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9 Ways To Give Effective Employee Feedback

15Five

Employee feedback is an incredibly powerful tool. If offered properly, it has the ability to grow and develop the people of your organization, improve the levels of trust and communication, and strengthen bonds between employees and managers. But unfortunately, feedback is often ignored or omitted entirely in an effort to avoid discomfort. Here are nine tips to help managers and leaders give employee feedback that’s frequent, effective, and will help you get you the outcome you need. 1.

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Employer Branding: Harness the Power of Your Story

Blu Ivy Group

I’m sure I’m not alone in this, but it feels like a really long time since I have read a blog post or corporate communication or webinar invitation that wasn’t related to COVID-19. And I’d love to say this is that post, but it is not – at least not completely. This blog post has been rolling around in my head for a few months, pre-COVID even, but recent events have inspired me to finally put words on a page.

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There Are Six "Manager of People" Brands - Which One Are You?

The HR Capitalist

Any manager of people has a lot on their plate. After all, a general pre-requisite to getting your first manager job is being a great individual contributor. Then, at some point in your first month in your new manager role, you realize the reality – you still have a bunch to do on your own as well as managing your new team. Just because you're a manager doesn’t mean you stop cranking out individual contributor greatness.

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Boost Your Own Morale: Staying Positive During Your Job Search

GetFive

The typical job search can be very hard on the ego. You’re continually being judged, the value of your past experiences is in question and you may face more rejection than you’ve ever felt in your life. While that feeling is normal, it’s crucial you’re able to overcome the resulting self-doubt and move forward with your quest. Letting discouragement seep into the tone of your job queries or interviews will help no one, and at times you’ll need to be your own best friend to quiet that negative vo

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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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Coping with Unexpected Staffing Changes: More From the Experts

Justworks

As COVID-19 continues to impact companies everywhere, many employers are wondering how they’ll take care of their teams. Given this uncertainty, Justworks partnered with customer Octave to host a webinar that aimed to help answer some of the small business community’s most pressing questions on coping with staffing changes. Together, Justworks’ HR Consultant Moses Balian and Octave’s Chief Clinical Officer Dr.

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Increase The Value Of Feedback By Empowering Your Employees To Ask For It

15Five

Do you know how—or if—your managers are offering feedback to their employees? While feedback can be a strong way to improve learning and increase performance, it must occur frequently and given effectively for it to hold any power. For many, these improvement conversations happen once a year or quarterly, but really, they should be happening at least weekly.

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Establishing Kindness and Trust in the Workplace

SHRM

It’s a challenging time. Political divisiveness is rife. Economic gaps get wider. And now, the world is on edge over the health and economic impact of a new virus. It’s clear to me that employers must become the trusted entity in peoples’ lives, in addition to the source of earnings, career and job fulfillment. Any company that fails to do this will lose top people, lose top customers and fail to achieve its financial goals.

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Workforce Analytics: A Model For Predictive & Prescriptive Capability

Perceptyx

Although managing fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is currently at the forefront of business leaders’ attention, we continue to look forward to the day when we are able to return to some sense of normalcy. Many of the observations in the following article are applicable to employee listening strategies during the pandemic, but if you are interested in learning more about organizational response specific to COVID-19, there are several articles on our blog with insights about helping employees n

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Finding A Healthy Work from Home Routine to Keep You Sane

Take It Personel-ly

Many people feel so concerned about their productivity levels when they start working from home. They wonder how to balance putting in the hours with taking care of the kids. They’re not sure they can stay focused on what needs to be done and bring in enough money to cover the bills. But, although these […].

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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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Mental health: how to facilitate positivity in anxious teams during the coronavirus pandemic

HR Zone

Employees Facilitating a 'daily diet' of positivity.

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If You Are Efficient You’re Doing it the Wrong Way!

The Tim Sackett Project

I read this interview with Jerry Seinfeld recently and I wanted to share a piece from it below: A few thoughts on this… You know I’m all about efficiency when the process calls for being efficient, like in recruiting. When you start talking about being creative, like Jerry is above, that’s when you have to throw efficiency out the window.

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Creating a High Trust Culture: Who is Responsible?

Culture University

Right now, organizational trust is being stretched to its limits, perhaps even more so than following the 2008 financial crisis. In addition to the massive disruptions across all societal institutions caused by the current pandemic, this crisis has brought even more attention to the critical importance of organizational trust as reported by SmartBrief here and here.

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Preparing Employees To Return To Work: A New Playbook | Perceptyx

Perceptyx

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic of the century … but it is the first one to require a new employee playbook. The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first viral pandemic in the 21st century; that distinction goes to the 2009–2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic. However, these two pandemics differ sharply. An H1N1 vaccine was approved in September 2009, five months after the first case was reported.

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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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The future of work: how Covid-19 will change working culture for good

HR Zone

Culture How Covid-19 will change working culture.

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3 ideas for navigating a new job in a virtual world

HRExecutive

With so much uncertainty surrounding the current state of business, it’s no surprise that companies are scrambling to figure out new ways to conduct traditionally tried-and-true tasks. The graduating class of 2020 and droves of interns may likely find themselves in a truly unique position: entering the workforce in a virtual capacity. This is particularly interesting when you consider that strategies and plans for internships and onboarding sessions set months ago now have to adjust to a sudden

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Our Crisis of Trust in the Workplace

Jason Lauritsen

As I’ve talked to leaders and managers over the past weeks, the two biggest issues on their minds have been supporting remote work and the “return to the office” plan. The general feeling I get from most I talk to is that they believe remote working is temporary, and they are expecting (or at least their leadership team is) to simply roll out some kind of plan that brings everyone back to the office relatively soon.

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Biggest Challenges of HR Professionals in COVID-19 Pandemic

Vantage Circle

Who on earth has ever thought of the challenges that 2020 would bring? HR professionals have certainly not imagined the challenges that COVID-19 has dawned on them. The uncertainty has crushed the economy, employees are in stressful situations, and HR professionals are trying their best to keep everything in perspective and aligned. But is it as easy as it sounds?

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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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Return to work: HR must prioritise mental health as lockdown eases

HR Zone

People Back to work: where’s your head at?

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Things To Consider When Recognizing Remote Employees

Engagedly

COVID- 19 has changed the way we do business. We need to find ways to keep our remote workforce engaged and happy now, more than ever. The pandemic is making companies mandate working from home for their workforce. […].

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How to keep your workforce passionate during this downturn

HR Morning

No matter where employees physically work right now, most are struggling to stay focused, productive and passionate about their job. They’re distracted by uncertainty, new or changing responsibilities, newsfeeds and an unsettling desire to return to normalcy. On top of all that, there’s work! And it turns out it’s even harder to focus on work when they’re remote.

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3 Ways to Address the Mental Health Impact of Covid-19

WeSpire

Saturday Spark #59. By Susan Hunt Stevens, Founder & CEO. This week, the UN warned about the heavy health toll of Covid-19, but the focus of this message wasn’t on the devastating physical effects of the virus. The focus was on the mental health toll that the pandemic is inflicting. “The COVID-19 virus is not only attacking our physical health; it is also increasing psychological suffering: grief at the loss of loved ones, shock at the loss of jobs, isolation and restrictions on moveme

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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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Flexible working: how will the pandemic impact working parents in the long term?

HR Zone

People The future of work for parents.

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What is Certain During These Uncertain Times?

Julie Winkle Giulioni

I was speaking with a colleague recently who said, “If I hear or read ‘these uncertain times’ once more, I’m going to scream!” And now, everywhere I turn, I’m aware of these words as well – in the news, business articles, podcasts, and advertising. While there’s no argument that the uncertainty is real, perhaps it’s time to shift the focus of our attention and conversations to what is certain.

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The 30-60-90 Day Plan: Your Secret Weapon for New Job Success (Template Included!)

The Muse

Read our career advice article, The 30-60-90 Day Plan: Your Secret Weapon for New Job Success (Template Included!).

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Home Workouts During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Take It Personel-ly

The Coronavirus outbreak has affected us all in so many ways. Our work, our social life, shopping, and exercise have all been altered. For the people passionate about fitness, not hitting the gym may be hard, but it is strongly advised to skip on them until the Pandemic is under control. Touching gym equipment poses […].

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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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Covid-19: how to deal with health and safety concerns in your return to work plan

HR Zone

Strategy Return to work: the new era of risk.

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Goal Setting for Remote Employees: What Goes In

Engagedly

In today’s world, there is not much option when it comes to where people want to work from. If you wish to be safe, you have got to stay in and work from home. On the brighter side, […].

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Why Remote Employee Engagement Activities Are Actually Engaging

Fond

Almost overnight, colleagues who saw each other every day became members of completely remote workforces. As we all settle into this indefinite period of social distancing, remote employee engagement activities are more important than ever — but many people remain skeptical about how effectively culture and community at work can be translated virtually.