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weekend open thread – October 16-17, 2021

Ask a Manager

This post, weekend open thread – October 16-17, 2021 , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: The Husbands , by Chandler Baker.

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Employee Perks To Improve Happiness And Health

New to HR

Employee perks can’t replace a good working culture and environment. You can’t use them to cover up employees being treated badly or to make up. The post Employee Perks To Improve Happiness And Health appeared first on New To HR.

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Laith Masarweh Of Assistantly: “Getting to share the fruits of my labor with other people is huge”

Thrive Global

Getting to share the fruits of my labor with other people is huge. I’ve noticed, the more you scale, the more you can reward, and that is a fantastic feeling being able to reward my employees for all their hard work. As a part of our series called “My Life as a TwentySomething Founder”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Laith Masarweh. Working since the age of eight for his father who immigrated to the U.S., Laith Masarweh, now 24, learned people-first is the only model.

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What Type of Brokerage is Best for Your Investments?

Take It Personel-ly

Investing is one of the best ways to grow your money and create a better future for yourself and your family. One of the first things you’ll need to do before investing is to choose which brokerage account will work best for you. There are many types of brokerages available, so you must find out […].

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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Becca Tepper Teruel: “Make All Your Dreams A Reality”

Thrive Global

So many dreams, so little time. And we all have them. We all want what we don’t have, and we figure out ways to get it! But sometimes we can be too focused on our main goal that we forget about the reality of the situation and how life works and – BAM- our dreams are no longer just dreams but distant memories that never even happened in the first place because something else distracted us along the way to following our dream!

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Hot and Bothered: Menopause in the Workplace

Thrive Global

I suppose I should begin with a trigger warning – this will make some people mad. I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately calling for employers, healthcare providers, governments, even – to “recognize” menopause. It’s a big thing in some countries, where it is positioned as a workforce equity issue – women over 50 make up a large proportion of the workforce, and something like three quarters of women in this age group admit to calling in sick because of menopause-related issues, therefore emp

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Is Rage Quitting Right?

HR Digest

“I am done with this job.” This is a phrase that many of us might have heard a colleague or fellow worker announce in anger and walk out. Some of us might have silently applauded the move, and others wondered at the stupidity or impetuousness of the move. To rage quit means you are so angry and frustrated with a situation that you are forced to just quit entirely without waiting for any resolution for the problem.

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Time to Rebalance? 6 Ways to Rediscover and Take Action On What’s Important to You

Thrive Global

It might be your garden or your children. Perhaps spending time with good friends. Maybe it’s an early morning walk or meditation. Or a date night with your significant other. What fills your soul with joy? More importantly, are you making the time for it? We all have commitments that require a great deal of time and energy. As high-achieving women, we tend to work hard on what we believe will bring us profit and success.

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Awakening The Power Of Midlife Women

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Nourishing retreats designed for midlife women, organised by Noon. I attended the first. Here's what i found.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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How to Improve Your Performance at Work

Thrive Global

We all strive to better perform at work and to tap into our full potential. To reach these goals, we need to know what holds us back and how to overcome it, says Georges Chahwan. Our habits are the result of the experiences we make in our lives, but they can also prevent us from experiencing everything the world has to offer. It’s important that you understand your thought patterns and question them if necessary.

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Running Out: Can Fast Food Favorites Beat Supply Shortages?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

McDonald's, Taco Bell and Starbucks among chains facing issues, as other consumer products disappear from shelves.

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Kelsi Rohrmann and Patrick Gilfether: “Listen to your people”

Thrive Global

Listen to your people. Make your team meetings and 1:1s safe spaces for people to express their ideas, ask questions, and be heard. Encourage them to share how they’re really feeling and give them the opportunity to have difficult conversations. When your team knows they can do this without fear, it actually breeds innovation and agility?—?you can move past problems faster, you can minimize input and maximize output, and at the end of the day your team will feel seen, understood, and supported.

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Federal Debt When Interest Rates Rise

Forbes Leadership Strategy

When interest rates rise, how much will the interest cost of the federal debt increase? The Federal Reserve is increasingly talking about tapering its long-term securities purchases. After that they are likely to raise short-term interest rates, pushing up U.S. interest expense.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Royce King of Your Startup Coach: “Discipline”

Thrive Global

Discipline: it can be easy to allow the highs and lows of emotion to detour you. But discipline is doing what it takes, whether you are down and don’t feel like it or celebrating a win and feel you deserve the day off. As part of our interview series called “ 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A Founder ”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Royce King.

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We See Your Company’s Hypocrisy About DEI Through 1 Revealing LinkedIn Post

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Mo matter how many DEI trainings and programs an organization offers, if they don’t also do the work of discovering how they’re suppressing individuality throughout their organization, and change their systems toward unleashing individuality, they will move further from achieving their DEI goals.

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Jordi Botta Riera of Bindy Street: “Strategic support”

Thrive Global

The other side of the coin is strategic support. Bootstrapping means you retain a larger control of the company, but it also means you lose on connections. VCs have a vested interest in your success; so most often than not they will try and build support systems for their ventures. My personal experience with helping startups has been mediating some articles between portfolio companies and Tech Crunch Israel.

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How To Make More Money By Knowing The Right Numbers

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Business consultant Rick Scruggs shares advice on "keeping your house in good order," a must for guiding strategic decision-making.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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Jeff Yorzyk of HelloFresh: “Don’t Give Up”

Thrive Global

Don’t Give Up ?—?Sustainability solutions don’t always fit the business agenda. It can take time to develop a successful approach and align the agendas, but good sustainability conversations should also be good business conversations. It has been estimated that each year, more than 100 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States. That equates to more than 160 billion dollars worth of food thrown away each year.

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Apply the Right Kind of Pressure to Motivate Your Child

Thrive Global

As parents, we want our kids to do their very best and be successful. This often means that we provide expectations for our kids to meet and apply pressure to help them meet these expectations in the ways we think are best. Unfortunately, even the best intentions can backfire, and many parents don’t realize the harm of parental pressure on a child’s mental health until it’s too late.

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What Can We Learn on World Teachers’ Day?

Thrive Global

This month, on October 5, to be exact, is World Teachers’ Day. A teacher used to be, and in some countries still is, a venerable occupation. A teacher was not simply someone who taught you math or English, but someone who taught you the wisdom of life and was a role model to follow. Judging by what is happening today, it seems we are in desperate need of good teachers.

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What’s Your Teaching Style?

Thrive Global

Paul B. Thornton. Does your teaching style engage, energize, and empower your students? I conduct seminars, workshops, and teach college classes on leadership. I use three teaching styles—Directing, Discussing, and Delegating. I generally structure my classes to include using some amount of each style. However, during the first part of a semester, I primarily use the directing style.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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Yvonne Cobbs Of Take Away Tax: “Accuracy is needed to reassure your product or service will last”

Thrive Global

Accuracy is needed to reassure your product or service will last; Processes will allow you to scale and build systems to exist beyond your region, Diversity will allow you expand your portfolio because they are needed to understand multiple cultural needs of scope; Management is the trust in your leadership is necessary to survive and lastly knowing your exit was always the the plan because if the exit is clear the business will be structured to make that successful.

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Mariolga Ericson of La Isla Spa: “Remember that at the end of the day YOU ARE THE EXPERT”

Thrive Global

…Remember that at the end of the day YOU ARE THE EXPERT. You hold a license, and clients are coming to you for answers and advice. Don’t let someone try to intimidate or demean you out of your title. As a part of our series about “Five Things You Need To Know To Succeed In The Modern Beauty Industry”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mariolga Ericson.

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Dana Spaulding of Wander + Ivy: “More articles and features like this! “

Thrive Global

…More articles and features like this! The more we raise the issue and highlight the powerful stats behind investing in female-led companies, the more funding we’ll see. As part of my series about “the five things we need to do to close the VC gender gap” I had the pleasure of interviewing Dana Spaulding. In April 2017, Dana Spaulding, certified level II Sommelier, founded Wander + Ivy.

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Donna Baer of Strong Happy Family: “Kids feel free to explore when they feel safe”

Thrive Global

Kids feel free to explore when they feel safe. Safe from physical harm. Safe from harsh criticism. Safe from bullies. If we want kids to follow their muses and curiously explore the world, they need to know they dwell in safety. If a school cannot guarantee a child’s safety, it will never produce a lifelong learner. As a part of my interview series about “5 Things You Need To Know To Be A Highly Effective Educator”, I had the pleasure to interview Donna Baer.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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Travis Hardy of Empatico: “Support for culturally responsive teaching and inclusive learning environments”

Thrive Global

Support for culturally responsive teaching and inclusive learning environments. Children need to feel safe and a sense of belonging in their school communities, and to do that we need to invest in cultural competence training for educators and leverage children’s unique backgrounds and abilities for better engagement and motivation for learning. As a part of my interview series about “5 Things You Need To Know To Be A Highly Effective Educator”, I had the pleasure to interview Travis Hardy.

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Kieu Phan: “Lean on others when you feel tired”

Thrive Global

Lean on others when you feel tired. As I was young, my mom was always be strong and independent. She never rely on anyone. But as I grew up, I saw a different side of her. She had a pain inside her and never share to anyone. At that movement, I realized that it’s okay to cry and have a shoulder to lean on. As part of my series about young people who are making an important social impact,I had the pleasure of interviewing Kieu Anh Phan.

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Mia Su of the Bio-STEM Club: “Don’t hesitate to ask questions”

Thrive Global

Don’t hesitate to ask questions. Organizing the Girls Ask event with Young Women in Bio last year, in which students ask their questions to professionals in STEM, was one of my first times organizing an event. It was confusing sometimes but asking for clarifications and communicating with the other side made things so much easier. As part of my series about young people who are making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mia Su.