Mon.Feb 08, 2021

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How To Get The Best Out Of A Demotivated Team

Hppy

The coronavirus pandemic has brought with it a lot of problems and trends for businesses to ponder. Not only has there been the transition towards remote working, but also the overwhelming atmosphere of uncertainty surrounding the furlough scheme, staff turnover and client losses. This, in turn, has left many business owners and managers scratching their heads as to how to keep their staff working most productively while trying to keep their business afloat at the same time. .

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Managing Your Time in Transition

GetFive

For full-time employees, work occupies about half the day. Here’s how a typical day looks for somebody who works full-time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Working: 50%. Commuting: 6%. Socializing: 5%. Household activities: 9%. Personal care: 6%. Watching TV: 13%. Meals: 6%. Other: 5%. When you enter a transition — lose your job, say — the time spent working can quickly be replaced by a lot of things unrelated to your job search.

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5 Tips for Giving Effective 360 Degree Feedback

DecisionWise

Even the best-designed 360 degree feedback process is ineffective if the feedback provided isn’t helpful to the recipient. Some of us may struggle at providing effective 360 degree feedback. Perhaps we’re too critical, or perhaps we intentionally avoid providing feedback that we know the recipient needs to hear, but may not like. . Regardless of the reason for not providing this valuable feedback, raters everywhere need to step up their game.

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What's Your Advice to a Young Leader?

NoExcusesHR

I've had many opportunities over the years to work with a growing number of young leaders (both in years and experience.) I think that means I'm quite a bit older than I care to admit. Our conversations invariably come around to "my story" or "how did I get where I am" in my career. The answer is always a mix of education, hard work, big risks, effective mentors (both good and bad, but effective in their own way), and a little luck thrown in.

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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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Podcast: How 360 Degree Feedback Improves Workplace Culture

DecisionWise

In this podcast episode, Dave Long and Christian Nielson discuss critical moments in the employee experience and how they are shaped by expectations. Learn about the best practices for setting expectations in your organization, effective leadership competency models, and how the 360-Degree feedback assessment contributes to an improved workplace culture.

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Can we have ‘work without jobs’?

HRExecutive

Agility has never been more important to the world of work. But, organizations cannot be truly agile until they revisit their underlying operating system—one that likely is based on antiquated notions of what work truly is. Click HERE to register for Spring HR Tech. That’s the hypothesis of Ravin Jesuthasan, global leader of Mercer’s Workforce Transformation Practice, and Dr.

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How will performance management evolve in 2021?

HR Zone

People The evolution of performance management.

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8 Signs You Aced That Job Interview (and 4 Signs You Didn’t)

The Muse

Wondering how to tell if your job interview went well? Here are eight positive signs, four red flags, and what steps to take next.

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How to Achieve Remote Work Success in Healthcare

Precheck

How to Achieve Remote Work Success in Healthcare Feb. 9, 2021. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Remote work options for healthcare employees expanded significantly in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although on-site work has resumed as usual in many organizations, there’s no doubt that telecommuting has achieved new popularity among both healthcare employers and employees.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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30 Useful Performance Review Phrases

HR Digest

Performance reviews are an essential tool in giving employee feedback and determining areas of improvement and excellence. . No manager actually enjoys doing performance reviews. They are “tense, stressful, and anxiety-inducing,” says Mark Mortensen, associate professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD. When it comes to evaluating job performance, there’s no template and there is no one size fits all formula.

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How to Foster Corporate Altruism: Focus on Leaders First

TalentCulture

How do leaders create a culture that features contagious corporate altruism? Historically, shareholder capital return has been the holy grail of business success. Significant returns signal investors that the company […]. The post How to Foster Corporate Altruism: Focus on Leaders First appeared first on TalentCulture.

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4 Important Ways to Bring Employer Brand + Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Together #DEI

exaqueo

Employer brand and DEI should co-exist at every turn, not exist in separate silos. Now, more than ever, employer brand professionals need to see these functions as two threads in the same fabric.

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The Urgent Need to Reskill for Employees in Asia

Cisive

Digitalization and the constantly evolving need for employees to reskill has been affecting the workplace long before the current health crisis. In 2017, previous research by The McKinsey Global Institute reported that as many as 375 million employees globally may need to change occupations or acquire new skills by 2030 to meet companies’ needs and adapt to the rising implementation of advanced technologies such as automation and artificial intelligence (AI).

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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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HR treats my autistic employee like he’s an incompetent child

Ask a Manager

This post, HR treats my autistic employee like he’s an incompetent child , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’m a newly-promoted manager and my very first hire, David, who just started a few weeks ago, recently told me he is on the autistic spectrum. (I had figured that previously during the hiring process, but it’s not like I could just diagnose him.

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Tips for Marketing Your Freelance Business

Corn on the Job

The gig economy is on the rise, and more people are looking for short-term freelance opportunities than ever before. Becoming a successful freelancer means growing your number of contacts and making sure that you can find those that need what you offer. Whether you’re a content writer, a photographer, or a video editor, the key to growing your monthly invoices is marketing.

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my boss is being catfished, can I ask to be laid off instead of a coworker, and more

Ask a Manager

This post, my boss is being catfished, can I ask to be laid off instead of a coworker, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss is being catfished. My supervisor and I don’t have a particularly collegial relationship. She often takes my asking questions or sharing opinions as a direct challenge to her authority, and I’m not getting the guidance, support, or recognition from her that I need.

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Switzerland-based Nexthink Raises USD $180M for Its Digital Employee Experience App

WorkTech

Switzerland-based Nexthink announced a USD $180 Million D round of venture capital, bringing its total raised to $345 million. They also announced a valuation of $1.1 billion, giving them “unicorn” […]. The post Switzerland-based Nexthink Raises USD $180M for Its Digital Employee Experience App appeared first on WorkTech by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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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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Encourage higher education enrollment to attain education goals

Edcor

Across the US higher education enrollment is down, compared to previous years. This trend is not new. Higher education enrollment has decreased in recent years, but like many things it has accelerated due to the pandemic. And the effects of decreased enrollment may be harder felt than previously. However, this doesn’t have to be a doomsday scenario.

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4 “Do’s”? of Ulta’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Approach

EverFi - HR

One of the most poignant quotes by Ulta Beauty’s CEO, Mary Dillon about the company’s recent announcement of their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts is: “Diversity and inclusion efforts have become more of a business imperative rather than a goodwill gesture as shoppers pay more attention to corporate values like sustainability and diversity and vote with their dollars.” That’s something that Dillon said she has seen up close as chair of the Retail Industry Leaders

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benefitexpress Hires Eric Platz

WEX Inc.

benefitexpress hires Eric Platz. Schaumburg, Ill. — benefitexpress™, the benefits administration solutions market leader delivering first-class customer service, industry-leading technology and deep domain knowledge, announced today that Eric Platz has joined its sales team as regional sales executive for the southeast territory.

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Do You Have to Follow the IRS Next-Day Deposit Rule?

Patriot Software

As an employer, it’s your responsibility to collect, file, and deposit payroll taxes with the proper agencies (e.g., IRS). Depending on your payroll and tax liability amount, you may need to deposit taxes more frequently. If you tend to have a heftier payroll, you need to learn about the Next-Day Deposit Rule. Before you can […] READ MORE.

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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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How a Dedicated Implementation Specialist Helps

ScaleHRO

It's an amazing feeling, finding a new growth-partner to help you take your company to the next level. Then as you start working with the partner, you realize the person you were initially talking to was actually not the same person you work with from the day-to-day, and it is actually impossible to get a real HUMAN on the phone to solve an issue.

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The Top 5 Employee Skills to Focus on in 2021

Gyrus

Right from multinational enterprises to medium and small scale businesses, an LMS has become an innovative business tool that saves them not just money, but time as well.

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Four Habits From Brain Science: How Successful Executives Can Thrive In 2021 And Beyond

Forbes Coaches Council

Futurists like Ray Kurzweil say that we will likely experience 20,000 years of change in the 21st century. Going forward, thriving and navigating extreme change and uncertainty will be a critical, if not the most essential, leadership skill.

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Upskilling: An Overlooked Wellness Strategy To Boost Productivity

Wellable

There are many reasons why an employee might feel mentally exhausted or that they are not performing as well as they can. Holistic, comprehensive wellness programs do a great job at targeting many of the potential causes—inactivity, stress and anxiety, poor physical health, caregiving responsibilities, and more—by providing resources to support physical, mental, emotional, social, and financial well-being.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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Leadership Expectations In Year Two Of A Pandemic

Forbes Coaches Council

How leaders will face the higher expectations and next set of challenges coming up matters now more than ever for businesses, nations and the world in order to turn the corner and create a better future.

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5 Employee Engagement Activities to Revive Your Workforce

Engagedly

Employee engagement has different meanings to different people. Some say engaged employees means enthusiastic employees, while others believe it means happy or satisfied employees. But Employee engagement doesn’t mean employee happiness; neither does it mean employee satisfaction. A happy employee will not necessarily be the most productive or hardworking employee.

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How To Achieve Peak Productivity In Your Home Office

Forbes Coaches Council

Creating a thoughtful workspace that fits your needs while maximizing your ability to be productive will make working from home feel less like a burden and more like a luxury.