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3 mistakes to avoid at your next company gathering

CultureAmp

“HR is pushing this change out again.”.

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When your employer stops treating you like an adult

Workplace Diva

You're almost 40 years old, but your workplace makes you feel like a little kid. Management assumes employees cannot adult today -- or any other day for that matter. Your workplace is reverting back to childhood. Whether it's telling employees they can't have sugar or measuring how often employees exercise ( and creepily calling employees to congratulate them when they do ) or treating the workplace like a full-time classroom , the line is rapidly blurring between the professional and the parent

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Social Media Background Checks: Are They Okay – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I knew that today’s title will get your attention. . I’ve been waiting for someone to send me this question! I’m sure this reader’s note will resonate with many: I have a question regarding social media. Last year, we came across a candidate who had a number of recent social media posts expressing racially charged views. We decided not to move this candidate along in the selection process as these posts didn’t reflect our company’s values.

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Corporate Culture - Your Secret Weapon in Talent Management: How to Define and Enhance Yours

EDSI

Corporate culture. It’s like a magnetic force that pulls talent toward your organization. Is your pull strong or weak? In all seriousness, though, it’s a hot topic in the war for talent. Economists note that when the economy is thriving, employees have more bargaining power, which leads to more competition in the job market. Because of this, many companies must take a closer look at their culture as a primary way to attract and retain employees.

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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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We’re Only Human 53: How to Partner with Your Talent Analytics Team

UpstartHR

Organizations that have analytics talent, whether it’s a dedicated team or just a single data-loving person within the HR function, often struggle with how to leverage the expertise they bring to the table. In today’s discussion, Ben interviews the team at Cox Enterprises: Debbie Morris, Sr. Talent Management Consultant, and Hal Halbert, Reporting Manager, to talk about how the HR/talent function can align and work with the analytics team. .

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The MWBE Certificate: An Intro to the What, Why, and How

Justworks

Running a small business is a challenging endeavor. Developing the products or services, gaining more customers and contracts, and competing in the marketplace are all part of the daily grind. For minority and women-owned businesses, there are programs in most states that can actually help give you a leg up. If you haven’t heard of the MWBE certification, it’s about time you dive in.

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How HR Can Benefit from Business Intelligence

Hppy

Traditionally, human resources have been considered, well, very human. HR decisions are thought to be based on quality not quantity; psychology, not digits. But with innovations in the business intelligence arena, all that is changing, and rapidly too. Here, we’ll discover the benefits of business intelligence for HR and find out how ‘people-intel’ is going digital.

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my coworker uses all-caps for everything, can I ask my office to stop swearing, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker uses all-caps for everything. My team recently hired a new employee to help pick up some of the slack when it comes to the admin tasks we deal with on a day-to-day basis. Our new employee (Sansa) is enthusiastic about the job, a quick learner, and well liked by everyone in our organization.

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New Research: 81% of Learning Pros Say Disruption Drives Upskilling and Reskilling Demand

Lighthouse

We keep hearing that artificial intelligence, bots, and other components of technology will force employers to rethink skills in the workplace. But what do the data say? In a new study, Disruption Drives Reskilling and Upskilling , our team found that 81 percent of learning professionals believe that the current pace of change, automation, and disruption will drive a need for reskilling and upskilling employees. [ Click here to download our latest research on. reskilling and upskilling the workf

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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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Shift Employee Survey Sentiment Into Measurable Action

Kazoo

Here are SIX STEPS to ACTivate Your Leaders…. A lot of companies think (and rightfully so) planning for action is a major cumbersome project. But the shift from employee survey sentiment to measurable action can be simple, sometimes as simple as a conversation. Employees are like the canary in a coal mine. They’re aware of conditions that often elude leaders.

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Location Based Attendance Tracking with Geofencing

SutiHR

Scheduling shifts and monitoring attendance of remote employees is a tough task for HR teams. If an organization is using the age-old process to keep track of remote employees on paper, or excel, it is wasting unnecessary time and effort and putting extra stress on HR staff. Businesses need advanced technology to keep track of. The post Location Based Attendance Tracking with Geofencing appeared first on SutiHR.

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how to negotiate salary after a job offer

Ask a Manager

I recently wrote about how to ask for a raise, but the easiest time to get more money is actually before you’ve been hired, while you’re still negotiating your job offer. I wrote a guide to negotiating salary as part of a job offer, including knowing how much to ask for, answering questions about your salary expectations, what to say when you get the offer, and more.

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How to Build a Recognition Strategy Fit for Your Organization

Engage2Excel

Janice makes a good salary at her job and she routinely delivers excellent work that improves her company’s bottom line. But recently she’s been feeling underappreciated. Her results are often attributed to her managers and her superiors rarely pay attention to her achievements. It’s frustrating. In fact, she’s thinking of looking for a position elsewhere because she doesn’t think her current employer values her contributions, and she wants to be in a place where she can grow.

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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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Shift Employee Survey Sentiment Into Measurable Action

Kazoo

Here are SIX STEPS to ACTivate Your Leaders…. A lot of companies think (and rightfully so) planning for action is a major cumbersome project. But the shift from employee survey sentiment to measurable action can be simple, sometimes as simple as a conversation. Employees are like the canary in a coal mine. They’re aware of conditions that often elude leaders.

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Why “Top Workplace” Awards Aren’t a Good Indicator of Engagement

15Five

I once worked at a company that desperately wanted to land a spot on one of those well-known “best places to work” lists. If you’re not familiar with the selection process for these high-profile lists, the main thing to know is that many of them rely heavily on anonymous surveys and employee interviews. The idea is to scratch beneath the surface to better understand how employees really feel about their workplace cultures.

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my team got matching tattoos … and other lack of boundaries at my start-up

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work at a tech startup in a place where that isn’t very common, and there’s always been a blurring of work camaraderie/ being actual friends because we’re all younger adults, but this is a new level: a majority of my team (eight out of 12 team members, including our department head) went away on vacation together and got matching, work-related tattoos.

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10 Tech Tools to Use for HR Professionals

Digital HR Tech

In a recent interview, I was asked the question: “What tools and technology do you use at the HR Trend Institute? Do you walk the talk?”. The HR Trend Institute is a small organization. No ERP, no CRM, no pulse surveys and no real-time sentiment analysis of our e-mails. I can give an overview of the applications I personally use, and I think many of them can be very useful for HR professionals.

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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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Hiring Alone – The Biggest Failure of Talent Acquisition!

The Tim Sackett Project

It takes a village. That’s what Hillary told us in her famous children’s book. You can’t raise a child by yourself, it takes a village to raise a child fully. At least that’s our hope and ideal. I think it takes a village to hire correctly as well, and I’m not talking about the village of TA and HR. I’m talking about the village of our entire organization.

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Hiring People with Criminal Backgrounds Is Easier Than You Think

SHRM Resources

A panel of experts at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Employment Law & Legislative Conference answered employers who are wondering: Second-chance hiring is well-intentioned, sure, but how do we actually do it?

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ask the readers: when you’re the chronically sick coworker

Ask a Manager

Last fall, we had a letter from someone frustrated with a coworker, Jane, who was constantly out of the office and had taken far more personal and sick leave than anyone else in the office received. The letter said, “I find it incredibly unfair that Jane is given so much lenience … I’m having a hard time enjoying the work I do when I’m stuck on the same team as such an unreliable coworker.” In my response, I pointed out that while Jane might be abusing the employer’s good

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12 Approaches You Can Use To Strengthen Your Organization This Year

Forbes Coaches Council

The first of the year is an excellent time to look at goals and procedures, in order to figure out what works — and what needs revision.

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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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Ep – 174 Design Thinking in Human Resources

Workology

There has been a bit of buzz around Design Thinking in human resources recently. Like agile methodology, design thinking is a process for creating problem-solving and helps develop human-centric. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. There has been a bit of buzz around Design Thinking in human resources recently.

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The Employee Experience in 2019

SocialChorus

Every month we curate the top news and trends in digital transformation and how it affects the employee experience. (In case you missed it, here are some recent posts: Your Employee Experience Roundup: Virtual Assistants, the Rise of Gen Z Workers, and Automation for HR and Top 10 Employee Experience Strategy Trends in December ). This month we’re hearing about the following trends: the blended workforce, the point at which humans, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and robots will work together, h

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can I use dark humor at work?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a dark sense of humor. I now realize that my boss does not. During a standard “how was your day off” conversation between my supervisor, manager, and a few peers, my manager mentioned that he was a chaperone for one of his kid’s field trips to Gatorland. Naturally, I asked if any of the kids on the trip got eaten by an alligator.

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Here’s How to Reinvent Learning Management

HRExecutive

A company’s biggest competitive advantage is its people. The greatest value of people as employees is their command of highly developed skills of the future. Depending on which doomsday article or study you read, the bots are coming and AI will replace 40 percent of our jobs in the next 15 years. Thank God! They should! Let the bots come. Let automation take over anything that can be automated.

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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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'The Wild New World of Technology' – Josh Bersin at UNLEASH London 2019

HR Zone

Future. 'The Wild New World of Technology' – Josh Bersin.

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7 Ways HRMS Can Transform How Your HR Department

HR Morning

A typical day in HR is… anything but typical. Whether you’re dealing with an employee suddenly leaving or your CEO demanding results, you’re constantly on the move and putting out new fires. You’re busy, to say the least. And on top of it all, you still have to answer questions about payroll and keep up with compliance reporting.

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my boss constantly complains about how much he pays me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a very small company with three full-time employees and my boss, who is the owner. My coworkers and I (who are all in our first professional jobs out of college) make reasonable salaries for the area, but receive no other benefits. One of my coworkers and I started around the same time and recently received raises at our two year anniversaries.