Tue.Feb 14, 2017

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Being a Leader and Tacit Approval in Today’s Workplace

HR Bartender

I’ve mentioned before that I used to work for a boss who had me issue the same memo every year about tacit approval. The memo was designed to remind everyone of their responsibilities as a manager and leader as well as the basic principles of business. I was reminded of tacit approval recently and dug out the memo. Believe it or not, some ten plus years later…I still have it.

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How to Give the Right Amount of Feedback to High Performers

ClearCompany HRM

Giving feedback to any of your employees can be troublesome, but when it comes to high performers, things can get a little more complex. Although it may be tempting to focus more on employees who need help, you can’t ignore your high performers. You don’t want to be standing over their shoulder, micromanaging every move they make, but how much feedback is the right amount and what should it include?

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How to Humanize Your Organization in the Era of HR Technology

Cornerstone On Demand

Today's HR buzzword: "humanize". More and more I see articles and now even a book about humanizing organizations. It makes sense: With the impact of HR technology, people analytics and social media, it is reasonable to worry that we have lost the ability to relate to each other as human beings. Many of the HR technology and performance management software tools boast the ability to predict what people will or can do, which is attractive to large organizations that cannot individually engage wi

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How to Recognize Quiet Leaders: Susan Cain Q+A (Part 1)

WorkHuman

Do you ever think about the kinds of people who get promoted in your organization? Are different personality types – both extroverts and introverts – represented in that group, and made to feel like they belong ? New research shows that introverted leaders , in some cases, are actually more effective in inspiring and motivating people. To learn more about developing introverted leaders, we talked to the expert – author and WorkHuman speaker Susan Cain.

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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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What Rewards Do Employees Want Most?

Achievers

The balance of power between employee and employer has shifted in recent years, especially in tech-related fields. As a human resources professional or manager, you’re probably all-too familiar with the job-hopping ways of highly skilled employees who feel they can pick and choose the job they want. And that’s reflected in the fact that more than half of all business owners feel that competition for talent is stronger than it’s ever been.

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What is Effective Leadership?

Everwise

We’re all familiar with great leaders. We read articles about them, buy their products, and obsessively analyze their behavior for clues about how we can channel some of their success. Anyone with dreams of leadership naturally wants to be the best leader they can be, which has given rise to many theories about how to lead well. A leader does these things, a leader displays these personality traits, a leader must be focused on this topic, a leader is born rather than made—it’s a lot to take in.

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How To Manage A Team Whilst Running A Business

Hppy

Many business owners hire managers to do this for them because it means they can focus primarily on the running and success of their company, but not everyone has the resources to do this. Especially those businesses that are fairly new in existence. Being a manager means you need to oversee your workforce in a positive way from a HR perspective that drives success but at the same time you must also focus on the intricacies of the business.

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Successful Leaders Go “Bump In The Night” 

TalentCulture

I am amused when all I hear leaders talk about is their successes. The triumphs they achieved paint a blueprint of what it takes to achieve greatness. The algorithm for leadership success is almost exclusively based on what worked for them. True, events that went the right way for someone should be dissected and analyzed. It is important to understand the specific actions taken and behaviors exhibited that yielded a productive outcome.

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What The Heck Is Candidate Experience?

China Gorman

Well, it’s that time of year. All kinds of new research reports are being published – the kinds of reports that we collect and never seem to have enough time to read. We’ve all got them on our hard drives. But here’s one you’ll download and read. Multiple times. The information is that useful! Of course, I’m talking about the Candidate Experience 2016 report.

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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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8 Workplace Romance Facts You Need to Know Right Now

BambooHR

It’s Valentine’s Day, and some of your employees are celebrating together (wink, wink). Probably. If you’ve watched a lot of The Office (the American version), it’s easy to fall under the impression that most people find love at work. In the real world, however, there aren’t nearly as many Jim and Pam-like relationships as you […]. The post 8 Workplace Romance Facts You Need to Know Right Now appeared first on.

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Twitter's New VP of HR (formerly at Uber) Departs in a Hurry.

The HR Capitalist

In the hiring/candidate business, it's called a miss. Interesting stuff from the interwebs a couple of weeks ago, as Twitter announced its Head of Diversity was leaving the company. Of course, for me that wasn't really the news, as Twitter also used the announcement to state that a recent CHRO hire had left the company at some point before the announcement.

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Help Your Board Make a Successful CEO Hire

TLNT: The Business of HR

The Center for Creative Leadership has estimated that “failure” in senior leadership positions has increased in recent years. As the senior partner for a boutique career transition firm, working exclusively with senior executives, I have been a witness to a large number of executive exits. We assist in transitioning these same executives into new opportunities.

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How To Protect Yourself From HR Data Loss

Hppy

Data loss is one of the worst things that can happen to you nowadays, especially if you extensively use your PC for work and keep important information on it. HR managers and accountants, for example, often have to keep track of an insanely huge amount of information, and if anything should happen to this information, it can be a real living nightmare for the entire department.

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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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Enable and Inspire Your New Employee to Deliver Better Results Faster

ATD Human Capital

This is the last of five total onboarding program posts on acquiring, accommodating, assimilating, and accelerating new team members. This post focuses on assimilating and accelerating your new employee. We suggest three steps: Make a positive first impression both ways. Speed the development of important working relationships. Provide resources, support, and follow-through.

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Fixing a Toxic Work Environment and Getting Back on Track

Paychex

Turning around a toxic work environment should be among every business leader's top priorities, as over time it may be costly to employee morale and the company's bottom line. Here are some ways you can start the healing process.

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This right here is why you train your managers to take all complaints of harassment seriously.

The Employer Handbook

When I conduct anti-harassment training for supervisors, one of the points I stress is that all complaints of harassment and discrimination — no matter how minor — must be taken seriously. Why? For a few reasons. By addressing harassment right away, it reduces the chances of repeat performances. That’s good for the employee. That’s also good for the employer, because a successful hostile work environment claim requires behavior that is either severe or pervasive.

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Look What Happened to the Super Chickens

TLNT: The Business of HR

This series profiles 8 people whose ideas have the power to transform the workplace. Several are company leaders who have put their ideas into practice. Others are thought leaders influencing the way we work. Each new part will post on Tuesdays. Links to prior articles are at the end of this post. This series originally appeared on the OpenWork blog.

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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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5 ways to make your company more appetizing to top talent

Insperity

In a recent survey , more than two-thirds of hiring organizations indicated that they’re having a difficult time recruiting for job openings, according to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). With a lower unemployment rate and more job openings, it’s becoming increasingly critical for employers to make sure they get noticed in the crowded job market.

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Corporate Culture: Love Is All You Need

Great Place to Work

Recently I had the privilege of working with Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) , and one particular meeting with them altered my approach to working with clients. For those unaware of USHG, it was started by Danny Meyer, a restaurateur, who owns and operates a number of well-known and highly rated restaurants predominantly located in Manhattan. The company is best known for their “Hospitality Included” policy that eliminates tipping in their restaurants.

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4 Steps in Defining a Leadership Blueprint

DDI

Learn about the four most critical steps in defining a leadership blueprint relevant to your business context and critical career transitions.

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Sharing the Love: Employee Giving Campaign Tips from #CeridianCares

Ceridian

By Kelly Allder, VP of People Programs, Ceridian. In 2016, we celebrated our 10th anniversary of running an employee giving campaign. It was incredible to be able to use the momentum from previous years to drive one of our most successful campaigns. Our people and organization raised over $800 thousand dollars for charity and donated nearly 1000 hours of volunteer time!

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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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Conducting Business: Embodied Leadership and ‘Beautiful’ Cultures

Culture University

This post is the last in a series of five articles describing a major arts-based leadership development programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, designed and run over a four-year period by Dr. Mark Powell, one of the authors of this article. Previous posts have looked at the way in which delegates to the programme […]. The post Conducting Business: Embodied Leadership and ‘Beautiful’ Cultures appeared first on Culture University.

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Trucks Are Already Being Automated

Workology

As Uber, Google and others experiment with driverless cars, worries mount that fleets of driverless taxis, though probably safer and more efficient, will mean eliminating thousands of jobs. But these. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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From our CEO: My two productivity goals for 2017

CultureAmp

My two resolutions for 2017 The Christmas and New Year period is inevitably a time for reflection. As I spent time with my family and looked forward with excitement to what 2017 will bring to Culture Amp, I sat back and thought about what I really want to achieve this year. Right away I realized that the most important question was not “How do I eke another 10 milligrams of productivity out of the day?

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Leading Through Uncertain Times

Acacia HR Solutions

Regardless what side of the aisle you find yourself on, I think we can all agree that the past few weeks since the inauguration have been tumultuous. No one can predict what happens next. This uncertainty has many people nervous about the future. And that uncertainty is affecting my clients. Several have experienced drops in.

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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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my office wants us to bring single friends to a Valentine’s Day singles mixer

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I don’t really need advice, but I thought this level of WTF-ery might interest you. My workplace just announced a Valentine’s Day Singles mixer. Maybe I’m just a prudish weirdo who likes to keep work and personal very separate, but it really strikes me as odd, and almost like they’re encouraging us to date one another…?

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Calculating Your ROI with Talmetrix: Free Trial of Our ROI Calculator

Talmetrix

Studies have linked increased employee engagement to better productivity and reduced turnover – but what about its impact on your financials? Because we’re constantly asked about the returns of investing in the employee experience, we created a tool to show you the direct impact that improving your employee experience can have on your bottom line.

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What We Do Takes Heart

IBM Talent Acquisition

It’s that time of year again. The time when love is in the air. When retailers pack their stores with greeting cards, chocolates and other Valentine’s Day artifacts. When we stop for a day to celebrate those whom we love in our lives and send tangible expressions of that love. And I’m all for it! I love when February rolls around, but this year, it got me thinking.

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