Mon.Jan 09, 2017

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Why Small Businesses Need a New Approach to Learning

Cornerstone On Demand

Small businesses often see learning as a nice-to-have, not a must-have. Once you meet the bare minimum of compliance training, why would you waste precious resources and time on learning? The answer is simple, but may be hard to hear. For small businesses, learning is critical to success: By teaching people to think proactively rather than reactively, a small workforce can grow and scale with a nimbleness and creativity that's harder for large organizations to implement.

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New Research: What Candidates Really Want from Employers

UpstartHR

Last week I published some new research that frankly surprised me. When we hear about video interviews, assessments, and hiring processes, we expect candidates and employers to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. But it’s not the case. When asked a series of questions, both groups responded similarly, and the priorities for each group matched in terms of ranking, even if not in terms of exact percentages.

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Your Five-Step Wellness Program Checklist for 2017

Cornerstone On Demand

It's that time of year again, and nearly every employer is focused on health plan renewals for 2017. In addition to your health care plan, how will you approach employee wellness and mindfulness in the New Year? I've walked numerous clients through their organization's wellness program "resolutions," and along the way I've developed a set of core questions that are key to developing a budget-friendly, strategic and effective plan.

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From a Training Culture to a Learning Culture

ATD Human Capital

Companies have long thought of employee learning as something that happens in a classroom, delivered by a trainer away from the worksite, with content and activities selected by an instructional designer. Managers, as well as trainers, have come to believe that good training can solve any performance problem. This is antiquated thinking. The problem is not with the quality of training.

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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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Role-Swapping Will Retain and Motivate Your Best Employees

Reflektive

The metaphorical image of a well-oiled machine is commonly associated with successful business models. Each cog in place, the company runs smoothly, churning out its intended product without so much as a squeak. This comparison, however, may be misguided. Many modern companies are more akin to a living, breathing thing – a tree, for example – than a cold piece of machinery.

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Mentoring: The Glue That Makes Employees Stick

ATD Human Capital

At some point in our careers, we have all been the “new hire.” We’ve all walked into a new workplace on our very first day, excited about the opportunity, but a little unsure about what to expect. That day, and the days and months that follow, can either make us glad we took the job or leave us thinking maybe it wasn’t such a great opportunity after all.

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The 7 Learning Styles: What’s your Learning Style?

EmployeeConnect

Compared to the age old traditional educational framework, there is a varied range of learning styles which are in fact more appropriate for students. Schools are usually seen to adopt a linguistic or logical learning style, but studies have proved that there are other learning styles which are more effective for some learners. Whenever employees are not performing as well as they can, it is an indication that they need to be taught in a different manner.

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Words With Friends – Words With Emotion

What is Paul Thinking

Incentives and rewards influence behavior. Recognition influences behavior. Simply paying attention influences behavior (ask Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger after their studies at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s ). What you say influences behavior. HOW you say things also has a profound effect. Rational vs. Emotional. If you’ve read the book Switch you’re aware that changing behavior is hard and is a function of not only my rational decision to change but also whether I can connect emotiona

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Understanding the Benefits of an Unlimited Vacation Policy

Hppy

Do you have any friends with an unlimited vacation policy? Announcing that is a sure way to drop some jaws, but it’s actually become very common in the United States, especially among startups. There’s a lot of controversy surrounding the practice, and for good reason: on the surface, it sounds like every employee’s dream, and every employer’s nightmare.

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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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Is Job Hopping Inevitable?

TalentCulture

As long time readers know, I tend to be pretty opinionated. Recently, I’ve gotten sucked into a conversation thread on LinkedIn about job hopping. It’s semi interesting–much of it is people rationalizing why they move from job to job to job. Much of the job hopping phenomenon has been attributed, incorrectly I think, to millennial. “That’s the way they are, we just have to accept it.”.

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7 Steps to Growing Great Leaders

TLNT: The Business of HR

Effective leaders are a key resource at all levels of an organization. Leaders are a necessity if companies are to thrive and succeed in the long-term. Great leaders push a company forward , elevate expectations, and are well-equipped to motivate those around them.

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KNOW YOUR HR STUFF: The Difference Between U3/U5/U6 Unemployment Rates

The HR Capitalist

The economy is hot and the 2008/2009 recession feels distant, right? That means now is a pretty good time to review the types of unemployment rates that are available out there for consumption. As it turns out, the one we usually hear about is an incomplete picture. Here's a primer on unemployment rates that are available from the government and a chart that shows where we've been since 1995: U3 is the official unemployment rate.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Mentoring: Women Elevating Women

TalentCulture

Mentorship, whether it occurs in or out of the workplace, has numerous personal benefits, especially for women. Our guest, Valerie Martinelli , previously of the Center for Economic & Policy Development, Inc., will be discussing the pros of mentorship and how women in the workplace can develop a support system for elevating the cause of women in the workplace.

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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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CEOs can no longer ignore the importance of a healthy corporate culture in 2017

HR Zone

Culture. The importance of healthy corporate culture.

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5 Questions Managers Should Ask Themselves

TLNT: The Business of HR

The following is a short, self-administered, self-scoring test that can help any business owner or manager prioritize their intentions for 2017:

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Giving a F**k is Very Buddhist

Laurie Ruettimann

Organized religion is a simple man’s way to understand philosophy. Many of the big questions are explained for the average consumer who doesn’t want to do a deeper dive into the meaning of life beyond his individual experience. So it’s weird for me to read management books from people who steal ideas from organized religion and get away with it.

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2017 Kickoff: What Business Leaders Need to Know Now

Paycor

As we turn the calendar to 2017, businesses are faced with more uncertainty than in years past. A new administration will take office on January 20, which could signal future compliance changes and new government regulations. What those changes may be and how they will affect businesses is still to be determined, but Paycor is keeping a close eye on any developments that will impact compliance, the HR industry and taxes for our clients.

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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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Soft skills analysis: Theresa May

HR Zone

Future. Soft skills analysis: Theresa May.

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Buzzwords and Baby Steps

Compensation Cafe

Buzzwords confuse entry-level HR workers. They may feel bewildered by esoteric insider terms. Those new to the compensation profession probably don't know the special meanings of words like premium, gate, cliff, range, compression, sandbag, perk, terms like P4P and phrases like halo effect, forced distribution, lead-lag or double-snapshot. Every trade has its own jargon and ours is no different.

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5 Steps to a Modern Campus

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by: April Mazon. It’s an exciting time in higher education , with technology innovations, globalization, changing demographics, and evolving workforce needs changing the way things are done. This is prompting higher education leaders to re-evaluate institutional operations and the delivery of education itself. This disruption presents a tremendous opportunity for re-establishing the critical importance of higher education to society and the economy, and for constructing a new found

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What Is the New “Blended” Workforce?

Workology

In a recent Forbes article about 2017 HR trends, author and futurist, Jeanne Meister, wrote about “the blended” workforce. It’s an excellent article and I highly recommend it. (Ms. Meister is also the co-author of The 2020 Workplace which also well worth a read.) Definitions Change Over Time I reflected as I read her article on how the […] Source.

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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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Making Payment

NoExcusesHR

"The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are, for what you could become." - Charles Dickens Entitlement It seems to me the world is filled with a sense of entitlement. It's not just the wave of younger employees in our organizations that desire some sort of reasonable balance in their lives ( oh, the horror! ) And, it is certainly not just the old guard that feels like they've paid their dues and for some reason need to do less simply because they've been bre

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Life Integration. Go Remote.

Blend Me Inc

Life Integration. Go Remote. Jennifer Cameron. Mon, 01/09/2017 - 17:10. . When my husband and I were planning to start a family, thoughts of my career path instantly surfaced. Having grown up with two self-employed parents, I am no stranger to hard work. I witnessed firsthand the countless hours my mother would put into the job but also the flexibility she had to make time for us kids.

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What to Do When an Employee Quits Without Notice

HR Daily Advisor

Most employees in the United States are employed “at will,” which simply means that either the employee or the employer can end the employment relationship for any legal reason, or no reason at all, at any time. The law at the federal level has no requirement of giving a particular notice period when terminating a job. That said, it’s still fairly customary – though not legally required – for employees to give notice to employers before walking away for good.

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How to Increase Workforce Racial Diversity

Workology

Racial diversity in the workplace – from recruiting to hiring to promoting people of color – continues to move at an unimpressive pace. And if LinkedIn’s annual workplace diversity report is any. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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San Francisco CEO Calls Rural Americans Racist; Institutes Xenophobic Hiring Rule

Evil HR Lady

Melinda Byerley, the founder of TimeShare CMO wrote an offensive tweet calling people in “middle america” [sic] stupid and that’s why there are not as many jobs there. Please read it for yourself: I didn’t feel like tweetstorming, so here’s a screen shot. “What middle America can do to get more jobs in their area.” pic.twitter.com/1nYSehA4kA. — Melinda Byerley ☠️ (@MJB_SF) January 7, 2017.

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being asked to watch a manager’s kid, letting a struggling employee work from home, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Being asked to watch a senior manager’s kid. I’m writing on behalf of a coworker. A senior manager — not her boss — brings his 10-year-old daughter to the office on days when her school is closed (summertime, holidays, etc.) and he always asks her to let his daughter sit in her office so she can watch her.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Office Communication

Vibecatch

We’ve all heard it. Communication is the cornerstone of any successful relationship. From our family to our neighbors, once we learn to interact effectively, many doors open up. Nowhere is this more truthful than within the confines of your workplace. Studies reveal that companies who encourage social well-being are 4.5x more likely to retain the best employees.

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