Wed.Mar 15, 2017

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The Best Way to Advocate For Growing Your Team

Everwise

If you’ve ever worked for a startup or high-growth company, you know how much time, work, and energy each person invests in their role. There are long hours, sleepless nights, and grueling work involved. Oftentimes, you find yourself doing the work of multiple people, which isn’t sustainable and leaves you feeling like you could accomplish much more if you just had a bit of help.

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War for talent just got more difficult to manage: Here’s why

HR Morning

If you’re in the market for top talent this quarter, news has come out about what you’re up against — and none of it’s going to make your jobs easier. . Several new reports have surfaced about what the job market looks like right now — and what it’s likely to look like in the months ahead. Bottom line: Expect the competition for top talent to be pretty fierce.

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should you post your resume on online job boards?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a job I really enjoy, but the salary is low and turnover is very high. We’re constantly hiring as people cycle out — mostly through school job sites, but also largely through one particular recruiter, though she’s become less responsive as the turnover has stayed so high. I’m learning a ton so I want to stay awhile longer.

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How a Little Flexibility Can Help Fix the Gender Pay Gap

Cornerstone On Demand

“Eighty percent of companies say they offer flexibility, but it's a black market topic. You raise it [as an employee] and you're not taken seriously," Annie Dean, former attorney and current entrepreneur, told the New York Times last month. Dean founded Werk , a company dedicated to helping people find flexible work schedules. And while there aren't solid numbers to back up Dean's statement, it rings true to many of us.

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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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Applying Domain Expertise to Big Data Analytics

Visier

Despite years of hype, development, and openhanded spending, big data and business analytics haven’t lived up to their massive potential. Software vendors are having a hard time creating sustainable value, and customers aren’t getting an adequate return from their investments. And yet, where others are struggling, Visier is thriving. I believe it’s because of their unique and innovative approach to business—and more specifically, human resources—analytics.

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8 Powerful Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Innovation is often discussed as an activity available only to a select few people or companies. but it is an incredibly powerful tool for companies, especially when we seek ways to use our HR influence to drive a culture of innovation. [ Click here to listen to “8 Ways HR Can Drive Enterprise Innovation “] In this episode of the We’re Only Human podcast, we point out 8 key ways that HR leaders can create, reinforce, and drive innovative behaviors in the business.

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Build a Long-Lasting Internship Program with Our Downloadable Guide

Justworks

So you’re ready to create an internship program. Bringing on interns is an exciting prospect for any company. It offers the opportunity to build a collaborative, potentially long-lasting professional relationship and mentor an up-and-coming employee. You may even pick up some savvy social media skills from your digitally enlightened counterparts. But maintaining a long-lasting internship program should take thought and intention.

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Salary Packaging Basics: How To Manage Your Salary Package

EmployeeConnect

Salary packaging or salary sacrifice is a mutual arrangement between you and your employer, where it is pre-decided that you will pay for some services or items directly from your pre-tax salary. For instance, you may salary package cars, computers, super funds, and child care, etc. The advantage of salary packaging is that it reduces your taxable income thereby enabling you to have more money in your pocket.

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When It Comes To Healthcare, Are You Grandfathered Or Grandmothered?

ACA Times

The Center for Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight (CCIIO), under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released a notice at the close of February, announcing that insurance companies may extend coverage of certain non-grandfathered individual and group plans that are currently not ACA compliant for another year. Plans renewed on or before October 1, 2018 provided that they end by December 31, 2018.

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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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5 Unique Types of Rewards for Employees

Kazoo

The best employee incentive programs might help a leader in the short run, but for sustainable employee engagement, leaders need much, much more. Can you think back to something your boss did this week that inspired you to give 101%? Did she listen and support you in a unique way? Did he reinforce the outcomes of a project you nailed; or, challenge you try a different approach?

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How Do You Get To The Things That Are Never Prioritized?

Everwise

Whether we’re focusing on higher-priority tasks, or we just don’t have the time, certain tasks tend to fall to the bottom of our to-do lists day after day. Some things are just more important than others. But just because they’re lower on the priority list, doesn’t mean you should completely forget about them. So how can you make sure these tasks get completed?

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9 Strategies to Recruiting Better Salespeople

Entrepreneur

It's not impossible to find great salespeople if you know where -- and how -- to look.

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3 Companies Launching Programs to Advance Working Women

TalentCulture

Here are some innovative equal opportunity initiatives that we think are worth replicating. Companies are beginning to notice the value in equipping employees with the resources they need to excel in their industries, and that the best way to do that is to offer compelling programs and initiatives to help drive that success. The 50 companies on Fortune ’s second annual “Change the World” list are doing just that.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Growing Talent Development Firms: Grow or Die?

ATD Human Capital

As ATD prepares to publish my new book, The Complete Guide to Building and Growing a Talent Development Firm , I thought a good final blog post, at least for now, should focus on the alternative to growth. That is, what if you don’t want to grow your business? Are there reasonable alternatives to growth? The following is an excerpt of how I responded to this question in the book.

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How Tech is Transforming Recruiting: 5 Tips to Leverage the Best New Tools [Webinar]

TalentCulture

Odds are your HR department is no stranger to technology , but is your team leveraging the right tech when it comes to recruiting? With so many companies competing for the best candidates, your business needs to keep its competitive edge in the recruiting process. Technology can take you there. . Want the specifics? Good news: Our friends at gotTalent will be hosting a free webinar on March 28, 2017, from 1-2 PM CDT to explore the most effective ways to use technology in the recruiting process

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12 easy ways to improve workplace teamwork

Jostle

Being part of a great team at work is a phenomenal feeling. You know that feeling? When your team is ‘in the zone’? It’s a sweet cocktail of emotions - excited, challenged, safe, successful. You’re pumped to get out of bed in the morning and energized throughout the day.

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Leadership Lessons: Understanding and Appreciating Differences

WorqIQ

We are all different. And our uniqueness brings strength to our workplace just like a forest needs all types trees to survive. Appreciating differences you encounter is important — it's good for you and your organization! Read More» The post Leadership Lessons: Understanding and Appreciating Differences appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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JUST STOP: Attachments in Meeting Invites and Nowhere Else.

The HR Capitalist

Nails on the chalkboard. Atlanta traffic. Other people's snoring. YouTube ads. Waiting in a line more than 4 people deep. These things? All things that reasonable people agree we can hate. You don't like those things. Neither do I. Let's add something to that list from corporate America. Something we all should hate and agree it must be stomped out - like the pox on society it is.

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Employer’s wage and hour defense foiled by a comma. Yep, a damn comma!

The Employer Handbook

This is all a gigantic excuse to play Comma Karma Chameleon and Karma Police. Unless you operate a business in Maine, enjoy Culture Club, or just like Oxford comma jurisprudence, there’s really nothing to see here. Still, a special thank you to @IAmOxfordComma on Twitter, which reduced the First Circuit’s decision in O’Connor v.

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What to Consider When You Self-Fund Your Health Plan

TLNT: The Business of HR

When deciding to use a TPA (third-party administrator) to administer your self-funded healthcare plan , the first consideration is often what your healthcare provider network will look like.

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5 Culture Lessons from 100 Best Company Salesforce

Great Place to Work

Salesforce is honored and humbled to once again be named one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® among so many other inspiring companies. We are incredibly proud to be on the list for the 9th year in a row. What makes this accomplishment especially remarkable is the fact that we've been able to stay on the list, and even rise up the list from #23 to #8 this year, while growing our employee population dramatically.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Cultivating Diversity in the Workplace is Essential for Driving Innovation, Says Research

HR Daily Advisor

The Northern California Human Resource Association (NCHRA), and Waggl —the most human way for organizations to crowdsource feedback—released new data from its joint “Voice of the Workplace” pulse on the subject of diversity in the workplace. According to Voice of the Workplace , an overwhelming 96% responded that they believe cultivating diversity in the workplace is essential for driving innovation.

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Death by 1,000 HR Policies

NoExcusesHR

I've worked in human resources for a long time. So long in fact, that when I make pop culture references with our team , most of the group don't understand my jokes. I also discuss policies and procedures as tools to guide the culture of the workplace. I get the same blank stares on this too. What Changed? In my early hospital HR roles I held my policy book so close that you would think it was my version of a security blanket.

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How to Grow Better Leaders

TLNT: The Business of HR

The quality of an organization’s leadership almost always foreshadows its chances for sustained success.

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Why Do Employees Want Flexible Work?

HR Daily Advisor

Many employers have taken notice that employees today are requesting flexible work options more often. Whether that’s telecommuting, a flexible work schedule, a shortened work week, or some other flexible arrangement, these types of benefits are becoming more and more common. It can help employers to understand the reasons behind these requests. They’re not necessarily borne out of a simple desire to have a longer weekend or shorter commute – though those certainly are reasons.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.

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Public Relations (PR) Officer job description

Workable

This Public Relations Officer job description template is optimized for posting to online job boards or careers pages and is easy to customize for your company. Similar titles include PR Officer, Public Relations Coordinator, PR Coordinator. Public Relations Officer Responsibilities include: Developing PR strategies and campaigns. Preparing press releases, keynote speeches and promotional material.

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5 Science-Backed Tips for a More Productive Workplace

Compensation Today

If you’re in HR or management, employee engagement and workplace productivity will always be among your most important considerations. If you can get people fired up and buzzing away, half the battle to improve morale and reduce turnover will be won. But what can you do beyond making employees feel valued and offering bonuses and incentives? You know about offering credit where it’s due, giving praise, and fostering an environment where employees feel valued.

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When Lots of Praise Backfires

Evil HR Lady

With some office environments being completely toxic , it should feel like a relief to land in one where everyone is kind to each other. But it can go south as well. Too much of a good thing can become a bad thing. The Wall Street Journal took on the growing trend of having people give positive feedback to their peers. It sounds fabulous– who wouldn’t want more praise ?