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weekend free-for-all – January 25-26, 2020

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This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: All This Could Be Yours , by Jami Attendberg. A dysfunctional family’s patriarch is on his deathbed, and his daughter struggles with his legacy. * I make a commission if you use that Amazon link.

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Mastering The Process Of Building A Strong Team

New to HR

Whether you’ve been in business for 50 days or 50 years, you should appreciate the value of a winning team. After all, your employees are the driving force of productivity as well as the bridge between your brand and its. The post Mastering The Process Of Building A Strong Team appeared first on New To HR.

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Are You Attending Sundance Film Festival? Kosha Dillz Shares 6 Ways You Can Stay Sober and Still Enjoy Yourself

Thrive Global

With Sundance Film Festival 2020 currently underway, I spoke with American jewish rapper, Kosha Dillz on how to stay sober and still have fun. Dillz, whose real name is Rami Matan Even-Esh, has gone through a few different stage names over the years. Whether you know him as Kosha Dill, KD Flow, or Kosha Dillz, his love of rap has stayed consistent. While Jewish rappers aren’t too common, there are some that still have found a way to embrace both rap and Judaism.

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PODCAST: HR Happy Hour 407 - Unlocking the Potential in Your Workforce #HRHappyHour

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 407 - Unlocking the Potential in Your Workforce. Host: Steve Boese. Guest: Nishika de Rosairo, CEO & Founder, Experiential Insight. Listen HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve was joined by Nishika de Rosairo, CEO & Founder of Experiential Insight to talk about how organizations can think about addressing the skills and capability gaps in their workforces, and how to work towards unlocking people's potential in the workplace.

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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 Secret to Life is in Asking

Thrive Global

Life can be hard. We all deal with harsh situations like the pain of loneliness, a broken heart, deep grief, losing a job or serious health concerns. I’ve learned difficult life lessons over the years and remembering to ask myself a key question has been the secret to my sanity. Remembering to ask “What does Love look like here and how does Love move me forward?

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UK Diaries: My pinch of yum

Thrive Global

I am starting a series of writing about my experiences in the UK as a student, and here’s the first one! “I love food. I am a foodie. Food is love.” Phrases I hear often. Phrases I myself have used. Phrases I now understand so much better. The story begins when I decided to move to the UK for my Master’s. Like every parent would, my mother was also worried about ‘how will I feed myself’ I can’t say that I couldn’t cook, but I never had the confiden

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Clay Christensen’s Lasting Impact On How We Think About Innovation

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Clayton Christensen's theory of “disruptive innovation” has become a must-read for anybody interested in innovation and has shaped the thinking for a generation of entrepreneurs and innovators.

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How to Form a New Habit (in 5 Easy Steps)

Thrive Global

Chances are, this has happened to you: You make a resolution with the best of intentions to break a bad habit or start a good one–maybe for the new year or your birthday or some other special occasion. And within days or weeks, you’re right back where you started, old ways still firmly in place and the resolution gone to the wayside. So what’s the secret to making, or breaking, a habit and making it stick?

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How To Launch A Profitable Startup In 2020

Forbes Leadership Strategy

What it takes to launch a profitable startup in 2020 hasn’t changed for decades and won’t change any time soon. These three steps can be accomplished in six months even if you work on your startup part-time. They’ll set you on the right path towards profitability this year.

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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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Cultivating Curiosity in the Galapagos Islands

Thrive Global

How can you increase curiosity in your family? While it is an human innate trait, we can inspire more of it. We wonder, we ask questions and we explore our surroundings. Taking your family to the place which was designated as the first World Heritage Site by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1978 is definitely on the right path.

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Retaining And Recruiting Older Workers: Tight Labor Market Solution

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Retaining and even recruiting older workers will be a success strategy in the increasingly tight labor market for many companies. Flexible schedules will be critical, but implementing flexibility will take some trial and error.

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Divorce and Alimony: Is It Still Necessary?

Thrive Global

At a recent workshop I presented on Financial Equality in Marriage, a question about alimony came up. It began an energetic discussion between the various age groups attending. Women and men in their twenties and thirties felt that alimony was a thing of the past, an antiquated legality that no longer made sense. Those older, and some in second marriages, disagreed.

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Clayton Christensen Rocked The World Gently

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Clayton Christensen's passing has invoked an outpouring of generous praise and heartfelt stories about Christensen, the thinker, but perhaps more so Christensen the man. Not since Peter Drucker died has a management thinker been so warmly remembered.

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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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Everything about Artificial Rain and its Effects

Thrive Global

The weather is changing and we surely have experienced its effects from time to time. However, there is an aspect to ponder on and to understand if there’s a technique with which we can control the weather. The answer to this conception is yes. And artificial rain is that technology which has made it possible. Many places are adopting this technique to fight pollution and global warming.

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In Memoriam Clayton Christensen: Storyteller Extraordinaire

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Clayton Christensen succeeded as the world's most influential business thinker principally through leadership storytelling

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6 Ways Local Business Owners Can Create A Consistent Income Stream

Thrive Global

All businesses, even the most successful ones, need room to grow at some point in time. Beating complacency becomes paramount to sustain growth and thrive. Trust me – it is straightforward for a business to stagnate if the wheel isn’t reinvented time and again. That’s where diversifying its income stream comes in handy. It may be a piece of old advice – even an obvious one.

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How To Be A More Compassionate Leader (And Why It's So Important)

Forbes Leadership Strategy

As leaders, we need to create more opportunities for people to reveal themselves — and then make it safe for them to share.

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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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Too Old To Become An Entrepreneur? Surprise Yourself With This New Research

Forbes Leadership Strategy

f you believe youth itself is the elixir of successful entrepreneurship, you are wrong. The average age of a successful startup founder Is 45 says Harvard Business Review.

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3 Ways To Reboot Your Life In 2020

Forbes Leadership Strategy

It typically takes 21 days to build a new habit. Today is January 26th. How are you doing on new year resolutions?!

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The Automotive Industry's Moment Of Truth HasArrived

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Making electric vehicles is not as simple as some people thought, and now, after delaying the development of the technologies involved, the moment of truth has arrived. As Herbert Diess, Volkswagen's CEO says, "the storm is just beginning, and the time of classic car manufacturers is over.