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Considering a four-day workweek? These employers experimented with different approaches

HR Brew

So, rather than shortening the workweek for all, the company has no meetings on Fridays, allowing employees to focus on independent work, and sign off when they’re done. “Soft Fridays [mean] that we are trusting each other to get our work done and log off when we can on Friday,” Chief of Staff Alli Ray previously told HR Brew.

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Yelp increased employee tenure by over a year after taking these three steps

HR Brew

The company solicits feedback from employees via an annual engagement survey (at the corporate level), focus groups, meetings, and other sources like Slack channels. Jones said she has benefited from coaching support from her previous manager.

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EY’s head of global talent attraction and acquisition leads a team that handles 5.1 million applications, 100,000 hires annually

HR Brew

Some of the biggest challenges facing her team include tasking her recruiters with acting as career coaches rather than focusing on administrative responsibilities, understanding the current labor market and EYs workforce strategy, and understanding labor shortages as an immediate issue despite current growing retention.

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Disabled workers deal with unreported discrimination, denied accommodations, Deloitte survey finds

HR Brew

They also said that physically accessible workspaces and making disability inclusion part of board meeting agendas can help make cultures more inclusive. Assistive technologies (such as screen readers or closed captioning technology) and coaching were requested the least and denied the most, with rejection rates of 63% and 64%.

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The Top 5 Principles to Design Executive Coaching for Measurable Impact

As organizations consider how to build the credibility and impact of coaching in their companies, it is critical to be thoughtful in the design of each coaching engagement and coaching program. The 2 phases of ROI coaching. Phase 1- Implementing an ROI coaching design. Phase 1- Implementing an ROI coaching design.

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High-performance coaching: What is it, and can it help HR boost engagement?

HRExecutive

In response, high-performance coaching is emerging as a key strategy to enhance engagement. This coaching approach instead focuses on maximizing potential and driving performance by starting with the assumption that team members are motivated and capable. Traditional approaches often lead to increased employee disengagement.

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How this recruiter realized she was interviewing an AI deepfake

HR Brew

They never accepted the Google Meet invite, and though they joined the 10-minute interview, (possibly via a private browser like Incognito, leading Google to flag them as suspicious), they did not turn on their cameradeclining Liporazzis repeated requests to do so, claiming it was broken. You want to help people.

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Continuous Improvement - Flipping the Script on Your Coaching Culture

Speaker: Jordan George, Director, Leadership & Talent Development

In 2015, another survey found that half of millennial employees aged 18-34 left their annual review meeting feeling they couldn’t do anything right, while 25% began to immediately look for another job. Practical advice for gradually (and successfully) shifting your coaching culture towards one of continuous improvement.

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Collaborate Better with Your Customer-Facing Teams

Speaker: Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach, Fearless Product LLC

Join Hope Gurion, Product Leader Coach at Fearless Product, as she shares 3 techniques to accelerate your cross-functional collaboration with other customer-centered teams like sales, product marketing, and customer success. These 3 techniques will cover: Why and how to hold Customer-journey meetings.