Wed.Jan 04, 2017

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The Mind Is the Foundation of a Good Start to 2017

ATD Human Capital

Mindfulness has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity and acceptance these last few years. Many scientific studies have explored the positive link between practicing mindfulness at work and improvements in wellness, leadership, communication, performance, team relationship, and conflict resolution. The opportunity to develop tools and skills that significantly enhance team development and leadership has many benefits.

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How to Build a Best Practice Performance Management Process? (Roles & Responsibilities)

EmployeeConnect

The performance management process often gets ignored in today’s agile operating environments where people change jobs quickly and employees often care more about their industry and peer reputations than they do about company rankings. Many companies have replaced the formal performance review with greater managerial input into daily operations, social media and customer reviews and informal check-ins.

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6 Ways Managers Can Engage and Retain New Hires - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

(Article originally published on SwitchandShift.com). Starting a job is an exciting and scary moment for new hires. The first 90 days of employment are a critical time when they develop lasting opinions about their workplace that will affect their future performance. When handled well, the onboarding experience sets up an employee for success that will pay strong dividends to the company.

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How to Build a Best Practice Performance Review Process? (Roles & Responsibilities)

EmployeeConnect

The performance review process often gets ignored in today’s agile operating environments where people change jobs quickly and employees often care more about their industry and peer reputations than they do about company rankings. Many companies have replaced the formal performance review with greater managerial input into daily operations, social media and customer reviews and informal check-ins.

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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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Forget Middle Managers. Here’s Why.

WorkHuman

Have you ever seen the movie Office Space ? Do you remember the scene where Peter Gibbons tells the consultants (the “Bobs”) that he has eight different bosses at Initech? It’s a great scene because it touches on the complete waste of time and resources caused by bureaucracy. In the first part of our Q&A with Dr. Gary Hamel , we discussed the limitations of bureaucratic organizations like Initech – how they fail to inspire employees and fall victim to more agile startups.

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IRS Releases Proposed Regulations For Health Insurance Provider Fees

ACA Times

Section 9010 of the Affordable Care Act surrounds Health Insurance Provider Fees and the IRS has released some new proposed regulations for reporting information among other changes. See IRS REG-123829-16 and REG–134438–15. The changes include those reflected upon covered organizations netting more than $25 million in premiums written following December 31, 2017.

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Who Cares About The Employee Experience? - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

(Article originally published here in Eremedia TLNT). Who Cares About The Employee Experience? I mean most leaders and managers are either well into their strategic plans for 2017, or their plans were completed weeks ago. For those still working on ways to improve for the coming year, however, one key area to consider is your employee experience. Is it in good shape?

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Put an ACE up your sleeve when designing incentive programs…

What is Paul Thinking

There are a million things to consider when designing an effective incentive program. But at a very high level you want to do three things…. Get your audience to accept and commit to the program. Find a way to have your audience become owners of the program. You don’t want them to think the program is just management’s way of “getting more for less” – you want your audience to be active participants.

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Holding a 100-Person Virtual Meeting Room: Tactics for Success

Hppy

Meetings are an important part of any business, as they help employees get on the same page, update each other about important information and collaborate through ideas, thoughts and opinions on matters. However, holding a large meeting has always been tricky, which is why we are here to help you with some advice on how to maintain control and get the most out for your large virtual meetings.

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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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Developing and Retaining High Potential Talent

Everwise

A mere 15% of organizations believe they have enough qualified successors for key positions. Having a succession plan featuring high potential talent is crucial to staying competitive, with organizations vying constantly to attract the best people. Some organizations even try to begin identifying and grooming high potential employees from their pool of incoming entry-level staff.

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America’s Relationship With Work Email

TalentCulture

We surveyed one thousand people who consider email significant to their work, to find out which parts of the country have the busiest professionals. Americans differ when it comes to the rate at which they check work email. Thirty percent have their email open constantly, 54 percent check their email multiple times per day, and just 16 percent check their email once a day or less.

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How One Bootstrapped Business Competes for the Best Tech Talent

Justworks

As many business owners know, hiring for great tech talent is no walk in the park. And in Boston, it’s arguably even more difficult than in most states. According to an article published by the Boston Globe in 2016, Massachusetts is ranked as one the most difficult states in the country to hire tech workers, alongside Maryland and Virginia. Enter Justworks member GivingData, a company founded in 2009 and based in Boston.

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Why the CEO Should Report to the CHRO

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here’s what every CHRO should do tomorrow: “Go to the CEO, and say ‘guess what’ we’re changing the org chart. I’m in charge now, and you report to me.”.

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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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The Five Most Important Things To Do To Show The World You're Freaking Awesome at What You Do.

The HR Capitalist

Professional awesomeness. You've got it. The world needs to know about it. I've mentioned in the past that you need a plan if you want real career traction. Some of my rants have focused on the reality that you have to be willing to tell the world about everything you've accomplished. If you don't do it, no one else will. Now here's the tricky part - you have to share your awesomeness without looking like a jerk, or someone without any redeeming social skills.

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Hiring Managers to HR: Improve Your Recruiting

TLNT: The Business of HR

Visier’s The Demand for Data-Driven Talent Acquisition report is a very quick read and gives some interesting data to consider as you plan your 2017 talent acquisition activities.

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Practical Tips to Raise Up and Inspire Future Leaders

WorqIQ

If you Google any derivative of “raising up leaders,” you will discover the first several pages of search results are from faith-based organizations, not business publications. If business rises and falls on the shoulders of its leaders, shouldn’t the business world be just as concerned about developing future leaders? Read More» The post Practical Tips to Raise Up and Inspire Future Leaders appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Take Your Vacation in 2017

Laurie Ruettimann

Vacation policies are boring, dull, and yet totally essential for the health and morale of your company. Many businesses don’t have PTO plans because they don’t want to cover everybody fairly. Harsh but true. Some companies don’t want to put money away to pay out unused vacation when you quit, either. So they say things like, “We have unlimited PTO.

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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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Do You Remember Everything You Did In 2016?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recognize This! – Technology can help us look back at all we have done over the year, celebrating accomplishments and increasing our sense of meaning and belonging through work.

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Conversations That Count

Culture University

Are we losing the art of conversation? In an age where digital monologues, selfies, and superficial chats are the norm, the power of conversation is waning. Disconnected in our connected world, text, email, and social media exchanges are hardly interactive, let alone conversational. TV, live-streamed and public-event ‘conversations,’ from political debates to discussion groups, tend […].

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The limits of euphemism

Workable

As individuals it is likely that we have differing degrees of tolerance for being spoken to indirectly. And yet most of us are either approaching, or have already reached, our limit in terms of euphemism. I reached mine when I was asked by a company I was then working for to identify four positives about a colleague and four “deltas.” I’m not a particular fan of horizontal appraisals but that wasn’t my problem.

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Conversations That Count for Culture Change

Culture University

Are we losing the art of conversation? In an age where digital monologues, selfies, and superficial chats are the norm, the power of conversation is waning. Disconnected in our connected world, text, email, and social media exchanges are hardly interactive, let alone conversational. TV, live-streamed and public-event ‘conversations,’ from political debates to discussion groups, tend […].

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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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H-1B Visa Season Starts NOW

Workology

Even though we’ve just entered 2017, its time to start focusing on one of the most important dates of the entire year: April 3, 2017 — the date when U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Google Sued By OFCCP Over Comp Data

TLNT: The Business of HR

Google is being sued by the Department of Labor for allegedly failing to turnover documents relating to compensation of employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters.

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Kronos Acquires Financial Management Solutions Inc. to Deepen Financial Services Industry Expertise

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that it has acquired Financial Management Solutions Inc. (FMSI), a leading provider of workforce management and analytics applications for the credit union and retail banking industry.

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I want to have an indigenous spiritual ceremony for my team

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a research manager in a university setting. The projects my team engages in are varied, but focus on one specific health problem. I specifically manage one of the large projects on the team that works with indigenous communities across the country. I supervise a team that is 90% women (this will be relevant in a second), with most women much older but also a few young women.

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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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Performance Management Reboot Part 1: Why the Best Listen to Needs and Wants

Quantum Workplace

Many HR professionals can be seen running around the office trying to get employees what they need to do their jobs well. This communication and understanding is what makes you good at your job.

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7 Habits of successful Employer Brand Managers

Papirfly

In today's talent war you need to have a strong employer brand and your candidate experience must be on point. Employer brand managers play a crucial role in building and protecting your brand and reputation as a workplace. They tell the right stories to the right people and communicate your purpose and values. They shape how both internal and external stakeholders perceive your work environment.

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Open-Platform Technology is Changing the Talent Acquisition Industry

TalentCircles

As 2017 starts, the talent acquisition industry is filled with new technology choices. And it looks like the leaders who focus on incorporating them into their current recruitment efforts are going to be ahead of the game. When asked where.