Sat.Aug 23, 2014 - Fri.Aug 29, 2014

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Perfectly Indispensable – 11 Ways to Impress Your Boss

ExactHire

High unemployment rates, volatile markets, and the constant need for businesses to run leaner are all great reasons to become indispensable at work. Let the perfect employee that lives within you radiate through your office, and recession proof yourself! Increase your personal stock value and make sure you get noticed with: 11 Ways To Win at Work…And Impress Your Boss 1) Be timely and accountable.

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The Red Hot Market for Learning Management Systems

Josh Bersin

'We just released our newest research on the corporate Learning Management Systems market and the numbers are astounding. The market is well over $2.5 billion and grew by over 21% this year. These. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Smarter Together: Emotional Intelligence with Diversity Inclusion

ATD Human Capital

'EQ is not enough. We also need Diversity & Inclusion practices to become embedded into our organizations to maximize talent and marketplace opportunities. Click here to read full version.

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Communication is Key in Times of Change

Newmeasures

'We are often asked to assist organizations through the process of implementing significant change. A common reaction to change is some serious resistance which is met with impatience and irritability on the part of the leadership. Yet, we find that sometimes the “why” behind the change is not explained well leading to greater frustration and slower adoption.

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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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The Dog Ate My Homework.and My Personal Brand

NoExcusesHR

'"I don''t have time for that.work is very busy right now." "I don''t see the value.what does it do again?" "I think my recruiters are using it.plus, that''s really for the Marketing department, right?" Excuses I read a terrific blog post this weekend from James Ellis about the evolution of social media use in companies today. It was insightful, concise and direct.

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Smarter Together: Emotional Intelligence with Diversity Inclusion

ATD Human Capital

'EQ is not enough. We also need Diversity & Inclusion practices to become embedded into our organizations to maximize talent and marketplace opportunities. Click here to read full version.

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{Safety} Crazy Comes in Many Sizes

Lisa Rosendahl

'It was 1980-something in Erie, Pennsylvania and my college roommates and I were getting ready to go out. Whether we were heading to Paparelli''s Pub, the Pike house or an after hours club, we stayed together, watched out for each other and stepped in even when it wasn''t always welcome. Photo credit iStockphoto. How did we learn to do this? When I think back to situations I was in, cues I missed and warning signals I pushed aside, I can''t believe how naive I was or how much I was willing to le

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Corporate Learning Technology Market On Fire

Bersin with Deloitte

The corporate learning technology market is hot. Today we released our newest research on the Learning Management Systems market and it shows a 21% growth to over $2.5 billion in 2014. As many of you know, corporate training is going through a renaissance and a tremendous number of new technologies, content providers, and solutions are now available. […].

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Is Looking at GPA Lazy HR? The Role of Grade Inflation

True Faith HR

'As a professor, I am vigilant in examining my grading practices to ensure students are receiving a fair and deserved grade. I want to ensure that the grade reflects the work and performance a student demonstrated over the course of a semester. Last semester, I taught two sections of the same course - one section earned an average grade of 3.12 (on a 4.0 scale), the other a 2.67.

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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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Book Giveaway: How Do You Protect Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource?

ATD Human Capital

'CEOs claim that people are their organization’s most valuable asset. Yet their people policies and procedures rarely reflect this declaration. Click here to read full version.

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How To Manage A Virtual Team

TheHRBlog

Similar to a conventional team, a virtual team consists of a group of people who interact to complete interdependent tasks and work towards a common goal, however instead of meeting in the same office, the team members work in different places, often at home, and in different time zones, They may never meet their coworkers […].

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FMLA – Not Just Coverage for Pregnancy

Effortless HR

'Many business owners think of FMLA only when an employee is ready to go out on maternity leave or if an employee is facing a catastrophic illness such as cancer. FMLA also covers migraine headaches, back pain, influenza – and other illnesses that are considered to be “chronic or a serious health condition”. Employers and their supervisors and managers need to know the “red flags” on what to consider to be a FMLA occurrence and how to manage it.

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Why Shared Values Triumph Over Rules and Policies in the Workplace

Great Place to Work

How top firms are shaking things up, favoring shared values over rules to boost trust and spark innovation in the workplace. In our ongoing study of Best Workplaces, we've noticed a prevailing trend among leading companies: they're shifting from a policy-laden employee handbook to a focus on concise, shared values. This transformation signifies a move away from the waning command-and-control leadership style towards a more trust-based, value-oriented organizational approach.

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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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Don't Go Looking for Innovators

ATD Human Capital

'Organizations that don’t understand innovation can make costly mistakes, according to a recent APQC interview with Claude Legrand from Ideaction, Inc. Click here to read full version.

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Get Better Results by Taking Handwritten Notes

45 Things

'The next time you go to a meeting, you might want to consider leaving your iPad behind and instead taking along a pad and pen. That’s because a new study shows what many of us have suspected for some time: That we’re better able to retain and understand information if we write it longhand instead of using a laptop or other device to take notes. In three studies by Pam A.

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4 Reasons a Military Veteran Might Be Your Best Hire

Insperity

Your business is growing and you need to add people. You want to look at all the talent that’s available and go after the best candidates, but have you been overlooking a group of well-trained, ambitious workers? Veterans are leaving the military by the thousands every year, and they come out of service with proven accomplishments that may put them at the top of the candidates’ list.

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Why Does Our Competitor Hate Hawaii??

Nobscot

'One of Nobscot''s competitors has a photo of a Hawaii guy in an aloha. shirt and slippers (flip-flops) leaning back in his office chair. throwing paper airplanes unprofessionally at his suit-and-tie clad. co-worker. The article is about the types of exit interview consultants. you should avoid, with the implication that the Hawaii guy is one to. stay away from.

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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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Leadership Improv: Team Equality Is Not Team Equity

ATD Human Capital

'This is Part Three of a four-part series on using improvisational behaviors to ensure their teams are strong, diverse, and engaged. Click here to read full version.

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The Fruits of Our Labor

Dave's Weekly Thought

The summer in concluding. Soon the sun will shine less, the nights will be longer, and the days will be colder. As we get our last taste of summer our distractions fade with the sunshine. It's time to buckle down! Did you know that Snow Monkeys grow thicker fur in the winter? We can all learn a lesson from the ability to adapt as the environment gets harsh.

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Notes from the Road: What We Learned from CFOs

Workday

'While most of my time is spent with the Workday Financial Management development team, in recent months I’ve also spent a good amount of time outside the office. At events we hosted or participated in, I had great conversations with customers, partners, and prospective customers, many of whom are CFOs. I listened to CFOs talk about the complexity of managing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as the ongoing challenges of the everyday task of reporting.

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Communication is Key in Times of Change

Newmeasures

We are often asked to assist organizations through the process of implementing significant change. A common reaction to change is some serious resistance which is met with impatience and irritability on the part of the leadership. Yet, we find that sometimes the “why” behind the change is not explained well leading to greater frustration and slower adoption.

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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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Grateful Leaders Practice Consciousness

ATD Human Capital

'Grateful leaders practice consciousness—the awareness of something within oneself. Click here to read full version.

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Research Says: The Case for Workforce Diversity

Inpower Coaching

Study: Business Case for Diversity with Inclusion ( Business Case for Inclusion and Engagement, Robinson, Pfeffer, Buccigrossi , 2003). Finding: Even in workplaces where the intentions are genuine, some people find obstacles to their full engagement based not on issues of qualification and performance, but rather on the visible and invisible group memberships they represent.

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10 Best Practices for a Successful Active Benefits Enrollment

GuideSpark

'Source: Winston Benefits. Employers have gotten the message that engaged employees are more satisfied, more productive, and more likely to see the value in their benefits programs. All of this leads, of course, to better company performance so more and more HR professionals are pulling out all the stops and transitioning their employees to active benefits enrollment — requiring them to engage in the benefits selection process by choosing their benefits, which won’t passively roll over from last

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12 Tips for Virtual Employee Engagement

David Zinger

'Don’t Be So Remote It was a pleasure to write this blog post for Fuze , an excellent platform for mobile work, on 12 tips for virtual employee engagement. Here is one of my opening paragraphs and one of the 12 tips. I encourage you to go to the full article to learn more. I believe the key question for managers of remote workers and distributed teams are to ensure the team and workers feel a part of the organization and work rather than feeling apart from the organization.

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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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Book Giveaway: How Do You Protect Your Organization’s Most Valuable Resource?

ATD Human Capital

'CEOs claim that people are their organization’s most valuable asset. Yet their people policies and procedures rarely reflect this declaration. Click here to read full version.

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HR by the Algorithm: Playing by the Numbers

Bersin with Deloitte

One of the hottest areas in our run-for-the-numbers race right now is predictive analytics – algorithmically-based formulas that might predict such important things as who will be a top performer or who is likely to leave the organization. Rather than looking for a crystal ball, the intent in these algorithms is to use mathematics (referred […].

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Time-to-Fill, Highest Since 2001?

Cielo HR Leader

'According to hiring managers and C-level executives , time-to-fill is the third most important hiring metric—just behind quality of hire and, fittingly, hiring manager satisfaction. Time-to-fill reflects the time it takes between the moment a requisition/job is posted to the acceptance of a job offer from a candidate. Although the continuing shift toward quality over quantity has kept time-to-hire from to the top of the list of important measures, efficiency is and will always be imperative t