Sun.Sep 13, 2020

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Rachel Shackleton: “Be genuine with all your customers”

Thrive Global

Train all team members about the importance of the customer, both internal and external, and give them the autonomy to be individual and shine in each and every customer interaction, going that extra mile not because they were told to, but because they want to. Provide parameters in which they can take things into their own hands to support the customer.

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Help Your Business Survive By Becoming A Resilient Leader

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How do your top performers respond to challenges? Chances are, they meet new demands head-on and tend to bounce back faster than their more reserved counterparts. This isn’t a coincidence. While there are many characteristics that make up an excellent leader, one trait they often share is emotional resilience, or the ability to quickly adapt to stressful situations or crises.

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Lost in Transition

Everyday People

Have you ever been between jobs and unemployed? It sucks. There’s no greater truth. Throughout my 30+ years of my career, I’ve been in transition twice when I wasn’t working in HR. I wanted to spend some time on this topic because I’m seeing a very unsettling trend. Even though there are millions of people who are unemployed, little is being done to help them.

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‘Oldest Hatred’ Surging, Even As BLM and Its Allies Open Eyes

Thrive Global

Antisemitism has been called “the oldest hatred” and tragically, in this era of us-versus-them, divide-and-conquer political strategy, it is seeing a virulent resurgence. We have not yet learned the hard lesson that hate is a desperation strategy that produces only unspeakable consequences; the lessons of the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the mass atrocities in Cambodia, Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda and Syria to name a few.

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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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my job’s travel conflicts with husband’s job, talking to my boss about imposter syndrome, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My job’s travel conflicts with my husband’s job’s Covid policies. My work is requiring me to resume my monthly trips to the home office, which involves flying to a high COVID infection rate state. They are starting to require these trips again because my state has decided to wave quarantine requirements for essential industries.

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Moving Soon? Here’s a Few Tips & Tricks

Take It Personel-ly

Moving can be a physically and mentally draining ordeal. From sorting and packing boxes to disconnecting your current services, the whole process can be stressful if you don’t know what you’re doing. To help make your move a plain sailing endeavor, here are seven moving tips and tricks: List the Services You’ll Need to Discontinue […].

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How I Remember My Mother

Thrive Global

When my mother died earlier this summer , my siblings and I decided to postpone her memorial service. At the time, the maximum amount of people allowed at an outdoor funeral in New Jersey, where she lived, was 30 (due to Covid). Just our family alone – with all of my nieces and nephews – would nearly hit that target, without even beginning to move into other family and friends.

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Styling a Suit: 6 Ideas for the Modern Businessperson

Take It Personel-ly

Wearing a suit to work every day helps you look the part in an office setting, but no one ever said your workplace style had to be boring. If you’re tired of wearing the same pattern combinations and monochromatic color schemes, it’s time to refresh your look. Luckily, there are quite a few ways to […].

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5 Nice Ways To Break Up With Someone So You Don’t Break Their Heart

Thrive Global

I know – ending a relationship is one of the hardest things to do and good for you for trying to find some nice ways to break up with someone so that you don’t break their heart. You care for this person but you know there is no future for you as a couple and you don’t want to hurt them when you let them go. Fortunately, there are kind ways to break up with someone without breaking their heart, at least not completely. #1 – Don’t disappear.

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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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Supporting Your Remote Workforce

New to HR

The coronavirus and Covid-19 pandemic have caused countless businesses to switch to remote working in a bid to slow and minimise the spread of the. The post Supporting Your Remote Workforce appeared first on New To HR.

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Why I Struggle to Take Vacations

Thrive Global

When my mother died earlier this summer, I went back to the U.S. for two weeks and cleaned out her apartment. Most people wouldn’t consider clearing out their mother’s apartment a holiday. Trust me, it wasn’t. And yet, I came back feeling like I didn’t deserve another break, even though – after her death and five months of lockdown – I was completely burnt out.

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Ways To Ensure Cyber Security For Remote Employees

HR C-Suite

The relevance of the remote working setup in the pandemic As the world gears up to fight against the massive corona virus pandemic, associations have quickly moved to semi-distant working plans. Consequently, they should be similarly fast in relieving the digital dangers made by the extended risk of attacks that have come with working from […].

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Hone your listening skills

Thrive Global

Over the years employee engagement surveys have been highly regarded tools. They are used to measure and improve engagement, wellbeing and ultimately performance of people in the organisations. One of the aims of these surveys is to give employees a voice so the business ‘listens’ to their needs. Engagement surveys have a place and in the organisation, however managers, team leaders, directors, in general people leaders that have direct reports are in the trenches closer to their team members.

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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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10 Employee Recognition Activities In A Remote workplace

Keka HR Blog

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How Ignoring Burnout In Your Company Will Cost You In the Long Run

Thrive Global

Employees are burning out at alarming rates. People feel constant demand to deliver, so they’re either burning out or they’re leaving their jobs, due to high stress and burnout. With COVID-19, this is becoming more prevalent and amplified, due to all the demands from working from home (WFH). A recent Monster.com survey found that 69% of employees identify as being burned out.

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What to Do When You Feel Like You’ve Hit a Ceiling of Revenue

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Sitting, waiting and wishing is not a strategy.

Thrive Global

“Well I was sitting, waiting, wishing – You believed in superstitions – Then maybe you’d see the signs” – Jack Johnson. These are the opening words of a song by Jack Johnson. Perception is often seen as reality. Let me explain. A number of years ago, I heard an interview with the pro-surfer turned singer who grew up in Hawaii. He spoke about his life as a surfer and how many stories about surfing used the phrase “wishing, watching and waiting”.

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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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Is Anybody Listening?

Forbes Leadership Strategy

How much longer will we continue to ignore the impact of our continued refusal to do anything to mitigate the planet’s long-standing climate emergency?

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A Tribute to My Disruptive Co-worker

Thrive Global

My career has been a patchwork quilt with many industries, places and people along the way. Each step along the journey has given me a chance to learn and grow. In fact… some of the most humbling and powerful moments came in what I describe as “the moments in between” When no one else was looking and only I knew the impact that it had on me.

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Employee Surveys – Why Are They Important And How You Should Do It

Keka HR Blog

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“Soul En Route”

Thrive Global

So tell me where you have been? I searched for so long I searched lost in the darkness I searched to the brinks of shadow Soul searching. Through death you chose life Through life you choose love Soul searching. So tell me where you have been? Melting the fear away Releasing the weight from your wings Rising from the ashes of a former self Soul searching.

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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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Going Remote: When The Office Is Optional—Or Even Obsolete

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of a remote workforce was growing. Stats and facts showed that a majority of younger generations were more and more interested in working remotely. It’s predicted that by 2028, 73% of all departments will have remote workers.

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Book Review: “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle

Thrive Global

Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Untamed is somewhat of a nonfiction work, somewhat of a memoir, somewhat of a self-help book by Glennon Doyle. Doyle tells us of her experiences as a woman and how she broke through and freed herself from the cages that society and people create for us. She encourages women to be brave enough to re-examine their own emotionally confused selves so they, too, can manage to free themselves from these cages.

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Connecting Over Collecting: Will The Real Super Connecter Please Stand Up

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Entrepreneurs rely on cultivating strong, resilient networks. This article redefines networking as, not self-promotion, but the art of connecting. Find actionable tips from clarifying goals to follow-up. Discover that less is more and being true to yourself leads to a high-quality, loyal, network.

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Through the Portal

Thrive Global

A few years ago, my son attended a personal growth workshop called Teen Leadership in Simi Valley, California. I agreed to assist as a volunteer. On the last day of the training, the teens took turns challenging themselves by completing a rigorous obstacle course to demonstrate their leadership skills like perseverance and endurance. The kids insisted I do it too.

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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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Master These NFL Winning Secrets To Thrive In Uncertainty And Reach Your Highest Performance

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Despite the uncertainty of Covid-19, you can still thrive and grow through 2020. In this interview with Dr. Michael Gervais, renowned sports psychologist for the Seattle Seahawks, and co-author of Compete to Create, you can apply these high-performance approaches to your life and career today.

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The Way I See It: In a Stark White Clear Day as Today

Thrive Global

Some days are completely white, white as a blank piece of paper, white as a brand new canvas. You can draw just about anything on it for that day. You can decide to be overjoyed or miserable. You can decide to be religious or atheist. You can be an optimist or a pessimist for that whole day; it’s all up to you. A white day is when you think of yourself as a voyager searching for a new world.

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Could Apple's New IPhone Operating System Really Halve Facebook's Revenue? I Hope So…

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Apple will wait until early 2021 before introducing iPhone and iPad privacy settings that will give users much more control over how their personal information is tracked, so as to give developers more time to make further changes and prepare for them.

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