Sat.Apr 09, 2011 - Fri.Apr 15, 2011

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Is Employee Engagement Doing a Good Job?

David Zinger

Does your work contribute to results and your wellbeing? Seth Godin writing about jobs and work… One way to approach your work : “I come in on time, even a little early. I do what the boss asks, a bit faster than she expects. I stay on time and on budget, and I’m hardworking and loyal.&#. The other way : “What aren’t they asking me to do what I can do, learn from, make an impact, and possibly fail (yet survive)?

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Do You Get Blamed Unfairly at Work?

45 Things

When you were a child and a lamp was broken at home, you may have pointed your finger at a sibling. Placing blame on someone else is hardwired into us and begins at an early age. But as we grow and mature we should stop the finger-pointing and look for solutions instead of blame. Ben Dattner , an adjunct professor of psychology at New York University , says that much of the stress in today's workplace from a difficult economy has caused us to go back to our childhood roots — and that means blami

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Modern Workforce: April Picks

Working Girl

'I kicked off a Modern Workforce series in January, which focuses on workforce diversity topics such as remote workers, global teams, multiple generations in the workforce, working moms, adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, etc. Guest bloggers are always welcome. Last month I highlighted five great posts that contribute to this topic and here are my picks for this month.

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Response to Neil Morrison

Strategic HCM

'Despite my enjoyment of the CIPD’s HRD conference (and particularly the sessions on next generation HR leadership) just over a week ago, I still feel the CIPD’s ideas about new generation HR , whilst interesting, miss much of the opportunity for HR / HCM in the future. I was already thinking about a further post on this topic when I read a couple of posts from Random House’s HRD, Neil Morrison – one which I strongly disagreed with (on his Change Effect blog ), and the other which I agreed with

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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You Can Create an Employee Engagement Masterpiece

David Zinger

How to Engage Like Leonardo da Vinci. April 15 – Happy 559th. Birthday Leonardo. This was a wonderful webinar I conducted with Michael Gelb. It has humor, principles, artistry, art, and applications from Leonardo da Vinci. You won’t be disappointed watching and listening to this webinar. Here are 7 principles we discuss and apply to employee engagement: Curiosita’ – an insatiable curiosity.

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Congratulations, You Have the Job!

Working Girl

'Guest Post by Jay R. Kuhns Wow! My first management gig! I''m actually going to supervise people. I''m going to be the one they look up to.ask for guidance.seek out my sage advice.draw upon my years.err.months of experience. This is going to be great! "What do you mean my employees are as old as my parents? Wait a minute.what?" I Was Young At 27, I was fortunate to move into a formal management role as the Training and Development Manager for a Hospital.

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Benchmark for Business: Michael Watkins

Strategic HCM

'This idea about HR leaders adapting their behaviours seems to have been my key theme over the last couple of weeks, and of course it applies to other business leaders too. So I’m looking forward to attending this session in a couple of weeks time: Driving Sustainable Change Michael Watkins is the world''s leading expert on accelerating transitions.

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Are you ready for employee engagement Leonardo do Vinci style?

David Zinger

7 Ways to Foster Employee Engagement Like Leonardo da Vinci. Webinar on Thursday. How to Engage Like Leonardo da Vinci. Join us for a Webinar on April 14. Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/511559736. This educational webinar will help participants apply 7 key practices from the work of Leonardo da Vinci to creatively and effectively increase employee engagement.

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My Boss Would Be Happier If I Lived at the Office

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I just started a new job that includes a housing allowance. Just when I thought how nice they are, my boss e-mailed me with this sentence “Now you have more reason to stay late in the office, since the apartment is just within walking distance.” No one else has a housing allowance or lives as close. How should I reply? I’m not at all happy with this line.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Do You Make A Million Dollar Impact?

NoExcusesHR

'Lately on Sunday nights I''ve tried to watch some of the television show Secret Millionaire. It''s about wealthy folks who pretend to do a documentary on volunteering and surprise the people and organizations they encounter with a nice check at the end of the show. Great concept. Great message. Pretty good show. But You and I Aren''t Millionaires So how can we make a big impact in someone''s life if we don''t have a huge pile of cash to tap into?

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#HRD11: Next Generation HR & OD Leadership

Strategic HCM

'I left Ben’s workshop early as I wanted to see more on some of the case studies supporting the CIPD’s work on Next Generation HR, which I also posted on a couple of days ago. This and a similar session on the second day were, in my opinion, some of the best ones at the conference, with insightful speakers (Louise Wallwork from BAE Systems, Lucy Lewin from Standard Chartered and Laura Walker from John Lewis) sharing their experiences as best as they could despite frequent interruptions from the

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With Tests, Measuring Better Beats Looking Better…But Why Choose?

DDI

'The latest: Technology is changing how employment tests are administered, while online tools are providing greater reach and convenience.

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Don’t Ban Pre-Employment Credit Checks

Evil HR Lady

Many states are considering limiting employers' abilities to use credit checks as part of a pre-employment screening. Is this practice invasive or practical?

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Congratulations, You Have The Job!

NoExcusesHR

'I am honored to have been asked by Laura Schroeder to write a guest post for her terrific Working Girl blog. The piece is about the excitement, failures, and lessons learned as a young manager. ahem.that would be my experiences as a young manager. Ouch! I''ve eaten a lot of humble pie since I started blogging. Take a look at the post , and let me know what you think.

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Symposium Training: Performance Management for Strategic Improvement

Strategic HCM

'And I’ll be talking about the opportunities for using this critical but generally poorly implemented HR / business process area at this other session I’m running for Symposium Events: Performance Management for Strategic Improvement If there was one process in HR, or even across the whole of business, that most organisations would agree is broken, it would surely be employee performance management.

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With Tests, Measuring Better Beats Looking Better…But Why Choose?

DDI

The latest: Technology is changing how employment tests are administered, while online tools are providing greater reach and convenience.

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Vegetarian Discrimination

Evil HR Lady

Whether you're a vegetarian or a meat eater, if there's nothing for you to eat a company party, you can feel unappreciated. Here's what to do about that.

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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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Power Post - Do You Have Any Sense?

NoExcusesHR

'" The best leader is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what must be done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do i t." —Theodore Roosevelt, American President How About You How do you balance the need to ensure the work gets done "the right way" with the reality of knowing that you have to let your team actually do the work?

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Symposium Training: Enhancing Organisational Capability through Learning & Development

Strategic HCM

'I’ll be talking about some of the themes emerging from the CIPD HRD’s conference at this session I’m running for Symposium Events: Enhancing Organisational Capability through Learning & Development As the pace of change continues to increase, learning plays, or should play, a vital role in ensuring organisational success. Yet although fashions in learning support may come and go, one thing remains constant: organisations generally do a poor job of helping their people learn.

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Workaiku: Tablet totters

David Zinger

Working all the time. tablet is now screen not pill. well-being totters.

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My Boss Would Be Happier If I Lived at the Office

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I just started a new job that includes a housing allowance. Just when I thought how nice they are, my boss e-mailed me with this sentence “Now you have more reason to stay late in the office, since the apartment is just within walking distance.” No one else has a housing allowance or lives as close. How should I reply? I’m not at all happy with this line.

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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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Convince the Clueless About Social Media

NoExcusesHR

'Do you know someone who is clueless about the reality of work today? Someone who just doesn''t understand the world is completely different from just a few short years ago? Someone who has failed to realize that tens of millions of people are leveraging real time tools and new global networks to connect with other professionals to get their work done faster, better, and more effectively?

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#HRD11: Stories not Processes

Strategic HCM

'The other main challenge to traditional HR thinking that got my attention during the CIPD HRD conference was this one about the role / importance of softer, more organic approaches as opposed to harder, more mechanistic ones. I’ve already referred to one example of this distinction in Laura Walker’s comments about changing the stories. To be sure, there were a lot of calls for ongoing management of the organisational machine, for example Paul Kearn’s suggestion that we should measure the result

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Why SaaS Trumps Traditional Software for Large Global Rollouts

Workday

'I occasionally hear this doubt about SaaS: "How can a SaaS company handle a large, global software rollout? Isn’t that a job for an ERP giant?" It’s natural to have questions about a new software delivery model, but this is among the most misguided doubts about SaaS—and where a key benefit of SaaS is often overlooked.

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Will My Atheism Hurt My Career?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I’m a graduate student at a top international relations program, currently searching for internships and soon to be searching for jobs. My problem is this: when an employer searches my full name, the first result they get is my old profile at a social networking site for atheists. I’ve taken the profile down, but have not been fully successful in removing it from Google’s search results.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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#HRD11: Questioning not Solutioning

Strategic HCM

'One of the points the CIPD was stressing was that HR needs to adapt to the situation it exists within (I agree). Lucy Lewin from Standard Chartered talked about the need to hold yourself in a place of anxiety a little longer than usual, and to consider all the data – including on leadership, engagement, shared services usage, the voice of the customer etc – and how you physically feel as that’s a data point too (I agree).

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Don’t Ban Pre-Employment Credit Checks

Evil HR Lady

Many states are considering limiting employers' abilities to use credit checks as part of a pre-employment screening. Is this practice invasive or practical?

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Vegetarian Discrimination

Evil HR Lady

Whether you're a vegetarian or a meat eater, if there's nothing for you to eat a company party, you can feel unappreciated. Here's what to do about that.