November, 2021

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10 tips for a successful hybrid employee work environment

Insperity

Many prominent surveys have shown that most employees want a permanently hybrid work environment – or at least more flexible workplaces. This is a shift that has been coming for some time – the pandemic simply accelerated it. For employees, hybrid workplaces combine in-person work and telecommuting. For organizations, this shift brings many questions about how to manage the new hybrid workplace.

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The ‘Working Dead’ – Why Companies Must Tend To Those Who Remain After The ‘Great Resignation’

Wellable

The devastating effects of COVID-19 have led many workers to reconsider the role that their place of work should play in their wellness journeys. After months of pandemic-induced stress, many workers are realizing that one of the lynchpins to a happier life is a more wellness-centric job. As a result, they are looking for greener pastures.

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What is a Hybrid Workplace?

The Receptionist

Today’s employees prefer a flexible workplace model where they can choose when to work in the office and when to work remotely. While the hybrid model has been around for years, it’s become even more popular post-COVID-19. Some employees have discovered that they actually prefer working alone the majority of the time, with the option to check in for in-person meetings every now and then.

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How to Manage Your Files Effectively

Jen Lawrence

Managing files can be overwhelming and let’s be honest… boring for some. But as I always say… my passion is your nightmare! . Remember, an effective file management system boosts the overall efficiency of a company’s operations. It also organizes important information and provides a searchable database for easy access. With that, I’m going to share tips on how you can manage your files effectively.

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How Leaders Can Move Beyond Fear And Employ Positivity To Drive Organizational Success

Tanveer Naseer

Even before the global pandemic struck, many organizations and their leaders were limiting themselves to a short-term view at the expense of achieving any of their long-term goals. So how do leaders move past the current and persistent short-termism that’s often driven by a fear-based mindset, and instead embrace a. Click to continue reading.

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10 Things Effective Leaders Do to Encourage Innovation

Success

When I work with companies on innovation projects, whether it’s industry-changing new products and services or smaller-scale ideas to streamline internal processes, I often see leaders and their teams struggling to freely ideate and really dive into the brainstorm process. When they do finally get there, it’s a big aha moment, but it takes a while. The reason is simple: When ideation isn’t second nature, it’s because company culture hasn’t supported it.

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How to become a veteran-friendly employer

Insperity

Savvy business leaders know that military members make great employees. Because of the diverse and valuable skills they acquire during their service, veterans can be an incredible asset to any organization. But what does it take to become known as a veteran-friendly employer? Let’s say you get an opportunity to hire a military reservist or veteran. Once you bring them onboard, you’ll want to do everything you can to retain them in your workforce for the long term.

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Customer Service Trends You Need to Know

The Receptionist

Trends are constantly ebbing and flowing. Customer service trends are no exception. For example, COVID-19 fundamentally transformed the way we do business. Organizations were forced to figure out how to provide quality service to their customers in new ways. Many companies shifted their entire operation online. As a result, the Internet became the most important tool for connecting with customers.

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What We Know About Gen Z in the Workplace

Great Place to Work

An analysis of over 32,000 Gen Z employee responses from over 350 companies across the U.S. tells us about Gen Z in the workplace and how to attract and retain them in future.

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How To Identify A Bad Leader – So You Can Avoid Becoming One

Tanveer Naseer

Correctly leading a team is one of the most important aspects of achieving all the necessary objectives of your workplace. Furthermore, a good leader keeps their team motivated and creates a good work environment. Nonetheless, the idea of “good” leadership is something that remains very subjective. Each of us has. Click to continue reading.

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10 Ways to Finish Your Year Strong

Success

1. Get out there. Marketing yourself on social media can be intimidating, but personal branding isn’t valuable if nobody notices you. Put yourself out there, be authentic, and when it’s a question of do I or don’t I? Do. R ead: The SUCCESS Interview: Donny Deutsch on the Inherent Risks of Building a Personal Brand (and Why It’s Worth It Anyway). 2. Grow your list.

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What should be in a performance improvement plan?

Insperity

Putting an employee on a performance improvement plan (PIP) is uncomfortable for everyone involved. However, a well-crafted PIP can help employees save their jobs and protect employers from liability. The key to an effective performance improvement plan is communication: Before a PIP is necessary When you must implement one During the PIP period When it’s complete.

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Pulse Check – Should Technology Be Used To Prevent Burnout?

Wellable

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), burnout is characterized by “feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job, or feelings of negativism or cynicism related to one's job; and reduced professional efficacy.”.

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Respect in the Workplace: Why It Matters and How to Promote It

The Receptionist

Respect plays a fundamental role in your workplace. It’s the basic building block to your success. Without respect, you’re left with a toxic environment where no one trusts each other and few are motivated to go above and beyond their basic job responsibilities. However, if you want to increase productivity, reach shared goals, and ensure that every team member feels valued, you must cultivate an atmosphere of mutual respect and appreciation.

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The Top Employee Engagement Trends HR Leaders Should Watch In 2022

TinyPulse

2021 was marked with quite a lot of problems. From the ongoing pandemic to the Great Resignation, there seem to be endless challenges for companies to keep their workforce. The war for talent started more than 20 years ago and ever since, companies had problems finding the best candidates in their talent pools.

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How to Use Employee Engagement to Increase Motivation

Quantum Workplace

Motivating employees is a tough task for many leaders. Some don’t know where to start, or write off unmotivated employees as a lost cause. But strategies to increase motivation are important, as employee ambition and determination are the driving forces behind business success.

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What to Do When Your Passion Isn’t Enough

Success

When building your business or really, anything, most people will tell you, “Never let that passion die!” “Always remember why you started!” “Always make sure that your love for what you do is burning bright!”. People will remind you repeatedly to keep pushing forward and to stay as dedicated as you were on day one. Of course, when you’re on the first few days of your project, you’re wildly motivated, as if nothing could go wrong.

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Furlough vs. layoff: What’s the difference, and what do employers need to know?

Insperity

When an organization needs to reduce its payroll due to financial hardship, there are two options employers may consider: furlough vs. layoff. Everyone has heard of these terms, but many people don’t know the difference between what it means to furlough an employee or lay them off. And it doesn’t help that these terms are often used interchangeably.

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Flavors Of Happiness

Wellable

Good health goes hand-in-hand with happiness. Various studies have shown an effective wellness program that recognizes the value of happiness and equips individuals with the tools to achieve more positive feelings can enhance employee performance, work abilities, and overall wellness.

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How to Improve Your One-on-One Employee Meetings

The Receptionist

How do you successfully conduct one-one meetings with your employees? Keep reading. In this guide, we’ll give you top, time-tested strategies for improving your individual employee check-ins. When you regularly meet with your team members, you will reap major benefits. First, you’ll create a stronger team, and second, you’ll develop a better relationship with your individual team members.

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Companies Gen Z Wants to Work For – And Why

Great Place to Work

Gathering over 32,000 Gen Z employee survey responses from more than 3,500 companies across the U.S., we’ve identified the workplaces that are getting it right when it comes to attracting and retaining Gen Z.

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9 Performance Management Ideas for High-Performing Organizations

Quantum Workplace

As the job market opens up and the competition for talent increases, keeping employees happy and productive is important. That’s why creating an effective performance management strategy is key to the health of your organization. Leaders need to continuously coach, develop, and support their employees in their performance. But navigating this modern approach has proved difficult for some.

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Why Building Your Personal Brand Can Take Your Startup to the Next Level—and Where to Start

Success

Most entrepreneurs today realize the value of establishing a strong and memorable brand for their company or product, but how important is it to develop a brand for yourself as an individual business owner? Do you really need to develop a strong personal brand to have a successful startup or small business? Not necessarily, and it can depend on the type of business you’re talking about.

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What value do HR leaders bring to the C-suite?

Insperity

While some companies still view HR as a cost center, the past couple of years have prompted a shift in the way a lot of organizations think about HR. That’s because the value HR provides has been especially visible – and critical – since the beginning of the pandemic. Hiring, retention and employee engagement were all even more challenging than usual because of the many factors at play.

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The Problem Of Workplace Bullying

Wellable

Workplace bullying has become a pervasive and insidious problem in corporate workplaces. In a recent study conducted by employment company Monster, around 90% of respondents reported having been bullied at work.

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How to Create a Safer Visitor Experience

The Receptionist

L et’s discuss how to create a safe visitor experience in your office. When you’re open to the public, you’re responsible for more than simply securing your team, your data, and your property. You must also aim to create a secure and enjoyable experience for your visitors. They do expect a reasonable level of security when visiting your office.

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Workspace Design Show: How Can We Design Better Workspaces?

All Work

The Workspace Design Show in London is the UK’s only exhibition to focus solely on workspace design. Allwork.Space attended a discussion on how to design better coworking spaces featuring design experts from The Office Group, Oktra, and Co-Space. Here are the highlights of the discussion, including why emulation is better than reinventing the wheel and how amenity-rich spaces add value.

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5 Must-Haves in an Employee Performance Improvement Plan

Quantum Workplace

Few aspects of a manager’s job are more uncomfortable than creating a performance improvement plan with an employee. The employee might feel embarrassed or hurt, while the manager has to deliver hard truths. Uncomfortable as these conversations are, they’re unavoidable when performance is lacking. If an employee is failing to meet expectations, misrepresenting core values, or displaying inconsistent performance over time, steps must be taken to correct the situation.

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Attracting Success: How to Make the Right People Recognize Your Talent

Success

“Your name is in rooms your feet haven’t even entered yet.” That’s a well-known quote circulating the internet, especially in communities of high achievers. It’s impossible to pinpoint who said it first. The inspirational quote is in hundreds of Instagram captions, Twitter threads and TikTok videos. We may never find the originator, but Scott Evans is the perfect embodiment of that quote.

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Most important soft skills for remote workers

Insperity

We’ve always known that when it comes to hiring, a candidate’s soft skills can be just as important as their technical skills and professional experience. But in our increasingly distributed work environments, where many new employees are remote or hybrid from day one, what used to be nice-to-haves are becoming must-haves. And certain remote worker skills are proving more critical than others.

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Biden Administration Sets Deadline For Company Vaccine Mandate

Wellable

Although the measure was first announced in September, the details of the requirement for large US companies to implement vaccine mandates was released on November 4 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Companies of 100 or more employees have until January 4 to ensure all workers are either fully vaccinated or submit to weekly testing and mandatory masking.

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Episode 396: Pieter Geldenhuys talks about Shoshin Walks, Exploring and Nature

Productivityist

How ‘Shoshin’ are you? Find out about this Japanese approach to the beginner’s mindset and how it’s helped entrepreneur Pieter Geldenhuys live more fully. Pieter Geldenhuys is the Futurist and Director at Institute for Technology Strategy and Innovation. He also facilitates hikes and retreats in South Africa and abroad to help you turn your focus inward, through his business Shoshin Walks.

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What’s All The Hype About Hype?

Tanveer Naseer

About a decade ago I left a corporate job to make it on my own as a freelance writer. What I failed to think about before I quit was that I needed to actually get people to know who I was so that they would buy from me. I had. Click to continue reading.

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Why Employee Retention is Important

Quantum Workplace

It’s no secret that retaining top talent is key to promoting organizational growth. Recruiting and retaining new employees is expensive and time consuming. Moreover, turnover negatively affects the productivity and morale of your employees. Due to worker shortages in the past year, leaders have scrambled to combat turnover. The need to adopt effective retention strategies has become increasingly prevalent.

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Aura Meditation App Review: Thousands of Guided Meditations at Your Fingertips

Success

With more than 5 million users, Aura has become one of the best meditation apps available. The award-winning Aura app features the largest subscription library of mindfulness meditations, sleep stories, life coaching, cognitive behavioral therapy, and hypnosis sessions. It also features relaxing music and sounds. Aura calls itself the all-in-one app for mental wellness.

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Top 9 strategies for helping your employees reach their goals

Insperity

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Many times, the goals we set for ourselves and others are not reached. As a workplace leader, you may play an important role in setting goals for employees. But why are goals so often challenging to stick with? Here are some of the most common reasons: The goal doesn’t tap into anything team members are passionate about or align with their core values.

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Four Tips For Maintaining DEI In Hybrid Workplaces

Wellable

Over the past few years, companies have deployed a wide range of strategies to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. While many of these efforts have been successful, they may soon be undermined by a novel but increasingly common barrier to achieving and maintaining DEI, namely the hybrid workspace.

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