Tue.Jun 13, 2017

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Climbing the Career Ladder

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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No Tarot Required: 3 Ways Continuous Planning Can Help CFOs Tackle Uncertainty

Workday

We’re living in a time of great political and economic uncertainty. Britain’s decision to leave the European Union sent global financial markets into a spin, and we saw the pound plunge to its lowest level in more than 30 years. The shifting political landscape on the other side of the Atlantic has also injected a level of uncertainty for businesses.

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Give Your New Managers the Tools to Succeed

HR Bartender

Managers have one job – to find and train their replacement. When managers are focused on that one job, they hire the best talent, train for success, coach for high performance, and retain employees. They can take a vacation or attend a conference with confidence, knowing that the department isn’t going to fall apart. Managers who are focused on their one job can participate in that super-secret special project that will get the attention of senior management.

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Top 6 Megatrends Changing the Face of HR and Business

WorkHuman

How are leading companies shifting their focus when it comes to HR and the overall employee experience ? Which traditional HR practices are falling by the wayside and what is taking their place? No matter where your organization or HR department is today, it’s helpful to see where the industry is headed so you can better anticipate the needs of your current and future employees.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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News You Might Have Missed – June 13

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Are Your Employees Less Engaged During the Summer? With summer kicking off, companies are preparing for a seasonal slump. Here’s how you can upkeep employee engagement during the summer months. Three Ways Big Firms Can Compete with Startups For Top Tech Talent.

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News You Might Have Missed – June 13

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Are Your Employees Less Engaged During the Summer? With summer kicking off, companies are preparing for a seasonal slump. Here’s how you can upkeep employee engagement during the summer months. Three Ways Big Firms Can Compete with Startups For Top Tech Talent.

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Why Do Entrepreneurs Fail? Why It Could Happen to You

TalentCulture

A good idea goes a long way in making any business a success, but it’s not the only thing that’s needed to ensure it doesn’t fail. Many entrepreneurs start businesses in the hope they are going to be the next Facebook or Google, but eventually reality hits and they realize they need more than just a clever idea to push a business forward. It’s obvious a unique idea is going to give any entrepreneur the best chance to succeed, but there are many other reasons why promising ideas don’t always get

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In a Candidate-Driven Market, Candidate Experience Matters

TLNT: The Business of HR

The monthly unemployment rate has been trending down for years and is now at a 16 year low. This trend is especially good for jobseekers, even as it makes hiring for employers more competitive than ever.

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Motivate Your Team to Deliver Excellent Customer Service 

TalentCulture

It’s one thing to declare that providing top notch service is your strategy to outdo the competition, but it’s quite another to actually do it and do it consistently. These 5 steps will help achieve your goal. Create your service strategy. Effective and remarkable service delivery requires a strategic context that everyone understands at an intimate level.

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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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Why Companies Are Moving Away From Annual Reviews

TLNT: The Business of HR

Theoretically, performance management should happen every day. Think of it this way, if Lionel Messi was playing in a way his manager Luis Enrique didn’t like, would he wait until the end of the season? Absolutely not. They would address the problem immediately and send Messi in the desired direction.

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Closing the Massive Gaps Between Culture Awareness, Education, and Action

Culture University

It’s time to turn the culture world upside down and explode many incorrect notions that are preventing meaningful culture change for organizations and society. We’ve reached a critical point where most leaders are aware culture is important, but they range from being confused to intentionally uninformed about what culture change is all about. This culture […].

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Inspire Uninspired Employees: How to Spark Motivation

WorqIQ

Does it sometimes feel like you're wasting your breath trying to inspire uninspired employees? Managers make their best attempt at coaching employees to harness their own sense of motivation to achieve their personal and professional goals. But many tactics aimed at motivating uninspired employees have one major flaw: they don’t account for the person and the impact emotions, feelings, thoughts, and mindset have on their ability to feel drive.

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New Growth Area In Executive Search: The Search Where All Viable Candidates Are Known!!!!

The HR Capitalist

I must say - as someone who helps run a recruiting firm, there are always a few types of searches that surprise me. It's a field where you're always learning. One of those surprises is the past few years is a rare type - the search where almost every viable candidate is known, or at least easily verified. Confused? Let me explain. We've done some of these searches at Kinetix, in the field of education and other industries.

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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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How to Give and Receive Professional Feedback

Laurie Ruettimann

I hate giving and receiving professional feedback. It’s the worst. • • •. That’s why I agreed to write a six-part series on the Saba Halogen blog about giving and receiving feedback. If I’m ever going to get better, I need to learn how to communicate with other people effectively. The first two posts are up. My series forced me to research “best practices,” and I tried to find ways to apply those recommendations into our everyday lives as workers and leaders.

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How Intellectual Curiosity is Critical for Your Success in HR

Workology

I’m working on writing a new book and because of that have been diving into what is important when it comes to HR and innovation, creativity, and success in supporting and even leading the. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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[Infographic] How Negative Feedback Can Have Positive Effects

Hppy

Constructive feedback is an umbrella term that many mistake for being synonymous with ‘positive feedback’. The truth is any feedback can be constructive as long as it is specific and gives the recipient the tools to build on their work and improve their performance. Naturally, by its very nomenclature, ‘negative feedback’ sounds negative – but that doesn’t mean it can’t be constructive.

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The Sandwich Generation – It’s No Bologna

Mercer

Being a member of the sandwich generation can be overwhelming to say the least. In fact, it is estimated that 60% of working adults fall into this category. See ways you can help. The post The Sandwich Generation – It’s No Bologna appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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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LinkedIn Is Your Billboard and Your Industry Window

TLNT: The Business of HR

“Linked In is my favorite site right now… It’s an incredible push to my business… the best professional articles too…”.

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The Secret Talent Weapon You're Wasting

NoExcusesHR

Every organization I speak with "wants" to be a contemporary player in the ongoing struggle to attract talent. However, most have no idea how to leverage social or digital tools to make that desire a reality. Sadly, one of the most powerful and frequently overlooked weapons available is walking in and out of the front door every day. The employees. Brand Ambassadors Whether we call them brand ambassadors, employee advocates, or formal members of the recruitment marketing team, there is no voice

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Evidence-based agony aunt: I feel like I've been harshly judged in my appraisal

HR Zone

People. Appraisals: I feel like I've been harshly judged.

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What You Need to Know About Discrimination Against Parents and Caregivers in the Workforce

Paychex

Despite strides made toward providing a fair and equitable workplace, discrimination against parents and caregivers in the workforce remains a real concern. Companies that don't address it could face the possibility of lawsuits and penalties as well as a loss of skilled labor. Read more.

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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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My Co-Workers Tattle on Me

Evil HR Lady

I have two high-achieving women that give my errors to management when they see them. I know because they receive a call on what I’m working on and then I see supervisors looking at that case just no notes. I take the time to learn my job and become faster and more accurate. Now I’ve been placed on a Performance Improvement Plan. How can I ensure management that I am a great employee but take longer to get there?

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Evidence-based agony aunt: I don't know which job offer to take!

HR Zone

People. I don't know which job offer to take!

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What is a CPEO? Here’s your easy-to-understand guide

Insperity

There’s been a lot of discussion in the HR outsourcing world about certified professional employer organizations, or CPEOs. What are they and why does it matter, you may be asking. Here’s the express version: Being certified means a PEO has applied to the IRS to be certified and after providing extensive information about its financials and other background information, received the CPEO designation from the IRS.

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5 Signs It Might Be Time for a Career Change

Achievers

Early in the movie Creed , a young Adonis Johnson Creed is working a day job at a security firm. After being promoted, he hands in his letter of resignation stating, “This career ain’t for me. Thanks for everything. ” and moves to Philadelphia to pursue his dream of becoming a professional boxer. This scene sets the tone for the entire movie. Adonis recognized that he had no passion for a white-collar business career.

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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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How payroll management can navigate their team through EOFY

Ascender

The end of financial year (EOFY) is almost upon us, and by this time, you are likely to be right in the middle of deadline preparation. With payroll management, HR filing, superannuation and tax calculations being just a few of the items on the list, payroll and HR teams are by this point likely to be working around the clock. To try and alleviate some of this pressure, we have collated four tips to help you and your team navigate through EOFY: 1.

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Current State on Diversity & Inclusion at Work

Jeff Waldman

I have worked with and for many organizations during my career — from great to truly horrible, and everything in between. Ever since I took Organizational Behaviour 101 in business school I became fascinated with the relationship between people and work, and how this relationship impacts business outcomes. Even though my career is 17 years long I am still trying to figure all of this out, and I likely will continue until I retire.

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Lower Your Employee Turn Over Rate by Doing These 3 Things

Women of HR

Employers who experience high employee turnover lose a lot of time and money to new hire searches, interviews, onboarding and training. Although this problem is commonly seen in the retail sector, employee attrition can occur in any industry and any type or size of business. A high employee turnover rate happens for a variety of reasons; some workers take on a job for extra cash before returning to school or while searching for a new job that is more in line with their career goals.