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8 Meticulous Hiring Tactics to Land the Best People

Leading Blog

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. They require the candidate to react spontaneously to a stressful situation.

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Tracy Layney Makes Way for Her Vision

HR Digest

For example, we partner with support experts like Thrive Global to help employees manage their well-being on a daily basis. We also offer employee resource groups (ERG’s) to create safe spaces for employees to connect with each other on specific focus areas, such as mental health, women, parents, and more. Photo: Levi Strauss & Co.

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I’m making someone use their holiday to grieve over their mother’s death

HR Digest

On average, four days allotted for the loss of a spouse or child, according to the Society for Human Resources Management 2016 Paid Leave in the Workplace Survey. Many employers give three days’ paid time off for the loss of a parent, domestic partner, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or foster child.

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Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

Harvard Business Review

” But, for others, it can be the loneliest and most stressful time of the year. According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” But preventing it all together should be the real goal.

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Leaders: Build Your Pre-Resilience for Times of Crisis

Strategy Driven

The idea that leaders have some special aura only removes them further from their genuine, authentic, and human selves, which is precisely what they need at hand to help their stressed organizations. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Use your own stories to educate yourself. About the Authors.

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. Support from employers makes or breaks the deal, creating either a manageable new reality or the need for a backup plan (or even an exit). Photo by Mike Wilson. This is not news.

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Employee benefits for Caregivers in workplaces

HR Digest

Seeing how this role is going to be a big part of work-life, employers need to reconsider their human resource policies to work in this burgeoning need. The stress and anxiety can manifest in the caregivers falling sick themselves and in turn higher healthcare costs for the employers. billion per year. ?