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Top Workplaces Winner Loves from the Inside Out

Energage

2016 Top Workplaces: Achieva’s Workplace Culture Creates Engaged Employees Dedicated to Community Service. . When companies earn Top Workplace status, celebrations often ensue. Achieva Credit Union in Florida takes it a bit further. It loves to make videos. Lots of videos. Don’t be surprised to see its leadership team spoofing car commercials. Or busting a move to the latest dance hit.

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Ready, Set, Hire! Memorial Day is Around the Corner

Outmatch

It seems we’ve just recovered from the holiday season, and now it’s time to gear up for the summer. How did that happen? Time moves quickly and so should you when it comes to staffing up for one of the busiest times of the year— summer vacation! As soon as the kids start singing “School’s Out!” you’ll have hordes of hungry road trippers, travelers, and festival-goers at your doorstep.

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4 Tips to Help Build a Manufacturing Team From Scratch

Effortless HR

Building a workplace team from scratch can be a daunting task regardless of what industry you’re in. There are a variety of considerations that must be made when assembling a new team: skill sets, experience, leadership, the list goes. Manufacturing settings can pose a particularly tough challenge due to the wide variety of backgrounds, types of positions, and differences in training.

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[Part 3] Talent Management University: Training, Managing and Moving Talent Jr/Sr Year

ClearCompany HRM

We are back with part three of our Talent Management University. In this series we are explaining how to properly train, manage and successfully move your talent within your organization. In part one, we discussed the new hire and the onboarding process , and in part two we focused on keeping employees engaged. Now, we are going to show you some of the best ways to retain and create a succession plan for your employees.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Company Purpose and Passion Are Always Changing

HR Bartender

I was listening to a panel discussion recently on the future of work. The panel was asked, “What will organizations NOT be talking about in the future?” The panel responded with “purpose and passion”. Because once the organization buys-into it , the conversation is over. Some would argue that a company’s purpose is different from its mission, vision or values.

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What To Do About Toxic Workplace Stress (Infographic)

15Five

If your workplace has you stressed out, you’re in good company. Stress is everywhere, prodding us into action and holding us accountable. Our environment can play a significant part in how we perceive and manage that stress. While small doses can be useful in motivating us and helping us respond to new challenges, too much stress can become toxic and unmanageable.

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No More Hams. Revamp Your Recognition and Rewards Program.

Kazoo

Raise your hand if you’ve ever received a ham, turkey or slightly inappropriate food-based reward from your company. How about an engraved pen? A generic gift card given to all employees? For some reason, some organizations still believe that giving away a celebratory ham, office supplies and impersonal rewards once a year are effective. They’re not.

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The Week of HR #2 – Beyond the title

EmployeeConnect

Welcome back to EmployeeConnect’s The Week of HR Series ! Just so that you are kept in the loop, every week we give you the best content on all related to HR! This week, we look beyond the title and look at what it takes to be a great HR Manager. The below articles have been curated by hand to cover the pivotal aspects to being a HR manager – from being not just a manager but a coach and mentor to the right skills needed to drive performance.

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Soft Skills and Cultural Divides: How One Mentor Helps Proteges Navigate Tough Challenges

Everwise

When Marc Hirsch began his career in the coatings industry in the late 1970s, there weren’t any official mentorships available to him at his first company. In fact, there wasn’t really much in the way of on-the-job career development. “Back in those days, there wasn’t an internet, we didn’t have an HR department — even though we were a 400 million dollar company,” he says.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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The Week of HR #2 – Beyond the title

EmployeeConnect

Welcome back to EmployeeConnect’s The Week of HR Series ! Just so that you are kept in the loop, every week we give you the best content on all related to HR! This week, we look beyond the title and look at what it takes to be a great HR Manager. The below articles have been curated by hand to cover the pivotal aspects to being a HR manager – from being not just a manager but a coach and mentor to the right skills needed to drive performance.

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All You Need To Know To Start Every Interview With A Bang

Spark Hire

There’s nothing worse than watching a promising candidate struggle during a job interview. They give rambling answers, sweat profusely, and draw one too many blanks. You just hope they can turn things around. But the truth of the matter is, the interview might be going south because it got off to a rocky start on your end. Whether it’s a gruff welcome or a confusing first question, there’s a lot that the interviewer might do to set an interviewee up for failure.

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It’s All in the Game for Coaching Business Teams

ATD Human Capital

Organizations can leverage soccer’s model for coaching teams in today’s global business world. There are two key developmental steps for people working in teams. First, team members must learn a new mindset for practicing collaboration. This is followed by applying new competencies that focus on collaboration skills. When combined, these serve as an operating platform that enables the application of genuine collaborative teamwork in the workplace.

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Is Your Idea Worth Pursuing ?

TheHRBlog

Restraining forces act to restrain or decrease the driving forces. For any idea to be successfuly implemented, the driving forces must exceed the restraining forces. Equilibrium or balance gets achieved when the sum of the driving forces once again equals the sum of the restraining forces.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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10 Ways To Be A Stand-Out Leader

TalentCulture

It’s not good enough these days to be a great leader, you have to be a stand-out leader. The challenges facing organizations these days are horrendous. Uncertainty, unpredictability, and randomness all underscore the storm forces that threaten to destroy them. To thrive and survive the maelstrom requires more than greatness from the individuals entrusted to lead in this type of world.

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3 Easy Steps to Establishing an Open Door Policy That Really Works

Insperity

We all know that employees join great companies and leave poor managers. How can you be that manager everyone wants to work for? A good start is a well-defined open door policy. First, a definition: An open door policy is one that encourages employees to come to their managers with questions, concerns and for discussion about issues. The policy is supposed to promote transparency , productivity and faster communication.

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How Mobile Technology Impacts the HR Industry

TalentCulture

We use mobile devices for nearly everything, from shopping and researching to scheduling our daily lives. In fact, more than 85 percent of U.S. Millennials own a smartphone and use it frequently throughout the day. Businesses are already optimizing their use of mobile technology to reach their customers, and to make their employees work lives more efficient, but there’s one area where they’re overlooking a huge opportunity: Human resources. .

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10 Benefits of Being a Trustworthy Leader

WorqIQ

In the digital age, it's easy to present a persona online that follows a carefully crafted narrative. That story line may be true or have elements of truth. We can be whomever we want online. I know people who appear online to have it all figured out, but offline are a hot mess. The converse it true, too: people online who appear kind and genuine are indeed both.

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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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#WorkTrends Recap: Rethinking the Candidate Experience

TalentCulture

In recent years, the recruitment process has become increasingly impersonal–for both candidates and recruiters–and it’s obvious both sides are less than satisfied with the experience. Several suggestions have been made to fix the issues but, more often than not, solutions overcomplicate the existing problems. On this week’s #WorkTrends show, we talked with Rebecca Macek , Director of Recruitment at CareerBuilder , about simple and effective tactics any business can use to get back to the b

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3 ways to improve recruitment marketing with video

Workable

In today’s market, where 51% of employed workers are open to a new job despite not actively looking for one, recruitment marketing is more important than ever. In fact, companies that aren’t using marketing tactics as part of their overall recruitment strategy are missing out on the opportunity to find, attract, engage, nurture, and convert people into engaged candidates.

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SocialHRCamp Has Come Back To Toronto!

Jeff Waldman

So I’m not really “The Rock”, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson, but the phrase is a little bit appropriate. I didn’t run a SocialHRCamp in Toronto, in 2015. There were several reasons for this, and simply put, the timing didn’t pan out the way I had hoped. But, we are back and I couldn’t be happier with how things have turned out for this coming Saturday.

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How Does Absenteeism Affect Employee Engagement & Safety Programs

Total Employee Recognition

It’s often easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind of new initiatives, PPE enforcements and mandatory safety meetings, but is all this really enough to keep your team safe and fully engaged? While these elements are certainly important to the safety of your team, they fail to paint the full picture. In fact, there are a number of important indicators that may go unnoticed, because we don’t formally associate them with safety.

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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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Old-Style Project Management Is Broken — Here’s How to Fix It

WorqIQ

In fast-moving industries, innovation hinges on a company’s ability to move quickly on new ideas, meaning hierarchical corporate structure is on the road to extinction. Project managers are in the passenger’s seat, traveling on the endangered list. Businesses typically organize themselves into siloed departments responsible for executing specific, repeatable tasks, but when the business needs to undertake a change or improvement, it creates a project.

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Here’s Why Good Employees Leave

TLNT: The Business of HR

The first job I had out of college was in the transportation industry. I went to work for a regional trucking company and the plan was for me to experience all the departments to better prepare me for management, and in the words of the owner, to maybe take the company over from him one day. I was excited about the opportunity and created this expectation in my head of a structured, well developed process to round my experience in logistics, safety, personnel, dispatch, and maintenance.

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7 Reasons To Promote Friluftsliv (And What That Means)

BambooHR

Summer is fast approaching, and with it comes warm temperatures, growth, and fun. So, naturally, it’s time to talk about friluftsliv. You read that right: friluftsliv (free-loofts-liv). It’s a Norwegian word meaning “free air life” and is centered around the idea that it’s good for you to spend time outdoors—both body and soul. And as […]. The post 7 Reasons To Promote Friluftsliv (And What That Means) appeared first on.

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Solve For Z: The New Problem Generation

Workology

Now that millennials are buying cars and houses and being altogether less threatening to the status quo, it’s time for a new panic: generation Z! If you thought millennials had a big impact on social and workplace trends, just wait for generation Z to come into its own. This cohort, which includes people who are 18 and younger, dwarfs millennials and boomers by at least 1 million baby Zs and is the largest living American generation.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Florida and The Future WorkHuman 2017

Laurie Ruettimann

Hello, everybody. I’m back from a few days in Florida. I was at a conference called WorkHuman , which is all about work-life balance and purpose. My husband is like, “Whoa, did you get some sun?”. I’m like, “Uh, what? No. I was inside the whole time doing important things for my client.”. Meanwhile, poolside, I “worked human” and read two books: Presence and All Stories are Love Stories.

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All the best places to recruit designers

Workable

As product and technology teams become increasingly entwined, the number of professionals who identify as a ‘designer’ is on the rise. Many jobs titles include the word ‘designer’, f rom product and industrial designers to interaction and user experience. There are visual designers, graphic designers, surface pattern designers —and that’s before we’ve got started on furniture, clothes or architecture….

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Jane Austin Guide to Promoting Your Employer Brand

Workology

Let us pretend for a moment that our dear friend, Jane Austin, after successfully tackling the novel circuit, decided to approach a new challenge: writing employer brand guides for HR. Being of great understanding of the human condition, and a unique ability to convey her thoughts, it is without doubt she would be met with prodigious success. (While this involved a serious amount of time travel our team managed to locate a mint condition DeLorean that did the job.).

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