Tue.Jun 13, 2023

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7 Severance Agreement Mistakes HR (Employers) Make

HR Digest

Severance agreements are a common way for employers to part ways with employees. They can provide employees with financial assistance during a time of transition, and they can help employers to protect themselves from legal liability. However, employers can make mistakes when drafting and executing severance agreements. These mistakes can lead to lawsuits, financial losses, and other problems.

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How HR Self-Service Portals Revolutionize Business Organizations

PCS

The Human Resources portal refers to the Human Resources Management System or HRMS. Employees can perform their tasks from the dashboard of this integrated suite of HR software. An HR self-service portal can help modernize the organization. It makes HR functions more efficient by reducing inbound queries and requests. This allows the HR staff to focus on more important activities and prioritize quality in operations.

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What Makes a Good Career Page: 7 Simple Tips

Intoo USA

Finding the right candidate for a position can be challenging, especially if your business operates in a competitive industry in which you are required to compete for most talented candidates. With this in mind, many organizations now create career pages and even standalone websites to help differentiate themselves from other businesses and leave positive impressions on job seekers.

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Pay Equity Legislation Changes You Need to Be on Top Of

Trusaic

Pay equity legislation has been advancing at a rapid pace. After years of lamenting the unfortunate gap between male and female employees working in similar jobs or in jobs with similar requirements with little observable change, state legislatures have been stepping up to require employers to document and report on their pay practices, an important step in closing that gap.

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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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Change Management is Tricky. How Do You Handle It?

TalentCulture

Change is an integral aspect of every organization — especially in today’s volatile environment. But managing change is challenging. That’s why it sometimes helps to rely on change management specialists for guidance or support. But when? It depends on the situation. To better understand how leaders tackle change successfully, we asked business professionals to tell […] The post Change Management is Tricky.

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Money talks: Why it’s time for employers to be open about finances

HR Zone

Seven ways to improve your teams’ financial wellbeing.

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PERT Chart vs. Gantt Chart: A Comparative View

Replicon

PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) charts and Gantt charts are two of the most popular visual project management tools often used for efficiently scheduling and administering tasks necessary to complete a project. But it’s essential to know the differences between PERT chart vs. Gantt chart to get their usage right depending on the nature of the project among other factors.

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How To Design An Effective Spot Bonus Program?

Vantage Circle

Granting employees rewards and recognition can be likened to a delicate sprinkling of ethereal fairy dust upon them. Eliciting a wondrous transformation that seamlessly elevates their motivation, engagement, and unwavering loyalty. Rewards serve as a profound expression of genuine appreciation and an enchanting celebration of their invaluable contributions.

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Methods of Managing Challenging Behaviour

6Q

We all know that colleague or boss who can be termed as challenging. Challenging behaviour encompasses how people relate with others and how they approach tasks. This behaviour can harm workplace harmony, infect the culture with negativity, not to mention affect output and productivity. Luckily there are several steps you can take to help in managing challenging behaviour.

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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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Why Autonomy in a Relationship Is Important (And How To Cultivate It)

BetterUp

Jump to section What’s autonomy in a relationship? What does an autonomous relationship look like? What does a lack of autonomy look like? How does autonomy stimulate personal growth?

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Understanding Bereavement Leave Policy and Bereavement Pay

HR Digest

The death of a loved one is a difficult and emotional time. If you have lost a close family member or friend, you may be entitled to bereavement leave from your job. Bereavement leave is a period of paid or unpaid time off that you can take to grieve the loss of your loved one, arrange for a funeral or memorial service, and take care of any other necessary arrangements.

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What's missing from retirement planning? Oftentimes, it's access

WEX Inc.

Nearly half of all working-age baby boomers do not own a retirement account, despite that age group being near retirement. And baby boomers are actually the highest percentage of retirement-account holders among any group segmented in a 2021 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. This lack of retirement planning by large segments of employees is leading to more stress for them and less productivity at work.

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Importance of Business Attire at Workplace with Examples

HR Digest

With various dress codes, expectations, and styles, it’s essential to have a comprehensive understanding or a guide of what is considered appropriate and professional dress code in different settings. Understanding the difference between business formal, business professional, and business casual attire is crucial for those entering or already immersed in the corporate 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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Data Storytelling for HR Leaders

Betterworks

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of six articles on how to become a more strategic HR leader. If you want to transform HR, you need the ability to apply organizational data to drive business outcomes. Not only that, but you also need to tell the story of your data.

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The Supreme Guide to Sales Compensation in 2023 (With Plan Examples) 

Analytics in HR

Are you looking to create a sales compensation plan for your company? U.S. organizations spend more than $800 billion each year to manage their sales force, with $200 billion devoted solely to compensation. Almost 80% of U.S. firms revise their compensation structure every two years or less , to better motivate salespeople and to tailor their behavior to the constantly evolving sales environment.

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How Rise helps a manufacturer gain traction with employees

Rise

KINETIC is a full-service custom fabrication company, specializing in custom trailer builds. Learn how Rise helps them stay focused on design and production by offering a highly efficient all-in-one people management platform. Why KINETIC loves Rise: A truly all-in-one HR platform for their employees It meets the needs of both their support office and manufacturing team Rise Health has helped with employee retention and recruitment Developing custom products for a wide-range of industries is no

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Apprenticeships, mentorships, reskilling, and fighting the labor shortage

Bob

Around the globe, nearly every industry is experiencing a skilled-labor shortage. A recent report predicts that by 2035, Germany will suffer a labor shortage of 7 million skilled professionals. In the UK, an ONS survey found that 13.3 percent of businesses reported a labor shortage alongside 1.19 million vacancies across the country, “similar to the number of unemployed people.

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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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20 Tips To Help Leaders Decide Whether To Coach Or Mentor Team Members

Forbes Coaches Council

Understanding when to adopt a coaching approach versus a mentoring approach can make a significant difference in fostering growth and development among team members.

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COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Relief Grant Program Begins

HRWatchdog

Eligible California small businesses may now apply for a California state program that awards funds for costs incurred from COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave. Remember, in 2022, California required employers to provide employees with up to 40 hours of COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave if they had at least one of seven qualifying reasons. Employees were eligible to use this paid sick leave through December 31, 2022.

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18 Ways Leaders Can Foster Organizational Appreciation For Diversity

Forbes Coaches Council

As organizations continue to focus on increasing diversity within their workforce, the importance of fostering an inclusive environment cannot be overstated.

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The 5 Things We Must Do To Attract, Retain and Engage Great Talent

Prism HR

By Jon Weiss Senior Vice President AnyDay powered by QRails The past two years have been challenging for several reasons. The pandemic created—and, for many, exaggerated—the hardships they were already facing. We’re now living with record-high inflation resulting in 78% of employees living paycheck to paycheck. The pandemic also showed employees that full-time employment and flexibility can coexist.

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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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This Innovation Leader Is Leading His Fintech Firm Into the Future

The Muse

Jerome Andrews, DTCC’s Director of Technology, Research, and Innovation, is working to develop the fintech firm’s AI strategy.

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AI is introducing a new dimension to the workplace: the Automation Generation

HRExecutive

Current macroeconomic factors are causing disruption in workforces worldwide, forcing business leaders to operate with leaner teams and reduced budgets. This is leading to widespread burnout across departments, functions and demographics. To help manage this reality, business leaders are seeking solutions that will help them gain a competitive edge and empower employees to be more productive despite these challenges.

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Let Employees Learn by Breaking Things at Work

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes My apologies. I know the title might be a bit deceiving. I don’t mean let employees “literally” break things. Let me explain. I was recently facilitating a seminar on talent acquisition, and we got on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT. While several participants mentioned that they were being cautious and staying away from sites where AI is concerned – and I totally understand that – one person said that their company was encouraging them to

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Productivity Tips To Help You Work With Your ADHD, Not Against It

Forbes Coaches Council

If you're struggling with productivity as a working adult with ADHD, these tips can help you reframe your approach.

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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 employee empowerment and why is it so important?

Workstars

We’re about to embark on an intriguing exploration of a concept that’s been making waves in the business world: employee empowerment. You.

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How To Own Your Career In Times Of Change

Forbes Coaches Council

Read, digest, write and reflect (even better, deep dive with a coach) on these five investments to own your career, choices, habits and life.

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UAE State Sharjah 4 Day Working Week

Workforce Software

See how the implementation of the 4-day in the UAE State Sharjah has created unique compliance challenges.