas, and I are a successful example of spouses who have fused their marriage with their work.

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Congratulations, You’re Now The Boss: How to Take Over an Existing Team

Evil HR Lady

When you land a new job, there’s a ton to learn. You not only need to learn the business, but you also need to learn how best to use your team. You may get lucky and walk into a perfectly performing team, but chances are, you’re going to have to make some changes. To make those decisions, though, you’ll need the support of the team.

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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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are unshaven legs unprofessional?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m just about to start my first professional internship, and I don’t shave my body hair for a lot of reasons I won’t go into. It wasn’t an issue at my last retail position because I was working in a air-conditioned warehouse and could stick with jeans. I could definitely just wear dress pants all summer, but I’d love to wear some of the shin-baring professional dresses I want to buy.

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Understanding stress in the workplace [Part 1]

Ceridian

The workplace looks a lot different today than it did only a few years ago. In many ways, it is much better – and healthier. Companies continue to adopt a more lenient and accommodating approach to corporate culture. The wave of tech start-ups has inspired a more lax dress code, workforce-related inequality issues are finally being addressed and the rapid proliferation of mobile devices makes telecommuting easier.

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7 Reasons Employee Surveys Fail (And How to Prevent it)

Quantum Workplace

If you've been reading recent research, you know that employee engagement is on the decline. In order to combat this trend, we have to continually collect employee feedback and make meaningful changes on a team and organizational level.

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5 Tips for Getting the Most out of Your Internship Program

Workology

School’s out for summer and if you have a summer intern program your interns have probably been in place for a few weeks now. The dust has settled, they have been on-boarded and they are ready to get to work. Here are a few tips for you and your managers to help get the most of our your interns. 1. Understand the Investment That You’re Making when You Have an Intern Program.

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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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The Six Best Things About Employee Empowerment

Acacia HR Solutions

After my time at the SHRM annual conference last week, I have a ton of catching up to do. Among other things, I need to spend some time writing and researching new content. I’m going to spend the next bit of time doing that while sharing older posts that readers seemed to enjoy. This post.

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When Your Leader is Struggling, Here’s What You Can Do

TLNT: The Business of HR

I am unhappy with my boss… He doesn’t give me feedback…. When she gives me feedback, it’s really vague and unhelpful… He doesn’t do what he says he’s going to do… She doesn’t tell me what is expected of me…. He [insert your personal complaint here].

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The New Experts Are Humble and Modest

Laurie Ruettimann

The thing about being an HR blogger is that I meet a lot of people who think they’re really good at what they do for a living. Even without saying it, they walk into a room and believe that they’re rock stars or geniuses. Some of these men and women are awesome. They make me jealous. But that’s a small group. We’ve been living in a post-recessionary world where people with swagger need to make as much money as possible before the next crisis hits.

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Leadership Lessons from #Brexit

DDI

Consistency of good leadership is essential to secure the loyalty of those around you at work and on the world stage.

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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 a 22-year-old Can Help Your Career

45 Things

I'll admit I'm not 22 any more, but neither am I so old that I don't know about Yik Yak. I get there are new ways of communicating every day, and I make it a point to try to understand how they fit into the lives of employees. But again, I'm not 22. So, the way I view Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Periscope may be different than the way a 22-year-old employee views them.

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co-founder is an out-of-control jerk, interviewer told me that she’s hard to work for, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Co-founder is out of control and a jerk. Our company was co-founded by a woman, her husband, and her father. The husband has historically been a general pain, but has always had good ideas to contribute (albeit rarely). We’re getting to the point where he is a total drain on the company’s resources and time, and is also rude and disrespectful to employees, which is not good for the culture.

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How to Quickly Solve Customer Complaints on Social Media

Take It Personel-ly

Social networks have made it convenient for customers to vent about bad experiences. Gone are the days when the irate customer would pick up the phone and reach out to a company directly. Today, they waste no time in airing their grievances on Facebook, Twitter, etc. This means the reputation of every company with a […].

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