Thu.Sep 19, 2019

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Diversity in leadership: 6 steps to make it happen

Insperity

Does your company have diversity in its leadership? If not, you could be missing out on a host of business benefits, like more innovation, higher revenues and stronger talent acquisition opportunities. However, potential benefits and enthusiasm around the issue haven’t yet translated into more diverse C-suites. Representation of women and minority populations in executive roles at American companies remains low.

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If You Want Change Agents, Then Understand "Agency"

Human Workplaces

If you boil it all down there is a simple truth that applies to every organization: As you move through life, your organization will need to change, and that means people will need to change behaviors, and that will require internal “change agents.” Successful change needs people who are going to take the lead and help make it happen. Change agents.

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Employee Perks for Parents | Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

5 min read. I lead a dual life. Where you may have seen or heard me is out and about as part of our global team of Employee Engagement Specialists at one of our events, or maybe you’ve even spoken on the phone with me. And while my job is incredibly important to me, it’s not my only role in life.

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The New Career Ladder - Mindset vs Skill Set and the Importance of Emotional Intelligence

Select International

With the rise of complex organisational structures and the need for organisations to be increasingly agile, the concept of a career ladder is rapidly dying. The idea of a career for life has now been replaced by a mindset of a "career for me." The career path that started by joining a business at an entry-level job and staying for 20 years until you hit senior management is long gone.

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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 Involve Remote Employees in Your Team Culture

Rise

People and culture pros are committed to building and fostering a supportive and inclusive company culture through the best means possible — investing in the best talent to integrate into your team. However, when it comes to integrating remote employees into your team culture, challenges can arise. Within the next decade, businesses expect to see 38% of their full-time staff working remotely.

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Maine Implements a Statewide Health Exchange

ACA Times

2 minute read: Maine will become the next state to administer its own statewide health exchange. The state will however, continue to operate on the federal healthcare.gov website platform. The move aims to boost health exchange enrollment within the state. Maine’s enrollment through the federal exchange has dropped for the last four years consecutively, from 84,000 in 2016 to 71,000 in 2019, according to a post by Modern Healthcare.

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6 Things to Think About Before Hiring Remote Employees

TalentLyft

Before you go on hiring remote employees , there are certain things you need to think about and plan for in order to be absolutely sure you’re ready for such a step. Here is the list of six extremely important things you need to keep in mind before hiring a remote team. Read More.

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Jason Averbook: Let’s rethink human capital management

HRExecutive

The pace of digital change is accelerating. I’ve long been articulating the difference between digital and technology: To be “digital” is not to be electronic or to be tech-forward; a “digital” mindset asks why (purpose), not how (technology). Digital thinking challenges your vision and considers the change required to see the right solution come fully to life.

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Leadership Trends: Lead The Disruption 2020

Forbes Coaches Council

Organizations must continue to monitor trends and disruptions and look for ways to leverage them for strategic advantage.

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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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Bridging the gap: how internal communications and HR can work better together

HR Zone

Business. HR + IC = an equation for success.

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10 Tips for Leadership When You’re Not the Boss

Evil HR Lady

When founders and CEOs look to hire and promote managers , they want people who exhibit leadership. But how can you exhibit leadership if you’re stuck in individual contributor roles? No one reports to you, and you’re not even a project manager. Good news is, leader isn’t a title, it’s a group of characteristics, and you can acquire them, even if you’re not the boss.

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Performance Reviews Wording: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Engagedly

For many of us, the very thought of reviewing someone’s performance fills us with dread. That is not an easy burden to bear. Because it includes throwing your weight behind your words. A performance review is one place […].

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The value of taking a holistic approach to operations leadership

Business Management Daily

Businesses are often extremely complex—in my case, it takes an army of people, machines and innovations to get a product to market. In order to deliver a seamless customer experience, companies require the right leadership , a range of departments, employees with varying skill sets, and the appropriate tools and resources. With all these intersecting parts, how can operations leaders implement changes and decisions that take each arm of the business into account?

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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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Three keys to Turn Candidate Surveys Into Feedback Based Recruiting

Survale HR

Through articles, webinars and LinkedIn Groups lately I have been talking a lot about the keys to good candidate surveys. So I thought I’d list a few of the most important tactics to use to take your candidate surveys to the next level. The truth is, candidate feedback is the key to hiring more effectively and is the core to implementing a feedback-based recruiting strategy that can optimize your recruitment operations, align your recruiting organization around common metrics and form the basis

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8 Ways To Ruin Performance Reviews For Your Employees

Engagedly

Performance reviews might seem like just another task for managers but they are a huge deal for the employees. Whether you love them or hate them, performance reviews are here to stay! Different organizations follow different practices for […].

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Hiring And Coaching The Neurodiverse: How To Provide Support In Your Organization

Forbes Coaches Council

An increasing number of organizations have set out to address the extremely high unemployment rate that adults on the autism spectrum face.

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I’m so anxious about working that I keep ghosting employers before I start

Ask a Manager

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. A reader writes: I am having a really hard time transitioning into the professional world and it’s at the point where I am worried I don’t have the ability to be a professional working person. I graduated from college a little over a year ago and I got a full-time administrative position immediately.

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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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Why Bob Huynh is Fond of Work: Clover Health’s VP of HR and Talent Acquisition Discusses Caring for Employees

Fond

Fond of Work is an interview series that explores challenges, trends, and changes in HR. This time for Fond of Work , we interviewed Bob Huynh, VP of HR and Talent Acquisition at Clover Health. . Clover Health is a data-driven health insurance startup improving the overall state of healthcare in America. As VP of HR and Talent Acquisition, Bob Huynh manages the strategy and processes for retaining an exceptional team of professionals.

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The 5 Elements of Employee Recognition

C. A. Short Company

The Importance of Employee Recognition. There are few things in the corporate world that I would consider “fun.” Most days are chock full of meetings, conference calls, and emails. However, recognizing your employees for achieving a service award milestone , is one of those things that should be a highlight of your day. It should be a chance for you to take a moment to show sincere appreciation for all your employees do for you and your organization.

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my coworkers are in a cult, all-day work road trips, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworkers are in a self-help cult. A few months back, my coworker Jason, then new to the team, was hawking a program which from Googling appears to be a for-profit self-help cult. Jason has done the full program and volunteers with them in his free time. Bernadette decided to try it and signed up for the the $800 intro course a couple of months ago.

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Employee engagement: How to keep your top performers

HR Morning

Employee engagement is one of the biggest challenges in talent management. But meeting that challenge is worth it. Keep your best workers engaged and you’ll keep them working for you. In this period of low unemployment, top workers are leaving every day for new opportunities. And your competitors are doing their best to get more to jump ship. Top performers are the backbone of every successful organization.

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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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The New Sales Journey – Putting the Customer First

Take It Personel-ly

Sale representatives and marketers all over the world know the importance of putting their customers first. Companies are well familiar with this phase and try to go to great lengths to make sure that their customers are always feeling satisfied with the services they provide them with. If you are trying to increase your sales […].

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New Employee Classification Test Signed into Law

HRWatchdog

AB5 stands to affect nearly every sector of the economy. Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday signed legislation placing in law the test for determining when a worker is an independent contract as outlined in a California Supreme Court decision last year. AB 5 (Gonzalez; D-San Diego) codifies the “ABC” test adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v.

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Your End-Of-Year Goals: Five Tips For Maximizing Your ROI

Forbes Coaches Council

The last few months of the year are a great time to shake things up and elevate your game — to regroup, reassess and craft or recraft your work and life goals.

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30 Cyber Security Awareness Tips Your Business Needs

SnapComms

Cyber-crime is on the rise. Your organization is at more risk today than ever – and that risk will continue to rise. How safe are you really? How exposed are you to hackers – and how equipped are you to thwart them?

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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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update: my coworker feels entitled to my time, expertise, car, and house

Ask a Manager

Remember last week’s letter from the PhD student whose colleague invited herself to move in, tried to take credit for her work, and was complaining to their department head that the letter-writer wasn’t collaborating enough with her? Here’s the update. Here’s the update. Since the semester has just started and the students are back, things moved fast!

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What Happens When Employees Experience Financial Emergencies?

Benefitfocus

Lack of sufficient savings puts many employees in a tough spot when financial shocks occur—risking great cost to not only their own well-being but also to your organization.

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Coaching Skills To Step Up Your Leadership Game

Forbes Coaches Council

Using coaching skills as a leader can open up conversations and unleash stronger performance with your employees.