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Here's Why Development is Better With Peer Learning Groups

FlashPoint

Photo by Todd Diemer on Unsplash. We know it, we see it, we live it. When designing and delivering development programs, we know we have to intentionally build in reinforcement in order to ensure sustainability and application. We know we have to be deliberate about building in accountability.

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How Multitasking Erodes Productivity And Dings Your IQ

Forbes Leadership Strategy

Multitasking hamstrings productivity by as much as 40 percent, increases stress, reduces meaningfulness and even your IQ. Our role as leaders must include minimizing this scattershot approach to task completion and instead applying our innate human strengths in a more focused way.

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Why companies must consider a strategic approach to employee education

Chief Learning Officer - Talent Management

Corporations around the world face a people problem. While historically low unemployment is typically considered a welcome sign of a strong economy in the United States and the developed world, there are now more jobs available than skilled workers to fill them. In fact, nearly 3.5 million people quit their jobs every month to find greener pastures, according to the U.S.

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Beyond Workplace Communication: Cultivating Relational Mastery

15Five

Slack, email, this blog… the myriad ways of communicating have no end. But what is the point of all this communication software if we fail at effectively conveying our message, building authentic relationships, or winning at work. Has our technology surpassed our humanity in this realm? Not if we learn how to cultivate relational mastery. In previous episodes of the Best-Self Management podcast we went into how leaders can Create a Powerful Shared Context with the vision, mission, values,

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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Only 28% of employees say they feel connected to their company’s purpose

HR Morning

In order to cultivate a successful business with happy employees, it is highly important to have a clearly defined purpose. Many businesses don’t have a true strategy when it comes to describing their company purpose, choosing to fill in the blank with almost anything. Because many leaders have no connection with their outlined purpose, they aren’t capable of fully integrating it into their business operations – and employees feel less connected than ever.

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Developing the Workforce of the Future

hrQ

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is building the workforce they need before they need it. Too often, changed requirements in skills are discovered only when there is a problem with the proficiency or productivity of the workforce, or when particular skills become difficult to source in the marketplace. While the reasons for this are many, the continued rapid evolution of both technology and process, point to a need for different approaches to identifying and addressing futur

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Zillow’s VP of Community & Culture Rebekah Bastian on promoting equity and belonging in the workplace

Qualtrics HR

In this installment of our Employee Experience Visionaries series, hear from Rebekah Bastian, Vice President of Community & Culture at Zillow Group, CEO of OwnTrail and author of Blaze Your Own Trail, about: Why employees are their most innovative and productive when they bring their whole selves to work. How she turned her passion projects into a full-time role—and the culture that supported her employee experience.

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Why It’s Time to Add Organizational Network Analysis to Your Strategy

Visier

A few years ago, HR leaders from a trillion-dollar asset management firm encountered a puzzling trend within their workforce: Despite hiring an equal number of entry-level male and female employees, fewer women were receiving promotions. . To identify gender differences in developing productive working relationships, the company turned to its promotion data and Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).

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Love Starts with Leadership

TalentCulture

Around here we celebrate Valentine’s Day sentiments all the time. We tell each other how much we appreciate, cherish, are wowed by, awed by, impressed by, and value each other. It’s not in our culture deck (we don’t have one since we’re always flexing and morphing to grow and change with the world of work). It’s not in the rulebook and it’s not even in any of the job descriptions.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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What’s Keeping HR Up at Night in 2020?

HRExecutive

The number of job openings in the U.S. fell from 7.6 million in January 2019 to 6.8 million in January 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Is this an early sign that the talent shortage is dwindling? Maybe. But regardless of what those numbers reflect, HR professionals continue to worry about maintaining a skilled workforce. While the largest decreases occurred in retail trade (139,000 jobs) and construction (112,000 jobs), retaining key talent is HR’s chief concern, according to

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How Healthcare Employers Can Leverage Brand Reputation to Improve Recruiting and Retention

Precheck

How Healthcare Employers Can Leverage Brand Reputation to Improve Recruiting and Retention Feb. 18, 2020. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Talent recruitment and retention remain among the top challenges facing healthcare organizations in the new decade. According to a SHRM survey, 46% of HR professionals rated highly skilled medical positions as very difficult to fill.

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Want to offer support for caregivers of aging relatives? Read this

Insperity

Have you considered how your company can offer support for caregivers? As the nation’s population ages, more employees are taking on the role of caregivers. And it’s a trend that’s only picking up steam. The number of Americans ages 65 and older is projected to nearly double, from 52 million in 2018 to 95 million by 2060, according to Population Reference Bureau’s “ Fact Sheet: Aging in the United States.

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I’ve Done HR But I Don’t Have an HR Job Title [Reader Question]

UpstartHR

One of my favorite things to do is answer reader questions here on the blog. If you have a question you’d like answered (I answer as many as possible!) just shoot a note to ben@upstarthr.com. . Hi Ben, I’m a Business Administration major. I’m in my last year and I’ve chosen 5 Human Resource courses as my electives to assist me with gaining a basic knowledge of the career I want to pursue.

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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Industry experts break down the Ultimate-Kronos mega-merger

HRExecutive

When Kronos Inc. and Ultimate Software recently announced they are soon to become one (the new entity’s name will be announced soon, according to the company), reactions were swift and varied to the projected $22 billion marriage. Past history, of course, tells observers that mergers are always a risk; some go on to become smashing successes, others just smash onto the rocks.

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Knowledge Management 101: Preventing a Knowledge Loss Crisis in 6 Steps

EDSI

If there’s one thing that remains true in business (and life in general) it’s this: a crisis can strike any company … anytime, anywhere. Imagine you just found out a valuable, tenured employee is leaving and taking all his or her critical knowledge and experience with him to a competing organization. Your only hope to avert this crisis? Advanced planning!

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How to keep great employees

Hppy

Once you have spent weeks headhunting for staff , you want to keep hold of them. Long-standing employees are great for business. Not only are they great at their jobs but they are also invested in the business, which gives them the incentive to work hard. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep hold of employees. Increasingly, it is becoming more common for people to hop between jobs.

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Leveraging a CRM Software for Better Productivity

SutiHR

One of the most useful enhancements benefitting sales and marketing professionals today is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution. An automated CRM system helps you to monitor and manage current as well as future customer relationships. The solution aids both the sales and marketing teams to nurture the organization’s contacts in a more efficient way.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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10 Truths about Employee Experience that Matter to Your Business Now

Human Resources Today Submitted Articles

What does it take to build consumer grade employee experiences inside your organisation? What should it look like? How do you measure it?

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To Access the Data Goldmine, Workforces Need to Be Data Literate

TalentCulture

We are in the midst of a data revolution. Businesses and organizations across all sectors collect, store and analyze huge amounts of information. However, they often struggle to realize data’s full potential. According to a recent report from Accenture, Closing the Data Value Gap, only 32% of business executives surveyed said that they’re able to create tangible and measurable value from data.

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Samples of Useful Literature for HR

Hppy

Human resources or HR is just like every other industry. You have to continue to learn and take the time to educate yourself about what is going on and the latest trends. This is how you are going to create the best practices for your team and company. Many things are changing in the world and this includes practices in HR. There is a lot for you to learn about even if you think you know it all already.

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Carnival of HR – Happy 13th Anniversary Edition!

Robin Schooling

Thirteen years ago today (2/21/2007) the first Carnival of HR blog post was published. A blogging carnival (which in the pre-Instagram stories and TikTok days was quite the thing!) is a social media ‘gathering’ when a blog owner hosts and invites other bloggers to participate and contribute posts around a common theme – i.e., in this case, human resources.

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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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Diversity and inclusion: Waking up to your privilege to help tackle unconscious bias

HR Zone

Culture Diversity and inclusion: Wake up to your privilege.

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5 Marketing Strategies to Promote Company Culture and Attract Top Talent

Bonusly

Recruitment is part Marketing, part HR/People Ops, and entirely about bringing in the best people to build a stronger company. When evaluating marketing strategies, however, it's not always clear what benefits the top talent is looking for or how to best communicate the great things about your company’s culture. Poor culture is a pain point that comes up again and again.

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What I’ve Learned in a Half Century of Living on this Planet

The Tim Sackett Project

2-20-2020. Seems like the number people feel like this is some special birthday for me. It’s my 50th. Ugh, that’s hard to type. 50 seems so f **g old! When I was in college, 50 seemed like a lifetime away and now that I’m here, I don’t feel 50. I actually wasn’t going to write this. I’m in a world where being old is a career death sentence, especially in today’s world!

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How gamification and zombies motivate employees to get fit

HRExecutive

It’s easy to get moving when (hopefully) imaginary zombies are chasing you. By combining entertaining game design with new approaches to behavioral health, FIX Health’s “The Outbreak” app encourages employees to compete with teammates to up their daily step count and weekly exercise minutes. CEO Mike Tinney developed the idea after looking for ways to reinvigorate his own running routine—realizing the answer could lie in his love for gaming and his career in game development could be the answer.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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I ask candidates their salary expectations and don’t feel bad about it

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: You regularly talk about how inappropriate it is for employers to ask candidates about their salary expectations without giving any salary information out themselves. Well, I am a medical professional, and, along with my partners, employ two staff in our small office. I became a small business owner/employer having received no training in that aspect of things, but learned early on when I am hiring to ALWAYS ask the candidate their salary expectations before giving any informati

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Learning the Art of Giving Constructive Feedback

Bonusly

Workplace and workforce management are without a doubt some of the most challenging aspects of running a business, and a major factor is engaging employees through constructive feedback. Highly Engaged employees are 3.3x more likely to feel like they receive adequate feedback for their role and contributions than Actively Disengaged employees. –Bonusly's 2019 Engagement and Modern Workplace Report.

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Recharge Your Battery !!

Everyday People

This past Friday morning I was up early and headed out to my car in the garage. As I turned the key in the ignition, all I heard was a click, click, click. I let out an audible sigh because I knew my battery was dead. This was not how I wanted to start my day !! However, we’re often thrown curves and something unexpected sends us off course from what we had planned to do.