Thu.Jan 26, 2017

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How to Implement Design Thinking In Your Workplace

Cornerstone On Demand

The rise of increasingly complex business systems and technology mean that today's companies need a creative workforce more than ever. To foster that creativity, many companies have turned to designers—not only to create new products and services, but also to improve their business processes and foster more innovative, happy and successful employees.

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Employee Well-Being Is a Company Issue

HR Bartender

I don’t know that the title of this post is a surprise to anyone. Healthy individuals make for healthy employees. And healthy employees are productive, contributing to the organization’s goals (and bottom-line.). When we talk about “healthy”, we’re not just referring to physical health. Gallup has one of the best well-being definitions I’ve seen. It’s a great way to view being “healthy” and has five components.

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To Succeed at Talent Acquisition, Go Beyond Your Applicant Tracking System

Visier

Talent acquisition is arguably the one HR area that provides the biggest advantage to a business. People are the driving force behind every organization, and hiring the right people is a critical factor for success. Research backs this up: According to one study , the ability to deliver on recruiting had a larger impact on revenue growth than all other HR areas, including onboarding and retaining new hires, managing talent, and developing leadership.

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The Employee Experience: Your Organization Is Your People - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience: Your Organization Is Your People. Your organization is your people. Always has been, always will be. If you want performance, loyalty, low turnover, and a legitimate passion for excellence among your workforce, you can’t approach communication or relationships as though you’re dealing with an organization, because you’re not.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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Have You Already Broken These HR Resolutions?

Kazoo

Hard to believe but January is already coming to a close. For those people who made new year’s resolutions, they might be well on their way toward making change while for others, those resolutions might already be a thing of the past. Some statistics indicate that less than 60% of people maintain their resolutions past the first month. Did you or your team make any of the following resolutions and more importantly, are you still sticking to them?

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Elements of A Great Employee Performance Management System

EmployeeConnect

The power of a modern performance management system comes from aligning technology, human resources and the company’s top C-suite executives in efforts to ensure that the system works as intended. Managers and staff in today’s corporate environments often dread annual performance reviews that can be subjective, demeaning, disregarded and excessively time-consuming.

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The Secret to Amping Up Your Productivity

Trish McFarlane

A few years ago, when I was working in an office setting, I wrote a blog post about amping up productivity. In hindsight, it’s not bad. But, having grown a little and experienced several different types of work environments since then, I’d tweak my suggestions a bit. Back then, in the corporate workplace, I was noticing that every person I talked with said they were busy.

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And the Highest Quality Sourcing Channel Is.

Bersin with Deloitte

Sourcing talent, at its most basic, is the identification of both internal and external candidates using various channels, tools, resources, and technologies. Recruiters do this by creating candidate pools (also referred to as “talent pipelines”) of active and passive candidates. And many recruiters spend the majority of their time trying to fill open positions, by […].

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IRS Commissioner Reports On ACA Stats For 2015

ACA Times

While we are getting our information in order for the 2016 tax year, we received some clarity on the previous year from the IRS. The IRS’s Commissioner John Koskinen has reported on information surrounding employer shared responsibility payments and individual premium tax credits (PTCs) for the 2015 tax year. ALEs are required to offer minimum essential coverage to their full-time employees.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Have You Already Broken These HR Resolutions?

Kazoo

Hard to believe but January is already coming to a close. For those people who made new year’s resolutions, they might be well on their way toward making change while for others, those resolutions might already be a thing of the past. Some statistics indicate that less than 60% of people maintain their resolutions past the first month. Did you or your team make any of the following resolutions and more importantly, are you still sticking to them?

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Interview Red Flags You Need To Know About

Spark Hire

There are many factors that can account for a candidate’s poor performance during an interview. Nerves certainly contribute, causing even the most put-together professional to blurt out something they’ll later regret. However, there’s a difference between a slightly embarrassing verbal misstep and a warning sign that should put you on high alert as you consider whether to bring this individual in for additional discussions.

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Here’s What Happened When Deloitte Dumped the Annual Review

TLNT: The Business of HR

This professional services organization tackles the burdensome problem of performance reviews with a program that provides more frequent opportunities to check in — with more effective results.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Benefits of Pets in the Workplace

TalentCulture

We let the dogs…in on this week’s #WorkTrends as we took a look at the benefits of pet-friendly offices. According to researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, it was discovered that pets in the workplace actually create a buffer between stressful situations, boost employee morale and increase productivity. This speaks fathoms about the value they bring not only to our personal lives, but to our professional ones, as well.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Decision Time: Are you Selling a Job or Your Skills as a Recruiter On The First Call?

The HR Capitalist

If you recruit for a living, we've all been there. You're having trouble filling a position, so you've turned to sourcing candidates. You end up with a target list of 5 candidates, and now the time comes for the initial cold calls. Which poses an interesting question - Are you selling a job or your skills as a recruiter on that first call? It matters more than you might think.

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How Fierce Loyalty Goes Terribly Wrong, Part 1

TalentCulture

DISCLAIMER: This article is not aimed at any specific group or groups, or “those other people who are wrong”. We all have a part to play. You’d have to be living in an air-sealed cave to be unaware of the rise of Fiercely Loyal and Fiercely Dangerous groups around the world. I won’t go into specific details about any of them because all anyone has to do is turn on the news or scroll through Facebook to get more than enough information.

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A Little Bit of Willie Loman Should Live in Every Sales Rep

Advos

In Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play “Death of a Salesman,” main character Willie Loman dreams of being a successful salesman, and believes the key to success is being well-liked. He struggles, however, and ultimately gets fired, as selling based on relationship building is surpassed by new technical and analytical sales techniques.

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You Do Not Fire a Difficult Person

ATD Human Capital

Most people can share a story about a difficult person at work. These people generally fit into several categories, such as Hostile-Aggressive, Complainer, Silent-Unresponsive, Super-Agreeable, Negativist, Know-it-All Expert, and Indecisive. A Hostile-Aggressive person tries to bully and overwhelm others, making cutting remarks and throwing tantrums.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Five Employee Benefits Trends to Watch in 2017

ADP

Five Employee Benefits Trends to Watch in 2017 Changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a proliferation of paid leave laws and the evolution of private.

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We Are All Tech Newbies, So Train For It

TLNT: The Business of HR

In Kevin Kelly’s book The Inevitable , he observes that we’ve hit an era where we are forever technology ‘newbies’ (i.e. an inexperienced user). You’d like to master your smartphone or PC, but apps and operating systems update so frequently that you never know when a feature will be added, removed, or changed.

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7 More Ways to Stay Positive at Work

BambooHR

Relatively speaking, is your workforce feeling down? Consider the general mood among your colleagues right now compared to, say, early December. What are the differences in their countenance, mood, and attitude? Do they have a little less pep in their step? Is their smile a little less pronounced? Are they a little less social? If […]. The post 7 More Ways to Stay Positive at Work appeared first on.

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Finance Officer job description

Workable

This Finance Officer job description template is optimized with financial and administrative duties to cover your company needs. Feel free to modify and post this template to online job boards and careers pages to attract qualified candidates. Similar job titles include Financial Controller. Finance Officer Responsibilities. Include: Keeping accurate records for all daily transactions.

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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How To Improve Employee Engagement in the Workplace [#Infographic]

Take It Personel-ly

If you’ve ever put salt in your coffee instead of sugar, you can understand the awful taste disengaged workers leave in employers’ mouths. When an employee plays video games or yaks it up on personal calls at work, it can feel like an insult to the company and to the hiring personnel who brought them … Continue reading How To Improve Employee Engagement in the Workplace [#Infographic].

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How Strong is Your Cultural Glue?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Culture is front and center for leaders who want to increase performance and strategic alignment in 2017.

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Career accomplishments, why we need to share them with our managers

HRNasty

Accomplishment Are you talking about your accomplishments in an interview? We think we are but most of us are not. We are too humble, too shy, or brought to act differently and many of us don’t realize it. The next few posts are going to show us how to talk about our accomplishments. In the last […] The post Career accomplishments, why we need to share them with our managers appeared first on by HRNasty, HR gone rogue.

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Going back: what fears and hopes do mothers have before returning to the workplace?

HR Zone

Culture. The hopes and fears of returning mothers.

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A Seat At The Table: HR's Vital Role In Modern Businesses

HR leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the success of modern businesses. But to truly become a vital, thriving part of the business, the most successful HR departments adopt the strategic mindset and approach of “future-ready” companies. This guide will explore four strategic tactics for your people strategy to help secure HR’s place as a critical part of the business.

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Do Hiring Managers Discriminate Against Asian Candidates?

Workology

According to a new study, candidates with names of Asian origin are less likely to book interviews. The joint Ryerson Munk School of Business and University of Toronto study found that even when Asian candidates had higher degrees and better resumes than other applicants, they still landed fewer interviews — and obviously, were therefore less likely to […] Source.

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‘Alternative Facts’: Not the Key to Communicating Employee Engagement Survey Results

Quantum Workplace

Within 48 hours of President Trump’s inauguration, people around the country were exposed to the latest political jargon: alternative facts.

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What Leaders Need To Be Communicating To Their Workforce

Workstride

This post originally appeared on AppreciationAtWork.com. Ask any worker in corporate America and most will tell you that business leaders could be communicating more effectively with their workforce. Data collected in an Interact/Harris poll shows that most leaders aren’t engaging in crucial communication moments that could help establish trust. In fact, 91% of employees who responded to the poll said communication issues drag executives down.