April, 2021

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Organizations: The Time to Start Recruiting is Right Now

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. (Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Poster Guard® Compliance Protection , a division of HRdirect and the leading labor law poster service that gets your business up to date with all required federal, state and local labor law postings, and then keeps it that way — for an entire year.

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How Do Leaders Create Continuous Improvement?

The People Equation

I asked my readership, “How do leaders create continuous improvement?” It turns out there are many ways to interpret the meaning of continuous improvement. Read on to learn how Rich Teed , President of LBi Software , works to personally better himself, as well as foster a culture of improvement at his company. The Pathways to Getting Better. Getting better is about learning and it’s evident that Teed takes this to heart.

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5 tech tools to power HR through the pandemic

HRExecutive

While the nation’s emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic remains a work in progress, the events of the past 18 months clearly have created a need for new approaches to meet the challenges employers—and employees—are facing. Advertisement Analyst Stacey Cadigan, a partner at the global technology research and advisory firm ISG, says the pandemic has reshaped HR priorities—in particular, technology is playing an even more vital role.

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Do people really not want to work?

The Tim Sackett Project

On my way to work this morning, I saw seven businesses that had “Help Wanted” signs out front. The sign above is from a fast-food restaurant requesting you be nice for the few staff they have that are working their butts off to get you fat! Please be patient, your fries, double cheeseburger, and shake will be with you shortly. I was on vacation for Spring Break (yeah, I said it), and traveled out to St.

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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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Which Type of Recruiting Is Best for Finding Diverse Leaders?

SHRM Resources

There are two main ways that employers work with outside recruiters: on a contingency basis or through a retained search. Each option has its benefits, but which type of recruiting is most effective when sourcing senior-level diverse candidates?

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Oracle Introduces Employee Experience Platform: War For Employee Journeys Gets Hotter

Josh Bersin

Oracle is a serious enterprise software company. I competed with Oracle in the 1980s and it was brutal. The company generated $39 Billion in revenue last year and made $15 Billion in operating profit, a metric most CFOs would die for. And over my 40+ years in tech, I’ve seen Oracle adapt to every technology. Read more» The post Oracle Introduces Employee Experience Platform: War For Employee Journeys Gets Hotter appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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Top Time Management Tips for Recruiters

Hppy

Recruiting is a vital business function, whether in-house or outsourced, which means recruiters have a lot of trust put in them. An organization is its people and bringing in the right people is a process–one which requires industry understanding, forethought and a lot of planning. . Getting the planning part right means incorporating good time management into everything a recruiter does.

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How the tech talent shortage requires creative thinking

HRExecutive

While American hiring is not back to normal yet, a recent report from the National Foundation for American Policy revealed that there are more than 1 million available job postings in the United States in technology-related fields—from system administrators to data scientists and security analysts. Since the onset of the global pandemic, NFAP also found that the need for talent in computer-related fields has risen by 11% across 10 of 13 occupational categories, with postings for computer and inf

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my staff is anxious about reopening, even though they’re vaccinated

Ask a Manager

This post, my staff is anxious about reopening, even though they’re vaccinated , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I manage a staff of about 50 in a publicly funded, public-facing organization. We have been both open and closed during different phases of the pandemic but have been able to offer some level of service to the public except during the early shelter-in-place part of 2020.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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More-Limited Definition of Independent Contractor May Be Imminent

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor may be on the verge of narrowing the definition of who is an independent contractor.

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Sights and Sounds: Carnival of HR – April 2021

Robin Schooling

A carnival, to me, brings to mind sights, sounds and smells. Carnivals have bright lights, laughing (and/or shrieking) voices coming from folks on rides, live music, and tantalizing aromas wafting forth from tents and food trucks. Sadly we’ve had to miss out on these events and experiences for the last 12 months; here in my corner of the world we’ve cancelled French Quarter Fest (times 2), the Baton Rouge Blues Festival , the Ponchatoula Strawberry Festival , the Rayne Frog Festival and the ever

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The Tale Of Performance Management Tools: 15Five, Lattice, and Many More…

Josh Bersin

The market for online performance management software has been fascinating. For more than a decade vendors have been building new tools to enable goal management, check-ins, feedback, and alignment. And now we’ve added surveys and feedback to the mix. This week 15Five, one of the fastest-growing vendors, announced the acquisition of Emplify , a leading.

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OIG Exclusions Screening: Best Practices for Healthcare

Accurate Background

Healthcare is an industry, perhaps more than most others, that is particularly prone to concerns about how individuals’ past behaviors could predict, or impact, their future interactions. It’s an industry, after all, that involves not just working with people but interacting with them at times when they are often at their most weak and vulnerable. It’s a highly regulated industry and for good reason.

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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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3 strategies for engaging teams in a meaningful, efficient way–long term

HRExecutive

We are a few months into 2021, the one-year mark since COVID-19 changed the world has passed, and many feel their workloads have increased and stress levels have multiplied. HR professionals are up to their ears in handbooks, compliance and remote work challenges. But it is never too late to get a fresh start. HR professionals should not pretend things are the same, but instead, make 2021 a game-changing year to make significant positive change for their organizations.

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Can data science make your organisation more inclusive?

HR Zone

Strategy Can data science support your inclusion efforts?

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Internal Marketplaces Are the Future of Talent Management

SHRM Resources

Identifying employees for internal opportunities as they grow in their careers has taken on new significance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies that needed to restructure quickly found that strong internal mobility programs, aided by talent marketplace technology, helped them redeploy employees to meet quickly changing business needs.

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7 Healthy Habits To Achieve More Every Day

Take It Personel-ly

Lifestyle is all about the daily habits that contribute to your mental as well as physical health. If you’re leading a sedentary lifestyle, then it’s about time that you consider the healthy ways of living. You can transform your life through small changes in the daily routine. Also, try to incorporate a morning routine that […].

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Business Acumen for HR Professionals: Everything You Need To Know

Digital HR Tech

Arguably, the strongest predictor of business impact is the ability to understand the business, or business acumen. This skill is underdeveloped in HR. Indeed, 4 in 10 CHROs consider business acumen the most lacking skill in HR talent. So what is business acumen in HR, and how can you develop this competency? Contents What is business acumen in HR? – Why is business acumen important for HR professionals and businesses?

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How to develop emotional intelligence in the workplace

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Leaders fail for a variety of reasons. It might be due to an inability to adapt to change or think strategically. Perhaps they struggle to develop good working relationships with key stakeholders or build and maintain a team. What we have come to know is that emotional intelligence, or EI, is the No. 1 predictor of professional and personal excellence and it accounts for 58 percent of performance in all job types.

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Requiring employees to return to the office? Get ready for them to quit

HRExecutive

Employers considering bringing their employees back into the office might want to reconsider. A whopping 58% of workers say they would “absolutely” look for a new job if they weren’t allowed to continue working remotely in their current position, new data finds. According to FlexJobs, which surveyed more than 2,100 people who have been working remotely during the pandemic, 31% aren’t sure what they would do and only 11% say not being able to continue working remotely is not a big deal to them.

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Why it’s time for HR leaders to stand up and be counted

HR Zone

Change It's time for HR to stand up and be counted.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Essential Facts About Worker's Compensation For Remote Employees

Ving!

Workplace injuries can occur without warning or can develop over a couple of days, weeks, or months. This is true whether the employee works onsite or telecommutes from home. As such, both employees and employers need to know and understand worker’s compensation. Worker’s compensation is a kind of insurance or system mandated by the government. It offers monetary benefits to employees who get injured or develop a disability while at work.

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Beware of Cultural Echo Chambers

Root

It is a widely understood phenomenon that as a country we have become more partisan. One of the main drivers has been the information echo chambers that are consciously or subconsciously part of our routines. We have a media echo system that benefits from fostering and nurturing a partisan divide, as that creates more loyal and fervent followers. More views and more hits mean more profits.

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Pre-employment Marijuana Screens Will Be Outlawed for Many in Philadelphia

SHRM Resources

The Philadelphia City Council approved a measure April 22 prohibiting most employers in the city from testing new hires for marijuana use. The bill makes it illegal for companies “to require a prospective employee to submit to testing for the presence of marijuana” before hiring them.

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Leadership and the return to the office

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

“It’s great to welcome you back to the office now that we’ve all been vaccinated, and the pandemic is under control! Take a few minutes to get settled, and then we’ll catch up in the conference room.”. Leaders around the world will soon be saying something like this. Their people will listen attentively — but apprehensively — as they get ready to resume their old roles in a new world.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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HR Tech Number of the Day: HR’s role in digital transformation

HRExecutive

30%: Percentage of HR and L&D executives who aren’t sure where to start, or where to go next, in terms of digital transformation Digital transformation is widely regarded as an imperative for today’s businesses, made even more pivotal by the pandemic. However, many business leaders aren’t prepared to take the next steps in their transformation. A new survey from Headspring—an executive development venture from Financial Times and IE Business School—found that almost one-third (30%) of the 35

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Workforce planning: how to create a more agile recruitment and talent strategy

HR Zone

Development Preparing for the workforce of tomorrow.

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4 Quick Organization Tips When Your Office Is a Mess

Take It Personel-ly

A disorganized office can lead to reduced productivity and low employee morale. That’s why it’s important to spend the time and money required to get your office perfectly organized. When considering the best way to keep your office organized, you have plenty of options available. To get well on the way toward great organization, here […].