January, 2020

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How to develop and refine critical human resource skills

PeopleStrategy

“To maximize success in HR, you need the right complement of skills.” There are several critical business processes that require specific human resources skills in order to function efficiently, accurately and within specific timelines. For example; payroll, the administration of health care and other valuable benefits, adherence to specific compliance regulations and timelines, and sensitive tasks like managing employee disputes or sexual harassment complaint.

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Why A Positive Employee Experience Includes Work-Life Synergy

15Five

In the Digital Age, technology has completely shifted the world of work as we know it. People don’t merely work to live anymore; they work to learn new skills , feed their passions, and become better humans. This change in employees has triggered an even bigger shift in the workplace. To provide an environment that attracts and retains employees and brings out their best performance, companies must focus on providing a uniquely impressive and holistic employee experience.

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How to Develop a High-Impact Succession Plan: A Beginner's Guide

EDSI

EDSI Senior Consultant, Jennifer Giannosa, lays out a succession planning process to identify and develop professionals entering a leadership position.

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Purpose Over Pay: Why Employees Stay

Fond

Everything we do in HR is about recruiting and retaining talent. Whether we’re talking about rewarding employees for a job well done or providing relevant training to help employees advance and progress, our aim is clear. While we want to engage, motivate, and inspire our employees to perform, we also put these measures in place to ensure they stay put in the long-run.

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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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3 Key Takeaways from Josh Bersin’s Employee Experience Platform Report

Kazoo

Haven’t had a chance to read HR thought leader Josh Bersin’s latest report on the employee experience platform market ? We’ve got you! Read on for our top takeaways. Takeaway #1. Employee experience (EX) is growing out from under the HR umbrella and becoming its own field of work. Traditionally, Human Resources departments have been made up of compliance experts, payroll administrators, benefits coordinators, and hiring managers.

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Uncoded Bias in AI Hiring

HR Examiner

“Allowing machines to participate in and perhaps even dictate decisions in Human Resources raises a host of ethical considerations. After all, these systems control various forms of opportunity for the workforce. More precisely, they involve people’s livelihood, hopes and dreams.” - John Sumser. Uncoded Bias. Harvard Business Review (HBR) published a piece by a doctoral student at Wharton.

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4 reasons why employer branding and recruitment marketing is a great career choice

Stories Incorporated HR

Reading Time: 5 minutes. Employer branding and recruitment marketing is a great career, in a new and growing field. Want to know exactly why choosing to work in the intersection of talent acquisition and marketing (talent marketing) is a fantastic idea? Here are four of our favorite reasons. 1. Purpose galore. Recruitment marketers and employer brand professionals serve the world in two ways: They help organizations realize their potential and success by attracting the right talent They help can

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Why Every Manager Should Be a Coach, Not a Boss

Caliper

The difference between a leader who achieves commitment from employees versus one who achieves compliance, is effective coaching. The most effective leaders are those who see themselves as coaches and leaders rather than managers or supervisors. But what makes a leader an effective coach? It’s their mindset. Effective leaders believe in the value of coaching , and they think about their role as a manager in such a way where coaching occurs naturally.

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Care About Employee Mental Health? This Matters Too

EX Program

In 2020, expanding employee mental health benefits is a top priority for many employers. This makes sense, as more employers find that when they invest in mental health, everyone wins. By connecting employees with effective mental health treatment, they get the critical help they need. Plus, when employee mental health improves, employers can benefit from [.].

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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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3 Tips for Reskilling Your Workforce in 2020

Visier

To say that corporate reskilling efforts are important would be an understatement. Billion-dollar retraining programs and on-site corporate colleges have become a reality. In a 2018 McKinsey survey, 62% of executives said they will need to retrain or replace more than a quarter of their workforce before 2023. Business model disruptions, demographic shifts, and automation of rote tasks are putting more pressure on individuals to learn, and on employers to give people the right skills at the right

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HR Transformation In The Experience Age

Josh Bersin

HR Transformation is a big topic. The human resources function starts small, and as the organization grows, the HR team becomes complex. We need recruiters, business partners, specialists, designers, technologists, and a variety of other specialists in diversity, culture, learning, and more. It’s a perfect market for consultants. Most HR departments grow organically (and through.

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Making Performance Reviews More Effective With More Time

Justworks

Performance reviews don’t have the best reputation. There’s a certain distaste that employees have for reviews, regardless if they’re managers or not. Despite that distaste, many companies still conduct performance reviews using the same antiquated processes that bred the distaste in the first place. What if you could change that for your employees?

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Framing As A Working Professional: What It Is and Why You Should Do It.

The HR Capitalist

“The most talented successful people in the workplace consistently “frame” their goals, work and outcomes via varied communication strategies.”. -Kris Dunn, aka “KD ”. When someone quotes themselves, hold on tight! Buckle up! What is framing? It's not being a victim. It's being proactive. It's getting your story out there as a professional, "framing" the dialog about who you are, what you're working on and most importantly to you - how you're doing.

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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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Recruiting Strategy: Bots and 3 Workforce Ingredients

HR Bartender

I’ve mentioned before how today’s recruiting strategy needs three key constituents: regular full-time workforce, regular part-time workforce, and contingent workers (i.e. freelancers, contractors, consultants, etc.) Each group has a unique recruiting as well as an engagement strategy. (which we’ve also talked about before). BUY is where the company hires workers from the outside.

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Train-the-Trainer: An Effective Approach to Developing Skilled Transit Trainers

EDSI

For decades, training and upskilling workers has been challenging for trainers in many job markets, and the transit industry is no exception. Often, transit training departments are staffed with instructors who are extremely skilled in their craft, but lack essential knowledge in adult learning theory. According to statistics*, businesses lose up to $13.5 million every year per 1,000 employees due to ineffective training.

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10 HR Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Intoo USA

It may be a bit of a trope, but it is also a truth: as an HR professional, your work is never really done. An HR department is tasked with many duties that are cyclical in nature—recruit, hire, replace—as well as tasks that demand constant attention or reinvention. To say that HR challenges exist is to say that the sky is up, and the ground is down.

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5 Ways to Address the Healthcare Industry’s Turnover Crisis

Fond

The healthcare job market is booming. In fact, the US unemployment rate decreased 0.2 percentage points to 3.5% in September 2019 , the lowest it’s been since December 1969. In 2018, the healthcare industry alone added 346,000 new jobs , outpacing every other sector for job growth. . Simultaneously, hospital turnover increased by 0.9% and set a new record for the decade.

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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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In search of (artificial) intelligence

HRExecutive

Go to LinkedIn and search for jobs with this title and you’ll get 47,747 job openings. Go to Monster.com, put in the same search term, and you’ll get 53,216 jobs. If that’s not enough, go to Glassdoor.com, enter the same search term, and you’ll get 47,692 job openings. What, pray tell, jobs are we talking about? Artificial intelligence jobs are hot, hot, hot.

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Are High-Skill Occupations “Safe” from Automation?

Visier

New research using AI to match patent language with work shows that AI may reinvent high-skill work sooner than you think. Breakthroughs have unexpected effects. When Amazon first arrived on the scene, books were its early focus for product selection, buyer insights, distribution and pricing. In those early days, retailers typically lamented the plight of bookstores, but relaxed in their conviction that products like clothing, food, jewelry and fashion would be safe. .

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Podcast: How Managers Can Better Recognize Employees

DecisionWise

In this podcast episode, DecisionWise Principal Consultant, Dan Hoopes, discusses the topic of how managers can better recognize employees in the workplace. Everybody likes to be acknowledged (in one form or another) for a job well done. We all like to feel validated and yet, many managers are reluctant to give recognition. Why is this? “One of the biggest travesties to happen with organizations if for a manager to say, ‘Well, it’s just their job.’ Well, of course it̵

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How To Continually Develop Your Workforce Through Upskilling Your Employees

15Five

With record-low unemployment and an increased need for specific job skills, your company may be struggling to find and hire the people you need. But even as you pump up your recruiting efforts, you may overlook an obvious source for talent: your own workforce. Although some people may not have all of the requirements for particular jobs, you can develop those capabilities through upskilling your employees.

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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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10 HR Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Intoo USA

It may be a bit of a trope, but it is also a truth: as an HR professional, your work is never really done. An HR department is tasked with many duties that are cyclical in nature—recruit, hire, replace—as well as tasks that demand constant attention or reinvention. To say that HR challenges exist is to say that the sky is up, and the ground is down.

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2020 Predictions: Reinventing Work, Reinventing HR, Reinventing Ourselves

Josh Bersin

2020 will be a year of reinvention. As we enter the thirteenth year since the global economic meltdown, businesses are seeing slowing but continued growth, uncertainty about politics and global migration, and tremendous stresses in the workforce. Not only is unemployment historically low, the birth rate has declined, creating a world where companies need to.

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Wellbeing: how to boost your energy from within

HR Zone

People How to energise your employees.

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People Analytics: How to Solve Business Problems

HR Bartender

Every business has problems they want to solve. It could be a small problem or a large one. The key to solving business problems is. Gathering the right data and information Having a good approach or system for problem solving. Unfortunately, there are times when organizations approach problem solving from the standpoint of “Oh, I know what the problem is…” and ultimately, end up only addressing a symptom versus the real issue.

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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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Webinar: Employee Engagement Best Practices in 2020

DecisionWise

Date: Thursday, January 29, 2020 Time: 1:00 pm (Eastern) Presenter: Dave Long Cost: Free. One question to consider as you think about whether to put effort and investment into employee engagement: “Is engagement worth the effort and investment we put into it?” The short answer to this question is “yes,” but depending on the type of organization you are, engagement may be more critical or less critical to your success.

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The Formula For Successfully Scaling Your Company Culture

15Five

In less than a year, 15Five has rapidly scaled the company up from about 70 employees to over 200. It’s not entirely uncommon for many company cultures to suffer during a surge of high growth—fortunately for our company, the opposite is true. Our company culture is now stronger than ever and was recently recognized and ranked #3 on Glassdoor’s Best Workplaces list.

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How to Save Your Employee Recognition Program From Failing

Achievers

How can you ensure your employee recognition program is successful ? Your employees may be aware of the program, but awareness alone won’t magically improve their performance and engagement. “More than 80 percent of American employees say they do not feel recognized or rewarded, despite the fact that U.S. companies are spending more than a fifth of their budgets on wages,” according to a recent study by Harvard Business School.