Fri.May 31, 2019

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The last mile: turning insights into actions in workplace learning analytics

HR Zone

Development. Learning analytics: the 'last mile' problem.

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Old Town Road, Lil Nas X, and Your Creativity.

The HR Capitalist

External reading/case study time today at the Capitalist. If you haven't heard of Lil Nas X, you should ask your kids. His short cut "Old Town Road" is a streaming sensation. This video of him surprising an elementary school in Ohio went viral this week. But the real lesson is in how he put this cut together. Rolling Stone dropped a piece related to the emerging scene of sites offering musical tracks on the cheap: "No one saw Lil Nas X coming.

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Stealth Assessment as a Recruitment Tool

Owiwi

One method that is gaining momentum is “stealth assessment”. Of course, we are not talking about a ninja’s assessment, but what is stealth assessment actually? With this term, we usually refer to an innovative assessment for students that measures and supports learning in video games. According to the Professor of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems at Florida State University, Valerie Shute, stealth assessment is “seamlessly woven into the fabric of the learning and gaming environ

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Industry Spotlight - Restaurants: FLSA Compliance

Paycor

The headlines recently reflect many of the concerns over how restaurants pay its employees. The federal wage and hour law addresses non-exempt, tipped, and exempt employees. This webinar will sort through those definitions and clarify a restaurateur’s compensation plan options. Join Julie Pugh, a partner with the law firm of Graydon in Cincinnati, Ohio, as she discuss what has changed, what hasn’t, and some of the biggest mistakes that can be made when paying restaurant 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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Is it Possible to Give Too Much Recognition?

DecisionWise

As we were developing an employee engagement survey with one of our clients, the CEO commented that he didn’t like the survey item: My supervisor regularly recognizes me for doing a good job. He felt that managers shouldn’t praise employees for doing something that is expected. Every employee is already being paid to do a good job, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job.

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The Workforce as 100 People: Diversity in the UK Workplace

Take It Personel-ly

Diversity is an important thing. The collaboration of ideas, backgrounds, and cultures can often be a catalyst for new approaches that pay dividends in many walks of life. This is particularly true when it comes to the workplace. To assess how diverse the UK workplace currently is, office furniture suppliers Viking have undertaken a snapshot […].

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Looking for Digital Recruiting Case Studies For New Book

Workology

I’m excited to announce that I’m working on a new book. The book is expected to be out Spring 2020 called Digitizing Talent: Creative Strategies for the Digital Recruiting Age. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Compassion In Business

Forbes Coaches Council

Compassion begins with empathy—the ability to discern that someone is under stress, or is suffering distress, and then the willingness to relieve suffering by taking action.

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Ep 14 – The Management Skills Every Modern Leader Needs

Workology

Welcome to the new Workology Go Podcast. In just under five minutes, we get you the HR and workplace news you need before you start your day. Get ready, get set and go with the Workology Go Podcast. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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Productivity vs efficiency: what's the difference?

Jostle

We all want to be a little more productive at work, right? But what does that mean exactly? And how is that any different from being more efficient at work? Wow, so many great questions! Let’s answer ‘em, shall we?

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Seven Steps To Engage Your Employees In Strategic Planning

Forbes Coaches Council

What employees really want is to be heard, respected and appreciated for the contribution they could make to the overall strategy of the company.

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#SHRM19 Speaker Spotlight: Tracy Butz

SHRM

Candid conversations are part of the territory for HR professionals and managers. Stepping up and having a difficult conversation is no fun, easy task: it can be uncomfortable and stressful. But if we choose to not say anything, the issue is unlikely to get better and potentially can get even worse. Join us for Tracy Butz's Mega Session " Candid Conversations That Drive Results " on June 24 from 4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. to focus on how to effectively engage in open, meaningful dialogue, which will

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Get Clear On What You Want With Personal Leadership

Forbes Coaches Council

Personal leadership helps you formulate your vision for the future, so you can define where you want to be and take action to get from here to there.

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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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Catch Me Speaking Here in DC

Human Workplaces

With all the speaking I do, it’s actually rare for me to be doing three appearances here in the DC area over a two week period, but that’s about to happen! On Thursday, June 6, I’m doing a session for a group of COOs who are part of a forum organized by CEO Update. The session will be on “Fine-Tuning Your Culture for Innovation.” Then next Wednesday, June 12th I actually have two speaking appearances on the same day!

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Five Ways to Build Better Teams

Engagedly

The quality of our relationships at work is a critical factor in employee engagement. If we get along with our colleagues and enjoy working with them – we’re much happier than if we don’t. When you’re kicking off […].

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HRExaminer v10.22

HR Examiner

Prediction Machine. HRExaminer Weekly Edition v10.22 for May 31, 2019. What are the outcomes of cheaper prediction driven by AI in recruiting and HR? Darko Lovrich and Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic bring clarity to the topic. Can HR Become a Prediction Machine? “Innovation, risk taking, and rule-breaking seem to disappear once a person reaches a certain level.” Mary Faulkner has more in, Leadership and the Fear of Losing Everything.

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HR Strategy: How to Work ON Your Department, Not Just IN Your Department

SHRM

One of the challenges with HR strategy and strategic HR is that it’s often talked about in vague terms, which means it isn’t always easy to understand for some individuals. There’s a great metaphor for this concept in the world of entrepreneurship put forth decades ago in The E-Myth by Michael Gerber. Here’s the core of it: When someone starts a small business (even if it’s a sideline HR consulting business ), they do so because they want to do a certain task: writing, painting, consulting,

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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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The death of the CV: why recruiters need to move beyond the traditional CV cycle

HR Zone

Acquisition. The death of the CV: what's next?

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Best Cities to Work Remotely & Living Cheap

HR Digest

The best cities to work remotely must feature high marks of racial tolerance, friendliness to foreigners, regional stability and safe enough for women, aside from aggressively supporting a tech-lifestyle. Cost of living and the available outdoor activities are also major factors, though some people wouldn’t mind spending extra bucks to relax in some of their favorite cities.

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How Peaceful Powered Leaders Thrive

Forbes Coaches Council

Becoming a peaceful powered leader involves the ability to not give into our ego, to have some fun and to pursue a lot of active development work in ourselves and others.

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Job burnout is a real syndrome: So how do you prevent it?

Business Management Daily

Being committed to the job is one thing, but if you or your employees feel required to be available 24/7, you could all be headed for burnout. The post Job burnout is a real syndrome: So how do you prevent it? appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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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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I tried an Impossible Burger and Here’s my opinion…

The Tim Sackett Project

So, I’ve been hearing for a while all the great publicity of the Impossible Burger (or other plant-based meat products). I even got pictures sent to me by my friend Laurie Ruettimann who was cooking Beyond Burgers and Sausages over the holiday weekend. It seems like meatless burgers that taste like real meat burgers are a thing, especially for people who don’t eat meat because it’s murder but they want that great murder burger taste!

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Augmented Analytics: The Cyborg Brain Continues to Develop

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

Rarely since Jean-Claude van Damme’s Oscar-snubbed 1989 thriller have we been faced with a more realistic depiction of humankind blended with machine. Much in the way that Cyborg portrayed futuristic soldiers imbued with mechanically enhanced limbs, today’s augmented analytics platforms seek to fortify time-tested business knowledge and a healthy curiosity with seemingly super-human abilities to explore, process, and act upon business data.

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How Well Is Your Team Really Functioning?

Forbes Coaches Council

If you’re wondering how you can get your team to speak up more openly, here are six questions you may consider asking to learn the biggest pain points.

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What is Occupational Safety?

Effortless HR

Occupational safety and health, or OSH, is concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work. This can often be confused with a problem that only manual labor fields endure, but occupational safety actually impacts a large number of industries worldwide. The OSH Law was created in 1970 requiring employers to commit themselves towards providing a safe workplace.

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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 Conference Swag HR Pros Want Most #SHRM19

SHRM

A few weeks ago, I asked the question, “ What’s your favorite type of conference swag? ” A huge thanks for sharing your thoughts! I must say that I’m a bit surprised at the results. Here they are: Food and drink related items were at the top of the list. I wasn’t surprised at the requests for Yetis – they’re one of my all-time personal faves. But I was happily surprised at the mentions of stainless straws and chip clips.

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open thread – May 31-June 1, 2019

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Delivering Happiness- It Starts with Authenticity #SHRM19

SHRM

I sat down with Jenn Lim , a speaker in the Change Makers Series. I chatted with Jenn about her work creating the Zappos Culture Book and co-founding Delivering Happiness with Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh. Delivering Happiness June 23 at 1 p.m. Part of the Change Makers Series Julie Ann: Hi, Julie Ann Sullivan here and I am here with Jenn Lim, who is one of the speakers at the 2019 SHRM Annual Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas in June.