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Understand and Embrace the Employee Voice

DecisionWise

Understand and Embrace the Employee Voice. As a leader in your organization, you must move beyond listening and understand and embrace the employee voice. You’ve probably taken some steps to listen to your employees. You care. You really do. As a result, you may be asking yourself, “How can our engagement scores be dropping? We ran a survey to show we care about what employees think!

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Human Resource Planning to forecast for less risky business

CuteHR

The war of talent is ever-growing. At the times when the need for superior talent is a necessity, no organization can stand manpower shortages. The employees are more empowered today with the choices to say “yes” or “no” to a certain job and have substantial say in the company’s growth strategy. Jobs are many, yet employable talent is limited.

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Overcoming seasonal impacts on employee motivation

Insperity

Just as employees may struggle to keep their focus in the late afternoon, they may also show signs of seasonal slowdowns. Whether it’s the holiday hoopla at the end of the year, flu season at the start or summer vacation’s siren call in the middle, individual performance and the overall mood can suffer from the seasonal impacts on employee motivation.

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Ask a Communicator: When Your Workforce Doubles in Size—How To Take The Sting Out Of Organizational Change

SocialChorus

Dear SocialChorus: Our company is undergoing a merger, and our workforce will soon double in size. How do we help our employees with these new changes? . The truism “change is the only constant” seems like it should have been coined in the 21st century rather than back in ancient Greece. Because let’s face it: this era is full of rapid-fire changes.

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Mid-Year Performance Review Checklist for HR and People Leaders

Ensure your mid-year performance reviews are focused, productive, and growth-oriented with this practical checklist from Mitratech Trakstar. Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and team leads, this guide walks you through the full review process—from pre-meeting prep and feedback collection to action planning and follow-up. It also includes tips for creating a comfortable and effective review experience, plus ways to leverage tools like self-evaluations, PIPs, and development plans.

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Engagement or Connection: Why the Connected Workplace Might Be Better

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at MindManager , a division of Corel Corporation. MindManager helps individuals, teams, and enterprises do great work faster by simplifying the way they capture, organize, and share information. You can try MindManager out for free here. Enjoy the article!). I’ve been seeing the term “connected” workplace showing up a bit more in my reading.

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Three Stages of Employee Grievances

Acacia HR Solutions

Every year the EEOC releases information on the amount of charges brought against US employers, the reasons for those charges and the dollar amounts associated with each category. The one thing they do not release is how often these charges could have been avoided had the employer acted earlier in the process. In my nearly. The post Three Stages of Employee Grievances appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.

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How to Build a More Diverse & Inclusive Workplace | GoodHire

Goodhire

Editor's note: This is a guest blog from Lever, one of GoodHire's HR tech partners. Building a more diverse and inclusive workplace is top of mind for many organizations. Diverse teams contribute to diverse ideas that allow organizations to innovate and thrive.

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How Does Leadership Development Fit in With Succession Planning? A Roadmap to Organizational Success

EDSI

Succession planning means different things to different people, but the most common theme among all the definitions that exist is that it involves making sure your business is prepared for the future. There are different types of succession planning, each of which depend on your type of business and your businesses’ specific situation.

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Employee Absences: Plan for the Unplanned

HR Bartender

I must admit today’s Time Well Spent. from our friends at Kronos is a little funny to me for two reasons. Living in Florida, we often run into these “ the weather is absolutely gorgeous days ” where we want to play hooky and go to the beach. And sometimes we actually do it. We’re also famous for gloating in January and February about wearing shorts when our friends are posting snowstorm pictures on their Facebook pages.

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Protect Your Business and Stay On Top of Compliance

To keep your business running smoothly (and legally), HR needs to get compliance right every time. Our HR Compliance Checklist is your go-to guide to cover the basics and start your auditing processes, helping you identify and address any gaps in your HR functions. Remember, compliance rules can differ based on industry and location—you’ll still need to keep up with changing regulations, but our checklist can help you get started.

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Top Do’s and Don’ts for Elevating the Employee Experience

Achievers

High levels of employee engagement are known to boost productivity, improve customer satisfaction , and bolster retention rates. It ’s these very benefits that have spurred companies across the country to invest in enhancing the employee experience. . Despite this investment, only 13 percent of today’s employees report feeling engaged in the workplace.

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INTOO USA partners with Career Star Group to Provide Outplacement Across the Globe

Intoo USA

We are excited to announce that Intoo USA (formerly CareerArc Outplacement) and Career Star Group have partnered to make virtual outplacement services available across the globe. Career Star Group , a leader in the local provision of change management, outplacement and career transition services, selected Intoo as its global online technology platform of choice for its 79-country service area.

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How AI can benefit the employee experience

HR Zone

Future. How AI can connect people.

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4 Policies That Encourage a Family-Friendly Company Culture

Justworks

When an employee walks into the office, they bring their experiences, their emotions, and their responsibilities. This all affects how an employee performs, how they relate to others in the workplace, and how they view their company. For many of us, family is a key component of this context. By fostering a family-friendly culture, your company shows employees that you embrace them fully and that you view them as people — not just employees.

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Can Your Organization Spot a Conflict Before It’s a Crisis?

Speaker: Amie Phillips Pablo, VP, Corporate Compliance & Privacy Officer at Novo Nordisk

In today’s complex healthcare environment, navigating third-party relationships has become even more challenging—whether it’s vendor relationships, employee activities, or patient-facing interactions. Left unmanaged, these conflicts can compromise trust, regulatory compliance, and even organizational reputation. So, how can healthcare teams stay ahead?

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coworkers keep asking about my girlfriend, asking job candidates how lucky they are, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Older coworkers asking about my relationship with my girlfriend. My girlfriend and I (we’re both in our late 20s) have been dating for just about a year and things are going very well. She’s an elementary school teacher and during her summer vacation she came into my office to meet me for lunch a couple of times.

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15 HR Blogs to Subscribe to Right Away (Not Just the Usual Suspects!)

Digital HR Tech

About twice a year, I like to take a moment to go through my HR blog and newsletter subscriptions. Which ones do I still enjoy reading and find valuable, which ones do I tend to quickly scan and which ones do I forget about? At the same time, I like to add new HR blogs I’ve come across and that inspired me. In this article, I thought I’d list 15 HR blogs I think you should subscribe to right away.

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Business after Brexit: the changing needs of UK employees

HR Zone

Employees. Brexit: employee confidence down.

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Josh Bersin: Tracing the evolution of HRBPs

HRExecutive

HR business partners are at the frontline of today’s talent strategy. They represent the fastest-growing role in the profession and, in many organizations, the most pivotal. A great HR business partner must balance strategy and execution, have an intimate understanding of business challenges and be able to re-frame those challenges through the lens of the employee experience and talent strategies.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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to get an interview, I have to spend a week at a writing retreat at my own expense

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently saw an ad for a job that sounded great: reviewing creative writing manuscripts and giving the authors feedback. This is my field, I have the required degree and publications the posting asked for, and I’ve done work like this before. The money being offered was good, but not unbelievably, out-of-line-with-the-market good.

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Intoo USA partners with Career Star Group to Provide Outplacement Across the Globe

Intoo USA

We are excited to announce that Intoo USA (formerly CareerArc Outplacement) and Career Star Group have partnered to make virtual outplacement services available across the globe. Career Star Group , a leader in the local provision of change management, outplacement and career transition services, selected Intoo as its global online technology platform of choice for its 79-country service area.

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IRS Penalties Create A Hurricane for Businesses Failing to Comply with the ACA

ACA Times

5 minute read: It’s a hurricane of IRS penalty notices. And it’s no laughing matter for businesses that have failed to comply with the Affordable Care Act. The IRS is issuing an assortment of penalty notices totaling billions of dollars as it becomes more assertive in its enforcement of the Affordable Care Act. Under the ACA’s Employer Mandate, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) (organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees) are required to offer Minimum Es

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Employee Retention in Health Care: 4 Keys to Keep Your Best and Brightest

HR Morning

Because the current healthcare climate is heavily focused on meeting strict quality guidelines from the feds and payors while providing top-notch care, employee retention in healthcare is more critical than ever. But it’s also getting more challenging to keep workers from jumping ship. Retention is difficult in the healthcare industry for several reasons – one of the most significant being employee burnout.

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The AI Productivity Shift: How 3,000 Pros And 140K Users Are Transforming Work

Hubstaff’s new report, The AI Productivity Shift, highlights how 3,000+ professionals and 140,000+ users are transforming the way they work with AI. Adoption is high—85% are using AI—and the potential is just beginning. Teams that integrate AI into daily workflows report 77% faster task completion, 70% improved focus, and stronger results across the board.

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coworker tags our CEO on Twitter to point out my mistakes, office baby talk, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. Coworker tags our CEO on Twitter to point out my mistakes. I’m part of an incredibly progressive, supportive team, where one of my responsibilities is my organization’s social media. In six months, I have made three errors within tweets, two of which were mixing up the dates that two very similar events were happening on, and one of which was just a formatting error.

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Boring to brilliant: empowering your employees to understand their pension

HR Zone

Employees. Bringing passion to your pensions communications.

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IRS Renews Insurer Fees

ACA Times

1 minute read: The IRS has released Notice 2019-50, which outlines the Applicable Fee amount for the 2020 tax year. This is the fee to be charged to health insurance providers under Section 9010 of the ACA as the IRS continues to enforce the provisions of the health care law. The 2020 fee of $15,522,820,037 is a fixed amount that is allocated to health insurers in proportion to their relative market share as determined by each health insurers’ net premiums written for 2019.

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9 Characteristics of Top Employee Training Programs

BizLibrary - HR

There are many elements that go into an employee training program, so what are the most effective areas to focus on for success? There isn’t one simple answer, but there are clear characteristics that are consistently present in top training programs. The post 9 Characteristics of Top Employee Training Programs appeared first on BizLibrary.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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my boss has 10,000 unread emails

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Is it ever normal to have 10,000+ unread emails in your professional inbox? Yesterday I inadvertently saw that my boss had 10,965 unread emails. She is a general counsel of a medium-sized company and does not seem to be overloaded with work. The majority of her team (around six people) are very autonomous in their work and do not often need her insight.

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How to Launch an Effective Employee Engagement Program

6Q

Leaders across organisations, strive to keep their employees engaged at the workplace to achieve higher levels of productivity. So if you are a decision maker who is striving to do the same but facing difficulties, then you’re not alone! In this article, we will walk you through some foolproof steps that will help you launch an effective employee engagement program.

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BUILDING CULTURE THROUGH RECRUITING #5: Building the Right TA Tech Stack.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note : This post is part of a series on Building/Reinforcing Company Culture Through Great Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Practices. . Let's face it people, "company culture" is a loaded phrase. Some of it is real, some of it is aspirational, but one thing on my mind recently is that as we try to build the culture we want at our companies, we forget about the messages we send in our recruiting process.