Wed.Jan 25, 2017

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94 Example Performance Review Phrases for Common Skills and Competencies

EmployeeConnect

There are few employees who truly enjoy the idea of a annual performance review. The concept of being judged and criticised by those above them can send a shiver down anyone’s spine. As this can be a nerve-wracking time for employees, it is vital that those conducting the performance review do so in a comprehensive and positive way. The more in-depth, the more good that can come from it and certainly getting your feedback phrases right make a big difference.

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5 Tips for a Creative Workplace

ATD Human Capital

Creativity can be a scary thing for many workplaces because it pits tried-and-true methods against something new. But creativity is needed to solve the increasingly complex problems facing businesses. There are three main reasons people get creative: a need for something new. a need to communicate. a need to solve a problem. Creativity can produce small but noticeable changes, and sometimes it can lead to fundamentally disruptive and profound changes.

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Want to be innovative in HR? Start with people, not technology.

Kazoo

It seems every article I read about HR innovation revolves around technology. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve dedicated 15 years of my career to HR technology and think the last decade of technological advancement has changed HR for the better, but I think we’re missing something important: the real innovation happens when we change how we approach employees.

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The Role of the HR Business Partner

EmployeeConnect

The Human Resources (HR) as a domain is unfortunately still not very clear even to CEOs, employees, and hiring managers from a perspective in terms of its role in the overall business, compliance, and from an employee perspective. In other words, HR has a major PR problem in terms of its branding and communication owing to the various complexities associated with the industry.

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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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Want to be innovative in HR? Start with people, not technology.

Kazoo

It seems every article I read about HR innovation revolves around technology. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve dedicated 15 years of my career to HR technology and think the last decade of technological advancement has changed HR for the better, but I think we’re missing something important: the real innovation happens when we change how we approach employees.

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IRS Form 941: Know The Basics

Justworks

W-2, 1099, W-9. The sheer number of tax forms for employers and employees can get complicated. For companies, corporate taxes can be cripplingly complex. We want to take that complication off your plate, starting with the IRS Form 941 for employers. Update: Before you know which forms to use, you have to classify your employees correctly first. You can download a free guide here for help.

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The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 9 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 9 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast. Listen as co-author of the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Matthew Wride, discusses chapter 9, “Engagement MAGIC.” The Employee Experience – Chapter 9 – Engagement MAGIC. “Engagement MAGIC,” is the title of chapter 9 of the book, “The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and

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2017 Talent Acquisition Sentiment Study

Lighthouse

There are a lot of moving parts in the world of talent acquisition. Our research at Lighthouse has shown us that many leaders know what they need to focus on, but they have trouble making it a priority. With that in mind, we’re asking you to complete the one-question survey below to help us understand what is most important for you in the coming year.

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Creating An Inspiring Work Environment

Hppy

As recently as a decade or two ago, the word “productivity” brought to mind images of rows of workers lined up like drones at their desks. Many people in business believed that anything that was not directly related to the bottom line was a waste of time and resources. The workplace was meant for work and nothing else, and anything else was a distraction.

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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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Top 10 Tips for a Successful Dog-Friendly Office

TalentCulture

Here at Kurgo , we are honored to have recently been called “The World’s Most Dog Friendly Office” by Inc. Magazine. We know that many of you would love to have dogs in your office too! It does take planning and some ground rules to make it work for everyone involved, but most companies find it improves morale, adds to the company culture, and gives employees more flexibility.

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Women’s March on Washington

Laurie Ruettimann

I’m just back from the Women’s March on Washington. I’m not someone who enjoys standing in large crowds with hundreds of thousands of people in the gilded age of ISIS and gun crime, but I felt compelled to march because I don’t like being told what to do. It’s a challenge, really. There’s a fat orange man at the White House who thinks he has the right to boss me around.

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Rethink the way you work at Limeade Engage

Limeade

Why does work leave so many people feeling unsatisfied? We all know that employee engagement is at an all-time low. We’re saturated with content talking about the problem. Instead of trying to convince you — yet again — that this is a problem you should care about, we want to be part of the solution. We know real employee engagement is totally possible.

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4 Ways to Interview Better In a Candidate-Driven Job Market

Workology

The blogosphere is wrought full of great content on interview prep, but there is a heavy bias (understandably I suppose) to preparing the interviewee. What about the interviewer? In an environment where rapid movement and high attrition is becoming the norm, where expertise is a commodity and employees can quickly ramp on new skills in […] Source.

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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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The Power of a Promise

Ceridian

By Maggie Salo, Director of Change Management, Algonquin Power & Utilities. Can a promise really make an impact on changing our behaviors, our actions and our habits? The answer is YES! A promise absolutely can and will change our behaviors, our actions and our habits if we approach the change correctly. Let me share with you an approach that works for me and for the people whom I coach.

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The Future of L&D Is More Different Than You Think

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every year, the Deloitte Human Capital Trends report is a treasure trove of insight into organization behavior and opportunities for success. You can go back to it multiple times and get something new each time. This is true for the 2016 report as it was for previous reports.

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Don’t Let the Boss’s Eccentricities Drive the Employee Experience

WorqIQ

It goes without saying that an organization’s employee experience is heavily influenced by a founder and those key individuals who are at the organization’s helm. From a cultural perspective, it’s natural to adapt workplace customs to meet the needs (but mostly demands) of those who were, or are, driving the organization towards success. An organization’s customs and values, however, need to be intentional rather than reactive.

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Curious about Pre-Employment Testing?

Criteria Corp

Anyone involved in the hiring process knows the regret of hiring the wrong person. The cost of making a bad hire can be incredibly expensive, but there are ways to increase your odds of hiring the right people. Pre-employment tests take some of the guesswork out of hiring by delivering objective data that provide insight into your candidates.

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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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Workplace Trends to Watch in 2017

HR Daily Advisor

by Al Zink, SVP of Human Resources at Care.com. Maternity leave is so 2015. Like resolutions, trend forecasting has become a rite of passage around the arrival of each New Year. Through safe bets and bold predictions, we look ahead to what the year will hold. Over time, these trends cease to be trends—they become entrenched in our workplaces, and they mature.

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Under Pressure and Trying to Deliver: ADP SmartCompliance® Just Got Sleeker and Easier to Use for Helping Manage HCM Compliance

ADP

Under Pressure and Trying to Deliver: ADP SmartCompliance® Just Got Sleeker and Easier to Use for Helping Manage HCM Compliance How often have you been.

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5 Elements of Working Out Loud by @JohnStepper

QAspire

When I started this blog in 2006, I only thought of it as a repository of my own lessons as a new manager. Little did I know that this space will become one of the most important learning and sharing tools for me over years. The benefits of putting myself out there in a way that it helps others has been immense both intrinsically and extrinsically. I have evolved as a professional and human being writing this blog, sharing my work and getting plenty of constructive feedback and validation in ret

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Employee Promotions: 4 Alternatives to Traditional Manager Reviews

Paychex

When you have team members under promotion consideration, it's natural to look at employee performance reviews. Reviews may not be your only option, however. Explore some alternatives that companies are using to better assess performance.

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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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Leveraging Culture and Managing Change

Culture University

The following opinion is an extended look into “The Force Multiplier Theory.” It’s a concept I’ll introduce below, and it’s one we routinely use in helping organizations, teams, and leaders to understand the role of culture in organizational performance and effectiveness. The overarching idea isn’t rocket science. Seemingly, whenever we share this perspective with people […].

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2017 Employee Voice Award™ Honorees Announced

Quantum Workplace

OMAHA, Neb. (Jan. 25, 2017) – Quantum Workplace, an employee feedback company well known for its Best Places to Work contest, recognizes 12 organizations for excellence in employee engagement with the Employee Voice Award. Employee engagement is the strength of mental and emotional connection that employees feel toward their places of work.

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Sometimes You Need a Break….And That’s Okay

Women of HR

It happens to the best of us. Despite your good intentions, sometimes life gets in the way. Job responsibilities and projects call. Personal obligations take priority. You get sick. Or maybe you need a break, just because. Regardless of the circumstances or the reasons, in this modern world of constant busyness, sometimes you just need to let things go for a while.

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The 5 Cornerstones of an Engaging Indirect Sales Channel Program

Workstride

As a marketing or sales professional managing a indirect sales channel, you clearly understand the challenges associated with making your brand “top of mind” among the channel sales reps— especially if you’re looking to increase sell-through sales. In truth, you have minimal visibility into the day-to-day activities of the reps and the other vendors with whom they work, as well as limited means of interacting or interfacing with them.

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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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Five evidence-based steps to creativity and innovation

HR Zone

Culture. Five evidence-based steps to creative meetings.

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Turnover Reduction Option: Focus on Implementing Career Paths

HR Daily Advisor

With the economy back in full swing, employers are encountering more difficulty keeping quality employees on board, which is especially problematic given that it takes longer (and costs more) to replace employees today. Thankfully, there are a lot of actions that employers can take to proactively reduce turnover. One such option is to focus on creating true career paths for employees and take steps to ensure that such a path not only exists but also is realistic and achievable.

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How leaders can stir up creativity in meetings

HR Zone

Culture. How leaders can stir up creativity in meetings.

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