Wed.Mar 11, 2020

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Could coronavirus lead to workers’ comp claims? Experts say ‘yes’

HR Morning

As the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak continues in the U.S., employers are being confronted with the possibility of facing workers’ comp claims from employees who either contracted the coronavirus at work or during work-related travel. The Washington Department of Labor & Industries announced March 5 that the state is changing its policy around workers’ compensation coverage for healthcare workers and first responders quarantined by a physician or public health officer.

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Performance-based Training for Long-term Behavior Change

Rallyware for Human Resources

As policies, procedures, new regulations and technological advancements drive changes in every organization, employees must adjust. Performance-based learning systems help employees to learn on-the-go. Expert L&D leaders know that learning should generate value for organizations but companies seldom quantify the benefits of employee training. Yet, reskilling and upskilling employees is becoming crucial for business growth more than ever.

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Buzzfeed’s Parental Leave Benefits Result In 95% Retention Rate

Wellable

Paid parental leave is a coveted work benefit because there is no federally-mandated paid parental leave in the U.S. As a result, many employers find that this benefit is one of the most attractive ones when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent. With a younger workforce that is most impacted by parental leave policies, Buzzfeed decided to implement changes that would vastly expand their support for working parents.

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How to Incorporate the Right Resume Keywords

Celarity

By Matt Krumrie, an experienced resume writer and career advice professional. Keywords. Just what exactly are keywords? Keywords are defined as: A word or concept of great significance. An informative word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a document. Why do keywords matter, especially resume keywords? Because it’s one way applicant tracking systems, the technology/program that employers use to collect, read, and scan resumes and applications, scores your r

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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 Coronavirus and Its Impact on the Workplace

HR Counselor's Corner

The HR Team, East Coast Risk Management. As concern over the anticipated spread of the coronavirus strain known as COVID-19 increases, employers should consider its impact on the workplace. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has published interim guidance for businesses who want to take a proactive approach. You can read the full guidance on the CDC’s Coronavirus Disease 2019 website.

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How to Overcome Talent Management Challenges in Financial Services

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Many factors continue to transform the workforce, especially with unemployment in the United States at all-time lows. HR leaders are juggling numerous staffing challenges, from a multi-generational workplace to a shifting focus on performance reviews. Among these priorities and focuses also includes talent management, which focuses on elements such as promotions, learning management, and culture.

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Cafe Classic: Organizational Shape Shifters and Skill-Based Rewards

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: On the heels of Jacque Vilet's Classic post about just-in-time/just-in-case learning and skill development comes this one, asking whether and how we reward skill attainment in the age of continuous organizational shape shifting. And where we might look for lessons and insights. What does it take for a company to consistently grow and prosper during an era when competitive advantage is a temporary thing?

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A Tidy Office is a Happy Office – Here’s Why

Hppy

Keeping your office tidy for you and your employees can have a significant impact on productivity. Whether you’re the manager of a small office space or the head of a larger department, certain principles of cleanliness and tidiness could have a huge effect not only on efficiency but on employee morale as well. Here’s a short guide to things that every office manager should do to keep their office clean and why those things are important.

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I exposed myself at work because my coworkers didn’t believe I had cancer

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I made a huge mistake and I am trying the best way to dig myself out of this mess. In 2018, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had surgery to remove that cancer and one breast in early 2019. My recovery went smoother than expected and I ended up just needing some follow-up care and check-ups. I wear a prosthesis at work and it makes me look no different in clothes than before the surgery.

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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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Overcoming the challenges of motivating a younger generation

HRExecutive

Understanding a younger generation in the workforce has always presented challenges for HR professionals and managers, but motivating millennials is turning out to be one of the biggest challenges in business. Millennials have often been stereotyped as the members of the workforce who shy away from climbing the corporate ladder. This behavior can confuse traditional business leaders, whose first inclination may be to associate this with lack of ambition.

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??Another federal agency has issued Coronavirus guidance to help your workplace??

The Employer Handbook

U.S. Government/Gobierno de los Estados Unidos / Public domain. Last week, we covered ( here ) what the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants employers to know about COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act. This week, we have new guidance from OSHA and the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Let’s see what we have for you today: Guidance on Preparing Workplaces for COVID-19 , which contains information on safe work practices and appropriate personal pr

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5 Ideas to Create an Atmosphere of Employee Appreciation in Your Team

KCC Business Psychology

Benefits of Employee Appreciation. We all crave appreciation, even when we already know we’ve done a job well. When is the last time a coworker or boss showed appreciation for what you do? Do you remember how it made you feel? In the 1940s, Lawrence Lindahl conducted a study on employee motivation. The results may surprise you. During the study, supervisors and their employees were asked, “What motivates an employee?”.

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The Dangers of Using Predictive Analytics to Gauge Employee Flight Risk

SHRM Resources

?The notion that organizations can predict when top performers are considering moving on to greener pastures and then intervene in ways that convince them to stay is alluring. An entire category of predictive analytics tools has sprung up to make that sooth-saying vision a reality. These flight risk models have grown popular as organizations grapple with a labor market where it's increasingly difficult to find good replacements when employees leave.Predictive analytics software that's designed t

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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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I resist pressure to work long hours — but my coworkers don’t

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m hoping to get some advice on fending off pressure and comments to fall in line and work unpaid overtime. I work a public job in the health sector. I have really good boundaries about taking my breaks and lunch and leaving when my shift is done. However, it seems like there’s an industry-wide problem, including all my coworkers, who do not take breaks and who eat lunch at their desk while working.

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Strategies To Manage and Retain Your Employees

Take It Personel-ly

Employees are vital assets of a company as they play a critical role in the growth and development of your company. It is, therefore, essential to understanding how to manage them properly so that you can retain them. Workers who are not treated well in a company will look for another job elsewhere where their […].

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Manual Expense Reporting Process & the Best Way to Tackle

SutiHR

Corporate travel reimbursements can be frustrating for all involved. Around 38% of employees use their funds for work-related activities, facing financial problems when waiting for payments. Expense reporting has moved from having employees file expenses through the spreadsheet, but automation would eliminate the delays that parties face during the process.

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employees vent to me — but don’t want me to do anything about their problems

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am the head of an HR department. Occasionally, I run into a situation where an employee tells me about a problem and asks me to do nothing with the information. For example, last week I was talking to someone who is upset with their boss. The employee feels intimidated about delivering bad news because of how the boss reacts. The boss gets visibly upset, becomes abrupt, and frames questions in a blaming way (“How could you let this happen?

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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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Self-Awareness and Leadership: The Ins and Outs

DDI

It’s critical that leaders understand the ins and out of self-awareness and leadership, especially if they want to have a positive impact.

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Don’t Leave Talent on the Table—How to Recruit Diverse Candidates

Tandem HR

How to recruit diverse candidates and improve your work culture. The majority of recruiters and executives agree that having a diverse team helps boost productivity and even revenue. If your team is lacking in diversity, there are several steps you can take to create a more diverse team in 2020. Read our tips to learn how to recruit diverse candidates and improve your work culture.

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What This Doctor Wants Us to Know About Our Fears Regarding Coronavirus

Thrive Global

I’m a doctor and an infectious diseases specialist. I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, hepatitis, TB, SARS, measles, shingles, whooping cough, diphtheria… There is little I haven’t been exposed to in my profession.

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4 Great Things About Your 401K Taking a Dump!

The Tim Sackett Project

The stock market is in the crapper and everyone’s 401K took a hit that will take years to recover, so how can any of this be great!?! Oh, just give me a minute to explain… Yeah, it sucks! I mean panic in the streets sucks, I just lost my retirement condo in Boca sucks! I’m trying to make light of a bad financial situation. Oh wait, I kind of am.

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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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Google asks all employees in North America to work from home

HR Digest

Amidst fears of the COVID-19 Coronavirus spreading, Google has asked all its North American employees to work from home till at least April 10. The United States has over 1000 confirmed cases of coronavirus already. Google employs around 100,000 people in its various offices in the US. “All offices in North America are now on recommended work from home status if roles allow,” a Google spokesperson said in an email to CNBC.

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Mastering the art of speaking up: the 'how to' of being heard

HR Zone

Culture Why context is key to speaking up.

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Managed Benefits in Real Life: Nicholas Beckman

Namely

At Namely, one of the ways we help our clients build a better workplace is by transforming their benefits experience. And that wouldn’t be possible without our expert Benefits Advisors.

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Traditional Leadership Vs. Servant Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

Servant leadership and traditional leadership employ different techniques and offer vastly different outcomes.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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A Complete Guide to the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation

BizLibrary - HR

By understanding the Kirkpatrick Model, you can improve the way you plan for, implement, and measure training - all of which helps your ROI! The post A Complete Guide to the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Supporting Your Team Through Coronavirus

Newmeasures

The world is still working to understand the coronavirus and COVID-19, but you and your team are likely already feeling its impact. The latest reports according to NBC News reports, World Health Organization, state government leaders and health officials show people in more than 90 countries, including the U.S, have been infected. Many people are alarmed and wondering what it means for their lives and their work.

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E036: Unconventional Speaking & Leading with David Wood & Derek Loudermilk

Play for Real

Subscribe to Podcast. For speakers and leaders… I wasn’t going to share this with you, but I think you’ll be glad I did. Derek Loudermilk, host of The Art of Adventure podcast, interviewed me on a book he’s writing, and I recorded it for my own records. But as I listened to the playback I realized that there was so much good content in it about what makes a great leader and leadership as a practice, and more, that I couldn’t not share it with you.