Fri.Jan 13, 2017

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How to Get the Best Out of Your Temps

TLNT: The Business of HR

In many industries, temp staffing needs remain largely consistent throughout the year.

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Quick Shots for #HR and #Business Pros – Goals Edition

HR Bartender

There’s a statistic that only 8 percent of people actually achieve their New Year’s Resolutions. I happen to think part of the reason is because people don’t set good goals in the first place. Here are some resources to help you set better goals in 2017. “ How to Set Relevant Goals ” shares some resources for starting off with achievable goals. And “ 3 Types of Goals You Should Set ” reminds us that all plans and objectives are not created equal. “ Are Learning Goals Better Than Performance Goal

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IRS Form 940: Important Instructions for Employers

Justworks

By now, business owners have likely realized that the number of tax documents that the IRS requires companies to file is significant. There’s a reason that accountants responsible for corporate taxes make so much money. What is Form 940? Form 940 is the Employer’s Annual Federal Unemployment tax return, which was created after the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) was passed.

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Key to Success: Piecing Together A Top Notch Personal Board of Directors

Everwise

January is National Mentoring Month. While we typically think of mentorship as a one-on-one relationship, as the workplace changes, having just one or two disparate mentors is no longer sufficient. There is growing consensus that executives, managers, and junior staff alike need a board of directors – a thoughtfully developed group of 8-10 mentors and role models you can consult regularly to get advice and feedback.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Setting Achievable Career Goals and Objectives – Examples

EmployeeConnect

Although it is a known fact that all successful people have career goals in their lives, yet there are times when you may struggle in making the desired progress in your career. You may already have a career with a lucrative position, however it is not uncommon for you to need a little career guidance when it comes to taking an upward trend in your career progression.

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[Infographic] Office Temperature Wars Costing Offices Time and Money

Hppy

The argument takes place in offices up and down the UK every year. While some of us rush to fling open windows, others cling to radiators – the office temperature debate is all too familiar. Andrews-Sykes recently questioned 2,000 UK office workers about their workplace climate and found that temperature issues can have a huge impact on staff productivity.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Mentoring: Women Elevating Women

TalentCulture

Success in business does not happen alone. Most successful people will tell you that mentorship has played a big part in their journey to the top. Mentorship, whether it occurs in or out of the workplace, has numerous personal benefits, especially for women. This week on #WorkTrends, we were joined by Valerie Martinelli , previously of the Center for Economic & Policy Development, Inc.

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I’m So Tired

Laurie Ruettimann

I’m so tired. I’m not “work in a Chinese coal mine” tired. I’m not “spend all day collecting tickets at a water park” tired. I’m not “autoimmune disease” tired. I have perspective, of course. I’m not insensitive. But I’m pretty tired. I’d give you a list, but I’m too tired to write it.

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Effective Management Begins With the Managers

TLNT: The Business of HR

Early in my career I was promoted to a regional management position and transferred from Charleston, SC to Boston. I was responsible for all service operations in 15 offices throughout New England, upstate New York, and Northeast Pennsylvania. I was fortunate to have 6 managers among the offices providing support to over 50 employees.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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NOTES ON CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Google's Biggest Competitor in Search is.

The HR Capitalist

How was your 2016 work-wise? Mine was good - not great, but when you really stop and look back at the accomplishments, there's a lot to be proud of. I'm sure you're in the same boat - the world moves so fast it's easy to feel overwhelmed and small. One of the things I got done was the creation of a Change Management training module for managers of people.

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Stress Goes Down When Your Employees Don’t Bottle It Up

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every employer has their own idea of a dream team, but most will agree it would consist of employees who are passionate about their careers, put forth extreme effort, and hit their goals every month. While this deep passion creates driven employees, what happens when the pressure becomes too much to handle?

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The Competitive Advantages of a PEO

Paychex

Professional Employer Organizations allow businesses to outsource key aspects of HR and administrative business operations, all while owners remain focused on the health, growth, and success of their company. Read on, to learn how a PEO may be the next step in your business' journey of success.

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47 Free Online Classes for HR Development in 2017

BambooHR

If you’re like 44 percent of people, you made a resolution to improve yourself and gain more education this year. In HR, it feels like there’s always something new to learn or some new hot skill being required of us. To help you meet your resolution and the demands of your profession, we’ve gathered a […]. The post 47 Free Online Classes for HR Development in 2017 appeared first on.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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South Suburban Family Shelter Named Paychex Season of Small Business Grand Prize Winner

Paychex

Paychex took aim at making the end of the year a little brighter, and a little less stressful, by awarding 18 small businesses $500 each in their Season of Small Business contest. And of over 10,000 entries one stood out among the rest. Read about the grand prize winner!

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Caring as Competitive Weapon

Great Place to Work

A sense of belonging—even love—drives higher revenue, according to new Great Place to Work study. Soft is hard-edged when it comes to business growth. That’s a key takeaway from new research from Great Place to Work, conducted in creating the 2016 Best Small and Medium Workplaces list, which showed that one of the strongest drivers of better-than-average revenue growth among smaller businesses is a caring community at work.

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Being Kind—How Employers Can Support the Special Needs Community

HR Daily Advisor

by Kevin Silva, EVP and CHRO at Voya Financial. Throughout life, we all hear inspirational quotes—some are about love, some about friendship, and some about career advice—but there is always that one quote that sticks and stays with you. For me, as an HR professional, it was “Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a hard battle.”. HR executives are laser-focused on building a high-performing culture by providing strategic guidance and council to leaders, managers, and employees.

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How To Design a Great Mentoring Program?

TheHRBlog

With the rapid changes in the world economy coupled with geopolitical divides, organizations are going through challenging times. The unexpected changes have left employees grasping for direction and support; Mentoring is the most common way of filling this void and help the employees navigate through turbulent times. Easier said than done, designing and implementing a […].

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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HRE Column: Looking ahead to HR Tech 2017 - #HRTechConf

Steve Boese

Once again, I offer my semi-frequent reminder and pointer for blog readers that I also write a monthly column at Human Resource Executive Online called Inside HR Tech that can be found here. This month, in what has become an annual exercise for me, I take a look at the emerging HR, HR technology, and workplace themes and trends that surface from my early planning for the HR Technology Conference in October.

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Why Retail Digital Transformation Begins with Employees

Workday

Retailers have gotten increasingly innovative about how to better serve customers—mobile payments, in-store movement and behavior tracking, social media responsiveness, and even checkout-free shopping. Yet in the rush to improve the customer experience, are retailers overlooking another critical component of their digital transformation strategies—the employee experience?

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The Top HR Trends In 2017 — According to You

Workology

I’m taking a slightly different approach to the Friday Five this week. Instead of looking for five think pieces or five trending news stories, I thought I’d see what you all think will be. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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EEOC’s latest, best 10 tactics for preventing harassment in the workplace

HR Morning

The EEOC is looking to publish enforcement guidance to address illegal harassment in the workplace. That guidance is being built around several tactics the agency’s suggesting employers take to address this problem. . Earlier this week, HR Morning reported that the EEOC is seeking public input on a proposed version of enforcement guidance regarding harassment in the workplace (the deadline for pubic input is Feb. 9, 2017).

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Still Career Hunting? Look Into These Lucrative Part-Time Jobs!

Corn on the Job

Flickr. Searching for a full-time job isn’t always as fruitful as we want it to be. It can take a while to nail one that really appeals to us and feels like it can actually get us somewhere in life. But does that mean you should spend all your time sitting around waiting for the right one to fall out of the sky? No way! You should be looking at a part-time job that you can do with relative ease.

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updates: I’m a heroin addict and need time off to get clean, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are are five more updates from people who had their letters answered here last year. 1. I’m a heroin addict and need time off to get clean. I’ve been clean for two months. That’s all there is to say and I am so happy!!! 2. My boss and her daughter want to move in with me. On the advice of yourself and the wonderful AAM commenters, I decided to just live with the less-than-ideal roommate situation.

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Is Ousting Your ‘Disoriented’ CEO an ADA Violation?

HR Daily Advisor

At a credit union in Indiana, employees reported that their CEO had recently become “disorganized, forgetful, and confused.” He seemed disoriented and lost, they said. The board eventually fired him and he sued, alleging that the employer regarded him as disabled and fired him because of that perceived disability, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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open thread – January 13-14, 2017

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue :).

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Five for Friday: the 13th

Jostle

We're less than two weeks into the new year and it's already Friday the 13th. Some of us are hyper aware of that fact, some of us are completely oblivious, and some are completely non-plussed. An occurrence that's a big-issue for some people, hasn't even crossed the minds of others. In this week's Five for Friday, we're exploring differences in beliefs and opinions, and how these manifest at work.

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my coworker won’t stop badmouthing my new boss

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve recently decided to take an offer from a new company. It’s a great career step. However, after I announced my resignation at my old company and discussed my new opportunity, one of my current coworkers at the job I’m leaving has been loudly telling me about how her partner previously worked for this new company, and in fact the same boss, and hated it.

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Dilemma of the Month: My Boss Gossips

Evil HR Lady

My boss is a gossiper. She gossips to me about a team member of mine. I’ve worked at this company for two years. The first year it wasn’t bad, but she gradually started to say negative things to me about my colleague. The sad part is I believed all this stuff at first. As I started to hear more, I couldn’t handle it. I told HR the truth and was advised to speak with my boss’s immediate boss.

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