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Ask the Experts: Pitfalls to Avoid When Moving to PTO Plan

HR Daily Advisor

Question: We would like to convert our vacation and sick leave benefits into a PTO plan. What steps should we take in the conversion? Answer from the experts at HR Hero : An employer really has a great deal of discretion in how they convert vacation and sick time into a PTO plan. While there is no specific best or required practice for converting, the overarching theme is that the more communication and advance notice employees have, the better and the less likely they are to be frustrated by t

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3 Trends Blending the Worlds of Learning and Work

Cornerstone On Demand

Today's employees report they can only dedicate 1 percent —24 minutes—of their work week exclusively to training and development. However, as digital technology evolves, learning and development opportunities will become more accessible, thereby enabling employees to build new skills on the job rather than in a classroom. Learning opportunities present themselves to employees every day, often in ways that may not seem obvious, such as asking a co-worker a question, referencing an online manual o

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How to Turn a New Company Policy from Negative to Positive

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the first time, Kronos was named one of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For according to global research and consulting firm Great Place to Work. Congrats to them! Enjoy the article.).

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Cartoon Coffee Break | Micromanager

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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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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Using Analytics to Link Leadership Development to Customer Satisfaction

Visier

“It is not the employer who pays the wages…. It is the customer who pays the wages.”. A lot has changed since Henry Ford first made this statement, but the idea that customers wield bottom-line power still holds true: Gaining a new customer is “anywhere from five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one,” according to this HBR post , and happy customers can spread valuable recommendations, driving business growth that is difficult to achieve through push marketing campaigns alon

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Earning More Responsibility at Work

Everwise

Imagine an employee has put in his or her time in a position, so much so that they’ve become a pretty skilled and valued employee. And as a result, that employee receives positive feedback. There’s just one problem: the manager hasn’t acknowledged the employee is capable of doing so much more than the work he or she is currently tasked with. That employee is ready for more, ready to tackle different and higher-level projects.

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Top 3 Causes of a Bad Candidate Experience

TalentLyft

Consequences of a bad candidate experience are devastating, both for your recruiting process and your company’s ability to sell products. In this blog post, we will present 3 most common causes of a bad candidate experience and suggest simple, yet effective ways to fix them. Read More.

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Complacency kills: three ways for SMEs to foster employee engagement and productivity

HR Zone

Employees. Three ways for SMEs to foster employee engagement.

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Social Marketing Best Practices for HR Conferences and Trade Shows

Advos

Ranking HR Conferences By Total Tweets and Influencer Engagement is one of HRmarketer's more popular blog posts. It highlights the important role that social media — particularly Twitter — plays in HR conference communications. In this post, I'm offering tips for participating in a conference's social media conversations—including specific things to do before, during and [ ] The post Social Marketing Best Practices for HR Conferences and Trade Shows appeared first on HRmarketer.

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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 Turn an Employee Survey Into a Conversation

TLNT: The Business of HR

Let’s face it — people don’t like filling out surveys. At least, I never have. And if I’m being honest, clicking through 50 similarly formatted questions tends to be pretty boring. Sometimes I even rush to the last question just to get it over with.

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The ageing workforce: four approaches for HR

HR Zone

Employees. How to manage an ageing workforce.

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Thanks, But No Thanks: 3 Tips for Politely Rejecting Job Applicants

HR Daily Advisor

You’ve spent countless hours poring over résumés and interviewing job candidates. You’ve finally found the perfect fit, so you offer that person the job. But now it’s time to let the other candidates know they were not accepted. Here comes the hardest part of the hiring process: rejection. Let’s face it: Rejection sucks, especially when you have to give bad news to job candidates who didn’t get the job they wanted.

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Why Blended Learning Works Best for Some Companies

Rallyware for Human Resources

Classroom training is dead. ELearning is the only effective tool for today’s learners. But is this always true? Does it mean that older approaches are really outdated and don’t contribute to the learning success anymore? We can’t deny changes that technology has brought to our lives in terms of mobility, instant feedback and gratification, seamless communication, 24/7 easy access to information, and the like.

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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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Why Quitting Is the Secret to Ultimate Productivity

Workology

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about myself, my business, and how to best manage my personal and professional goals along with my responsibilities as a wife and mother. The tasks seem never-ending and put me into a constant state of overwhelm. I know, instinctively, that this is not sustainable. Either I find […] Source.

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What You Should Consider Before Accepting That Job Offer

Take It Personel-ly

When you’re in the middle of a tough job search, you may get discouraged if you don’t get any offers after months of looking. Eventually, when you finally get an offer, you may be tempted to immediately accept it and put your search to an end. Instead, it’s important to carefully consider any offers you […].

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5 Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at UNLEASH

Reflektive

If you work in human resources, it’s possible you’ve recently exchanged your HR title for one using the word “people.” The change in terminology reflects a greater change in the function — HR is no longer a standalone department, but a fulcrum that drives success of the organization. This shift is not lost on UNLEASH America, which last year changed the name of its trade show from HR Tech World to UNLEASH.

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Compliance Corner: May 2018

Workforce Software

Most employers are familiar with FMLA, but few know about qualifying exigency leave. Learn about the 9 exigencies that require employers to grant FMLA leave here.

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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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Dear Facebook, I Don’t Need You to Protect Me from Hate Speech

Evil HR Lady

Dear Facebook, I’m actually an adult. I realize that not everyone on your site is–but really, it’s where us old fogies hang out. As such, I don’t need a parent, or a teacher, or a human resources manager to monitor things for me. See, it’s totally creepy when you started asking if every post was hate speech. My nephew’s fly away Count Olaf style hair, for instance, is hilarious, but not hate speech.

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Helping the Workforce Through Four Tough Scenarios

HR Daily Advisor

Businesses go through tough times, as do the individuals who populate them. Without the right approach from HR representatives and business leaders, things can quickly spin out of control and lead to irreversible damage. Here, we select four challenging scenarios and offer tips and advice on how you can maintain motivation among the workforce. Offering guidance and support to staff members is central to what HR brings to the operation of any business.

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Managing older employees: 3 worries you should put to rest

Insperity

Managing older employees with more experience can be nerve-racking for young managers. Will they think I’m unprepared? Am I in over my head? Would they rather have an older manager? It’s likely the younger leaders in your organization are having these thoughts, or have had them at one time or another, as they take on supervisory roles with teams of varied ages – from Generation Z to baby boomers.

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How Busy Female Professionals Can Reduce Stress and Focus on Success

Women of HR

For women with busy schedules, finding ways to focus on physical and mental health can be next to impossible some days. If you’re a professional who has many appointments to keep up with and responsibilities to take care of, you may find yourself at a loss for how to handle stress and anxiety. This can make achieving your goals difficult, especially if you’re unsure of how best to arrange your day to maximize efficiency.

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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 Organizations Need More Star Followers and Less Yes People

Workplace Psychology

Many of us miss a key point about the importance of followership. Indeed, most people hold a negative view of followership (Kelley, 2008). They can’t imagine anything good or positive that might come from the role of a follower. However, conversations about leadership must include followership “because leaders neither exist nor act in a vacuum without followers” (Kelley, 2008, p. 5).

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What to Look for When Discovering Your Second Career

Birkman International

When people think of starting a second career, they often associate it with entering retirement age. However, there are a variety of situations you can encounter during your working life that can spur a career change such as facing a layoff, feeling unfulfilled in your current role, or simply craving a change. While it may seem scary to leave a position where you likely feel comfortable, a second career can be a prime opportunity for you to try something different, discover a new passion, and le

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Maine’s New Marijuana Drug Testing Decision: What Employers Must Know

Precheck

Maine’s New Marijuana Drug Testing Decision: What Employers Must Know May. 1, 2018. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. The legalization of marijuana and its use in the workplace continues to be a hot topic for employers. As of February 1, 2018, Maine’s recreational marijuana law prohibits employers from taking adverse employment actions for off-premises marijuana use.

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the Ask a Manager book is now on sale — let’s discuss it!

Ask a Manager

The Ask a Manager book published today, and I am so excited to have it out in the world at last! If you haven’t already ordered a copy, I hope you will. If you’ve ever wanted a way to support Ask a Manager, this is the way to do it! The book is nearly all new content and includes principles for speaking up effectively at work in general; how to frame your concerns to your boss so that you get taken seriously; ways to get what you want from coworkers; how to talk to employees when you

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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 to Future Proof YOURSELF: 6 Suggestions [Video]

Inpower Coaching

Recently I posted a video on how to future proof your career, but I only addressed the career planning aspects of how to prepare for an uncertain future. As an executive and career coach, I also see the personal toll and challenges that people encounter when creating a “Plan B” in case of reorganizations, layoffs […]. The post How to Future Proof YOURSELF: 6 Suggestions [Video] appeared first on InPower Coaching.

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EY Announces Bjorn Reynolds of SafeGuard World International Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award Finalist in Central Texas

Global Upside

News Release Contact: Brian Dames Company: SafeGuard World International Tel: +1 (737) 704 2200 Email: Marketing@52.213.147.90 For Immediate Release EY Announces Bjorn Reynolds of SafeGuard World International Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2018 Award Finalist in Central Texas AUSTIN, May 1, 2018 – EY today announced that Bjorn Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer of SafeGuard World International, is a finalist for the Entrepreneur Of The Year ® 2018 Award in the Central Texas.

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my boss killed my plant, CEO wants everyone to donate their pay back to the organization, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss killed my plant. My office is windowless, so when I left for my two weeks’ vacation I asked my boss, Jane, if I could leave my miniature rose on the wide windowsill in hers while I was gone. She said sure, and agreed to water it a few times as well. When I got back, however, the plant had been returned to my desk and was in an advanced state of dehydration.