Mon.Oct 10, 2016

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Selecting the Right Staff for Your Corporate Event

TalentCulture

When you’ve invested days, weeks, and even months planning a meeting, there’s nothing more disappointing than being let down by the staff on the day. It’s easily forgotten – but ensuring you have the right hosts to greet your guests, and great people to support them over the course of the day, can make a huge difference in the way your visitors experience your meticulously planned event.

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LinkedIn “Open Candidates” Is Going To Get People Fired

The Tim Sackett Project

By now you’ve heard the news coming out last week’s LinkedIn Talent Connect where LI announced a new feature called “Open Candidates” Here’s how LinkedIn explains Open Candidates : Open Candidates is a new feature that makes it easier to connect with your dream job by privately signaling to recruiters that you’re open to new job opportunities.

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3 Questions to Answer Before Investing in a Learning Program

Cornerstone On Demand

I have a number of books on my shelf about measuring training and learning — some going back to the 1990s. Many are by training gurus like Donald Kirkpatrick and Jack Phillips, who have created and sustained effective models for measuring the cost of training.

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What Every VP of HR Need to Know About Change Management

Reflektive

Implementation is about people. This may seem obvious, but it was an especially notable observation at the HR Technology Conference held in Chicago recently. Katherine Jones, partner and director of talent research at Mercer, led a session on implementation of HR technology, pointing to research that 70 percent of change initiatives are considered a failure. “I’m here to help you be part of the 30 percent,” Jones told her audience.

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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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5 Tips to Make Any Change a Success

ATD Human Capital

If you are a leader rolling out change after change in your organization, you don’t need us to let you know that many things can go wrong. Based on our experience around the globe helping leadership teams create successful organizational change, here are five recommendations to support your success. 60-Second Change Speech. If you asked your team about the business context for the changes you are leading, would everyone say the same thing and would it be correct?

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In Support of Amy Cuddy and Power Posing

The People Equation

Wonder Woman kicks butt. She’s strong, principled, and makes people tell the truth with her golden lasso. When I was a kid, I watched the Linda Carter version on TV. She’s my favorite heroine, as evidenced by the many WW items adorning my home. When Harvard professor Amy Cuddy made news with her 2012 “power posing” TED Talk , I could relate. The posture she exhorts audiences to adopt—legs in a wide stance, hands on hips, evokes a Wonder Woman vibe.

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Potential ACA Penalties: An Infographic

ACA Times

Are you aware of the myriad of possible unnecessary penalties that can occur with violations of the Affordable Care Act? By now you’ve been informed of various possibilities, but they are laid out below in one infographic. The reasons, of course, vary: lack of minimum essential coverage. for employees, delayed information reporting, lack of affordable healthcare offered to workers, and failure to comply with waiting period limitations for coverage.But as both large and small businesses that have

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Here Are The Qualities Hiring Managers Look For In Candidates

Hoops

As the job market tightens, hiring managers are starting to focus less on experience and skill when assessing candidates. Instead, they’re looking at things like fit, communication style, and drive – traits that are harder to quantify but critical when building great teams. Here are a few qualities that companies consistently look for in new hires. Plays well with others.

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Where are your employees most productive?

Ceridian

Among the many aspects of their jobs that employees today value most, flexibility is certainly one of the biggest. More companies are beginning to offer their workers the option to work remotely, which is helping satisfy the increasing number of professionals demanding a healthier work-life balance. However, workplace flexibility isn’t just about convenience – it is also about productivity.

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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 Technologies That Will Transform Your Business Decisions

WorqIQ

True success in the business world often depends making the right business decisions at the right time. This has only grown more complicated over the years as organizations are inundated with increasingly complex problems. If you feel overwhelmed at times when making these decisions, you’re not alone. But in much the same way that technology has made crucial decisions more common, it can also aid in ensuring you make the correct call.

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Make Technology Compliance Sexy: Embrace The Culture

TalentCulture

Technology compliance is a necessity. But it isn’t sexy — yet. Certainly, innovating ways to approach compliance has contributed to a greatly transformed world of work. It’s underscored the need for the power and scope (Cloud) and for agile processes and insights (talent analytics). It’s leavened a sense of mission with an edict for ethical conduct (I’m speaking generally here), and that’s certainly a trend given the trending values of a changing workforce population. .

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Boomerang Employees: What to Do When They Come Back to You

Paychex

They worked for you before and now they want to come back. Does it make sense to hire a "boomerang" employee? Weigh the pros and cons and keep these additional tips in mind.

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Traditional HR Tech Analysts Are Being Disrupted

WorkTech

I was recently joined on the InfluenceHR stage by my partners in the HR Federation, Madeline Laurano, Trish McFarlane, and Ben Eubanks. The four of us come together as the HR Federation to collaborate as independent HR tech market analysts. While we still offer our insights and services independently, this allows us to bring more depth of […].

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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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4 Tips for Hiring a Social Media Manager

Paychex

Hiring a talented social media manager may help boost your company’s presence and increase sales. Here are some thoughts to consider when you decide to hire a social media manager for your business.

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The Importance Of Empathy In HR

Workology

There’s a problem brewing in the world of HR, and it has to do with the public perception of our profession. You’ve been around long enough to be familiar with some of these grumblings: HR people always take the company’s side regardless of the matter, we’re too concerned with policies to actually solve real problems, or that we simply lack empathy.

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Stop Shooting Your Defense Lawyer in the Foot

TLNT: The Business of HR

It might be hard to believe this, but employment defense lawyers are not as amazing as they would like you to believe. Trust me, I would know. I’m an employee rights lawyer in California and I battle employer-side attorneys all day long. While I don’t feel bad for them when they screw up, I do have a little professional empathy because sometimes it’s not their fault.

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What Not to Say at Work

Workforce Software

Here are 5 of the worst dismissive statements that can be used at work and a few emotionally intelligent alternatives that can help you be a better manager.

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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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Measuring the Value of Both Types of Diversity

TLNT: The Business of HR

In 1979, a Korn Ferry International survey of Fortune 1000 firms found that females and African-Americans comprised less than 0.5% and 0.2% respectively of the list’s 1,708 senior executives.

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choosing between a high school job and a family vacation

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: In late August, I got hired part-time at a major cafe/restaurant. I’m a senior in high school so I’ve been working on weekends and one night during the business week since then. However, my parents have booked a 10-day vacation right during the Christmas holidays — which is of course a vacation blackout period where I work.

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A Well Liked Leader is Not Always a Good Leader

Acacia HR Solutions

Great personalities often draw people to them. Like a magnet, even the most standoffish of personalities can be drawn to highly likeable leaders. There is something about them that is disarming. You can’t help but be a bit captivated by their presence. And when that person is a leader, employees often see them as the.

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my husband emailed my boss about our decision for me to resign

Ask a Manager

It’s Columbus Day and I could use a break, so here’s an old post from 2012 that I’m making new again. A reader writes: Recently, I accepted a part-time RN position, but resigned within the 90-day probationary period due to several personal and professional factors. I had tried to re-enter the workforce after being a stay-at-home mother for 9 years.

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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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Wells Fargo Scandal: What Was HR’s Role?

TLNT: The Business of HR

For most of my long HR career in service industries, my colleagues and I believed our role to be an advocate for the employee. Those who spent their HR career in a collective bargaining environment may feel they advocate for the employer.

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Our values journey: "We put them up on the wall, but we didn't do that straight away."

HR Zone

Culture. How footwear brand FitFlop found its core values.

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I got into a fight with my husband’s coworker over their affair, stressed out over a volunteer group at work, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I got into a fight with my husband’s coworker over their affair. My husband works at a restaurant, I caught that he was having an affair with one of his coworkers. I saw the all their text messages and confirmed some of it from their friends. Though I don’t know if they have a sexual relationship, I do know that they were hiding it from me and the coworker’s husband (part of the messages were “delete this conversation” or “you can’t text me ri

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Being a Black Professional Woman

HRExecutive

I’m probably wrong going into this: posting something about what it’s like to be a black woman in corporate America when I’m white. I probably don’t get extra points for being a member of a mixed-race family. either. In today’s. hypersensitive, hyper-volatile, racially divisive. environment, I tend to shy away from my biracial nephew’s political Facebook posts and stick to our shared summer-vacation pictures, and our beautifully diverse family updates.

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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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3d Cir: Employers cannot use paid meal breaks to offset unpaid overtime

The Employer Handbook

A few weeks ago, I blogged here about a federal agency — one that rhymes with EEOB — reaching a 7-figure settlement with its workers of alleged Fair Labor Standards Act overtime violations involving comp time. Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion , in which it addressed another tricky situation involving overtime offsets.

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Part I: How can HR Executives Protect Employee Information from Cyber Hacking

HR C-Suite

Ten years ago, an average employee had to go to the same workplace every day and be connected via the same on-premise system, but today, the situation is much different. People can work from anywhere, they can bring their own mobile devices and access secure company data using cloud-based applications. While the new technology has […].

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#HotInHR – HR Technologies: Worth Watching Now + 2017 Disruption Insights

Advos

View Our Weekly Recap Of HR Deals. Weekly summary of mergers, acquisitions, funding and partnership news from the HR technology, recruitment, talent management and employee benefits space. View Recent News. Week in Review – Popular Content. HR Technology in 2017: Disruption Ahead – Josh Bersin. This week we publish our HR Technology Disruptions for 2017, and I expect to see some radical changes in the year ahead.