Wed.Mar 13, 2019

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How to give and receive constructive feedback

Jostle

We hear a lot about the importance of giving and receiving constructive feedback in the workplace—for good reason. For leaders who want to improve the productivity of their team, it’s one of the most important aspects of their job. For employees looking to learn and grow in their role, it’s essential to help them see where they’re at.

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Using Epiphany Moments to Improve Employee Engagement

Bonusly

Employees are your most valuable resource, whether you’re building a new startup, growing a mid-sized company, or staffing an established retail giant. But with historically low unemployment rates , retaining the employees you’ve recruited can be a real challenge. Understanding critical moments in your employees’ lives and careers can help you reconnect with them and strengthen employee engagement.

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Why Employees Abandon Their Jobs and How to Prevent It

ScaleHRO

In December, The Washington Post. reported on an odd, eyebrow-raising phenomenon in the working world: employees are “ghosting” their employers. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, ghosting is an unfortunately common practice in the dating scene. It occurs when someone breaks off a relationship without warning or notice and then ceases all communication.

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Using Mindfulness To Infinitely Increase Your Capacity At Work

15Five

What can you do to take control of your nervous system when your schedule feels jam packed, you work in an open office, and there are dings and whistles from your phones and emails all day? Perhaps you’ve heard of the term, mindfulness , but don’t know exactly how to be more mindful. Aren’t you using your mind all the time? The answer? Meditate my friend.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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#SXSW – Avoid Diversity Myths to Avoid Diversity Failures

Reflektive

Though great strides have been made on diversity and inclusion in the workplace in recent years, there are still several misconceptions and myths that are preventing businesses from creating truly inclusive environments for their employees. Many of these myths come from a lack of understanding about the overall goal of D&I efforts, so in an effort to clarify these misconceptions, Jason R.

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Watch Webinar on Demand: Spotting & Alleviating Employee Burnout

Limeade

Employee burnout is on the rise, and it’s taking away your top talent. The latest research from the Limeade Institute has found that burnout happens when someone is engaged but has low well-being. This burnout can lead to exhaustion, cynicism and ultimately employee turnover.?. The good news is, there are steps that employees, managers and organizations can take to prevent burnout, as well as steps they can take to help employees recover from burnout.

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Why Didn’t Employment Screen Reveal Aurora Shooter’s Assault Conviction?

SHRM Resources

Many questions surfaced after an employee shot and killed five people in his Aurora, Ill., workplace as he was being fired. One concerns a common hiring practice: Why didn’t the shooter’s past felony conviction come to light during his pre-employment background screen?

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Ep 173 – Should Ugly Be a Protected Class

Workology

An Italian study released last year showed that attractive women who sent photos with their résumés got called back 54% of the time, as opposed to the average callback rate of 30%. Another academic. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. An Italian study released last year showed that attractive women who sent photos with their résumés got called back 54% of the time, as opposed to the average callback rate of 30%.

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Solving Modern Performance Management Challenges

SocialChorus

Training Industry | March 13, 2019. The post Solving Modern Performance Management Challenges appeared first on SocialChorus.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Sticking To Your New Year Career Resolutions Beyond January

Engagedly

It’s already the third month of the new year. If you are happily working on those resolutions you set for yourself in January and noticing a positive impact in your life, then good job! Keep going. But if […].

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my boorish coworker dominates all our Slack channels

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small-ish fully remote tech company. We spend all day in Slack, in various channels that are both work-centric and social-centric. There is a man, “Derek,” who annoys the hell out of me in social channels. Derek does everything from innocuous poor chat room social etiquette (e.g., someone asked in a cooking channel with ~70 people in it if anyone knew any good pork recipes, Derek replied that he is a vegan) down to posting borderline inappropriate messag

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Veterinary Assistant job description

Workable

Use this Veterinary Assistant job description template to find qualified candidates for your animal clinic, hospital or private office. Modify the sample based on your needs. Relevant job titles include Veterinarian and Veterinary Technician. Veterinary Assistant duties include: Feeding and caring for animals. Assisting Veterinarians during examinations.

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This is Why Your Users Aren’t Adopting Your New Tech

Root

We’ve all experienced it before. A new piece of technology is introduced that’s designed to make the workforce faster, smarter, and more efficient. After months of planning and painful integration, user adoption is…underwhelming. What went wrong? The technology was cutting edge and the business need was clear from a leadership perspective, so why aren’t people using it?

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Mentor Texts for Kindness

EverFi - HR

The world appears to be moving at a mile a minute these days and with access at our fingertips it’s more important than ever to continue embedding acts of kindness, empathy, and compassion into our daily lives. One way to do so is by including mentor texts into your curriculum along with blended learning programs — here are a few of our educator network favorites for all grade levels!

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It's Time To Recognize Social Media As The Marketing Marvel It Is

Forbes Coaches Council

Many brands treat social media like a hobby, but the reality is, social media should be the pulse of your company.

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Integration between CIPHR and feedback tool Thymometrics helps The Cambridge listen to its staff

cipHR

159-year-old independent mutual society opts for modern technology partnership to increase employee engagement. The Cambridge Building Society – a CIPHR customer since 2013 – has recently integrated always-on feedback tool Thymometrics with CIPHR to help the organisation better listen to and engage with its employees. “We have always had an annual employee engagement survey; the problem is that it’s at ‘one point in time’, and any proactive action is six months too late,” explains Victoria Fille

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What if a High Performing Executive is Also a Bully?

Evil HR Lady

One of my employees, Katie, recently approached me with complaints about her manager, Holly. Katie told me Holly is abrasive, curses at employees in public and has gone through five administrative staff members in the past seven months because she’s intimidating and disrespectful to her team. Holly is also a high revenue manager, so my boss is asking me to look the other way and ask Katie to resign if she is unhappy.

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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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Partners’ Perspectives on #Perspectives19

SumTotal

Perspectives , Skillsoft’s annual user conference, is fast approaching. It’s one of my favorite events of the year because not only do I get to hang out somewhere new, I get to do that with colleagues and friends I rarely see throughout the rest of the year. After spending a few years out West, we are moving to Orlando and the Hilton Bonnet Creek hotel.

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Career Confessions from Gen Z: Texas Tops List for Women Entrepreneurship!!

The Tim Sackett Project

Did you know that, currently, there are more CEOs named “John” than all women CEOs combined? But fear not! There is hope on the horizon. Texas has recently been named the best state for women entrepreneurs based on several scoring categories. All your exes live in Texas, and they might be entrepreneurs! When I first saw the rankings, I expected to see New York and California at the top of the list, yet neither of those states was even in the top three!

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7 Tips for Optimizing Employee Satisfaction Surveys

Bonfyre

Employee satisfaction surveys can help you understand how your workforce feels and what they need to perform at their best. With our tips, you can make sure your surveys are optimized for effectiveness. If you want to provide the best possible employee experience, you have to step away from looking at your workforce as a monolithic group. Focus, instead, on employees’ individual needs and wants.

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7 Shakespeare Quotes to Help Guide HR Professionals

SHRM

Shakespeare Week is a national annual celebration that is coming up shortly William Shakespeare was born in 1564. The week of 18 March is Shakespeare week in the UK, - coordinated by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – “Shakespeare Week provides the tools for schools, home educators, families and cultural organisations to offer children across the UK enriching and enjoyable early experiences with Shakespeare.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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7 Shakespeare Quotes to Help Guide HR Professionals

The SHRM Blog

Shakespeare Week is a national annual celebration that is coming up shortly William Shakespeare was born in 1564. The week of 18 March is Shakespeare week in the UK, - coordinated by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust – “Shakespeare Week provides the tools for schools, home educators, families and cultural organisations to offer children across the UK enriching and enjoyable early experiences with Shakespeare.

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15 Ways Serial Entrepreneurs Can Regain Focus And Productivity

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share advice for serial entrepreneurs who may be in danger of losing focus.

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Overcoming age in the job interview

HRNasty

Age doesn’t have to be a factor in the job interview Mature candidate Today’s post focuses on the mature candidate as part three of a 3 part series on age discrimination in the job interview. Lessons from this post can be used for all age demographics. I mentioned in Post 1 of this three-part series that I would jump at the opportunity to hire the two mature candidates below.

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The Business Case for Remote Work

Kevin Sheridan

According to Harvard Business Review , 40% of the existing worldwide workforce are virtual workers (people who work remotely). This is trending upward and will continue for several important reasons. First, a remote work policy facilitates a powerful way to attract top talent, especially Millennials and Gen Z, the two generations who value autonomy and scheduling flexibility the most.

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eBook: Global Workforce Management: Unpacking the Risks and Challenges

This eBook examines the complexities of global workforce management, including country specific labor and payroll regulations, and the risks and consequences of non-compliance.

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The Next Evolution of Degreed

Degreed

One of the coolest things about working at a startup is seeing how flexible and creative a company can be. Degreed has changed and grown extensively over the last seven years. We started out as a place for individuals to learn whatever they wanted. Then we expanded to also help companies train and up-skill their employees in a user-driven experience.

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How Companies Worldwide Hire Developers: a New Study from Devskiller

Digital HR Tech

The war for tech talent is in full swing. That said, what does that mean for recruiters? Do candidates take the time to complete coding tests? Who scores the highest on coding assessments? And finally, which countries do most international hiring? In this article, we look at global developer hiring trends we’ve learned from analyzing 112K+ coding tests.

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Who's Really 'The Boss' In Your Organization?

Forbes Coaches Council

The reality is that many of us are not being a great boss to ourselves or the company. We are letting ourselves off the hook and allowing ourselves to just get by. We need to get better.

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