Wed.Jan 11, 2017

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7 Books Every Manager Should Read in 2017

Cornerstone On Demand

Here's a resolution that's both personally and professionally fulfilling: Read more books. As we enter 2017, many of us are pushing ourselves to think more creatively and proactively in both life and work. Well, you're in luck. We compiled a list of our top books for reinvigorating your workplace and inspiring others, thinking back on our own favorites reads and interviewing entrepreneurs, leaders and talent experts across industries for their go-to recommendations.

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The Customer Experience Grows From The Employee Experience - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Customer Experience Grows From The Employee Experience. Engaged employees are the soil and nutrients in which your Customer Experience grows. We like to refer to the overall Employee Experience as EX and the Customer Experience as CX. As stated in the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , “To create a sustainable, world-class CX, an organization must first create a sustainable, world-class Employee Experience, or in other word

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Making Your Case for New HR Technology in 2017

PeopleStrategy

According to the Sierra-Cedar 2015/2016 HR Systems Surve y , 43% of companies are planning to undertake a major HR system strategy initiative. Technology can be one of the most valuable tools in an HR leader’s arsenal, allowing them to create more organizational value, deliver better service , and offload administrative tasks. However, for companies that don’t have HR technology in place, acquiring and adopting a Human Capital Management (HCM) suite isn’t without challenges.

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How to Unleash Your Strategic Payroll Potential

EmployeeConnect

Savvy business and thought leaders have begun to realise that payroll processing plays a greater role in achieving strategic business objectives than just providing transactional accuracy. Integrating and streamlining strategic payroll processes saves money, empowers employees and identifies areas where efficiencies of scale can be realised. Poorly designed systems, however, can generate an astonishing array of problems that include mistakes when reporting and filing taxes, difficulties in deali

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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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8 Reasons Why Employees Seek Employment Elsewhere

Engage2Excel

When the number of available jobs exceed job seekers, employees who aren’t happy look for employment elsewhere. The U.S. labor market is now the strongest it has been in decades, with the ratio of unemployed Americans to open jobs now at 1.4 to 1. In July 2009, this ratio was a whopping 6.6 to 1. A shrinking pool of qualified candidates in 2017 will drive greater reliance on recruiting from already employed candidates.

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9 Tips for Poaching Top Talent

Entrepreneur

To key to luring executive talent is knowing where to start searching and how to keep them engaged after the hire.

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IRS Quick Update: Notice 2016-75

ACA Times

In a short update to Notice 2016-75 under Section 45R of theInternal Revenue Code, the IRS has shed some light on how small businesses can seek relief in unique circumstances. Small businesses are given the option of Qualified Health Plans (QHP) for their employees through a Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Exchange. However, for some businesses located within a county for the 2016 calendar year, there may be no QHPs available in their SHOP.

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The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 6 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 6 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast. Listen as co-author of the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Tracy Maylett, discusses chapter 6, “The Transactional Contract.” The Employee Experience – Chapter 6 – The Transactional Contract.

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7 Invaluable Leadership Tips That Boost Accountability in the Workplace

TalentCulture

Accountability is one of those buzzwords that was quickly recognized in management and leadership circles as an important concept. The unfortunate outcome of a buzzword is it minimizes the importance of the buzz-worthy topic. The concept then quickly becomes misunderstood. Despite the ubiquity of the term “accountability,” it remains a vital input to results and high performance.

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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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A snowball started rolling: lessons from Norway about gender quotas on boards

HR Zone

Future. Gender quotas on boards: lessons from Norway.

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The Heisenberg Rules: What HR Can Learn from Breaking Bad (#1 - Acknowledge High Performance)

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note - I finally got around to binge-watching the former AMC hit Breaking Bad on Netflix, which follows high school chemistry teacher Walter White 's journey through a lung cancer diagnosis and his subsequent turn to becoming a world-class meth producer. This series (The Heisenberg Rules) represents what I was reminded of as a HR leader by Breaking Bad.

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Practical Tips to Raise Up and Inspire Future Leaders – Part Two

WorqIQ

In this series, I want us to take a look at the obstacles to raising up leaders, and how we can overcome them. We’ll also include some practical ways you can coach and inspire future leaders. Read More» The post Practical Tips to Raise Up and Inspire Future Leaders – Part Two appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Five Flaws in Your ATS

Workology

The face of recruiting has changed greatly over the last decade, but the tools our industry uses have essentially stayed the same. While there are a few that are able to offer what a recruiter really needs the same old standard ATS that most of us use has been around for decades. This creates a […] 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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Don’t Hand Over the Keys Until You Set the Rules

TLNT: The Business of HR

One way to attract and retain talent is by including a company car in your employment offer. Even if used primarily for business purposes, personal use may be permitted (albeit with some restrictions in place), so it’s an enticing option for prospective employees.

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Could ‘extreme’ team-building help build your workplace morale?

HR Morning

If you believe high-stress situations tend to force groups of employees to come together and perform, then this unorthodox team-building activity may be right up your alley. . Survival Systems USA, an organization that has been teaching aquatic survival since 1999, has just entered the world of corporate team-building. The company now offers a one-day course in surviving mock plan crashes at an indoor pool at the Survival Systems’ Connecticut office.

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The Difference Tech Is Making In Benefits Analysis

TLNT: The Business of HR

We live in an era of digital transformation, and digital HR has become the new normal. Take it from HR visionary Josh Bersin : “Today we want HR technology that delivers a great employee experience and makes our work-life more productive and interesting. We want our HR tools to feel more like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and less like training and performance administration.”.

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Recipe for Resilience

Women of HR

There are times when it appears the tide has washed ashore. Your boat has sprung a leak. The sun has set in your backyard. During these temporary dark periods it appears that no matter how quickly you bail out water, paddle up stream, reach for safer ground, y ou still get nowhere. You may widely open the window; nevertheless, it is you who refuses to let in the sunlight.

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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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Reports Say Walmart to Layoff Hundreds In HR

TLNT: The Business of HR

Reports are circulating that Walmart will layoff as many as 1,000 workers at its Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters and in regional offices. Many or most of those jobs will be in human resources, the reports say.

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5 Reasons Disorganized Businesses Are Likely to Fail

Take It Personel-ly

If your business workflow and project planning isn’t highly honed and organized, it’s doomed to fail. If you want to be a reputable company and have loyal customers, you’re going to need to change things up immediately. Check out these five reasons disorganized businesses are likely to fail, and see if any of them are … Continue reading 5 Reasons Disorganized Businesses Are Likely to Fail.

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Even A Super Computer Will Tell You Employee Experience Matters

TLNT: The Business of HR

More positive employee experiences are linked to better performance, extra effort at work, and lower turnover intentions.

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5 Reasons Disorganized Businesses Are Likely to Fail

Take It Personel-ly

If your business workflow and project planning isn’t highly honed and organized, it’s doomed to fail. If you want to be a reputable company and have loyal customers, you’re going to need to change things up immediately. Check out these five reasons disorganized businesses are likely to fail, and see if any of them are … Continue reading 5 Reasons Disorganized Businesses Are Likely to Fail.

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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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HR MarketWatch Podcast:Critical Context for HR and HR Tech

WorkTech

2017 is all about giving employers the context they need for HR technology! #HRWins research has uncovered the top objective for HR tech implementations in 2017. When I looked at the results of the research, this particular metric was a very pleasant surprise. Employers are prioritizing the support of managers and supervisors with new HR technology.

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Jobs Where Women Earn the Most in the U.S.

Paychex

Compared with their grandmothers, women today have virtually endless options when it comes to choosing a career path. But which jobs pay the most? Read on to find out.

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Xero chooses Jostle to connect a global team

Jostle

Xero is a rapidly growing technology ‘ unicorn ’ that develops cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized businesses. From its base in New Zealand, Xero has established a global business with over 1,600 people across five countries. Workplace culture is important at Xero. But their growth and global dispersion were making it harder to communicate, share values, and celebrate success.

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my boss and coworkers all say “I love you” to each other

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Several of my coworkers and my boss regularly say “I love you!” to each other. This makes me deeply uncomfortable. As you may have guessed, there are some underlying issues with professional boundaries which impede our effectiveness as an organization (there are lots of friendships between “levels” in the company), but I understand that the only behavior I can control is my own.

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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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CHART OF THE DAY: People are quitting faster than you can fire them

Steve Boese

Do you know what the best day of the month is for workforce trends and labor market geeks is? Of course you do - when the monthly JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) report is released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics! That great day was yesterday, and in what has become a semi-regular feature on the blog over the years, I want to share just one chart from the latest JOLTS report, and as you DEMAND, offer some free (cheap!

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Startup Equity: No. They Don't Get It. (Part 8 of an n part series)

Compensation Cafe

During a recent presentation I did for industry professionals, an attendee claimed that his employees didn't need additional education on their equity compensation because they worked in tech and "already understood” these plans. I pointed out that he was mistaken. I stated that most, and perhaps nearly all, employees misunderstand, or do not even try and understand, their stock-based compensation.

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Pros and Cons of “Friending” Employees Online

HR Daily Advisor

As an HR professional, likely there will be many times when you’ll be called upon to mediate or help to resolve personnel issues. This may be something as simple as a misunderstanding or it may be a much more serious issue, like discrimination or harassment, or anything in between. In today’s increasingly connected world, one topic that you may have to address is the fact that employees and their managers (and even those higher up in the organization) may end up interacting online (outside of wo