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How to Adapt to Our World of Exponential Change

Cornerstone On Demand

We are living in a world of constant change. It is not slow, linear or incremental—it's exponential. New technology, in particular, continues to adapt at an increasing rate. The Angry Birds app took off in 35 days, when the telephone took 75 years to become accepted into society.

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The Road to Rio: How to Build a Gold-Medal Winning Team

ClearCompany HRM

The guts, the glory, the gold. Olympics junkies everywhere will be keeping tabs on the Americans in Rio starting August 5th. The summer Olympics are dominated with major team events in sports such as soccer, basketball and beach volleyball as well as mixed individual-team sports like gymnastics, swimming and track & field. In events such as these, athletes compete for the team - as well as in individual events - trying to bring back as much hardware as available.

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How to Rock Employee Satisfaction

EmployeeConnect

Some say that when an employee feels satisfaction with their job, it means they feel engaged at work. What’s wrong with this belief is that for starters, employers take this feeling of being satisfied to stem from what’s being given in return aka. a salary. Secondly, it’s not always true because you can totally be satisfied with your job but it might not be enough of an incentive to get you showing up to work every day.

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The Necessity of Creativity in Employee Engagement

Hppy

“Creative thinking is not a talent; it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.”. Edward de Bono. Your employees want to feel connected to your organization in a meaningful way. Yes, you hired them to do a particular job, using their skills, knowledge, and expertise.

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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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Hourly Employees - Assets Or Commodities? (Spoiler Alert - They're Not Commodities)

Hoops

We live in an era of branding, where a company is defined by, and judged on, the actions of its team. Never before has the role of employees been so important in a customer’s experience, and thus, their perception of a company. That's because social media amplifies the positive or negative impact of service – the experiences of one individual reverberates throughout their social media channels, and sometimes well beyond.

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can I get out of a personality assessment at work, my coworker constantly fact-checks everything, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker constantly fact-checks everyone else. I have a coworker who has a habit of fact-checking other team members. She is not a manager. If a team member mentions information in a meeting, casually discusses a topic in the hallway, or sends an email to the team, this coworker will fact-check the information and reply-all and/or discuss her findings with the group.

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How to Avoid Employee Handbook Crisis

HR C-Suite

Employee crisis can turn from bad to a crisis and even get catastrophic with just a snap of the fingers. That is why handbooks or employee handbooks are very important so that there is a guideline on how one should act while being employed in the company. Sometimes though the handbooks exist, some employers forget […].

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What Do You Do When You Can’t Get Capital for Your Startup?

Corn on the Job

When you’re trying to get a startup going, it can be a bit of a heartbreak when you can’t get your hands on capital. Of course, most startups require some sort of capital in order to exist. The sort of capital I’m talking about here is venture capital. This is the sort of money that will be given to you in a nice chunk by an investor. If you keep getting rejected, then you need to do some serious thinking.

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44 Hacks You Need to Stay Productive All Day

TinyPulse

Remember the old adage, "work smarter, not harder"? As we've found out through our research , employees are feeling overwhelmed with work. So instead of working endless hours and feeling exhausted by the end of the day, here are some tips that STL put together for maintaining maximum productivity throughout the entire day. And yes, that means from morning to night.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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The Sweet Spots for Speaking

101 Half Connected Things

I have a lot of blogs in draft at the moment and I’ve been wondering about what to prioritise finishing. Then I started thinking about what people enjoy reading or listening to. Then I started thinking about recent political events and from this (and with the employment of absolutely no science) here are my theories on what the majority of people want from a speaker. – Confirmation of what they already know, but dressed in a way that makes their current position appear smart or gives

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Spinx Deploys in the Kronos Cloud

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that Spinx, a convenience store chain with more than 80 locations, has selected Kronos workforce solutions to address its Human Capital Management (HCM) needs and accommodate rapid company growth.

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Vinyl Rules !!

Everyday People

Recently, a very cool thing happened with my son who is about to turn 19. It was an early Saturday morning and he asked, “Hey, Dad can we go to the record store and look at some vinyl ??” I had to step back and savor this moment. I’ve noted before that I’m a consumer of music. It is something that moves me emotionally and keeps me moving every day.

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The Sweet Spots for Speaking

101 Half Connected Things

I have a lot of blogs in draft at the moment and I’ve been wondering about what to prioritise finishing. Then I started thinking about what people enjoy reading or listening to. Then I started thinking about recent political events and from this (and with the employment of absolutely no science) here are my theories on what the majority of people want from a speaker. – Confirmation of what they already know, but dressed in a way that makes their current position appear smart or gives

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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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Are Companies Obligated to Write Reference Letters – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I mentioned in my #SHRM16 wrap-up that I spoke at a pre-conference workshop on social media strategies. This question came up at the workshop and someone else asked it on HR Bartender just a few days ago. It’s obviously a popular topic. If an employee’s current manager refuses to provide a letter of reference, even if employee is in good standing, is that an EEOC violation ?

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130 Hour Work Week… Say What?

Jeff Waldman

By now you’ve all likely seen the article on businessinsider.com about how Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer worked 130 hours per week and why it matters. Before I dive into this topic let me just say, this all “utter b t”, and pisses me off. The point of my post is not to minimize her success in any way shape or form, but to promote the fact that her success is directly related to her working 130 hours per week while pulling all-nighters is ridiculous.

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