Tue.Oct 29, 2019

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How to Handle Workplace Conflict: The Do’s and Don’ts

Bonusly

Workplace conflict - we’ve all seen it or been a part of it. In fact, 85% of employees at all levels experience conflict to some degree. But, there must be some sort of way to handle workplace conflict, isn’t there? It’s important to understand every angle of conflict for a more thorough resolution. Why? Happy employees will lead to better retention.

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Simple HR for Small and Medium Businesses

HR Partner

Is simple HR even possible? If you’ve worked at a big corporation, you might think not! But smaller companies just don’t have the luxury of employing a large HR team. Often, the responsibilities of HR are just one part of someone’s role, or there might be a very lean HR team consisting of just a couple of people. Keeping HR simple is critical to ensuring the highest priority HR functions actually get done.

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HR Horror Stories

Prism HR

Working in any business with coworkers can lead to some cringeworthy moments. We’ve gathered up three HR nightmares to make you laugh this Halloween, and some ideas on how you can avoid these awkward moments yourself. Enjoy! Employer pays $250,000 in paychecks to terminated employee. A New York subway cleaner was paid a quarter of a million dollars in bi-weekly paychecks after allegedly not being informed of his termination.

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Automated Employee Scheduling Takes the Guesswork Out of Grocery Staffing

TimeForge

Scheduling your team’s shifts is a lot like juggling. So many moving parts require your constant attention and, for each one you lay your hands on, two or more remain completely up in the air. Once you toss in holidays, PTO, overtime, sales forecasts, customer expectations, and legal compliance, even the most adept grocery store manager can soon find their skills pushed to the limit.

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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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5 Talent Acquisition Mistakes Data Helps You Avoid

Visier

Talent acquisition plays a key role in the success of organizations. However, finding and keeping the right people for your business isn’t easy. In fact, 65% of recruiters report that the biggest challenge in hiring is a shortage of talent. Often, this leads recruiters to scramble and make the best hire they can to fill positions in a short period of time.

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This Isn’t Feedback: We’re Not Here to “Fix” People

Achievers

In the first of my four blogs about the things you may think are feedback, but actually aren’t, I introduced the idea that we’ve been getting feedback all wrong. I proposed that it’s time to fire up the potential positive power feedback can have. We started with a new and improved definition of feedback: I then outlined four very specific things you may think are feedback, but actually aren’t: DON’T rely on simple platitudes.

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Key IR35 Considerations for Public and Private Sector Companies

Allegis Global Solutions

In 2000, the UK government put into effect the IR35 tax legislation – officially known as the Intermediaries Legislation – to stop contract workers from running their payments through limited companies or partnerships to avoid paying income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs.).

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Learning culture: why we must champion curiosity and cultivate critical thinking

HR Zone

Development Champion curiosity and cultivate critical thinking.

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Five key steps to becoming a true ‘People Company’

HR Morning

Businesses spend billions convincing customers their brand is better than the rest. But what about the employee experience of working for the company? How much does your business spend attracting and keeping employees? Employees are the most important asset in any company. Yet barely a fraction of the amount invested on optimizing the customer experience is spent on creating a workplace that makes employees proud and privileged to be part of the team.

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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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The Essentials of an Employee Performance Improvement Plan

6Q

One of the ways that management and in particular human resource managers can help employees do better is with a performance improvement plan. In this article, we explore what exactly this means and how you can go about preparing one. An employee performance improvement plan is a document that details any ongoing performance issues, clearly details what an employee can do to correct them, the length of time in which this should be done and the consequences if the goals are not met.

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What We Can All Learn from Successful Virtual Teams

Fond

From communication and trust to employee engagement , virtual teams struggle with amplified versions of the same issues workplace leaders have grappled with for years. The fact that successful virtual teams exist — and are on the rise — is encouraging evidence that these persistent challenges can be solved. This article shares key tactics used by successful virtual teams and highlights how these practices benefit not only remote workers, but employees on teams of all kinds.

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9 Faces of HR Book Update: Is Salesforce Making Progress on Diversity Since Hiring a Chief Equality Officer?

The HR Capitalist

One of the cool things about writing a book that does at least reasonably well is you start to get questions flowing in about the content you included. When I wrote The 9 Faces of HR , I alternated for a good bit of the book between serious chapter and a more pithy, fun "bonus chapter" (but let's face it, I had a lot of fun and took plenty of liberties in the "serious" chapters as well).

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Blended learning: how to craft the perfect blend for boosting performance

HR Zone

Development Crafting the perfect blend of learning.

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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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Kronos Announces Record 2019: Annual Recurring Revenue Crosses $1 Billion

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced financial results, company advancements, and customer successes for Fiscal 2019. Kronos revenue for the year was $1.433 billion. Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was over $378 million.

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Five Reasons To Go Gray To Grow Your Business

Forbes Coaches Council

When you don’t have the cash flow to hire full-time experience, consider farming LinkedIn or seeking out referrals for retirees who can provide the talent you need on a part-time basis.

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Six HR strategies for improving employee engagement

cipHR

Disengagement can cause real damage to an organisation’s productivity and profitability – giving HR teams an opportunity to spark significant positive change. Low employee engagement remains a persistent problem for organisations of all sizes around the world: in 2017, a global Gallup study found that just 15% of adults in full-time employment are ‘engaged’ at work – defined by the research company as being “highly involved in and enthusiastic about their work and workplace”.

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4 Ways to Start Time Tracking Without Employees Feeling Micromanaged

HR Partner

It can be challenging finding a balance between tracking employee time and giving staff members complete time management autonomy. On the one hand, tracking and scrutinizing employee time can make staff feel policed. On the other hand, daily time tracking can decrease productivity leaks by 80%. Fortunately, there is a middle ground. To help you out, we’ve put together four things you can do when beginning a time tracking program to prevent your employees from feeling micromanaged. 1.

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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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Master The Three C's Of Consultations To Convert Prospects To Clients

Forbes Coaches Council

If you are not experiencing a conversion rate of at least 80%, 90% or even 95%, you might want to take a good, hard look at your sales conversation skills.

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Why Qualtrics – Sneha Baste – Research Services Project Manager – Sydney, Australia

Qualtrics HR

At Qualtrics we want to connect our people to careers that feed their purpose; jobs that motivate & inspire them. This is Sneha’s “Why Qualtrics” story. My “why” is that I have been so, so lucky to be given the opportunity to explore, travel, learn, and do so many things that some people can’t even dream of doing. I want to make full use of this and live my life to the fullest.

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How good coaching can replace bad performance reviews

HR Zone

Development The death of performance reviews.

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The 3-Step Guide for Getting Out of Debt

Payactiv

Blog › Financial Wellness Tips The 3-Step Guide to Getting Out of Debt By Insights Team on Oct 29, 2019 If you have regular payments for credit cards, student loans, car loans, or other debt, it might be hard to see a financial path forward. But if you use the right strategies, you may be able to get… The post The 3-Step Guide for Getting Out of Debt appeared first on PayActiv.

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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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Halloween Costumes for the 34 Strengths

Life and Work Blog

It's Halloween time, so we got to thinking how our strengths might dress up for the holiday. We've already considered how the strengths may celebrate their birthday , do Disney World® and choose a baby name. In this post, we wonder how they may dress on Halloween.

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The Mindfulness Skill That Is Crucial for Stress

Thrive Global

Life can be stressful. Whether it’s the stress that comes with having too much work to do in too little time, fulfilling caregiving obligations, or dealing with a major illness or setback, sometimes it can be hard to cope. In response to stress, many people today are turning to meditation or mindfulness apps (myself included). But not all mindfulness practice is equally effective for combatting stress, a new study suggests.

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Everything You Can Imagine

NoExcusesHR

What is it about how we see the world? Some see the negatives, live in fear, and move so cautiously they miss any realistic chance of making a difference. Others move so rapidly that they don't pause for even a moment to consider the impact of their reckless decision-making style. Still others are so full of confidence that they are sure their approach is the right one.

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Develop A Purpose-Driven Business

Forbes Coaches Council

Regardless of your job, you need a plan. Creating a well thought out and developed plan will give you the needed tools and direction to show up with purpose. Create a good plan and then act on it — success will follow.

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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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The Promise and Peril of AI – And Why You Shouldn’t Trust It Blindly

Criteria Corp

Across nearly every industry, Artificial Intelligence is driving new innovations that are poised to change the very nature of work. Here at Criteria, we agree that AI is a promising area of exploration for pre-employment assessments and the hiring process at large. But AI is not a magic spell that can do everything for us with the flick of a wand. Last year, Amazon experienced this firsthand when the company built a hiring algorithm that ended up discriminating against women , a sign that even t

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Hiring Hard Hats Done Right: Construction Recruitment Best Practices

The Applicant Manager

Like most industries, the construction field is feeling the pinch of labor shortages — and it’s going to get worse. The latest statistics show 79% of construction firms want to hire new staff. However, the industry will only grow the workforce by.5% annually for the next decade.

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Why pre-employment background checks are important

Insperity

How well do you know the man standing next to you in the elevator. Or the woman sitting next to you during the Monday conference call? How well do any of them know you? You have a vested interest in making sure your employees have the skills they say they have. Finding out too late that an employee concealed certain facts could have a lasting, negative impact on other employees, your customers and your bottom line.