October, 2012

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Lateral Leadership

NoExcusesHR

'Stay focused. Don''t lose sight of your goals. Distractions will only slow you down. Worry about your own business, not someone else''s. These are great little sayings.if you''re not a leader. A Broader View The world has become very specialized. Academic programs, computer programs, physical training programs, and on and on.all target very specific skills or areas of interest.

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5 Ways Your Org Chart Can Kick-Start Your Succession Plan

Insperity

An org chart is more than just a 2-D snapshot of a company’s hierarchy. When properly used as a workforce planning tool, it allows you to make staffing decisions that spur growth, including those involved with succession planning. Here are some ways an org chart can help you put together a strong succession plan, so you can quickly curb any disruption to your business when key employees leave.

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Employee Engagement: Applying Gamification and Engagement to Work and Well-being

David Zinger

A personal quest to improve work and well-being through the principles of engagement and gamification. Buzz for the 2012 Experiment. I have been playing with engagement, gamification, work, and well-being this year. I still have 3 months to go but I thought I would let readers know about the success I have been experiencing by creating a low tech game to increase my work accomplishment and enhance my overall well-being.

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Learning from Experience: Soha El Borno Goes Freelance

The Bamboo Project Blog

I first "met" Soha El Borno online when she was working at Wild Apricot as a Web Copywriter and blogger. She always posted great content and was an excellent resource for social media and nonprofit work. . When I put out a call for your career transition stories, she responded to me quickly by email, telling me she wanted to share hers. . As you'll see, she's like a lot of women who go through career transition when they start trying to juggle a desire to be home with their children with their p

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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What Does Your Facebook Photo Say About You?

45 Things

I'm always amazed by the truly stupid photos people post of themselves online. The reason I'm surprised is that we're so quick to judge a celebrity with a hair out of place, that sometimes we fail to consider the image we're projecting to the world. This latest story I did for Gannett/USAToday may have your reconsidering. It’s often said that people make a judgment about you within seconds of meeting you, and now new research shows the same may be true even when they’re viewing your photo on Fac

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Pick Your Battles

NoExcusesHR

'I like to stay on top of things. My Inbox, task list, projects, new ideas, and the list goes on. Life just seems to go more smoothly for me if everything goes according to my plans and exactly on my schedule. Yes, that''s just how I like it. Then I wake up, realize my little dream is over, and go to work. In Control.Really? One of the painful lessons I''ve learned over the years. err, continue to learn.is that I simply can not control, manage, react to, and effectively address all of the issues

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#E20S - Social HCM?

Strategic HCM

'There’s a new term in town – social HCM. Or so it would seem…. It might just be coincidence of course, but I recently received a press release about a UK based system called Fairsail , linked to the USA’s HR Technology conference last week. Of course many HCM systems are already quite socialised (see this post ) and Saba branded itself the people collaboration system for a while, but this is the first time I’ve seen one describing itself as a Social HCM system.

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Employee Engagement: Achieve Strong Results

David Zinger

Results: Strengthen the Pyramid of Employee Engagement One Block at a Time. I developed the 10 block pyramid of employee engagement model to demonstrate the keys to employee engagement. Here is a link to a 50 page booklet on the pyramid. After taking the strengths inventory Strengthscope from Strengths Partnership in the UK, I was determined to make a systematic application of my 7 significant strengths applied to each of the blocks of the pyramid.

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Update from Masie Learning Conference and HR Tech Europe

Bersin with Deloitte

I just finished a marathon travel-week which included a few days at Elliot Masie's Learning 2012 conference and several days at the HR Tech Europe show in Amsterdam… and some comments on "the power of personas." (Slightly long blog post, but filled with information I hope.) Masie Learning 2012 Conference: Energizing and Informative as Ever Elliot […].

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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4 Ways to Handle Your Workplace Jealousies

45 Things

Most of us have had feelings of jealousy or envy in our lives, but nowhere may it be more difficult to deal with than in the workplace. Of course you’re supposed to wish Jim well on his new promotion – even though you worked hard for it and you believe Jim is a slacker. And, well, sure you’d like to be friendlier to your colleague Maggie, but she’s so darned organized it gives you a headache, especially when the boss is always giving her an award for it.

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What are the Career Options in HR

TheHRBlog

HR is not just about liking people. HR isn’t the job for you if you’re not a ‘people person’, but liking people won’t be enough on its own. More precisely, you have to be interested in getting the absolute best out of people. It’s not just the softer ‘people skills’ that are important. You’ll have a strong interest in business and the […].

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HR Roadshow!

NoExcusesHR

'Next week I have the privilege of speaking at the Minnesota SHRM Conference. My friend Josh Rock and his organizing team have been kind enough to let a guy from Florida invade the ( almost ) frozen North. I''m going to be speaking about HR Transformation; specifically, how my organization went on a wild ride and made huge changes within our HR function over the last year, and what we now have to show for it.

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Improving Knowledge Worker Productivity

Conversation Matters

As Knowledge Management professionals our job is the help organizations leverage their knowledge. Our attention is focused on the knowledge worker and our major task is to devise ways for those knowledge workers to share the knowledge they have gained with their peers. In other blog posts I have suggested a second task KM professionals should be engaged in, that is, helping organizations address the complex issues they face - those that are not amenable to technical or improvement solutions.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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7 Significant Strengths Applied to Employee Engagement

David Zinger

7 Significant Strengths. Strength application at work benefits both the organization and the individual. Strengths and performance. There is a very strong connection between the application of personal strengths and employee engagement. Gallup has demonstrated the relationship in many studies including a dramatic finding on engagement, strengths, and performance: If a manager did not talk with an employee about their performance there was a 40% chance that employee was disengaged.

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What a Difference a Year Makes: The Mobile 2.0 Revolution

Bersin with Deloitte

At HR Tech in Chicago, Josh headed a discussion on the use of mobile in the workplace – and it was standing room only, full of HR and IT professionals trying to really understand the impact on the “build it first on mobile” revolution. Vibrant discussion on which devices, the “BYOD” (bring your own device) […]. The post What a Difference a Year Makes: The Mobile 2.0 Revolution appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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How to Nail a Great Internship

45 Things

I live in a city with a major state university and things are starting to get a little crazy this week. Hundreds of college students are buying dress clothes, running off resumes as Kinkos and removing nose rings and covering tattoos. It can only mean one thing. Employers are in town. It's time to start interviewing for jobs and internships, and it appears they're right on track.

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7 Leadership Lessons from – The Sinking of Titanic

TheHRBlog

Some of you may have watched the iconic American Movie Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet .The Sinking of the Titanic provides invaluable lessons of leadership. “We have struck iceberg … sinking fast … come to our assistance.” On a cold evening in 1912 that message came blistering across the airwaves. Before they tapped the last bit of Morse code, those […].

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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Finding Your Social Voice

NoExcusesHR

'One of the questions that comes up frequently when I’m discussing the power of social media and its direct application to modern HR practice is about voice. So many new users of social tools worry about how they will “sound” to those listening on the interwebs that they often don’t find the courage to jump in and start exploring how to use the various tools like twitter, LinkedIn and facebook (at least facebook in a professional context.

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HR, IC, social technology and the We society

Strategic HCM

' Today is going to be a busy blogging day as I''m at the Melcrum Summit for some inputs on internal communications from GE, Shell and a range of other companies (Rebecca Edwards from GE has just been talking about the ''lots of conversations'' they needed to have HR to open their internal communication site, [link] out to the public. I take it these were difficult conversations so not the greatest start to what I was hoping would be evidence of growing integration between HR and IC !).

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Employee Engagement: Friday Factoid #3 – Thinking?

David Zinger

Zinger Friday Factoid: Thinking? David Rock offered us something to think about: A study of 6,000 people conducted by the NeuroLeadership Group in collaboration with a large healthcare firm asked respondents questions about where, when, and how people did their best thinking. Only 10 percent said it happened at work. Commentary. You almost don’t want to think about this and if you are at work it looks like you probably are not thinking all that well.

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Understanding the LinkedIn Talent Brand Index

Bersin with Deloitte

This week LinkedIn announced the Talent Brand Index, an exciting and innovative new tool to help companies target and improve their talent acquisition programs. In this blog post I'd like to explain it in a little detail. Recruiting: Meet Marketing. Marketing: Meet Recruiting. Businesses spend more than $3,000 per hire on recruitment, and often 20 […].

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Are You Turning Into a Zombie Employee?

45 Things

I watched "Zombieland" for the the first time about a month ago, and have to say I thought it was pretty good. That's a rave review from someone who doesn't care for scary movies. (I made my mother sleep with me at night for three days after I saw the first "Friday the 13th.") So, believe me when I say that I would not want to be a zombie because I'd probably faint from being so terrified of myself.

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Are You Effective at Work

TheHRBlog

Once a quarter or so, I find it valuable to step back and ask: How am I doing? Otherwise, you can end up consumed by work for years at a time and not be really happy, or not be really getting anywhere. So it’s helpful to take some time to step back and check in with […].

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It's The How

NoExcusesHR

'Over the years I''ve had the privilege of working with a lot of really smart people. Whether they were in formal or informal leadership roles, practiced clinically or worked in finance, information technology, marketing, and yes human resources, my industry is packed with really bright people. Over those same years I''ve seen many of those bright people struggle mightily and in some cases fail.

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In 100 Words: Generosity and Growing Others

QAspire

Photograph by Tanmay Vora. The best way to grow is to help others grow. In process of elevating others, you have to elevate yourself. However, you have to adopt a posture of generosity and abundance. In school, I heard a story of a farmer who was known for producing best crops and sharing his best seeds with other farmers in the vicinity. When asked why, he said, “It is a selfish act.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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Employee Engagement: A Short Story of One Disengaged Employee

David Zinger

The leaves have fallen off the tree in my front yard for yet another year. Here is a 3 minute slide and voice recording on employee disengagement that was inspired by the falling leaves last autumn: Leaves of Employee Disengagement from David Zinger on Vimeo.

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HR TechnologyConference 2012: Mobile, LMS, and Cloud Update

Bersin with Deloitte

We just completed another HR TechnologyConference and the attendance set records. While I didn't have a chance to see everything, I had a chance to meet with quite a few vendors and see many products and tools in the market. Let me share just a few findings and some hot topics of interest. Mobile Technology […]. The post HR TechnologyConference 2012: Mobile, LMS, and Cloud Update appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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How You Can Help Your Career Even When You're Not at Work

45 Things

After putting in your hours at work with the colleague who eats pork rinds all day long and the boss who constantly hums off-key show tunes, the last thing you may want to do is spend your after-work hours with such people. So when you’re given advice to sign up for the company’s community 5k run or Saturday morning at the local food bank, you may respond with something that cannot be printed here.

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