Wed.May 04, 2016

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The dreaded termination talk: Helping managers get it right

HR Morning

The termination conversation: The most distasteful part of any manager’s job. Here are some guidelines on how to handle these confrontations in a humane, controlled and legally safe way. . Before a confrontation can happen, HR’s often faced with getting managers past their normal aversion to making the final termination decision. A few of the more common rationalizations supervisors use to avoid dropping the axe – and why these avoidance tactics don’t make sense: ‘Maybe they’ll improve’.

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The Role of HR in a Rapidly-Changing Business World

Everwise

Elizabeth Schillo has built a career around helping companies solve two of their biggest challenges – finding and keeping great talent. Her previous experience includes a long stint as sales director at CareerBuilder, and then as senior vice president at DICE. Over the last 12 years, Schillo has accumulated numerous accolades for her work. She recently joined Everwise as the company’s vice president of sales.

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How to Build a Hiring Plan

HR Morning

Without a doubt, your company’s most important asset is its workforce. After all, these are the people responsible for designing, building, marketing, selling, and supporting whatever your company’s products or services might be. Any objective you have as an organization hinges on the effort of your employees, so when you set your sights on increasing sales and revenue, you also need to consider whether you’re adequately staffed to drive and sustain the growth you want.

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4 Reasons We Love Small Businesses (and You Should too)!

Trinet

May 1-7, TriNet is celebrating Small Business Week on the TriNet blog in order to honor those we serve – small business owners and entrepreneurs. TriNet works with more than 12,000 small to midsize. Visit site for full story.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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[Infographic] The Science of a Human Workplace

WorkHuman

A human workplace is more than an idea–it’s a proven way to improve work culture, make employees happier, and propel a business forward. We know this because we conducted a survey of more than 800 full-time workers in the U.S. to determine the ROI of such human workplace practices as recognition, transparency, and trust. Check out the infographic below, The Science of Building a Human Workplace , to learn more about the findings from the survey.

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The psychological benefits of perks in the workplace

HR Zone

Thank you for downloading The psychological benefits of perks in the workplace. Download complete! bright_logo_cmyk.jpg. If your download has not started click here to download the resource.

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3 Steps to Impactful Recognition

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Investments in employees need to account for value, visibility, and level of contribution to maximize their effectiveness. Social recognition is the ideal solution across all three. One of the challenges that some clients bring to us involves getting the right mix of recognition and other investments in their total rewards portfolio.

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Professional White Guys And The Blue Blazer.

The HR Capitalist

Stereotypes. Sometimes they're out there because they're true. The safest place to talk about stereotypes in the workplace involving race and gender is to to talk about the demographics you belong to. I'm a white guy, so I'll give you a workplace stereotype that is 100% true - and curious - about white guys. White guys who have reached a certain level in their career ALWAYS have a blue blazer as a core part of their wardrobe.

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A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to My Career

NoExcusesHR

I had a very clear plan as an undergraduate. It's almost impossible to say that with a straight face now! A clear plan. At 21. Hahahaha. Plan A I went off to undergraduate school with a clear vision of what the next forty years were going to look like. I almost made it to graduation day.then changed plans. Plan B I worked for a couple of years to figure everything out and then headed off to graduate school.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Managing Our Family Calendar

Laurie Ruettimann

Last year, Mister Jake was having trouble breathing. I took him to the vet. He has asthma, probably some nasal polyps, and maybe some growths in his chest. Also, Jake has massively high blood pressure. I got this news while things weren’t going well with Scrubby , and I’m like — what should we do? I’m totally ill-equipped to make any decisions except drink heavily.

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Proposed Overtime Rule Changes FAQ

Paychex

New overtime rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor could cause the number of employees eligible for overtime to skyrocket. We've answered business owners' frequently asked questions on the subject to help give them a better idea of what the rules could mean for business.

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Coaching Your Inner Monkey: Tips for Talking Yourself into Greatness

Ceridian

By Lisa Bull, VP of Employee and Leadership Learning, Ceridian. Psychologists often refer to it as ‘self talk’. You might have also heard the terms ‘inner dialogues’ or ‘limiting beliefs’. In Buddhism, it’s called ‘monkey mind’. All of these terms refer to the running play-by-play that is going on inside of all of our heads – the on-going chatter that impacts the way in which we think and feel everyday.

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7 Principles to Turn Your Conference Room into a Classroom

WorqIQ

Scholars have long held that when we see ourselves learning and growing, it creates an increased sense of competence, which in turn provides a greater sense of meaning in our work. What a great gift to be able to provide for your team – an ecosystem that nurtures learning and growth. Read More» The post 7 Principles to Turn Your Conference Room into a Classroom appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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Want Happy Employees? It's Time to Rethink Performance-Based Pay

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Like many of you, I’ve been involved in more annual performance reviews than I care to recall, discussing employees’ past performance and their future goals. And for decades, we’ve all relied on these annual performance ratings to determine yearly pay raises for employees. But the way we work today has changed , and those vague ranking systems don’t accurately reflect employee performance or meet employee expectations.

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Big news on DOL’s new overtime salary threshold

HR Morning

When it comes to complying with the DOL’s coming changes to the white collar overtime exemption regulations, employers will take any relief they can get. As a result, employers will likely embrace this suspected change to the regs. . It appears the agency is backing off its original proposal to raise the salary threshold to $50,440 to qualify as exempt … at least a little.

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How Diversity And Inclusion Are Driving the Bottom Line At American Express

TalentCulture

At many corporations, diversity is viewed as a “nice to have.” But according to Valerie Grillo , chief diversity officer at American Express , their commitment to diversity is “not just because it’s the right thing to do, but frankly, because our business leaders believe that a focus on diversity is actually going to help us with the bottom line.” Diversity isn’t about ticking off boxes, however.

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Employees Aren’t Taking Time Off. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

Namely

Time off is a busy HR intersection where personal lives cross paths with business productivity, and trust in your company culture must be the guiding traffic light. Is it any wonder so many employees and companies end up stalled? A new survey released by Namely may reveal the true conflict: Employees want to take time off, but they’re simply not doing it.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Why Understanding Your Influencers is Vital

WorqIQ

Influencing others. I’ve made it a lifetime of study, and it’s my passion. But there is another equally important question: Read More» The post Why Understanding Your Influencers is Vital appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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13 Employee Survey Questions that Help Define and Validate Your Company Values

Quantum Workplace

Whether successful or not, every company seems to have a list of core values that attempts to uniquely describe the awesomeness of their culture. Values are important to any company’s culture, as they can “set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity” ( Patrick M. Lencioni, HBR.org ). However, writing your core values can be a tricky task – Who should we get input from?

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Why You Must Learn to Work With Other Departments

45 Things

In the past, the only time the tech department and those in finance or business operations might have interacted was at the annual holiday party. But even then, the employees pretty much huddled with their own department, like Super Bowl teams plotting the next interception. But it’s a different story these days, as more companies encourage – or even require – cross-functional collaboration.

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Ep 78 – What Gen Z Wants From Work #fivegenwork

Workology

Gen Z short for Zen range from ages 2 to 19, though the target range for marketers lies from ages 11 to 16. Gen Z is the most diverse and multicultural of any generation in the U.S. — 55% are Caucasian, 24% are Hispanic, 14% are African-American and 4% are Asian according to AdAge from published earlier this year (See link in resources section below).

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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The Cost of Turnover: Lost Productivity and Financial Stress

Payactiv

Return to Blog Home 90 Million Americans Under Financial Stress, Living Paycheck to Paycheck: How Did We Get Here? By Sabina Bhatia , on May 4, 2016 --> Financial stress is a growing problem in the workforce today. Even with 145 million people employed, nearly 63 percent or 90 million of these individuals are among the working poor, according to a survey by personal finance website Bankrate.com.

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EMPOWER 2016: Preconference Fundamentals Training and App-a-thon

Quickbase

We are excited to be including a full day of Pre-conference activities at EMPOWER 2016, offering Fundamentals Training for those who are new to QuickBase, and our first ever App-a-thon for power users who are ready to push their app development skills to the limit! QuickBase Fundamentals Training Our full-day Pre-conference Fundamentals Training will inspire and […].

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Taking a Pause to Applause and Praise

Terryberry

It’s WOW Wednesday! HR leaders, execs, and managers: How do you WOW the people who go above and beyond for you in your business? Or, how have you been WOWed? Today’s WOW Wednesday comes from Terri. She says: “We featured an applause wall for Call Center recognition. When customers called in to praise a CSR, a note was placed on the wall, or if a peer or other employee recognized the employee for helping them, or seeing them do something above and beyond, an applause card was pl

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Background Check Strategies and Trends

Paycor

There’s a lot changing in the world of HR between technology advances and shifting regulations, and the fundamental details of the hiring process are changing, too. Included under that are new trends, capabilities, and laws regarding background checks and how to perform them. Les Rosen, CEO , and Dawn Standerwick, Vice President of Strategic Growth, both with Employment Screening Resources , lent their expertise to Paycor’s March 10 Web Summit and gave a thorough rundown of things to keep an eye

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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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get a new job with this massive discount on the Ask a Manager job-searching bible

Ask a Manager

Looking for a job? For the next few days, I’m offering a discount on. my e-book, How to Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager. Use this discount code today for a massive 40% discount: newjob. If you’ve ever wished that you could look into the brain of a hiring manager to find out what you need to do to get hired, this is for you. Written from my perspective as a long-time hiring manager, this e-book gives you step-by-step guidance through every stage of your job search … expl

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What’s Driving Employers to Offer Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits?

Paychex

Under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act, mass transit commuters get the same pre-tax commuter benefits as employees who commute by car. Read more about how it could affect your business and your employees.

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interviewing when you only have one candidate for the job, retention bonuses, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Interviewing when you only have one candidate for the job. Remember the letter-writer in February wondering if should start job searching now or wait to hear if she got a promotion (#3 at the link)? Here’s an update and follow-up question. Just a few days ago, I got the promotion I wrote in about.