January, 2020

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What to Do With Employee Engagement Survey Results

Great Place to Work

The key to deciding what to do with employee engagement survey results is that how you act on the feedback is as important as what you learn. The best companies create a plan, communicate transparently throughout the process and follow several other critical steps that help ensure successful outcomes.

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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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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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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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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Why Big Tech is Losing Gen Z Hires

TalentCulture

Remember when we were all trying to reach the hiring bar set by Amazon, Google, Facebook and other giants? No more. Toxic work cultures, questionable leadership and recent ethics scandals are tarnishing these once golden employers. The New York Times just reported that Gen Z are staying away. The techlash is real: by some estimates, Facebook’s down at least 40% in acceptance rates for full-time engineering job offers.

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Performance and rewards in the future of work

HRExecutive

Today’s organizations are very interconnected. People work in a more agile fashion (though not necessarily in the agile methodology), they lend a hand to other projects and teams, and their managers are less involved in their day-to- day activities. Edgar Schein , former professor for the MIT Sloan School of Management, once told me that the most valuable cultural asset for any company is the desire of employees to help each other.

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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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The business of leadership requires love

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

How do you start writing an article about leadership and love? In the view of many, they are almost antithetical. And yet here I sit attempting to explain that if you don’t love your people, you probably shouldn’t be in the business of leadership. Many will scoff at the notion. And I probably would’ve scoffed at it once upon a time. I would’ve said something like, “Leadership isn’t about love.

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8 Meaningful Ways to Celebrate Black History Month in the Workplace

Bonusly

How many of you had a dedicated African-American history unit in February—Black History Month—as part of your curriculum? ??. For those of us in the United States, it’s fairly common for schools to recognize Black History Month. But as we get older, mandated education and celebration of African-American history gets less common. Which is a total bummer, and a lost opportunity!

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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The Key to Engaging New Hires: Psychological Safety

TalentCulture

For those of us who are students of engagement and team-building, we know how key trust, communication and leadership are. But when Google ran two-year study into what makes teams successful, it unlocked a surprising key to high performance and fertile collaboration. Dubbed Project Aristotle, the presented five key factors of great teams: psychological safety, dependability, structure and clarity, meaning, and impact.

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Recruiting 101: 5 Tips for Better Communication with Hiring Managers

SHRM Resources

More from This Series. Part 15 Tips for Better Communication with Hiring Managers Part 25 Tips for Better Interviews Part 35 Tips for Closing the DealLeading an efficient and productive meeting with the hiring manager to figure out what he or she really wants when recruiting for a role is one of the most critical steps in the recruitment process. "In order to create the most optimal recruiting environment, it is essential that the hiring manager and recruiter talk.

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New Research: The ROI of Customer Experience

Qualtrics HR

The XM Institute recently published a new report, The ROI of Customer Experience, 2019. It examines the connection between customer experience and loyalty across 20 U.S. consumer industries: Airlines, auto dealers, banks, car rentals, computers, credit cards, fast food, groceries, health insurance, hotels, insurance, investments, Internet/TV service, parcel services, retailers, software, streaming media, TVs & appliances, utilities, and wireless.

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Realism vs. Idealism: Why HR Should Tilt at Windmills

Robin Schooling

I’ve worked in HR for decades and I want to tell you a secret. For all our chatter about the transformation of HR, the new and elevated role of the HR leader, and the name change from CHRO to Chief People Officer, we are still, by and large, doing the same s**t, in much the same way, that we did it (back at the dawn of time) when I took my first gig on an HR team.

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Challenges and Solutions in High-Volume, High-Stakes Hiring

Facing a hiring surge that feels like conducting a complex orchestra? Our guide is your roadmap to harmonious high-volume hiring. In it, you’ll learn: Strategies to maintain quality while hiring at scale The real math behind agency vs. in-house recruiting Secrets to a stellar candidate experience during hiring spikes Resource optimization techniques for stretched TA teams Don't let resource constraints or market pressures derail your hiring goals.

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Wellbeing at work: why we need a more human-centred workplace

HR Zone

Employees Wellbeing and human-centred workplaces.

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Kindness, Grace.and Work?

NoExcusesHR

"It's not personal, it's business." I've said this a thousand times.and I'm quite sure I'll say it a thousand times more before I call it a career and delete my email accounts forever. Faith and Leadership in the Workplace I've been writing about faith for many years here. Faith is the horsepower behind the two words that I'm focusing on in 2020: kindness and grace.

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3 Things You MUST Communicate to New Employees on Day 1

Workology

3 Things You MUST Communicate to New Employees on Day 1 You only get one shot at a first impression – make it a good one. Picture this: Your newest employee has just wrapped up Day 1 on the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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6 Types of AI or Intelligent Tools in HR Tech

HR Examiner

It’s important to understand the broad categories of intelligent software and AI that are available to you in today’s HR Tech marketplace. Let’s round them all up. Keep in mind that the narrower the problem, the better the tool is likely work. This can mean that larger system implications are overlooked in the pursuit of a problem small enough to be successful. 6 Types of AI or Intelligent Tools in HR Tech.

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.

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#WorkTrends: The Human Impact of Data Literacy

TalentCulture

Jordan Morrow joined Meghan M. Biro for the January 24, 2020 #WorkTrends podcast sponsored by Qlik. The topic: data literacy. It may sound simple enough, but it’s far from it. Meghan notes that 60% to 73% of all enterprise data is never analyzed. “Data remains a value that’s trapped by our own lack of understanding,” she said as she introduced Jordan.

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OnBoarding The Newest Member of the Team

Robin Schooling

Eddy von Schooling. We’re dog people in the Schooling household. Oh sure, we’ve had cats over the years (RIP Liza, Cleo and Sasha) but as far as we’re concerned there’s nothing like the unconditional love that emanates from a canine companion. At one stage we had four dogs at once (found, rescued, inherited…so how could we say “no?”) but sadly in 2018 we lost Libby (sweet girl) and Marley (good boy) and thus down-sized to just two.

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The rise of the employee-experience platform

HRExecutive

The words “employee experience” have become the hottest buzzword in HR these days, and for good reason, says Josh Bersin. “We’re not building software for HR anymore—we’re building it for employees,” the global industry analyst said during his opening keynote at this year’s HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas. “If employees don’t find it useful, if it doesn’t fit into ‘the flow of work,’ then it’s not going to be use

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Why ignoring social responsibility will put your company at risk of irrelevancy

HR Zone

Future Don't ignore the business risk of irrelevancy.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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Soft Skills Are 2020's Hard Skills -- Here's How to Master Them

Forbes Coaches Council

Companies are finding that those said soft skills are essential to specific jobs, and that they are measurable and correlate with success and innovation.

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How we helped employees fight burnout and stress

HR Morning

Our employees are under a great deal of pressure. They work long hours, they’re constantly on their feet and they deal with a stressful environment as they help sick children and their families. Stress is one of our top risk factors. We help our patients focus on behavioral and mental issues, but we needed that for our employees, too. We wanted to make sure they knew they aren’t alone.

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#WorkTrends: The Empathy Gap

TalentCulture

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, joined Meghan M. Biro for the January 17, 2020 #WorkTrends podcast. The topic: disasters, of the workplace kind. Dr. Tsipursky is a consultant, cognitive neuroscientist and expert on behavioral economics. Noting that we’re still suffering from an epidemic of disengagement, he pointed to one glaring omission in workplace culture: empathy.

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What is Employee Engagement? [Definition]

Quantum Workplace

As an HR leader, you’re served a ton of information about how you can improve your engagement initiatives. And you’ve probably heard several different employee engagement definitions. Employee engagement is being discussed during strategic meetings, performance conversations, and in company-wide surveys.

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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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7 HR Trends and Ideas to Implement This Year

Bonusly

Every day we learn about innovations and trends that directly affect our lives, and the workplace isn’t exempt from those frequent changes that cause us to continually adapt the way we work. Those changes also have an impact on how employees interact with one another. So as HR professionals, we’re expected to stay current with the changing world of work and prepare for what those changes mean for our own workplaces.

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Wellbeing: how to boost your energy from within

HR Zone

People How to energise your employees.

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Fond of Work: Terese Lam, Chief People Officer at Wind River

Fond

This time for Fond of Work, we spoke with Terese Lam, Chief People Officer at Wind River , a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. Terese has 20 years of international experience in Australia, Singapore, France, the UK, and now the US. Terese is an agile and a strategic change leader with a reputation for thoroughness, quality, and achieving results in the HR space.