Sat.Nov 21, 2020 - Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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How to Plan for an Effective Team-Building Activity

Hppy

Improving rapport among employees is a crucial component of any organization. After all, the workforce is made up of individuals with unique personalities and attitudes. There will always be room for misunderstanding, unhealthy competition, and divisiveness that affects the productivity of the entire enterprise. Encouraging your employees to build bridges and form healthy professional relationships is part and parcel of managing a successful business.

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12 Ways to Support Your Employees’ Emotional and Mental Health

Terryberry

How can we create an experience that is good for people’s emotional and mental health? Unfortunately, most efforts to address emotional and mental health in the workplace are focused on symptoms of stress. But this is akin to passing cold towels to someone overheating on the treadmill whilst forcing them to run. It might be a light relief but it’s not really solving the problem!

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5 Ways to Integrate Coaching into Your Managing Style

TinyPulse

Coaching is crucial to keeping today's employees engaged and productive. With the fast pace of today's workplace, employees need to keep current with the new skills needed to thrive in their jobs.

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How to Make Gratitude in the Workplace an Everyday Practice

15Five

When times get tough (e.g. 2020), dwelling on challenges can often exacerbate those struggles–especially at work. Negativity doesn’t just impact company morale, it directly affects engagement and productivity levels. However, when leaders intentionally spread gratitude in the workplace, they can help their teams, both in-person and remote, bounce back from hard times, keep relationships intact, and maintain motivation.

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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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Bridging the Distance

Engage2Excel

The relationship between managers and their direct reports has undergone severe stress testing during the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, according to a Career Builder survey, 58% of managers have never received training in people management. In turn, HR leaders should not expect that managers are well equipped to support remote employees. So, what do managers need to do differently to engage remote workers?

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Grateful

Everyday People

I’m geeked about this week because one of my favorite holidays is happening – Thanksgiving !! I love intentionally taking time to pause, reflect and give thanks for life in general. Yes, it has its ups and downs and difficulties. However, I am grateful for every aspect of life. It’s not some false pretense or posturing. It’s how I choose to face each day – grateful.

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These are HR’s priorities for 2021

HRExecutive

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating any time soon, new research finds that HR professionals are most concerned about ensuring their workforce has the skills to succeed in the new world of work. In its HR Priorities Survey, Gartner, the Stamford, Conn., research and advisory company, found that 68% of respondents reported that employees’ critical skills and competencies need serious tending during the coming year.

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Biden Plans to Ban Noncompete, No-Poaching Clauses

SHRM Resources

President-elect Joe Biden has indicated that his administration will be more aggressive in minimizing employers’ use of noncompetition clauses in employment contracts and institute an outright ban on no-poaching agreements.

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5 Livestock Breeds Small-Scale Farmers Can Raise

Take It Personel-ly

Farming is technically the oldest profession on the planet as humans have always harvested and grown food for consumption. In recent years farming has been done on a huge scale by farmers with large areas of land and massive machinery. However, the prevalence of small-scale farmers is increasing. Much of this is a result of […].

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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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Six checks to ensure your compensation and rewards are fair

HR Zone

Employees Six ways to check your rewards are fair.

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Averbook: Here’s why every HR leader needs a digital mandate for 2021

HRExecutive

If 2020 was the year of creation (which I think it was), 2021 will be a year of rebirth. This year was indelibly marked by a global pandemic, an increased focus on social justice , soaring unemployment, social distancing and a complete upheaval of work, workers and business. With perspective, you might look at all of these as activation levers. Called upon to (re)act, we created new work models and social routines, we found new ways to learn and educate, we embraced digital transformation and th

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Why and How You Should Audit Your HR Process During COVID-19

Cisive

While our world has been turned upside down over the past six months, we’re beginning to experience a new normal in a post-pandemic marketplace. While the economy may take some time to recover, now is the time for HR leaders to take the time to re-evaluate HR processes, procedures, and systems in support of the company for the remainder of this year and into 2021.

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Biden Seeks to Strengthen Registered Apprenticeship Program, Modernize Workforce Training

SHRM Resources

?Investing in apprenticeships is on the to-do list of President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he wants to put $50 billion into workforce training by creating partnerships among community colleges; businesses; unions; universities and high schools; and state, local and tribal governments.These partnerships would identify knowledge and skills that are in demand, plus develop or modernize training programs that "could be as short as a few months or as long as two years" and lead to an ind

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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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How to make the business case for internal mobility

HR Zone

People The business case for internal mobility.

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Working From Home Tips for New Parents

Take It Personel-ly

There are many people working from home now, even those of us who would never have imagined working from home before. From the customer service manager who now has to manage customer queries from their home office, to the IT technician that has to try and work around the challenges that distance working has created. […].

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Three Thanksgiving Gratitude 2020 Paradigm Shifts

Babette Ten Haken - Professional Development

In 2019, I never imagined I’d be creating a 2020 Thanksgiving Gratitude blog post during a global pandemic. However, this is a very different year for all of us. And so is this blog post. Because the reality of 2020 is that all of us are wrestling with two sentiments: what we are grateful for in addition to a profound sense of loss. Especially as I continue to offer my condolences to friends, colleagues and clients who lost loved ones during 2020.

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The Most Important Parts of a Resume—Explained

The Muse

What resume components are essential, which parts are optional, and what you should never include. Plus examples of what goes in each section.

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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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10 Phone Interview Tips to Get to the Next Round

HR Digest

There’s truly nothing more rewarding than hearing from the recruiter that you’ve landed a phone interview for your dream job. It goes to show that all your hard work and efforts – editing your resume, writing a cover letter, and filling out applications on the web – have paid off. Unfortunately, a few have the skills to leave an impression during the phone screening process.

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First-Time Jobless Claims Tick Up Again

SHRM Resources

?States reported that 778,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Nov. 21, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week's revised total.The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell last week, to 6 million. The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program for people whose benefits have run their course has been showing a steady rise in claims however, now up to 4.5 million.

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Five tips for motivating employees and celebrating the festive season in 2020

HR Zone

Culture Five festive HR tips for 2020.

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The Role of the HR Business Partner

Sergio Caredda

What is the role of an HR Business Partner? What is the ideal career path to becoming one? What is the difference between an HR Generalist and an HRBP? How do you ensure a real partnership with the business? What is the biggest challenge as an HRBP? These are just some of the questions that I tried to address in an informal webinar organised as a part of a cycle of events that VF has organised together with the MSc in Management of Human Resources at the University of Milan , coordinated by prof

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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 to Use Coaching to Build Learning Agility

Digital HR Tech

Coaching and learning agility have a lot in common. In this article, we’ll take a look at their similarities. We’ll also discuss how both individuals and HR can build learning agility and what role coaching can play in that. Let’s get started! Contents How coaching and learning agility relate Tool vs. mindset How individuals can build learning agility How HR can build learning agility Coaching technology.

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7 High-Paying Jobs You Can Land Without a College Degree

The Muse

It’s not true these days that you must have a degree to get a job that pays well. Here are seven high-paying roles you can land without a degree.

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Job Posting Data Improves, but Full Recovery a Long Way Off

SHRM Resources

?Job posting activity in the U.S. is proving resilient, if slowing down from gains made this summer, according to labor market sources.The number of advertisements for job openings on Indeed is 13 percent lower year-over-year as of Nov. 13, but significantly better than the low point of 39 percent below the previous year's trend on May 1. The trend in job postings improved in May, June and July, but started to stall in August, said Jed Kolko, chief economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab.Julia Pollak

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The Weekly Dose: The Meeting Owl @owllabs

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on the Weekly Dose I take a look at a piece of tech hardware, not software that is gaining popularity with organizations who are doing more and more hybrid virtual meetings. Owl Labs developed a speaker/mic/camera combination, The Meeting Owl , that makes in-office and remote workers feel more like they are in the room. One of the biggest pains for remote workers is when they are having meetings with co-workers that are in-office is many times you don’t get the full experience of wha

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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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How To Encourage Honesty In Feedback Surveys

6Q

To ensure that your organisation is on the right track, you need to get some feedback from your most prized asset – your employees. For this to work, you need to ensure that there’s honesty in feedback surveys. When conducting feedback surveys, you always want as many employees as possible to take part. After all, the more feedback you get, the more representative a picture you obtain.

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Working From Home: The Feelings Vary From Best To Worst

Kevin Sheridan

Since working from home (WFH) has become more permanent for many employees, we thought we would share the results of a Wall Street Journal survey asking people for the best and worst parts of working from home. THE BEST THE WORST Not having to commute to/from an office: 100% The isolation: 41% Spending more time with my family: 90% Having to spend more time with my fam

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Keeping employee safety top of mind in a return-to-work strategy

HRExecutive

Employee safety is top of mind as employers strategize how to get workers back in the workplace, but with no one-size-fits-all solution, what can HR do? Employers are “in a quandary” when it comes to the state of a return to work, Katherine Jones, an independent thought leader and consultant, said recently during a live Twitter chat with HRE. Advertisement.