Tue.Apr 05, 2016

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How Can the Staffing Industry Use Technology to Engage and Develop a Disparate Workforce

Kazoo

In my post a few weeks ago I recapped the sessions at the Executive Forum that focused on engagement. The discussions I had at the event furthered my thinking that there are a few interesting ways the staffing industry (including firms, MSPs and RPO providers) can leverage a technology platform to engage and develop their employees and the workers they place.

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Is $100 Adequate Consideration for Noncompete?

HR Daily Advisor

By Richard L. Rainey, JD. In North Carolina, initial employment is sufficient consideration to support a noncompete agreement. However, if an individual is already an employee, additional consideration must be provided to support a noncompete. (Consideration is something of value given to an employee for signing the noncompete.). Additional consideration often comes in the form of a signing bonus.

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How Can the Staffing Industry Use Technology to Engage and Develop a Disparate Workforce

Kazoo

In my post a few weeks ago I recapped the sessions at the Executive Forum that focused on engagement. The discussions I had at the event furthered my thinking that there are a few interesting ways that staffing firms, MSPs and RPO providers can leverage a technology platform to engage and develop their employees and the workers they place. Overhaul the internal employee review process.

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Managing Low Performers: When Enough is Enough

ClearCompany HRM

Managers are regularly faced with tough decisions. Deciding when to let someone go isn’t easy, especially if all the options haven’t been weighed and today’s growing skills gap puts every decision a manager makes under the microscope. The need for qualified talent is growing, but availability of the right candidates seems to be shrinking.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Give #HR the Tools to Become Strategic and Successful

HR Bartender

There’s regular conversation about the need for human resources to be more strategic. And, the discussion usually mentions that HR needs to learn the business and numbers. Totally true. Successful HR pros understand their industry, company, as well as their role. However, I came across a report recently that might offer some insight why this is such a tough transition for HR.

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4 Steps to Build a Human Workplace

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Research points to the importance of a caring and purpose-driven culture, leadership support, and values-aligned recognition in creating a human workplace. Globoforce’s WorkHuman Research Institute recently released a report on The ROI of Recognition in Building a Human Workplace. Below I outline several key findings from that report, and describe the steps that organizational leaders can take to create more human workplaces.

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Make Data Persuasive by Becoming a Storyteller

UrbanBound HR

Because you follow best practices, obviously, and you read this blog regularly, obviously, you have a meticulously maintained collection of data that powers your decisions. However, man cannot live on data alone.

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Jim Hacking on the “Paul”Cast – What you wish you’d known…

What is Paul Thinking

Back on the air with another “Paul”Cast. This time we welcome Jim Hacking – an immigration and citizenship attorney in St. Louis. (I know who I’m gonna call if I get lit up in St. Louis!). Jim joins me to talk about “time.” More specifically – the amount of time things really take to accomplish vs. what you think they should take.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: WorkHuman 2016 Essay Contest

WorkHuman

Attention graduate and undergraduate students! You still have time to enter to win a free trip to Orlando next month! We have extended the deadline to submit entries for our WorkHuman Fellowship Essay Contest to this Friday, April 8th ! See the original post with contest details below. — WorkHuman 2016 is fast approaching and so is the end of the semester for many college and university students.

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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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Create a magnetic company culture with recognition and great data

Achievers

by Sarah Clayton, Communications and Campaigns Specialist . “ A Magnetic Culture is one that draws talented employees to the workplace, empowers them, and sustains an environment in which they are less likely to leave. ”. – Kevin Sheridan, Employee Engagement & Virtual Management Expert. At Achievers, we love to get like-minded people together, so we have been hosting regional events to discuss engagement and recognition strategies with our local clients and others in the business comm

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HR Tech and Relocation: In the News

UrbanBound HR

Having trouble finding news about relocation and HR tech from the week?

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Capitalist Definitions: "Lick The Cookie" at Your Company.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note - had an email about aggressive behavior inside a company from a reader, and this post came to mind. Thus, the second share. licking [ˈlɪkɪŋ] the [thē] cookie [k k ]. 1. To stake your claim, real or otherwise, on a unit of property, thought or idea within an organization in a manner where no one else can use the object or thought in question.

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Ian Ziskin on CHRO Success

China Gorman

I don’t usually do book reviews on Data Point Tuesday. But Ian Ziskin, a high profile CHRO, has written a book and he very kindly sent me a copy. Ian and I both contributed chapters to The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders , edited by Libby Sartain, Bill Schiemann, and Dave Ulrich (2015) from HRCI. I like this book, Three ( T he H uman R esources E merging E xecutive).

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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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How is HR analytics evolving your reward function?

HR Zone

Perform. How is HR analytics evolving your reward function?

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Minimum Wage Hike Approved: What Else Do Employers Need to Know?

HRWatchdog

California is the first state in the nation to commit to raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour statewide. Employers need to prepare for the minimum wage increase and examine other pay practices that might be implicated by the hike. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. yesterday signed SB 3 (Leno; D-San Francisco), a job killer bill that will increase the minimum wage in California to $15 per hour by 2022 (2023 for companies employing 25 or fewer people since there is a one-year implementation delay f

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Helping Your Employees Cope with Personal Problems

Paychex

Business owners and managers aren't responsible for fixing non-work-related issues in their employees' lives. But by emphasizing your concern for their well-being, and providing access to resources specifically designed to address those issues, you can help create a positive workplace environment for your employees.

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4 Keys to Engaging Your Remote Workforce

TalentCulture

For me, a remote workforce fall into two categories: those who actually work remotely and those whose jobs simply keep them away from their desks. The first group is easy to track — 37 percent of the workforce has telecommuted at one time or another. The second group, often referred to as non-desk workers, includes people who don’t even have a desk or fixed workspace, such as nurses covering a whole floor, a retail sales person on the shop floor, or production workers in a factory.

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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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How my exclusive club improved employee engagement

Reward Gateway

In the past year, Reward Gateway has grown more than 30% and expanded its offices - and we’re still recruiting. As Internal Communications Manager, it’s my job to stay on top of our ever-growing employee base (330 strong, and growing!), while keeping our culture and values in mind. Sometimes, it can get tough. To combat any ill will toward our increased growth, we hosted global feedback sessions with our employees, who told us that although they felt informed of business strategy and communicati

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Workplace conflict: Is the workplace itself part of the problem?

HR Zone

Lead. Workplace conflict: should we blame the workplace?

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Culture is a Performance Driver. Full Stop.

Great Place to Work

There are lots of ways to shape culture, but in the end the proof of a good culture is in the performance of the organization. We've got the "happy" culture stories – fun events, charismatic leaders, lots of energy and good times. And we have the more grim tales: bureaucracy, squabbling, fear. But what we know to be true is that any culture and every culture drives organizational performance.

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How to Evaluate Recruiting Software

HR C-Suite

In a digital world importance of Recruitment Solutions is immense. It gives your HR the power to streamline the hiring process. A company is as good as your employees are and that’s your strength and the possible weakness. The Benefits Recruitment Software will provide is, it will give you a possible way out. But, just […].

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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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To do Epic Work you MUST Blow Stuff Up

WorqIQ

You can’t do epic work without blowing something up. Read More» The post To do Epic Work you MUST Blow Stuff Up appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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The 70/20/10 strategy - what does neuroscience say?

HR Zone

Development. The 70/20/10 strategy - what does neuroscience say.

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Where Do You Land on the Employee Engagement Spectrum? [Infographic]

WorqIQ

Employee engagement is an emotional state where we feel passionate, energetic, and committed toward our work. In turn, we fully invest our best selves––our hearts, spirits, minds, and hands––in the work we do. Read More» The post Where Do You Land on the Employee Engagement Spectrum? [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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What does neuroscience say about learning styles?

HR Zone

Development. What does neuroscience say about learning styles?

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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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Connecting flexibility to your culture

Limeade

Last week, we talked about the dark side of work-life integration — flexibility guilt — and the positive effects when employees have truly flexible schedules, like better sleep, less stress and feeling happier. . But for employees to reach this state of flexibility ownership, it has to connect to your company culture. . As our summer reading club author Tracy Brower said : “Work-life integration isn’t just about flexibility of where and when we work.

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The Lorax Explains Equity Compensation

Compensation Cafe

At the narrow end of an IPO spike. where the stock market slows. and the stock options lose value and the investors say no. and RSU vesting periods continue to grow…. is the street of the equity Lorax. And deep in this narrow place, some entrepreneurs say, if you look deep enough you can still see today, where the bubble once stood. Just as long as it could.

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Vague policies + poor HR communication = FMLA disaster

The Employer Handbook

A few years ago, I blogged here about the importance of communicating with employees on FMLA to stay abreast of their status and eventual return-to-work. But, even before employees go on FMLA, both clear communication and workplace policies becomes paramount. Consider this recent example involving a pregnant salesperson. She got the ill communication.