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ICYMI: Employee Communication Can Make or Break Your Bottom Line

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for January's top stories! Your Employees' Inability to Speak Up Is Costing Your Business Big Money Are your employees afraid to speak up at work?

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5 Ways to Increase Your Visibility on LinkedIn

Entrepreneur

Whether building a professional network, developing a sales platform or looking to be recruited, LinkedIn offers access to millions. Here's how to get noticed.

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6 Signs You Have a Growth Mindset

ATD Human Capital

When it comes to organizational learning and development, companies with a growth mindset maintain the upper hand. But what exactly is a growth mindset and why does it matter so much? Chris Miller , UNC’s program manager, examined two types of mindsets: growth and fixed. Many employers believed for years that employees either have talent or they don’t.

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Performance Management in HighGround Customers’ Own Words

Kazoo

The cornerstone of modern performance management is collaborative goal-setting, continuous coaching and ongoing feedback and frequent check-ins. The shape that these processes take, once implemented, is slightly different at every organization, depending on its unique culture, strategy and business needs. Because of this, designing your company’s individual performance management strategy can be daunting.

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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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Everything You Need to Know About Coaching and Mentoring your Team

EmployeeConnect

Coaching and mentoring are both processes that facilitate both managers and employees to achieve their optimum potential. There is a common thread that unites all types of mentoring and coaching. Both these services act as a vehicle for reflection, analysis, and action that enables an individual or a client to achieve success in one or more areas of work and life.

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[Infographic] Quick Facts About Organizational Learning

Hppy

According to a recent survey from ManpowerGroup, employers are facing the highest global talent shortage since 2007. The pressure to recruit and retain top talent is more intense than ever, as companies struggle to remain competitive in a global market. Today’s employees expect more learning and development opportunities such as trainings, coaching and mentoring.

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How to Create a Social Media Advocacy Program

TalentCulture

Employees can elevate and amplify your brand messaging to their own social networks and beyond. Word of mouth marketing is nothing new. But today’s technology gives brands ways to accomplish it more efficiently by marshaling their internal teams to act as social media advocates. According to recent reports, social media content shared by employees gets eight times more engagement than content shared through the brand’s own social channels and is shared 25 times more frequently.

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5 Talent Management Trends That Are Changing HR

TLNT: The Business of HR

The new year brings new goals, new challenges and new trends in the still-evolving field of talent management. We describe below 5 talent management trends for 2017 based on insights from HR leaders globally, our NTMN research, experiences at our clients and discussions at the Talent Management Institute.

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Black HR Blogs Matter

Laurie Ruettimann

Welcome to National African American History Month , formerly known as Black History Month, and something I’ve never written about in my lifetime. I’m not sure why. As a progressive woman, I believe that African American history matters. Not just the part about Martin Luther King Jr., either, but the times when the black narrative showed America its real character and, eventually, moved our country forward.

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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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Is Corrective Action a Death Sentence?

The HR Capitalist

Short post today about an important topic. . Is Corrective Action a Death Sentence? First, definitions for some of my readers who aren't HR pros. Corrective Action is a formal process where you tell an employee, usually in a written document that is delivered in a formal meeting with a witness - that their performance is below standards and unless they improve, they likely will be removed from the company in time.

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How to Write a Winning Job Description

HR Partner

Your company is top notch and you’re looking for top notch employees. A new position just opened up and you need to fill it soon. You know that this position would be perfect for the right person, and the benefits are competitive. . So you create a job description, publish the listing, and wait. The applications start to roll in, but there’s one big problem: None of the applications have fulfilled the requirements listed, and even worse, it appears that many of the candidates didn’t even read th

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How open and honest communication impact employee engagement

CultureAmp

We know communication in the workplace is important because it affects our ability to work together. It also affects our level of engagement as employees. To understand this connection, David Ostberg, Director of Insights at Culture Amp and Chris Yeh, a co-author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age and co-founder of Allied Talent, presented research on communication and engagement in a one-hour webinar.

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How Company Values Protect Culture in Times of Growth

Great Place to Work

A common theme during the 2016 Great Place to Work Small and Medium Business Conference was managing growth. Not just growth in terms of products, services, and customers. But growth in terms of employees and morale. The key to successful growth is organizational values. Great places to work are built on values and how they are defined. They come to life when they are being lived and breathed in the organization.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Why HR Needs to Be Brought into The 21st Century

HR Daily Advisor

by Morag Barrett, Author. Ask any HR professional what they think of the people-policies and procedures in their organization and most will acknowledge that many of them are dumb and difficult to enforce. Rules have unfortunately resulted in a reputation of Human Resources being a jobs-worth function trying to justify its existence. There are many legal requirements designed to protect the employee from the unscrupulous employer, and in some cases protect the employer from an unscrupulous employ

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Artificial intelligence and the workforce of tomorrow

Allegis Global Solutions

We live in a world where technological innovation never stops and the workforce of the future is therefore likely to be very different from that of today. However, recruiters and those seeking employment in the years ahead shouldn't see this as a cause for alarm, as different doesn't mean worse, it's just not the same.

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January Job Growth Is Strongest in a decade

TLNT: The Business of HR

Private sector hiring surged in January, with employers adding 246,000 new jobs, significantly above the 170,000 economists were predicting.

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Why hard work goes unnoticed in corporate America

HRNasty

Why hard work goes unnoticed Last week I blogged about a candidate who in all rights is a superstar. From a career standpoint, if you were to talk with her, you would never know it. I love how she puts in the hard work and is so humble, but within the corporate framework, this is […] The post Why hard work goes unnoticed in corporate America appeared first on by HRNasty, HR gone rogue.

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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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The HR Analytics Rocking Horse: Lots of Action, Little Progress

TLNT: The Business of HR

As we head full-on into the second month of 2017, a friend sent me the link to a survey analysis that is extremely eye-opening. Still Under Construction: The State of HR Analytics 2016 , conducted and published by the New Talent Management Network , has some compelling data about how HR functions are deploying higher level analytics and how successful they are in deriving actionable insights.

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Turning your employees into brand advocates

Papirfly

The best brand ambassadors your company could have? Your employees! The Edelman 2012 Trust Barometer found that employees enjoy more credibility than chief executives yet only 13% of global employees are engaged ( Gallup study). So it’s about time you start activating your employees.

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The Employee Experience: An Interview with Authors Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride

WorqIQ

We recently talked with authors Tracy Maylett, Ed.D and Matthew Wride, J.D., P.H.R. about their new book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results. The book explores what is shaping up to be the hot HR topic of 2017—the employee experience. Mayett and Wride are chief executives at DecisionWise. Read More» The post The Employee Experience: An Interview with Authors Tracy Maylett and Matthew Wride appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Beyond Employee Engagement: The Importance of the Employee Experience

SocialChorus

We recently sat down with Preston Lewis, Founder & CEO of Intactic , to learn more about the history behind the employee experience, how it is shaping employee communications and why the employee experience is important to him. SocialChorus and Lewis are partnering for a webinar, 5 Keys to Creating a Modern Employee Experience , on Thursday, February 16.

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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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Artificial intelligence and the contingent workforce of tomorrow

Allegis Global Solutions

The impact of increased automation and the rise of new technologies will lead to a sea change in employment during the next 40 years.

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A brief Q&A on strengthening company culture

CultureAmp

David Ostberg, Director of Insights at Culture Amp and Chris Yeh, a co-author of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age and co-founder of Allied Talent, joined together for a one-hour webinar discussing the link between communication and engagement. During the webinar, audience-submitted questions inspired even more thoughtful discussion on life at work.

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Good Work Perks Are Free Advertising

Workology

Last Thursday, Kraft Heinz announced that instead of buying another pricy Superbowl ad, they would instead turn the event into a holiday for their entire salaried US workforce. They’re also launching a petition to make the day after the Superbowl a national holiday and they’ll be sending it to Congress if they can muster enough signatures […] Source.

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Warning: Malware is showing up in job applicants’ files

HR Morning

Be aware: There’s a new kind of malware computer attack targeting HR professionals. . Ransomware, a form of malware that blocks access to computer files until a ransom is paid, is arriving in HR pros’ inboxes dressed as job applications, according to the research team at Check Point Software Technologies Inc., a provider of IT security products.

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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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6 Ways Franchise Owners Can Recruit Top Employees

Paychex

Recruiting employees can be a challenge, but getting it right can help ensure your long-term business success. These six tips can help get you started.

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HR Works Podcast: How to Use Your Company Brand as a Recruiting Tool

HR Daily Advisor

EPISODE 26. It’s easy to agree on two things: it’s getting harder and harder to recruit and great employees, and social media are playing a major role. And the question is, how can we leverage our social media profiles and presence and activity to support our recruiting efforts? It’s all about the employment brand. To help us get some practical advice around branding, Kathy Harris, founder and managing director of Harris Allied, an executive search firm, joins us on this episode of HR Works: The

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Changes Big and Small Help Strengthen Your Employer Brand

Cielo HR Leader

There are many approaches to leveraging your employer brand, whether you are building it from scratch or are already well-established and just looking to enhance your reach. For those at the beginning stages, it’s best to adopt a holistic view and take these steps: Make your story and employee value proposition (EVP) compelling. Determine what’s most exciting about your vision and how to answer, “What’s in it for me?