Sat.Mar 23, 2013 - Fri.Mar 29, 2013

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How to Sabotage Your Succession Plan

Insperity

Succession planning, an organization’s way of maintaining or correcting course when key employees leave, is carried out in many different ways. It can involve a secretive conclave where a successor is announced with puffs of white smoke. Or a nominee might undergo a rigorous confirmation hearing before members of Congress. Rock-paper-scissors, etc. Whatever the method, succession planning can be easily derailed by ignoring some basic rules.

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Improve Your Hiring Process: Thin the Herd

ExactHire

As you might gather from the title above, this is the first blog in a seven-part series about core concepts your organization can use to improve the efficiency and overall results of your recruiting and hiring process. While not the most glamorous topic out there, I think the majority of people involved with recruiting will agree that doing it right, and with as little wasted effort as possible, is critical to the ultimate success of any organization.

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March Madness: 6 lessons from NCAA coaches to lead your team to success

Achievers

March Madness comes around once a year, often leading to office pools, water cooler discussions of colleges you may not have heard of, and long and oddly timed lunch breaks. With the championship game coming up, harness some of the lessons of NCAA basketball’s unsung all-stars: the coaches. Your team may not be made up of 20 college athletes, but the best leaders in any arena share a few common elements to achieving success. 1.

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#DisruptiveHR

NoExcusesHR

'Making the commitment to change the culture of an organization is a bold step. It requires the courage to publicly say that you are not satisfied with how things operate today, and that a change is not only on a wish list, but that it is now mandatory. That is a bold step. Leaders First I''ve had the opportunity one other time in my career to embark on an intentional culture change initiative.

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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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How to Build the Apex, Heart, and Foundation of Employee Engagement

David Zinger

The 3 tiers of the employee engagement pyramid: apex, heart, and foundation. In 2012, I built the pyramid of employee engagement to help all employees, especially managers and leaders, foster and enhance employee engagement. The pyramid was developed as a simple yet practical and tactical framework offering guidance and specific practices to increase employee engagement for the benefit of all.

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Harvard Business Review reveals the bright side to negative feedback

Achievers

Positive feedback and recognition clearly amplify key behaviors that drive results. But what happens when you are faced with employee behavior that misses the mark? With talent scarcity on the rise, your organization cannot afford to replace all the underperformers and rehire, retrain, and recover from loss of revenue. Instead, you should help these employees reach their full potential and maximize your investment.

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Career Resilience for Entrepreneurs

The Bamboo Project Blog

. Regular readers know that I'm a strong proponent of working for yourself. Even if you have a day-job, I think you should always be looking for ways to diversify your income streams as the next lay-off could be right around the corner, despite your best efforts. . Yesterday's post on career resilience in action got me thinking about how the 4 patterns of resilience apply to those who run their own business(es).

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Employee Engagement Friday Factoid #25: Knowledge Workers

David Zinger

Is your knowledge working? Knowledge workers have driven more than 70% of the economic growth in the United States over the past three decades. ( Oracle Business Impact of Talent Intelligence ). Commentary. We work in the age of knowledge workers. Are you tapping into your workers’ knowledge to assess, improve, and enhance engagement? I encourage you to use your knowledge workers to drive the growth of your employee engagement efforts.

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On Googling Candidates and Laurie Ruettimann (@lruettimann)

True Faith HR

'Earlier this month, Laurie Ruettimann wrote a nice piece for TLNT.com entitled, " Are You Googling Job Candidates? When You Do, Everyone Loses. " As always her advice was spot on , but it really hit home today when I arrived at work and received a n e-mail from a former student who had run into a troubling situ ation where the personal and professional often crosses - romance and work.

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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 must-reads for the in-the-know HR Professional: Week of March 29th, 2013

Achievers

Coming off the momentum of Sheryl Sandberg’s book launch many discussions have been started about work life balance; how does one obtain it, does it actually exist, and how does it relate differently for men versus women in the workforce. The articles I collected this week touch upon the different perspectives around work life balance, so enjoy the read and let us know what your final say is on the topic. 1. “For Work-Life Happiness: Stop Balancing, Start Leaning In” (via forbes.com

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Building Resilience: The 5 Stages of Deliberate Change

The Bamboo Project Blog

Building your career resilience is an intentional, deliberate process. Leaving it up to chance is a recipe for failure. But what's the process for making change happen? . In The Joy of Appreciative Living (a book I can't recommend highly enough), Jacqueline Kelm lays out 5 stages for deliberative change that I think are instructive for those of us looking to become more resilient. . 1.

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An Employee Engagement Snapshot

David Zinger

Richard Baker asked, a while back, what I saw going on with Employee Engagement: I see people getting on a horse (engagement) and riding off in all directions at once. Some are Gallup-ing into engagement with their Q12 and some are feeding their staff Hay. Okay, bad puns but it helps me write. We seem to be moving ahead, behind, and staying still depending upon who is looking at engagement, how they are looking at engagement, and how they are measuring it.

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There's Still Work To Do When It Comes to Firing Employees

True Faith HR

'You''re Tubby Smith, head coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. You''re successful in your job, leading your teams to 20 win seasons in 18 of the 21 years you''ve been a head coach. You''ve won a National Championship in 1998. You just led your team to a NCAA appearance and a 2nd round victory over the UCLA Bruins. You would not only think that you would be able to keep your job, but if you were to be fired, you would at least get the courtesy of knowing before the rest of the world.

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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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[Storify] #A_Chat Wrap Up: March 27th, 2013

Achievers

Below is a collection of tweets from the March 27th, 2013 webinar with David Brennan, Chief Financial and Operating Officer of A chievers. Thank you for all who listened to the webinar and those who connected with the #A_Chat community on Twitter. To join us next time please sign up for our Apirl 9th, 2013 webinar “ A chievers Latest Product Release: Using A chievers to Drive Employee Success” with Razor Suleman, Founder and Chief Evangelist of A chievers.

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Career Resilience in Action

The Bamboo Project Blog

. A few weeks ago I had lunch with a friend who started a solo business last year. I was sharing with her my thinking about career resilience and the 4 patterns of success , describing each in more detail. . When we got to Connecting, she grew thoughtful. "I don't think I've been doing a lot with the Connecting pattern," she told me. "I've been focused on Clarifying and Creating and have let some of my connecting fall by the wayside.".

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Social Talent Acquisition ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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Course Correct Early with 360 Degree Reviews

Reviewsnap

'It’s exciting when you get to bring new people on at your company. They’re fresh faces with lots of energy. However, their hire date could put them out of rotation with the performance review cycle. The first round might be too soon for the information to be meaningful, but the second round could be a year and a half later. Don’t let that much time go by before you’ve had a chance to talk about performance.

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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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Harnessing Social Media for Leadership Development - Part 1

DDI

'Learn how social media is currently being used in leadership development and about the unique benefits it offers.

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Recruiting is a Team Sport

Workday

'After we announced our plans to add Workday Recruiting to our Human Capital Management suite in November, I received dozens of emails from excited customers asking how they could help as we proceeded with development. We were very encouraged by the reaction to our plans, yet not necessarily surprised by it.

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#E20S Social Talent Management ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human.

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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How to Write Job Descriptions Optimized for Job Boards and Internet Search, Tip 2

ExactHire

It’s pretty easy to find advice about writing compliant job descriptions, but it can be harder to make sure those same descriptions translate into engaging blurbs on job board search results pages…that is, blurbs or “snippets” that are guaranteed to pique the interest of your potential applicants as they pore over pages of competitive job listings.

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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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Harnessing Social Media for Leadership Development - Part 1

DDI

Learn how social media is currently being used in leadership development and about the unique benefits it offers.

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Clarifying Your Career Path: Technology is Eating Your Job

The Bamboo Project Blog

This may be the one of the most important career posts I've ever written. I urge you to read it, even if you don't think it applies to you. . This morning I was tagged in a G+ conversation that linked to this article on the impact of technology in the workplace. It got me thinking, once again, about how technology is transforming the workplace. . One of the things I've been harping on for awhile now is that as individual workers, we need to be paying better attention to technological changes th

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Cornerstones

NoExcusesHR

'I''ve had the privilege of working with a terrific group of leaders during my career. Some have been referred to as " institutions ".quite a complement. They were relied on for advice, guidance, mentoring, and quite frankly for some good old fashioned help during periods of change. At times I''ve sought these people out.and now I''m occasionally asked to serve in this capacity ( although being referred to as an "institution” is about two decades away if I''m lucky.

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Pieces of Me – March 29, 2013 Edition

Unbridled Talent

“Pieces of Me” is a regular feature here on the blog, where I’ll share a bit of what’s happening, what’s kicking around in my head, resources I’d like to bring to your attention and a peek into the world as I see it – through lenses colored by Human Resources, Recruiting, Leadership and Career Development. Something awesome that happened: Tuesday of this past week (March 26th) was my 5 year Twitter anniversary!

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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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Podcast: Young Woman Doing Well By Doing Good

Inpower Coaching

I had the pleasure to chatting with a young woman recently who is living an amazing life and doing amazing things for a truly innovative organization here in D.C. called DC Central Kitchen. Abby Elsener has lived an exciting life, vising South Africa and exploring her personal drive to succeed. She is now working for one of the most innovative non profits I know of on the fundraising and development team.

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Using Social Media In HR & Recruiting [SLIDESHARE]

Unbridled Talent

Since signing up for a LinkedIn account in early 2006 ( member #5,852,039 here ), I’ve considered myself a “Social Media Anthropologist”, because I love to study how social media affects the entire employment process – from personal branding, job search, employment branding, recruiting, human resources and employee development.