Sun.May 08, 2016

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Managers: Vulnerability Creates Trust

HR Bartender

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Great Place to Work conference in San Diego. This is my third year attending the event – always lots of great takeaways. I can’t wait to share them all with you this year. The theme of the conference was “trust.” It’s an important subject and we’ve talked about it a lot over the years. During the conference, I spoke with Great Place to Work CEO Michael C.

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10 Reasons Why Game of Thrones Needs a HRIS

EmployeeConnect

If you’re a Throner, that’s a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll be all too familiar with the mess that is Westeros. If you’re not, all you need to know is that the world’s biggest fantasy show is the perfect metaphor for poor succession planning, terrible retention strategy, shameless people management, dire career development, and hapless leadership. We’re into season 6 and, it seems, no closer to resolving this huge HR headache.

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Is Individual Shared Responsibility Your Responsibility?

ACA Times

Since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act , the goal in mind is to ensure that every American has received or has been given access to adequate health coverage. While many consider this a blessing, others do not welcome the required health coverage. Under the ACA , those who do not have minimum essential health coverage are subject to fees unless exempt from an individual shared responsibility payment.

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Wake up from your HR nightmare

EmployeeConnect

Moving Away From Spreadsheets. Most organisations and individuals use spreadsheets to store information as well as other certain processes and calculations. Spreadsheets are great, in fact, I use spreadsheets and find them very useful, I have a couple of spreadsheets running daily. They assist me with my day to day tasks and I’d find work quite difficult without them.

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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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High Deductibles Don’t Promote Price Shopping

ACA Times

Will consumers make more cost-effective choices of health services and doctors if they are spending their own money? Common sense suggests they would, but researchers have found that consumers don’t always make health care decisions that way. The study was based on a survey of nearly 2,000 Americans who had recently purchased medical services were asked what factors they consider when choosing a doctor or medical service.

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Mom.

Everyday People

In very early 1964 on an Army base in Nuremberg, Germany (West Germany at the time), a young woman became a mother for the first time. The challenge was that her son was one month premature. The doctor’s reassured her and did everything they could to take care of this newborn. He spent time in an incubator, but eventually became healthy enough to head home.

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10 Reasons Why Game of Thrones Needs a HRIS

EmployeeConnect

If you’re a Throner, that’s a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll be all too familiar with the mess that is Westeros. If you’re not, all you need to know is that the world’s biggest fantasy show is the perfect metaphor for poor succession planning, terrible retention strategy, shameless people management, dire career development, and hapless leadership. We’re into season 6 and, it seems, no closer to resolving this huge HR headache.

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some things about my dad

Ask a Manager

I originally published this in October 2011. Today is 15 years since my dad died. 15 years! It feels like about three. This is me and my dad, Steve Green. He would have turned 71 today, except that he won’t because he died in 2001. Here are some things about my dad: * He worked as a journalist for 40 years, covering Congress and national security, among other things.

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Time to Convert More Mobile Job Seekers – 5 Must Do’s

HR C-Suite

It’s all about user experience, whether that experience is on a PC, tablet, or phone. Responsive design has been around a long time, in an effort to ensure that websites load properly and give a good user experience on all devices. And so, you may have spent good money making certain that your career site […].

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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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I don’t want to reveal my age at my job, telling an employee to mind his own business, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Telling an employee to mind his own business. I have an employee who has great rapport with coworkers. Unfortunately, he makes everyone else’s business his business. He takes it upon himself to be the advocate or “cheerleader” for staff and their individual work-related issues that do not involve him.

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6 Dirty Tips for Keeping Remote Workers Engaged with the Company

TinyPulse

There's a common misconception that remote workers are disconnected from the organization's core. And there's some truth to that. If management doesn't make the effort to keep their remote employees engaged, then, well, they're not going to be engaged. So it really all comes down to the effort that managers put forth to ensure their workforce is and stays connected.

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