Sat.Apr 27, 2019 - Fri.May 03, 2019

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You Can’t Tell Your Employees to Unplug If You Don’t Do It Yourself

HR Bartender

Technology is a wonderful thing. It’s amazing what we can do today using technology. That being said, technology can also create challenges. And I’m not talking about whether our technology works or not (although that can be a problem). There’s research that indicates our use of technology can have a negative impact on our wellbeing. I recently shared with you Dan Schawbel’s new book “Back to Human”, where he talks about technology creating workplace loneliness.

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How to Quickly Improve Any Performance Appraisal System

DecisionWise

Performance Reviews Need Help. In a recent survey conducted by Adobe, 88% of the survey participants indicated they were part of a performance appraisal process. This same study found that managers in these programs spent, on average, 17 hours per employee preparing for their performance reviews. Yet, these findings were overshadowed by the discovery that 59% indicated that performance reviews “do not have an impact on how they do their jobs;” instead, they called them a “needless HR requirement

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how do I get my coworkers to shut up about Game of Thrones?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: All of my coworkers are all obsessed with Game of Thrones, but I don’t watch it, nor am I interested. We sit in an open office and they talk out loud about it all day long — fan theories, character arcs, whatever. I feel like I know the plot of every episode. They know I don’t watch, and sometimes they try to include me to be nice, but I always demur.

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How to Attract Top Talent With Recruitment Videos [INFOGRAPHIC]

TalentLyft

Learn how to attract top talent with great recruitment videos ! Video is one of the best ways of selling a company to prospective employees. Find out more about how to create a top-quality recruitment video in this infographic guide. Read More.

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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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BLS Reports Lowest Unemployment in 50 Years

SHRM Resources

U.S. employers added 263,000 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 percent, the lowest since December 1969, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report.

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#WorkTrends: The Bridge Between Work and Technology

TalentCulture

This episode is especially exciting for me. I love all of my guests, but it isn’t every day that I have one of my BFFs on the program. So I’m really pumped to have China Gorman back on #WorkTrends this week. Among her many jobs, Gorman is managing director of UNLEASH’s U.S. operations, and this week she gave us a special sneak peek at UNLEASH America, which will be May 14-15 in Las Vegas.

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we have to write deeply personal poems and share them at a staff meeting

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a small values-driven company, and recently there has been an effort to do more relationship building among staff. Ahead of our next all staff meeting, we are required to write a “where I’m from” poem, based on the format of this work by George Ella Lyon. While it seems like a fine introspective journaling activity, I am uncomfortable with the requirement to write them and share them with our coworkers and leadership.

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3 HR Roles of the Future

Digital HR Tech

We talk a lot about how technology is changing the world of work. And indeed, the combination of automation and the arrival of new technologies will lead to the extinction of certain jobs, but more importantly, it will push a lot of us to up-skill in order to get ready for the future. We also talk a lot about the role of HR in this digital transformation; how can HR help organizations and their employees to become future proof?

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The problem with modern leadership: diversity, inclusion and the ‘hero’ complex

HR Zone

Change. Why we should adopt a servant model of leadership.

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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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Why Virtual Career Fairs Are a Hot Trend in Hiring

TalentCulture

Joe Milner, the talent acquisition manager at educational publishing and assessment giant Pearson, was at a campus event in Northern California when a company executive broached the idea of bringing in some of the promising students to the company’s primary locations in other states for interviews. “We started to do the math on airfare, hotels, all that stuff, and it starts getting expensive,” Milner says.

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10 performance review biases and how to avoid them

CultureAmp

I am biased, you are biased, all humans are biased. Not buying it yet? Consider the research of Daniel Kahneman , a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman demonstrated one simple truth: the vast majority of human decisions are based on biases, beliefs, and intuition, not facts or logic.

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5 Employee Development Resources for New Managers

Workology

One of the most important services HR leaders are called on to provide is resources for new managers. New manager training varies so much based on length of previous management experience or, in the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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An Interview with Tesla’s Felicia Mayo on Creating a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion

HR Digest

Creating an Environment that Encourages Cognitive Diversity In a remarkable interview with The HR Digest, Felicia Mayo talks about the value of cognitive diversity in the global business sector and what makes a great leader. “The ability to inspire, motivate and create followership is nirvana,” she says. “When you have a leader that exhibits this strength, that leader can rally employees towards the impossible.

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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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4 Remote Work Tips for Separating Work and Life

Take It Personel-ly

While there are many benefits modern employees crave, one of the most glaring is a healthy work-life balance. Work-life balance refers to the stability that an individual needs between time dedicated to work and other aspects of life such as family time, social activities and hobbies. One adjustment that many businesses have made to accommodate […].

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Top 3 Emergency Notification Tips for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019

OnSolve

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019 is May 13 ? 17. This global event is a time to consider business continuity and the value an effective continuity management program can have for your organization. An emergency notification system is a crucial tool in any business continuity plan. Every day, events like the following happen with no warning: Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters Active shooter Urban wildfire Power outages Cybercrime Disease outbreaks Workplace violence.

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Ep 6 – Trend Alert: Texting Job Seekers On the Rise

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Motivating employees to higher performance

HR Morning

Building and sustaining an energized workforce that takes initiative requires creating an inspiring atmosphere. Some of the key features of such a workplace are: A creative work environment where employees are able to express themselves openly. A work environment not stifled by unnecessary process and policy hurdles. A challenging and constructive work environment featuring constant feedback.

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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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A Hard Truth about Employee Engagement

Jason Lauritsen

There was a point in my career, probably 18 or 20 years or so ago, that I would have argued vehemently that creating a workplace culture that engages employees was vital to sustaining a profitable business. I believed in my heart that it was an imperative. At the time, I was an HR leader working at an organization where my CEO really believed (and invested) in the value of people not only as employees but as human beings with lives beyond work.

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How Healthcare Employers Can Invest in Strategic Workforce Planning

Precheck

How Healthcare Employers Can Invest in Strategic Workforce Planning Apr. 30, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Healthcare organizations are facing a workforce crunch. The combination of an aging population and the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of access to healthcare has increased the need for health services and resulted in employee shortages throughout the industry.

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Ep 179 – Creating a Leadership Empathy Mindset

Workology

Studies on organizational change show that leaders across the board agree: if you want to lead a successful transformation, communicating empathetically is critical. We touched on empathy in a recent. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Studies on organizational change show that leaders across the board agree: if you want to lead a successful transformation, communicating empathetically is critical.

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Top Platforms For Solving Communication Issues Of Remote Teams

New to HR

Running a remote team can have it’s challenges. From syncing of time zones to general issues regarding camaraderie there are many issues to address. If these problems are not unknown to you, you can find valuable answers to some of. The post Top Platforms For Solving Communication Issues Of Remote Teams appeared first on New To HR.

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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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45 Empowering Quotes from Female Leaders

Take It Personel-ly

Although women face many challenges in business and entrepreneurship, more women than ever are starting businesses, earning C-level positions, and leaving legacies far beyond their job title. For Women’s History Month this year, celebrate the successes and future of female leaders with these empowering quotes from inspirational women. These quotes from women in business, fashion, […].

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Behavioural excellence: an essential quality in high performance leaders?

HR Zone

Change. Behavioural excellence: essential for leadership?

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Why Resilience is a Top Skill Needed in Today’s Workplace

BetterUp

In my work as a researcher at BetterUp Labs , I have an opportunity to speak with business leaders across multiple industries about their biggest challenges. One theme continues to emerge—change at breakneck speed has become the norm in business today and it’s overwhelming our workforces. Workplace environments are reaching a breaking point. Employees are under enormous pressure to continuously adapt to new technologies, shifting priorities, and ways of working—and they aren’t equipped to keep u

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The Role Of Regular Feedback In Continuous Learning

Engagedly

According to Corporate Executive Board (CEB), continuous learning culture is an environment that supports an open mind, an independent quest for knowledge and supports shared learning which contributes to organizational success. Most companies these days focus more on […].

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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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HR and Chatbots Are Learning Together

SHRM Resources

Whether called chatbots, digital assistants or conversational artificial intelligence (AI), companies are using the technology to enhance HR service, boost productivity, and help deliver more rewarding and personalized experiences for job candidates and employees.

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Wellbeing at work: how self-care and success work hand-in-hand

HR Zone

Employees. Self-care: the key to success.

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Utilise Team Building to Improve Leadership in the Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

The word team building used to be met with raised eyebrows and groans from employees and employers alike. However, in the modern world we now live in, it has taken on a whole new meaning and is being much better received than it ever has before. Why? Because corporate event management has seen significant improvements […].