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Seven tips to get your workforce bubbling with energy

Take It Personel-ly

Your workforce is your company’s powerhouse. If it bubbles up with energy, works enthusiastically, your company will climb the ladders of success. It is an obvious truth. Now, you may think that to have an energetic workforce; you’ll need to hire enthusiastic people. Well, this is also somewhat true, but it isn’t all. There are […].

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Why are attendance management programs essential?

Call Experts - HR

Employee experience can substantially impact how your business runs. One of the easiest ways to improve your team’s experience is by implementing an attendance management and call-out program. From old punch cards to administrative staff manually tracking call-outs in a spreadsheet, attendance management systems have historically cost companies a lot of time and money.

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Business transformation: there’s more to HR’s role than meets the eye

HR Zone

Future How HR can catalyse transformation.

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how to become a slacker … with Laurie Ruettimann

Ask a Manager

I’ve long been an admirer of Laurie Ruettimann , since her days running Punk Rock HR, a hilarious blog where she called out the BS of HR. (The blog is no more, but she now has a podcast of the same name.) Laurie has always called it like she sees it without pulling any punches, and the way she sees it is (a) often different from the conventional wisdom and (b) right.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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No Degree? No Problem—Here’s How You Can Still Write a Winning Resume

The Muse

Whether you’re still intending to complete a degree you started or never stepped foot on campus, you can still impress with your resume and land a great job.

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Coaching to Engage: 12 Rules to Effective, Ongoing Employee Coaching

Quantum Workplace

The role of a coach is extremely valued in athletics. But for some reason, that belief rarely extends to the workplace. Managers are too often viewed as overseers instead of mentors. In reality, coaching is just as essential in the workplace as it is on the field or court. Employee coaching is an important part of continuous performance management. When managers maximize employee potential and surround employees with supporting talent, they put their teams in a position to grow and help the orga

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Are you ready for a year-end like no other?

PeopleStrategy

It's critical to make and follow a strong year-end HR checklist. The post Are you ready for a year-end like no other? appeared first on PeopleStrategy.

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6 Shifts Leaders Need to Make in 2021

Bonusly

Businesses faced some of their biggest ever challenges last year. While many organizations struggled to lead through challenges, we also saw excellent leaders emerge to help their teams flourish. As we learned from 2020, successful leaders will cultivate an environment that keeps employees inspired, engaged, and empowered in 2021. How can you successfully lead your own teams this year?

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Breaking Routine: Addressing Working From Home Fatigue

Rise

Employees who transitioned to work from home in the past year likely put time and energy into establishing a routine. As an article in TIME on staying productive while working from home put it: “time spent alone is better if it’s structured”. However, as we approach the one-year mark of remote work, your people may now be feeling the opposite: routine fatigue. .

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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How to Use Stay Interviews to Contend with Employee Turnover

BizLibrary - HR

In this article, we’ll explore the stay interview concept and give tips on how to get the most out of them at your organization. The post How to Use Stay Interviews to Contend with Employee Turnover appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Offer Letters: a Game Changer For Cavender Auto Family

Hireology

Hireology recently launched a product update that allows our customers to manage offer letters inside our platform. This feature allows for a fully customizable experience with personalization tokens and an option for an eSignature field, making your entire hiring process — from attracting applicants to onboarding new employees — all the more seamless.

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is it a red flag when a job is posted for a long time?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Is a job being posted for a long time a red flag about the business hiring? There is an organization I would like to work for and they’ve had a position they have been trying to fill for over a year. I do not qualify for the position, but I wonder if this sort of problem in hiring could be indicative of a bad work culture. There are some other things about this organization that give me some bad vibes, despite my interest in their work, but the difficulty filling this posi

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Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which continuously meet client expectations.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How to Write Thank You Emails to Coworkers

HR Digest

Sending a formal thank you note to your colleagues for any help extended is polite and builds a sense of camaraderie, and shows gratitude and appreciation. While writing a thank you note to a coworker, it need not be overly formal (then it loses the purpose); a causal friendly tone will be appreciated. When writing the thank you note, one needs to keep certain things in mind.

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What is a Sharable Content Object Reference Model (Scorm)?

PSB

Introduction. SCORM is a collection of standards and specifications that allow the description and packaging of e-learning courses. SCORM contains information on how you should use learning content in a course, how it is structured, what content should be learned, and how courses should be conducted. The technical standards, specifications, and policies are directly linked to the unique needs of content producers, faculty, students, developers, publishers, and other stakeholders in the industry.

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How Employee Recognition Supports Learning and Development

Semos Cloud

Category. All, Best Practices. How Employee Recognition Supports Learning and Development . Learn how employee recognition can support learning and development in companies through specific techniques. January 14, 2021. By Sara Ana Cemazar. Learning and development have always been one of the most important policies a company has to offer. Not only does the prospect of lear ning and growing in the role attract Millennial and Gen Z workers , it also helps companies retain their most valuable

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Running a Wellness Challenge: Tips for Getting Started and Boosting Participation

BambooHR

It’s not going to come as any surprise, but the COVID-19 pandemic has turned many of us into sedentary, bleary-eyed balls of stress. According to.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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14 Effective Ways To Ensure More Women Land In Leadership Roles

Forbes Coaches Council

Studies show women drive greater success and higher profits in the companies they lead.

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The DOL Increases H-1B Wage Minimums, Again

SHRM Resources

?The Department of Labor (DOL) issued a revised final rule Jan. 14 requiring employers to pay skilled foreign workers significantly higher wages.The new rule will restructure the prevailing wage system used in labor condition applications for employing H-1B visa workers and labor certifications for workers hired under employment-based permanent residence visas.The DOL has determined that the existing wage methodology has led to program abuses, including undermining the wages and job opportunitie

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Peer-to-Peer Recognition: Increasing Employee Engagement | C.A. Short

C. A. Short Company

Employers that want to boost employee engagement are increasingly taking notice of the power of peer relationships in the workplace. The water cooler phenomenon isn't about gossip as much as it builds connections with co-workers on lighthearted topics like family, sports, and entertainment. Therefore, there is a deep well beneath the water cooler top tap to improve engagement since close work relationships and peer respect boost employee satisfaction by 50% , making it seven times more likely to

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How to Set Employee Expectations for Giving Recognition

Fond

Do your employees understand when it’s appropriate to send recognition? Companies often struggle with establishing clear employee expectations for giving recognition and as a result, recognition is either too frequent or not frequent enough. If recognition occurs too often, it can lose its effectiveness. For example, recognizing employees for simply showing up to work on time sets a low precedent for receiving recognition — a gesture that should be awarded to high performers and exceptional work

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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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my boss sits outside my house for hours, parking woes, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss sits outside my house in her car for hours. Due to health reasons, I have been working remotely during the pandemic. I’m grateful to have the type of job where this is possible, and I appreciate my boss’s flexibility. But my boss knows where I live. I have the type of job where occasionally — and on a fixed schedule — I have to look at physical paperwork that my boss reviews before I do.

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Take a First Step Toward Building Better Workplaces – But Don’t Stop There

SHRM

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I’m sure that I’m not alone in saying that a few weeks ago, I was looking forward to closing the door on the dumpster fire called 2020 and anticipating the hopes for the next normal.

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The Architect, Foreman Or Tradesman: What Role Do You Play In Your Organization?

Forbes Coaches Council

If you are finding yourself stuck at a level lower than your ambition, take a look at prioritization and delegation. A few small tweaks can make all the difference in moving from Tradesworker to Foreman to Architect in your career.

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Social Security No-Match Letters Return

SHRM Resources

?International law firm Littler has reported that after a COVID-19-related hiatus, Social Security no-match letters are back."During the early months of the pandemic, the Social Security Administration [SSA] took a break from issuing no-match letters to employers," said Shireen Karcutskie, an attorney in Littler's Miami-area office. "It appears that toward the end of 2020, however, the SSA has resumed this practice.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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15 Ways To Keep Company Culture Intact When Key Leaders Depart

Forbes Coaches Council

The actions, attitudes and behaviors of key company leaders contribute greatly to workplace culture. What happens when they leave?

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Protecting and Charging Smartphones

Take It Personel-ly

Customers purchase high-quality cases for their smartphones for many reasons. These cases can certainly make almost any smartphone look more unique. Most of these phones look very similar to one another at a distance. When people add any sort of a case to the phone, they can instantly allow that device to genuinely stand out, […].

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What Is the Learning Management System (LMS)?

PSB

Introduction. A Learning Management System is used to store and organize information about students’ learning experience in courses, training, tasks, and assignments. LMS Software helps trainers and employers to create, facilitate, and offer online courses and training programs. For face-to-face training , it is convenient to organize the Learning Management System’s learning courses.