Mon.Apr 29, 2019

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Here’s How Digital Collaboration Tools Are Improving Communication

HRExecutive

For many organizations, systems with a knowledge base—such as SocialChorus, Digital Signal, Ryver, ServiceNow and Zendesk—can increase employee engagement, eliminate paper processes and make information available faster and in more useful ways for employees. These platforms continue to improve the end-user experience through better interfaces, experts say.

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Performance reviews: Aligning development and compensation

CultureAmp

Nearly 95 percent of managers are dissatisfied with how their company approaches performance reviews, and 90 percent of HR leaders believe their performance management system doesn’t deliver accurate information about employee performance.

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5 Key Metrics to Measure Workplace Engagement

Reflektive

Ask a CEO and an employee about engagement in the workplace and you can get two contradictory answers. The CEO might think his employees are happy and engaged while the employee is one bad day away from quitting. Without some method of employee engagement measurement, it’s easy to assume the best while discontent and disengagement eat away at your talent, your productivity, and your bottom line.

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StafQuik Raises $500K Pre-Seed For Job Push Notifications

WorkTech

Push notifications are becoming ubiquitous as we travel around the Internet. These are the little “opt-in” messages on your browser or phone that ask to use your location (or not) to send you notifications you might be interested in. StafQuik wants to bring them to staffing firms’ job-sites and has raised a pre-seed round of […].

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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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Workforce Management Software: What is It and Why You Need It?

Mitrefinch

In the past, workforce management required large number of human resource workers to effectively forecast labor requirements, manage employee schedules, and make sure that the workforce was producing necessary tasks to move the company towards their goals. For companies who manage a large workforce, finding ways to manage and optimize the productivity of those employees is essential for the company to be successful, profitable, and productive.

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3 HR Roles of the Future

Digital HR Tech

We talk a lot about how technology is changing the world of work. And indeed, the combination of automation and the arrival of new technologies will lead to the extinction of certain jobs, but more importantly, it will push a lot of us to up-skill in order to get ready for the future. We also talk a lot about the role of HR in this digital transformation; how can HR help organizations and their employees to become future proof?

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10 performance review biases and how to avoid them

CultureAmp

I am biased, you are biased, all humans are biased. Not buying it yet? Consider the research of Daniel Kahneman , a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman demonstrated one simple truth: the vast majority of human decisions are based on biases, beliefs, and intuition, not facts or logic.

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5 Employee Development Resources for New Managers

Workology

One of the most important services HR leaders are called on to provide is resources for new managers. New manager training varies so much based on length of previous management experience or, in the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How Healthcare Employers Can Invest in Strategic Workforce Planning

Precheck

How Healthcare Employers Can Invest in Strategic Workforce Planning Apr. 30, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Healthcare organizations are facing a workforce crunch. The combination of an aging population and the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of access to healthcare has increased the need for health services and resulted in employee shortages throughout the industry.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Behavioural excellence: an essential quality in high performance leaders?

HR Zone

Change. Behavioural excellence: essential for leadership?

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Why Resilience is a Top Skill Needed in Today’s Workplace

BetterUp

In my work as a researcher at BetterUp Labs , I have an opportunity to speak with business leaders across multiple industries about their biggest challenges. One theme continues to emerge—change at breakneck speed has become the norm in business today and it’s overwhelming our workforces. Workplace environments are reaching a breaking point. Employees are under enormous pressure to continuously adapt to new technologies, shifting priorities, and ways of working—and they aren’t equipped to keep u

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Wellbeing at work: how self-care and success work hand-in-hand

HR Zone

Employees. Self-care: the key to success.

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HR and Chatbots Are Learning Together

SHRM Resources

Whether called chatbots, digital assistants or conversational artificial intelligence (AI), companies are using the technology to enhance HR service, boost productivity, and help deliver more rewarding and personalized experiences for job candidates and employees.

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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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Three trends gleaned from gender pay gap reporting round two

HR Zone

Culture. Gender pay gap round 2: what trends have emerged?

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Rewards Matter: 4 great ways to recognize employees

HR Morning

Rewards matter. Sure, salary and benefits are key factors, too. But for any good employee worth having on your payroll, being recognized for their efforts is as important to them as their paycheck – with the added bonus that a well-planned employee recognition program boosts retention. Of course, in most places there’s just not a lot of extra money for bonuses, expensive gifts or over-the-top employee recognition celebrations.

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60 performance review phrases you can use today

CultureAmp

If you’ve ever walked away from a performance review confused about where you stand, you’re not alone. The art of giving clear, intentional, and valuable feedback is tricky to master, which is why so many employees have experienced underwhelming performance reviews. Since one of our core company values is “learning faster through feedback,” we always strive to improve in this area ourselves and share what we learn with others.

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Asking better questions

HRGem

A little while ago I put a call out to HR folks via Twitter, asking them for their best open ended questions for employee surveys. Now I am something of a cynic when it comes to surveys.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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The death of hierarchy: why open source leadership is key to business success

HR Zone

Change. Goodbye hierarchy, hello open source leadership.

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Marijuana Use Up Among Workers; Opioid Use Down

SHRM Resources

More U.S. workers are testing positive for marijuana while the number testing positive for opioids continues to decline, according to the annual Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index.

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Why it is Important for SME’s to Automate HR Administrative Tasks

SutiHR

Today, most HR departments have identified the significance of adding strategic value to the business, but HR administration work often stands as a critical barrier for its time-consuming nature. Excessive administrative work is needed to keep your business running regularly, and there are fewer chances to find time to make a useful contribution to your.

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The Problem with Values

HR Examiner

Often ignored words and platitudes in values statements can become a powerful force when they are practiced and defended with conviction. So, how does that work? Dr. Todd Dewett has a plan. Slowly but surely over the last few decades corporations have begun to value a variety of pro-employee and pro-community ideas. This includes the rise of diversity initiatives, flexible benefits, casual dress codes, and an ever more creative list of employee perks.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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How To Have A Good Goodbye At Work

Forbes Coaches Council

How we leave says a lot about how we feel about ourselves, those around us, and if we truly understand the value of strengthening a bridge (as opposed to burning it down).

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Replicon helps businesses transform time management into time intelligence at the APA Congress 2019

Replicon

It’s no secret that keeping a global, multi-location business running smoothly can be fraught with challenges. It’s only when one begins itemizing each moving part that it can begin to feel overwhelming: supervising multiple employee types, local payroll vendors, and providers; securely tracking and managing a remote workforce; ensuring compliance with relevant pay rules – […].

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Community Colleges Respond to Adult Student Needs

Edcor

Community colleges are becoming very responsive to adult students’ needs. A January 2019 RISC Survey What challenges to success do community college students face? revealed that adult students listed balancing work and school, paying expenses and meeting demands of family responsibility were their top three challenges. Many community colleges are working together to devise plans that guide students toward academic success and achievement; others are using individualized advising to support compl

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Second Chance Hiring- How Employment Can Change Someone's life

SHRM

Imagine for a moment that you spend months or years apart from your loved ones – locked in a prison or jail cell that may be hundreds of miles away from your family, your partner and children, your friends and community. Imagine that you are completely separated and secluded from the world that you once called your home. When you are released from incarceration, you immediately begin to reconnect with your loved ones and try to regain a sense of normalcy.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Drug Testing Positivity Rates Increase to Highest Level Since 2004

General Information Services

According to the recently released Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index, drug positivity rates for 2018 climbed to the highest level since 2004. The analysis examines test results for a range of various illicit and prescription drugs from more than. Visit the HireRight Blog to read the full article.

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Dress Your Social Media Best: 11 Must-Dos For Potential Job Seekers

Forbes Coaches Council

Even if you're not a social media expert, there are a few simple steps you can take to ensure your social media has a positive impact on your job search. Forbes Coaches Council leaders offer their best advice on the right way to use it.

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How WorkStride Can Bolster Your Channel Incentive Program

Workstride

Successful incentive promotions are key to capturing greater indirect revenue from your partners, therefore ensuring program longevity. However, the multiple moving pieces within each promotion—goal setting, promotion logic, payouts, data, rewards, and others—all contribute to the high stress environment and risk of your current in-house program (see Exhibit A).