Wed.Sep 11, 2019

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How to harness the power of personalization

HRExecutive

Cristina Goldt, vice president of HCM products at Workday, is one of the presenters who will speak during the opening keynote, In Data We Trust , at the upcoming HR Technology Conference & Expo , Oct. 1-4 in Las Vegas. HRE caught up with Goldt to discuss the power of personalization, and how new HR-tech solutions are harnessing that potential.

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AI bolsters employee productivity through soft skills development

Poppulo

With unemployment rates continuing to hover close to all-time lows, (economists call the current rate “full-employment,” which is defined as those individuals who want a job can find one), companies have struggled to find the right talent. To overcome this hurdle, many organizations have embraced artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their recruitment process.

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Three Stages of Employee Grievances

Acacia HR Solutions

Every year the EEOC releases information on the amount of charges brought against US employers, the reasons for those charges and the dollar amounts associated with each category. The one thing they do not release is how often these charges could have been avoided had the employer acted earlier in the process. In my nearly. The post Three Stages of Employee Grievances appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.

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Practical Strategies for Addressing Employee Mental Health

Tandem HR

How to Legally and Professionally Respond to Employee Mental Health Illnesses. Mental health illnesses, including addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, will affect 1 in 5 adults this year. If you’re an employer, this translates to 20% of your staff personally experiencing a mental health crisis throughout the year.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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15 HR Blogs to Subscribe to Right Away (Not Just the Usual Suspects!)

Digital HR Tech

About twice a year, I like to take a moment to go through my HR blog and newsletter subscriptions. Which ones do I still enjoy reading and find valuable, which ones do I tend to quickly scan and which ones do I forget about? At the same time, I like to add new HR blogs I’ve come across and that inspired me. In this article, I thought I’d list 15 HR blogs I think you should subscribe to right away.

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Human Resource Planning to forecast for less risky business

CuteHR

The war of talent is ever-growing. At the times when the need for superior talent is a necessity, no organization can stand manpower shortages. The employees are more empowered today with the choices to say “yes” or “no” to a certain job and have substantial say in the company’s growth strategy. Jobs are many, yet employable talent is limited.

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How to Lead by Emotional Intelligence

HR Digest

Traditional leadership tells us that traits such as assertiveness, dominance, physical stature, intelligence, and social sensitivity determine whether an individual is best suited for leadership. These characteristics certainly play an advantageous role but the most prominent of all is Emotional Intelligence (EI), which is one’s ability to regulate feelings and use them to guide our actions.

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Digital Transformation Is Not What You Think It Is

Forbes Coaches Council

Figure out what kind of culture you need to be successful, and then make the important changes necessary to adapt to today’s digital environment.

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Technology Imperatives for a Successful Total Talent Acquisition (TTA) Program

Allegis Global Solutions

Because of changing workforce and business conditions, enterprises are increasingly using a mix of permanent full time and contingent workers. They’re also increasingly considering the concept of Total Talent Acquisition (TTA) to gain competitive advantage when it comes to meeting their own strategic goals and the needs of different types of talent.

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Getting Employee Experience Right Is Hard – But It Doesn’t Have To Be

Employee experience has expanded from a basic focus on well-being to a more comprehensive approach that covers all aspects of an employee's journey. But as important as it is to develop and retain top talent by giving employees positive experiences, tension can exist between balancing experience desires and achieving business outcomes.

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my boss has 10,000 unread emails

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Is it ever normal to have 10,000+ unread emails in your professional inbox? Yesterday I inadvertently saw that my boss had 10,965 unread emails. She is a general counsel of a medium-sized company and does not seem to be overloaded with work. The majority of her team (around six people) are very autonomous in their work and do not often need her insight.

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The interesting link between diversity and EX

HRExecutive

While research has shown that companies with gender diversity already are typically better poised to turn a profit, a new report from Willis Towers Watson has found an additional benefit of gender diversity. Specifically, the global advisory, broking and solutions company found that employers with practices that support greater gender diversity are rated more effective by their employees across a range of topics than those that do not.

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10 Lessons Learned From 10 Years in Business

Close HR Connections News & Insights

It is truly surreal to realize that I was called to start Carolina Business Connections, LLC 10 years ago this month (DBA Close HR Connections, Sept. 9, 2009). It has truly been an adventure from day one but I thank God for this opportunity and the lessons I have learned along the way and continue to learn each and every day. As I reflect on the past decade, it’s hard to narrow down all the mindful lessons I’ve learned during this time.

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Empowering Employees: How Millennials Drive Innovation in Business

Take It Personel-ly

We’re all familiar with the stereotype of millennials in the workplace: They’re lazy and entitled, are chronic job-hoppers and are incapable of taking constructive criticism. This stereotype has been hammered into our collective consciousness by nearly every major media outlet (we’ve all seen TIME’s now-infamous “The Me Me Me Generation” cover) and embraced by employers […].

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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California Passes Legislation that May Kill the Gig Economy

Evil HR Lady

California’s Senate approved, with a 29 to 11 vote, to require companies like Uber and Lyft to treat all contractors like employees. According to the New York Times , the bill should sail through the Assembly, and Governor Gavin Newsom has already indicated that he will sign it. It fixes the primary function problem. Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that Uber drivers, and similar workers, were, indeed contractors because they.

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How to Design the Future of HR

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

By Phil Mitchell, Partner, HR Cloud Transformation - KPMG in the UK. Faced with rising market disruptions and customer demand, enterprises are undergoing change at a rate never before witnessed. Everything from geopolitical instability to advances in technologies like AI and robotics are forcing companies to adapt with new organizational structures powered by a workforce that is more agile and digitally enabled.

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#Nextchat RECAP: What HR Students Need to Know

SHRM

On September 11, @shrmnextchat chatted with HR professionals from around the world about What HR Students Need to Know. If you missed this great conversation and all their excellent advice, you can read all the tweets here or below: .

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when giving good news, my boss first pretends to be upset as a “joke”

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Recently, I was called into an “emergency” meeting with my grandboss, supposedly to discuss budget problems on a program I am leading. This worried me, because I hadn’t thought there were any budget problems, and I hardly ever talk to her (and, wouldn’t expect to, unless something was Very Wrong). When I got there, both my boss and his boss grilled me about the project for a minute or so, before telling me they had lied — we weren’t there to d

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Ethical & Data Driven AI in HCM: 3 Considerations for Enterprise Leaders

Since entering the public business domain, AI has proven to be a powerful tool for optimizing HR functions — from streamlining recruitment processes, to helping identify top talent, and even boosting employee engagement. As AI continues to grow, the main question surrounding this rapidly evolving technology has shifted from "what can we do?" to "what should we do?

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How Continuous Performance Management Software Can Help Improve Performance

Engagedly

One of the most important things that should be on every organization’s agenda is continuous performance management. Performance management influences more factors than we can imagine. Good performance management begets healthy levels of employee engagement, innovation, employee contentment, […].

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Do Professionally Relevant Acronyms tell Your entire Story?

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

Have you seen a list of professionally relevant acronyms on a business card take up more space than the individual’s name? I know I have. Or, how about during a PowerPoint presentation? Where the first slide includes at least 20 professional acronyms after the presenter’s name. And, the next three slides include the individual’s complete professional resume?

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3 ways video interviewing boosts your recruiting results

HR Morning

When someone mentions “video interviewing,” do you immediately think Skype, Zoom or FaceTime? While these are wonderful tools for connecting with friends and family, they really don’t unlock the full power of video for recruitment purposes. Of course, technology will never entirely remove people from the hiring equation. But, by using video interviewing tools that have been especially designed for the HR professional, you can greatly enhance in-person interviews.

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Looking For the Right Job? It’s All About Cultural Fit

GetFive

“We’re looking for the right fit,” you hear the interviewer say. “The right fit?” you ask yourself, “I’m just looking for a job with a salary.”. But the truth is, a job is more than just a place you have to go every morning. Each company has its own organizational culture that you might not even notice until it rubs you the wrong way. But Why Does Culture Matter?

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Ep 196 – Global Tech Recruiting Trends

Workology

Globalization and outsourcing have led many U.S.-based organizations to expand their business operations internationally. This has created a need for smarter and faster ways to screen talent, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Globalization and outsourcing have led many U.S.-based organizations to expand their business operations internationally.

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Super Commuting Is Up And Commuter Benefits Can Help

Commuter Benefit Solutions

Are you a super commuter or do you read your morning work emails in your pajamas while having breakfast in your home office? It might not be long before those situations define our work life. The trends in the commuting landscape are pointing that workers will be at opposite ends of the commuting spectrum in the years ahead. There very well could come a day when we either have a long commute to work or never leave “the office.”.

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Intrepreneurship

SHRM

As one who has dedicated the better part of his life to finding the Holy Grail of Employee Engagement, I am consistently in the trenches trying to find what works and what needs to change. This requires 4 a.m. conference calls with other regions of the world, speaking at and attending conferences of various disciplines and driving technical deployments that are massively complex in scale.

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Independent contractor or employee? $4.5 million says you better be sure

HR Morning

In one of a recent string of employee misclassification cases, the owners of a Philadelphia strip club made dancers sign contracts stating they were independent contractors rather than employees of the club. But an appeals court agreed with a jury that the employer exerted “overwhelming control” over the terms of the dancers’ work and upheld a $4.5 million jury award for unpaid minimum wages and unjust enrichment.

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5 Essential Questions to Help You Prioritize DE&I Initiatives With Confidence

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) are more than just buzzwords; they are essential components of an organization's culture and overall success. Whether your DE&I initiatives are well underway, or you’re still in your planning phases, it’s important ensure the foundation of your strategy is built on accurate data, employee insights, stakeholder expectations, and inclusive technology.

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14 Often Overlooked Strategies For Growing Your Profits

Forbes Coaches Council

Hit a plateau in your business growth? Try these often overlooked strategies recommended by Forbes Coaches Council experts and reboot your success.

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10 Reasons Why Games Will Make You a Training Hero

The Game Agency

Employee training is expensive and, often, the return on investment (ROI) doesn’t exist. The Association for Talent Development (ATD) estimates that companies spent an average of $1,273 per year per employee on training. However, without “practical follow-up or meaningful assessments,” learners lose 90% of the skills they learn in those training programs.

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my office sticks women with all the party-planning

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve noticed in my office that nearly all of the holiday planning responsibilities fall to women. This is in a traditionally male-dominated industry where there has been progress in hiring/promoting women, but we’re still generally underrepresented. However, in the party planning efforts, usually all, or all but one, of the representatives are women.