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3 critical HR challenges that AI hasn’t solved yet

HRExecutive

The events of the last several years have combined to elevate the attention and pressure on HR organizations everywhere. Just looking back on the disruptive HR challenges, from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread social justice issues that were at the forefront later that year to the Great Resignation of 2021, tech layoffs of 2022 and a potential recession that has had CEOs on edge for two years … HR organizations across industries and company sizes have been constantly barrage

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Register Now for HR Boot Camp on May 2-3

HRWatchdog

Do you know what the “ABC Test” is? Are you aware of what criminal history information is prohibited for job applicants? What about 2024 changes to pre-employment drug testing — do you know what drugs you can test for? When does the state mandatory paid sick leave preempt local ordinances? If you’re new to HR — or just want to update your HR skills and knowledge — these are just a few of the questions CalChamber’s employment law experts will answer in our upcoming virtual HR Boot Camp seminar, h

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Legislative lowdown: Department of Labor will extend overtime pay to 4 million salaried workers

HR Brew

Some 4 million additional salaried workers will be eligible to receive overtime pay under a final rule the Department of Labor announced on April 23. The rule raises the annual salary threshold for white-collar (i.e. executive, administrative, and professional) employees to qualify for overtime from $35,568 to $58,656. It will be fully implemented by Jan. 1, 2025.

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Enhancing Employee Engagement: Five Levels of Organizational Readiness

DecisionWise

Employee engagement is a critical aspect of any successful organization. It goes beyond mere job satisfaction; it’s about employees feeling a sense of purpose and commitment to their roles and the organization as a whole. To effectively drive employee engagement, organizations need to be ready at different levels. This article introduces the DecisionWise five-level maturity model that outlines the stages of organizational readiness for driving employee engagement.

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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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Supervising kids isn’t all that different to managing adults, explains one people pro

HR Brew

We chat 1:1 with HR pros about their career journeys. Want to be featured in an upcoming edition? Click here to share your story with us. Is working as a camp counselor anything like working as an HR manager? Ask Joe Cottew, people operations manager at coffee importer Cafe Imports, and he’ll say the two jobs are actually pretty similar. Long before Cottew ventured into HR, the then 16-year-old got his start as an assistant camp counselor at the YMCA’s Camp Ihduhapi in Loretto, Minnesota.

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The Healthcare Worker Shortage: How Relocation Incentives Can Impact Recruitment Efforts | UrbanBound

UrbanBound HR

One proven solution is to cast a wider geographic net and hire out-of-market talent in your quest for quality candidates. But in order for that to work, employers must also provide attractive relocation incentives.

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Let’s Get Unstructured: Implement Systems For Creative Advantage

Forbes Coaches Council

Here are five primary differences between structures and systems, along with pragmatic steps to implement the systems that will give you the creative advantage.

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How building belonging into company culture can save $52 million a year

HRExecutive

Employee loneliness is a growing epidemic costing organizations billions annually in extensive absenteeism and elevated turnover, a recent Cigna report shows. The cure? Building a culture of belonging, Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky , a workplace belonging expert and best-selling author, told a crowd Wednesday during his opening keynote at the Elevate People, Ignite Change (EPIC) conference. - Advertisement - Whereas diversity is having a seat at the table and inclusion is having a voice, b

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Leveraging Systems Models: A Strategic Advantage For IT Professionals

Forbes Coaches Council

The integration of systems models not only enriches IT experts' problem-solving tool kits but also ensures the delivery of innovative, sustainable solutions.

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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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Your Global HR Certification: A Professional’s Guide

Workology

Dive into HRCI Ethics! Learn its impact on HR leadership, workplace culture, and how to earn your ethics credit seamlessly. The post Your Global HR Certification: A Professional’s Guide appeared first on Workology.

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How HR leaders can navigate politics, work in a divisive election year

HRExecutive

As the 2024 presidential election draws closer, a new survey indicates that leaders and HR professionals must walk a thin line regarding politics and work by establishing safe, appropriate forums for discourse amid heightened political tensions. - Advertisement - Despite the divisive political climate, the survey of 1,000 full-time American workers by HRIS provider Sociopolitics in the U.S.

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Employee Benefits Planning: A Complete Guide

HR Tech Girl

Learn the ins and outs of employee benefits planning to help you make effective use of your employee benefits offering. The post Employee Benefits Planning: A Complete Guide appeared first on People Managing People.

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Education Requirements To Pursue an HR Specialist Career

Analytics in HR

If you’re thinking about moving into a human resources specialist role, it’s essential to consider HR specialist education requirements. On average, there are about 78,700 openings for HR specialists each year in the US. Knowing what organizations are looking for and what you need to be successful can help you stand out from the crowd and get the job you want.

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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 Set Successful DEIB Goals for Your Team: 8 Tips

Ongig

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives have been on quite a rollercoaster ride in recent years. Organizations find themselves at a crossroads when it comes to DEIB goals. So, should they retain these initiatives as standalone directives? Or should they integrate them into the broader organizational narrative? Groups have spoken out regarding the former, with claims that DEIB has distracted decision-makers from core company objectives.

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Effective Strategies for Construction Recruiting Partnerships

Qualigence Blog

In today’s construction job market, top talents are flooded with offers, giving them the luxury of choice among the best companies. This scenario underlines the criticality of adopting innovative recruiting strategies. If you aim to enhance your recruitment efforts and secure transformational talent swiftly and effortlessly, you may want to consider a construction recruiting partner.

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Turning EVP insights into Action at Arbor Memorial

Blu Ivy Group

Are you an HR leader or a brand strategist aiming to make a tangible impact on your organization? Then our latest episode of Blu Thread Conversations is a must-listen for you. Key Takeaways: Authenticity and employee listening are key to developing an EVP that truly reflects organizational culture. Strategic partnerships between HR and marketing can elevate employer branding and internal culture initiatives.

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Time to Learn at Work: Getting Buy-in is a Company Relay

Degreed

The skills race is on, yet the #1 challenge facing L&D professionals is providing employees enough time to learn at work. Employees sit on the starting line long after the starting gun is fired because they don’t have time to learn new skills. How can L&D professionals give employees enough time to learn work? Everyone wants to win. To achieve success, you must demonstrate to executives, employees, and managers that investing more time to learn at work is crucial.

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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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Can Your Corporate Culture Influence Workplace Violence?

Civility Partners

Workplace violence is a serious concern for organizations worldwide. While there are many reasons why it happens, one thing that doesn’t get enough attention is the company culture itself. How people act and treat each other at work can make violence more or less likely to happen. In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that there was a worker fatality approximately every 96 minutes due to work-related injuries.

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Unleashing the Power of Systemic HR and People Analytics

Hire Road

Unleashing the Power of Systemic HR and People Analytics Human resources (HR) work has typically been considered administrative since the turn of the 20th century. As large corporations became the norm over the years, HR professionals took on various roles related to finding and managing human capital, including recruiting, payroll, benefits, incentives, compliance, and career development.

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FlashPoint Named to the 2024 Top Leadership Training Companies Watch List

FlashPoint

Future-Focused Leadership Development FlashPoint is honored to share that we’ve been chosen by Training Industry for the 2024 Top Leadership Training Companies Watch List. This recognition highlights FlashPoint’s unwavering commitment to fostering leadership skills that cater to the evolving demands of the modern workplace. "We are honored to be listed amongst these prestigious companies who have a shared passion for leadership development," said Krista Skidmore, CEO & Founder of FlashPoint.

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Construction Employee Engagement – It’s Time for a New Perspective

The Incentive Solutions News blog

You might be tempted to roll your eyes at the term “employee engagement,” often dismissed as HR jargon or a warm and fuzzy concept reserved for office settings. It’s an abstract concept, not easy define and almost impossible to truly measure. But consider: for industries like construction, employee engagement can mean life or death. An employee who’s disengaged, or not paying attention, letting muscle memory or habit guide their actions, can put their life or the lives of others in danger.

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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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Unlocking Employee Success: The Power of Emotional Intelligence Training in the Workplace

CultureStrategy

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected business world, technical skills alone are no longer sufficient for achieving success. More and more companies are recognizing the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) in driving productivity, fostering collaboration, and enhancing overall workplace satisfaction. By investing in emotional intelligence training programs, organizations are empowering their employees to navigate complex interpersonal dynamics with empathy, self-awareness, and effe

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FTC Votes to Ban Most Noncompetes

BerniePortal

Do you use a noncompete agreement at your workplace? According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), around 30 million American workers are currently covered by a noncompete. A noncompete agreement is a contract that some organizations require employees to sign, preventing them from working for competitor companies during or after their employment.

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Not Measuring Your Culture Yet? Your Board of Directors May Wonder Why (i4cp login required)

i4cp

Every year, i4cp surveys its community of senior HR executives to identify what they believe leaders should be prepared for in the coming year. For 2024, the four most important topics on the minds of these leaders were: High-performance organizations stepping up HR's involvement in AI strategy; Forward-looking organizations creating future-of-work leadership roles; Culture measures—both quantitative and qualitative—which are now expected; and Macro pressures continuing to drive work

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Learning to Let Go: A Comprehensive Guide to Sample Termination Letters

HR Digest

Crafting a sample termination letter is a critical task in the realm of human resources, serving as the formal notification that outlines the reasons behind an employee’s dismissal and the specifics surrounding their departure from the company. Given its significance, it’s crucial to construct these letters with care to safeguard the company from potential legal repercussions and provide a comprehensive summary of the situation to the departing employee.

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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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Written warning template for employee discipline

Business Management Daily

Managers should strive to address performance issues early through coaching and verbal warnings. Hopefully, prompt conversations about underperformance or common issues like tardiness will be enough to nip the issue in the bud, but sometimes a more formal approach is needed. That’s where written warnings can help. If you have an employee who keeps violating company policies or has not heeded past warnings to improve their performance, it’s time to issue a written warning.

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How Skills-Based Hiring Could Elevate Career Opportunities

UKG

Skills-based hiring is a paradigm shift. It's a strategy that not only benefits employers by ensuring they acquire the right talent for the job, but also empowers candidates to showcase their capabilities beyond what their resume may suggest.

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Guide to MEC plans

PeopleKeep

Some employers must provide a health insurance plan with minimum essential coverage (MEC) to avoid penalties under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and ensure employees have access to essential healthcare services. In some cases, these employers may consider a type of group plan called a MEC plan. However, simply providing a no-frills MEC plan instead of a more comprehensive health benefit may not be enough to meet the needs of your employees.

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