July, 2020

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Awareness: The Key to Healthy Teams

Achievers

This covers the value of awareness and is the first of a four-part blog series on mental well-being. In the midst of a heated senior management meeting yesterday on budget cuts, I noticed I was becoming agitated and frustrated at the resistance to budget cuts being expressed in the meeting. As CEO of the organization, I have a response due to the board of directors.

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Will HR Technology Change Human Resources – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I received this comment from an HR Bartender reader a while ago and I must admit it’s taken me a while to think about the response. I’m taking that as a good sign. Sharlyn: Great article about the “ 13 HR Technology Concepts HR Pros Need to Know ”. I am somewhat familiar and conversant with some but not all. I’m wondering if you see this technology as being available and used by HR professionals in their respective organizations OR will it require such specialization that it will alter HR as we

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New Integration: Reach More Applicants with Jobs on Facebook

Hireology

Hireology now supports a direct integration with Jobs on Facebook, allowing you to reach even more local applicants from your organization’s business page across the largest social media network. With the new integration and a few quick steps to get setup, any current and future jobs can be shared to your Facebook business page automatically, and allow applicants to apply for your open positions directly from Facebook to reach millions of local job seekers. .

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Why 2020 Is The ‘Year Of HR’: A Conversation With Josh Bersin

15Five

Perhaps now more than ever, demands on People Operations roles are incredibly high. Handling just the administrative side of HR while establishing a remote workforce can be a full-time job, let alone the all-important human element that requires your attention and resources. Because the true power of People Ops lies in unlocking the potential of every employee, many HR leaders are discovering or refining new skills in 2020, what today’s guest is calling, “The Year of HR.”.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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Intrapreneurs: The Rise Of The Organizational Innovators

Vantage Circle

There was a time when working in a 9 to 5 schedule was the norm for most employees. No , this is not an ancient times scenario but something as recent as two to three decades back. The employees in those days followed the instructions of their bosses to the T. They were hardly expected or encouraged to think and perform beyond their given scope of work.

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5 Topics to Communicate to Employees Before Going Back to the Office

Achievers

Now that more of the United States is opening up, millions of Americans are returning to work. However, after the COVID-19 shutdowns, “back to the office” doesn’t necessarily mean “back to normal.” To help employees adjust to office life post-quarantine, you’ll need to be ready to communicate important changes and new procedures so they feel safe and comfortable being there each day.

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Digital transformation: Tips for success for HR leaders

Take It Personel-ly

The way we work has changed in several ways including the way people apply for jobs and how recruiters screen candidates. Both these tasks were once expected to be done in-person. Now technology allows us to perform both these tasks without interaction between recruiter and a candidate. This is an example of digital transformation, which […].

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Product Update: Introducing Hireology Checklists

Hireology

Our team is excited to announce that checklists are now available to add to any hiring process as a custom hiring step. Checklists will be great to use to keep teams organized throughout the hiring process to ensure you are collecting proper documentation from candidates – including immunization records, certifications, licenses, and other critical role-specific information.

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The Nature Of 1-on-1s Are Changing For The Better

15Five

Although the pandemic has triggered massive shifts in our day-to-day lives and even our long-term view, it isn’t without silver linings. At a high level, organizations are embracing flexibility like never before; employees are trading long commutes for higher levels of productivity; but more specifically, managers and employees are revamping their weekly 1-on-1s.

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4-Week Roadmap for New Hires

Nearly one-quarter of employees (23%) admit they’ve cried within the first week! Give new hires a positive start with this four-week onboarding roadmap. This schedule outlines all the turns, detours, and speedbumps new hires can expect in their first month. We’ve included suggestions for each week to help you make your new employees’ highway to success an easy road.

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Organizations: Maximize Productivity with Effective Scheduling

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by? our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos has introduced ? employee contact-tracing capabilities ?for their customers at no additional charge. Check out their ? COVID-19 Resource Center for details. Enjoy the article!).

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10 ways to reward your remote workforce

Insperity

Everyone likes to be recognized for their efforts – whether it’s a very public kudos or a hand-written note discreetly mailed to their home. In fact, employee recognition is considered one of the top ways to motivate people to do their best work and increase productivity. According to the Society of Human Resource Management ,79 percent of employees say recognition makes them work harder and 78 percent say recognition makes them more productive and better equipped to handle change.

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38 Employee Appreciation Quotes to Recognize Others

Achievers

Employees crave appreciation for their work. In our recent Engagement & Retention Report, 82 percent of workers wished they were recognized more often. What if you could provide deeper appreciation, in ways that your most valuable team members find truly meaningful? Research indicates that 1 in 3 employees feels less connected to company culture and coworkers because of the increasing prevalence of remote work.

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Top 7 Healthcare Careers With Great Growth Potential in 2020

Take It Personel-ly

Healthcare is one of the fastest-growing career fields in the U.S. It’s estimated that the American healthcare system won’t have enough nurses and doctors to treat patients by the year 2030. Healthcare careers go beyond doctors and nurses. If you’re considering a career in healthcare, take a look at these 7 healthcare careers with growth potential. 1. […].

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How to Make The Best Benefits Decisions for 2025's Workforce: An HR and Total Rewards Guide

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Preview our Summer Release Roadmap

Hireology

As businesses across the country continue to deal with the challenges faced by COVID-19, our product team has spent the year prioritizing features and all-new functionality to help our customers overcome the hiring challenges that we’ve seen over the past few months. . We’d like to share a few features we recently launched and preview upcoming updates to our core platform to directly address the pain points we know businesses are feeling due to the business realities COVID-19 has created. .

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Top 10 Employee Benefits for 2021

Best Money Moves

Top 10 employee benefits for 2021. HR trends forecast the most desired employee benefits for 2021 like financial wellness programs and flexible work arrangements. It’s time for employers to start planning their employee benefits packages for 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has presented significant challenges for employers and highlighted the unprecedented levels of stress employees face in their everyday lives.

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Contact Tracing for #COVID19: What HR Needs to Know

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos and Ultimate Software have announced the formation of the Equity at Work Council (EWC) , a group of innovators and practitioners working together to understand diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Fully remote recruiting and hiring: overview and best practices

Insperity

Remote recruiting is increasingly necessary for many employers, especially as working from home becomes more commonplace. As a business leader, you may be quite comfortable video conferencing with colleagues and vendors. And, you’re probably accustomed to sourcing and screening job applicants without actually meeting them in person. But conducting online interviews and following an all-remote hiring process – where you meet job candidates and get to know them in a virtual-only context – may be l

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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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How Employee Voice and Recognition Boosted Engagement at Bayhealth

Achievers

Taking a cue from their motto to strengthen the health of their communities one life at a time, Bayhealth prioritized the strength of their teams with a strategic focus on employee voice and recognition , and the goal of improving engagement. For all organizations, building a culture of recognition is critical to driving the engagement needed to succeed.

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How to Save Money in The Era of Online Shopping

Take It Personel-ly

We can all use a few more handy ways to save money. This is nowhere more true than in the world of online shopping. Since hundreds of millions of people do the bulk of their shopping using the web, this is timely advice. And the time for you to pick up some handy online shopping […].

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New Resource: Healthcare Onboarding Best Practices Playbook

Hireology

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it’s never been more important for essential healthcare agencies to connect with qualified applicants and help them begin working with patients quickly to provide outstanding care. . With an unprecedented need for nurses, technicians, and other healthcare professionals, agencies are being overwhelmed with the need to hire at scale to keep up with the demands of today’s patients and families.

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Learn how to set boundaries at work without being mean

HR Digest

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you learned how to set boundaries at work? After all, boundaries are the building blocks of self-respect. Boundaries. We all need them in our lives. It can be a fine line between befriending a client and taking their phone calls at 2 a.m. in the night. How you set boundaries at work is essential, as is having contracts in place to clearly outline what is and what isn’t included in your role.

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The Diversity Reckoning: Can HR Survive Without New Perspectives?

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Mental health awareness at work: Warnings signs to look for

Business Management Daily

Mental health among workers is essential not only for employee wellness but also for the welfare of your company. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults reported a mental illness in 2016, and 71% reported at least one symptom of stress, like a headache or feeling anxious. Mental health awareness programs in the workplace can help mitigate stress and improve employees’ wellness by identifying issues early, and providing support through things like Empl

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Onboarding remote employees: how to get it right

Insperity

If your company is embracing work-from-home options for your team, you may find yourself needing some sensible strategies for new staff onboarding – namely, a process for onboarding remote employees. While it takes a bit of extra effort and creativity, onboarding remote employees doesn’t have to be as difficult as it may sound. After all, plenty of all-remote companies have been making employees feel welcome and included from a distance for several years.

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How Power Design Launched their Recognition Program to Rave Reviews

Achievers

When 90 percent of employees say that recognition motivates them to work harder, it’s a clear message to organizations that recognition matters. And it’s not only about acknowledging the work done inside the office—off-site employee recognition is also critical to engagement and bottom-line business results. Recognition matters in more ways than one.

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Where to start with ethnicity pay gap reporting

cipHR

The demand for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting is growing, but this pay transparency can only be achieved once HR and senior leadership understand data. In June 2020 , a petition calling for mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting for UK firms with 250 or more staff reached more than 100,000 signatures. The Black Lives Matter movement has increased public demands for organisations to be transparent about how much they pay people from black, Asian, or ethnic minority backgrounds (BAME), but w

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Testing Innovations in Cancer: How to evaluate and use new technologies

Amidst rising cancer prevalence and soaring costs, new cancer technologies and innovations are emerging to support the early detection, treatment, and surveillance of cancer. Read this guide to understand how to evaluate these solutions for your employees and members – and to learn more about the current state of coverage, clinical and cost effectiveness, and impact on quality and outcomes.