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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

Soft skills are increasingly important in creating successful leaders Guest post from Gary S. In turn, we adapted our culture to meet their needs — casual dress codes, flextime, healthy lifestyle options, community involvement, challenging work, more defined advancement. Many are generally minor performers.

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Is Establishing a Remote HR Career Effective?

HR Digest

While many companies are slowly adopting to flextime and working from home , Can HR managers Work from Home, too? In fact, 85% of HR professionals reported they believe they can be effective working remotely. Leveraging your soft skills and digital dexterity will help make the transition to a remote HR job and thriving in it easier.

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Creating a Desirable Employee Value Proposition (EVP)

HR Digest

The labor market remains tight for all industries and across all skill levels indicating that companies are having difficulty finding the right talent across a wide range of occupations. The good news is that 28% of businesses reported raising compensation in order to give bargaining power to talented workers. What’s in it for me?”.

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Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up

Harvard Business Review

Are such “right to request” laws indicators of a rise in flextime? Or do they reflect a fear that flextime programs are being eliminated? Extended flextime, such as job sharing, part-time work, and sabbaticals, is an even stronger employee magnet. The answer seems to be a confusing “both.” We’re at a tipping point.

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How to retain parents after parental leave

HR Digest

In times of demographic change and skilled labor shortage, organizations depend on the skills and the labor that employees who are parents can bring to the table. Do you offer a variety of work time models like flextime, part-time, job sharing or remote work? Women made this indication three times as often as men.

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Should Employers Ban Email After Work Hours?

Harvard Business Review

And a full two-thirds of Americans report that the amount of work they do outside normal working hours has increased a little to a lot because of mobile technology advances over the last decade. Of those who say their employer does not expect them to check email, 39% report a lot of stress.

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How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

Especially in the more subjective realms of knowledge work, they default to false indicators of performance such as “chair time” or interpersonal skills. Employees should submit regular progress reports, with any special arrangements regarding flexibility contingent on their upholding required levels of performance.