Wed.Oct 17, 2018

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Five Strategies to Improve Manager and Employee Relations

Reflektive

While managers and employees are better off as colleagues than friends, it’s still important to develop strong relationships between the two sides. Here are five strategies for improving the employee-manager relationship. SEE ALSO: Managing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Age of The Millennial. Schedule Regular One-on-One Check-Ins. This is where positive manager-employee relationships begin.

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Talk Like an HR Trendsetter (and know what it means)

TLNT: The Business of HR

Buzzwords. For better or worse, these are part of HR life. Just when you feel like you have the jargon and acronyms down, you take a short vacation and return to discover the rest of the team is speaking another language.

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Workplace Education or Workplace Training

DISC Assessments

As any member of today’s workforce knows, an important part of every job requires varying levels of training. In this week’s blog from the esteemed entrepreneur and quintessential American success story, Nido Qubein, ‘Workplace Education or Workplace Training’, readers will discover the important differences between training your employees (“how to do” something) versus educating them (“how to think” about something).

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Announcing the Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies of 2018

Linkedin Talent Blog

For the fourth year running, we’re excited to announce 2018’s Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies. The 2018 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies list is based on an extensive analysis of the interactions between over 38,000 staffing firms, 260,000 consultants, and 575+ million members on LinkedIn over the past year. What set the winners apart was their ability to engage LinkedIn members through compelling company and employee activity.

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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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Bookmarked: Get to Know the Woman Behind the Scenes of HR's Longest Running Survey

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Bookmarked " series, where we ask some of our favorite HR experts, analysts and business professionals to answer questions about their career, life and aspirations for the future. Be sure to bookmark it for next month! Erin Spencer has spent almost five years at Sierra-Cedar working behind the scenes to program and analyze the Sierra-Cedar HR Systems Survey.

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Setting Goals for Your Role

Kazoo

It’s Never Too Late for New Goals: Looking Ahead. Now that our morning coffee order has switched iced americanos to pumpkin spice lattes, it must be Fall. And once the weather changes, performance and learning goals are usually put on the back burner. As employees we often feel like athletes trying to beat the buzzer, wrapping up end-of-year projects and meeting final deadlines.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 2)

Achievers

Part 2: AI + HR = Promises and Perils. (Read Part 1 and Part 3 ). This is the second installment of my blog series. We’ve looked at how changes in the workforce are changing HR. Next, we’re going to explore how a constellation of technologies will change the future of work and the very nature of human labor itself. In 2016, I wrote a paper for Frost and Sullivan called “ The Coming Age of Sentient Tools.

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Founder Tammy Cohen and CEO Marco Piovesan published in Entrepreneur’s “The Many Pros and Fewer-Than-Expected Cons of Hiring Ex-Cons”

InfoMart

The post Founder Tammy Cohen and CEO Marco Piovesan published in Entrepreneur’s “The Many Pros and Fewer-Than-Expected Cons of Hiring Ex-Cons” appeared first on InfoMart.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 2)

Achievers

Part 2: AI + HR = Promises and Perils. (Read Part 1 ). This is the second installment of my blog series. We’ve looked at how changes in the workforce are changing HR. Next, we’re going to explore how a constellation of technologies will change the future of work and the very nature of human labor itself. In 2016, I wrote a paper for Frost and Sullivan called “ The Coming Age of Sentient Tools.

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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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Weekly Check In: Tips For Framing An Effective Questionnaire

Engagedly

Weekly check-ins are a great way to touch base with your team. They give managers and employees a chance to get on the same page without the stress of the check-in being treated like an actual meeting. Moreover, […].

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#SHRMDiv Speaker Spotlight: Q & A with Shirley Davis, Ph.D., CSP

SHRM

I have come to the end of my interviews with some of the amazing presenters for the SHRM Diversity and Inclusion Conference (#SHRMDiv). To provide some context, I got the opportunity to interview some #SHRMDiv speakers in the course of deciding on which sessions to attend. As a first-time attendee, I really wanted to gain an insight into the conference and learn more about the speakers.

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Ep 155 – Driving Organizational Change: Rebuilding Trust and Culture

Workology

According to research by Deloitte, 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct corporate culture is important to a business’ success. My next guest believes that there is a strong correlation between employees who claim to feel happy and valued at work and those who say their company has a strong culture, but […] Source According to research by Deloitte, 94% of executives and 88% of employees believe a distinct corporate culture is important to a business’ success.

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Why flexible working beats the 9-5

HR Zone

Retention. Why flexible working beats the 9-5.

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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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HR Deserves More Than a 'Seat at the Table'

Namely

We’ve all heard about how HR needs a “seat at the table. ” Given that people represent any company’s most valuable asset, that sounds reasonable, right?

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Get Started In HR Analytics In 5 Easy Steps

TLNT: The Business of HR

As adoption of analytics is increasing and interest is soaring, more and more companies are looking for ways to get started with HR analytics. In this article, I will give you a practical guide on how to get started with HR analytics in 5 steps.

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Mental Health in the Workplace

BambooHR

Mental health awareness has exploded over the last five years. Online digital media publications have dedicated a lot of content—and rightfully so—to this once-taboo subject because of the large appetite from readers wishing to overcome the barriers that really affect how we live. One area, however, that has stayed behind the curve regarding these important […].

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Google’s new long game: 100% clean energy all the time

Fast Company The Future of Work

Our time to move away from dirty energy to green sources is limited. Federal governments can’t be relied upon to push the conversion–especially not the one in the U.S. , which is actively working against large-scale adoption of green energy. Much of the progress we’ve seen so far has come from big corporate energy buyers demanding carbon-free power.

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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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6 ways to improve communication between managers and employees

Jostle

It goes without saying that communication between managers and employees is one of the most important factors of any successful business. Clear and open communication ensures everyone is on the same page about objectives, direction, and expectations. It means everyone knows where they stand.

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can I discipline a job candidate who no-showed, I’m getting reference fatigue, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I discipline a candidate who didn’t show up to a job interview? I went to send a Discipline Email Form to a candidate who hasn’t attended his interview even though we called him to choose interview time and then we sent a confirmation email including time and location. I was wondering if I can send him an email in which I can discipline him for not attending, which cost me time and money for reserving the location, and inform him tha

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Should Employees be Paid for Commuting Time?

The SHRM Blog

An interesting piece of research on publicly available WiFi access in England led to a question that made me pause. Should employees be paid for commuting time? As someone that travels a fair bit for work, I know the value of being able to connect and work from any number of strange locations–restaurants, hotel lobbies, airports, etc. But what about the commutes that make up a significant part of the day for so many workers?

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How mentoring can benefit your business

HR Zone

Employees. How mentoring can benefit your business.

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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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Small Businesses Attracting Talent with Better Benefits, Study Says

HR Daily Advisor

Larger organizations have already been using the lure of better benefits to attract candidates. A new study shows that small businesses are joining the fray of the talent war by rolling out the best benefits they can muster. juststock / iStock / Getty Images Plus. The physical, health, and financial security of 60 million Americans is linked to small businesses or firms with less than 50 full-time, permanent employees.

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Is Your Work Fun? The Secret to Being Ultra-Productive.

The Tim Sackett Project

You’ve probably heard all the business-psycho babble around “if you work doing something you love to do, you’ll never work another day in your life!” Of, if you work at something that makes you happy you’ll always love your work. Blah, blah, blah, it sounds like all you really need is a Life Coach! I’m just kidding, a little.

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Why media people are furious over Facebook’s bad video metrics

Fast Company The Future of Work

In April, 2016 Mark Zuckerberg said the following: “We’re entering this new golden age of video. I wouldn’t be surprised if you fast-forward five years and most of the content that people see on Facebook and are sharing on a day-to-day basis is video.” A little over a month later, according to a lawsuit , the company would follow up on complaints that it knew about about issues with its video metrics since 2015.

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my employee keeps saying “at my last job, we did it a different way”

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have an employee who has worked for us two years now. She is constantly starting a ton of sentences with the words “at my last job…” This is becoming a huge annoyance to many people. I can’t understand how, after two years, she is still making this comparison between our way and the way they did it at her last job. What is going on here?

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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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3 steps to create a 21st-century work culture

Fast Company The Future of Work

There was a time when it was perfectly acceptable for leaders and managers to rule with an iron fist. If a subordinate didn’t want to perform a task as assigned—or, God forbid, offered up a better alternative to an old way of doing things—he or she was given a stern talking-to, written up, or even fired. When the command-and-control leadership style prevailed, employee engagement, commitment, and innovative thinking all suffered.

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The War for Talent Is Now a Supply Chain Problem

TLNT: The Business of HR

When Cognizant, the global IT services company, realized it couldn’t hire data scientists fast enough to keep up with its needs, it started training its own. Now its program turns out data scientists in 90 days.

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The one chart that tells you everything you need to know about Netflix

Fast Company The Future of Work

Netflix, as we all know ad nauseum, does not share its viewership data with anyone. Not with creators, not with partners, and certainly not with the investing public or pesky looky-loos like journalists. It’s simply too valuable and must be locked away in the vault but for the precious few shamans who can view it. When Netflix shares anything besides its subscriber numbers and financials, it’s a special day, indeed.

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