Mon.Jul 23, 2018

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Massachusetts Governor Baker Signs “Grand Bargain.” What Does This Mean For The Business Community?

Genesis HR Solutions

A few weeks ago, it appeared that Massachusetts voters were going to have plenty to think about in November. Ballot printers were readying the presses to see if voters wanted to raise the minimum wage, decrease the sales tax, institute paid family leave and levy a 4% surtax on all income earned in excess of $1 million annually. In all, seven questions would be on the ballot.

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Take It From a Futurist: The Automated Future Is Coming—It's Time to Adapt or Risk Falling Behind

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: We ain't even trying to predict the future—that's why we left it up to the futurists. In this series , we interview experts in HR, recruiting and the future of work to get their take on what's next. Employees might brush off the "robot revolution" as the tired theme of the latest action blockbuster—not a movement that's changing work as they know it.

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HR News: Encouraging Employee Time Off

eni

Employee burnout is becoming a common affliction in organizations across the country. With 24 hour access to email, many employees continue to think about and access work long after the workday has finished. This continuous connection to their job leads many professionals to bring their work home with them, ultimately intertwining work-related stressors with personal challenges.

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Why You Should Always Discriminate in the Workplace

UpstartHR

Discrimination isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I overheard a conversation the other day between two employees at a local restaurant. One of them said: “I am so sick of our boss. He is always discriminating against me for coming in a few minutes late or not getting my work done as fast as Joe.” The second employee turned to the first and responded: “It serves you right.

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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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3 Workplace Wellbeing Initiatives That Will Boost Productivity

Hppy

Why bother with wellness in the workplace? Well firstly, morally, it’s the right thing to do. Equally important, wellbeing has a direct effect on productivity. And on a broader level, absenteeism and presenteesim is costing the UK economy as much as £77 billion every year. There’s plenty of research out there to prove that wellness in the workplace pays.

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Why Your Team Must be Setting Team Goals

6Q

With few employees fully understanding their company’s business strategies and what they can do to help achieve their organisation’s goals, it’s clear that companies need to do more for their business aims to be efficiently worked towards and achieved. Setting goals at work is undeniably important. Setting specific and challenging goals inspires higher performance than setting none, or even setting ‘do your best’ goals which don’t really push people.

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Eight easy ways to create and maintain a healthy workplace

cipHR

A healthy working environment is essential for a happy and productive workforce. But creating one doesn’t have to be hard – just follow our top eight tips for wellbeing at work. A healthy working environment is essential for good productivity, happy employees, low absence rates , and the all-round wellbeing of staff and managers. Fortunately, it’s neither hard nor expensive to make some small changes that’ll have a big impact; just follow our eight essential tips, and you’ll see positive results

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HR Mind Games Hangout - Episode #2 – Does This Cognitive Assessment Tell Me a Candidate Is Stupid?

The HR Capitalist

HR Mind Games is a quick hitting, 20-30 minute hangout hosted by me/KD/HR Capitalist and sponsored by Caliper, the leading provider of Assessments for Selection, Talent Management, and Leadership Development. In each episode of Mind Games, we’ll cover how general assessment geekiness/expertise helps HR and Recruiting Pros make better hires as well as maximize performance once that talent is in the door!

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my coworker says her husband died — but he didn’t

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a coworker who mentions her deceased husband fairly frequently in conversation. It’s been several years since he passed away after a protracted illness. (He had lupus, and she says that they knew it was coming for seven years, so he was able to put away money to provide for her.). Now she has a boyfriend who wants her to stop wearing her engagement ring from her deceased husband.

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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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WeWork's New Vegetarian Policy for Employees and Company Events: The Market Will Decide.

The HR Capitalist

We live in a world where business owners can make political/moral/society statements and force those world views on their employees - especially if their companies are privately held. On the conservative side of the aisle, we've seen businesses stand up for their right to not offer birth control as part of their health plan, and we've seen owners on both the conservative and liberal sides of the spectrum put pressure on employees to vote in elections according to the owner's views.

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3 important reasons to integrate your project management and accounting systems

Sage HRMS

While in the field, your project managers face any number of questions that must be answered quickly, with accurate financial data. By implementing an integrated project management and accounting system, you can be confident that your project managers will get exactly what they need when they need it. When project managers are forced to contact […].

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WeWork's New Vegetarian Policy for Employees and Company Events: The Market Will Decide.

The HR Capitalist

We live in a world where business owners can make political/moral/society statements and force those world views on their employees - especially if their companies are privately held. On the conservative side of the aisle, we've seen businesses stand up for their right to not offer birth control as part of their health plan, and we've seen owners on both the conservative and liberal sides of the spectrum put pressure on employees to vote in elections according to the owner's views.

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How to Hire for Cultural Fit in Healthcare

Precheck

How to Hire for Cultural Fit in Healthcare Jul. 24, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. One of the top workplace challenges facing the healthcare industry today is hiring for the right cultural fit. Even as providers fight over a finite pool of qualified healthcare talent, leaders have come to recognize that it’s essential to attract and retain people who can reflect and champion the values and mission of the organization.

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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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HR Mind Games Webinar - Episode #2 – Does This Cognitive Assessment Tell Me a Candidate Is Stupid?

The HR Capitalist

HR Mind Games is a quick hitting, 20-30 minute webinar hangout hosted by me/KD/HR Capitalist and sponsored by Caliper, the leading provider of Assessments for Selection, Talent Management, and Leadership Development. In each episode of Mind Games, we’ll cover how general assessment geekiness/expertise helps HR and Recruiting Pros make better hires as well as maximize performance once that talent is in the door!

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The Gentle Leader

HR Daily Advisor

James Kavanaugh once suggested that there are “those too gentle to live among the wolves.” I hope this is no longer true in today’s organization. I believe that the “wolves” have had their day, and we need to make way for a new breed of manager— The Gentle Leader. Today, we need a special brand of leader who can create a real sense of community and commitment in our organizations. twinsterphoto / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Can Financial Advisors Partner with a PEO?

Extensis

While many benefits and insurance brokers know that a PEO partnership can be helpful, there remains some confusion amongst financial advisors who don’t see how this solution can help their business or clients.

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4 Interview Questions that Will Improve Your LinkedIn Recruiting

Spark Hire

Every recruiter has their go-to list of interview questions when assessing candidates. These queries have been tested time and again to show how much they can discover about job seekers. But most of them presuppose that you know very little about the person you’re interviewing. Today, however, you have access to a lot of information before you talk to candidates thanks to sites like LinkedIn.

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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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5 Free Webinars and Podcasts For Earning HR Recertification Credits

Workology

Not signed up for LEARN yet? Click here to learn how we make HR recertification and on-demand learning easy. As a certified HR professional, I work hard to maintain my certifications, especially. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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can I ask my boss to calm down?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Is it ever okay to ask your boss to calm down? Recently I made a medium-sized, careless error at work. When my boss’s boss confronted me about it, I owned up to my mistake and apologized, but she proceeded to pull me into her office and — no exaggeration — literally scream at me about it for upwards of 15 minutes. My repeated apologies were shouted down, and the topic of her tirade quickly switched from this one error to a litany of attacks on my personal character a

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The Most Common Mistakes Managers Make and How to Fix Them

TLNT: The Business of HR

I’ve trained thousands of managers in different industries, with different levels of seniority and experience, with teams large and small. And, while they certainly all have their unique nuances, I see some of the same manager mistakes popping up consistently, over and over again.

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Developing an Effective Corporate Giving and Volunteering Strategy

Porpoise

After analyzing hundreds of programs, and implementing and managing programs for companies of all sizes, we’ve learned a thing or two about how to work with budgets of varying degrees. One of our greatest takeaways was that you don’t have to spend millions in order to implement a successful giving program. In fact, many of the companies we work with are able to increase engagement and impact with ZERO net-new expense.

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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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How To Discuss A Pay Rise At Work

Rezoomo

Asking for a raise in salary is never going to be an easy conversation to have with your manager. It can be nerve-wracking and sometimes self-doubt can set in. Getting over your fear is the first step to conquer and get the raise you deserve. We have put together some tips to help to ask you for that pay rise so you can feel confident and well prepared for doing so.

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Best Practices for Recruiting and Retaining Millennials in the Healthcare Industry

Sterling Check

The habits of the millennial generation have been studied and reported on since the age group was young. As they grew, millennials have shaped how companies market, how entertainment is produced, how shops are designed and how we all work on a day-by-day basis. As the generation gets older and replaces baby boomers and Gen Xers in the workplace, their ideas will be shaping the workforce for many years to come.

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stop obsessively re-reading that email from your job interviewer … it doesn’t mean anything

Ask a Manager

The job search process can feel shrouded in mystery. Figuring out whether or not an employer is interested in you, or how good your chances are, or when you might reasonably expect to hear back after your interview, can feel like a maddening guessing game. And when the stakes are so high and the process so opaque, it’s not surprising that people analyze the smallest details of every interaction and obsess over what they might mean.

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Are Economic Trends Affecting Talent Recruitment?

Evil HR Lady

No matter how hard you work to control the environment within your organization, there are economic trends affecting talent recruitment. This means that HR leaders need to be keenly aware of what is going on to make necessary changes. So what changes do you need to make to your recruitment strategy when forces outside of your control take place? Here are three examples that could help you decide: 1.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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my employee trash-talks herself, I hurt my employee’s feelings, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My employee constantly apologizes and calls herself stupid. A few months back, you answered a letter from someone concerned about a coworker’s imposter syndrome and constant, defeatist self-talk. I’m in a similar situation — I’d type out the details but it’s almost word-for-word what that person said— except I’m the boss, not the coworker.

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How To Discuss Pay Rises At Work

Rezoomo

Asking for a raise in salary is never going to be an easy conversation to have with your manager. It can be nerve-wracking and sometimes self-doubt can set in. Getting over your fear is the first step to conquer and get the raise you deserve. We have put together some tips to help to ask you for that pay rise so you can feel confident and well prepared for doing so.

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3 Signs You Need a Personal Assistant (and How to Hire One)

Take It Personel-ly

At work, you probably have help with some of your more tedious tasks. An executive assistant, for example, organizes the conference room timetable and schedules required business travel. You can’t pile your personal to-dos onto their already full plate, though. That’s where a personal assistant comes in. You’ll have to hire someone on your own, […].

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