Tue.Sep 18, 2018

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Five Ways Your Company’s Core Values Impact Employee Success

Kazoo

Over the years we’ve helped hundreds of companies launch impressive performance management and social recognition programs. Since no two organizations are the same, each program is unique, with its own set of challenges, processes and objectives. That said, there is one thing that every single organization needs to have in order for their program to be successful: core values.

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Your 2018 Social Recruiting Strategy: Remember These 7 Key Elements

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by Jefferson Online , a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research, and discovery, delivering exceptional value for 21st-century students. An online human resources degree from Jefferson Online can help provide you with the skills you need to be an effective recruiter today and tomorrow.

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HR HATER WEEK: How the People Who Hate HR Will Stick It You.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note : This week is HR Haters week at the Capitalist. Let's ID the personas out there who don't respect HR and figure out how to deal with them. HOW THE PEOPLE WHO HATE HR WILL STICK IT TO YOU. The first thing you must realize about the people who hate HR is that it’s never personal. If someone hates HR, those feelings were solidified long before you came on the scene.

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Words of Advice from 7 HR Thought Leaders

Achievers

We have some stellar thinkers in the HR field today, so we decided to present a sampling of their pithy advice. Each of the people profiled below have their own unique take on managing your human capital, and you may even find a favorite or two whom you want to follow. “You can’t prevent attrition if your organization doesn’t attend to employee experience.”.

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Discover the 4 Big Recruitment Challenges for 2024

It’s no secret that today’s hiring market is tough! The constant changes can make it seem impossible for HR leaders, hiring teams, and hiring managers to remain flexible and agile. However, there’s a silver lining amongst all the hiring chaos, as these changes also bring great opportunities and fresh ways for HR leaders to gain that competitive edge in the race for top talent.

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The Art of Matchmaking Blog Series: Step 4 – Leadership Development

HR Management

In the last blog we onboard millennials with snackable training, fun and fast-paced activities. Now this employee had demonstrated leadership potential and it’s time to move to our fourth step; Leadership Development. There is a difference between a high-performance persona and a high potential leader. Let’s think about that hot-shot sales rep that not only over achieves the monthly quota also has the most charismatic personality that everybody loves.

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6 Ways to Overcome the Obstacles of Workforce Planning

Pingboard

The workforce is evolving. Today’s employees aren’t afraid to leave their current jobs to find another that better meets their career aspirations. In fact, an estimated 3.4 million Americans willingly quit their jobs in June 2018. Facing these high turnover rates and increased employee expectations, employers are looking for new ways to attract and retain talent.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Increasing Automation

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. Have concerns about artificial intelligence? It has a great deal of potential for HR , particularly when it comes to talent acquisition.

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How to Not Screw Up Remote Employee Onboarding

ExactHire

Whether your team’s hiring its first remote employee or its 79th, don’t skimp on putting thoughtful intention behind your new hire onboarding program for remote workers. Go ahead, pick out your worst fear about hiring remote workers below. If I can’t see them, will they just do their laundry instead of work? Our employees need to be “on” during our regular working hours, how can they if they’re roaming coffee houses around Europe with a 6-hour time difference?

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How to Become a Modern Elder

The People Equation

It makes for a great fish-out-of-water movie premise: fifty-something worker has to report to a much younger boss and is perplexed with the change in power structure (ala Dennis Quaid’s character in In Good Company.) But it’s not so funny when you are that employee, still feeling vibrant and willing to contribute, and you wonder if younger leaders are undervaluing you.

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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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What is a Human Resource Manager?

Workology

Because the structure of human resources departments depends heavily on so many factors: company size, employee distribution, public versus private companies, and so on, the roles within human resources tend to be less well-defined in a broad scope. With some positions, like human resource manager, the description is typically based on the functions of that […] Source.

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Deciding on an Intramural Program for Your Business

TalentCulture

“All work and no play” may not make Jack a dull boy, but it certainly does him no health favors. A 2013 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that nearly 80 percent of North American adults don’t get the recommended amount of exercise each week. That’s not surprising, really. As a whole, the world is more sedentary than it has ever been, with modern teens being about as active as 60-year-olds. […].

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Do You Know the Real Reasons Your Employees are Quitting?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This article is part of an occasional series dedicated to exploring the contribution of human capital assets (people!) to the valuation of a business. Welcome to The New ROI: Return on Individuals. Previous articles in the series can be found here.

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the bad acid deal, the abusive boyfriend, and the threatening coworker

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m in a bit of a moral dilemma here and was hoping you and the commenters could help out. I’ve been working at my current restaurant job for about a year now. Unlike most restaurants I’ve worked at, there have been very few HR problems — everyone got along with each other pretty well. About two months ago, we hired two new people, Jake and Diana.

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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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A lesson from Winnie the Pooh on ‘doing nothing’

HR Zone

Culture. A lesson from Winnie the Pooh on ‘doing nothing’.

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my coworker gives everyone the silent treatment for weeks

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a coworker, Jane, who deals with conflict in strange and alienating ways. Recently, she’s been giving people the silent treatment on and off. It makes meetings tense, and she tends to keep it up for days or weeks at a time before spontaneously deciding she’s speaking to her coworkers again. She refuses to speak with me and others about necessary work matters until she calms down, and she makes a point of making meetings as tense as possible, up to and includin

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3 Ways to Encourage a Happier, Healthier Workforce

Compensation Cafe

Each of us is given one life. What do we seek out of it? Is a meaningful life most important? Or is a happy one? That’s a debate for another post (and one that’s been the subject of much research over the years). Setting that discussion aside, if we were to focus on happiness, what is it that truly makes us happy? The most comprehensive study on this topic tells us: "Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.

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coworker is blasting us with vanilla pumpkin fragrance, Xanax at work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker’s medication is affecting their work and our manager doesn’t know. On four separate occasions in the last month, a coworker has come into work completely spaced out. Slightly slurring, eyes not focusing, forgetting things we had just talked about, unable to stay on conversation topic, stumbly and unfocused when walking.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

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

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Why workplace intersectionality means more than focusing on women

CultureAmp

For Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) efforts to be truly impactful, we all need to better understand and apply the concept of intersectionality. It’s a key part of my previous work leading D&I at HR tech startup, Lever – as well as my current advising conversations with companies dedicated to building better organizations.

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Re-Thinking How We Think About HR Tech

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every year, usually in Las Vegas, there is a big HR Tech Conference and Expo. This year’s was held last week. There is one thing that bothers me: Maybe we should just be calling it the “HR Conference” not the “HR Tech Conference,” because today, very little happens in HR that is not mediated by tech. These days you don’t design a performance management system and then go looking for software to support it; instead you start by investigating what different performance management software sy

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: My Review of The HR Technology Conference #HRTechConf

The Tim Sackett Project

Last week was my HR Nerd Christmas as I was attending the annual, and world’s largest, HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas. It’s one of my favorite conferences to attend, the expo is beyond words, the content has increasingly gotten really good, and they keep pushing the envelope and trying new ways to engage the audience. Hat tip to conference chair Steve Boese and the LRP crew!

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Shabby Housekeeping Can Be Causing Costly Worker Problems

TLNT: The Business of HR

Staying focused and getting things done in a messy and dirty environment is hard and even impossible for some employees. As an employer, you should know that a clean office can make a difference to employee morale, motivation, and productivity.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Shimmering Reflection

Dave's Weekly Thought

At the start of any given day I have two goals: Remember the fleeting and spare moments of pure happiness Remember that my problems are insignificant I know people who are in pain. Their lives have been forever changed by an event or series of events that cannot be forgiven. The convenient thing to do is be glad it's not you and turn away. I've never been good at that.

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Why you should stop worrying and outsource rubbish HR tasks to technology

cipHR

No, the robots aren’t coming – but we should definitely embrace technology’s potential to make our work more human-centric, writes Barry Flack. If you ask me, there is just far too much overthinking going on in HR circles. In what should be a period of opportunity – in a developing world of people-centric culture requirements, enabled by the vision of HR technology vendors – I’m seeing us revert too often to either: A cyclical debate about the robots taking our jobs in the future, or.

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ACLU Charges Facebook, 10 Employers With Men Only Targeting

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the most powerful marketing features of sites like Facebook is the ability to target messages to specific groups. If you’re selling roofing and remodeling services in Silver Spring, Maryland, it makes sense to target your ads to homeowners in that area. But when Enhanced Roofing and Remodeling targeted its help wanted ad to men 23 to 50 years of age in the Silver Spring area, it left out women and older and younger men.

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NCSOFT Wins Silver Brandon Hall Award for Onboarding

Silkroad

NCSOFT , a leading online gaming publisher, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Silver Award for excellence in the Best New Hire Onboarding Program category. The Excellence Awards feature annual programs that recognize the best organizations that have successfully deployed programs, strategies, modalities, processes, systems, and tools that have achieved measurable results.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Guide To HR Technology

New to HR

Connecting Humans with Technology It’s now a widely-accepted fact that an HR System is an essential element in HR’s contribution to their organisation, but although the more savvy HR practitioners have been harnessing their software for some years now, this. The post Guide To HR Technology appeared first on New To HR.

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Change Management: Fighting Incivility in the Workplace

Employee Communications Council

Incivility is a virus that can disrupt even the most efficient work spaces. How can change management efforts and corporate culture training defeat incivility before it spreads? Civility. It’s a simple word. The Oxford Dictionary defines this noun as “Formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech.” Its counterpoints? Rudeness, impoliteness, discourtesy and bad manners.

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how to ask for more vacation time

Ask a Manager

If you’re like most Americans, you don’t get nearly enough vacation time from your employer. But what you may not realize is that you can often negotiate more vacation time for yourself – either as part of the offer negotiation process when you’re first being hired or later on after you’ve been on the job for a while. At New York Magazine today, I talk about how to negotiate more vacation time as part of a job offer, as well as how to ask your existing job for more time off.

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