December, 2020

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Will Biden’s Administration Seek a New Independent-Contractor Rule?

SHRM Resources

Businesses are waiting for more clarity on which workers can be classified as independent contractors under a rule that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) plans to finalize soon—and they may be wondering what could happen to the rule under the new administration.

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Sumser: Here’s how to get a true sense of quality of hire

HRExecutive

I recently scanned a conversation on Linkedin about measuring quality of hire. I am intrigued and appalled by what seems to be our desire to measure the quality of people. I suppose it’s not that different from how we treat cattle. The underlying question is part of an eternal squabble between recruiters and hiring managers: Whose fault is it when a candidate doesn’t work out?

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5 Ways to Recharge Employee Motivation

Achievers

No manager wants to deal with a team of unmotivated workers. Setting goals is like pulling teeth, small obstacles bring work to a halt and nobody celebrates when projects are completed. It’s unlikely that your workplace is this grim, but like most managers, you’re probably always looking for ways to increase your staff’s motivation.

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What’s Ahead For 2021? Five Lessons For The Coming Year.

Josh Bersin

We’ve learned a lot in 2020 and many of us are happy to put it in the rearview mirror. But as we look ahead to the new year, I think there are a lot of positives to bring forward. (Our Predictions will be out in Jan.). First, we learned to be humble. The Virus is. Read more» The post What’s Ahead For 2021? Five Lessons For The Coming Year. appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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update: my employee keeps getting deadnamed by a coworker

Ask a Manager

It’s the launch of this year’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager! Every day this month, I’ll be running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. To kick us off…. Remember the letter-writer whose employee kept getting deadnamed by a coworker ? Here’s the (epic) update. Hearing from Alison and all of the commenters made me realize that I needed to talk to John about what he wanted to do.

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Remote Employees Are Working Longer Than Before

SHRM Resources

?While the shift to working from home in 2020 has provided much-needed flexibility for professional workers during the COVID-19 crisis and shown that a remote workforce can maintain productivity, negative aspects of the experience—isolation, diminished collaboration and burnout—have emerged.Research shows remote employees are working longer, spending time in more meetings and having to keep up with more communication channels.

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Why remote hiring isn’t going away and what that means to HR

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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6 Trends That Will Shape Workplace Practices in 2021

SHRM

If you had asked leaders last year what they would be focusing their energies on in 2020, likely a pandemic, economic disruption, nationwide social unrest, and a mental health crisis were not at the top of their lists. Indeed, one of the many lessons learned in 2020 was that it can be very difficult to predict what the future holds. Although we don’t have a crystal ball to gaze into, here are six trends that we believe will shape workplace practices in 2021, as well as tips for what you can.

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Psychological safety: an overlooked secret to organizational performance

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Have you ever worked on a team with low psychological safety? How about with high psychological safety? Chances are you could probably answer these questions without even knowing the full definition of this concept. We have worked in both situations, and the differences in effectiveness are stark. We have been part of teams that came together rapidly, agreed on a common understanding of next steps (though it took challenging conversations to come to agreement), executed flawlessly and then disba

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Overcoming Common Barriers to Innovation

Take It Personel-ly

Innovation is key to business potential and growth. Without new ideas, updates, products or services, a business will slowly die because consumers are looking for the next best thing. Unfortunately, many businesses throw up barriers to innovation and discourage the very thing that can make their business more successful. Not Acting on Trends Some businesses […].

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How (and why) to develop employee career paths

Insperity

A generation ago, the typical employee career path was the classic “ladder,” with a series of clearly defined rungs for employees to climb. Now, with new technologies and disruptions creating the need for new skills and roles, career paths aren’t so clearly defined. Your organization may benefit from defining career paths within your company, to keep your people engaged and loyal and to decide how to invest in your employees’ development.

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Marijuana Legislation HR Leaders Need to Know About

Cisive

In November 2019, the House Judiciary Committee made history when it advanced the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, becoming the first congressional body to vote favorably for a marijuana descheduling bill. The House has postponed the vote, however, it is important to understand how this Act could impact hiring and workplace regulations.

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11 trends that will shape HR in 2021

HRExecutive

This year has upended the priorities of most HR leaders, as they had to quickly navigate everything from remote-work culture to legal concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine. The changes and challenges 2020 brought are setting up next year to be another of transformation, according to Brian Kropp, chief of HR research at Gartner. Kropp recently shared his top predictions of the trends that will shape the world of HR in 2021: 1.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Setting a Strong Foundation – 4 Key Focus Areas for the Emerging HR Professional

SHRM

It’s a pivotal time for people and work. There are many issues and changes affecting society, the way we work, and where we work. HR is at the center of helping companies achieve their long-term business goals amidst challenging times, while also taking care of their people. As an emerging professional, it can be difficult (and sometimes overwhelming) tackling tough problems for your organization or helping take things to the next level.

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3 Steps to Building a Connected Remote Work Culture

Quantum Workplace

For many companies (and their employees), remote work is a double-edged sword. While it brings promises of greater flexibility and work-life balance, it can also lead to misalignment between in-house and remote team cultures and cause employees to feel disconnected from each other. That’s why it is so important for leaders and managers to actively cultivate positive remote work cultures.

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Upskilling is Key to Your Business Recovery Strategy | Degreed State of Skills Report 2021

Degreed

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, the global skills crisis cost trillions of dollars in lost GDP. . Now, millions fear that the crisis as we’ve known it is worsening — that the gap between high skill jobs and the skilled workers available to fill those positions is growing at a faster rate. . Navigating this conundrum is of the greatest talent challenges of our time.

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Artificial Intelligence: Leadership’s Friend Or Foe?

Forbes Coaches Council

Leaders should not see artificial intelligence as a threat to organizational purpose, but rather a support for leaders to have the time and space to engage with aspects of their higher purpose.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Five common misconceptions about company culture

HR Zone

Culture Five common misconceptions about culture.

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3 emerging technologies HR should pay attention to next year

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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How To Become a Best Place To Work: 14 Tips From Best Employers

SHRM

Winning a” best employer award” can help attract new talent and reinforce workplace pride within existing employees. How do you become a best place to work? We’re not talking about just winning an award. For that, a workplace should start by applying. What we’re really trying to discover is how to actually create a workplace that people want to be a part of.

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How to Keep Your Mind & Body Productive When Stuck Behind a Desk

Take It Personel-ly

If you suffer from cramped feet, jumpy legs, and a general sense of tiredness and apathy throughout the long days spent cooped up behind a desk, you’re not alone. Fortunately, there are simple solutions you can try without needing to get up and leave your desk for a full workout session. Here are a few […].

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How the Power of Citizen Development Can Impact Communities– Virtual Hackathon Results

Quickbase

Quick Base is excited to honor the winners of its first-ever Virtual Hackathon ! With more than 100 entries across 14 countries – which you can find here – the submissions addressed critical issues in the workplace, in communities, and in the world today. And in just two months, competitors created unique low-code applications that address challenges of connection, responsiveness, equity, and security. .

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Glancing Ahead: What Are Your People Analytics Plans for 2021?

Analytics in HR

Who would have thought that 2020 would bring us a ‘new normal’? In the Netherlands, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Dutch Railways has been all over the news. Train traveling as we knew it will probably never return, which has big financial consequences. It has also had an impact on our People Analytics department. As you would expect, data and information about absenteeism was an even bigger thing than usual.

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This Time, It’s Personal: Effective Upskilling Focuses on the Individual

Degreed

Every executive knows that skills can make or break their business. Availability of key skills is a perennial top threat in PwC’s Annual Global CEO Survey. And yet, most leaders have not figured out how to build skills at scale. This year, only 18% of those CEOs reported “significant progress” in their upskilling efforts. The benefits of upskilling are huge.

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3 issues remote-first companies need to think about in 2021

HRExecutive

This month, HRE is helping HR leaders prepare for the year ahead with a series featuring insights from industry experts, thought leaders and others about what we can learn from 2020 and the challenges coming in 2021. Read the series here. *. This year has brought HR a host of unprecedented issues to navigate: employee safety concerns, engagement in a newly remote world , legal considerations and even the reshaping of the HR role itself.

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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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Why Now is the Right Time to Reimagine the Workplace

Cisive

“Every great change is preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra. In the past several months, companies have faced unique challenges related to COVID-19. We now understand that the pandemic is likely to change the landscape of what work looks like as we shift into a new normal. While we have made a lot of changes to how HR works and supports employees, a time of chaos can also be an opportunity to push change and innovation forward.

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How to Set Up Your Home Office for Success

Take It Personel-ly

Switching from a work office to a home office can be an awkward transition, to say the least. Now you’ve got a slew of new distractions to deal with while you try to work. The kids are yelling, the laundry needs to be done, and you can’t help but wonder what you’ll make for dinner. […].

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Overly Broad Employee Confidentiality Provisions Violated California Law

SHRM Resources

Confidentiality provisions in an employment agreement were so broad that they acted as a noncompete clause that violated California law, a state appellate court ruled.

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