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  • Five American football players wearing blue jerseys and helmets are positioned in a line of scrimmage on a grassy field under a dark, cloudy sky. The middle player is preparing to snap the football while the kicker readies himself nearby. Stadium lights glow in the background.

    The (Unfair) Pressure on the Kicker

    The position of the kicker on a football team has always intrigued me. Here is a player that for most of the time is practically anonymous. Many of the rival fans and neutrals watching won’t even know his name. He runs on, unannounced and unnoticed, a few times in the game just to kick the ball between the posts, and then disappears again, whilst everybody is generally consumed with the much higher profile players and the more dramatic plays.

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  • Digital artwork of a human face formed by blue wireframe lines. The face is surrounded by abstract, vibrant electric and cosmic light patterns with blue and white hues. The background includes dynamic lightning-like streaks enhancing the futuristic HR theme.

    What Happens When Tech Innovates HR Functions

    In 2019, tech will continue to take over the HR industry and disrupt the way candidates are recruited, hired, and engaged in the workplace. You’ve heard of AI and machine learning. However, have you heard of robotic process automation, or RPA? RPA has also been reducing costs and improving data management for HR. Robotic process automation performs rules-based, highly transactional processes in HR departments that require little or no human judgment.

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  • A photograph shows two adjacent doors set in a brick wall, symbolizing employee engagement. The door on the left is painted bright blue, while the door on the right is painted deep red. Both doors have visible wooden planks and are bordered by a slightly weathered stone threshold.

    Employee Engagement Matters

    As the New Year begins and our work life starts to move into first gear, we can be tempted to think back to yesteryear and ponder the ‘if only...?’ question. Not that reflection is a bad thing mind you, indeed, done purposefully it can be positive. That said, there is a lot of wisdom in what Walt Disney had to say. Curiosity is what impels us to move forward.

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  • Close-up of a person lifting a heavy barbell in a gym, showcasing their resilience. The barbell has large weight plates, and the person's wrist, with a wristband featuring the Puerto Rican flag, is gripping the bar. A mural and various gym equipment are visible in the background.

    Flexing Your Appreciative Resilience Muscle

    It will be well into 2019 by the time you read this. Resolutions have stuck or come and gone. Work is demanding excellence, there is a change agenda, a call for new innovations, and you are being asked to resolve office conflicts. And, it is a particularly demanding time in history for those who work in government in the service of citizens.

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  • A wire mesh trash can with crumpled yellow paper balls and scattered files inside and around it on a gray wooden floor. The background is blurry, focusing attention on the trash can and the discarded items.

    Information Governance Insights: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?

    A new year means new beginnings and for the Information Governance Professional, it’s no different. It’s also time to get rid of your old files. This is the time of year when most organizations purge their archives of files that have reached their retention date. Many organizations prefer to use the generic month of January as a default disposition date for all records that can be disposed of in a given year, basically to get it over with. Regardless of when you do it, the important thing is that you follow the Retention Schedule and the Disposition process.

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  • A child, walking away along a dirt path covered in fallen leaves, holds a large plush teddy bear by its arm. Dressed in blue jeans, a plaid shirt, and sneakers, the child stands out against the blurred backdrop of autumn foliage.

    Getting Where You’re Going By Walking Away

    Perhaps this is the essence of Pooh’s wisdom. For like Christopher Robin, we too can arrive at any of these desired future states if we employ the courage to walk away from where we’ve been and by continuing to trust the values and knowledge, we all possess in such unique ways as the primary instruments we can masterfully utilize to accomplish our goals.

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  • Aerial view of a city at night featuring a prominent circular highway interchange illuminated by streetlights. Various roads chaos the interchange with streaks of vehicle lights highlighting the bustling traffic. Buildings and city lights are visible in the surrounding area.

    Without Consequences, Chaos is Inevitable

    As a leader, your credibility is maintained, day by day, when you do what you say you will do. For example, if you announce that, from this point forward, every team member will be expected to demonstrate our team’s valued behaviors, you have set a standard. Educating team members about desired valued behaviors is important, but, without accountability, those valued behaviors are just one more set of expectations that your employees can ignore.

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