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A 2020 vision: Is your benefits package ready for the future?

HR Morning

Benefits play a pivotal role these days, and pros know how tough it is to keep good people, so many employers are upping their game when it comes to offering their employees a comprehensive benefits package. . They’re being strategic about designing a robust package tailored to their employees’ unique needs and one that can convince upper management that this is what the company needs to retain – and attract – the right people moving forward.

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How to Grow Star Performers

DISC Assessments

At some point, every leader has thought to themselves, “I wish I could clone my star performers so all my workers were as good as he/she is.” What if there was a method to get you closer to that wish? That wish might feel more like a magic trick! However this week’s author and American success story, Dr. Nido Qubein is opening his bag of tricks to reveal something much more practical.

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Contact IRS Staff About Your Letter 226J

ACA Times

2 minute read: . IRS staff continue to work to get current on a backlog of activities that resulted from the recent federal government shutdown. As mentioned in a previous blog post , employers should expect a flurry of ACA penalty notices in the mail. One of the top items is updating the ACA penalty notices that were scheduled to be issued, but did not make it into the mail, before the federal government closed.

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How to Take Feedback Well as an Employee

Reflektive

Few employees are happy when performance review time rolls around, and hardly anyone reacts with joy when the boss wants “a quick word.” People’s defenses go up when confronted with feedback. This is unfortunate, as most often, feedback is intended to be helpful. Understanding how to take constructive criticism can help you develop the skills you need for success in your career.

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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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Want to Succeed With Continuous Performance Management? Focus on the Value to Employees

Workology

Every HR pro knows that the way we work is changing radically. Hierarchical, heavily structured organizations are being almost fully replaced with more flexible, adaptable and agile models based on. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Different Goals for Different Roles: The Betterworks Guide to Departmental OKRs

Workology

Truly motivating a workforce requires nurturing a sense of purpose. Two primary ways of achieving this are providing employees with continuous coaching and feedback from managers who are. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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There's nothing wrong with taking a mental health day

Jostle

Sometimes, when the pressures of life and work reach a boiling point, it’s helpful to take a mental health day to recharge our batteries. But in many workplaces that’s simply not an option, so we take a sick day instead. We find ourselves covering up a very real issue by telling our boss that we woke up with pink eye again.

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Hustling With Heart: Self-Care and Wellness for Professional Women

Justworks

Millennials are coming to grips with the fact that burnout is real. If we’re so busy hustling all the time, how can we even begin to prevent the burnout? “Hustle With Heart,” an exclusive event hosted by Justwomen x Shine in New York City, aimed to grapple with that question. Justwomen brings together accomplished women with the goal of promoting growth, sharing knowledge, and building community among women entrepreneurs.

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Top 9 Digital HR Tech Trends for 2019

Digital HR Tech

Whenever I hear the word ‘trend’ I tend to think it’s something temporary. Like those slap bracelets for kids in the nineties. Remember those? All of a sudden, they were just there and all the cool kids were slapping themselves on the wrist with them – only to completely disappear a couple of months later. Digital HR and HR tech trends, however, are usually here to stay.

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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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Measuring the ROI of Tech

HRExecutive

Remember the good old days, when technology choices delivered clear benefits? It was easy to decide that moving from time cards to time clocks would pay for itself by reducing buddy punching and payroll errors or that transitioning from paper-based to electronic benefits administration would cut costs and increase efficiency. Then things got more complicated.

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20 employee recognition ideas that work

CultureAmp

“Jamie, your marketing report was excellent. The charts were well done and easy to read. I really appreciate your hard work on this!”. Positive feedback, like the example above, is a form of employee recognition - a crucial element of employee engagement and happiness. Why? Simply put, people want to feel appreciated, and employee recognition is an effective way to meet those needs.

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Let’s be clear about this: a hangman’s noose is RACIST

The Employer Handbook

Execution Sling Hanging Hangman Knot Penalty Rope. Many years ago, a man called me asking if I would represent him in a discrimination action against a company. Now, you know me. I’m a management-side lawyer. I write a blog called The Employ er Handbook. But, then he mentioned that someone had hung a hangman’s noose at his job site. He had pictures.

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Why HR Pros Should Focus on Building a Motivated Workforce

Workology

There’s a lot of buzz and conversation happening around the importance of employee engagement to a successful organization. But I believe that engagement is an overused, or at least misused term. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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7 Takeaways for Internal Communications from our Most Popular Content in 2018

SocialChorus

What topics did your fellow internal communications professionals find interesting, entertaining, and useful in 2018? We reviewed our team’s content metrics and KPIs to uncover which among our blog posts, guides, and eBooks was most popular. Here are the top seven pieces of content we published, plus key takeaways. (And don’t miss our content in 2019—check out our frequently updated resources for internal communications.) . #1: Why Internal Communications Is at the Center of Digital Transformat

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The Rise Of Women In Corporate Boardrooms

Forbes Coaches Council

Through visible commitments at both the government and corporate levels, gender diversity will grow, and gender biases will diminish.

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Reason #3 why good employees quit: team fit

PI Worldwide

There are four forces of employee disengagement and poor team fit is number three on the list. Top organizations are built on high-functioning teams. That’s because a team that’s fully aligned is greater than the sum of its parts; team members enjoy enhanced creativity and more successful risk-taking. Why employee-team fit matters. Unfortunately, where there are teams, there’s often conflict—even among top performers.

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Fortune Again Names Kronos One of the 100 Best Companies to Work For

Empower Software

For the second consecutive year, Kronos Incorporated was named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® by Fortune magazine and global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work®.

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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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Why HR Tech Needs to Shift Focus From Compliance to Productivity

Workology

According to a recent survey conducted by Adobe, 58 percent of people feel that performance reviews “are a needless Human Resources (HR) requirement.” Adobe, in fact, no longer has an annual. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Supercharge Your Executive Presence: Five Simple Tips

Forbes Coaches Council

The more we are able to control the messages being sent out, the easier it will be to influence someone and make them feel the way we want as a result of hearing our message.

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my coworker is unbearably negative

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have to sit with a coworker twice a month shut in an office by ourselves for several hours — and all she does is complain and groan about life and process all of her problems. I’d especially love your advice on ways to say “Hey, you’re so negative that I actually dread your visits and I never wanted to be your therapist” in a way that won’t hurt her feelings/is socially acceptable.

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Bad HR Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Evil HR Lady

Recruiters and hiring managers regularly ghost job candidates. You know how it works–candidate comes in, interviews, sometimes multiple times and then the recruiter never, ever gets back to the candidate again. Emails are unanswered. Phone calls are ignored. And no one in Human Resources cared. Employees have started ghosting their employers. Managers are shocked when someone just stops showing up.

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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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A review of The Non-Obvious Guide to Employee Engagement

Human Workplaces

Review by Karyne E. Messina, Ed.D Author of Misogyny, Projective Identification and Mentalization: Psychoanalytic, Social and Institutional Manifestations Read more reviews on Amazon here ! ————- This book is an invaluable resource for anyone who manages, supervises or participates with people in a work environment of any type. Maddie Grant and Jamie Notter have captured the essence of what it means to connect with people in a company environment, healthcare practice, hospital and any number of

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3 Ways to Handle a Negative Coworker

45 Things

It seems like everywhere I turn, someone is always talking or writing about "times like these." Usually, it's not "times like these are so great." It's usually something like, "Times like these are so horrible." For a lot of people, this negative outlook on life becomes a big problem and they carry it like a heavy backpack with them wherever they go.

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Replicon Named Top Vendor in Workforce Management

Replicon

Innovative Platform for Global Workforce Management Recognized by Constellation Research as a Leader REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ – Today, Replicon announced it was named to the Constellation ShortList™ for Workforce Management Suites. The technology vendors included in the Constellation ShortList offer the key requirements for early adopters pursuing digital […].

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new manager keeps telling us we’re frustrated and defensive

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: A few months ago, we gained a new departmental manager (Kelly). Some background: Kelly is about 10 years younger than the two most senior people in our department, of which I am one, and comes from another industry so there’s a steep learning curve. My colleague (Alex) and I are finding conversations and meetings with Kelly increasingly difficult, as Kelly calls us out for acting/feeling/looking frustrated, hostile, or defensive.

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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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SHRM is Called to Shape National Workforce Strategy

The SHRM Blog

When it comes to the future of talent, America’s prospects are in serious, if not critical, condition. There are currently more than 7.3 million unfilled jobs in the United States, in large part because we don’t have enough American workers with the skills or training to fill them. Our nation’s most valuable resource—our workforce—is ill-served by our current system of education and training for the in-demand jobs of the future.

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SHRM is Called to Shape National Workforce Strategy

SHRM

When it comes to the future of talent, America’s prospects are in serious, if not critical, condition. There are currently more than 7.3 million unfilled jobs in the United States, in large part because we don’t have enough American workers with the skills or training to fill them. Our nation’s most valuable resource—our workforce—is ill-served by our current system of education and training for the in-demand jobs of the future.

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What Are You Doing to Fortify Your Frontline?

DDI

It’s time to get serious about developing the leader population that leads 80 percent of your organization’s workforce.

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