Archive October 23, 2023

10 Tips for Creating an Onboarding Checklist for New Hires

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By Ally Goodwin for HR Daily Advisor Your company just made a new hire? Congratulations to you and your new employee(s). Whether you’ve made one or two hires, or are conducting a mass-hiring campaign, there are a lot of moving pieces involved with onboarding new hires. As many human resources (HR) personnel will tell you, the hiring process isn’t over when the acceptance call or email goes to the candidate. Onboarding isn’t as simple as it sounds, and depending on the job, position, or industry, there can be many qualifications and credentials that can complicate the process. After spending over 17 years…

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12 Useful ChatGPT Tone Modifiers for AI-Generated Content [Infographic]

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by Ayaz Nanji for MarketingProfs Does the text feel a little off when ChatGPT creates content for your business? The solution may be to improve your prompts with tone modifiers—phrases that help the AI program understand exactly what you want. An infographic (below) from Red Website Design and Evolution Unleashed covers 12 key tone modifiers that can improve AI-generated content. For each prompt, it provides an overview of its impact on content, looks at some common use cases, and shows an example output. Check out the infographic:

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Leveraging Collaboration Software for Remote and Hybrid Work

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By Lin Grensing-Pophal for HR Daily Advisor Our world has turned decidedly digital and, in this environment, the way we work and communicate has experienced a seismic shift driven largely by pandemic experiences. No longer confined by physical workspaces, interactions have expanded beyond four walls, creating new teams that are increasingly remote, flexible, and global. In this new environment, collaboration software has emerged as a must-have tool to enable an intricate web of modern workplace communications. Effective Communication Has Always Been a Must for Businesses Workplaces have always had to ensure collaboration. That’s nothing new. Historically, whether through face-to-face meetings, written…

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Personal connection is key to your marketing team’s success

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by Rachel Fredrickson (Howe) for Search Engine Land Many managers overlook a key opportunity: getting to know their team better. This is the secret to success for search marketing teams. This article explores the significance of truly knowing your team and provides steps to initiate a deeper understanding for improved relationships and job performance. I am not an HR manager and have never worked in HR. Still, I have managed people in some capacity over the years and have a strong interest in the psychology behind human behavior – that is what I’m pulling from for this article. If you are uncertain about…

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How HR Teams Can Create a Positive PTO Culture

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By Rob Whalen for HR Daily Advisor After several tumultuous years for HR leaders and employees, companies are reassessing how they can maximize their workforces’ well-being. Paid time off (PTO) is a critical part of this process, as it gives employees the space to relax, focus on relationships, and take care of personal responsibilities and needs. This enables employees to come back refreshed and energized, which increases engagement, retention, and productivity. However, many employees are refusing to take sufficient PTO, which has led to an epidemic of overwork, stress on the job, and turnover. One of the biggest obstacles to employees…

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What is Business Casual in 2023? Give Your Office Outfit a Gut Check

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by Lindsay Kolowich Cox for HubSpot I remember my first internship — more specifically, its dress code, which left me googling, “What does business casual mean?” Then, I took a shopping trip for blouses, comfortable slacks, and sensible flats to replace my sneakers. During the tech boom in 1990, many tech companies opted for more laid-back, innovative workwear. This led to the origin of what’s known as “business casual attire.” Soon, other industries and businesses followed, acknowledging the importance of employee comfort over the traditional formality of office wear. Download Now: Free Company Culture Code Template But what exactly is…

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How to collaborate effectively with other teams

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by Kevin Indig There is no Growth without collaboration. But teams don’t work well together without intentionally defining how. Context: Disciplines like SEO have always relied on support from other organizations because the output of SEO is recommendations. Now that meta signals like brand or user experience are growing in impact compared to other signals, it’s even more important. The recent Google leak confirming clicks are used for ranking highlights the importance of a seamless user experience to succeed in SEO. There is no universal definition of where Growth or SEO start and end, which causes responsibilities to blend into each other.…

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I bet you are doing product activation all wrong.

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by ELENA VERNA for Elena's Growth Scoop This is the last part of a mini-series I’ve done with the team at June: Part 1 reviewed the difference between product analytics in B2C and B2B Part 2 explored precisely how expansion happens in B2B But for this final part, we need to talk about the foundational piece that makes B2B growth possible: activation. Specifically: What activation IS and what it is NOT. Activation: What it IS I like Reforge’s definition best: Activation is taking a user from signing up to establishing a habit around your core value prop. In practice, product activation consists of 3 steps: setup, aha, and habit loop. …

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The Future of AI in Corporate eLearning

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By Robert Porter for HR Daily Advisor Since the dawn of 2023, AI has become the dominant topic of discussion in business, technology, medicine, education, engineering, design, the arts, and public policy—nearly everywhere. Corporate eLearning is no exception, with generative AI tools already available that can aid instructional designers and architects of eLearning platforms. Much of the focus this year has been on Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude. These tools allow anyone to generate text with a prompt. Even during the early availability of ChatGPT, these capabilities were demonstrated for tasks, including generating scenarios for training…

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