June, 2021

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Leadership in the Hybrid Workplace

The People Equation

Is the hybrid workplace here to stay? A behavioral scientist named Jon Levy wrote an article in the Boston Globe (gated access) that essentially said, “Nah, I don’t think so.” And the internet blew up. (As it does.) Whether he’s correctly called it or not remains to be seen. For now, leadership in the hybrid workplace definitely is a thing and here are my hot takes for your consideration.

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Leverage Your Circle of Influence to Improve Employee Engagement

DecisionWise

The concept of the Circle of Influence was made popular in Stephen Covey’s best-selling book , 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , released in 1989. In the chapter describing the first habit, Be Proactive , he explains how people respond differently to factors that are in their Circle of Concern , Influence , and Control. Many people tend to think of factors that are either within or outside their control.

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4 Ways to Foster a Continuous Feedback Culture

15Five

Feedback shouldn’t be just a once-a-year activity. The most engaged companies make feedback a continuous endeavor from monthly surveys to biweekly one-on-ones. However, giving feedback is much easier said than done. Chances are, you’ve probably committed at least one feedback faux pas. Some employers talk about how they would’ve done things better. Others only highlight what a team member does wrong while skimping on recognition.

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How to Hire the Right Talents for Your Tech Startup

Hppy

It is often noted that talent is more important than technology or that soft skills come before hard skills. This is especially in reference to digital transformation or the role of IT in an organization. Whatever the size of your business, the employees are what will drive it to success, so recruitment should always be a first priority. . For candidates applying for a position at an IT company, a resume website could be the extra feature that will make all the difference. .

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

It may not be surprising that during 2020, social and political conflict —along with ongoing challenges due to COVID-19—helped position the employee relations (ER) function as a vital factor in shaping positive employee experiences. Advertisement Yet, without a strong focus on analytics, reaching those ER objectives will be an even tougher challenge, according to HR Acuity’s fifth annual Employee Relations Benchmark Study.

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The Difference Between a Talent Marketplace and Opportunity Marketplace

Degreed

A car isn’t much help when you need to move 30 people. Likewise, a big bus isn’t designed to carry just one person to an exact destination. Every vehicle is optimized for a specific purpose. The same applies to the technology powering your workforce mobility strategy. Take this into consideration and the road ahead is smooth. Without proper assessment, you might end up taking some wrong turns. .

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Workforce and Hiring Trends for Employers in a Post-COVID World

Cisive

Employers are beginning to open back up and are considering what their business and hiring will look like this summer and moving forward. We want to share trends in hiring temporary, contract, freelance and gig workers as a way to supplement and scale your staff. As part of their business recovery plans in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and related market uncertainty, many employers are using or evaluating flexible staffing options, such as gig workers, contractors and staffing agencies.

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Can non-formal learning be measured?

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Talent professionals know that one-and-done training doesn’t work. We’ve moved on to blended learning, learning journeys and learning clusters so we can chunk content into a more digestible bites of spaced learning delivered over time. If we are willing to navigate further into the murky area of non-formal learning, we can still measure success.

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6 Ideas To Help You Become the Manager You’ve Always Wanted To Be

Celarity

Congratulations! You’ve finally landed the opportunity to lead your own team. That’s really exciting and probably a little scary. You’re responsible for the quality of work, effectiveness, and growth of a team. Plus, you now have to navigate new territories, including hiring, professional development, dealing with turnover, and more.

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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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HR Tech Number of the Day: employee views on automation

HRExecutive

4 hours, 59 minutes: Amount of time American employees say they waste each week on tasks that could be automated The role of automation in making HR more productive is well-documented, and new research shows that employees also see value in automation—and are clamoring for more efficient work tech. Advertisement A survey of 2,000 office workers by robotic process automation software company UiPath found that respondents reported wasting 4 hours, 59 minutes every week on activities they say could

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DOL Plans Minimum-Wage Hike for Contractors, Help for Tipped Workers

SHRM Resources

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its spring regulatory agenda, highlighting the government’s intent to increase the minimum wage for federal contractors.

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10 Rules for Video Call Etiquette for Business

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. I don’t need to produce any statistics to convince you that video calls are popular. Over the past year, the use of video call technology has grown exponentially – to the point where we actually have video call fatigue. Personally, I think one of the reasons that we have video call fatigue is because we haven’t developed any universally accepted rules or etiquette.

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Managing Up: How to Do it Successfully

DecisionWise

One thing we have learned from years of administering 360-degree feedback assessments is that people can be perceived in vastly different ways depending upon who is giving them feedback. People receiving a 360 assessment benefit from understanding the different perspectives provided to them from various groups. As a 360 company, we have seen the benefit of understanding gaps in perception and how to close those gaps.

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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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Guess Who Just Joined The Skills Cloud Market? Oracle. And They’re Serious.

Josh Bersin

Last year I wrote about The War Of The Skills Clouds , and pointed out that there was a war for “ SkillsTech ” heating up. Well, it’s now red hot and Oracle has jumped into the pool. And they’re going to make a splash. Skills Taxonomy software is now a huge market, and it’s. Read more» The post Guess Who Just Joined The Skills Cloud Market?

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Protecting Employee Privacy: How Visier Masks Your Most Sensitive Data

Visier

Today, more data exists about how we work than ever before. If analyzed properly, this data provides valuable insights about the trends, forces, and inequalities shaping today’s workforce—from gender pay disparities to the remote work revolution hastened by COVID-19. How these market movements affect companies and careers is central to Visier’s research into employee and workplace trends.

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Intoo USA Integrates Upskilling Coursework from Leading Educational Content Providers

Intoo USA

Intoo USA is excited to announce our new integrated coursework from educational content providers edX, Coursera and Udemy. The inclusion of this content in our career development and outplacement platforms will empower professionals to expand their knowledge, skills, and expertise as they grow in their careers and seek new employment. Upskilling is a top concern of today’s workers, according to Prudential’s Pulse of the American Worker Survey : “Nearly half of workers (46%) say the pandemic caus

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COVID Customer Service Career Acceleration Programs: Why Your Region Should Offer Them

EDSI

Customer service is embedded into everything we do. Preparing front-line workers for the unique challenges being faced in the workplace during the pandemic and beyond can be difficult. This blog spotlights the virtual COVID Customer Service Career Acceleration Program (CAP) that was established to help front-line customer service workers receive more in-depth training on issues such as de-escalation and conflict resolution that go beyond the traditional scope.

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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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Emojis At Work Are Fine If Used Properly [poll results]

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I asked for your thoughts on using emojis in work-related communications. It was just an informal poll. And the outcome was pretty one sided. You’ll see by the chart above, that emojis are fine. But there is a caveat: Emojis are fine if you use them properly. I’m going to define properly as three things. We know our audience. Fast Company just published an article about the collaboration platform Slack offering a new emoji pack that includes bunny slippers and a Dali-esque melti

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Webinar: 360 Feedback Coaching Best Practices in 2021

DecisionWise

Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2021. Time: 1:00 pm Eastern / 10:00 am Pacific. Presenters: Dave Long, Christian Nielson. Cost: Complimentary, with free registration. During this webinar, we’ll share the best methods for debriefing and coaching from the results of a 360-degree feedback survey. HR professionals will learn how to coach individuals, interpret individual and group reports, and guide the development planning and follow-up with participants.

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Recruitment: Three ways to attract talent in a candidate-driven market

HR Zone

Acquisition Three ways to attract top talent in 2021.

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A Day in the Life of a Talent Acquisition Leader

Visier

In this Outsmart panel, Visier’s Chief of Staff Jayne Landry spoke with Charles Mah, Chief Evangelist at iCIMS , about current trends and concerns in the TA field, and the TA leaders’ role in helping organizations reach their goals. . In a business world that’s more competitive than ever, the quality of an organization’s workforce can be the difference between average, good, and exceptional.

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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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Employer Brand: How the Benefits You Offer Employees Can Make or Break It

Intoo USA

It can be easy to understand how value-added benefits could help an organization maintain its employer brand reputation and increase employee satisfaction. But when you’ve gone without those services for a long time, you may not realize that your brand’s negative experiences might be resulting from their absence. Here we’ve put two employer journeys side-by-side.

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4 Ways to Gain Team Input

The People Equation

So I’m sitting at a large round table, talking with a team of eight senior-level leaders who work for a large corporation. These are smart, sophisticated people, who have both street cred as field operatives and many years’ experience leading various types and sizes of work groups. We’re discussing the best ways to gain team input. Their comments start to flow: “We need to be more open-minded” “Our younger workforce expects to be part of the conversation” “How do we invite more participation?

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When Should You Send and Answer Work Emails – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Regular readers of HR Bartender know that I try to answer work-related questions. I will admit that I can’t always answer them right away, but I do work to answer them. To those of you who have sent me questions, thanks so much for being patient! The reason I’m bringing this up is because the other day I was reading someone’s response to a question that I’ve never been asked before.

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Podcast: Including Voice of the Employee in Returning to Work

DecisionWise

Engaging People Podcast · Ep. 133: Including Voice of the Employee in Returning to Work. In this insightful conversation, Dr. Tracy Maylett, and Matthew Wride discuss key employee experience concepts to consider when bringing your workforce back to the office. They touch on how to use employee feedback to give front-line managers the data insights they need to manage a successful transition.

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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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What does a post-pandemic benefits package look like?

HR Zone

Retention The future of employee benefits.

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Here’s How to Recognize Employee Burnout (And What to Do About It)

Hppy

COVID-19 created a new reality for all of us. And with it comes countless issues beyond sickness, death, and heightened unemployment. Recent studies confirm that while burnout was slowly rising, the pandemic fuelled the fire, with a marked increase in workplace stress from 2020 through 2021. According to one such survey of 1500 individuals, 52% of workers will experience burnout in 2021, up by 9% from the previous year.

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HR Trends: The Key Reads of June 2021

Intoo USA

Welcome to our summary of June’s best reads on HR trends! As more people return to the office, there is increased discussion about burnout and wellness. In addition, violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pride Month surfaced concerns about lack of diversity and inclusion of all groups in the workplace. HR Trends for June 2021. Companies not considering employee feedback when requiring employees to return to work may face revolt.

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