Sat.Oct 31, 2020

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The Criminal Justice System Killed My Son

Thrive Global

Property of WBRC. My son lost his life to the festering wound, that is our criminal justice system. The injustices, and extreme risk of injury and death ooze like puss throughout the entire infected establishment. The rampant violence, contraband, and corruption, untimely medical care, the staffing crisis, inappropriate prisoner placement, and lack of supervision, to name just a few, have turned our correctional institutions into dead zones.

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5 Ways HR Automation Can Improve Business Efficiency

Vantage Circle

HR specialists have a lot on their plates, as they have to juggle candidates’ screening, interviews, onboarding, employee lifecycle in the company, and more. We can think of the HR department as being the core of the company - here is where the primary resources (employees) are being selected, processed, and maintained. Now try to imagine what would happen if the company’s core doesn’t perform at optimum parameters.

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Our Take: Voter Engagement, the 2020 Election and Healthcare

Corporate Synergies

“Our Take” is Corporate Synergies’ commentary on benefits/insurance news topics. This article discusses the COVID-19 mental health crisis. Early voting in the 2020 election has shattered records, setting a historic pace for voter turnout by the time polls close on. Read More. The post Our Take: Voter Engagement, the 2020 Election and Healthcare appeared first on Corporate Synergies.

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Are You Expanding Your Premises? Read this First

New to HR

If you own your premises, a time might come when the business building is too small for your team. Some businesses choose to sell their. The post Are You Expanding Your Premises? Read this First appeared first on New To HR.

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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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A Community That Cares

Thrive Global

Possessing Someone Is Not Loving Someone. What would it be like to discover a church where people really showed interest and support for one another ? Where people could find shelter if they needed a place to stay. Where there would be kind words along with advocacy for those who are marginalized, discriminated and ignored ? What would happen if a community really spoke out, addressed and supported actions and legislation promoting economic and environmental justice and peace ?

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Dr. Fritz Hershey: “Before you fly, check the gas tank”

Thrive Global

Establish Trust?—?This is learned through gradual repetitive experience. Mean what you say. Say what you mean AND DO IT. Not something else. Don’t try to manipulate people which is completely demoralizing and undermining. As a part of my series about the “5 Things Anyone Can Do To Optimize Their Mental Wellness”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr.

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How To Prepare Yourself For Your New Startup

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Just like any big long-term commitment in life, building a startup requires planning and preparation. Before you get started, take these three steps to better position yourself and your startup for long-term success.

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Blake D. Bauer: “Take Time and Space for Yourself”

Thrive Global

Express Your Emotions Honestly and Kindly. Our mental wellness is intimately connected to our emotional health. And our relationship to our emotions directly impacts our mind and thought processes far more than we realize. A significant amount of our unhealthy or negative thoughts are in fact symptoms of repressed emotions. These overwhelming or imbalanced thoughts are alerting us to the deeper feelings, needs, and desires that we’re ignoring or internalizing.

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Africa’s Elite Share The Blame For China’s Belt, Road Debt Crisis

Forbes Leadership Strategy

There is nothing surprising about China aggressively offering loans to African governments as part of Xi Jinping’s signature Belt, Road Initiative. What is puzzling, amid the deleterious economic outcomes, is that leaders on the continent choose to sign on to carry such debt. It takes two to tango.

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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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Dr. Swathi Varanasi: “You Are A Badass”

Thrive Global

The three main blockages that prevent us from taking the objective information we know and implementing into our daily lives are unsupportive environments, loss of the big picture, and lack of patience. Unsupportive environment speaks to the fact that people around us may not share the same goals, so trying to tweak your lifestyle while around others not on the same path can be difficult.

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This Is Why Entrepreneurs Who Settle For ‘Good Enough’ Will Get Ahead

Forbes Leadership Strategy

If you could palm off just one hour of low-value tasks every working day for a year, you’d gain 236 hours, equivalent to 29.5 eight-hour working days that could be spent growing your business.

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CLEAN ENERGY Branding Before 2010. And After.

Thrive Global

2010 redefined branding. It was the year that marked the official shift from traditional branding to the new 2.0 branding era (thankfully!). Before 2010, a brand was usually established through paid advertising. A clean energy company would control the brand’s narrative and tell the world what it stands for. However, since 2010, a brand has become exclusively established through employees and customers.

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How Video Conferencing Could Help Bring Distant Investors And Entrepreneurs Together

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Since the pandemic began, we’ve all become experts at using Zoom and other video conferencing programs, and this is leading many VCs and investors to evaluate projects that may well be on the other side of the world.

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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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Awkward Political Comments?

Thrive Global

A negative environment at work or at home can be very costly! There seems to be a lot of that going on right now and it’s AWFUL. Guess what? You can stop this behavior immediately. You don’t have to have a title, or special position. All it takes is one awkward conversation. Can you do it? Watch this video to see exactly how to do it and what to do if people are very difficult.

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Dear Leaders, Are You Really Taking Care Of Your Working Parents In The Pandemic?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Although many leaders and organizations say they are flexible and supportive of their working parents, in practice, many are not. Here are a few things leaders can do to actively support their working parents.

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Jennifer Cassetta: “Lack of clear goal setting.”

Thrive Global

The biggest “excuse” I hear from clients of why they don’t do the things they think they should be doing to improve their health is a lack of time. Everyone is so busy running from one task to the next that their health takes a back seat. Convenience rules and processed food, fast food, skipping workouts, and mindlessly moving through life becomes the norm.”.

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How To Handle Anxiety About Post-Election Civil Unrest

Forbes Leadership Strategy

For the first time in its history, the International Crisis Group, an organization that sounds the alarm to prevent deadly conflict has issued a report concerning possible civil unrest during and after the U. S. elections.

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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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Sophie Solmini: “Heal at Home is a resource, and you should use it”

Thrive Global

Tell people how you feel. It is if not the most important thing to me, communicating your emotion with the people around you. Do not assume that your partner, loved ones or colleague feel the same way as you do. Everyone experiences fear or uncertainty in a different way and there is no good or bad way there is only a way. As a part of my series about the the things we can do to develop serenity and support each other during anxious times, I had the pleasure of interviewing Sophie Solmini.

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Want To Go Somewhere? 4 Reasons To Be Optimistic About The Future Of Travel

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Despite the fact the the travel world is hurting right now, there remains plenty of reason for optimism about the future of the industry throughout the world.

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Tracee Stanley: “Don’t be afraid to question your beliefs”

Thrive Global

Self-inquiry- Don’t be afraid to question your beliefs, especially the ones that you hold dear. Ask yourself: How do I know this to be true? Is this belief moving me towards healing and wholeness or away from it? What am I willing to commit to in order to gain more self-knowledge? As a part of my series about the “5 Things Anyone Can Do To Optimize Their Mental Wellness”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Tracee Stanley.

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5 Belief-Shattering Advantages Of Extreme Extraverts And How You Can Imitate Them

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The success of introverts no longer has to resemble Hollywood movies. Here we show how less extraverted people can imitate extraversion success, but still be true to their personalities.

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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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Melissa Lapides: “Don’t judge yourself”

Thrive Global

Make sure you surround yourself with loving people?—?if family and friends aren’t supportive and drain your energy, set boundaries. As a part of my series about the “5 Things Anyone Can Do To Optimize Their Mental Wellness” I had the pleasure of interviewing Melissa Lapides LMFT. Melissa Lapides is an Integrative Psychotherapist and Trauma Specialist with over 15 years of experience.

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7 Things Incredibly Persuasive People Do Differently—Based On Science

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Persuasive science often gets a bad rap as manipulative, but incredibly persuasive people reject pop psychology in favor of scientifically proven, win-wins.

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John Sovec: “You own your schedule; your schedule doesn’t own you”

Thrive Global

You own your schedule; your schedule doesn’t own you. A hectic schedule can be a major cause of stress and make one feel out of control and overwhelmed. It has also been misrepresented as a sign of success when one is constantly rushing from one activity to another. When we push too hard and try to do everything, the body and mind eventually rebel. Stress levels rise, energy levels sink, and unhealthy connections to food and substance often develop.

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Closing Argument: Joe Biden And The Case For Optimistic Leadership

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The Democratic presidential candidate has framed much of his campaign’s closing message on an idea that is seemingly in short supply but is abundantly necessary as the nation looks ahead to the next four years: optimism.

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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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Coping with Dark Clouds: 3 steps to cope with pandemic anxiety

Thrive Global

The rain pours down my window as I type this and the autumn leaves that have fallen are drenched. They create piles of sodden debris that look particularly forlorn under this grey and miserable sky. All their vibrant brightness of yellows and oranges have dulled to brown. Unlike a few months ago, the outside seems a perfect mirror for the doom and gloom of the news.

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Andrea Albright: “Don’t race to the finish line”

Thrive Global

The most important role of the CEO is to be a visionary of the organization. It’s the most important skill set a CEO can have, and an important asset to every business. The vision is where you’re going and where the market is evolving. If the CEO loses its vision and is so bogged down by the running of the business, they don’t see how the competition is innovating and changing.

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Luciana Fragali: “Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you”

Thrive Global

I have to say that meditation has absolutely changed my life. As I’m sure you’ve heard many times, meditation works. It truly benefits my creativity, my well being, my clarity, and my stress levels. For 10 minutes in the morning, or 10 minutes during the day when I feel like I can’t go on anymore?—?I try meditating. When I feel like I need more self-love or need to give more love to others, I envision a cloud of pink starting from my head to my feet.