Tue.Aug 21, 2018

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Using the Positivity Ratio to Improve Team Performance

Bonusly

Business leaders spend countless time, money, and energy searching for the secret ingredient of high-performing teams. Conventional wisdom suggests the best teams are those with the smartest, most talented individuals. However, that’s not the case. Google spent two years studying high-performing teams. Project Aristotle , as it was called, produced findings that challenged the prevailing view of team performance.

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Do Open Offices Kill Collaboration?

TalentCulture

Open workspaces may actually decrease face-to-face interactions, according to a new study by Harvard researchers on how open workspaces affect […]. The post Do Open Offices Kill Collaboration? appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Can Organizations Lead by Darth Vader/Nick Saban Thrive When Leaders Retire?

The HR Capitalist

Short post today. I'm interested in the longevity of performance when a dynamic individual leader either leaves or simply GTDTTKDT. GTDTTKDT - Gets Too Damn Tired To Keep Doing This. GTDTTKDT happens at the end of a dynamic leader's career. A good example is Nick Saban, who is the head coach and let's face it, the CEO of the University of Alabama football program.

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4 Reasons Why Your Business Should Focus on Workforce Planning

Pingboard

The business landscape is changing as a result of new advances in technology, as well as industry disruptors that leverage talent and technology in innovative ways. Along with the pace of change, organizations want to grow and remain competitive, and having the right mix of talented people will help make that goal a reality. According to research conducted by Accenture , 61 percent of executives say they are not well prepared to change their workforce skill and job mix to transition into a digit

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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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Cartoon Coffee Break | OOO Note

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon. Wondering what your PTO policy should look like? Read on.

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Workforce Planners: 4 Steps to Improving Profit Margins for Services

Visier

Professional services firms face a delicate balancing act in determining how to best staff a client project. Assign too many junior people, and client satisfaction may suffer. Assign too many senior people, and the salary spend may be higher than is necessary to deliver project outcomes. To further complicate things, when dealing with a multi-year project, the workforce will likely become more expensive within the contract’s lifetime.

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Customer Spotlight Series: Protective

Reflektive

How do you continue to innovate and grow after being in business for over 100 years? That was the question that leaders at Protective Life faced. “What’s made us successful up until now will likely not be what gets us where we need to go,” says Stephen Owens, AVP of Learning and Talent Development. Chief Human Resources Officer Wendy Evesque says, “Our customer demographics are changing, the needs of our customers are changing, and we’re seeing HR evolve to support those changing needs.”.

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When Should a Growing or Small Business Offer Employee Benefits?

Justworks

For a growing or small business, finding and retaining quality employees goes beyond compensation. Employers are able to offer benefits that employees can't access on their own, and so benefits provide value for employees at a relatively low cost to companies. The benefits package your company offers is often a deciding factor for candidates. When to Offer Employee Benefits Corporations and better-funded companies may seem to have access to the best benefits.

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Worlds Apart: Leading a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

WorkHuman

By Robin H. Everhart —. In this week’s WorkHuman Radio, we interview Robin H. Everhart, senior vice president and chief diversity officer at Cintas Corporation. Read her guest post below. When companies are asked about their diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy, they often defer to their chief diversity officer, or a similar title. But as a D&I practitioner, I would argue D&I is everyone’s responsibility.

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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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Case Study: Using Employee Surveys to Improve a Post-Merger Culture

Hppy

An international company, the result of a merger between an American and French firm, had used a “rollup” strategy to acquire niche players in the protection equipment space. Protection equipment includes clothing for firefighters, police and security personnel. As a consequence of this merger and acquisitions, we were commissioned to survey employees to determine the cultural consequences and “leftovers” that would affect cooperation between employees and how it might be related to company perf

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HR Florida: Your First Stop to Organizational Success!

Trish McFarlane

Conference season is upon us. Each year, spring and fall brings many events for HR professionals to choose from. In my line of work as an analyst, I go to my fair share, and then some. But, having so many available means that I need to be selective about which ones are the most valuable. I spent my career as a practitioner budgeting my time and money at events in the same way.

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How to Manage, Hire and Lead Your Remote Workforce

Workology

One of the biggest challenges for companies today is that our workforces are becoming more decentralized. Managers are leading teams that are in different locations or working remotely. This makes communication challenging as we get less face time with team members and organizational leaders, but also it makes hiring equally challenging. I should know, I […] Source.

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Recruitment: are first impressions unfairly influencing your hiring process?

HR Zone

Acquisition. The problem with first impressions.

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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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how do I resign when my boss is a horrible person who will yell and insult me?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I currently work for an emotionally abusive, unstable, plain mean boss in the entertainment industry. I’ve held out for nearly a year (the pay and benefits are great), but I’ve been actively job searching for about seven months. Nothing has worked out yet, but I’m (knock on wood) coming close soon. However, every time I’ve left the office for an interview, I’ve given the excuse that I have a “doctor’s appointment.” Additionally, I

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CoreHealth's Chief Relationship Officer Dr. Tyler Amell to Speak at 2018 IFEBP Canadian Employee Benefits Conference

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

CoreHealth's Chief Relationship Officer Dr. Tyler Amell will be presenting about the impact of chronic disease on workplace health and productivity at IFEBP Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference.

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how to answer the most common job interview questions

Ask a Manager

Some interview questions come up so reliably that you’d be missing a huge opportunity if you don’t bother to prepare for them — like “tell me about yourself,” “what interests you about this job,” and many more. There’s real benefit in thinking through your answers beforehand so that you won’t forget key details that you want to include, the substance of your answers will be more organized, and you’ll sound more polished.

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How good job descriptions improve your selection process

HRSG

Job descriptions play an integral role in hiring talent. To ensure that you attract the right talent, you should devise concise competency-driven job descriptions before starting the hiring process.

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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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Creating a Framework for your Organization’s Core Values

WorkDove

While many organizations have written Core Values, most do not have a framework to recognize, coach, and evaluate employees on these values. Without this framework, the. The post Creating a Framework for your Organization’s Core Values appeared first on Performance Culture.

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Ensure The Right Career By Identifying Your Enjoyable Skills

GetFive

The 5-Step Method Starts with Assessing Your Accomplishments. This is the most commonly skipped step in a job search even though it is the most critical step in learning what is important to you in a new job. Deciding what you want starts with understanding your accomplishments and the skills you enjoy using. Understanding those enjoyable skills and accomplishments will help you focus on them.

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Humility in a World of Strengths

Chris Heinz

We’re in the midst of an precedented strengths movement. Folks are eager to discover their areas of strength, and what’s more, they’re expecting to use their strengths every day. There are more laborers than ever before focused on helping others to use their strengths. And what’s more, technology around strengths is burgeoning.

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Employees: This is why you’ll love Engagement

EngagementMultiplier

“You mean I have to take time out of my very busy day to fill out a survey ?”. Okay, you might not actually say this to your coworkers or manager, but you might think it. After all, you have a lengthy To-Do list already. And now you have to pile on one more thing? That’s how camels break their backs, right? But before you brush it off or rush through it, allow us to make one more tiny demand on your time (I know, it’s no small request).

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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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CoreHealth's Chief Relationship Officer Dr. Tyler Amell to Speak at the 51st Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

CoreHealth's Chief Relationship Officer Dr. Tyler Amell will be presenting at the 51st Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference on November 18-21, 2018 in Las Vegas.

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should people with bad commutes get more leeway for lateness, bringing in snacks for coworkers, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Should people with terrible commutes get more leeway for lateness? From a lively discussion at work today: Our office is downtown in a major city (Washington, D.C.) with terrible traffic. Some staff have regular hour-plus commutes each way. Commutes can also be variable based on weather, repairs on the subway lines, etc.

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HR’s top five hiring challenges – and how to solve them

cipHR

From improving the candidate experience to reducing costs, we explore the top recruitment challenge facing HR professionals today. Finding and hiring the right candidates for your organisation, at the right time, is a never-ending challenge for in-house recruiters and HR professionals. Macroeconomic factors certainly aren’t helping: UK unemployment fell by 65,000 to 1.36 million in the three months to June 2018, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – the lowest figure for more t

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Feedback is a gift

101 Half Connected Things

Feedback is a gift. Or it is like a gift in many ways. Or at least 10. My Auntie Rosie was the worst gift giver in our family – and also brought the most joy – watching my cousin pretend to be delighted at receiving an electric lemon squeezer as a present for getting into University was a special moment. Likewise I appreciated the selection of Postman Pat books I received when I was 16.

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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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How To Get Time Off Work To Attend An Interview?

Rezoomo

Looking for a new job isn’t the easiest task at the best of times. But looking for a new job while you are still in your current one is even more difficult. Getting the time to find a new role is hard. You may find yourself having a sneaky peep at your emails on your lunch break or you could be stepping out of the office to take a phone interview while still trying to keep everything on the down low from your current employers.

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Cold Sweat

NoExcusesHR

You're asked a question in a big meeting and your mind goes blank. You completely forgot to follow up on an issue and the information is due in 5 minutes. You realize you are in over your head with an assignment and have no idea where to turn. paralysis sets in.and your credibility begins to evaporate. Keep Breathing Now before you do something rash like quit your job because you don't think you'll be popular anymore and won't have any 'friends' at work consider these points: - you're not going

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The Importance of Personalizing Your Onboarding Experience

Silkroad

For many organizations, retaining new hires is becoming more important than ever. The productivity, morale, and monetary losses of new hire attrition have always been a concern, but finding the right caliber of talent in today’s talent economy is becoming harder and harder. Best practices for onboarding new employees are rooted in retention and engagement.