Mon.Mar 20, 2017

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The Secret To Selecting and Measuring Key Employee Performance Metrics

EmployeeConnect

Measuring critical employee performance metrics offers organisations key benefits for attracting and retaining top talent while meeting operational imperatives. The primary benefits of employee performance metrics are tied to fostering better employee engagement, which enhances productivity, innovation, creativity, employee loyalty and longevity. In the past, companies usually measured employee engagement by analysing turnover rates.

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How Disheartened Staffing Pros Finally Achieve Interview Experience Consistency

Spark Hire

It’s your favorite time of year. The time when you sit down at your desk and review all the feedback you’ve received from the candidates you interviewed. Hearing all the positive things they have to say about your interview process gives you that bump in confidence you need as a staffing professional. Excited to see how you’re doing, you open the data file on your computer.

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The CEO Question HR Fears Most

NoExcusesHR

The long list of pressures HR leaders are under is well documented. It's as if every organizational ailment somehow finds it's way to the human resources department to either get fixed or take the blame. There is a new issue lurking however, that most HR leaders, particularly those in the healthcare industry, are ill-prepared to address. That issue comes in the form of a question directly from the CEO.

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Employee Engagement: March Madness Basketball Pools Improve Office Camaraderie

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey finds March basketball brackets and office pools can improve key workplace initiatives, including employee engagement, camaraderie, and work satisfaction. The study by Randstad US, an HR services and staffing company, found nearly nine in 10 workers (89%) agree office pools help build better team camaraderie and 58% completely or strongly agree.

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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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TED Talk Tuesday: How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Cornerstone On Demand

This part is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. Fascinated by the great leaders of the world, Simon Sinek has managed to codify how inspiring leaders and organizations think, act and communicate. He teaches graduate classes in strategic communication at Columbia University, and is the author of three books, including bestseller Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspi

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Hospital Employee Recognition Programs That Make Nurses Happy

Kazoo

We’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about hospital employee recognition programs. After all, healthcare is going through a lot of change right now. New innovations, a changing political climate, and … a need for more nurses. You don’t build a house without its foundation. You don’t build a hospital without its nurses. No-one needs a thank-you more than your favorite nurse.

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The Personalization Effect: Mitigating Employee Data Privacy Concerns

Lighthouse

Privacy. Data. Concern. In a presentation at the IBM HR Summit last fall, I expected the discussion around talent analytics to go in a few directions, but fear wasn’t one of them. Not long after diving into the conversation, some of the audience members began asking questions about how to handle employee concerns about sticky issues like data privacy.

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A Seat at The Table

TalentCulture

I started my career in HR over 17 years ago, and the questions I heard most often at all the HR conferences were “Why don’t I have a seat at the executive table?” and “How can I get the executives to take me seriously?” Well, we’re 17 years on, and in spite of all the best intentions, I still hear these two questions repeatedly. What are we doing wrong?

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Making an Internship Program? Here’s Your Job Offer Template

Justworks

So you’re starting an internship program — congratulations are in order! Investing in a quality internship program will mean great returns for your company, both in adding fun to the workplace and creating long-lasting connections for later down the road. Offering an internship program is more than just finding some extra hands to help. It should mutually benefit all parties involved, which is why we’ve compiled a guide on how to create a robust program at your company that will last.

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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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Recognizing the behaviors of engaged employees

CultureAmp

We can generally recognize if people are happy or sad, calm or upset. These common emotions are clear, and we’re exposed to them from an early age. However, understanding if someone is engaged with their work is a more complex task. Do you know what an engaged employee looks like? At Culture Amp, we define employee engagement as the levels of enthusiasm and connection employees have with their organization.

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Here's The Video I Send Team Members When I Think People Are Stupid.

The HR Capitalist

If there's anything I've tried to live up to in my professional life, it's the need to communicate things to the lowest common denominator in any organization. After all, life moves pretty fast, and if you don't stop to look around and consider whether all the people you are communicating to understand what you're saying, you're destined for failure.

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What Do You Do After Ending Performance Ratings?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is the first of three articles dealing with managing performance and compensation in the post-ratings organization. The second article on bonus and comp distribution will post Tuesday. The third discusses calibration formulas.

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Automation and robotics: The driver behind contingent hiring growth?

Allegis Global Solutions

The majority of workers believe that the emergence of automation and robotics in the workplace could have a negative impact on jobs, but hiring leaders have a different outlook, believing that it could actually drive recruitment.

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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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Get Me a Compensation Strategy, STAT!

Compensation Today

Every day, companies make intentional decisions about their business: should they expand their products or services, is the time right to open new locations, are they ready to add jobs and headcount? One intentional decision that too many companies aren’t making: establishing their compensation strategy. PayScale’s 2017 Compensation Best Practices Report (CBPR) found that just 37 percent of all organizations have a comp strategy.

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What You Can Do to Help New Parents

TLNT: The Business of HR

New mothers and fathers everywhere wrestle with the issue of juggling a career and family. Traditionally, it’s an issue that has most impacted mothers. Some want to stay home, but have to work to supplement the household income. Others want to work, yet worry over trusting someone else to care for their child.

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Could the Design of Your Office Space Be Impacting Employee Productivity?

HR Daily Advisor

When starting a business, there are a lot of things to take into consideration. However, how much consideration is taken for the overall design of the company office space? A new survey shows that employers may want to consider overhauling their office space; it may produce happier, more productive employees, and, in turn, increase the bottom line. peshkov / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Tips for creating a millennial-friendly workplace

Take It Personel-ly

Are you looking to attract millennials to your company? This generation is often misunderstood, and sometimes unfairly so, but they make excellent employees who are willing to give their all in their workplace and to contribute a high level of creativity. And given that they are digital natives and understand this language of the future, … Continue reading Tips for creating a millennial-friendly workplace.

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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 case for and against: is Skype coaching valuable?

HR Zone

Culture. For/Against: Skype coaching.

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why your boss won’t give you a raise

Ask a Manager

If you’re wondering why you can’t seem to get a raise, it’s worth looking at why your salary hasn’t been raised. In many cases, understanding why your paycheck has stagnated can help you figure out the path to increasing it. At U.S. News & World Report today, I talk about the most common reasons I see people missing out on salary increases. You can read it here.

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Inclusive Recruiting Creates Innovative and Diverse Teams

Workology

While many recruiters struggle to recruit talented people for their company, there is a huge pool of untapped talent being overlooked. Around 26 million people in the U.S. have some form of. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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New Data Suggests It's Time to Assess Your Parental Leave Policies

Paychex

New findings published by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) raise important questions about whether it's time to reevaluate your company's parental leave policy. Here are some factors to consider when looking at your own policies.

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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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The Office Manager’s Guide to Asking for a Raise and Boosting Your Salary

SnackNation

The Office Manager’s Guide to Asking for a Raise and Boosting Your Salary. 5 Rockstar Office Managers Reveal How to Land a Promotion, Earn More Respect, And Get Paid More Today. “I feel undervalued and unappreciated.”. This is a phrase we’ve heard over and over again after speaking with hundreds of Office Managers, Admins and Assistants over the last several years since launching SnackNation.

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The “Connected” Workforce: Creating Efficient, Productive Employees at Every Level

Workforce Software

VISION 2017 was about technology that engages and empowers people, enabling them to work smarter, more efficiently. The result: More “great” quarters.

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Traveling? How to Keep Your Well-Being in Check

Limeade

Headed out on a business trip? Traveling can be fun but early mornings, long flights and hotel beds can take a toll on your body. While traveling is known for boosting your happiness, a recent study shows frequent travel is damaging to health and well-being. From jet lag to pricey airport meals, we’ve got the scoop on how to keep your well-being in check while traveling. 10 tips to prepare you for healthy travel: 1.

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employees aren’t covering their tabs when we go out for meals, my office is freezing, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Employees aren’t covering their tabs when we go out for coffee or meals. I have a question about etiquette and how to approach a subject with people at work. It is becoming a theme with a few coworkers that they always want to be involved in coffee and group meals but never offer to contribute once the food or beverages are purchased.

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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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Is your HCM technology leading the pack or lagging behind? [WEBCAST]

Ceridian

Join Ceridian’s Robert Mattson, VP of Content Marketing and James Arsenault, Director of Strategic Communications, on March 22, 2017 at 2pm ET as they share the results of Ceridian’s first annual HCM Maturity Study. All technologies progress through a technology lifecycle. Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions are no different. Ceridian’s HCM Maturity Study surveys the market to understand what drives HCM maturity in organizations around the world.

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CHART OF THE DAY: More on the increasing 'Quits' data

Steve Boese

Quick shot for a busy 'Can you believe my Gamecocks are in the Sweet 16?' kind of a Monday. Here's just one chart from the latest release of what regular readers recognize as my favorite labor marker report - the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey - aka the 'JOLTS' report. This chart illustrates the amount of 'Quits' better known in HR speak as Voluntary Separations, compared with the amount of Layoffs and Discharges, AKA, 'Pack your things, son, it's time for you to go' deals.

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my interviewer asked to reschedule and then never got back to me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: What does it mean when an interviewer asks to reschedule and then does not follow up? For the second time now, I have run into the frustrating situation in which I had a scheduled interview, the interviewer asked to reschedule the day before (for valid reasons), and when I responded that I would be happy to reschedule, I never heard from them again.

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