Tue.Dec 27, 2016

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Your Career Success is Based on Your Self-Awareness

HR Bartender

There’s no secret sauce for career success. If there was, we would all get an index card with the secret and everyone would be a high-performer. Boom! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), it doesn’t work that way. We should consider that our careers are a work in progress. The business world is constantly changing. Our career goals should change along with it.

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Millennial Interviews

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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Put Talent First

i4cp

It is time to move beyond saying that talent is an organization’s most important asset. Organizations need to behave in ways that recognize the strategic importance of talent, and to make design and strategy decisions based on their ability to attract and manage talent. For decades, CEO’s have talked about people as their most important asset, but they have not behaved accordingly when it comes to developing their business strategies, their organization designs, and their talent management pract

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17 Inspiring Quotes for HR Leaders

Reflektive

‘Tis the season to get inspired. As 2016 comes to a close and the New Year is upon us, now is the perfect time to press the reset button, set new goals, and get excited for what’s on the horizon. Working in HR means being a leader by way of cultivating leadership in the workplace. It’s a big responsibility and one that is constantly evolving; therefore, it’s important to feel motivated and inspired even when at times you’re finding yourself in an HR crisis spiral.

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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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Talent Prediction 2017: The Ability to Navigate Complex Organizations

i4cp

Organization design is the number one topic on the mind of business and HR executives who responded to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital report. We are not surprised. Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed a tremendous increase in strategic complexity across the companies we work with. While good design decisions will reduce unrewarded organization complexity, it is just as important to enable mid-level leaders to successfully work across boundaries – business, function, geographic, and cu

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Small Businesses Approved For Health Reimbursement Accounts

ACA Times

Much of the news surrounding healthcare as of late had included strengthening relationships with Applicable Large Employers and their sponsored healthcare. However, on December 13, the 21st Century Cures Act was signed off by President Obama to allow smaller employers to take part in a major move in healthcare reform. The 21st Century Cures Act is a bipartisan celebration, as smaller employers —those with less than 50 full-time employees or full-time equivalents—are now able to utilize stand-alo

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9 Things You Need to Know about Organizational Change

Everwise

While Benjamin Franklin may have said only death and taxes are certain in this life, the modern worker would likely cite another inevitability: change. With the pace of technology and globalization, change is happening faster than ever and has become a mainstay of corporate life. Leadership and development personnel have an essential role to play in making sure the people in their company are prepared for change and emerge from it successfully.

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Inspiring Pioneers: Are You Ready for Our Journey?

TalentCulture

I have been on the biggest adventure of my life even though I feel like our lives are a series of adventures, where we have the opportunity to blaze new paths or sit back and watch someone else’s adventure. It is always a choice, no matter what anyone tells us. We can either tell ourselves a story about why we can’t do something or we can look at an opportunity and say, “giddy up, let’s go.” Some people will tell you that it takes courage to uncover what is deep in

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Violator

NoExcusesHR

Who is the negative disruptive force in your organization? You know the one.they violate every value you have posted on the wall and espouse in new employee orientation. Can you picture them? You're Too Slow How long did it take for you to see their face in your mind? Three seconds? Maybe, one second? Why are they still there? How could someone that negative, that you identified so quickly, possibly still be employed with your company?

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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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How to Reject a Great Applicant

Workology

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” – Winston Churchill If a candidate does not have the necessary skills, or is an obvious bad. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Things You Wish Your Employees Would Do Before the End of the Year

Evil HR Lady

The year is ending in about five minutes (maybe an exaggeration there), but there are things every manager wishes their employees would do before the year ends. If you haven’t taken the time to come up with a list of last minute tasks for your employees, you can use mine. Adjust as needed for your situation. Travel expenses/other expenses in! Nothing is more obnoxious than trying to credit things back to a previous year , so please, for the love of Pete, get your receipts in.

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10 Tools to Pump Up Workplace Productivity in the New Year

WorqIQ

Business owners are always looking for ways to improve workplace productivity in their offices. Can work get done better, faster, or smarter? You may not realize it, but your employees are probably thinking the same way. Here are ten tools geared for a global audience they can use to improve performance and work smarter. Read More» The post 10 Tools to Pump Up Workplace Productivity in the New Year appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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4 HR Trends for 2017

Paychex

As 2016 wraps up, many businesses are looking ahead and planning their human capital management approaches for next year. Look at these four trends that you may want to consider moving into the next year.

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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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Best of TLNT 2016: The 4 Most Effective Leadership Skills

TLNT: The Business of HR

Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 25 articles between now and January 2nd. This is No. 17 of 2016. You can find the complete list here.

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Your Surprising Superpower: Customer Complaints

Questback

Questback announces partnership with John Lewis that will deploy its employee engagement feedback and employee insight technology to improve their organizational effectiveness.

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Hey Leaders Try Giving a S**t!

Jeff Waldman

Leaders in organizations across the globe are always trying to figure out ways to get the most out of their employees. It makes perfect sense to do this because leaders can’t do everything themselves, and they know that employees are what drive top and bottom line results. If they could do everything themselves they wouldn’t have employees, or need to hire more employees.

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Lead millennials into management: 5 must-follow steps

Insperity

Many leaders today face the issue of how to best manage eager millennials who feel they’re ready for management roles. But there’s real danger in tossing an inexperienced employee into a management role. Studies show that 50 percent of first-time managers fail in the first year. However, as baby boomers retire at an ever-increasing speed, businesses need to prepare their millennial employees to catch the ball and run.

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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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How COBRA Intersects with Medicare and Retiree Health Plans

HR Daily Advisor

In a recent article , I talked a bit about the complicated intersection of Medicare and The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), with assistance from Paul M. Hamburger, Esq., author and contributing editor of BLR’s publication Mandated Health Benefits: The COBRA Guide , which I used as background research. Today, we’re going to look at Medicare entitlement in the context of retiree health plans—as well as what happens to participants in your retiree plan if you decide to elimi

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HR Resolutions for 2017 (and beyond)

Reward Gateway

2 min read. As we approach 2017, what resolutions are you and your team making to bring in a new year? We checked in with our own team to see what kind of plans 2017 has in store.

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Business, HR & Talent Predictions for 2017

Talmetrix

We’ve compiled responses from a group of HR and talent management thought leaders on what they learned in the last year, and what they’ll be watching in 2017. See part one and part two in the series, and then read the rest of their predictions below. Fill in the blank: In 2017, talent-focused organizations will move away from __ and move toward __. . “In 2017, talent-focused organizations will move away from management structured organizations as the primary driver and move toward te

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How to Help Employees Set and Keep New Year’s Wellness Resolutions

Winston Benefits

The holiday parties will soon be over, and some of your employees will be setting some resolutions for the new year — as you may be as well. It’s hard to make lifestyle changes on your own and without any guidance, but employee benefits provide a strong framework for people who are looking for help and inspiration at the beginning of the year.

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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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our boss constantly asks us to do personal favors for her

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work in a small group of five professionals with a director. The five professionals all do medium-level financial/data work; the director also does similar work and is our project and personnel manager. She often asks us (and me in particular) to do personal favors during work time. Examples include taking her to the dentist, driving her to a different building when it is raining, bringing in a belt when she forgot hers, picking up books for her at the library, borrowing our c

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Top 20 HR Strange But True Stories for 2016, Part 1

HR Daily Advisor

As 2016 comes to an end, let’s recap the year’s best HRSBT stories! In true countdown fashion, we’ll start with #20! #20: New Workplace Perk: PTO for Television Premieres. If you know what happened to Jon Snow in the season six premiere of Game of Thrones (GoT), keep it to yourself; there will be no spoiler alerts here at HRSBT! With that being said, a new workplace perk could be on the rise after one London company allowed employees to take the morning off after the season six premiere of GoT

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update: my coworker keeps hijacking team meetings

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose coworker kept disrupting her meetings ? Here’s the update. I took a few different approaches to reigning in the boorish and disruptive behavior that was plaguing our team meetings. At our next meeting I took your advice and (in a very upbeat way, I think) reviewed meeting expectations for everyone. These meetings were new to all of us, so I took a pause to get some feedback on how people felt they were going and reframe the goals of having every team member

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How To Create A More Productive Company Culture

HR C-Suite

Enhancing Company Culture Pays Dividends In Productivity Maybe you have noticed a lack of employee enthusiasm recently, coupled with a dip in productivity. Even if this unsettling trend is isolated among a few individuals or in one department, it is not something HR representatives and department managers should overlook. Negative attitudes can spread at an […].

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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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Looking Back: 4 Realities of Talent Management in 2016

SumTotal

How well do the realities of talent management line up with expectations? As the year comes to a close, let’s examine how some expert predictions for 2016 came to pass in the last 12 months. Josh Bersin predicted accelerated replacement of dated HR technology, increased focus on analytics, and a reinvention of talent management and the tools that go with it to deliver a better employee experience.

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Five New Year’s Resolutions for Your Business in 2017

Paychex

Don’t break your New Year’s resolutions in 2017. Focus on these five resolution suggestions that can improve both your personal and professional life!

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Three Common Mistakes Hiring Managers Make

ApplicantPro

Hiring managers carry a heavy load. Not only are hiring managers responsible for getting quality employees into seats, but they’re usually required to do this under strict deadlines and are at the mercy of the hiring market. Most hiring managers are also tied to tight budgets. All these factors combined can make for some high-octane employment situations for hiring managers, but successful recruiting isn’t impossible.