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Soft Skills are Hard. We need to stop calling them soft. #Workhuman

Jason Lauritsen

I’m just back from spending four epic days in Nashville at my favorite conference event of the year, Workhuman. As is always the case after this event, I’ve got a lot of ideas swirling in my head from the great content and conversations. Sidenote: I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. If you believe that we need to make work a more human experience, you need to get to this event next year.

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Infographic: 5 Personal Benefits of Employee Engagement

DecisionWise

Download the PDF version of the Infographic. It’s apparent that employee engagement increases the organization’s bottom line and performance, but what about the individual? As an employee, why would l care about being more engaged if it only means I have to work harder and the company reaps all of the rewards? 1. Safety. Engaged employees are 5 TIMES less likely than non-engaged employees to have a safety incident and 7 TIMES less likely to have a lost-time safety incident.

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All You Need to Know About Employee Engagement Strategies

Reflektive

Companies depend upon employee engagement for multiple reasons: higher productivity, better morale, lower turnover rates, and other, more ephemeral reasons, such as trust in management and self-confidence. Employment engagement strategies aim to foster engagement that’s in tune with company values and corporate culture. WEBINAR: Thinking Outside the Perks: Recruiting and Retention to Improve Employee Tenure.

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How to Encourage Your Team’s Bold Ideas

The People Equation

Are you looking to help your team launch innovative ideas? Then listen up. Your efforts to help them might actually be diminishing their creative brilliance, one “helpful” suggestion at a time. Branding expert Sally Hogshead wrote about this phenomenon when describing how well-meaning people pose the biggest threat to a team’s boldest ideas. Innovative ideas can get pecked apart, one simple “tweak” at a time, says Hogshead.

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6 Strategies to Navigate Social Determinants of Health for a Better Workplace

In today’s dynamic work landscape, where the lines between personal and professional life blur, understanding the intricate interplay between social determinants of health (SDoH) and emotional wellbeing is paramount. Employers must acknowledge that the whole person comes to work and every aspect of a person’s personal and professional life, especially their mental health, comes with them.

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Tips For Coaching and Developing Employees Through Failure

Hppy

Coaching and developing employees is always important. The first step in order to improve their performance, in any case, is counseling or coaching. When an employee reports to a supervisor, counseling or coaching is an essential part of their interaction. This is important even if the employee reports to other than the supervisor be it HR professional or line manager.

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How to Write a Job Description That Gets Qualified Job Seekers

Workology

If you sit in the camp of the “post and pray” variety I have good news and bad news for you. Which would you want first? I personally like getting the bad news out of the way so I can then enjoy the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Skills Development is a Talent Acquisition Issue

Allegis Global Solutions

Still think learning and development is simply a nice-to-have perk? Think again.

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Creating The Right Workplace Culture

Engagedly

Workplace culture can either be the jewel in the crown for an organization or an unsightly blemish that mars their otherwise spotless visage. Now, more than ever, organizations are beginning to focus on creating a workplace culture that […].

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7 reasons why collaboration is important

Jostle

As people’s skill sets get increasingly specialized, collaboration as a practice becomes more important than ever. But what does that mean exactly? What is collaboration?

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Here Are the HR Trends to Watch in 2024 + Plus Advice for Driving Impact!

The pressure is on to create a positive onboarding experience. Plus, a sub-par onboarding process can domino into other concerns such as low performance, burnout (for you and new hires), and retention challenges. Our 2024 State of HR report will give you a realistic picture of the HR landscape and tips to onboarding effectively in the year to come.

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Branded For Life: Your Hidden Employer Brand

Rezoomo

“If you don’t build an employer brand you won’t have one. Therefore, it won’t impact the way that you hire.” “Employer brands are created in meeting rooms, if those meetings never take place it means it never exists.” The above are both myths. Employer branding is referred to as the way your company is reconginzed by candidates as a place of employment.

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Creating a Culture of Recognition

Great Place to Work

The Five Elements Meaningful Programs Have in Common. All companies face the question of how to recognize and reward their employees. It has always been a cornerstone of effective management, but today, as the competition for talent becomes stronger, the ways in which organizations value their employees becomes increasingly important. But creating a recognition program is not something organizations do once and accept as perfect.

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Elfin: Relentless Espionage Group Targets Multiple Organizations in Saudi Arabia and U.S.

Symantec

Although heavily focused on the Middle East, Elfin (aka APT33) has also targeted a range of organizations in the U.S. including a number of major corporations.

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5 habits of effective leaders in the workplace

Insperity

Most people recognize a good leader when they see one – especially if they motivate teams to exceed company goals and create a culture of accomplishment. Performance measurements and outcomes aside, are there routines that make someone more likely to be successful? What are the habits of effective leaders? The world is awash with buzz-worthy tips for creating good habits in one’s personal life, but creating the long-term foundations for success in the office isn’t often as prominent.

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Improving Access To & Utilization Of Cancer Screening With Color

Discover how Color's comprehensive care solution is revolutionizing cancer screening adherence and knowledge. Through an in-depth case study, Color's unique approach to comprehensive cancer care has shown significant benefits in increasing screening rates and enhancing patient knowledge. Participants reported a 2-3x increase in adherence to screening guidelines over just 8 weeks, with 84% of participants increasing their familiarity with timing and frequency of cancer screening.

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How Healthcare HR and Compliance Can Partner for More Successful Employee Onboarding

Precheck

How Healthcare HR and Compliance Can Partner for More Successful Employee Onboarding Mar. 26, 2019. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Healthcare compliance officers are challenged with overseeing their organization's compliance program, but they can’t do it alone, especially when it comes to new hires. They must partner with HR to ensure compliance is effectively integrated into the overall onboarding process.

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5 Mistakes That Hurt Employee Recognition Programs

Engagedly

Employee recognition programs are a great way to boost employee engagement. However, more often than not, they end up doing the opposite of engaging people. Poorly structured employee recognition programs end up causing a lot more harm than […].

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How to Avoid Ageism

SHRM Resources

Ageism is among the most common types of employment discrimination. How to develop strategies to develop age diversity in your workforce.

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Disconnecting belonging from exclusion to create workplace harmony

HR Zone

Culture. Disconnecting belonging from exclusion.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Here’s How HR Will Target Its Tech Dollars

HRExecutive

HRE recently conducted a pulse survey of nearly 200 respondents on the topic of HR technology, which found almost one-third (31 percent) of respondents say their HR tech spend will increase in 2019. We asked a trio of HR tech experts—Christa Manning, director of human capital management innovation at Ultimate Software; Stacia Garr, co-founder and principal analyst at RedThread Research; and Kyle Lagunas, research director for emerging trends, talent acquisition and engagement at IDC—to interpret

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Everything You Need to Know About Skill Assessment Tests

TalentLyft

Learn everything there is to know about skill assessments tests ! What are skill assessment tests? How common is skill assessment testing today? What are the benefits of using skill assessment tests to evaluate both your candidates and existing employees? How to choose the best skill assessment tool? Read More.

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How Can HR Contribute to Improving Employee Experience

Engagedly

Employee experience is everything that an employee experiences at work from their on-boarding, interactions with their boss and other teams to the process of their work and their exit interview. It is about offering the best working experience […].

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How to succeed as an introvert at work

HR Digest

Being an introvert at work could be difficult to deal with sometimes. This is partly because most people believe that employers prefer hiring and promoting extroverts. Extroverts are extremely social; they enjoy large gatherings and love frequent communication. Hence, it’s very easy for extroverts to always be in the spotlight. Regardless of the attention extroverts get, building a successful organization requires more than just extroverts.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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Reading List: 6 Books to Deepen Your Knowledge About Diversity & Inclusion

Limeade

The key to inclusion is making sure each employee feels included, and this is exactly where many companies lose momentum. You need true commitment from everyone, every day and throughout an organization, to create a culture that feels inclusive. At Limeade, we define inclusion as a sense of belonging, connection and community at work. And we know that inclusive organizations help people feel welcomed, known, valued — and encouraged to bring their whole, unique selves to work.

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Remote working: five top tips for keeping home workers healthy

HR Zone

People. Looking after remote workers.

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Top 5 most popular employee perks: How does your company stack up?

HR Morning

What are your employees’ favorite perks? If your workforce is anything like the 1,227 participants in a recent Unum survey , the answer is time away from the workplace. Leave, flexibility carry the day. The company gave survey participants a list of 15 perks (non-insurance or retirement benefits) and here’s what they chose as their top five options: 1.

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Legal Issues in AI: Data Matters

HR Examiner

This is the first in a series on legal issues in Artificial Intelligence (AI). But before I get to the legal part, I want to set out some of the basic ideas of what I will be talking about. What is AI? Nobody really knows, because despite all the hype, AI doesn’t exist yet. The general idea is that computers will be able to think and act like humans.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.