Wed.Nov 28, 2018

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10 Examples of Effective and Ineffective Employee Feedback

Quantum Workplace

Giving employee feedback in a constructive way takes practice, according to Stanford GSB lecturer Carole Robin. And although most can agree on the importance of constructive feedback, few are practicing regularly.

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Taxable vs Non-Taxable Fringe Benefits: What Can Be Excluded From Income

Justworks

On this blog, we’ve previously tackled the question of “What are fringe benefits?” As a quick refresher, IRS Publication 15-B, the Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits, defines a fringe benefit as “a form of pay for the performance of services.”. An employer is the provider of a fringe benefit, even if a third party provides the actual benefit.

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Will Technology Help You Win the War for Talent? [Spoiler Alert: It Won’t]

Digital HR Tech

When you visit an HR trade show two things stick out in the tech section: A. You mostly encounter either tools for process automation or technology with a focus on recruitment. B. Many of the newer (< 5 years) solutions are focused on recruitment. This focus on recruitment ties in with the growing concern of the C-level about attracting the right talent, as demonstrated by The Conference Board’s 2018 C-Suite Challenge Survey.

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How to combat the looming UK staffing crisis

HR Zone

Acquisition. How to combat the looming staffing crisis.

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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 Create a Culture of Curiosity at Your Company

Cornerstone On Demand

In a time of rapid technological change , innovation is a critical component for growth—even survival. But what does it mean to be "innovative?" Feeling ideas flow and challenging the status-quo come to mind. In fact, at the root of all innovation is one important component: curiosity. And building a culture of curiosity at your company will, I believe, drive innovation for years to come.

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The Astrological Guide to Great Management

Reflektive

A great deal of work, dedication, training, and hard-earned life experience goes into becoming a great manager. But how much of your great manager potential is determined by fate? Let’s look to astrology, the world’s most popular meme, for the answer. SEE ALSO: 51 Hacks to Become a Better Manager. Aries (March 21-April 19). The ultimate Aries manager has a rock-solid set of personal values that make them a fearless, natural leader.

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How can you define, measure and optimize Employee Experience to improve business outcomes?

Engage2Excel

What is Employee Experience and how is it different from Employee Engagement? Many HR professionals and consultants would be hard pressed to answer this question. As is often the case with new terms in any discipline, analysts and marketers of new technology platforms have been quick to embrace and propagate Employee Experience as the next big thing in HR.

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A Typhoon Is About to Hit the HR Tech Market

HRExecutive

These last few months have been a whirlwind. I recently wrapped up a global roadshow during which I talked with HR and vendor executives in Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam and Romania. In September, I also had the honor of participating in the 2018 HR Technology Conference in Las Vegas —probably the best conference yet. Buyers were knowledgeable and tech-savvy but eager for more information, and vendors had impressive innovations to discuss and demonstrate.

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Cyber Security Predictions: 2019 and Beyond

Symantec

As you think about how to deploy in advance of a new year of cyber threats, here are the trends and activities most likely to affect your organization

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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 Keep Your Employees on Track – Five Employee Development Ideas

Workology

We are currently experiencing an unemployment rate of 3.7%, the lowest in the U.S. Labor Market since 1969. Companies are struggling to hire, as well as retain, workers in their organizations. Also, Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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10 ways to unleash the potential of dyslexic employees

HR Zone

Development. Unleash the potential of dyslexic employees.

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Ep 160 – Everything You Wanted to Know About Career Paths But Were Afraid to Ask

Workology

Career pathing. For many of us working for organizations in the HR industry, I think the thought of creating a career pathing program seems like a pipe dream. But in today’s economy, it should be an. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Career pathing. For many of us working for organizations in the HR industry, I think the thought of creating a career pathing program seems like a pipe dream.

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7 workplace rules that are holding back your organization

Jostle

Workplace rules are important. They’re intended to hold us to a standard of professionalism and personal responsibility that keeps everything humming along smoothly.

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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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3 Rules to Make Performance Management More Effective

TLNT: The Business of HR

As humans our core values define and shape us and serve as internal beacons to guide our actions and behaviors. It is the same for any organization’s values. Values are vitally important to the ongoing culture and success of any company, so it’s necessary to actively bring those values to life in the form of operational practices.

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When diversity efforts backfire: Advice to avoid legal trouble

HR Morning

Many employers support the idea that diversity is good for business. . Increased productivity and innovation are just a couple of the benefits that come with employing people from different backgrounds. So, it’s no surprise many HR pros are making diversity and inclusion efforts a top priority. How inclusion efforts go wrong. But despite their best intentions, companies can end up in legal trouble if they go about diversity the wrong way.

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5 Leadership Lessons from Dungeons & Dragons

DDI

The Dungeon Master in the popular fantasy role-playing game fills many of the same roles as a real-life leader.

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Crash and Burn Leadership

NoExcusesHR

Wait, what? We're leaders. We don't have time for anything ever, let alone ourselves, right? We care for others! We care for our teams! We care for our CEOs! We care for the employees! We.crash and burn. That's what we do. We crash. and. burn. Give Give Give What is it about being a dedicated leader that makes us all feel like we're supposed to work ourselves into oblivion?

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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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Big Words Make You Sound Stupid

HR Digest

Using big and flowery language, and using it often to sound intelligent, will only end up making you look foolish instead. It’s good to emphasize what you know when you’re using phrases to sound smart, but your manner of speaking and the choice of words matters. A study, led by Daniel M. Oppenheimer at Princeton University, included a series of experiments designed to test the relationship between large words and perceived intelligence.

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Free Webinar: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Entrepreneur

Building your employer brand: A can't-miss discussion covering all the dos and don'ts of hiring and keeping the best employees.

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5 Ways to Fight the "Peanut Butter" Syndrome

Compensation Cafe

When it's time to link salary increases to performance ratings, the famous "peanut butter" syndrome comes to mind. You know, the one where you give managers a merit budget to allocate. and they give the same increase percentage to everyone in their department. It's like spreading peanut butter evenly, a favorite simile in the compensation industry. Every year you hear, "this will never do," and every year it happens.

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What You Need to Know to Succeed in 2019

Entrepreneur

As the new year approaches, experts sound off on the tips and trends you need to know to rule 2019.

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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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Study: HR Departments are the Least Digitally Advanced

HRExecutive

A new study finds HR departments are significantly behind other functional departments when it comes to digital transformation. This functional gap within organizations, across industries and geographies, is creating major barriers to enterprise-wide digital transformation. That’s according to a new report titled Leading Transformation: Shaping the C-Suite for Business 4.0 Innovation by the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants.

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how can I shut down a nosy receptionist’s questions about my appointments?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: How do you politely avoid questions about doctor or dental appointments from nosy coworkers? In my workplace, we have a sign-out sheet to keep track of where employees are over the course of the day, with the times we left the building and where we’re going in case someone needs to track us down. When I have any kind of health thing scheduled during the work day, I just write “appointment” because I don’t think anyone needs to know more specifically than

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Who's Your Ally?

Symantec

Cass A., a transgender man, shares his perspective of working as both a woman and a man at Symantec, and how those different experiences have helped him see the world through a unique lens.

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Hiring Manager Satisfaction Survey Questions

Survale HR

A great way to optimize recruiting is to measure hiring manager satisfaction using proper hiring manager satisfaction survey questions. I glossed over these questions in a recent article so I wanted to go a bit deeper now. I don’t like to throw out this kind of strategic content without providing context in terms of the who, what, where, why and when.

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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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It Matters What You Do For Parents After the Baby Is Born

TLNT: The Business of HR

Being a new parent is an exhilarating experience. But despite the joy that a new baby can bring, parents will sometimes get depressed or otherwise experience negative feelings immediately following the birth of their child. Sometimes these feelings are relatively mild — the so-called “baby blues.” Other times, the feelings are more serious and are indicative of postpartum depression.

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6 ways to mobilise ‘coasters’ in the workplace

HR Zone

Culture. 6 ways to mobilise ‘coasters’ in the workplace.

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Ep 160 – Everything You Wanted to Know About Career Paths But Were Afraid to Ask

Workology

Career pathing. For many of us working for organizations in the HR industry, I think the thought of creating a career pathing program seems like a pipe dream. But in today’s economy, it should be an. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution. Career pathing. For many of us working for organizations in the HR industry, I think the thought of creating a career pathing program seems like a pipe dream.