Mon.Apr 08, 2019

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6 Reasons Why Your Organization Needs a Modern Employee Intranet

Advanced Learning Institute

It’s probably no coincidence that while a reported 87% of today’s workforce still typically receives company information via an intranet (in addition to email or in-person), it’s that exact same number who say that they’re unengaged with their jobs. According to a 2018 Gallup poll, “ a staggering 87% of employees worldwide are not engaged.” Could it be that these are the same people who continue to receive company information in confusing, old-fashioned, and ultimately ineffective ways?

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"I Was Terrified": Virginia's Kyle Guy Shows How Preparation Turns Pressure Into Power

Forbes Leadership Strategy

“I could lie to you and say I knew I was going to hit them, but I was terrified,” Kyle Guy told CBS after the game. “I just literally told myself that we dream of these moments, and to be able to make one happen was special.

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Reject With Respect: How to Decline Job Candidates

ExactHire

One of the less glamorous tasks in recruiting and human resources is the responsibility to decline a job candidate when he isn’t the best individual for a role. While it’s not easy or fun, it can and should be done with efficiency, professionalism and respect. After all, if you were in the candidate’s shoes, you’d want to know the final decision on your potential employment status with the organization.

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Creating a Company Culture of Authenticity

15Five

The subject of authenticity has been getting a lot of attention in leadership circles, and for good reason. As one of the 17 drivers of employee engagement , authentic leadership plays a prominent role in how people view their employers. The challenge? Authenticity is often viewed as one of the most complex drivers to address. However, once you understand what it really means to create a company culture of authenticity, it’s not all that difficult to achieve.

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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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How To Gain Buy-In From Your Team

The People Equation

When my daughter was in elementary school I chaperoned a group of second-graders on a field trip to the ArtPrize exhibition in downtown Grand Rapids. Picture this: ten 8-year-olds, excitedly dashing around parks and gardens, in and out of exhibition buildings. They were so excited to experience the art displayed throughout our city. Naturally, their first impulse was to run.

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How To Get Started with Recruitment Marketing (Part 1)

Workology

Traditional marketing strategies are becoming commonplace in recruitment. The war for talent is on and recruiters must start thinking like marketers in order to streamline processes and compete for. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Onboarding and Retention: How Can You Do It Best?

Bonusly

First impressions matter. What do you want your new employees to think about your organization when they walk through the door? When you’re welcoming new employees into your company, you have a valuable opportunity to make a strong first impression about how your organization operates. Do you want to give off an organized and efficient energy? Perhaps you want new hires to feel they’re in a place where people can have fun.

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Start to Use Design Thinking

Precheck

How Healthcare Organizations Can Start to Use Design Thinking Apr. 9, 2019. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Design thinking. It’s a popular buzzword in HR and operations circles these days. But while you might associate “design” with creative fields or Silicon Valley startups, there’s a new movement to use design thinking in healthcare organizations.

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How To Gain Buy-In From Your Team

The People Equation

When my daughter was in elementary school I chaperoned a group of second-graders on a field trip to the ArtPrize exhibition in downtown Grand Rapids. Picture this: ten 8-year-olds, excitedly dashing around parks and gardens, in and out of exhibition buildings. They were so excited to experience the art displayed throughout our city. Naturally, their first impulse was to run.

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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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Ways To Effectively Balance Work, School, And Personal Life As A Mature Student

Take It Personel-ly

“A dream does not become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work,” said Colin Powell. While this is true, combining education, work and family commitments can be challenging, especially if healthy living is not factored in. As such, there is a need to find a balance so that you lead a fulfilling […].

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Onboarding: First-week tactics that pave the way to success

HR Morning

Easing new hires into the job is important. And the best way to do that is give them real responsibilities — and expect results — in the first week. Ideally, after a banner first day of introductions, special events and a great lunch, the rest of the week is time to have them roll up the sleeves. Good people are usually eager to prove themselves.

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Career Planning Is a Talent Imperative

SHRM Resources

Talent mobility is training the employees you already have to fill new positions that will help meet business objectives, said HR consultant Ben Eubanks, SHRM-SCP, speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management 2019 Talent Conference & Exposition. "In short, it's putting your internal talent where it needs or wants to go to solve business challenges.

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Internal vs. External Recruitment: Benefits, Costs & Best Practices

Digital HR Tech

Your hiring strategy is one of the most important parts of keeping your company’s engine running. Hiring the right people will push your organization forward with innovation and expertise. But it’s not all about recruiting new talent. Some of your best hires may actually be working for your organization already. There are pros and cons to hiring both external candidates and looking inside your company’s existing talent pool.

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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 To Get Started with Recruitment Marketing (Part 2)

Workology

In part one of this post, I covered what should be included in a talent brand audit as you begin adopting a marketing-based recruitment strategy. Now, we’ll move on to advanced marketing, from. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Disappointing gender pay gap results: it’s time for a fundamental cultural shift

HR Zone

Culture. Gender pay: time for a fundamental cultural shift.

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Want To Keep Your Employees Engaged? Start Viewing Them As People

Forbes Coaches Council

If your intention to help your employees evolve and develop new tactics that will settle up some of their anxiety is sincere, you'll see that your people will also be sincere towards their tasks.

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The HR Analytics Management Cycle

Analytics in HR

I started my research into HR analytics over a year ago. After a careful review of the growing – but limited – existing literature on HR analytics, I bumped into a substantial lack of clarity across HR and management scholarship, and by so-called HR analytics experts in the industry. There was – and there is to a certain extent – a lack of clarity in relation to subject matter terminology, with a misleading use of AI and data science jargon, whereby terms such as machine

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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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I wet my pants at my new job

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am writing to you in a state of extreme mortification. I, a full-fledged adult, wet my pants at work. What makes this worse is that this is a brand new job that I absolutely love, but now I’m thinking about just quitting and never showing my face there ever again. For context: I am a woman who had several medical procedures last year that left me with some minor bathroom issues.

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Help Set Performance Goals for Employees

ADP

Employee goal setting can take different forms. We often talk about performance goals for employees only in the context of an annual performance review.

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Student Loan Repayment Assistance is Important to a Comprehensive TAP

Edcor

Businesses face many workforce problems. Among them are stressed employees, problems recruiting workers, and challenges retaining qualified employees. A business that differentiates itself with a student loan repayment program is a business that is meeting these problems head on. Student loan debt isn’t the only cause of the personnel issues, but for many people there is a correlation.

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5 Dangers to Avoid in Upgrading HCM to the Cloud

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written By: Lori Pierson, Vice President HCM Transformation, Oracle. The momentum to move on-premises human resources applications to the cloud is heating up now more than ever before. The transition is becoming mandatory for companies wanting to take their HR applications to the next level, take advantage of new technologies (such as AI) and deliver a better experience for their current and future employees.

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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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Leadership: why HR has a responsibility to build a sense of belonging among employees

HR Zone

Culture. Belonging, and how to build it.

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Chocolate vs. Broccoli in the World of Hiring Software

ApplicantPro

Given the choice between a heaping bowl of chocolate ice cream, and a heaping bowl of steamed broccoli, chances are I will always choose the chocolate ice cream. Who wouldn't? Also given the choice between the two, my kids will always choose the bowl of chocolate ice cream. However, because I'm the dad I have to do what's best for them and sometimes give them the bowl of broccoli.

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Why Business Decision Makers tune out Left Brain Thinkers

Babette Ten Haken - Human Capital & Industrial IoT

Ah, the life of left brain thinkers is complex and frustrating. These professionals, including STEM professionals (Science-Technology-Engineer-Mathematics), often are the smartest people in the room. Hands down. They also are the hardest-to-understand people in the room. That is why business decision makers turn off and tune out presentations and communications from the left brain thinkers in your organization.

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Can We Bring Back the Experts Now, Please?

HR Examiner

“It’s not only been an awful decade for experts, it’s also been an awful decade for the people who need them” – Jason Seiden. The last decade has been awful for experts. If you can remember that far back, the crash of 2008 unleashed a wave of unemployed into the workplace who quickly learned to position themselves as consultants as opposed to laid-off.

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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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11 Tips for SHRM Annual Conference Attendees – #SHRM19

SHRM

Image captured by Sharlyn Lauby after speaking at the SHRM Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV If you’re in the human resources profession, then you know the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference is fast approaching. This year’s event will be held June 23-26, 2019 in one of my favorite places, Las Vegas. This is a must-go event for me and I’m not just saying that because it’s in Vegas.

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11 Tips for SHRM Annual Conference Attendees – #SHRM19

The SHRM Blog

Image captured by Sharlyn Lauby after speaking at the SHRM Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV If you’re in the human resources profession, then you know the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference is fast approaching. This year’s event will be held June 23-26, 2019 in one of my favorite places, Las Vegas. This is a must-go event for me and I’m not just saying that because it’s in Vegas.

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California Bill Would Exempt Certain Occupations from Dynamex Ruling

SHRM Resources

The California Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Dynamex Operations v. Superior Court jolted the business world by making it more difficult to designate workers as independent contractors. Proposed legislation would codify the case and add a few exceptions.

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