Wed.Oct 12, 2016

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Who Cares About Compensation?

Compensation Cafe

Spoiler alert! This article doesn't have a happy ending. -. What if you worked in an organization where the Head of Human Resources didn't view the Compensation function as vitally important to the organization? I once worked in such a place. Though I wasn't in a leadership role at that point the lesson learned was telling. We weren't invited to critical HR planning sessions, my boss was never a member of the inner HR circle, and the department's list of annual objectives never included a com

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The Worst Hire You Can Ever Make

The Tim Sackett Project

A crazy thing happens almost every day in professional sports, and it’s the one thing that separates great teams from the pack. Talent selection will make or break a team’s success and in professional sports, it’s about getting the right talent for the right price. The problem with most professional sports team, regardless of the sport, is they continually try to improve their roster incrementally. “Oh, let’s pick up Pitcher A because he’s a little better than

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Interviews Can Be a Rollercoaster

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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Elements of High CEO Approval Ratings: An Interview with Glassdoor’s Chief Economist

UpstartHR

If you check out a company’s profile on Glassdoor , one of the first things you see is the CEO approval rating. As an HR leader, this is a number that I was always concerned with as a signal for overall employee satisfaction. It’s common to hear stories about CEO approval in the news, and all of us have an opinion about our current and past leaders at the top of the organizational hierarchy.

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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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The Annual Employee Survey is Dead

15Five

Ok, ok—the employee survey itself is not dead. But the annual frequency of it is. If you’re still polling your employees once a year just to check a box, you’re missing out on what true feedback is all about. Employee engagement isn’t something to take lightly. In fact, Hay Group reports that “companies with engaged employees experience 2.5x more revenues than competitors with low engagement levels.

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Managing vs. Leading – How It Can Make All of The Difference

Hppy

Oftentimes , the terms leader and manager are synonymous with each other but there are definitely differences between the two. Do you know the difference between a leader and a manager? Do you know if you currently identify as a leader or a manager? Read on to find out more about the two and how you can make a difference in your workplace. What is management?

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Coaching Is All About Questions

ATD Human Capital

If you have been a coach, or if you have been coached, you know there are many questions to ask the person you’re coaching, such as: What do you want to talk about today? Why do you want to focus on that? How will this help make a difference for you? What can you actually do to improve? Coaches dig deep and help performers identify issues that may be affecting their performance and guide them to an appropriate solution.

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10 Simple Phrases that Cast Sunlight

The People Equation

Last week I wrote about how we are naturally drawn towards positive people because they inspire us. In nature, that’s called the “heliotropic effect,” which describes how plants grow or move towards sunlight. This week, I penned a similar piece, but this time from a leadership angle. I bet you can easily think of managers to whom you were instantly drawn because they had a “magnetic” personality.

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Here's a Test That's Available to Measure Candidate/Employee GRIT.

The HR Capitalist

Most of us have been impacted by seeing people with great talent not get things done after we hire them. When we try to evaluate what's missing in those talented people, we tend to determine they don't have enough of the following things: DRIVE. AMBITION. INITIATIVE. What did I miss? I'm sure there are some other words that fall in this same category.

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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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New Updates Arrive Surrounding Individual Shared Responsibility

ACA Times

At the top of September, the House Ways and Means Committee reunited following summer break with new markups surrounding the individual shared responsibility payment requirement of the Affordable Care Act. The main update involves exemptions to said payment, as cancellations of certain plans, leaving many vulnerable to unforeseen expenses. Individuals can be exempt from the shared responsibility payment should their former CO-OP qualified health plan have been terminated.

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Hiring In the Age of Disruption: Key Trends Business Leaders Need to Know

Lighthouse

Following is a guest post developed for the team at KellyOCG around some of the key disruptive trends I’m following. Hope you enjoy! There is more fluctuation and innovation in the way that talent is delivered today than at any time in the past, and talent leaders need to understand some of the key trends that affect how work gets done. Disruption is one of the overarching themes that companies simply can’t avoid, and it affects organizations in a variety of ways.

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Recruiting in the Digital Age: Must-have tools and tactics for HR

HR Morning

It’s a digital world. Here’s some advice from guest poster Michael Overell, CEO and founder of RecruitLoop (an online platform of independent recruiters) on how today’s HR pros can survive – and even thrive – in this ever-changing recruiting wilderness. . To remain competitive — and even pull ahead in your industry — it’s essential your HR department stays ahead of the digital curve.

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Communications and Negotiations

TalentCulture

Contrary to the belief of many, negotiations actually serve as a stepping stone to a potentially long-term, mutually beneficial alliance. Fair-minded negotiations are not the one-and-done actions played out by those who lack the skills and temperament to look beyond the moment, but are in fact, an interaction to ignite a satisfying, enduring relationship.

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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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Why Do Some Employees Waste Time at Work?

Paychex

Why do some employees waste time during the workday? Paychex asked 2,000 workers to come clean about what prompts them to goof off rather than stay on task. See how respondents answered—the results may surprise you.

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Millennials Are The Workforce: A Plea For Present-Casting

TalentCulture

Our industry fixated on Generation Y with the same market-heat fervency once reserved for boomer teens: how can we engage this generation? But with 53.5 million by the beginning of this year, they take up the largest segment of the U.S. workforce , many aren’t kids anymore (the generation’s first year is 1981), and they are making major workforce decisions themselves.

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Why do good people do bad things?

HR Zone

Change. Why do good people do bad things?

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The State of Workforce Learning in Our Digital World [Webinar]

TalentCulture

There’s been a profound shift in our world, increasing the need for organizations to beef up workforce learning and development. Technology is constantly advancing itself, and demographic changes are pushing the educational envelope. But in this quicksilver, 24/7, digital World of Work, we’re all after competitive advantage — and that means we’re always hungry to gain the knowledge and skills that drive success.

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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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HR Tech 2016: 5 Powerful Trends You Need to Know about

Bonusly

We just returned from the Annual HR Technology Conference and Expo in Chicago last week, and it was an incredibly rewarding experience. HR Tech 2016 was a great opportunity to meet teams who use Bonusly face-to-face, to catch up with our friends in the industry, and learn about all the exciting new tools, technology, strategies, and methodologies driving HR forward into the future.

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How To Sabotage Your Ideas and Influence (Part One)

WorqIQ

You already know that launching and developing a good idea takes massive amounts of influence. Many fantastic ideas lie on the ash heap of history merely because someone couldn’t influence others to adopt the idea. But you may not realize that you might be sabotaging your own idea and influence. Often, the selling of an idea was actually sabotaged by the creator because he or she hadn’t developed the skills to persuade others to give credence to the idea.

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my boss thinks a board member kept the money from a baby gift collection

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a weird etiquette problem. I’ve been at a nonprofit for over eight years in a position that works very closely with our advisory board. I recently had a baby and I’ve been out on maternity leave. My husband and I decided that it makes sense for me to resign from my job to stay home with our son for a few years. I went to my office so my coworkers could meet the baby and so I could tell my boss, Angela, in person that I wouldn’t be coming back.

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Recognizing Burnout in Employees and What to Do About It

Acacia HR Solutions

Regardless of how well we enjoy our job, all of us have experienced burnout. Whether it be because we are overworked and under appreciated or because we are bored and under stimulated, the effects of burnout can be detrimental to our job performance and career longevity. In small businesses where employees are wearing more hats.

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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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my mother wants to write to the newspaper about my “tragic story of shattered dreams” and nothing I say can stop her

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a 20something woman in tech. Since day one, I had to fight for a place in this field, convincing interviewers that I could do more than customer support, that I deserve the same opportunities my male counterparts have. To this day, I have only had three jobs (tech support, trainee, and junior developer), and I worked really hard to get each of them.

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Ep 99 – How Transparency Empowers Your Personal Brand with @ericttung

Workology

Over the last couple months on previous episodes of the podcast we’ve talked about using social media tools to build a personal brand. We discussed strategies to using tools to LinkedIn to create brands. The bigger question is how do we really go about that which is why I’m really excited to talk to who has built both a personal brand and also worked with large corporate brands.

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is it wrong to Google job candidates?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I recently was given the responsibility of finding interns for our company. In the process of reviewing applications, I Googled one of them. The first search result was her Facebook page so I clicked on it, and saw that many of her posts and pictures were set to “public.” I did not see anything out of the ordinary or really anything that would prevent her from getting a job, but decided to mention it to my boss and coworker anyway, just to see what they thought.

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How to Get Honest Feedback When You’re the Boss

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recently a manager, who I will call Robert, expressed his desire to know if he could do more to let the people in his department know how deeply he appreciated how hard they work and the quality of their work. He wondered if he could do more to let them know this. He also wondered, in general, how he came across as a leader.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

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

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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$5.3M verdict gives employers blueprint to sue bullying unions

HR Morning

In recent years, courts and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have given unions broad free speech rights. But now, a jury verdict has shown employers they can fight back if a union resorts to harmful bullying tactics in an attempt to organize workers. . A Harris County, TX, jury verdict is making the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — which has nearly two million members nationwide — pay the Houston area-based Professional Janitorial Service (PJS) a whopping $5.3

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we have to provide food to our managers for Boss’s Day, my boss hates me, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. We have to provide food to our managers for Boss’s Day. It’s that time again — Boss’s Day is Monday. The staff where I work have received the usual cringe-worthy email from the office manager, notifying us we are to provide a breakfast potluck plus afternoon desserts for our bosses.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 261 - Impact of Digital Transformation on HCM

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 261 - Impact of Digital Transformation on HCM. Hosts: Trish McFarlane , Steve Boese. Guests: Charles Cagle , SVP of HCM Development, Strategy & Operations, Infor Bill Vellante , VP & General Manager HCM, Infor. Listen HERE. In this special episode, Trish shares a recording from a recent webinar she facilitated for Infor with guests, Charles Cagle and Bill Vellante.