Thu.Apr 20, 2017

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Companies: When to Call a Labor and Employment Lawyer – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Last week, I wrote a post about when employees need to lawyer up or reach out to a government agency about something that’s happening at work. It occurred to me while I was writing the post that companies might want the same type of information. I’ve worked at organizations that never called an employment lawyer because frankly, they didn’t want the expense.

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Does Your Organizational Personality Matter?

Cornerstone On Demand

What does that even mean, organizational personality, and why should we care? If you are concerned about high attrition/low retention in your organization, then this is a “must-read” blog post. See how your organizational personality affects employee engagement. I was talking with my friend; we will call him Phil, well, that's because that is his name.

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Creating a Valuable Employee Performance Experience

PeopleStrategy

Performance management is being disrupted. In two-thirds of organizations today, business leaders are rethinking the traditional methods of managing employee performance. And employees are breathing a collective sigh of relief. According to Harvard Business Review research, some of the most common performance management methods can actually demotivate your best performers.

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Helping Employees Harmonize Their Inner Dissonance

CONCERN: EAP

Do you ever find that your inner voice is being less than supportive? Cautionary thoughts that help us avoid real dangers can be a good thing. But, if they too frequently intrude during everyday moments, these thinking patterns can sometimes negatively affect our mood and our performance at work. Repetitive negative or irrational thinking processes can contribute to stress and anxiety in the workplace because employees’ thoughts are closely tied to their moods.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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2 Principles for Effective Performance Management

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The next generation of performance management will be employee driven and focused on contributions. Social technologies are the tools that make it effective. Across the landscape of companies redesigning performance reviews, there is a diverse range in the way those systems are designed and implemented. Yet regardless of the specific path chosen, the common thread is to streamline and make the evaluative process more efficient while also increasing validity.

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5 Ways Wellness Programs Can Enhance Employee Engagement

Achievers

By: Barron Rosborough. Digital Marketing Coordinator, SnackNation. Look up from your computer and take stock of the colleagues working around you, they might not be at their desks much longer A recent Gallup study reports that approximately 51% of them [U.S. workers] are either actively looking for a new job or keeping an eye out for openings. Some say it’s a people or a hiring problem, others chalk it up to the natural employee lifecycle.

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How to Effectively Manage a Cross-Functional Team

Hppy

So, your company has decided to launch a cross-functional team. You’re not alone. Many organizations are choosing to shift from hierarchical to team-oriented structures in order to better meet the needs of an evolving competitive market. Although this shift combats the silo mentality and has the potential for substantial payoff, businesses can only reap these benefits if their cross-functional teams work seamlessly to achieve success.

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Helping Employees Harmonize Their Inner Dissonance

CONCERN: EAP

Do you ever find that your inner voice is being less than supportive? Cautionary thoughts that help us avoid real dangers can be a good thing. But, if they too frequently intrude during everyday moments, these thinking patterns can sometimes negatively affect our mood and our performance at work. Repetitive negative or irrational thinking processes can contribute to stress and anxiety in the workplace because employees’ thoughts are closely tied to their moods.

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Maybe it’s Not Your Boss

Laurie Ruettimann

Midway through my job as a relatively new recruiter at a consumer packaged goods company in Chicago, I was assigned a new boss. From the beginning, I didn’t like her. She never asked me how I was doing. She began and ended every meeting with pleasantries, but it was all business. So I asked her, “Why don’t you ask me how I’m doing?

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Helping Employees Harmonize Their Inner Dissonance

CONCERN: EAP

Do you ever find that your inner voice is being less than supportive? Cautionary thoughts that help us avoid real dangers can be a good thing. But, if they too frequently intrude during everyday moments, these thinking patterns can sometimes negatively affect our mood and our performance at work. Repetitive negative or irrational thinking processes can contribute to stress and anxiety in the workplace because employees’ thoughts are closely tied to their moods.

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4 Video Interview Tips To Ensure Your Candidates Excel

Spark Hire

Implementing effective video interview tips can help propel candidates through the hiring process. Video interviews are very trendy, and many businesses rely on them. They are no longer exclusive to a particular industry, and are a great aid during the hiring process. Some candidates may feel a video interview is daunting at first. It is quite different than the traditional in-person conversation.

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Helping Employees Harmonize Their Inner Dissonance

CONCERN: EAP

Do you ever find that your inner voice is being less than supportive? Cautionary thoughts that help us avoid real dangers can be a good thing. But, if they too frequently intrude during everyday moments, these thinking patterns can sometimes negatively affect our mood and our performance at work. Repetitive negative or irrational thinking processes can contribute to stress and anxiety in the workplace because employees’ thoughts are closely tied to their moods.

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Prove the ROI of Your Organization’s Learning Program

Everwise

With the ever-increasing pace of work, taking a step back to focus on employee development can feel challenging. As a result, employees often lack the opportunity or tools to grow within their companies. That said, building a professional development program can improve engagement, growth, and productivity. Not only that, it can net a positive Return On Investment, or be ROI-positive.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Organizational Learning: How Conflict Tolerance and Vulnerability Boost Results

WorqIQ

Learning the past tense of the verb “to eat” in French is (likely) easier than learning to be a more approachable supervisor, or re-evaluating your positions after a heated argument. And learning how to solve an algebraic equation doesn’t necessarily force you to rethink your place in the world. While I’ve met a few people whose lives were changed by vibrant math teachers, for most folks, math class didn’t lead to dramatic self-re-evaluation.

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Company Uses Facial Recognition to Assess Learning

TLNT: The Business of HR

Hong Kong-based Pathship had an interesting idea about learning that led to an even more interesting idea about analytics. The learning idea was that, with today’s technology, one can efficiently match up knowledge seekers to knowledge providers (e.g. novices to experts) for one-on-one conversations. Because we now live in a world where embedded analytics are de rigueur, this led to the question of how to assess whether the one-on-one conversation enhanced learning.

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Why we need simplicity to cope with complexity – mindfulness in business life

HR Zone

Business. Mindfulness: simplicity to tackle complexity.

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Survey Says: Companies Shifting Focus to Employee Experience

TLNT: The Business of HR

I came across this fascinating white paper from SilkRoad the other day. T he Big Shift Puts Employees First: HR Transforms from Processes and Transactions to Employee Experiences , is the 2017 contribution to their annual State of Talent reports. This shines a light on how the HR tech conversation has switched from tech to employees.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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HR and Finance: Keep the Lifeblood Flowing

BambooHR

In biology, the centralized nervous system is one of the hallmarks of an advanced organism. It coordinates essential functions like heartbeat, reflex, and growth so effortlessly that we don’t even have to think about them. This frees us to succeed at more than just basic survival, giving us space to discover our purpose, forge relationships, […].

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How to Get Buy-In For Your Ideas

TLNT: The Business of HR

Notice how some great ideas never made it past the initial concept, while other mediocre ideas seem to sail through with leadership on board? Sometimes, how you sell your ideas to decision makers to get buy-in is just as important as what you’re selling.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Sapho gets $14M more to make legacy software more useful with ‘micro apps’ . Innovapptive Secures $1.5 Million In Funding Round led by Hyderabad Angels.

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Is it HR's duty to resolve the 'productivity puzzle?'

HR Zone

Future. HR's duty to solve the 'productivity puzzle?

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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I Will Survive, HR style

Workology

(My apologies to Gloria Gaynor.) At first I was afraid, I was petrified. I kept thinking I couldn’t find the right person even nationwide. But then I spent so many nights combing resumes and stalking on LinkedIn and I grew strong. I knew we’d offer all along. And now you’re here. And it’s all new. […] Source.

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“Going into opening our new location in Dublin, we knew we were entering a war for talent.”

HR Zone

Culture. Interview: Cathy Donnelly, HR Director, Liberty IT.

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drunk boss got angry I couldn’t drive him, emailing thank-you’s for routine office stuff, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My boss got drunk and was angry that I couldn’t drive him back to the office. I have been working at my job (a Fortune 500 company) for nine months, after I graduated college last year. My boss and I went to a business lunch and he drank a lot. He was upset that I couldn’t drive us back to the office because I don’t have a driver’s license.

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Invisible Leader in a Digital World

NoExcusesHR

I have the privilege of meeting and working with many talented leaders across the country. They are bright, experienced, successful, and motivated to take their organizations to the next level. They share a common bond in that each one is struggling to find the talent their organizations are desperate for; yet when it comes to positioning themselves and their employer brands in the mainstream, suddenly the reality of their inaction becomes painfully clear.

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A Seat At The Table: HR's Vital Role In Modern Businesses

HR leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the success of modern businesses. But to truly become a vital, thriving part of the business, the most successful HR departments adopt the strategic mindset and approach of “future-ready” companies. This guide will explore four strategic tactics for your people strategy to help secure HR’s place as a critical part of the business.

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Influence the Future of #HRTech by Completing our Recruiting & HR Buyer Survey

Workology

One of the things I tend to get fired up about it the selling, marketing and engagement process between human resources and recruiting professionals with industry service providers and vendors. In my. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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What’s the Ideal Company Vacation Plan?

Mercer

Thinking about the ideal design for a company vacation plan? If attraction and retention is a high priority for your company, you’ll want to see what an ideal plan might include that can benefit all stakeholders. The post What’s the Ideal Company Vacation Plan? appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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Help! My Co-Founders Have Turned Into Jerks

Evil HR Lady

We four friends started an advertising company. I was given the role of business development manager. I love the job but during the course of time, the two partners who are better skilled became the self-proclaimed CEO and CMO suddenly. Then started the unfair treatment. They made us two feel like employees and often insult and humiliate us in front of people working under me.

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