Wed.Jan 02, 2019

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5 Business New Year’s Resolutions For Leaders And How To Actually Keep Them

15Five

I’m going to find a new hobby. I’m going to stick with the diet. I’m going to finally take my dream vacation. Sound familiar? These are all perfectly good examples of New Year’s resolutions so many of us tend to make in one form or another. All too often things start out strong, but the best laid plans seem to go by the wayside after a while as other priorities take over.

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Engage 2019: Get More Into Your Work to Get More Out of Your Work

David Zinger

Do you know how to fully engage with your work so that both you and others fully experience all the benefits of your labor? In 2019, I am devoted to helping educate others to get more into their work to get more out of their work. If you or your organization would like to learn more to fully engage please take the next moment to contact me: david@davidzinger.com.

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Battle-Tested Advice For Successful Change Communication

Staffbase

For modern companies, stable order often means stagnation rather than blazing a path toward a desirable goal. Change, on the other hand, is becoming more and more of an everyday business. But with it comes an ever-growing sense of insecurity, especially for those who aren’t directly involved in the change processes, but feel its effects nonetheless.

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Career Pathing Is Your Best Employee Retention Strategy

SumTotal

Think the war for talent is an overused term describing the challenges recruiters face to fill open requisitions? Think again. In the United States alone, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has consistently shown monthly job growth for years. Meanwhile, wage growth is starting to inch up, a trend that seems unlikely to stop given the rise in demand for skilled workers, making it more expensive for employers to fill open positions.

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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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Five HR Trends that Will Define 2019

Reflektive

In this competitive talent landscape, it’s vital to stay current on—or ahead of—the latest HR trends. In looking ahead to 2019, what can HR professionals expect to see? SEE ALSO: How to Effectively Change Performance Management. The Growth of People Analytics. The Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends report found that 84% of executives consider people analytics to be a high priority for their organizations.

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7 Ways to Create an Unbeatable Employee Experience

Achievers

What do your employees say about their experience with your company? Have you asked them lately? When you have a job opening, do you have top candidates reaching out to you for consideration? A Bersin survey finds that “Nearly 80 percent of executives rated employee experience very important (42 percent) or important (38 percent), but only 22 percent reported that their companies were excellent at building a differentiated employee experience.

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Happy 2019 – let’s set some HR goals!

PeopleStrategy

Happy New Year! The start of a new year is a time for reflecting on the past and setting goals for the future – personally and professionally. As an HR professional, you play a key role in helping your company achieve its goals as you are responsible for managing its most important asset. When you look back on 2018, take a close look at what you would have done differently.

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my office mate asks me 75 questions a day — literally

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Due to renovations, I’ve been put in the same office as another employee. We work different jobs, but are technically peers in the company’s hierarchy. He is, frankly, driving me crazy. Every question that comes across his mind, he gets up and verbally asks me. Most of these are surprisingly basic questions. Some questions are work related.

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Big 3

NoExcusesHR

Today's post is short and to the point. Transitioning to a new year means we sometimes think about making changes in our personal or professional lives. Let's cut to the chase. 1. Pick three things to work on this year (not resolutions.) 2. Write them down with deadlines to make progress throughout the year. 3. Start today. Stop with the self-talk noise.

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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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I’m uncomfortable with my coworkers’ names, crying when laying someone off, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I’m uncomfortable with my coworkers’ names. I work in the healthcare industry which is very diverse and have had this issue in several jobs, which is coworkers having names I feel uncomfortable about saying. Some examples of these names are: Princess, Honey, Sir, King. I don’t feel comfortable calling a grown woman “Princess.” I feel bad because these people did not choose their names but it makes me feel so uncomfortable to refer to a c

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13 Statistics That Reveal the Shocking Price of  Employee Turnover - and How to Combat It

Quantum Workplace

It's common knowledge that replacing and training employees are costly tasks for an organization. But you'd be shocked to know just how high that cost is. We teamed up with the Center for Management and Organization Effectiveness (CMOE) to identify 13 statistics that shine a light on the true financial burdens turnover causes.

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19 Small Business Tools You Should Know About

BambooHR

Anyone who’s ever worked for or owned a small business knows that there’s no shortage of hurdles and hoops on the road to growth and success. You’ve seen firsthand the kinds of challenges that come when you’re trying to ramp up marketing, manage tasks, or expand your workforce with minimal resources. Tools for Small Businesses […].

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A Happy Workforce: 5 Ways to Improve Employee Morale in Your Startup

Hppy

Low morale can lead to high employee turnover, poor productivity levels, and customer dissatisfaction. To build an innovative, reputable business that routinely reaches its annual goals and exceeds its competitors, you must invest both time and money into keeping your team as happy as possible. If you are looking for a little direction on how to maintain a happy workforce, here are five ways to improve employee morale in your startup company.

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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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This Advice Can Make 2019 the Best Year Ever

Evil HR Lady

A common theme of people who email me for help with their career is that their jobs are terrible, their bosses are unreasonable , and their pay is too low. The problem is, you can only change your own actions. While people will react differently if you behave differently, you have to make the changes to begin with. So, this morning, I stumbled across this quote from Albert Ellis: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

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Four Areas to Positively Encourage Employee Productivity

Take It Personel-ly

Employee morale is important. As business becomes global, reputation matters and a good employer are seen as a good business. But time and budget can dictate managerial attitudes and it’s all too easy to neglect good employees. Therefore, you need to adopt an attitude that opens up a meaningful dialogue with your best and brightest. […].

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How Well-Designed Company Uniforms Boost Employee Productivity

Hppy

There are many factors to consider when a company is looking to boost the productivity of their employees. Aside from equipping workers with the correct tools and setting up the workplace to suit their skills, company uniforms also play a huge role in this regard. Being able to wear the appropriate clothing for the job will not only make the employees look professional, but they’ll also be able to perform their tasks with much more confidence and vigor.

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how to ask for more money than the stated salary range

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m looking to make a career shift after 10 years at the same company — at a young age. It was my second job out of college. Thing is, it’s a place that pays very well for my industry, so it’s proving tough to find a pay increase as I move (which, due to medical issues happening in my family, is an absolute necessity for me).

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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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Starting 2019 off with a Recruiting Bang!

The Tim Sackett Project

If you’re like me you took some time over the holidays to reflect and to think about how you could make your next year on this earth the best one yet! One of my “areas of opportunity” (HR speak for “stuff I suck at”) is I’m rarely satisfied with my outcomes. So, of course I want to do more in 2019! I’m an advocate of doing the hard stuff first.

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Make Recruiting Fun?

HR Examiner

John Sumser explores some key areas where the application of technology could be used in service of creating a livelier, more entertaining, recruiting experience. Why Isn’t Recruiting Fun For Everyone? Technology turns fluid relationships into transactions. That’s what they mean when they say ‘it reduces friction.’ The whole point of technology is to remove the artistry and replace it with a procedure.

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A Former Google Exec Wants to Help You Make Better Choices

HRExecutive

Although he no longer works at Google, Laszlo Bock is anything but idle. He’s currently the CEO of Humu, a company that uses people analytics and artificial intelligence to identify behavioral changes employees can make to create a more engaged and satisfied workforce. Built on the foundation of Richard Thaler’s Nobel Prize-winning research , Humu administers and analyzes employee surveys to identify individual behavioral changes that will have the biggest impact on improving overall workplace

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3 Ways HR Can Justify Salary Differences To Employees

HR C-Suite

One of the many nightmares of an HR is when an employee is unhappy with his appraisal and asks for clarification of salary differences between him and his colleagues. This kind of clash is often seen when there are 2 people with same roles but getting paid differently. At such point, the HR needs to […].

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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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If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t be Yours

Government Executive

A new data analysis by ProPublica and the Urban Institute shows more than half of older U.S. workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they choose to retire, suffering financial damage that is often irreversible.

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Effective Messaging For Non-Storytellers

Forbes Coaches Council

This structure can help you craft a message (an email, a conversation or a presentation) by choreographing what you want your audience to feel, to know and to do.

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how do I start a new job on the right foot?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m starting a new job in 12 days. I am leaving my current company of five years (half of my post-college career) on good terms, but it’s time to go somewhere I can grow, and frankly, make more money. My new job is a huge, national corporation, with hundreds of people in the building. My current office, and most jobs in my past, have been in offices of fewer than 40 people.

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4 Ways to Build a Paperless HR Department in Your Organization

SutiHR

Mostly, the human resource department uses paper documents such as forms, memos, hiring checklists, employee handbooks, and on boarding materials. Using papers can waste budgets as the cost does not lie in the paper itself, but it involves use of printers, filling cabinets, extra office space, ink, along with the maintenance fee. In case of. The post 4 Ways to Build a Paperless HR Department in Your Organization appeared first on SutiHR.

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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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‘I have some annoyance around the NO Christmas bonus.’

HR Digest

Dear Jane, I work in an industry where bonuses are common. My prior law firm handed two bonuses a year; one in June and the other in December. Last week, my boss took us to lunch at a bar and spent the entire time jabbing the “we can’t afford it” line with his fork. No Christmas bonus. Nothing. Zilch. I’ve killed it this past year and feel like I deserve a Christmas bonus.

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The Most Overlooked Critical Skill To Ensure Lasting Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

There is a deep accountability that comes with leadership, and that accountability often comes with making hard choices.

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How to Help Employees Save More for Retirement

Best Money Moves

How to help employees save more for retirement. Employees experience debilitating financial stress when it comes to retirement and they want employers to provide tools and support that ensure they’ll have enough money saved to last through retirement. A third of workers and a fifth of retirees are ‘overwhelmed’ or ‘paralyzed’ by their financial situations, according to the latest Retirement Study Reveal by Wells Fargo.