Sat.Jul 18, 2020

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Background Screeners Turn to COVID-19 Testing

SHRM Resources

Background-screening companies have begun offering COVID-19 testing and administration services as a natural extension of their existing business offerings. These providers, which conduct pre-employment background checks on job candidates, are leveraging relationships with nationwide laboratories, along with established technology platforms and compliance expertise, to help organizations test employees who are returning to the workplace.

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Mental Health Most Common Reason For Lying About Taking Sick Days

HR Digest

In a survey of 1,000 office-based employees in the U.S., the U.K., Singapore, and the UAE, 35.8% admitted to lying about taking a sick day, with the most common reason being because of stress (32.1%). Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and isolation efforts in March, people across the world have been reporting increasing pressure on mental health.

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5 Ways to Make Yourself Look Unrecognizable

Take It Personel-ly

There are times you want to spice things up in your life, and changing your appearance is one thing you could do. Sometimes, you want to make a big change; you want to be unrecognizable, and to do that, consider the following. 1. The Big Wig One of the easiest things you can do is […].

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Keep Calm and Knit

Thrive Global

Work in Progress. Perfectly spherical. Precisely wound. This describes the yarn balls that my husband and I create as a human swift. He is the winder, relaxed and sure. I am the yarn holder, trying to keep up. Occasionally I think about buying a yarn winder, but I would miss our rhythmic joint effort. The shelter-in-place order stopped our busy lives in their tracks.

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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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Do You Need Outside Help With Your Product Launch?

New to HR

You have a business idea that you’re ready to run with. Talking specifically, you have a great product idea that you know your target market. The post Do You Need Outside Help With Your Product Launch? appeared first on New To HR.

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Employee Reward System: 7 Key Things to Look Out For

Vantage Circle

It won’t be wrong to say that we are currently living in one of the progressive eras of human history. The massive adoption of technology has now molded our socio-economic system and made it more competitive. And to keep up in this competitive environment, organizations are leaving no stones unturned for enhancing their employees’ performance. This is where an employee reward system becomes very useful and gives the organizations a competitive advantage.

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50 Essential Sales Terms You Need to Know (Sales Glossary)

Lusha

As an outbound sales representative, confidence is key to everything that you do. Being able to navigate your industry and engage with clients in an authoritative way requires comprehensive knowledge of the sales terminology that describes the field you operate in, the tools that you use, and the industry trends that your leads will be thinking about.

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Purchase Term Papers

WorkDove

Today, it is not unusual to locate individuals that are considering buying term papers. All these are, of course, the necessary documents required by the majority. The post Purchase Term Papers appeared first on Performance Culture.

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Human Leadership is the New Normal: Zoom, Okta, Slack, Box & Walmart

Thrive Global

I’m thrilled to see such stunning examples of human leadership popping up on Linkedin. We have now officially entered the next stage — the social economy where you can no longer separate social issues from business. This whole pandemic is about the human ego clashing with nature, and how it wants to bend the ego to be rounder. This is why we all feel we’ve grown so much during this crisis.

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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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Re-Thinking Training and Development in a Post-Covid World: A Case Study

Forbes Leadership Strategy

2020’s change of course is forcing us to rethink how we can develop and train our people when we cannot get together in person. Managers must coach more, and HR and training departments have to get more creative. Putting people-development on pause until we “get back to normal” is not an option.

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For all its ills, COVID-19 has forced us to focus more on mental health issue

Thrive Global

It finally took a pandemic as deadly as COVID-19 to make us focus more on mental well-being, which, notwithstanding the huge misery that the contagion has already caused worldwide, is still a most welcome development. For far too long, and due to reasons not always clear, we had been turning a blind eye to the issues of mental health and mental well-being.

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How Would You Like An Electric Car For Free?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The increase in state subsidies to buy electric vehicles in some European countries has reached the point in that in Germany you can go to a dealer, sign a two-year lease contract and drive away in an electric Renault Zoe. for free.

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Forest Breathing with Marcus

Thrive Global

The benefits of deep intentional breathing is remarkable! Unknown to many, but a very powerful activity that can make you feel better, improve your health, and boost brain performance. So many deep breathing techniques have come to us from ancient traditions. The most noteworthy are the techniques of Yoga, which have come to us from India. There are breathing techniques with certain rhythms, motion and depth, which achieve specific goals.

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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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Good Trouble? Replace Confederate Symbols With Statues Of Civil Rights Leaders

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Too many Americans know too little about the Civil Rights Movement and its leaders. Which is why, as Confederate statues fall, now is the time to replace them with monuments of civil rights leaders who changed the nation for the better.

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Take Breaks to Boost Wellbeing and Performance

Thrive Global

We work 12+ hour days but studies show we are only productive 3 hours a day. If you are in the U.K., it’s more like 2 hours and 23 minutes. Isn’t working so many hours a thing of the past? Isn’t technology supposed to make our lives easier? We spend so many hours working mainly because we deal with distractions. “People spend about an hour reading the news, 44 minutes scrolling their feed on social media, 40 minutes chatting with coworkers, 26 minutes looking for a new job, 23 minutes taking smo

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Four Reasons Why The Worst Recession Ever May Not Be As Bad As It Seems

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The corona pandemic is projected to cause the worst peace-time recession in recorded history. There are at least four reasons why this is not as bad as it may seem.

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How to Fight Racial Inequality in the Workplace With Emotional Intelligence

Thrive Global

Photo by Christina on Unsplash. Race. What a complicated subject. Growing up, I was influenced by a variety of cultures. My father immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines. My mom was “white”, from near Boston (with Portuguese and Irish ancestry). Then, there were my friends: I grew up in a racially diverse city in Virginia, where I went to a predominantly black high school.

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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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Accused Of Interference In The West, Russia Arrests More Spies At Home

Forbes Leadership Strategy

The accusations of spying leveled at Russia over coronavirus vaccine research are a reminder of the tangled tensions that make up international politics and trade today.

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Gaining Clarity Through Puzzle

Thrive Global

In these uncertain times, I find myself gravitating to playing jigsaw puzzles. If others find comfort to connect with peers for support, I gravitate to solitude. I enjoy playing puzzles. I like jigsaw puzzles as I find it relaxing. More importantly, the process of solving puzzles helps me to gain clarity about life in general. Here are my observations: You need to pay attention to the details but also the big picture.

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Covid-19: A Mother Of Innovation

Forbes Leadership Strategy

A French firm innovates for American retailers and their customers.

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The Color Of Nuba Tales! #AUCNext100

Thrive Global

One of the most auspicious creations, regarding international festivals and cultural celebrations, is the performance of culture. You literally observe the Universe dancing itself, through the human experience. It is through this gaze, where humanity receives a taste, a glimpse of Universal artistry, and wonder. There is a euphoric element, when it comes to the colors of human delight and spiritual awakening.

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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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Keep Stress From Getting The Best Of You With This Personality Test

Forbes Leadership Strategy

With the pandemic raging and disrupted work becoming the new normal, people are feeling resigned, mad and stressed out. This tool might help.

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How Do You Regain The Spark In A Relationship? 6 Mindful Secrets

Thrive Global

Not anymore in your seventeenth, life becomes much a routine. With your partner, your children, your family life is good enough. But you seem to miss something. There is an invisible force that seems to push you towards searching for a renewal, a more passionate and loving relationship. How do you regain the spark in a relationship? Sometimes you feel guilty.

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How Much Should Your Boss Know About Your Personal Life?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Forcing employees to be under constant scrutiny is no fun. Managers must find a balance between checking in on their employees and respecting their privacy.

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Suzanne Ruggles: “Leadership is not a ‘strong arm’ approach”

Thrive Global

…To me, leadership is not a ‘strong arm’ approach, rather it is an attentive, finely tuned process. Leadership is the ability to not only bring a cohesive team together, it is also about finding the right ‘lane’ for each member of the team. This is important as it gives that person the opportunity to flourish individually and then this positively impacts overall.

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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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Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe: “There comes a time when quitting is not an option”

Thrive Global

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 95 million children go to school without the benefit of the simplest of infrastructure, a school desk. Worldwide, that child figure swells to 500 million. The issue is that if you don’t have a solid surface to lean on when you are writing, particularly when you are learning to write, you never fully develop those writing skills!

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What Will 100-Hour Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training Nepal Offer

Thrive Global

Yoga is a vast field. No person is yet to know every aspect of this multi-faceted discipline. But, as a yoga enthusiast, a person would definitely want to learn more and more every day. They would want to know about the various philosophies, principles, styles, methods and parts of yoga. Or someone might want to delve deeper and know in detail all about their favorite style of yoga.

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Managing Your Relationship with Ego – Part Six of a Seven Part Series

Thrive Global

If you have ever come across the notion that life, or the ego, is just an illusion , you may have been puzzled by this idea. It may sound like esoteric nonsense unless you have seen the logic behind it. Illusion versus reality can easily be understood with reference to a pet or plant that you may have in your room. The pet or plant, relatively speaking, is living in reality, while you, the advanced human, is living in the illusion of the mind for, quite possibly, long periods of time.

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