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Good Bosses APPRECIATE their Employees!

Brigette Hyacinth

There’s a lot of truth behind the saying, “People don’t leave bad jobs. They leave bad bosses.” More often than not, it’s not because they are underpaid, rather it’s because they feel undervalued and unappreciated. Sadly many managers think that they’ve fulfilled their duty by providing a paycheck, but that’s not enough if you want engaged and productive employees.

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SHRM: Employers Say Remote Work Not Here to Stay

SHRM Resources

A majority of employers believe much work from home will end after the threat of the coronavirus pandemic passes, according to new research.

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10 Essential HR Blogs

Sergio Caredda

Last week I’ve started a series of posts where I will showcase some of the main sources of reading and inspiration. After looking at the resources on Organisation Design , here is my list of HR blogs. These are blogs that focus on the wide topic of HR and People Management in general (I will focus on more specialised blogs in the future). These blogs are those that have provided more food for thought over the past years.

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Fado’s

Everyday People

As of this year, I’ve been an HR volunteer leader for 20 years. It’s hard to believe that time has flown by so quickly !! I remember when I first got involved, I went to a Volunteer Leaders Summit in Crystal City, Virginia. I was an officer on my local SHRM chapter’s board. It was great to go to the conference to learn and be around other volunteer leaders.

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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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How To Make Giving Employee Feedback A Habit

6Q

Providing your employees with regular feedback is an essential part of improving their performance and productivity, yet it’s one of the most overlooked aspects of running a successful team. Employees need a good wage and a positive work/life balance to thrive in the current environment. However, when team leaders have everything from productivity to performance to keep track of, it’s easy to forget that your team also needs confirmation that they’re moving in the right direction.

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Checking On You

NoExcusesHR

Okay, I think we've had just about enough of this whole stay-at-home lifestyle, right? Anyone else ready to go to a restaurant, attend a playoff game, or get to a concert? Holy cow.I am READY! Except, for that whole deadly virus thing that seems to be hanging around. So, if you need to let off some steam, talk through anything, or simply brainstorm your latest idea of the century, let's set up some time to talk.

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we made our new coworker cry, how to open and close emails to colleagues, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My new coworker cried when we gave her feedback. I have a new coworker who started the day before our company went to full-time telecommuting, “Ann.” She’s in a different role, outreach, but our teams work together for certain territories throughout our county. I was pulled in to help with our outreach team, as I had been on that team previously, and it’s something I enjoy.

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How to Become a Better Listener: 8 Simple Tips

Thrive Global

Becoming a better listener is one of the biggest capabilities everyone should develop in business and life. . The simple act of being present and listening hard is a powerful experience for the person being listened to. . As a business coach, learning how to be a better listener is key to my success, and that of my clients. The simple act of asking questions and then sitting back and listening hard to their answers is a beautiful experience. .

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EPIC Meetings: New Best Practices for Virtual Teams

EngagementMultiplier

The COVID-19 crisis has caused many companies to shift gears completely to work from home, and Engagement Multiplier is no different. Since mid-March, we’ve been devoting all of our time, energy, and resources to helping business owners weather this storm. As we’ve done so, we realized that something we do every day here at Engagement Multiplier to keep ourselves connected, aligned and energized works so well now that we’re all working as a virtual team that we decided to share it: our best prac

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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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Are girls raised to be perfect and boys courageous?

Thrive Global

Recently I had a huge OMG moment. I saw a professional email with three spelling mistakes sent to a client! It happened to be written by a highly respected and experienced professional. I was in such shock that I even decided to discuss it with that individual. Maybe he didn’t notice it? Maybe he was tired or was going through something. None of my suspicions were confirmed as I asked him about it.

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Top reasons why mobile learning is essential for your organization

Zoho People

Many organizations are encouraging flexibility in their workplace, and mobile learning is part of that. Smartphones have completely changed the corporate training landscape by becoming one of the best professional development mediums there is. Research conducted by the Brandon Hall Group has revealed that providing mobile learning is one of the top three training priorities for businesses.

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FEAR IS BORN OF A STORY WE TELL OURSELVES

Thrive Global

A reader of my blog recently sent me a quote that totally resonated with me: “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.” – Cheryl Strayed.

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A Newbie’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization

New to HR

Search engine optimization or SEO seems like a term exclusive to tech-savvy entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley. But if you have been a keen observer of the evolution of customer marketing, businesses of all sizes are now taking SEO more seriously. The post A Newbie’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization appeared first on New To HR.

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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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What We Might Have Lost

Thrive Global

Among the glass towers and brownstones in my Manhattan neighborhood, there are older buildings still guarded by phantasmagoric creatures and formidable animals. A legacy from the castles of kings, these guardians cannot protect us, never could really, especially now from a tiny virus, a speck of RNA, so simple it consists of merely 29 proteins. But these architectural details, no matter how inconsequential in the time of a pandemic, still mark New York as special.

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New Analytics Features to Measure the Business Impact of Communications

SocialChorus

The role of workforce communications has become increasingly important in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. In fact, a recent Edelman report reveals that employee communications are the most credible source of information about the crisis. It’s clear that COVID-19 has brought greater focus to the need for timely, targeted and trusted information, yet the need for effective communications is nothing new.

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How CHROs Can Lead The C-Suite Now

HR C-Suite

CFOs are perceived as trusted advisors because they bring irrefutable data to the table and interpret how businesses will be affected by the numbers. The CHRO has that same ability, right now. People analytics is the answer but only if employee survey data is aligned with business metrics. Employee surveys, when analyzed against other HR […].

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Reflecting on Small Business Week 2020: A Thank You to Local Businesses

Homebase

It’s Small Business Week this week. . Right now, there is no shortage of hot takes on what’s happening to small businesses, and where we all go from here. But there is one thing that’s been in short supply for a while: a thank you. Before coronavirus, you made our communities vibrant, warm, and welcoming. You gave us fun Friday nights, morning rituals, family memories, and help where we needed it.

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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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Should You Strive for Productivity During Coronavirus Lockdown?

Thrive Global

You have probably seen different opinions on social media whether one should be productive during the coronavirus quarantine. Some people cite an example that Isaac Newton invented differential and integral calculus, explored optics as well as discovered a theory of universal gravitation in the year when he stayed away from college during the Great plague of 1665-1666.

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PODCAST: HR Happy Hour 418 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: American Factory

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 418 - Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: American Factory. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane. The HR Happy Hour show is sponsored by Paychex. Paychex makes it simple for businesses of all sizes to pay and manage their employees. They make payroll easy and automatic and they handle benefits programs. Paychex guides businesses through their human resources challenges by keeping them up to date with ever-changing laws and regulations.

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Stop the Sadness

Thrive Global

Jill Sylvester, LMHC. I work at an intense pace. As an author and therapist, I value putting information out in to the world that makes a difference, that helps others to stretch themselves and reach higher in order to live their best lives. This requires, on my part, a daily schedule of getting up early and taking my morning time to exercise and meditate before hitting my work schedule of writing self-help and YA self-help fiction books, seeing a steady stream of clients, writing a weekly podca

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In A Post-Pandemic World, Renewable Energy Is The Only Way Forward

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Changing the world’s energy map is cheap, especially if we factor in the natural disasters and the cost of treating the diseases it causes. If we simply put a price on the viability of the human species as a whole, it’s clear that pivoting to renewable energy is a no-brainer.

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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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The Harmful Effects of Workplace Negativity – How it’s Literally Killing You

Thrive Global

Leaders within a workplace are responsible for making sure their employees are goal-oriented and hardworking which is incredibly difficult when negative attitudes are pervasive on a team. Recent studies have shown that emotions can have a huge impact on the overall performance of a team! “We engage in emotional contagion,” says Sigal Barsade , a Wharton management professor who studies the influence of emotions on the workplace.

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Digitizing Recruitment in the Tech World: The SaaS path to successful hiring

Manatal

It always feels as though digitizing any aspect of the tech industry is a matter that does not require discussion given that tech and all that is digital go hand in hand. However, as the tech world is more complex and diverse than any other industry, a lot of the functionalities on the business end of it all remain as traditional as they were before.

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From Breakdown To Breakthrough

Thrive Global

My wake-up call came in March 2013. I’m sat in my car outside the Doctor’s surgery. I’ve just been signed off work for 2 weeks, due to “stress and low mood”. The score on the Generalised Anxiety Disorder form indicates I have it. And my blood pressure is too high. I can’t stop crying. I sit there for 2 hours trying to comprehend what’s happening to me.

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Body Language Hacks To Project Leadership Presence On Zoom

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Do you know which of your body language habits is reinforcing people’s positive perception of you as a leader — and which habits may be sending the wrong message?

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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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8 Life Lessons From Bestseller “Tuesdays with Morrie”

Thrive Global

Twenty years after graduating from college, Mitch Albom is a successful sports columnist. As luck would have it, he turns on his TV one night and sees that his former college professor Morrie Schwartz is on Nightline. He finds out that Morrie is dying. When Mitch learns that Morrie’s gradual decline will ultimately lead to his death, he starts visiting his former professor every Tuesday for conversations that quickly become about life and living.

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COVID-19 Can Bring Out The Best In Us: A Reason To Smile

Forbes Leadership Strategy

I have noticed that the media is starting to report positive stories related to the situation. These stories make you smile. They may even make you cry tears of joy. They move you emotionally—in a positive way.

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CLEARING THE SPACE FOR THE EMERGING WORLD

Thrive Global

The Crash. In the fall of 2008, my native country, Iceland, starred heavily in the global news when it underwent a brutal financial crisis referred to in Iceland as “The Crash.” Many individuals and businesses are still digging themselves out of the economic hardships this caused. The crash was a mini-version and forerunner of a much bigger phenomenon that continued, rolling over to the United States and other parts of the world.