Sat.Nov 21, 2020 - Fri.Nov 27, 2020

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How to Plan for an Effective Team-Building Activity

Hppy

Improving rapport among employees is a crucial component of any organization. After all, the workforce is made up of individuals with unique personalities and attitudes. There will always be room for misunderstanding, unhealthy competition, and divisiveness that affects the productivity of the entire enterprise. Encouraging your employees to build bridges and form healthy professional relationships is part and parcel of managing a successful business.

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12 Ways to Support Your Employees’ Emotional and Mental Health

Terryberry

How can we create an experience that is good for people’s emotional and mental health? Unfortunately, most efforts to address emotional and mental health in the workplace are focused on symptoms of stress. But this is akin to passing cold towels to someone overheating on the treadmill whilst forcing them to run. It might be a light relief but it’s not really solving the problem!

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5 Ways to Integrate Coaching into Your Managing Style

TinyPulse

Coaching is crucial to keeping today's employees engaged and productive. With the fast pace of today's workplace, employees need to keep current with the new skills needed to thrive in their jobs.

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How to Make Gratitude in the Workplace an Everyday Practice

15Five

When times get tough (e.g. 2020), dwelling on challenges can often exacerbate those struggles–especially at work. Negativity doesn’t just impact company morale, it directly affects engagement and productivity levels. However, when leaders intentionally spread gratitude in the workplace, they can help their teams, both in-person and remote, bounce back from hard times, keep relationships intact, and maintain motivation.

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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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Bridging the Distance

Engage2Excel

The relationship between managers and their direct reports has undergone severe stress testing during the COVID-19 crisis. Unfortunately, according to a Career Builder survey, 58% of managers have never received training in people management. In turn, HR leaders should not expect that managers are well equipped to support remote employees. So, what do managers need to do differently to engage remote workers?

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Grateful

Everyday People

I’m geeked about this week because one of my favorite holidays is happening – Thanksgiving !! I love intentionally taking time to pause, reflect and give thanks for life in general. Yes, it has its ups and downs and difficulties. However, I am grateful for every aspect of life. It’s not some false pretense or posturing. It’s how I choose to face each day – grateful.

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These are HR’s priorities for 2021

HRExecutive

With the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating any time soon, new research finds that HR professionals are most concerned about ensuring their workforce has the skills to succeed in the new world of work. In its HR Priorities Survey, Gartner, the Stamford, Conn., research and advisory company, found that 68% of respondents reported that employees’ critical skills and competencies need serious tending during the coming year.

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Biden Plans to Ban Noncompete, No-Poaching Clauses

SHRM Resources

President-elect Joe Biden has indicated that his administration will be more aggressive in minimizing employers’ use of noncompetition clauses in employment contracts and institute an outright ban on no-poaching agreements.

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5 Livestock Breeds Small-Scale Farmers Can Raise

Take It Personel-ly

Farming is technically the oldest profession on the planet as humans have always harvested and grown food for consumption. In recent years farming has been done on a huge scale by farmers with large areas of land and massive machinery. However, the prevalence of small-scale farmers is increasing. Much of this is a result of […].

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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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Six checks to ensure your compensation and rewards are fair

HR Zone

Employees Six ways to check your rewards are fair.

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Averbook: Here’s why every HR leader needs a digital mandate for 2021

HRExecutive

If 2020 was the year of creation (which I think it was), 2021 will be a year of rebirth. This year was indelibly marked by a global pandemic, an increased focus on social justice , soaring unemployment, social distancing and a complete upheaval of work, workers and business. With perspective, you might look at all of these as activation levers. Called upon to (re)act, we created new work models and social routines, we found new ways to learn and educate, we embraced digital transformation and th

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Why and How You Should Audit Your HR Process During COVID-19

Cisive

While our world has been turned upside down over the past six months, we’re beginning to experience a new normal in a post-pandemic marketplace. While the economy may take some time to recover, now is the time for HR leaders to take the time to re-evaluate HR processes, procedures, and systems in support of the company for the remainder of this year and into 2021.

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Biden Seeks to Strengthen Registered Apprenticeship Program, Modernize Workforce Training

SHRM Resources

?Investing in apprenticeships is on the to-do list of President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he wants to put $50 billion into workforce training by creating partnerships among community colleges; businesses; unions; universities and high schools; and state, local and tribal governments.These partnerships would identify knowledge and skills that are in demand, plus develop or modernize training programs that "could be as short as a few months or as long as two years" and lead to an ind

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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 to make the business case for internal mobility

HR Zone

People The business case for internal mobility.

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Working From Home Tips for New Parents

Take It Personel-ly

There are many people working from home now, even those of us who would never have imagined working from home before. From the customer service manager who now has to manage customer queries from their home office, to the IT technician that has to try and work around the challenges that distance working has created. […].

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Three Thanksgiving Gratitude 2020 Paradigm Shifts

Babette Ten Haken - Professional Development

In 2019, I never imagined I’d be creating a 2020 Thanksgiving Gratitude blog post during a global pandemic. However, this is a very different year for all of us. And so is this blog post. Because the reality of 2020 is that all of us are wrestling with two sentiments: what we are grateful for in addition to a profound sense of loss. Especially as I continue to offer my condolences to friends, colleagues and clients who lost loved ones during 2020.

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The Most Important Parts of a Resume—Explained

The Muse

What resume components are essential, which parts are optional, and what you should never include. Plus examples of what goes in each section.

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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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10 Phone Interview Tips to Get to the Next Round

HR Digest

There’s truly nothing more rewarding than hearing from the recruiter that you’ve landed a phone interview for your dream job. It goes to show that all your hard work and efforts – editing your resume, writing a cover letter, and filling out applications on the web – have paid off. Unfortunately, a few have the skills to leave an impression during the phone screening process.

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First-Time Jobless Claims Tick Up Again

SHRM Resources

?States reported that 778,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Nov. 21, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week's revised total.The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell last week, to 6 million. The Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program for people whose benefits have run their course has been showing a steady rise in claims however, now up to 4.5 million.

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Five tips for motivating employees and celebrating the festive season in 2020

HR Zone

Culture Five festive HR tips for 2020.

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The Role of the HR Business Partner

Sergio Caredda

What is the role of an HR Business Partner? What is the ideal career path to becoming one? What is the difference between an HR Generalist and an HRBP? How do you ensure a real partnership with the business? What is the biggest challenge as an HRBP? These are just some of the questions that I tried to address in an informal webinar organised as a part of a cycle of events that VF has organised together with the MSc in Management of Human Resources at the University of Milan , coordinated by prof

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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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7 High-Paying Jobs You Can Land Without a College Degree

The Muse

It’s not true these days that you must have a degree to get a job that pays well. Here are seven high-paying roles you can land without a degree.

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How to Use Coaching to Build Learning Agility

Digital HR Tech

Coaching and learning agility have a lot in common. In this article, we’ll take a look at their similarities. We’ll also discuss how both individuals and HR can build learning agility and what role coaching can play in that. Let’s get started! Contents How coaching and learning agility relate Tool vs. mindset How individuals can build learning agility How HR can build learning agility Coaching technology.

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Job Posting Data Improves, but Full Recovery a Long Way Off

SHRM Resources

?Job posting activity in the U.S. is proving resilient, if slowing down from gains made this summer, according to labor market sources.The number of advertisements for job openings on Indeed is 13 percent lower year-over-year as of Nov. 13, but significantly better than the low point of 39 percent below the previous year's trend on May 1. The trend in job postings improved in May, June and July, but started to stall in August, said Jed Kolko, chief economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab.Julia Pollak

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The Weekly Dose: The Meeting Owl @owllabs

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on the Weekly Dose I take a look at a piece of tech hardware, not software that is gaining popularity with organizations who are doing more and more hybrid virtual meetings. Owl Labs developed a speaker/mic/camera combination, The Meeting Owl , that makes in-office and remote workers feel more like they are in the room. One of the biggest pains for remote workers is when they are having meetings with co-workers that are in-office is many times you don’t get the full experience of wha

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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.