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4 Small Ways Companies Can Improve Team Morale

Hppy

Team morale is an essential element in building any successful venture , but it is also one of the most neglected elements in smaller companies, unfortunately. An event, an activity, or a step that boosts team morale doesn’t always have to be anything that costs a lot of money or resources either, it can be something small but meaningful as well. On that note, let’s now discuss four small methods that HR can use to boost team morale effectively.

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12 Warning Signs of Poor Collaboration

Emergenetics International

When teams collaborate successfully, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. Productive teamwork leads to better results as staff align on goals and incorporate cognitive diversity into their work. Collaborative teams also tend to be happier as they feel connected with one another, see themselves as valuable contributors and affect change in their organizations.

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Interviewing Tips for Those Painful Questions

GetFive

What are your strengths? What’s your greatest career accomplishment? What are your career goals? If you think these are tough interview questions, you’re in for a big surprise. These are what most career coaches consider basic questions and every job seeker should be able to answer them with a near flawless response. So what happens when the interviewer throws you a curve ball?

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4 Tips to Achieve Phone Interview Success

GetFive

More and more hiring managers are using phone screenings or interviews as the first step of the hiring process. Many view phone screening as an efficient way to narrow down the applicant pool. Instead of wasting an hour-long interview time slot, they can get the initial information and interaction they need from a brief phone call. While this may be a time-saver for hiring managers, it’s yet another hurdle for candidates to overcome on the way toward getting a job.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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7 Myths That Are Holding You Back From Becoming the Confident Individual You Wish to Be

Take It Personel-ly

It’s been proven through research that people who are confident are more successful in all areas of life when compared to those who don’t consider themselves confident. Better career success, stronger relationships, and a greater sense of happiness are all likely to result from confidence. However, becoming and remaining confident are no easy tasks.

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Feeling Stuck? 4 Steps for Getting Ahead in Your Career

GetFive

You work hard and do everything that’s asked of you and then some, yet you still feel like you’re stuck in place in your career. You ask for training but no one gives it to you. The big bosses don’t know who you are. How are you ever going to get ahead? What’s wrong with this picture? Before you can even take a baby step forward, you must remember that business is a game and you’re one of the many players.

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6 Effective Financial Management Strategies for Your Business

Take It Personel-ly

A business cannot run without money. That is why before you opened your company, you had to gather finances and purchase a few office items. Interestingly, only 2 out of 10 new businesses make it past the first year. What makes these ventures fail? The most common reason is poor financial management. These firms run […].

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Advancing Innovation in Healthcare in the New Decade

Precheck

Advancing Innovation in Healthcare in the New Decade Jun. 9, 2020. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Both the clinical and administrative sides of healthcare are constantly evolving, from screening job candidates to conducting patient visits to training medical students. As we enter a new decade marked by a global pandemic, these advancements create significant challenges and opportunities for all parts of a healthcare organization.

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Sumser tech spotlight: This hiring tool ‘distinguishes itself’

HRExecutive

Baltimore is the very last place that I’d expect to find groundbreaking technology for the labor market. The metro area hosts the Social Security Administration and is next door to the NSA. There is a deep well of technology, but it is really big tech. Signal processing, security, radar, satellites, sonar, test equipmen, and other electronics engineering disciplines are at the heart of the tech sector.

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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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Ways to Support Black-Owned Small Businesses

Zenefits

As protests calling for structural reform to fight institutionalized racism and police brutality continue to take place across the country, there’s been a call to support Black-owned businesses. There are 2.6 million Black-owned businesses in the United States, according to a 2015 U.S. Census Report. As small businesses have been closed around the country because of COVID-19, supporting these businesses can help keep people employed and help them stay open.

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ENGAGEMENT MAGIC®: The 5 Keys of Employee Engagement

DecisionWise

In our blog, “ Are Your Employees Engaged or Just Satisfied ,” we reviewed some of the differences between employee engagement and employee satisfaction. Satisfied employees operate under a transactional relationship—“Because the company gives me X, I am willing to give X worth of effort.” As Herzberg would say, these elements are “hygiene factors ”—they must be present, but do not necessarily result in engagement.

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Four Inclusive Workplace Practices for Your Virtual Team

Allegis Global Solutions

As companies continue virtual work in response to COVID-19, many employees may be left disconnected and disengaged. In fact, an April 2020 study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a full 65 percent of employers say maintaining morale has been a challenge due to the switch to remote work, and more than one third face difficulties with worker productivity.

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Asynchronous communication in the workplace: benefits and best practices

Workable

Asynchronous work and its unique issues – for example, communication delay or tech hiccups – are not new territory for many businesses. Many employers have had distributed teams for years now and they’ve been willing to share their best practices to shed some light on remote work first-timers’ biggest problems and solutions , including tips for effective asynchronous collaboration.

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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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Two simple and cost-effective ways to improve employee wellbeing

HR Zone

Employees Two cost-effective ways to improve wellbeing.

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8 Tips for Writing the Perfect Executive Assistant Resume (Plus an Example!)

The Muse

Follow this advice to highlight your past achievements as an executive assistant and tell a compelling story about why you’re the best candidate for this new job.

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Create Boundaries Between Home and Work—Even When You Work from Home

SHRM Resources

?Travis James Fell was on a Zoom call with his colleagues when an image of a disembodied arm appeared beside his head. After an awkward silence, a co-worker asked Fell if his home is possessed.It is not. One of Fell's daughters was tapping his shoulder while asking him a question, and the Zoom settings transformed her limb into a horror movie prop. Fell said he loves his two daughters, wife and dog, though their frequent interruptions break his concentration, leaving him longing to return to the

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Home office ergonomics – everything you need to know

Insperity

With more people working remote, home office ergonomics is taking on a new level of importance. Yet creating a space with ergonomically correct, comfortable furnishings can prove challenging. Although convenient, dining tables, hard chairs and tall kitchen counters aren’t comfortable for long stretches of time. And, if you’re routinely uncomfortable, will you perform your best?

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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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Unlocking the wider potential of employee advocacy

HR Zone

Employees Are your employees advocates of your brand?

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How Long Should Your Resume Actually Be? Here’s an Easy Guide to Follow

The Muse

We’ve got expert advice on how to decide how long your resume should be (and how to cut it down if needed).

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A Beginner’s Guide to Machine Learning for HR Practitioners

Analytics in HR

When you hear Artificial Intelligence (AI) the first thing that comes to mind are robots; in particular, the Steven Spielberg movie titled A.I. where a robot child is built that can love and behave just like a real human. This idea appears to be closer to a dream than reality. Truth is, AI is more ubiquitous than we might think. It ranges from self-driving cars, movie recommendations on Netflix, e-mail spam detection to voice-controlled assistants such as Apple’s SIRI.

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The New Normal: Facing Challenges in HR With Illnesses

Workology

The World We Now Live In… The New Normal… Your Challenges in HR With Illnesses Although we are experiencing the worst plague that any of us have ever seen, there is still the reality that other. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Embracing values-based leadership through Covid-19

HR Zone

Culture Eight ways to create a values-based organisation.

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Leaders Guide on How to Manage Workplace Conflict

6Q

Most people can handle just about any amount and type of work that comes their way. It’s not the work that puts them over the edge – it’s a conflict with a coworker or coworkers. Conflict in the workplace, or anywhere, is inevitable. Conflict is part of being human. Some people are more comfortable with it than others, and some people tend to be “conflict carriers”.

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10 Questions You’ll Get in Your Next Accounting Interview—and How to Answer Them

The Muse

Common accounting interview questions, how to answer them, and sample answers from a former accounting recruiter.

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Jobless Claims Continue to Fall, Still at 1.5 Million

SHRM Resources

Around 1.5 million U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending June 6. First-time claims have been gradually falling since hitting a record 6.8 million in late March, indicating that the downturn triggered by a near shutdown of the country in mid-March to control the spread of COVID-19 is bottoming out.

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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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How Employers Can Show Their Character and Stand Out in Trying Times

ADP

During the global health event, employers are being presented with a unique opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to their employees. There are.

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9 Professional Development Tips For Human Resource Professionals

SHRM

HR is a profession that requires continuous professional development. Human resources professionals are an integral part of every business. It’s important they are taking care of their needs so they can fully assist others. Below, nine human resources professionals -- and those with HR responsibilities - share how they ensure they’re getting the professional development needed to excel in their roles and grow their careers.

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Workplace Communication is Essential for All Employees During a Crisis

Workology

The COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented, and things are changing so rapidly it’s difficult to keep up. For company and HR leaders, our focus is going to be on employee communication, whether we have. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.