Wed.Jun 21, 2017

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It’s About More Than HR: Analytics Learnings from Tom Davenport and Dr. John Sullivan

Visier

At this year’s Visier Outsmart (our annual user conference), we were fortunate to have two notable industry thought leaders take part: Tom Davenport, Big Data luminary and pioneer of the concept of “competing on analytics,” and Dr. John Sullivan, internationally renowned HR thought leader (and guest writer on the Visier blog ). The underlying theme tying their two presentations together was that in order for HR to be successful with analytics, it’s necessary to connect HR goals (or your people s

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Are You Ready for Personalized Learning?

Cornerstone On Demand

When my family moved to Florida eight years ago, we bought a house with a pool. We loved looking outside at night with the pool light on; peaceful and beautiful. But a few months later, the bulb burned out. Rather than call the pool guy, my husband went on YouTube and learned how to replace the bulb. I was a new CLO in a large healthcare system at the time and witnessing him turn to YouTube boggled my mind.

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Hiring Plans for Accounting, Finance, and IT Roles Spike Going into Q3 2017

HR Daily Advisor

A new hiring forecast released by Brilliant—a search, staffing, and management resources firm—studies the hiring trends and business factors affecting accounting, finance, and information technology (IT) professionals in the greater Chicago and south Florida labor markets. creatarka / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Brilliant’s Q3 2017 Hiring Forecast data indicates businesses are reporting widespread openings in accounting and finance while the number of open IT positions has doubled since last qua

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Why You Should Invest In Servant Leadership – An Interview With Marcel Schwantes

15Five

Who are the thought leaders you turn to for business and management advice? Got room for one more? Over the past several months, my eyes have been caught by informative articles on leadership and productivity from the same author. I found an Inc. column so valuable that I asked if I could interview the author for our blog. Fortunately, he agreed to answer several questions about leadership, employee engagement, and organizational health.

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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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[Infographic] The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence In The Workplace

Hppy

If you want your workforce to be happy and fulfilled, or to be more productive (which likely requires them to be happy and fulfilled), you need to know what these terms mean and to understand how emotions function in your place of work. Put simply, there is no substitute for developing your emotional intelligence – and helping those around you to develop theirs, too.

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the Ask a Manager book is coming

Ask a Manager

Y’all, I wrote a book. ASK A MANAGER: Clueless Coworkers, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and Other Work Conversations Made Easy will be published by Random House/Ballantine next spring. The book — which is nearly all new content that you haven’t read here — takes on more than 200 difficult conversations you might need to have during your career (with your boss, your coworkers, your employees, or your job interviewer) and gives you the wording to do it … focusing especially on the awkwa

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Determining If an On-site Fitness Center is Right For You

TalentCulture

Think the days of the company gym have gone by the wayside? Think again. Amid the boom in individualized fitness apps and technology, many organizations are also doubling down and expanding their use of on-site fitness centers. Here’s why. On-site fitness centers establish connections. Our research recently found that 75 percent of employees seek personalization and personal touch in their employer’s well-being offering.

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The Foundation of Successful Employees

ATD Human Capital

Having a strong onboarding program is one way to retain key talent. Onboarding (sometimes called orientation) is the process of new employees acquiring the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to be effective contributors. Without a thoughtful onboarding process, organizations may see decreased productivity, increased turnover, and lost revenue.

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Complacency

TalentCulture

I struggled with the title of this post, wanting something more eye catching, provocative, perhaps a little less negative. Complacency is an ugly word. No one likes to be accused of being complacent. Complacency is sometimes associated with laziness, though some of the most complacent organizations I encounter are far from “lazy,” but “crazy-busy” with activity.

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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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5 Behaviors That Build a Company’s Culture

TLNT: The Business of HR

A review of 2017 HCM trends identified improving corporate culture as a primary focus for HR leaders. Research from CEB also identified culture as the most common talent topic discussed during corporate earnings calls. Clearly culture matters. But what determines company culture?

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If I Were Starting A Union, Here's What I'd Do.

The HR Capitalist

I'm spent a lot of time over the last week thinking about the challenges of the budgeted merit increases - you know the drill - 4% across the board, and you need to get "pay for performance" out of that. Which got me thinking about this. If I Were Starting A Union, Here's What I'd Do.I'd rip a page from the player's unions in the major sports leagues and focus my bargaining on the establishment of a salary cap.

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Stressed Out HR: 7 Steps to Making Things Better

TLNT: The Business of HR

Human resource professionals are the “stress absorbers” for their organizations and often for individuals in the organization. They occupy a special niche in the organizational ecosystem — a critical one for the success of all companies.

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How to Identify and Handle Low Performers

Workology

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. At first, this analogy may appear to be an overreach—after all, how can one or even. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Employee Engagement’s Role in Organizational Success: An HR Pro’s Perspective

HR Daily Advisor

During a job interview, a candidate once asked me a surprisingly difficult question—he wanted to know how our organization measures success. He was referring not to his own individual success as a prospective employee, but rather to that of the company as a whole. His interest first struck me as unusual, as he already knew a great deal about our company and its standing within its marketplace.

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When Employees Make Mistakes

NoExcusesHR

Question: How many of us have team members that have stumbled? Answer: All of us. Reactions, Fear and True Colors Mistakes are one of the most important opportunities for leaders to demonstrate to the rest of the team what they are all about. Are anger, harsh words or the proverbial cold shoulder part of your leadership playbook " to make a point? " Guess what?

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HR data and GDPR: what you need to know about consent (and why not to rely on it)

HR Zone

Business. HR data and GDPR: understanding consent.

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4 Behavioral Interviewing Myths Debunked

DDI

Katy Campbell responds to the criticisms, misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and misinformation about behavioral interviewing.

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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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Pay Equity: What HR Teams Need to Know

Paychex

Many organizations are taking a look at their approach to pay equity. Read on to explore if there are steps your business can take to remain in compliance, and how your approach could potentially impact hiring, employee retention, and the company brand.

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Top 5 Trends from the Expo Floor at #SHRM17

Workology

The doors to SHRM17’s Exhibit Hall have officially closed and as with every SHRM conference, I spent some time chatting with vendors and walking up and down those long walk ways to talk to as. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Taming the Workplace Bully: 10 Signs Your Employees are Being Bullied

HR Daily Advisor

There are effective strategies employers can use to investigate complaints of workplace bullying, according to Karen Michael, Esq. of KarenMichael PLC, a presenter at SHRM’s 2017 Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans. SIphotography / iStock / Getty Images Plus. A bully is a “personality trait and leadership style unto itself” said Michael.

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The Top 40 Corporate Wellness Companies That Are Transforming Workplace Health and Happiness

SnackNation

The Top 40 Corporate Wellness Companies That Are Transforming Workplace Health and Happiness. At SnackNation we live by the motto “Health above all else.” In fact, it’s the first – and arguably most important – of our five core values. Why? Because while it’s easy to take our health for granted, the fact of the matter is we can’t come close to accomplishing everything we want to if our health isn’t where it needs to be.

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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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9 Fun Ways to Promote Team Bonding this Summer

WorqIQ

And just like that, we've traded our scarves for sunglasses, and switched our Pumpkin Spice Lattes to Unicorn Frappucinos. Summer is officially here. again! While summer creates unique opportunities for team bonding activities, happy hours and Nerf gun battles are not everyone's cup of tea. What constitutes fun varies depending on the unique personalities in your group, but the benefits of disconnecting from work (and connecting with team members) shouldn’t be ignored.

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What Makes a Manager Great?

Traitify

We’ve all had bosses in our lives. Unfortunately, many of us have had to experience terrible ones. They become people we dread engaging with, killing whatever happiness we might have been getting from our jobs. And we know that happiness is a key element in retaining employees. So what exactly makes a good manager? If you explore the internet, you’ll find dozens of examples, but most lists are specific to a certain type of industry or person.

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3 ‘harmless’ job interview questions that always land HR in big legal trouble

HR Morning

HR pros probably go out of their way to avoid asking obvious questions about race, age, gender and disability during job interviews. But it’s often the “innocent” queries that stray into off-limit topics and wind up coming back. to haunt employers. Here are three “harmless” interview questions to tell managers to avoid, courtesy of the Ogletree Deakins law firm : “When did you graduate from high school?”.

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Stamping out sexism: why kicking high heels off office dress codes is still important

HR Zone

Culture. Stamp out sexism: kick high heels off dress codes.

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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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What Bert and Ernie can teach us about workplace conflict

Jostle

At some point, almost all of us have had that moment in the workplace where we wanted to strangle the person sitting next to us. Getting along with everyone isn’t always easy, especially when quirks and mannerisms get in the way. But, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

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Recognizing and Hiring True Team Players

Paychex

During his keynote presentation at SHRM Conference, Patrick Lencioni discussed the "golden age in HR," an organizational department that's in a prime position to get smart people working well together. Keep reading to learn the three universal personality traits Lencioni outlined – can you identify the Humble, Hungry, and Emotionally Smart people in your organization?

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Your Culture Is … As Your Organization Does

Culture University

In initial conversations with company executives, 92 times out of 100, they’ll call us and say something like, “We’ve heard you’re culture change experts and we need to change our culture. We’re thinking we want it to be more fun like that Tony what-his-name guy’s company—umm, Zappos. Can you do a “we ‘heart’ employees” (I say […]. The post Your Culture Is … As Your Organization Does appeared first on Culture University.

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