Sat.May 26, 2012 - Fri.Jun 01, 2012

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4 ways to use your corporate social responsibility days

Achievers

You know that satisfying feeling you get when you donate to charity? Or the pride you feel after donating your time volunteering for a non-profit? We all feel great when we give back to the community, and just as we commit to being socially responsible individuals, we also expect our employers to be social responsible companies. Employees want to work for organizations that are making socially responsible choices regarding their products and services, business practices, and as members of the co

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Recruitment Process Outsourcing: The Ultimate Guide

Insperity

The recent downturn led many organizations to scale back their workforce, but as things turn around, now they are looking to hire. As a result, Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is on the rise. The current economic climate calls for a new talent acquisition model; one that is scalable, flexible and more cost-effective than the internal recruiting departments of yore.

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ADP Rocks the Talent Management Market with New Integrated Solution

Josh Bersin

This week ADP, the largest HR company in the world, introduced its integrated talent management solution (and its own learning management system). This announcement has the potential to significantly. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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How to Break the 24/7 Work Habit

45 Things

First, let me apologize to those of you who tried to read this story I did for Gannett/USAToday in an earlier blog post. No matter what I tried the post ran together, refusing to mark paragraphs, bullets, etc. Well, today is a new day, so I'm trying this again. Do you take your smartphone to bed because you claim to use it as a nightlight? Or you say it’s the only alarm clock you have?

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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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Teamwork makes the dream work: Why individuality is the secret to team collaboration

Achievers

Is there actually such thing as too much teamwork? More specifically, what happens when teams are full of extroverts with similar traits and critical thinking methods? This combination probably produces a team without the ability to change and adapt to new challenges. On the contrary, teams full of individuals with unique personalities are able to change course and adapt to methods necessary for success.

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ADP Rocks the Talent Management Market with New Integrated Solution

Josh Bersin

This week ADP , the largest HR company in the world, introduced its integrated talent management solution (and its own learning management system). This announcement has the potential to significantly impact the human capital and talent management software markets. Background on ADP. You probably think ADP is a payroll company. Tt is much more. In.

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ADP Rocks the Talent Management Market with New Integrated Solution

Bersin with Deloitte

This week ADP, the largest HR company in the world, introduced its integrated talent management solution (and its own learning management system). This announcement has the potential to significantly impact the human capital and talent management software markets. Background on ADP You probably think ADP is a payroll company. It is really much more.

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3 steps to promote your employees’ health and wellness

Achievers

Hi there, A Advisor, I work for a company in the public health sector. I enjoy where I work, but I wish our company would offer more opportunity to practice what we preach: we promote a health-conscious lifestyle for our clients, why can’t we encourage the same lifestyle for our employees? What are some ways that I can advise our company to make employee health and wellness a priority?

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Hourglass

NoExcusesHR

'"It''s only getting worse." Do you believe that? Have you convinced yourself that time is running out, and because we''ve been going through some tough economic times; or because your job is not going so well; or because you''re feeling like your life plan isn''t really working out like you''d hoped; that perhaps your hourglass is slowly running out of sand?

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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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8 Life Lessons From Yoga Workshop

QAspire

My first introduction to ‘Yoga’ was during my school. In physical education classes, Yoga was taught purely in form of complex physical postures. A few years back, I got in touch again by joining a Yoga workshop and gained a new level of awareness about it. This month, I again enrolled for an advanced workshop conducted by a renowned spiritual teacher and a Yogi.

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Employee Engagement and Storytelling for Business Leaders

David Zinger

I am looking very forward to going to Boston next week and taking a storytelling and leadership course. I will be looking for lessons, tips, strategies, and tactics for employee engagement. Here is some of the description for the powerful one day workshop being put on by Kevin Bishop from Anecdote : Storytelling for Business Leaders. We all desire better ways to persuade, share what we know, and help those around us make sense of the complex world we live in.

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Why leaving work early is good for business

Achievers

Memorial Day weekend is behind us and summer is almost here. The days are warmer and longer, and for some employees, it means summer hours at the office. Companies offer summer hours as a perk to employees, which grants them reduced work hours on Fridays to enjoy longer weekends. How common are these programs in business? According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “thirty percent of companies say they plan to offer some form of summer hours this year, according to a recent poll of 228

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Which One Are You?

NoExcusesHR

'"It is the characteristic excellence of the strong leader that can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer How About You Strong or weak? I''d love to hear from you. No Excuses. photo credit.

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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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Give My Manager Feedback? Are You Serious?

Reviewsnap

'You re-read the email from HR in disbelief: “As part of this year’s performance appraisal process, employees will be asked to evaluate their managers.” As if performance reviews weren’t painful enough; hiding out under your desk sounds more comfortable than giving your boss feedback. Regardless of how you — or your manager — feel about this new process, you’re both expected to comply.

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One True Passion: Kismet, Alchemy & @TopOfTheRock_WL

True Faith HR

'Over the Memorial Day weekend, I had the time and opportunity to read Warren Littlefield''s new missive "Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV." As the title suggests, it details through interviews with many of the major players, the phenomenal success NBC had on Thursday nights with such TV shows as Friends, Frasier, ER, Cheers, Will & Grace, Mad About You, & Seinfeld.

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Years of service awards: Out with the dinosaurs!

Achievers

“Traditional Years of Service programs fail to offer timely recognition as the rewards are spread out over long intervals of time. This will result in poor engagement and motivational levels putting your company at risk of losing your top performers. Evolve beyond Years of Service Awards to today’s years of service program—Recognition Milestones. Build a rhythm of recognition where employees are consistently recognized and have the power to choose their own rewards that are meaningful to them. ”

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Innovative talent management ? pharmaceuticals example ~ HR to.

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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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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30 great interview questions to identify candidates’ soft skills

Business Management Daily

One of the best ways to tell if applicants have the skills to perform specific tasks is to directly ask how they’ve used those skills in the past. These sample questions can help hiring managers spot 10 important “soft” skills. The post 30 great interview questions to identify candidates’ soft skills appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Salience and Random Encounters

True Faith HR

'One of my favorite concepts in management is salience - an event or a sign that readily attracts attention and makes the receiver react to it. As a professor, I always noticed it at the beginning of each semester. I meet a student for the first(?) time, and I suddenly see him or her 3 or 4 times around campus over the next few days. I may have seen that student before, but it had no resonance to me, so I ignored that information.

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How to Break the 24/7 Work Cycle

45 Things

Lots of people tell me they'd like to give up the 24/7 work habit, but no matter what they try, it cannot be done. The biggest problem, they tell me, is that their coworkers or their boss are hooked into the "always on" mode, so it means they must be also. That's why I think this research from Leslie A. Perlow is so interesting. It shows that disconnecting from the 24/7 world can be done.but it takes a team effort.

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Innovative talent management - financial services example ~ HR to.

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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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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The Facebook Listing Story – Personal Finance Series

TheHRBlog

Last week week saw the greatly anticipated listing of Facebook (the most popular social networking firm) shares on NASDAQ. Unfortunately for many investors this was a great disappointment. This article analyses and simplifies the reasons behind the same. Let us start by understanding the term listing. Q1) What does the word listing stand for? Ans. […].

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@lenadunham, "Girls" and the World of Work

True Faith HR

'Last week, Victorio Milian ran a series on the future of HR from the perspective of those just graduating. He graciously asked for me to guest post from the perspective of the academic watching these excited men and women enter the workplace. In my post, " Learned Helplessness, " I took a more Debbie Downer approach, arguing that the economy had taken an economic and psychological toll on the expectations of these Linksters.

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Creating Customer Centricity

Strategic HCM

' I recently chaired a panel on customer centricity: ''Internal v External - promoting innovation in HR to build a consistent leadership brand''. The panal featured Ben Bengougam from Hilton Worldwide, Jill Brady from Virgin Atlantic, Simon Lloyd from Santander, Lynne Weedall from Carphone Warehouse and Angela Williams from British Gas. We were under Chatham House rules so there''s a limit to how much I can post about the event, but it was a really interesting session, and I thought I should pu