Fri.Jul 28, 2017

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Employee Coaching Isn’t Always Visible – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. They’ve announced availability of “ Your Last Differentiator: Human Capital ”, authored by Gregg Gordon, vice president of the data science practice group at Kronos. You can download the first chapter here.

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5 Traits of a Mindful Leader

WorkHuman

Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Pandit Dasa, embedded at the top of this post. Aspiring to become a mindful leader starts by asking yourself a set of somewhat uncomfortable and confronting questions. What is my motivation for leading? Am I in leadership because I enjoy power, control, and fame? Am I leading to serve or am I leading to be served?

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11 Quotes From Investors in Different Decades of Their Lives

Justworks

It’s not often you hear events or panels addressing ageism in the workplace. That’s one reason why Cassidy North-Reist, Events Manager at Justworks, wanted to create a new speaker series called DECADES. Her inspiration stemmed from a conversation she had with a coworker at a previous job. “[My coworker] was a 50-year-old woman, I’m a woman in my 20s.

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[Infographic] How To Say No At Work And Why It Matters

Hppy

Achieving the perfect work-life balance is difficult. We all want to be successful in our careers, but we also need to be happy with the amount of time we spend with friends and family. A variety of factors contribute to the challenge of striking the right work-life balance, including: Job demands and responsibilities. Company culture and environment.

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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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Joint Challenges: HR and Legalized Marijuana

TalentCulture

Legalized marijuana may soon become a nationwide reality—possibly within the next year. Even if it doesn’t, more states could join Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Washington, D.C. in legalizing recreational marijuana. So in anticipation, let’s explore what the legalization of marijuana could mean for employers, and specifically, for HR departments.

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The War for Talent Is About to Go Nuclear. Here’s Why and What You Can Do

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you are a reader of inspirational management books, an HR professional, or basically have ever been an employee at just about any company anywhere, you’ve heard the platitudes:

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The Art of Loving Negative Feedback

Questback

Surveys can be intimidating for many managers, giving the vibe that they are being tested. But 'bad' feedback can be the best feedback you ever get.

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4 Powerful Applications of Big Data in HR

TLNT: The Business of HR

Money might make the world go around, but data tells it how fast and in what direction to spin, and as long ago as 2013, 91% of top executives were planning big data initiatives.

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How Employee Pay Is Perceived and Why Perception Matters

Compensation Today

This is an excerpt from our recent ebook collaboration with BambooHR entitled Everything You Need to Know About Communicating Pay. Download the full ebook here. It’s only when we see pay in the context of the emotional landscape of an employee that we’re able to frame the compensation conversation in a way that yields a favorable outcome. We tend to approach pay from a myopic perspective, which can be damaging — we must always put ourselves in the employee’s shoes. 16 Elements of Engagement, Sat

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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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Win the War for Talent: Listen and Act with Employee Touchpoint

Questback

Employee Touchpoint gives business leaders detailed insight into what their teams are thinking during every key lifecycle phase, helping leaders develop talent faster, and solve for newly discovered issues.

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When She Took Calls From Her Hospital Bed She Knew Work Was ‘Out of Control’

TLNT: The Business of HR

Ten years ago, Renae Smith founded her own public relations company, The Atticism , in Sydney, Australia. For years she worked long hours, building her business from the ground up, chasing clients, and answering emails at all times of the day and night.

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Digital Leadership: Future Management – 4 Skills Today’s Managers Need to Learn Now

Questback

Digitalization is radically changing the world of work. Here are 4 lessons for managers if they want to succeed in embracing the opportunities the future holds.

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6 Most Common Reasons Why Performance Management Systems Fail

Engagedly

Performance management system is one of the most important aspects of an organization. HR managers are usually the ones who carry out the performance management process in an organization. Most organizations already have a performance management system, but […].

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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 Workplace Diversity Increases Employee Engagement

Questback

Engaging the best talent is as tough as it's ever been. Check out the tips for how to more effectively retain and engage your employees.

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The Most Popular Corporate Jargon by State

Evil HR Lady

We love to use business jargon, even though 88 percent of Americans have only pretended to understand jargon spouted by a co-worker. However, apparently, we don’t use the same jargon in every state. Textio looked through over a million job postings and pulled out the jargon most popular in each state. In addition, they found that jargon filled job postings actually took longer to fill –three times as long as a job description that stayed away from the jargon.

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How to Align Employee Engagement with Business Objectives?

Questback

Misalignment between employee engagement and business objectives can slow down your growth. Learn three ways to make sure your employees are aligned with company goals.

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how to deal with a controlling coworker

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a colleague who does basically the same work that I do – we’re in the same unit, have essentially the same job functions, the same bosses, and we share an assistant. More importantly, we’re in the same pay grade. I have been in this job longer, but she is older and has more work experience in general. We have several progress meetings with our various bosses, but she wants the two of us and our assistant to meet once a week to give each other status upda

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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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Continuous Employee Feedback Is Essential to Understanding the Employee Journey

Questback

Employee feedback helps you understand and optimize the employee journey, improving staff retention, productivity, and decision-making.

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Are Recognition Mobile Apps Worth It?

Workstride

I recently had a conversation with a potential customer about smartphone apps for recognition programs. They said it was a necessary feature when considering a new recognition software solution. After all, people are reliant of their phones and some employees simply aren’t sitting in front of a computer all day. They need access to an app. When I first said recognition programs don’t need an app, this customer started to get confused.

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What to Look for in an Employee Engagement and Feedback Tool

Questback

There are many options available when choosing an employee engagement and feedback tool. This post shares key things to consider in your decision making process.

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The Ultimate Guide to Engaging Outside HR Resources

Mercer

If engaging outside HR resources is top of mind, especially as you face open enrollment season, we offer the ultimate guide. The post The Ultimate Guide to Engaging Outside HR Resources appeared first on Mercer PeoplePro Blog.

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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 7 Stages of the Employee Lifecycle and Why They Matter

Questback

The employee lifecycle has 7 distinct stages, each of which provides the opportunity to collect feedback, gain insight and improve performance.

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Room Attendant job description

Workable

Use this Room Attendant job description template to attract and hire qualified candidates. Feel free to modify this template to meet your job requirements. For similar job titles, check our Housekeeper and Maid job descriptions. Room Attendant responsibilities include: Changing bed linen and making beds. Replacing used towels. Sweeping and mopping floors.

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How to Keep Employees From Leaving - A Guide to Employee Engagement

Questback

Keeping your employees engaged is the most reliable way to grow your bottom line. Here’s how to retain your talent for the long term.

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Seven Rules for Good 1-on-1s

Silkroad

Regular 1-on-1 conversations between an employee and manager can be indispensable opportunities for information exchange and relationship building—or, they can be a complete waste of time. In this insightful video, Ed Muzio , award winning author, speaker and CEO of Group Harmonics , offers practical tips and ideas for bringing value to these important conversations.

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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 Evolve Your Employee Feedback From Tactical to Strategic

Questback

How to create a 3-year plan that will help organizations maximize the gains from managing and using employee feedback by achieving foresight-driven feedback

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Five for Friday: Innovation

Jostle

Innovation has become a priority for many businesses. Innovative ideas and solutions can improve processes and give organizations a differentiator in their market. However, it's a tricky topic to untangle. Who do you go to for innovative ideas? How do you know if they're worth investing in? These five articles are here to help you figure that out.

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Is Employee Insight Less Valuable than Customer Insight?

Questback

Most firms today place customer insight above employee insight. What can HR learn from the world of customer engagement to enhance employee insight strategies?