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4 Ways To Use The Cloud For Field Workforce Management

Hppy

Today’s workplaces as we know them may soon be a thing of the past. Last year, 43 percent of employees spent at least some time working remotely , according to a recent Gallup survey. In fact, this statistic reflects a 4 percent increase since 2012, highlighting a growing work-from-home trend in the years to come. Also read: HR’s Future is Big Data.

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High Performance Involves Taking Care of Yourself

HR Bartender

It goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway. If you’re stressed out, you can’t do your best work. Arianna Huffington talks about the importance of taking care of yourself in her six-part LinkedIn Learning course “Thrive”. My big takeaway was a confession that Huffington made at the beginning of the course. She talks about her own health struggles and says it shouldn’t take a crisis for us to focus on ourselves and what matters to us.

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What Do Broken Windows and Your Learning Experience Have in Common?

Cornerstone On Demand

If you are in the learning space and follow the trends as of late, you’ve seen that the market is shifting from a focus on learning management systems to learning experiences. This assertion is not a dismissal of learning management systems, but more so a focus on the experience that a learner may encounter. The fact remains that regardless of focus, we all have experienced learning to some degree.

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4 Type Of Communicators: Secrets To Better Team Collaboration

15Five

What’s the true culprit of all misunderstanding? Lack of good communication, how you communicate and how you receive feedback. Well meaning people who believe they have communicated their best intentions, often have the listener receive the feedback harshly. Here are some examples of where miscommunication might happen: 1) Coaching. 2) One-On-One Meetings. 3) Giving a Colleague Constructive Feedback. 4) Brainstorming Sessions. 5) Delegating Tasks. 6) Setting Work Expectations.

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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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If Neuroscientists Ruled the Workplace

WorkHuman

I’ve just returned from a super nerdy and fascinating conference – the NeuroLeadership Institute Summit in New York City (coined “the most brain-friendly conference in the world”). Now in its 10th year, the summit brings together speakers from academia and the business world to discuss how we can lead more effectively using neuroscience. When Dr. David Rock co-founded the NeuroLeadership Institute , this idea was very new to business leaders.

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Can You Be Free Having a Job?

Don Phin

Jim Altucher is one of my favorite writers. In a recent blogpost, he did his usual spiel about ditching your job so you can free yourself. Challenge is most executives I know have a job and aren’t ready to leave it. Can you be free having a job? is the question he challenges us with. I wouldn’t. Read More. The post Can You Be Free Having a Job? appeared first on HRSherpas.

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NeuroLeadership Summit: Better Feedback Can Drive 34% Lower Attrition

Reflektive

While several members of our team are hustling out in Las Vegas for this year’s HR Technology Conference, our CEO Rajeev Behera got to spend some time in New York City for the annual NeuroLeadership Summit. This year’s panel titled “ Next in Performance Management: Feedback Management ” featured distinguished panelists from trailblazing companies and institutions such as Microsoft, HP, NYU, and of course, Reflektive.

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What is Paul Thinking - Untitled Article

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. The End. Fin. The last man standing. This post is the final post in the 5-part series.

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How Transparent Employee Feedback Increases Motivation

Kazoo

One duty of a manager is to create high-performing teams of engaged, happy employees. To do this, great managers use continuous, transparent feedback as a way to drive better performance and also encourage and develop their employees. When talking about feedback, we tend to focus on how it’s delivered. There’s the good – continuous, constructive, employee-driven – as well as the bad – one-sided, inconsistent, negative.

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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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Strategies from Freedom Debt Relief for Successful Employee Onboarding

Hppy

Freedom Debt Relief and its parent company Freedom Financial Network have been recognized as one of the best places to work multiple times in both Phoenix and the San Francisco Bay Area. The Company understands the value of fostering a good environment for its employees right from the start. And they are not alone. In fact, numerous companies across the globe in the financial services sector are recognizing the value of employee hiring and retention.

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How Transparent Employee Feedback Increases Motivation

Kazoo

One duty of a manager is to create high-performing teams of engaged, happy employees. To do this, great managers use continuous, transparent feedback as a way to drive better performance and also encourage and develop their employees. When talking about feedback, we tend to focus on how it’s delivered. There’s the good – continuous, constructive, employee-driven – as well as the bad – one-sided, inconsistent, negative.

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Here’s the Problem With Your Company’s Goals Program

Reflektive

Want a surefire way to ruin an employee’s work day? Have their manager talk to them about goals. It’s not that employees are lazy or unproductive—because even high-performers roll their eyes and sigh in angst at the goal-setting process. It’s just that traditional goal-setting methods are ineffective at motivating workers. SEE ALSO: What CHROs Need to Know About Changing Human Capital Management.

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The More Your Company Wins, the More Great Talent Will Allow You To Coach.

The HR Capitalist

I saw this one last weekend. I think you'll enjoy it. Here's your set up. Alabama's football team is coached by Nick Saban - did a post early this week after what a control freak he is. The thing is, if your system gets great results, you have the ability to be a complete control freak. If you're not a world class leader, you can't be a micromanaging control freak, because people you manage won't take it - they'll revolt.

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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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Six Tips for Attracting the Best Candidates as a Small to Medium Size Business

TalentCulture

With the unemployment rate hovering around 4.3 percent, there’s no mistaking we are in a job-seeker’s market. The most qualified job applicants have their pick of companies—a fact that makes it challenging for employers to nab the best talent. If you’re a small to medium size business (SMB), you may find yourself scrambling to compete against bigger and better-known employers.

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How to Prepare Your Mentoring Program to Scale

Everwise

Mentoring is a powerful way to boost engagement and satisfaction among employees, but only when it’s done right. Over 83% of employees say they’d benefit from a mentoring program, yet just 30% of them have participated in one. These programs can be highly effective and have a multiplicative effect across an organization, yet often they flounder after an initial period.

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what’s the worst “you need to show gumption to get a job?” advice you’ve heard?

Ask a Manager

There’s a whole field of career advice that’s based on the idea that you need to show “gumption” to get a job: “Walk into their office with your resume and ask to speak to the person in charge!” “Call every day until they agree to give you an interview!” “Send your resume on special paper through overnight mail, and the hiring manager will be blown away by your initiative!

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How to Prepare Your Mentoring Program to Scale

Everwise

Mentoring is a powerful way to boost engagement and satisfaction among employees, but only when it’s done right. Over 83% of employees say they’d benefit from a mentoring program, yet just 30% of them have participated in one. These programs can be highly effective and have a multiplicative effect across an organization, yet often they flounder after an initial period.

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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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Is Your Feedback Making People Tired?

TLNT: The Business of HR

People can’t fix what they can’t see. From time to time, it’s our job as managers to see for them. By providing eye-opening feedback, we eliminate some of the tunnel vision that keeps others from recognizing their personal or professional flaws. And while sharing negative feedback can be good news , we need to be particular about how much of it we share at once.

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Volunteering Is A Powerful Way For Ex-offenders To Re-Enter The Workforce

Goodhire

Barriers and hiring filters impede smooth re-entry into the workforce for ex-offenders. Many ex-offenders, who are already fighting personal obstacles unfortunately find it difficult to get a footing in today's job search. Companies like GoodHire remove some of those barriers through their work in fair chance hiring background check services that support ban-the-box compliance at the local level and provide candidates a chance to add context to criminal records directly in their background check

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Leadership Do’s and Don’ts

Achievers

Good leadership is the cornerstone of any successful business. You want to ensure that you’re offering useful and helpful leadership to your team, but you’re not sure where to start. In HR, this gets even more tricky as you’re expected to set an example for the entire organization. If you’re looking for some help, here are some do’s and don’ts of leadership that every effective leader should know.

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BetterWorks Continuous Performance Management Named a 2017 Top Product by HRE

Betterworks

Each fall, the editors of Human Resource Executive ® choose the HR and training products they believe represent the very best of what vendors introduced to the market during the past 12 months. . We’re thrilled to announce that BetterWorks has been named one of Human Resource Executive ®’s best products of 2017! If this news rings a bell, it’s because we were also named a best product in 2015.

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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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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. *This week’s Fundings: $220M+. Bill.com secures $100 million to digitize business payments.

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How to Avoid a Toxic Workplace: 9 Tips for Bosses and Team Members

HR Daily Advisor

I’ve had the opportunity to work in hundreds of dental offices over the course of my career. I have been full time, part time, temporary and everything in between. Working in a wide range of office cultures has provided me perspective in my role as a hiring consultant. I have seen the best of the best and the most toxic of work environments. In my experience there are 5 things both team members and bosses can do to avoid and or handle a toxic workplace.

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Employee sabbaticals: Are they right for your company?

Insperity

Even if you’re a small- to medium-sized company, it may be time to consider adding sabbaticals to your mix of employee perks. Not familiar with the sabbatical concept? That’s understandable. Although they’ve been fairly commonplace in the academic and medical fields for decades, sabbaticals are relatively new to the business world. Professors and doctors are known to take extended time off to get additional training and author books or peer-reviewed articles.

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The Looming Showdown: Privacy, Wellness and Productivity

TLNT: The Business of HR

Shortly after purchasing my first Fitbit, I noticed a change in my airport travel routine. Instead of looking for moving sidewalks or a comfy seat, I walked all over the airport during layovers for no reason other than to amass steps tracked by my new wearable. On one occasion, I arrived at an airport only to realize my Fitbit was not charged. I promptly took a seat – I wasn’t going to walk if I didn’t get credit for it!

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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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Tips on Managing A Busy Work Schedule

Take It Personel-ly

When I think about my average work day my hard starts to spin. It seems that my workload is constantly increasing and that I am trying to cram as much as I possibly can into a typical work day. I manage several projects at once so I constantly have competing priorities and I am always juggling […].

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Are we burning ourselves out in the pursuit of happiness?

HR Zone

Culture. Is the pursuit of happiness causing you stress?

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How Can You Tell if Your Rewards Initiatives Are Effective?

Compensation Today

This is an excerpt from our new ebook collaboration with BambooHR, “ Your Total Rewards Questions: Answered.” The ebook is based on a panel discussion in which industry thought leaders offered their insights and tips on the biggest, most frequent concerns around total rewards. Get the full publication here. Beyond having a high company performance level, here are some ways to tell if what you’re doing for rewards is working: No One’s Talking About Them ….

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