Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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#WorkTrends: Diversity in Practice

TalentCulture

The evidence continues to pile up: Diversity pays. Whether you’re in the heart of Silicon Valley or elsewhere, diversity at work provides a greater breadth of thought, experiences and approaches, and it’s becoming more important than ever in business. But it can be difficult to move beyond the buzzwords and generate real, long-lasting change. On this week’s episode of #WorkTrends we talk with Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, a diversity champion and chief human resources officer at Symantec, […].

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5 Office Inventions That Will Make Work Fun Again!

HR Digest

Walk into almost any workplace, big or small, and you’ll quickly see how technology has transformed the way we work. Whether you’re a freelancer, a delivery driver, or a CHRO, one thing is clear: The modern office has adapted to new technology and tools in a number of ways to cater for changes in evolving workplace needs and working styles. How, for example, did we live without Skype or Slack?

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Managers: It’s Time to Stop Delegating and Start Autonomizing

15Five

How much do you (or your managers) delegate? If the answer is “a good bit,” it may be time for a different approach. As a quick disclaimer: Delegation isn’t inherently bad, and many of those business articles telling you how to “delegate smarter and get more done” have recommendations worth considering. People are promoted to management positions because they’re great at what they do, and it can be difficult to let go of that work to focus on leading.

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Reducing Costs and Improving Lives

CONCERN: EAP

Substantial research exists about the cost of behavioral health conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression in the workforce. Studies show that the personal toll on employees and the financial cost to companies could be eased if a greater number of workers who need treatment were able to access it. While nearly all employer-sponsored benefit plans include mental health coverage, nearly half of those with behavioral health challenges do not seek or receive treatment.

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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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3 Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Work

TLNT: The Business of HR

A significant shift is transforming today’s corporate landscape. The gig economy and technological advances are reshaping the workplace in ways that have significant ramifications for human capital and talent management. Flexible independent work provides increasingly attractive and viable career options for millennials and Gen Z, while artificial intelligence and automation are replacing job functions and requiring a fresh look at leadership training.

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Win the war for talent: 7 perks job candidates say they want

HR Morning

Every HR pro’s been here before: You find a candidate with all the right qualifications, only to have them slip away right before closing the deal. . After having done your best to woo them and offer a strong salary, you can be left scratching your head, wondering what you could’ve done differently. Changing strategies. Most HR pros have spent a great deal of time revamping their recruitment strategy in this candidate-driven job market, so it can be frustrating to continue to lose out on top tal

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Reducing Costs and Improving Lives

CONCERN: EAP

Substantial research exists about the cost of behavioral health conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression in the workforce. Studies show that the personal toll on employees and the financial cost to companies could be eased if a greater number of workers who need treatment were able to access it. While nearly all employer-sponsored benefit plans include mental health coverage, nearly half of those with behavioral health challenges do not seek or receive treatment.

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Want To Build An Effective Sales Team? Avoid These Common Misconceptions

Forbes Coaches Council

Whether you're looking to create a sales teamor expand an existing one, there are a few misconceptions you should address if you want to have a sales team that's truly thriving.

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Reducing Costs and Improving Lives

CONCERN: EAP

Substantial research exists about the cost of behavioral health conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression in the workforce. Studies show that the personal toll on employees and the financial cost to companies could be eased if a greater number of workers who need treatment were able to access it. While nearly all employer-sponsored benefit plans include mental health coverage, nearly half of those with behavioral health challenges do not seek or receive treatment.

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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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Sorry, HR, You Don’t Get Any Friends at Work–The DisruptHR Talk

Evil HR Lady

A few months ago, I wrote an article about how HR can’t have friends at work and it kind of created controversy. LinkedIn went kind of nuts discussing it, with people digging in their heels on both sides. I stand firmly behind my position that true friendships at work cause problems for a group that has to make so many decisions and advises so many people.

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5 Steps to Managing Your Benefits Program Like a Business

TLNT: The Business of HR

For the average organization, employee benefits can consume up to 30% of payroll. This spend is one of the largest on a company’s income statement. Yet, this area is often the least aligned with organizational objectives. Put simply, benefits are often not managed like a business. That doesn’t mean there isn’t thought or effort put into the construct.

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MTM Recognition & Bowl Game Season

MTM Recognition

Since 1971 MTM has been crafting prestigious awards for events of all kinds throughout the United States and beyond. We especially love this time of year because many of the awards that we make in our Championship Sports division, are shown on T.V. during the College Football Playoffs and Bowl Game Season. MTM is proud to work with 26 of the Bowl Games in the 2018-2019 College Football Season.

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Meet Namely: Julie Zhang

Namely

When Julie Zhang moved to the U.S. 23 years ago, she had no idea she’d find a career in quality assurance (QA). Julie left China to find work as a mechanical engineer in New York City, but was unable to find a job in that field. After balancing multiple jobs, learning English, and attending night school, Julie discovered a new passion: QA. Now, as one of Namely’s talented QA analysts, Julie spends her days testing new product features for bugs and ensuring every product update has no surprises.

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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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Why We Need to Simplify Work

The SHRM Blog

Organizational complexity is strangling innovation, productivity and engagement at an increasing rate. As companies have grown, they have added more structures, reporting relationships, communication channels, processes and rules. The ever-increasing reach of these organizational tentacles has resulted in many groups becoming lost in the complicated bureaucracy.

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Why We Need to Simplify Work

SHRM

Organizational complexity is strangling innovation, productivity and engagement at an increasing rate. As companies have grown, they have added more structures, reporting relationships, communication channels, processes and rules. The ever-increasing reach of these organizational tentacles has resulted in many groups becoming lost in the complicated bureaucracy.

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Elite Athletes and Local Businesses Test Their Talent at the Bath Sport and Business Awards

Cognisess

Bath is full of talented businesses and athletes making an impact in the community. Cognisess became an event partner for the Bath Business and Sport Awards to champion guests as part of their ‘Discover your Talent’ campaign. This initiative is aimed at uncovering hidden talents and harnessing a person’s potential. Over fifty attendees from both events played Colour Switch, one of Cognisess’ scientifically backed games.

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Leading Through Personal Vision: Five Simple Steps

Forbes Coaches Council

Leaders with the self-awareness and drive to establish and evolve their personal vision are more likely to be satisfied and successful over the long term.

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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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The Best Office Secret Santa Idea Ever (Throwback Friday)

Evil HR Lady

Office holiday gift exchanges are designed to be fun , but in the end, you often end up buying something someone else doesn’t like, need, or want and receiving something you don’t like, need, or want. We keep doing it in the name of “fun.” Many offices have adopted a “Secret Santa” game where all participants (and participation should always be voluntary) are assigned a co-worker and instructed not to tell that person who he or she is.

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updates: the hoarding volunteer, love of job vs. love of money, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who had their letters answered here in the past. 1. Is it better to love my job or love the money ? I was so surprised by all the replies to my dilemma and was really blown away by how nice and helpful everyone was. I tried to read all of the replies and the overwhelming response seemed to be that while money can’t buy you happiness, having enough to live a good life outside of work could certainly bring more joy.

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Don’t Be Afraid of Poor Analytics

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’ve taken any analytics or statistics courses, you’ll have been bombarded with cautions about how analytics can go wrong.

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Hacking the Onboarding Process to Provide a Positive Employee Experience

ADP

It's critically important for employers to provide a positive employee experience during the onboarding "honeymoon" phase of employment.

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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 State of Employee Engagement and Why Organizations Have Been Looking at Engagement All Wrong

Employee Engagement Group

Bob Kelleher recently spoke with Anthony Fasano from the Engineering Management Institute about the importance of employee engagement and how organizations have been looking at it all wrong. Bob also provides some tips on having empathy in the workplace, and how by doing so, you can help with the overall success of your organization. A. [Read More].

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Our weekly recap of fundings, mergers & acquisition, partnership and other interesting news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. FUNDING. *This week’s fundings: $70M+. Workato Secures $25M in Funding to Transform Digital Businesses Through Intelligent Automation. 15Five Raises $8.2 Million in Series A Funding to Unleash the Potential of the Global Workforce.

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HR pros might want to keep an eye on their own this holiday season

HR Morning

Here come the holiday gatherings, a chance to celebrate the year’s accomplishments, let the folks know you appreciate all their hard work … and do your best to keep a lid on things as the party rolls along. First the good news. According to a recent survey conducted by Chicago-based ad agency Third Coast Digital, respondents who work in HR were the most likely to say that they try to limit the amount they drink at holiday work parties.

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Does it Capture Eyeballs? #RecruitmentMarketing

The Tim Sackett Project

First off, hat tip to my buddy, Glen Cathey for sharing the article I’m about to reference. If you don’t know Glen, do yourself a favor and get to know him, follow him, stalk him. He’s brilliant and I read everything he ever puts out. If released his grocery list, I would read it. The article title is “ The Hottest Advertising Trend for 2018!

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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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Cafe Classic: Competitive Pay Is Not Enough

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: You may say that you pay competitively, but do you know that for sure? And is it competitive enough? Chuck Csizmar takes a Classic look at this near-universal claim to help us gauge if we have really put our money where our mouths are. You’ve seen your company’s employment ads and heard the pitch from your recruiters: you provide competitive wages.

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open thread – December 7-8, 2018

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 don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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On the First Annual Day of Understanding, Symantec Checks its Blind Spots

Symantec

Allyship in the workplace starts with checking your blind spots, and learning about perspectives different than your own.