Fri.May 27, 2016

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Getting Over the Hump: Why BLR Was Lucky Enough to Survive

HR Daily Advisor

From Dan: As a way to honor the individuals who have taught me critical life lessons about people and business, I’ve invited several to write guest columns to run in this space over the next few weeks. Today’s voice of experience once again is Robert L. Brady, the founder of Business and Legal Resources (BLR ® ). This week, Bob talks about BLR’s early years and lessons for success that apply to all work situations. by Robert L.

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Navigating a Complex Global Outsourced Workforce

Brandon Hall

The way in which today’s global workforce is staffed and managed can have a significant impact on the organization’s employer and corporate brand, products/services, revenue, and profit. Which role has primary responsibility for your organization’s entire workforce – Human Resources or Procurement? Does that role truly understand the implications of the competing forces that comprise that workforce and the impact of their decisions on their business?

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. Hiring Managers: Stop Insulting the Job Candidates -- By Brian de Haff. 2. You’re Like Me, I Like Me, So I Like You – And You’re Hired -- by Daniel Vacassin . 3.

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Offering Retirement Plans May Soon Become Mandatory For Employers

Trinet

If you don’t currently offer your employees a retirement plan, you may want to pay attention. At both the state and federal level, the government is continuing to push legislation to make mandatory. Visit site for full story.

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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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Have an Employee Who is Leaving? We Made a Guide for That.

Justworks

Whether your employee has left your company for another one or passed away , the required paperwork is hard to keep top of mind when a big transition is taking place. Offboarding a departing employee isn’t as simple as waving goodbye and wishing them well. Between IRS forms, payroll and benefit complications, and electronic account access, details can slip through the cracks.

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The Ugly Truth about Meetings [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Meetings are meant to serve as a productive place to gather and exchange ideas, but often times they're a time waster. Workers see them on calendars and have a sense of dread. Read More» The post The Ugly Truth about Meetings [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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FMLA violation? Worker said he was sick, walked off the job and was fired

HR Morning

Here’s a scenario any manager could learn a valuable FMLA lesson from. . An employee gets into an argument with his supervisor. A while later, still a little shaken up from the argument, the man begins to experience chest pains. He then tells a co-worker he thinks he may be having a heart attack. The employee then tells the co-worker to tell their supervisor that he’s leaving for the day as a result of his symptoms, which the co-worker does.

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Reinventing Talent Management

TalentCulture

It’s time for companies to enhance their internal talent management programs with a healthy dose of mobility insight! Mobility – the practice of managing domestic or global assignments so that a company has the right talent in place, where and when the placement will be most effective – is growing in importance to fulfill business strategy. Those companies who couple mobility expertise with human resource management methodologies and systems are cutting a new global workforce path for the

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Should I Customize The Assessment?

Outmatch

To answer that question, you have to consider the “uniqueness” factor. It’s natural to think the role you’re hiring for is unique, especially if you’ve done the work to connect the job ad to your company’s unique culture and values. (And that’s important because you want to differentiate your employment brand and attract the right type of talent to your door!

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Discovering Your Brand

TalentCulture

There is something powerful about someone who knows who they are and what they are all about. It’s even more attractive when you can genuinely feel their presence in written word and spoken word. Branding isn’t something you craft so let me break that down for you. It’s something you begin to discover by becoming aware of who you truly are. No sugar coating, no ideal scenarios, just you.

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6 Steps to Coach Employees Effectively

About Human Resources

When you want to improve employee performance, the first step is coaching. The manager's interaction is key. These six steps help you coach effectively.

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Prepare to cringe: The most-hated business phrases of 2016

HR Morning

Every HR pro knows business has a language of its own — and it’s often pretentious, inaccurate and downright irritating. Guest poster Tom Jeffries of Bizdaq offers a list of the 10 most infuriating business phrases we’re likely to be tortured by this year. . _. As anyone who has worked in an office can attest, the language of business is filled with tired clichés, overwrought sentences and unnecessary jargon.

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When Coaching Fails to Improve Performance, Try.

About Human Resources

Need to know about how to use a verbal warning? Supervisors issue a verbal warning when poor performance warrants serious disciplinary action. Learn more.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Essential presentation skills for introverts

HR Zone

People. Essential presentation skills for introverts.

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How to Tick Off Your Boss

About Human Resources

Want to make your boss very unhappy and, in the process, sabotage your job and potentially your career? Do these ten things regularly at work.

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Coffee Break: Robot workers, feedback fear and the end of the office dress code

HR Zone

Employees. Robot workers, feedback & the end of dress codes.

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Can an employee go out for a beer while on intermittent FMLA leave?

The Employer Handbook

This post seems timely, seeing as most of your employees claiming a Friday-of-Memorial-Day-Weekend migraine are going to do this anyway. Kidding, I’m not that jaded. (You guys; however, I’m not so sure)… No, I’m sure. Yesterday’s He-Man poll cements it. A whopping 33% of you responded that Skeletor is your favorite He-Man character.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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17 Proven Morale Boosters That Won’t Break The Bank

SnackNation

17 Proven Morale Boosters That Won’t Break The Bank. Believe it or not, some companies are still skeptical about the value of morale boosters. Sure, morale is nice to have, their argument goes, but it’s not critical to our business, and therefore not something I need to focus on. Right? Well, Doubty McDoubterson, you couldn’t be more wrong. The benefits of high employee morale in your company can be summed up in one word: performance.

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Leveling Up: What Skills Matter?

Compensation Today

Mykkah Herner, MA, CCP, Modern Compensation Evangelist, PayScale Is there really a skills gap? What skills should we develop internally? What skills cost the most? I often get these questions from organizations with whom we work. PayScale recently analyzed our data in an attempt to identify the skills that matter most in recent college graduates entering the workforce.

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3 time-wasters you can do without

Ceridian

Time management is key to your employees’ productivity. . The little things people do that waste a minute or two at a time add up throughout the days, weeks and months. This can substantially reduce the amount of work that your people are able to get done over long stretches. In fact, a New York Times report illustrated just how much even the smallest and most innocent of actions can affect productivity.

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Friday Five: Gigs, Games and Your Brain On Apps

Workology

Friday already? I hope your week went as quickly — and productively! — as mine. This week much of my attention was occupied by updates and scandals across social media. But how many articles can you read about being Facebook biased and LinkedIn being hacked? Instead, let’s talk tech, social media and HR! Here is your Friday Five: How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds .

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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How HR can use storytelling to create customer centricity

HR Zone

Culture. Using storytelling to create customer centricity.

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my boss moved down the street from me, putting keywords on your resume in white font, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss moved down the street from me and is being a jerk. My boss just moved in down the street from my house. She has a new husband, who has been my neighbor for a while. We live in a rural area so not right next to each other. She is probably an acre away. Her father-in-law, who lives with them, had an issue with my husband walking the dogs in front of their house, to the point that he threatened to shoot one of the dogs.

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ATD 2016 – Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors

Gyrus

Six Things I Learned. As a brand new and fresh face, I am anxious to learn all the ins and outs of the Learning Management Systems industry. So, it may come as no surprise while attending my first trade show with Gyrus Systems, I set out to accomplish just that. While nestled deep into booth 1129 I began my quest for knowledge by performing an informal poll with our visitors.

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update: managing a student organization when no one else does any work and you’re stuck doing it all yourself

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer in March who was running a student organization but getting stuck with all the work because no one else would follow through on their commitments? Here’s the update. As most people mentioned, this was a problem with a clear end date. Graduation has passed. I finished my thesis and internship, and I got to walk the stage summa cum laude (though technically my final grades put me at magna).

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Here’s What You Need to be Doing NOW to be Ready for the New OT Rules

TLNT: The Business of HR

Now that the Department of Labor has officially revamped the nation’s overtime rules, employers can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and wait to comply until the deadline approaches.

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open thread – May 27-28, 2016

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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5 Things You're Doing at Work that Drive Your.

About Human Resources

Want to make your boss happy and achieve your career goals? Then, you'll want to stop doing any of these five things that drive your boss crazy at work.

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