Tue.Jul 12, 2016

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The Business Case for HR Software and Analytics

ClearCompany HRM

HR Pros have heard for years that it’s their turn for a “seat at the table” and that they need to “get strategic” about people management. And while some might argue that HR Pros have been strategic and own people management already , there’s finally a study that makes it official. XpertHR’s latest research into HR roles and responsibilities has for the first time in the last 14 years of doing the survey, found that the role of HR data and HR software is a key priority, particularly for private

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Purpose-Driven Companies Are Driving The New Economy

15Five

As 2015 came to an end, The Atlantic published an article entitled, 2015: The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being. Indeed for many of us things are better than ever — so good, in fact, that more and more of us have an opportunity to seek the highest levels of personal fulfillment — even at work. While things are looking better on average, plenty of people are still suffering.

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The Basis of Leadership Is Born in the Brain: Why Leaders Should Care about Neuroscience

Hppy

Want to be a better leader? Want to motivate and engage your employees to great success? The old way of doing things relied on collecting data, running numbers, and looking at spreadsheets. Employers motivated employees with bonuses and financial perks, but few authentic interactions with management. As neuroscience enters the world of leadership development, research tells us that the basis of leadership might be different than we thought and we may need to change the way we lead.

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Scavenger Hunts as an Easy and Cost-Effective Way to Build Teamwork

The People Equation

Business professionals enjoying a team-building scavenger hunt. This post is brought to you by Strayboots , a company that provides customized mobile-enhanced scavenger hunts for corporate team-building events. See below for full disclosure. When you were a kid, did you ever participate in a scavenger hunt at a birthday party? There’s nothing like the thrill of the hunt, trying to find obscure items and be the first team back to “home base” to show your spoils.

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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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Stop Blaming Millennials for Unrealistic Employee Expectations - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Here’s a situation that may feel like déjà vu to some. You have just concluded a difficult conversation with Tim, one of your software developers; while Tim works hard, he is certainly not your best developer. Yet, he just left your office wondering why he has not been given a raise in the last four months. The irony? Tim has only been with your organization for five.

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Study Reveals The Health Insurance Marketplace Doesn’t Have The Highest Premiums

ACA Times

Think the Health Insurance Marketplace has the highest premiums? Think again. A report by the Commonwealth Fund reveals that the ACA’s Health Insurance Marketplace is not the most expensive place to purchase health care. The study came from extensive data research on the part of the Commonwealth Fund, derived from ACA-compliance information submitted by insurers to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.

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Introduction to S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Reflektive

Goals are a simple way to ensure individuals are aligned with the company’s objectives. More crucially, clear goals are shown to motivate employees. Engaged employees drive customer satisfaction and stay longer at the company, driving long-term success. The SMART goal framework first emerged in the 1980s. The criteria help managers and employees align on goals and communicate expectations clearly.

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How Defining Corporate Values Can Generate Engagement

EmployeeConnect

According to a study carried by Wellcom & Opinion Way , 50 per cent of all organisations have defined a set of corporate values. Amongst them, more than a third of these companies have defined these values over 20 years ago. The results of this study allow us to see how corporate values are expressed within corporations. It’s also an opportunity to verify if these values create more engagement.

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Gratitude–You’re Doing It Wrong

WorkHuman

Are you making gratitude all about yourself? “Gratitude is the key to happiness in the workplace and everywhere else,” WorkHuman speaker and UC Davis professor Robert Emmons told us in an interview last year. Indeed, the personal benefits of cultivating more gratitude are well documented—including improved sleep , self-esteem, psychological and physical health, and mental strength.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Compensation Cafe: Superpower-based Compensation

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – As work roles become more fluid, compensation needs to transform to include solutions that are more social, dynamic, and engaging. I came across an interview with Tony Hsieh the other day, as I wrote recently in this post on Compensation Cafe , where he was describing the experiment of holocracy at Zappos and what the implications were for HR practices.

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VIDEO: Who To Hire When Your Culture Sucks (Kris Dunn at Cayman Islands #DisruptHR)

The HR Capitalist

Let's face it - most of you don't operate in an environment that can be categorized as a "Best Place to Work". We like to think all of our cultures are unique for the right reasons, and without question, some of them are. . But most aren't. I could make the case that culture is actually hyper-local, with micro-cultures that exist around each one of your managers of people actually being more important than attempts to define your corporate culture.

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HR Office Politics

Laurie Ruettimann

The one area where I’ve consistently failed during my entire career is office politics. I’m so bad at it. When I first started working, I could barely navigate the landscape of my HR department. I walked into a minefield of hormones, broken promises, and horizontal envy. I thought the way to make a name for myself was to stand out like an alpha.

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The Essence of Effective T??m Bu?ld?ng ?n F?v? E??? St???

Corn on the Job

Teams in business соmе іn аll ѕіzеѕ аnd shapes. They саn be undеr оnе rооf but оn differing flооrѕ; in оnе аrеа or scattered асrоѕѕ ѕtаtеѕ, tіmе zоnеѕ аnd countries. Yеt, buіldіng аnd mаnаgіng effective tеаmѕ is critical to a lеаdеr’ѕ ѕuссеѕѕ. Sо, hоw dоеѕ one build a team аnd keep it together аnd funсtіоnіng at an optimal lеvеl? Below аrе some роіntеrѕ fоr dуnаmіс team building activities we have put together at Strayboots.

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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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Meet Courtney Gear, Talent Solutions Expert

Outmatch

Courtney partners with clients to develop assessments that help them hire better employees and develop talent internally. Where did you grow up? Carrollton, Texas (a suburb of Dallas). Married? Do you have children? Pets? Six years ago, I married my college sweetheart, Tyrel. We have a five-year-old chocolate lab named Lola Brown. What led you into this field?

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How To Make Work Matter

TalentCulture

It’s the great challenge of leadership: how to inspire employees to bring their best selves to work and deliver consistent, stellar performance. It is accepted wisdom that happy (ok, I will even take content) employees are better performers. While there is much truth to this, it can lead to some common leadership mistakes. Yes, the perks in the form of benefits, free food, a gym, casual days, game rooms, etc. are important tools in creating a positive culture that makes people feel appreciated

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How Professional Women Can Take Command

HR Daily Advisor

In Yesterday’s Advisor , we heard from Jennifer Lee, from JB Training Solutions, on how today’s professional woman can make the most of her executive presence. Today, more tips from Lee. Yesterday , Lee covered two of three main points no executive presence: gravitas, and communication. Today we’ll look at her final point: perception. Perception.

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Five Keys to Successful Communication

Total Employee Recognition

The following is a guest post from our partner - Appreciation at Work , written by Dr. Paul White, author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace. Dr. White will speak about how to improve staff morale using the five languages of appreciation at our upcoming Live Webcast on July 28th at 3pm EST. Hi! This is Dr. Paul White, psychologist and co-author of The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.

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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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Why Your Coworker Gets Special Privileges

Evil HR Lady

Your coworker seems to get special treatment all the time and it drives you crazy. Now, it’s possible that your boss is simply a bad manager who plays favorites (or who is too wimpy to stand up to an employee who doesn’t take her job seriously). However, while some managers totally stink , most are doing the best that they can and have very good reasons for why your coworker gets privileges that you don’t have.

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A grown man’s Facebook rant about ‘Pokémon Go’ led to his firing

The Employer Handbook

Are playing Pokémon Go on your smartphone yet? Of course not, you’re a Human Resource Professional, or in-house counsel, or employment lawyer in private practice. Me neither. Ok, maybe I might have downloaded the app purely for blog-related research and to catch ’em all. But, it’s not like I’m going to lose my mind on social media because there aren’t any Rattata in Cherry Hill, NJ.

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Don’t Start Crunching Numbers Until You Know What Numbers to Crunch

TLNT: The Business of HR

I was helping a manager with the company’s analytics; the problem was framed as “falling engagement in front-line staff.” Now that is a good start because at this organization the link between the measure of employee engagement and customer satisfaction is well established, making this a business problem, not just an HR one. Furthermore it’s, at least potentially, an important problem.

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A grown man’s Facebook rant about ‘Pokémon Go’ led to his firing

The Employer Handbook

Are playing Pokémon Go on your smartphone yet? Of course not, you’re a Human Resource Professional, or in-house counsel, or employment lawyer in private practice. Me neither. Ok, maybe I might have downloaded the app purely for blog-related research and to catch ’em all. But, it’s not like I’m going to lose my mind on social media because there aren’t any Rattata in Cherry Hill, NJ.

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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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You Can Be A Powerhouse

NoExcusesHR

you can feel the energy in the room change when they come in.they bring something special that is hard to describe; yet, every one on the team wants to be around them.I want to be that person too. Success It's a funny thing that happens to people when they achieve a level of success that they perhaps only dreamt of earlier in their careers. All of the self-talk of " how they would do things differently " suddenly becomes real.

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Playing the Numbers Game: Metrics That Matter When Sourcing Talent

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Employees are the lifeblood of every company. Talent acquisition is critical to a business’s success, and much money is spent on finding candidates for open positions and on identifying the best ways to find those new hires. So it’s not surprising that metrics have become an important way to understand what’s working and what isn't.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

Gyrus

Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail.

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Is Your Company on the Brink of its Own Brexit?

Culture University

Like millions of Americans, I was surprised and a little saddened by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union. I wasn’t surprised, however, by the sharp emotional divide between those who wanted to stay and those who wanted to leave. That’s because the Brexit debate was really about culture. And for a concept that many […].

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Top Team Building, Engagement Boosting Event Ideas

RecogNation

What do we want? Inspired, engaged employees! When do we want it? As soon as human(resource)ly possible! In management and HR, we know that passionate employees make a huge difference on company culture and the bottom line. It's our job to get our team's raring to go and hosting a team event is a great way to do that. We've compiled 6 top team building, engagement boosting event ideas below: 1.

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Tough Boss or Nice Boss? How to Be a Nice Boss and Still Be in Charge

Insperity

In the dog-eat-dog world of business it takes a tough boss to push people to be the best they can be. After all, most people will not go the extra mile at work without pressure from the top. Right? Not necessarily. A recent study conducted by CareerBuilder found that confident leaders who manage on the basis of open communication, mutual trust and understanding enjoy increased productivity, greater job satisfaction and fewer health issues – both for themselves and for their employees.

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I’m required to share with my boss a weekly best and worst from my personal life

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My company reorganized and instituted a new policy for one-on-ones with managers. Once a week, at the start of our one-on-ones, I have to spend six minutes where my manager tells me the best and worse things in his personal life and I have to return the favor. We get three minutes each. I don’t trust my manager enough to want to tell him any of the details of my personal life.