Sat.Nov 02, 2019 - Fri.Nov 08, 2019

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Belonging Is an Act of Courage

Jason Lauritsen

Where in your life do you feel a real sense of belonging? That question on the surface feels like a pretty simple question to answer. And it’s easy to assume that almost anyone you ask would have an answer to this question. Over the past year, I’ve spent a lot of time with this question, and I now realize that it’s far more complicated than I thought.

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5 HR & Payroll Mistakes That Startups Make All Too Often

Justworks

5 HR Mistakes Startups Should Be Aware Of Startups are natural rule breakers. You’ve got to ruffle a few feathers and disrupt the status quo if you want to build the next Facebook. But there’s one area where startups definitely don’t want to break the rules: payroll and HR. Startups that don’t comply with payroll and HR laws can face serious legal and financial consequences.

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Enabling a Better Relationship with an RPO Partner

Allegis Global Solutions

In today’s global economy, five generations are working side by side for the first time in history—each with its own skillsets, communication preferences, and leadership styles. Faced with this increasingly diverse talent pool, immense technological innovation, and the growing expectation of a consumer-like experience, organisations must adopt a flexible, adaptive approach to recruitment or risk getting left behind.

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my coworker saw the Excel sheet I use to track his sick days

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I made a mistake and a coworker saw the Excel sheet that I was using to track his repeated absences. I’m not his supervisor, but I’ve been flabbergasted at the amount of sick days he takes. It started immediately when I started working here 14 months ago, but I started tracking it in January to see how many he takes in 2019.

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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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Inside the virtual mirror

HRExecutive

Since the dawn of modern business, the conference room has typically been a welcoming environment for people like me (straight, white, male), but at this very moment, I’m not feeling it. In fact, as I scan the room to read the faces of the people seated around me at the long table—four women with diverse backgrounds and ages—I’m greeted with a menu of microaggression, including eye rolls, side glances and dismissive waves of the hand , almost as if I’m emitting a foul odor that offends them.

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Understanding Types of Employee Recognition and Rewards

Bonusly

Recognition and rewards vary from organization to organization, and how you appreciate employees depends on your unique company needs. Your team could be motivated by a company-sponsored outing, a thoughtful email, or a gift card to their favorite store. It’s up to you to understand how to most meaningfully appreciate your team members and with what rewards.

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my boss wants me to share my location with her constantly, interviewer asked if I was pregnant, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss wants me to “share my location” with her constantly. I’ve decided to hunker down in my current toxic job for now. My boss is old enough to be my mother, which I mention because she likes to “mother” the younger people of our team. She sometimes refers to us as her kids. I travel quite a bit for work, sometimes with my boss and most times without.

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#WorkTrends: Ageism and Its Impact on the Modern Worker

TalentCulture

Good news for employees, but kind of concerning for employers. In the coming months, the Supreme Court could make it easier for federal employees to prove that they were discriminated against on the basis of age. I saw some fascinating research in Forbes recently that shows ageism starts as early as the age of forty-two. Forty-two? We deal with isms today in the workplace, but we don’t tend to focus enough on ageism.

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Professional Development: Goals to Turn Better Managers into Great Leaders

Caliper

Employees depend on their supervisors to create a better work culture, motivate them, and coach them throughout their roles. As such, being an effective manager requires more than just managing tasks — it requires leadership. Professional development and goal-setting play a significant role in developing a manager’s goals. Managers already spend a great deal of time helping employees and teams meet their objectives.

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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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True Inclusion Gets Everyone in the Game

SHRM

Last week, SHRM hosted its sold-out 2019 Inclusion Conference—formerly Diversity & Inclusion. We welcomed over 1,000 workforce professionals to New Orleans to explore the theme of “Shifting Workplace Culture.” Changing the name from D&I to Inclusion was key. Notions about diversity in the workplace are transforming. It’s no longer enough to have a multicultural, multigenerational workforce.

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Why Does Workplace Communication Matter?

Engagedly

Did you know that 69% of the managers said that they often feel uncomfortable communicating with employees and that over 37% of the managers feel uncomfortable giving direct feedback about their employees’ performance? Though communication seems like […].

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Top Signs of Employee Burnout

Paycor

Employee burnout is more than just dealing with an overwhelming project or working overtime for a few days in a row. It’s a condition in which an employee feels chronic stress, energy depletion and cynicism at work and it can have a number of negative side effects. In fact, employee burnout is so prevalent in the workplace, the World Health Organization officially added “burnout” to its International Classification of Diseases in 2019.

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6 People Management Skills Every Superstar Manager Has

Rise

An employee’s relationship with their manager and executive team sets the tone for their success within the company. Research from Gallup shows that a mind-boggling 70% of an employee’s motivation is influenced by their manager. So how can managers improve? It all boils down to a manager’s people management skills. These are the skills that positively influence the manager and employee relationship.

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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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UNLEASH World 2019 – Trendspotting in Paris – Update, Part 2

WorkTech

I saw so many interesting things at UNLEASH World 2019 in Paris this year. UNLEASH does a better job than any other event at covering both the here and now of HR tech – the what’s working and what isn’t – and the future of work and emerging HR technology. There’s almost too much content […]. The post UNLEASH World 2019 – Trendspotting in Paris – Update, Part 2 appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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7 Steps For Starting An Employee Recognition Program At Your Business

Engagedly

As an HR manager, it is important for you to understand why your company needs to have an employee recognition program. Employee recognition is often lumped with rewards as ‘Rewards and recognition’ but recognition mainly focuses on recognizing […].

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The key to engaging employees who seek fulfillment through work

HR Morning

Before I started my own business, I had a really good job, but it wasn’t enough. I was an administrative/executive, had supportive co-workers, a comfortable workload and salary, consistently recognized for my work, selected and participated in leadership development programs, and I could literally walk to work. However, it was missing something. I didn’t feel fulfillment in my work, or that my work was meaningful.

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The Future of Pay Empowers Workers with Choice

ADP

The world of work is changing as emerging technologies transform everything from how people collaborate and perform to get work done to how workers.

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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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How Two Startups Will Spend Six-Figure Prize From Under 30 Summit Pitch Competition

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Of a record 9,000 attendees at the 2019 Under 30 Summit, 577 came to exhibit their businesses, staffing 154 booths for the perusal of the crowd, including venture capitalists.

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Work Made Human Through Artificial Intelligence

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

The market moves faster than ever, requiring companies to move fast by focusing on results-driven activities. This need permeates every aspect of the business, including those in HR who are often subject to tasks that can be automated. As automation becomes more commonplace, HR professionals can focus on more value-adding projects that include engaging with employees, understanding prospective employee needs, and adhering to regulatory compliance requirements.

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6 Best Ways To Drive Employee Engagement

Engagedly

As a manager, it is your responsibility to lead your team effectively. The way you conduct yourself before them, affects their productivity significantly. There are many challenging issues that you have to deal with as a manger. One of […].

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9 New Apps That Will Add a Boost of Productivity To Your Workday

Quantum Workplace

E ach year, dozens of new productivity apps become available , each with its own advantages and specializations. With the rise and continued growth of remote working, productivity apps are an increasingly important part of team management. With the right tools, remote working actually enhances employee engagement.

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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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Employee engagement: how to get the most from generation Z

HR Zone

Employees What you need to know about generation z employees.

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Challenges of Building and Managing a Distributed Team and Ways to Deal with Them

6Q

Remote work is far from being a trend. As you’re probably aware by now, remote working is becoming the mainstream for both corporations and small businesses. Nearly two-thirds of US companies have employees who work remotely at least half of the time. Further, 14 percent of global companies are fully remote with no office option available and 46% offer some form of remote or flexible working arrangements which means more and more remote employees are entering the workforce everyday.

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How Can Organizations Benefit From Using OKRs?

Engagedly

In 1999, John Doerr made a presentation about OKRs at a fledgling startup. If you know your tech history well, you probably know where this is going. The startup in question was Google, and OKRs stands for Objectives […].

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John Sumser: How to drive salary transparency with intelligent tools

HRExecutive

Just about a decade ago, I left the board of directors at Salary.com after we took the company through an IPO then sold it a couple of years later. During the time I was on the board, I learned more about salary data and its management than I imagined possible. Back then, Salary.com was pioneering techniques that would come to be called artificial intelligence.

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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.