Thu.Dec 06, 2018

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What an Increasing Retirement Age Could Mean for Your Business

Criteria Corp

Retirement isn’t quite what it used to be. While the average age of retirement for Americans is around 63, the number is rising , and that will have an impact on the current workforce.

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How to Keep Your Remote Workers From Feeling Isolated

TLNT: The Business of HR

Remote working has become an increasingly common practice for modern businesses worldwide, whether that’s as a full-time replacement for the 9-5 office job, or as an occasional bonus for regular commuters. Gallup found that in 2016 43% of employed Americans spent at least some time working remotely.

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Leveraging Recognition and Feedback to Boost Employee Engagement

Achievers

Employee engagement is an ongoing issue. What can we do to effectively engage employees? Start with recognition and feedback. According to Aptitude Research Partners , companies identified recognition as having the greatest impact on engagement. And it doesn’t stop at recognition. Go the extra mile with employee feedback, pulse data and personalized actions in real-time to immediately address any disengagement.

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99% perspiration: the challenge of being a midlife professional woman

HR Zone

Culture. 99% perspiration: the midlife professional woman.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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The Best Ways To Simplify Salary Planning

SutiHR

Salary planning is one of the most complex business challenges every organization face. Data access, analysis, entry, and re-entry – multiple departments across a business dread the mere thought of the salary planning process. Sometimes it requires months, days and hours of Finance, HR and Management involvement. Effective salary planning can reduce the time spent.

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HighGround’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where HighGround comes in.

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6 Practical Engagement Strategies to Beat Holiday Stress at Work

Engage2Excel

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – unless you work in HR. Holiday anticipation and upcoming vacations often leave employees feeling distracted and disengaged during one of the most chaotic months of the year. Without a solid engagement strategy, ramped up customer demand and preoccupied employees create a perfect recipe for seasonal stress. December is one of the trickiest months for engagement.

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Bad news for businesses affected by Brexit uncertainty

Workable

With just months to go until the UK leaves the European Union, and no deal yet in place, many employers continue to worry about the possible impact of Brexit on UK businesses and the labour market. Although 25% of UK businesses currently employ staff from the EU, an August 2018 survey reveals that over 50% of UK business leaders would be put off employing someone from the EU after Brexit changes the UK’s immigration laws.

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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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updates: the coworker hiding a DUI, the stressful coffee system, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. My coworker is hiding her DUI from our employer. I told my boss about what I knew and had overheard the day after your letter was published. Thanks so much for your advice and for giving me the push I needed. My boss took it from there and notified our legal department.

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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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non-serious dates at the holiday party, training students to answer the phone, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. How do I downscale our holiday celebration? I manage a wonderful staff — they are all dedicated, responsible, mature, and get along very well with each other. They are also all, to generalize, introverts (as am I). Over the past nine years, I established a tradition for the holiday season, in which we gather during a weekday afternoon and I give them cookies and a little gift.

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Kazoo’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where Kazoo comes in.

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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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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

Exercises 100
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Kazoo’s Top 5 Must-Read Blog Posts of 2018

Kazoo

The world of HR moves fast. While workforce trends come and go, it doesn’t change the fact that today’s highly competitive business environment means that employee performance is more important than ever. HR leaders must do everything in their power to create environments where employees can thrive and perform at high levels. That’s where Kazoo comes in.

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Change Your Mood by Changing Your Activities

CONCERN: EAP

From the Concern Resilience Library Our actions, feelings and thoughts all connect, working together to influence our moods. Changing one affects the others. For example, taking positive action can be an easy way to lift your mood. When you do something pleasant, the activity usually makes you feel better. And feeling better can lead to more positive thoughts and a brighter mood.

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share your funniest office holiday stories

Ask a Manager

It’s once again the season of forced workplace merriment, horribly inappropriate gifts, holiday party disasters, and other seasonal delights! In the spirit of the season, I want to hear about office holiday-related debacles. Did a coworker throw a tantrum when she didn’t win a raffle? Has your party planning meeting ended in tears multiple years in a row?

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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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How to Create Value by Mapping the Employee Journey

Digital HR Tech

The employee journey is receiving an increasing amount of attention from HR practitioners – and for good reason! In this articles, I will explain what the employee journey is and how it can be leveraged for the benefit of the employee and the employer. So, let’s get started. What is the employee journey? The employee journey is the time an employee spends at a company, starting when the employee applies to the organization and ending when the employee quits the organization.

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should I get my boss a gift for the holidays?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I just started a new job and I am working in a team of three. Should I get my boss a gift for the holidays? I would round up the other coworker, but had second thoughts because she is a temp. I don’t want to be gimmicky or a teacher’s pet, but I also think it might be a nice gesture. What would you suggest? I answer this question — and four others — over at Inc. today, where I’m revisiting letters that have been buried in the archives here from years ago (and sometim

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How Friends Influence Behavior: Friendships and School Performance

EverFi - HR

When you think back to your time in school, what do you remember most? Is it the homework and tests, or is it the relationships you built with others? If you’re like most people, it’s the latter. But, how do those friends influence behavior? Recent studies have concluded that friendships are more important than you might think. In many cases, they’re even among the biggest indicators of success in school.

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How 3 women technologists built a career of their dreams

Hacker Earth

Did you know that women seeking leadership roles often report a lack of good mentors as an obstacle to their career growth. We recently ran a survey for women technologists and almost 47% of the respondents claimed that they had no tech mentors or role models to look up to. With a growing demand for technologists worldwide, organizations have a need now, more than ever, to create workplaces which support and uplift women in technology.

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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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11 Ways To Recharge During The Holidays (And Still Tackle Your To-Do List)

Forbes Coaches Council

Prioritize your commitments, and be realistic.

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State-Run Retirement Savings Plan OK’d, Mandatory Enrollment Coming in 2020

HRWatchdog

The mandatory enrollment and contributions for the CalSavers program don’t go into effect until 2020. California employers that don’t already offer a workplace retirement savings vehicle will be required to either begin offering one via private market or provide their employees access to CalSavers, a state-run retirement savings plan, as early as June 2020.

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12 Ways To Scale Your Culture As Your Company Grows

Forbes Coaches Council

As companies expand, in numbers and sometimes in geography, scaling company culture can be a challenge. Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer insights on keeping your employees on the same page as your company grows.

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The Impacts of Fair & Predictive Scheduling on Workforce Management

Workforce Software

Within the U.S., a class of legislation is gaining momentum around the predictability of schedules, primarily aimed at the retail and food service industries. This webinar will be valuable to a broad HR audience from businesses where demand is dynamic and therefore results in the need to make schedule changes close to the start of the shift.

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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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HR Departments Everywhere Are Embracing Video. Are You?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Not long ago, companies viewed videos as optional tools to achieve communication objectives. They were a luxury reserved mainly for marketing departments with huge budgets. Meanwhile, learning and development departments had only canned, off-the-shelf videos to draw from. And because creating and editing them was time-consuming and expensive, videos were developed to have long shelf-lives.

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What Public Speaking Coaches Often Get Wrong

Forbes Coaches Council

Public speaking classes need to evolve with the times.

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Survey Says Cold, Hard Cash Is Your Workforce’s Favorite Holiday Perk This Year

TLNT: The Business of HR

Ah, the holidays. A time in business to tie a bow on the past year and exhale from what was hopefully a time of prosperity. And according to a new survey, it’s a time when your employee want to get paid a bonus.

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