Sat.Sep 14, 2019 - Fri.Sep 20, 2019

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9 Things to Consider When Purchasing HR Technology

HR Bartender

We talk about HR technology a lot on HR Bartender, but it occurred to me recently that’s there’s one area of HR technology we really haven’t discussed. I was listening to one of the archived sessions from the Kronos eSymposium titled, “Five Things Not to Overlook During HR Tech Vendor Selection” and it reminded me we haven’t talked about buying technology.

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Diversity in leadership: 6 steps to make it happen

Insperity

Does your company have diversity in its leadership? If not, you could be missing out on a host of business benefits, like more innovation, higher revenues and stronger talent acquisition opportunities. However, potential benefits and enthusiasm around the issue haven’t yet translated into more diverse C-suites. Representation of women and minority populations in executive roles at American companies remains low.

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Boosting Employee Engagement Through Career Conversations

15Five

Want to increase employee engagement? It’s time to look at the career conversations you’re having with your employees. Traditionally, career discussions have been tagged onto the annual performance review process, meaning they occur far too infrequently and with an already painful process. As more companies realize continuous growth and development conversations are a priority for employees, companies are shifting the way they handle reviews altogether.

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Workplace violence prevention: Practical steps employers can take

Business Management Daily

Workplace violence takes many forms. There are the headline-grabbing shootouts that have managers and workers alike wondering if it could happen to them. More often, it’s two employees pushing each other during an argument. In between, there are petty thefts, serious fights and sexual assaults. Some industries are also more prone to workplace violence, sometimes coming from customers or even patients.

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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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Workplace Warrior: 5 Steps to Better Productivity

HR Bartender

I’m always looking for ways to be productive and I’d like to think that most people are as well. No one wants to waste their energy. That’s why I was intrigued by this infographic from Lucidchart. They conducted a survey to determine the ways people are more productive. While some of their findings we can’t change, like being the youngest makes you less productive.

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4 Secrets for Handling a Behavioral Interview

HR Digest

A behavioral interview is a major part of the candidate assessment process. Employers and hiring managers rely on behavioral job interview questions in order to find out if the candidate has the skills and competencies needed for the job. In a typical behavioral job interview, the interviewer will want to know how you handled a situation, instead of how you might handle it in the future.

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The value of taking a holistic approach to operations leadership

Business Management Daily

Businesses are often extremely complex—in my case, it takes an army of people, machines and innovations to get a product to market. In order to deliver a seamless customer experience, companies require the right leadership , a range of departments, employees with varying skill sets, and the appropriate tools and resources. With all these intersecting parts, how can operations leaders implement changes and decisions that take each arm of the business into account?

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Why You Should Hire Employees Who Don’t Meet All Your Job Requirements

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. Job seekers have their choice of opportunities in today’s tight labor market. And to attract top talent in the competitive job market, employers need to rethink their hiring strategies. According to a new study from staffing and recruiting firm Adecco, employers across the U.S. are facing challenges hiring employees meet their requirements.

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Career Progression in the Fashion Industry – An Interview With Sarah Ferguson

Take It Personel-ly

If you have ever wanted to work in the fashion industry, or learn a bit about what happens behind the scenes, here is your opportunity. Today I have the wonderful opportunity of posting this interview with Sarah Ferguson, who is an International, Wholesale and Outwear Buyer about what it’s like to work in the design […].

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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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How to motivate a multigenerational workforce

HR Digest

For the first time ever, five generations of workforce coexist in the workplace. Due to each generation having different expectations of their work, culture, and knowledge-sharing, it can become a challenge for human resources departments to motivate them. While this multigenerational workforce shares similar motivations and challenges, there is a wide disconnect in what success looks like and how to get there.

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How supervisors can support employees with ADHD

Business Management Daily

When hearing the term “ADHD” (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder), does the image of a pencil-tapping third-grader staring out the window while fellow students focus on a math lesson come to mind? While the condition does affect many children, plenty of adults (roughly 2.5%, according to the American Psychiatric Association) struggle too. And as Generation Z—the group roughly defined as born between 1995-2010 —enters the workforce, experts predict adult ADHD will become an even greater con

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Five techniques and tools to boost your productivity

cipHR

Want to achieve more in less time? Who doesn’t! We look at some tried and tested tools and techniques to help you be more productive. We all lead busy lives and sometimes it can seem extremely challenging to tick off all the tasks on our to-do list each day. But, don’t despair: here are some simple tips and tricks to really boost your productivity and help you breeze through your workload. 1.

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How To Create The Best Newsletter With A Stunning Newsletter Template

Take It Personel-ly

Creating an irresistible newsletter can be an easy task with the right guidance. Know exactly what newsletter template is working for so many people here. Looking for your new marketing dream tactic? Here it is. You might not know the statistics about e-mail marketing, but you should. Some people might think email is dead, but […].

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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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How to Avoid Office Drama

HR Digest

One of the best decisions you can make in your life is to choose to not get involved in petty office drama. Unfortunately, no matter how close-knit you are with your coworkers, you’re still going to struggle to keep your cool and your dignity, when it seems like everybody around you is acting like they’re in a time-jump episode of Gossip Girl. Limiting your interactions with catty colleagues to work-only conversations will do little to help you keep from being sucked into the black hole.

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Baby Boomer Retirement Statistics and Financial Stress

Best Money Moves

Baby Boomer retirement statistics and financial stress. Their chief concern is retirement savings but they have other sources for their financial stress, like healthcare costs and emergency savings. Baby Boomers, those between the ages of 59 and 75, still make up a significant portion of the U.S. workforce, despite many having hit retirement age. As one of the largest generations in history, Baby Boomers are faced with their own set of unique financial stressors. .

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Vendor Reference Check Questions | benefitexpress

WEX Inc.

Vendor Reference Check Questions. You've made the request for a proposal, completed a software demo and perhaps even conducted several finalist meetings. That's great! You're well on your way to switching benefits administration providers or choosing a ben admin partner for the first time.

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Inspire Innovation with These Leadership Tips

Take It Personel-ly

What does it mean to be a leader in the workplace? Is it someone who strongarms their employees to do what they want and doesn’t recognize hard work, only the failures? Or is a leader someone who encourages their employees to meet their goals, even the hard ones, and recognizes employees for their hard work. […].

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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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Why You Should Get Aggressive About Passive Enrollment Communications

Flimp Communications

Annual enrollment is a stressful time for human resources and employees alike. Making few changes and leaning into a passive enrollment can seem like the easiest solution for all involved. It’s more time consuming for HR as it falls on them to roll over workers’ choices from the previous year. But while a passive enrollment can save a few headaches in the short run, letting it happen without a concerted effort to increase employee engagement could cause long-term harm.

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5 Things You’ll Never Hear an HR Department of One Say…

UpstartHR

For those of you not in the know, an HR department of one is just what it sounds like: an HR department where one person covers all the bases from an HR, talent, and recruiting perspective. I have a special place in my heart for the HR department of one, because that’s where I came from. When I worked in the HR profession, I had the opportunity to wear all (and I mean ALL) the hats, and while it was challenging it was also a lot of fun.

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6 Reasons to Monitor Office Space Utilization

Asure Software

With rising costs of office space coupled with agile, flexible employee desk and room sharing trends, it’s a facilities management… The post 6 Reasons to Monitor Office Space Utilization appeared first on Asure Software.

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Keeping Your Business Files Organized And Accessible

Take It Personel-ly

We have all had to ask ourselves the question “where did that file go?” It is very frustrating to not know where your business files are when you need them that very minute. Then you have to waste time looking through different files and folders trying to find what you are looking for. This is […].

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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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FMLA: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?

Abel HR

As we’ve mentioned before, HR professionals love to use acronyms. One that you might hear getting tossed around a lot is “FMLA.” But what is it? Who can use it and under what circumstances? And how on earth do you go about applying for it? What is FMLA? FMLA stands for the Family and Medical Leave Act. This federal law was passed in 1993 and is designed to allow eligible workers to “take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons,” according to the Department of Labor (

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Why Change Management Innovators Should Work with Influencers

Flimp Communications

The term change management describes approaches that aid everyone from individuals to entire companies to make organizational changes. A perpetual challenge of change management is selling these changes to your workforce. You must market these changes to your employees, and that’s where influencer marketing can help. Influencers are people whose authority, knowledge and relationship with their audience have the power to affect opinions of goods or services.

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Reasonable accommodation can require additional leave

Business Management Daily

Reasonable accommodations for a disabled employee can include paid time off or unpaid time off. In fact, an employee who is disabled should not be automatically terminated once she’s exhausted all leave available. That’s true whether she’s a new employee who hasn’t earned leave or an employee out of paid or unpaid leave. Has she used all eligible FMLA leave ?

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The New Sales Journey – Putting the Customer First

Take It Personel-ly

Sale representatives and marketers all over the world know the importance of putting their customers first. Companies are well familiar with this phase and try to go to great lengths to make sure that their customers are always feeling satisfied with the services they provide them with. If you are trying to increase your sales […].

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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.