Thu.Sep 20, 2018

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The Missing Ingredient In D& I Is Us

TLNT: The Business of HR

This is a DisruptHR talk about diversity and inclusion. But it’s not about HR D&I. It’s about you and I.

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HR HATER WEEK: Why Passive HR People Fail to Deal With The Problem.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note : This week is HR Haters week at the Capitalist. Let's ID the personas out there who don't respect HR and figure out how to deal with them. See the first two posts in this series here and here. THE PASSIVE BEHAVIOR YOU’LL SEE ON YOUR TEAM RELATED TO DEALING WITH HR HATERS. If you’re reading this series, you’re either an alpha or would like to become an alpha.

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Listening to Music at Work: What Is the Impact?

HR Daily Advisor

New research shows that listening to music at work is not only widespread, but also potentially beneficial for productivity. Source: Evgeniy Skripnichenko / iStock / Getty. Silence may be golden, but most workers feel they’re more productive at the office when listening to music, new research from staffing firm Accountemps shows. Eighty-five% of survey respondents who are able to do so say they enjoy turning on the tunes at work.

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How Org Chart Software Adds Value to a Growing Organization

Pingboard

Organizations are constantly evolving and adapting to meet changing needs as they grow. Though navigating these changes is exciting, it can also be a challenge to keep up—especially with technological advancements causing companies to continually rethink the way they do business. Organizational charts are a crucial resource for growing companies to build and maintain.

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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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3 Ways the Beauty Industry Can Save Money with Improved Hiring

Hireology

The global spa and beauty industry is growing rapidly and projected to reach $190 billion by 2024. But given this growth, the industry is facing challenges staffing up with quality employees. The beauty industry, which not only consists of salons and spas, but also barber shops, waxing franchises and massage franchises, among other businesses, is struggling to fill more than 30,000 vacant positions.

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How To Be More Successful At Recruiting

Hppy

Over my three-decade career, I have had the opportunity to work with many HR teams. Overall, if I had to grade HR’s effectiveness in bringing in the talent necessary for long-term success, I’d give them a mixed review. Even though many HR pros would argue that one of their key roles is recruitment, my observation is that HR teams tend to focus more on the administrative aspects of the role — managing payroll and benefits, coordinating training and development plans, ensuring compliance, and admi

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Why Your Employee Experience Should Be Part of Your Growth Strategy

Kazoo

Developing an effective growth strategy is critical to the success of your company. Yet for it to be successful, it needs to be comprehensive. It’s not enough to focus solely on developing new product lines and reaching your target audiences more effectively. You also need to worry about the internal health of your company. This starts with working to optimize your business processes, outsourcing and automating where you can, so that you can keep overhead low and maximize efficiency.

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The 3 C’s of a Great Global Hiring Strategy

TalentCulture

The pursuit of new markets is part of many companies’ long-term growth strategy, as is global expansion. From small businesses to enterprise firms, the key is to involve people. Companies need to be able to create a viable strategy for hiring, managing and keeping people — wherever they expand to. But that’s not a simple task. There are numerous challenges in hiring employees globally — including local employment laws and regulations, differing cultures and expectations, […].

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Why Your Employee Experience Should Be Part of Your Growth Strategy

Kazoo

Developing an effective growth strategy is critical to the success of your company. Yet for it to be successful, it needs to be comprehensive. It’s not enough to focus solely on developing new product lines and reaching your target audiences more effectively. You also need to worry about the internal health of your company. This starts with working to optimize your business processes, outsourcing and automating where you can, so that you can keep overhead low and maximize efficiency.

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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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Training the Ted Talk Way

TLNT: The Business of HR

TED Talks, the popular conference and video lecture series, has a cardinal rule that all presenters must follow: No talk can exceed 18 minutes. As TED curator Chris Anderson puts it , 18 minutes is “short enough to hold people’s attention, including on the internet, and precise enough to be taken seriously. But it’s also long enough to say something that matters.

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3 Things You Should Know About AI in HR Tech

HRExecutive

There are several basic principles you should understand about our new digital co-workers. The first is that most current “artificial intelligence” is really nothing more than a set of sophisticated statistics. Without delay, here is another. The output of an “intelligent machine” is an opinion, not a fact. This may be the most important thing you learn about intelligent tools.

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What Small Businesses Need to Know About FMLA

Workology

Owning a small business can be stressful, especially when making sure you are compliant with all the laws and regulations. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a probably something you’ve heard about, but do you understand what it is? How do you determine if you have to offer it? There are many questions […] Source.

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Incentives and The Rule of Three

Compensation Cafe

Designing an effective incentive plan is always a challenge. There are many moving parts and assumptions. There are the “big” things you want or need people to accomplish and the smaller things that simply cannot be ignored. There is the math behind the modeling and payout expectations. (Yep, that’s three.). Huey, Dewey and Louie. Over many years I have come to rely on what I call the Incentive Plan Rule of Three.

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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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Opinion: Workplace training must be more than a tick-box exercise

cipHR

Learning should be about more than simply ticking boxes off HR’s agenda. Samantha Caine explores the benefits that a stronger training strategy can have for both organisations and their staff. Training is an essential part of everyone’s career path, but it can often be viewed as something of a chore – by both worker and employer. While training is a necessary part of an employee’s role, the ‘tick-box’ nature of some methods can result in the individual leaving with very l

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The First Step in Crafting Your Employer Brand

The Muse

You know your employer brand is important, but where do you start? Your Employer Value Preposition comes first. We're sharing what makes your EVP different from your employer brand, as well as the steps you need to take to define your own.

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Recruitment: how to pick out the one-in-a-million candidates

HR Zone

Acquisition. Recruitment: how to find the superstars.

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4 Truths of Retail Warehouse Work

Employment Metrix

Cheerful salespeople, busy shoppers and shelves filled to the brim with products. That’s what you can expect in a brick-and-mortar retail storefront. But what about what we don’t see behind the scenes in a retail warehouse or distribution center? How do workers feel about their jobs there? What do they think about the future? Nexxt recently surveyed 1,500 retail employees, including warehouse workers, to find out just that.

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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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The Many Types of Diversity Should Be On Your Teams

TLNT: The Business of HR

Diversity of opinion, outlook and background in the workplace is hugely beneficial for teams and organizations. And yet, despite their best efforts, hiring managers are unconsciously inclined to hire people similar to themselves. Whilst this is a natural human tendency, it causes problems when the aim is to diversify a group of people and can hamper a team’s effectiveness.

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How to Explore, Nurture, and Evolve an Amazing Company Culture

Bonusly

Studies show that if an organization’s workforce isn’t positively engaged, nearly half of their employees will search for another job. Workplace culture has a strong effect on many facets of the employee experience, including happiness, efficiency, creativity, and turnover. While alternative and quirky workplaces are becoming more popular, plenty of companies still stick to a more corporate environment with a traditional hierarchy.

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4 Powerful Reasons Brokers Decide to Sell ALEX

Jellyvision

If you’re a broker toying with the idea of offering ALEX to some of your clients this year, here are some reasons to make the leap. 1. ALEX helps brokers attract and retain customers in a big way It’s true. Brokers who offer ALEX have a distinct advantage over their competition when it comes both […]. The post 4 Powerful Reasons Brokers Decide to Sell ALEX appeared first on Jellyvision.com.

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Words to Describe Company Culture: Work Hard Play Hard

Stories Incorporated HR

Over the course of our projects, we have interviewed hundreds of team members across a diverse array of industries, company sizes, and cultures. Despite the many unique differences throughout companies, we’ve found how people describe their workplace is actually often pretty similar — and that can sometimes be detrimental to the recruiting process.

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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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3 Ways Your Company Can Integrate Multiple Generations and Engage Millennials

Entrepreneur

Micromanagement is a no-no.

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Thursday in the Trenches – Meet Small Business HR Leader Dave Ryan

Acacia HR Solutions

I was telling someone my story this week, the story of not really being on social media outside of Facebook much before my layoff. Then, out of a desire to bond with other parents up at 3am feeding their new bundle of joy I joined Twitter. What I found was not only a great mom. The post Thursday in the Trenches – Meet Small Business HR Leader Dave Ryan appeared first on Acacia HR Solutions.

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Need to get through to employees? Use college students as inspiration

Davis & Company

You are here Home RSS feed. Need to get through to employees? Use college students as inspiration. 3 ways to capture attention. Jamie. Wisniewski. Project Specialist. Jamie is a communication crackerjack. A former editor and public relations professional turned communication consultant, she brings diverse industry experience to the consulting team. As a project specialist, she supports clients with content creation and strategy, research and project management.

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Ideas for Maximizing Office Lunch Hour to Boost Team Engagement

Rise

Lunch breaks are not only a mandatory requirement in the workplace, but breaks additionally provide employees with the time needed to refuel and recharge enough to carry on with the rest of their work day with energy and drive. With that in mind, are your people using their office lunch hour effectively? Although we know that eating lunch at your desk is a bad idea , employees still default to having their midday meals at their workspaces.

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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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Tight Labor Market: Here’s What You Should Focus On

Rallyware for Human Resources

“Candidates have so many options today. If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard-skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day,” points out Amy Glaser , senior vice president of Adecco Group. This statement perfectly describes the current state of the labor market, probably the tightest it’s been in years.

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a salary negotiation success story

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I wanted to send you a note to thank you for all of your excellent advice, some of which I’ve recently been able to put into practice. I’m a 27-year-old woman, and I recently negotiated my salary successfully for the first time. In my first job out of university, I accepted the first offer I received without even thinking about asking for more; I was just grateful to have a job.

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Creating an Effective Cell Phones at Work Policy

HR Digest

The prevalence of cell phones at work constitutes part of the new challenges employers or HR managers must deal with. And the most promising solution is an effective cell phone policy. But while creating an employee cell phone policy , there is a need to strike a balance – accepting when it should be allowed or completely restricted. A poor version of the policy can compromise productivity.