September, 2020

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Want to increase workplace diversity? Here’s how

Insperity

You’ve got a problem, and you’re not afraid to own up to it. Your company isn’t diverse. You know you can do better, and you want diversity and equity to be a priority in your organization. So, what now? Let’s jump right into this important topic and get clear about: What diversity in the workplace really looks like Practical practices you can start implementing Your goals and timeline to increase workplace diversity Some mistakes you’ll want to avoid.

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DOL Clarifies Who Is an Independent Contractor in Proposed Rule

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to clarify when a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act or an independent contractor.

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Improve data accuracy, reporting, and compliance by bringing HR and payroll together

cipHR

Improve data accuracy, reporting, and compliance by bringing HR and payroll together. Is it possible to manage all of my people data and pay my people from the same system? The answer is yes – if you invest in a single, integrated HR and payroll solution. At a time when HR is having to take on new responsibilities as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and payroll teams are having to ensure all employees are paid accurately, and on schedule during uncertain times , collaboration between these

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Talent Acquisition is NOT Marketing. Here’s why!

The Tim Sackett Project

We love, I love, to say Recruiting is Marketing! I love Recruitment Marketing and the technology behind it, I think it’s brilliant! Recruiting is also not sales! Why is Recruiting neither Marketing nor Sales? What’s the core function of marketing and sales? To welcome as many people as possible into your funnel so that all of those people will buy your product or service, or give to your charity, etc.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Women Entrepreneurs Take Charge During COVID-19

Thrive Global

The COVID-19 pandemic has evoked change throughout every industry and for many of the world’s leading companies and entrepreneurs. While the pandemic has presented a new set of challenges, female entrepreneurs, Leslie Fajfar and Audra Gold, have stayed on track in reaching their endeavors by reflecting back on their careers, the challenges they’ve faced and what drives success in order to maintain a positive outlook and healthy ambition during these unprecedented times.

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Managing Virtual Employee Engagement During Crisis

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Clear communications around actions, behaviors and expectations with respect to the realities, goals and execution plans before, during and after a crisis is critical to ensure changes are instituted seamlessly with minimal disruption.

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Carrot and Schtick: Which is the best - Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation | Xoxoday

Xoxoday

Personalized external targets & opportunities to nurture inner spark. Design the right carrot to unlock the true schtick. Your team needs a blend of both to shine.

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Helpful Tips to Improve Employee Retention During COVID-19

Hppy

If you have ever managed a team or business and had a top employee resign out of the blue, you must deal with an array of challenges. Not only do you have to find a replacement for this individual, but you also have to consider the impact this sudden departure will have on the other members of your team. When someone walks out, people notice. Some may also wonder if they need to begin searching for a new job, too.

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office won’t call me “lord,” everyone has ideas but won’t do the work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Everyone has ideas, but no one wants to do the work. I belong to an all-volunteer organization that does a lot of good in our community. However, most of the work is done by a small core group of volunteers. There are several others who serve on the board or committees who “contribute” primarily by generating lots of ideas for projects or approaches, but never step up to implement their ideas.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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How to apply design thinking to employee experience

HR Zone

Employees Creating the 'designer' employee experience.

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Study Finds Productivity Not Deterred by Shift to Remote Work

SHRM Resources

Recent research shows that the skepticism many companies had related to working from home may be eroding. Ninety-four percent of 800 employers surveyed by Mercer, an HR and workplace benefits consulting firm, said that productivity was the same or higher than it was before the pandemic, even with their employees working remotely.

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Talent Acquisition Trends for a Human Approach

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Talent acquisition leaders will need to switch up their processes to fill positions again while trying to regain a human connectedness in a very different post-COVID future. These are the talent acquisition trends you can expect with a human approach to TA.

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Averbook: Employee engagement is hard; How to overcome that

HRExecutive

Are people engaged, or are they enraged? How do you drive engagement and foster a sense of connection and relationship with work when we don’t have old crutches on which to rely; when we’re asking people to manage and thrive in chaos out of necessity; when it’s easier to keep people connected than it is to create a meaningful sense of connection? We’re asked constantly to talk about engagement.

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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Influencers or Analysts? Who has the most impact on your brand?

The Tim Sackett Project

The worlds of Influencers and Analysts have never collied more than they are right now in the HR industry. Most of this has to do with the popularity of Influencer Marketing that has taken off in the past decade, and like most things in HR, we are now just catching up with the marketing trend. Traditionally, in the HR space, companies selling products, technology, and services only really cared about two things: 1.

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my mentor has become a QAnon conspiracist

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I need some career-adjacent advice that intersects with the current political climate. I’ve been a wreck for about two weeks, since discovering that a mentor of mine seems to have gotten sucked in by QAnon. Any other acquaintance would be written off unsentimentally. But this feels different, partly because I am CRUSHED to lose this person as a trusted mentor and friend.

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Healing the divide between furloughed and non-furloughed employees

HR Zone

Employees How to heal the divide caused by furlough.

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1.4 Million Jobs Gained in August; Unemployment Rate Falls to 8 Percent

SHRM Resources

U.S. payrolls increased by 1.4 million in August, about what was expected, as the pace of rehiring has slowed and layoffs continue. The unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent from 10.2 percent in July, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. August was the first month after a $600 weekly unemployment supplement expired, and stimulus programs shoring up businesses that retained workers lapsed.Check back here later this morning for more analysis from labor market experts

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Solving Ongoing Struggles of Retention with Healthcare Recruitment Strategies

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

In terms of recruitment, the global pandemic had a particularly profound effect on the healthcare industry. Now in the latter half of the year, we’ll take a look at the current state of recruitment, unraveling the cycle of healthcare turnover, and the best practices and tech that industry leaders are adopting to manage the changes in healthcare recruitment strategies going forward.

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ICE and DHS Employer COVID Guidance You Need to Know

Cisive

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) requires employers in the United States to complete the ‘Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification’ for all newly-hired employees to verify their identity and their employment authorization to work in the country. Both employers and employees must complete the form. On March 19, 2020, due to precautions implemented by employers and employees associated with COVID-19, the DHS announced it would exercise prosecutorial discretion to defer th

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11 New Strategies for Juggling WFH and Kids (Because We’re Going to Be Here Awhile)

The Muse

Working from home with kids for a few weeks is one thing in an emergency. Doing it for the indefinite future is another. Here are some tips for the long term.

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Technology and the modern workplace: Cultivating D&I

HRExecutive

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is profitability. According to a recent McKinsey study , businesses with gender-diverse workspaces were 21% more likely to attain above-average profit and those that were culturally and ethnically diverse were 33% more likely to outperform competitors.

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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Are Your Strategic Business Stories too Ambiguous?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

What happens when strategic business stories become too ambiguous to everyone, including you? Yesterday, we explored whether your compelling business stories are too specific and tactically focused. Today, let’s explore what happens when your stories get lost in the strategic clouds. When strategic business stories are too ambiguous, decision makers ask: “What do you expect me to do with this information?

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How companies can build a high performance, people-first culture

HR Zone

Culture 8 steps to a high-performing culture.

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Lean, Mean HR Machine

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

Dan Sines, CEO of Traitify, discusses how HR teams must juggle the simultaneous concerns of keeping furloughed employees engaged, re-recruiting the company’s workers, and preparing to re-onboard members of the team while maintaining a positive candidate experience.

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How Telcos Can Groom Talent for the Trillion-dollar 5G Opportunity

Eightfold

5G is not just the next generation of telecom technology. It is probably one of the greatest technological shifts in our society. At its peak (high band and above) it has potential to change the world into a fairytale land we have seen in sci-fi movies, a digital city with flying cars, intelligent roads, and smart homes. 5G has the potential to power all of those.

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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Psychological safety leads to better managers and teams at this major enterprise

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

What makes an effective team? In 2012, Google conducted a multi-year study to answer that question. They used a combination of “hard” performance metrics and “soft” evaluations by leaders, executives and team members to measure effectiveness and found eight attributes that contribute to it. The most important one was psychological safety, a concept from the work of Harvard professor Amy Edmondson that means that team members feel safe taking interpersonal risks.

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Meet the HR Tech keynote speakers: Josh Bersin

HRExecutive

This is the first in a series introducing our keynote speakers and their HR Tech Conference content. Check back soon for more. *. Like most, Josh Bersin is spending hours every day on video calls; for Bersin, the content of those calls is largely focused on the strategies and innovations to make today’s—and tomorrow’s—workplaces more tenable for employees, given the disruption of the pandemic.

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Employee Communication Strategies That Work for a Virtual Workforce

Cisive

Many of our teams and employees are now working from home. HR teams have had to find new ways to engage, build relationships, and share company updates and information, along with HR changes and resources virtually. We are competing for attention as our employees deal with personal struggles and challenges including sick loved ones and family members as well as finding ways to entertain kids at home with limited childcare options while working remotely.