Wed.Apr 10, 2019

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3 internal communications examples for the modern workplace

Jostle

There isn’t really a formula for effective internal communications. You might try following some best practices , but even the most seasoned communications professional is prone to mistakes which could reverberate across their organization. Holding the attention of your people, even if it’s just to notify them about the company picnic, is more of an art form than a science.

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The Business Case For Belonging

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Belonging involves developing a deeper connection with others by sharing your authentic self and receiving acceptance in return. Creating space for employees to feel truly valued for their cultural differences will help to enable belonging, and that has some significant business advantages.

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How to Save Your Company from Unhealthy Turnover and Optimize Retention

Bonusly

High turnover is a major concern for many organizations. In 2018, over 40 million people quit their jobs in the US compared to just 30 million in 2014. But how do you know if your turnover really is an issue? And if it is, how do you focus your efforts to improve? Let’s take an analytical approach to retention. Identify the symptoms. Diagnose the disease.

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What the Union of ONA and People Analytics Means

Visier

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) isn’t a new science. It’s been around for over 30 years; the practice “ measures and graphs patterns of collaboration by examining the strength, frequency, and nature of interactions between people in those networks.” By that definition alone, ONA seems better left to only the most expert of data scientists, but advances in technology have made it easier and more accessible.

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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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26 Staff Appreciation Ideas and Recognition Ideas that Won’t Break the Bank

Kazoo

As any successful business owner will tell you, employees are the lifeblood of a company. When they’re disgruntled or apathetic, they clog the arteries of your operations. But keep your employees happy and engaged, and they’ll help your business flow smoothly. The good news: The heart of employee engagement is easy and inexpensive to roll out, yet impacts revenue, retention, and absenteeism in droves.

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Equal Pay Day 2019: How You Can Help

Kazoo

The gender pay gap has garnered a lot of discussion in the past few years due to the shocking statistics behind it and the recent monumental women’s movements such as #MeToo. That’s why the National Committee on Pay Equity , a coalition of women’s and civil rights organizations, created Equal Pay Day in 1996 to bring awareness to the issue in the U.S.

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Career Confessions of Gen Z: 3 Tips for Starting a New Job — The Intern Addition

The Tim Sackett Project

STOP, COLLABORATE, AND LISTEN. While these may be the words to an iconic and catchy song — you’re welcome if it’s now stuck in your head — they are also words of wisdom for a college student or new grad about to start an internship or entry-level job. So, let’s take a piece out of Vanilla Ice’s lyrical genius and apply it to some real life advice.

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I manage someone who’s upset that his employees don’t give him praise and validation

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m an executive. One of my direct reports (a manager) is frustrated that his team doesn’t acknowledge his input/skills/expertise. It’s as though he wants his team to give him positive feedback and validation. My feeling is that it’s very unlikely to happen. Even great managers wouldn’t hear their team say “thanks for the great job you do managing me.”.

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ACA Compliance Still Confusing to Employers

ACA Times

5 minute read: Employers are still confused with how to comply with the Affordable Care Act, and continue to hide their heads in the sand about the real risk of receiving costly ACA penalties from the IRS for non-compliance with the federal healthcare law. So says an ADP survey completed in the summer of 2018 that polled 869 benefits decision makers in midsized and large organizations about their opinions and how they were handling ACA compliance.

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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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Equal Pay Day 2019: How You Can Help

Kazoo

The gender pay gap has garnered a lot of discussion in the past few years due to the shocking statistics behind it and the recent monumental women’s movements such as #MeToo. Women are still heavily disadvantaged in the workplace despite strides to close the gap. And it gets worse with time. The disproportion between experience and pay increases for most women as they move further in their careers.

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Are You Ready to Get Serious about Improving Employee Engagement

Advanced Learning Institute

How healthy is your company culture? Company culture can be one of those “soft” terms that people use a lot without fully understanding it means. And it’s true the term “company culture” can be so broad it’s almost impossible to define.That said, there are some signs you can look at to judge whether or not a company has a great culture. A healthy culture generally goes hand-in-hand with the following: a strong company brand, high employee and customer loyalty, employees who exhibit a sense of pu

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11 employee wellness programs that work

CultureAmp

You’ve heard of employee wellness programs. Your company may even have one. These programs focus on the physical health of your employees by offering gym memberships, smoking cessation incentives, better snack choices, and other ways to get your team healthier.

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should I pretend to be bad at work I hate?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My partner offered me some surprising career advice the other day and it’s been weighing on my mind since. I had been venting about a bad week at work. I have ended up with a really tiresome and time-heavy task that has nothing to do with my actual role in the business and instead is much more like admin. Think purchasing office furniture or going to the bank to cash checks.

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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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Team Collaboration and the Tools to Help

Cloverleaf

With more collaborative company cultures, and more technology to help get the job done - the way we collaborate on teams is changing. While many people still have hesitancies surrounding the sometimes ineffectiveness and risk of teamwork, a HBR article explains the only way to combat this hesitancy is by “gaining firsthand experience with one or more collaborative projects.

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my parents are shocked that interviewers can see my social media, can I help my nice but incompetent boss, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My parents are shocked that interviewers can see my Twitter persona. I’m in my mid-20s and work in an industry that’s dominated by people about my age. At every job I’ve had, I’ve been encouraged by upper management to tweet about my work, and to maintain a robust and authentic presence on Twitter (and to a lesser extent other social media).

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The Metrics Of Persuasion: Two Key Variables In A Presentation

Forbes Coaches Council

Try to adopt your audience’s perspectiveand arm yourself with some basic knowledge of the context in which they're operating.

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Symantec Partners with Google Cloud to Improve Zero Trust Cloud Access

Symantec

With enterprises migrating to the cloud, the traditional network-based perimeter model might not be sufficient for some workloads.

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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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Employee Benefits to Fit All Types of Lifestyles

Benefitfocus

Find out what you can't afford to overlook to when it comes to designing a competitive and compelling employee benefits package for every stage of life.

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Using Laughter To Build Trust At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

You don’t laugh with people who threaten your safety – just the opposite. You laugh with the people you trust.

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The 3 Step Process to Set Up a 401(k) for Small Business

ForUsAll

Starting a Small Business 401(k) is Easier Than You Think. So, you’re thinking of setting up a 401(k) for your small business. On behalf of everyone here at ForUsAll, congratulations! The 401(k) is an awesome benefit that can do some great things for your business and your employees, so starting one is a big step forward. If you’ve spent any time looking into this process however, you’ll likely have realized that it’s not exactly clear how to start a 401(k) for your small business.

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U.S. DOL Proposes Regular Rate, Joint-Employer Regulations

HRWatchdog

Two new DOL-proposed rules will affect employers. In the last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has proposed two new rules affecting different employer regulation areas, which have not been meaningfully revised for more than 50 years. The DOL proposed a new rule on how employers calculate an employee’s regular rate of pay for purposes of paying overtime.

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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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Helpful Tips for Setting Employee Goals Effectively

Rise

When it comes to improving employee engagement or productivity, setting clear goals for workers can be highly effective. However, there’s more to setting employee goals than you might expect, and things can certainly go south if the process isn’t handled carefully. It takes a healthy dose of planning and a lot of communication to ensure that employees are on track to reach their goals.

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Six Best Practices Recruiting Leaders Can Learn from Customer Service

Survale HR

Feedback-driven, best practices recruiting programs are relatively new, yet the potential for transformational change is huge. Born out of the quest for friction-free candidate experience, early tactics for feedback-driven recruiting have revolved around point in time surveys aimed at understanding candidate satisfaction to deliver a better candidate experience.

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A Free Vacation?! Everything You Need to Know to Travel for Free

Take It Personel-ly

There’s only one thing better than to travel: it’s to travel for free! If you have a travel rewards credit card, then you might already be sitting on a vacation you didn’t know you had. Many credit cards will award you points whenever you make a purchase, and they can add up. Hello Italy! How […].

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Top Cyber Security Posts Still Lack C-Level Cred

Symantec

Despite the rise of CISOs and CSOs, top security execs still lack the autonomy and clout given to their C-suite counterparts

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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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Yes, You Still Have Smokers in Your Workplace

EX Program

Now that smoking is no longer the employee health issue it once was, companies can turn their attention to other wellness program strategies, right? Unfortunately not. Because smoking in the workplace today isn’t always obvious, that’s led some employers to believe this type of addiction isn’t a big issue anymore. Out of sight, out of [.]. Read More.

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Embracing Diversity: Seven Approaches Leaders Can Use

Forbes Coaches Council

A wide set of experiences and outlooks means all the difference between stale thought and creative problem-solving.

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The Ultimate Weekly Safety Topic Calendar

Ving!

Planning is the key to success. I learned this while listening to a Podcast by Rachel Hollis. It has been one of the most valuable pieces of information I have learned this year. If you want to have a successful day, week, month, year you have to plan.