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The Benefits of Mental Health Training in the Workplace

Pathways

Employee mental health concerns are at an all-time high— according to a recent report by Pathways, 9 out of 10 employees are concerned about burnout. For most HR professionals, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Since the onset of COVID-19, HR has seen how poor employee mental health impacts the workplace. With higher rates of turnover, absenteeism, and presenteeism, the price of employee mental health issues is too high to ignore.

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4 Ways Automation Can Help Stop Candidates From Ghosting Your Staffing Firm

Essium HRM

In the current job market, finding quality candidates is harder than ever for staffing firms. What’s even worse is you might think you found a great candidate only to get ghosted during the onboarding process. Ghosting during the hiring process can happen for various reasons. However, there are some things you can do to stop candidates from ghosting your staffing firm.

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HR Trends: The Key Reads of October 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our summary of October best reads on HR trends! This month, hot topics included women in the workplace, shortened workweeks, and career pathing. HR Trends for October 2021. Women continue to experience bias and higher rates of burnout. Societal biases continue to hamper women’s progress in the workplace, but leadership can help by standardizing criteria for success and making them transparent.

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How Remote Working Has Transformed Human Resources  

Hppy

The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly one of the worst catastrophes ever. It brought the world economy to almost a total collapse. The economic fallout has been almost as bad as the unprecedented casualty rates. But thanks to the existing internet infrastructure, we were able to keep going. With accessible services at affordable int ernet prices , more households than ever have internet services available. .

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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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HR Trends: The Key Reads of October 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our summary of October best reads on HR trends! This month, hot topics included women in the workplace, shortened workweeks, and career pathing. HR Trends for October 2021. Women continue to experience bias and higher rates of burnout. Societal biases continue to hamper women’s progress in the workplace, but leadership can help by standardizing criteria for success and making them transparent.

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How Positively Energizing Leadership Can Transform Employee Well-being

TalentCulture

We live at a time when political correctness captures headlines. Accusations of injustice, privilege, unconscious bias, and systemic racism happen daily. Between 50 and 75 percent of people admit to […]. The post How Positively Energizing Leadership Can Transform Employee Well-being appeared first on TalentCulture.

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What the “Great Resignation” Tells Us About Our Flawed Work Culture—and How We Can Reimagine It

The Muse

Here are the stories of five employees who resigned—and why the phenomenon is about more than their personal decisions to quit.

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Revealed: The Pandemic Shows No Impact on Quality of Meetings

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’ve ever found yourself mentally disengaged as you strive to simply survive a seemingly interminable string of mind-numbing meetings, you’re not alone. More than 30,000 people have taken the online test “ How Do Your Time Management Skills Stack Up?

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my coworker accidentally sent me a recording making fun of me

Ask a Manager

This post, my coworker accidentally sent me a recording making fun of me , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My coworker sent me a five-minute voicemail. She had inadvertently recorded herself talking about me, making fun of me and laughing at my appearance. She also promised the person she is speaking to that she will show them my picture later.

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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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The 7 business negotiation skills you need to master

Business Management Daily

Are you looking to improve your business negotiation skills? We can help. Read this negotiation training for a handful of ideas to help you second-guess your next negotiation. In this BusinessManagementDaily.com article, we cover: Successful negotiation techniques. Do’s and don’t’s of business negotiation. How to become a master of negotiation.

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are better managers … ever actually worse?

Ask a Manager

This post, are better managers … ever actually worse? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I have a big-picture workplace question. I was at my previous company for five years, three years with Jane as my boss, and two years with Jack as my boss. Jane and Jack had very different management styles. Jane was extremely hands-off, while Jack fit the textbook definition of a “good manager” much better (at least as I understand it), but hi

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7 Reasons Why Someone May Need a Life Coach

Take It Personel-ly

If someone is looking to improve certain areas of their life and they just aren’t seeing the results that they want, they might want to consider working with a life coach. While others may feel as though they don’t need someone else to encourage them, having a coach can be completely life-changing. The right coach […].

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my boss is throwing a maskless team Thanksgiving dinner, company says our coworker who quit is actually still here, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my boss is throwing a maskless team Thanksgiving dinner, company says our coworker who quit is actually still here, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss is throwing a maskless team Thanksgiving dinner. I work on a team of 15 people, all fully vaccinated.

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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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New Firstup Studio to power more employee engagement

SocialChorus

Our mission at Firstup has always been to empower companies to communicate with their employees: the right message sent to the right employee at the right time through the right channel. Historically, employee communication platforms have always been built on trade-offs. You want targeted, personalized delivery but don’t have the time to manage the added complexity.

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Future of Work: Unexpected Employee Relocations

hrQ

In our latest hrQ Insight Series, Stephanie Williams, Director – Consulting Services, shares key actions leaders should take to successfully manage and respond to surprise employee relocations and strengthen employer-employee relationships throughout this trend with moderator, Carisue Bench, Consulting Advisory Leader. Click for a transcript of the video.

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Crimcheck Wins Prestigious 2021 Weatherhead 100 Award

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

Cleveland, Ohio – October 27th, 2021 Crimcheck continues to lead the way in the Northeast Ohio region, contributing to the area’s economic growth and development. Their efforts are being recognized by Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, which selected Crimcheck as a 2021 winner of the Weatherhead 100 award. The Weatherhead 100 are the top 100 companies in the NE Ohio region achieving the largest percentage of net sales over the past five years, growing from at lea

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Can AI-Driven Research Steer Social Media’s Mental Health Crisis?

Remesh

The amount of time we spend on social platforms keeps growing. And the experiences are increasingly sophisticated and immersive, making it harder for our brains to differentiate the real from the virtual. Because of this, it comes as no shock that these habitual platforms are affecting the mental health of those engaging with them.

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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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Crimcheck Joins NMSDC eMarketplace Bringing Diversity to Employment Screening

Crimcheck | Pre-Employment & Background Check Information

Cleveland, Ohio – October 27th, 2021 The National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) welcomes Crimcheck to its eMarketplace of certified Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs). The eMarketplace provides a wide pool of potential suppliers of goods and services from companies that have proven the value of diversity, while providing excellence in accomplishing their missions.

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The One Thing You’re Forgetting About Feedback

FlashPoint

How You Receive Feedback is Just as Important as How You Give It. We talk about feedback often. After all, it’s a critical part of management, team cohesion, and leadership. Feedback and communication are critical skills for managers, leaders, and employees all throughout the organization. In fact, it’s one of the common leadership skills you must master to be successful.

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Job Offer Letter Email Template That’ll Get Candidates to Say ‘Yes’

HR Digest

Delivering good news is always a feel-good moment and that’s what you get when you hit send on a job offer letter. But hang on. There’s a lot to do before you officially make the offer. For starters, you need to draft a well-structured job offer letter email. This email is going to be the equivalent of a formal job offer. We know, the last thing you want to do is prepare what to include in the letter of employment.

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New research finds employees are ready to return to pre-pandemic levels of business travel

Qualtrics HR

In the months (and months) following March 2020, the pandemic put so many parts of life on hold. Outings were minimized to grocery store runs. More employees started working from home. Fewer people were traveling, including for business purposes. But as we continue to navigate work-life as the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more prevalent, one part of how we work is on the rise: business travelers are getting back to travel.

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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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Employee Ghosting: What Is It and How Do You Put an End to It?

BerniePortal

Ghosting has unfortunately become a near common practice in our modern workplace. Many HR teams dealing with issues of ghosting are forced to take legal actions in order to deal with the issues. Beyond this it can cause work delays, increased workload for fellow employees, and even cost the organization time and money. So why does this keep happening?

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The Talent War Is Real: How Leaders Should Respond As Their People Return To Work

Forbes Coaches Council

Study after study shows that workers want flexibility and fulfillment, and in many cases, will leave their current employer if they don't get it.

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EEOC COVID-19 Vaccines, Accommodations Guidance Updated

HRWatchdog

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently updated and expanded guidance related to the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing questions about objections to employer COVID-19 vaccine requirements. As previously reported , both the EEOC and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) have stated that private employers may implement a mandatory vaccine policy, so long as they don’t run afoul of federal and state discrimination laws.

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Big Changes Coming to Compensation

Decusoft

The COVID-19 pandemic and the wild year that was 2020 shook up the world of employment and compensation to a startling degree. Since the virus appeared during the first quarter, unemployment spiked to record levels before dropping again into something like a normal range. Workers’ growing willingness to quit their jobs in search for new opportunities drove the labor market.

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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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What is the aim of Human Capital Management?

Zoho People

Your workforce is the greatest asset your organization will ever have. This may sound a bit clichè, but how you manage your employees and help them work really can make or break your business. That's why it's crucial to strategize your employee management practices in a way that maximizes the value offered by each of your people. This is where Human Capital Management (HCM) comes in handy.

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Do Your Goals Have a Stretch Component?

Betterworks

You’re not likely to achieve great things by setting mediocre goals. If you want to make it big, you have to think big. But that doesn’t mean setting impossibly high goals untethered from reality. Instead, you want to identify those areas where you can deliver a major impact but only by moving significantly outside of […].

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Five Aspects Of Conscious Leadership In Action

Forbes Coaches Council

Conscious leadership solves modern dilemmas by attending to the importance of human capital and organizational effectiveness.

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