Fri.Jul 29, 2016

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I Need A Nurse, Stat!

The Tim Sackett Project

In the United States, we are facing a major nursing crisis, unlike anything we have ever seen. If you’re in the healthcare industry, you already know this and you’re living this nightmare each day. Your recruiters are beyond frustrated in trying to fill openings, only to have more nurses leave every day. So, what can you do? Join Cathy Henesey, ASHHRA Board member, and Director of Talent Acquisition & Workforce Planning at AMITA Health and myself for a free webinar hosted by CareerBui

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Recipes for #HR Success: Ethical Practice

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: This series is brought to you by our friends at Capella University. Capella is an accredited online university dedicated to providing an exceptional, professionally-aligned education that puts you in the best position to succeed in your field. They offer bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees as well as certificate programs for human resources and business professionals.

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Oracle “Human Talks” Show: Guest, Brent Skinner

Trish McFarlane

H3 HR Advisors is excited to share a new video series we have in partnership with Oracle. Human Talks is a show where we talk to HCM practitioners, analysts, and Oracle partners. Each episode is approximately 5 minutes, so well worth your time in hearing what is happening in the world of HCM. Please check out the first episode with one of our favorite industry analysts, Brent Skinner, Principal Analyst at Nucleus Research.

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Growth Starts with Working Human

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Growth within a human workplace combines traditional learning opportunities with the recognition of a challenge- and fun-oriented mindset. In today’s post, I wanted to revisit a set of findings from the 2016 WorkHuman Research Institute ROI of Recognition survey. As we explored the sets of practices that contribute to a more human and caring workplace, a concept emerged that emphasized the importance of growth and development.

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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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Professional development positively effects engagement and retention, study says

HR Morning

Just how big a role does professional development play in employee engagement and retention? A recent study provides us with some new insight. . BetterBuys , a Web-based resource on business technology, recently surveyed 2,000 employees — the majority of them managers — to try to quantify the benefit of offering workers opportunities to widen their job horizons.

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Thoughts on Leading a Lonely Life

Laurie Ruettimann

I just finished The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. The book chronicles the author’s experience with loneliness but also weaves in stories of art, AIDS, masculinity, feminism, sexual deviance, and the emergence of technology as a mechanism to overcome social isolation. Yeah, totally uplifting. But it was so superbly written that you forget you’re reading about pain, despair, and emotional disconnection.

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Crowdmatrix Launches – Online Platform Connecting Investors with Growing Private Companies

Jeff Waldman

I had the honour of attending a fantastic event this past Wednesday evening in downtown Toronto. It was the launch of Extreme Venture Partners backed Crowdmatrix — an online investment platform that connects accredited investors with growing private companies seeking capital. Not only did Rubsun Ho , CEO of Crowdmatrix demo the platform, a couple handfuls of growing Toronto-based tech companies pitched their platforms to a packed room full of potential investors (see the list below).

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Scaling Culture 2: *When* It Goes Wrong

TalentCulture

The second part in a series exploring the why, when, and how of managing company culture in a growth organization. If you’ve ever had to work with another human, you know good relationships make for good work. These bonds are the conduits of culture, and while they don’t guarantee success, you can be sure it ain’t happening without them. Think of relationships as connective tissue: take this essential layer away and business would just be a pile of old laptops and financial documents.

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Helping employees manage their emotional investment

HR Zone

People. Helping employees manage emotional investment.

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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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This rate of increase for ADA lawsuits is staggering

HR Morning

You likely know by now that federal agencies have made rooting out disability discrimination a top priority. And you likely expected lawsuits to increase in this area. But did you expect things to reach this point this quickly? . Compared to 2015’s figures, ADA Title III lawsuits have increased 62.4% in 2016, according to the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP , which tracks ADA lawsuits and trends carefully.

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Brexit Fallout: Is the U.K. Facing a Brain Drain?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Editor’s note: If Britain does leave the European Union it will have significant implications for U.S. companies employing workers in the U.K. or considering expanding there. Littler Mendelson attorneys detail some of the potential impacts in today’s TLNT article – What Brexit May Mean For U.S. Companies With Overseas Workers.

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Gaps in Both Will and Skill Explain HR’s Struggles with Analytics

DDI

Which skills and personality traits are holding HR leaders back from greater success with analytics, and what functions will be their most promising partners along the way?

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6 Productivity Apps to Achieve Success in Business

WorqIQ

There are many factors that lead to achieving success in business. In today’s world, with all of the wonderful technology available at our fingertips, certain apps built for productivity help us achieve meaningful, lasting success. Today, we will take a look at our favorite productivity apps. Read More» The post 6 Productivity Apps to Achieve Success in Business appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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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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Who are your brand ambassadors?

Ceridian

By Kelly Allder, VP of HR Programs, Ceridian. I’ve played on a co-ed softball team for over 15 years. We started out as the youngest team in the league and now we’re the oldest. We’re the nice team. We don’t take ourselves too seriously and we have fun on the diamond and off. Umpires like us, other teams like us; we’re just really pleasant people. This sets the stage for a recent interaction I had with one of my teammates.

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Launching a Small Business? 4 Ways to Prepare

Paychex

More entrepreneurs are launching small businesses as technology continues to advance and become more affordable, making it possible to leverage the tools favored by large corporations. Learn what you can do before launch to improve your changes for success.

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When Should I Assess?

Outmatch

Timing matters when it comes to implementing an assessment. Should it be part of the initial application process, or should it come later, after the screening call, for example? Should everyone take the assessment, or only select candidates? These are important questions to ask. Whether you combine the assessment with an existing step in your hiring process , or add a new step for assessing candidates, it will inevitably impact your candidate experience.

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I Think I’m A Clone Now

Evil HR Lady

When you hire people, you want people who are just like you–right? Someone with whom you could be best friends? Lots of people hire this way, but it’s not the right way to hire. While culture is important, what’s more important is that you find people who aren’t like you–people who have different knowledge, skills, abilities, and ideas.

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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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Which Presidential Candidate Will Cause Your Employment Costs To Rise? The Answer May Surprise You

Paychex

According to small business expert Gene Marks, there is no question that employment costs have increased and could continue to increase in the coming years. Will either presidential candidate reverse the trend, or will these costs continue to rise?

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my manager moved into my apartment building, can I land my dream job after a not-great interview, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s four answers to four questions. Here we go…. 1. I shared concerns about my boss, and they weren’t kept confidential. My department within the last year had a new vice president brought on board. My manager, who at the time was overseeing me and my coworker, wasn’t performing very well, and in my one-on-one meetings with the VP, I expressed my concerns about our manager not hitting goals or being particularly good or effective at her job.

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4 more rules the NLRB says to cut from your handbooks now

HR Morning

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has struck again in the name of protecting employees’ speech rights. . We’re smack in the middle of a vicious cycle for employer policy making — the more the NLRB continues to broadly interpret the speech protections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the more labor charges it receives on the issue.

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my junior team member is insisting on a desk by a window

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a start-up, where I “manage” two other people. Manage is in quotes because we are technically a “flat” organization, but as we grew they started promoting people to team leads. In practice, leads work as middle managers (including things like making decisions on project priorities, approving PTO, all the basics), even though on paper we claim no hierarchy across the whole company.

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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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Join me for a free webinar on 8/24: “How to Navigate Alcoholism and Substance Abuse under the FMLA/ADA”

The Employer Handbook

Are you prepared to address drug- and alcohol-related disabilities and leave issues under the FMLA and ADA? At some time in their lives, millions of Americans have abused drugs and alcohol. While many are in recovery, others continue their struggle. Inevitably, your workforce will feel the impact. Join this new discussion to learn about the applicable employment laws, available accommodations and leave options under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act

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open thread – July 29-30, 2016

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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Five for Friday: Body language

Jostle

In the workplace, nonverbal cues can sometimes speak louder than our voices. Body language can also be a key indicator of a wide range of emotions between coworkers. Being aware of our body language can help us improve our communication and understand others. Read on for five insightful articles on this "touchy" subject.

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Join me for a free webinar on 8/24: “How to Navigate Alcoholism and Substance Abuse under the FMLA/ADA”

The Employer Handbook

Are you prepared to address drug- and alcohol-related disabilities and leave issues under the FMLA and ADA? At some time in their lives, millions of Americans have abused drugs and alcohol. While many are in recovery, others continue their struggle. Inevitably, your workforce will feel the impact. Join this new discussion to learn about the applicable employment laws, available accommodations and leave options under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act

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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 we’re opening up the doors to a new candidate-driven hub

Reward Gateway

When companies have a position open the recruitment team is usually on the frontline meeting people. And because recruiting is a constant at any growing company, the team meets a lot of people. We get to know them, and understand what they’re looking for in a job and in a career. My team helps coach them through the interview process, and hopefully, to becoming a Reward Gateway employee.

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New release: Workable for Android

Workable

We’ve worked hard to ensure that your needs are met, so I’ll get straight to the point. Here’s why you should use the Workable Android app: Get the right work done, faster. As soon as you open the app, you’ll see a smarter way to sift through your candidates. See which candidates you need to evaluate, which candidates you have yet to review and the ones you’ve viewed most recently (so you can access them faster).

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Coffee Break: Dress code, employee perks and the case for changing your job title

HR Zone

Employees. Dress code & the case for changing your job title.

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