Fri.May 03, 2019

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10 Great Examples of Google's Company Culture

TinyPulse

What is it about Google's company culture that drives a strong competitive advantage? Here are 10 great examples of Google’s culture and why other companies should learn from them. Learn how to increase your employee engagement, productivity, and creativity.

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A Hard Truth about Employee Engagement

Jason Lauritsen

There was a point in my career, probably 18 or 20 years or so ago, that I would have argued vehemently that creating a workplace culture that engages employees was vital to sustaining a profitable business. I believed in my heart that it was an imperative. At the time, I was an HR leader working at an organization where my CEO really believed (and invested) in the value of people not only as employees but as human beings with lives beyond work.

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The Self-Awareness Teeter Totter

Dave's Weekly Thought

Each day we wake up with one thing on your mind: What Do I Need To Do Better? The concept of that which keeps us up at night is an ongoing call to find solutions for the things we seem incapable of fixing. When we find a way to enter into slumber, the light of day is met with optimism. Lacing up the cleats is much more empowering than staring at the ceiling.

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Industry Spotlight: Healthcare - FLSA Compliance

Paycor

On March 7, 2019 the Department of Labor announced a proposed rule that would make more than a million more American workers eligible for overtime. What does this mean for healthcare providers? Join us as Julie Pugh, a labor law attorney, examines the current state of FLSA compliance in the healthcare industry and how this new proposal will affect providers across the nation.

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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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From Pre-Hire to Retirement: Employee Experiences That Engage and Retain at Every Stage

Engage2Excel

If you think the success of your company starts with excellent customer experiences, you are in good company. But that’s not quite the whole picture. While it’s true that customers hold the cash and they dole out more of it when you treat them well, it’s also true that behind every positive customer experience is a dedicated employee.

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#WorkTrends: The Bridge Between Work and Technology

TalentCulture

This episode is especially exciting for me. I love all of my guests, but it isn’t every day that I have one of my BFFs on the program. So I’m really pumped to have China Gorman back on #WorkTrends this week. Among her many jobs, Gorman is managing director of UNLEASH’s U.S. operations, and this week she gave us a special sneak peek at UNLEASH America, which will be May 14-15 in Las Vegas.

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Utilise Team Building to Improve Leadership in the Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

The word team building used to be met with raised eyebrows and groans from employees and employers alike. However, in the modern world we now live in, it has taken on a whole new meaning and is being much better received than it ever has before. Why? Because corporate event management has seen significant improvements […].

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Why Starting Your Job Postings with “About Us” is Usually a Mistake

Ongig

Where should your “About Us” section go in a job posting? The start? The middle? The end? If you guessed the start, you’re not alone, but you might be in for a surprise about its effectiveness. An informal survey of job postings on Indeed, Glassdoor and Google for Jobs shows that 53.8% of employers start their postings with About Us.

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Top Tips to Save Time and Money on Accounting for Small Business

Take It Personel-ly

Do you really think you can get away with slacking on accounting for your business? Out of all the things it takes to keep your company afloat, one of the most important things you could do is make sure you have good accounting practices on your side. Without them, you risk losing both a lot […].

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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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10 Best Tools For Setting And Tracking Goals

Engagedly

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins In an organization, it is not always possible to manually set goals for employees and keep track of goal progress, owing to […].

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How (and why) to Make Mental Health in the Workplace a Priority

WEX Inc.

We all know the saying ‘check your baggage at the door.’ In a professional setting, that means separating aspects of your personal life from work life. Easier said than done. The truth is, what’s going on with employees outside of work is also going on at work. This is especially true when it comes to an individual’s mental health. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), 1 in 5 adults in the United States experiences mental illness in a given year.

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What to Do with Employee Survey Results: 8 Steps to Improving Employee Engagement

Quantum Workplace

Research shows 71 percent of managers believe employee engagement is one of the most critical factors in organizational success. We're excited to see that figure rise as more organizations focus on improving employee engagement. But all too often organizations interpret “engagement” as conducting an annual survey and. that's about it. It’s important for companies to listen to their employees, but listening isn’t enough.

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PreCheck Celebrates National Nurses Week 2019 with Merlessa Rosacina

Precheck

PreCheck Celebrates National Nurses Week 2019 with Merlessa Rosacina May. 6, 2019. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. This week, National Nurses Week , is an annual event held May 6-12 to not only honor the late Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, but also to celebrate the nursing profession and the important role nurses play in providing the highest level of quality care to their patients.

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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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Stefan Ries on SAP’s Most Comprehensive Workforce Skills Upgrade

HR Digest

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. It is the world’s first company to incorporate neurodiverse talents into its workforce. And being responsible for providing algorithmic solutions related to workforce and other corporate challenges, it recognizes “HR PUNKS” as a crucial campaign businesses need to remain valuable.

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Spring Reading List: 10 Books to Change the Way You Work

Limeade

From millennials in the workplace to revolutionary new ways to measure goals, it’s clear that the modern workplace is changing. Employees of every age and career stage are searching for something more — an experience that values them as a person, not just an employee. But leaders still struggle to tackle turnover, retain top talent, increase productivity and more.

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Celebrating 10 Powerful HR Leaders

HR Digest

Never have HR leaders had to handle so much change so rapidly. The modern economy demands transforming companies endlessly, necessitating profound changes in the workforce and talent strategy. These forces are reshaping the role of HR and putting pressure on the HR Executive to become much more than a game changer and the leader who enables business strategy.

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Hot News About EEO-1 Pay Data Submission – Due September 30th

Berkshire Associates

The EEOC announced that it intends to collect pay data and hours worked (Component 2) for 2017 and 2018. This news settles the question that has been looming for weeks about what year(s) of pay data would be collected. Pay data refers to the amount paid on an employee’s W2 form in Box 1. Hours worked are the actual hours worked for employees reported in the data.

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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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Six Morale-Boosting Practices That Can Bring Your Team Closer

Forbes Coaches Council

Encouraging a team to bond doesn't necessarily mean travel to off-site events or evenings out. Here are some in-office changes that can make the environment more welcoming and open to the exchange of ideas.

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How to Celebrate Employee Birthdays in the Workplace

Bonusly

Many people are eager to celebrate their birthdays. And if someone’s birthday falls on a weekday, they’ll be spending a precious chunk of that day at work. So the question isn’t, “Should companies celebrate their employees’ birthdays?” Rather, companies should be asking how they should celebrate employees’ birthdays. Being thoughtful about birthday celebrations—even if it’s making the decision to not throw a party for those colleagues who would rather not acknowledge their birthdays — can make a

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Employee Recognition That Drives Business Results

MTM Recognition

Author: Luke Freeman, Purpose & Performance Group. Sign up for the live “Employee Recognition that Drives Business Results” webcast + discussion on June 12th at 10 am CST. How often should we recognize employees? What kinds of recognition make a difference? As more companies implement social recognition programs and the neuroscience of performance advances, we’re beginning to see emerging patterns about recognition that drives business results.

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Duco Closes $1.7 Million Seed Round for Its Human Cloud for High-end Consultants

WorkTech

Duco Raised a $1.7 million Seed round to connect high-end consultants to businesses. From Duco’s announcement: Duco Advisors, Inc., a software-as-a-service marketplace reinventing the way enterprises hire high-end consultants for high-value projects, has successfully closed a $1.7 million series-seed financing round led by Subversive Capital and joined by Silicon Valley based venture capital firm NFX […].

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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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Three Types Of Career Burnout And How You Can Overcome Them -- For Good

Forbes Coaches Council

Burnout is a common occurrence for many people and can strike at any point in your career.

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weekend free-for-all – May 4-5, 2019

Ask a Manager

This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. (This one is truly no work and no school.). Book recommendation of the week: Lights All Night Long , by Lydia Fitzpatrick. An exchange student from Russia spends a year in America after a tragedy befalls his family at home. You may also like: all of my 2018 book recommendations all of my 2017 book recommendations all of my 2015 and 2016 book recommendations weekend free-f

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PeopleGrove Raises $4.7 Million Series A For Its Mentoring Platform

WorkTech

PeopleGrove raised $4.7 Million Series A to connect students and professionals to mentors. We’ve seen funding of a few coaching and mentoring platforms. While mentoring and coaching programs are not new for leadership development, we’re not sure how budget for this niche stands up against areas like performance management, feedback, or engagement communications and collaboration […].

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HRExaminer v10.18

HR Examiner

The Problem with Values. HRExaminer Weekly Edition v10.18 May 3, 2019. “Sometimes, corporate values can actually cause harm. This is more common than you’d imagine.” Dr. Todd Dewett spotlights The Problem with Values. As Heather Bussing notes, “Most of what people think is ‘harassment’ or ‘wrongful’ is neither - at least legally.” Basically, it’s Perfectly Legal to be an A **e.

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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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Deskera Reported to Raise $100 Million Series A for Cloud ERP and HR

WorkTech

DealStreetAsia reports that Cloudera raised another $100 Million for its core HR and ERP. From DealStreetAsia: Singapore-based cloud-based software provider Deskera is learnt to have secured over $100 million in an extended Series A round from an entity linked to South Korea’s Naver, according to a source aware of the development.Another industry executive linked […].

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Try These 11 Coach-Recommended Strategies To Break Your Negative Thought Patterns

Forbes Coaches Council

Experts from Forbes Coaches Council share their best tips to help you break through negative thought patterns.

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open thread – May 3-4, 2019

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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