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SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE

What Managers Can Do To Connect With Their Employees

OfficeVibe: “As a manager, you act as a mentor, coach, and leader to your team. But that doesn’t mean there should be a level of separation between you and your employees. Quite the opposite—you should be connecting with employees and your team should feel like you’re one of them.” “This post will focus on helping you understand Self-Regulation and how it affects your relationships with employees—and give you some tips on improving both.”

 

 

 

How Great Leaders Model, Enable And Encourage Emotional Agility

Forbes: “Emotional agility is the ability to accept, navigate and leverage one’s difficult emotions and open oneself to new information needed to deal with that reality. Emotionally agile individuals validate and leverage their challenging emotions to enhance and improve their productivity and their responses to life situations.”

 

 

Chess Master And CEO Gives His Take On The Skills Gap, The Future Of Leadership, Universal Basic Income And Much More

The Future Organization:  “Today’s guest is the founder and CEO of Pegasystems and a Chess Master. Join us as we talk about how the game of chess relates to business, what it’s like to work at Pega, the skills gap, Silicon Valley and much more.”

 

 

AI and Automation in HR: Impact, Adoption and Future Workforce

Digital HR Tech: “Let’s take a look at the various effects of AI and automation on HR and the workforce in more detail. First, let’s find out what history was saying and how this shift towards AI and automation has been going on for a long time. After that, we’ll explore how we can adopt this new technology and what the basic strategies are to move forward as an organization while turning potential threats into opportunities.”

 

 

This Week in Employee Engagement: May 4, 2018

Maritz Motivation Solutions: “Here is our weekly roundup series to help you stay connected to the often overwhelming landscape of employee engagement thought leadership. Start here to narrow down your search each week.”

 

 

Employee engagement in the third phase of digital

Relocate Magazine: “In the face of digital transformation, the role of HR and mobility teams has never been so crucial. We spoke to digital expert Steven Van Belleghem about the evolution of customer experience in a high-speed digital world.”

 

 

17 powerful employee onboarding survey questions you can use

CultureAmp: “In this article we share what to cover in an onboarding survey, along with example questions used in our two-phase survey approach.”

 

 

Ease The Employee Experience By Simplifying Workplace Policies

Forbes: “If we are lucky, our employees recognize the source of their disconnect. However, more often than not the disconnect shows up in lower employee engagement, turnover, frustration and employee relations issues. Sadly, this schism between our experiences will likely only get worse as the world around us continues to change at a dizzying pace and our organizations continue to lag behind. Here are some practical considerations to bring more the outside in.”

 

 

PODCAST: #HRHappyHour – Oracle Spotlight – Episode 1: Making Work More Human

Steve Boese: “This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, hosts Steve Boese and Trish McFarlane kick off a special series of podcasts with our friends at Oracle HCM. On Episode 1, we are joined by Gretchen Alarcon from Oracle to talk about how organizations are increasingly seeking to make work more “human”.While you may have seen this concept before, on the show we break it down to more tangible, actionable, and relatable ideas for HR leaders, and highlight some key ideas, considerations, and approaches to creating more “human” workplaces.”

 

 

Research Shows a Simple Way to Increase Your Engagement at Work

Harvard Business Review: “In a research article in The Journal of Applied Psychology, we and our colleagues (Andrew Brodsky at The University of Texas at Austin, Subrahmaniam Tangirala at the University of Maryland, and Sanford DeVoe at the University of California Los Angeles) investigated how employees can take back more control over their work engagement through better self-management. We found that increasing your engagement and productivity at work could be as simple as making a plan for the day. But these positive effects depended on what type of plan employees used and how many interruptions or disruptions they faced in their day-to-day work.”

 

 

 

 

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