Thu.Feb 02, 2017

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Keeping your company culture intact during rapid growth

Insperity

Sometimes business leaders concentrate so much on acquiring the next big account, they forget to actually plan to protect and nurture the company’s culture. To optimize any expansion, it’s important to create specific plans – before the growth takes place – that focus on issues of infrastructure and personnel. Otherwise, you’re likely to look up after the dust settles and realize you’ve lost key personnel and that “special something” that helped define your company.

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How to Create Winning Job Descriptions For Your Company Culture

ClearCompany HRM

When used properly and written effectively, job descriptions set transparent expectations for candidates and current employees, creating value for the company and your workforce from the first day on the job to the last. Use this checklist to craft better job descriptions to attract the top talent you are searching for!

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Managing Organizational Hierarchies In a World of Networks

HR Bartender

During KronosWorks 2016 , I had the opportunity to hear keynote speaker Seth Mattison of FutureSight Labs talk about the future of work. One of the things that I found intriguing about his session was his comment that, “You can’t talk about the future without having some perspective on the past.” I totally agree with his statement.

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How to Lead and Engage Millennials in the Workplace

Visier

Born before 1982 and in a leadership or management role? If yes, you may have asked yourself the question: “How do I motivate and communicate with the Millennials (born 1982 -2000) on my team?” I’ve been asked this question many times since Millennial values, beliefs, and communication style are perceived as quite different. This is in fact true and below are ways to better lead and engage the Millennials on your team.

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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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Want to Increase Employee Engagement? Hold Managers Accountable

ATD Human Capital

The best organizations know that engaged, high-performing employees drive business success. Engaged employees are more productive, more profitable, more customer-focused, and more likely to stay. And highly engaged workplaces grow faster, adapt quicker, and innovate more. It’s no wonder that Quantum Workplace’s State of Employee Feedback report found that almost 37 percent of organizations said increasing employee engagement was their top people priority this year.

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How to Offer a Great Employee Benefits Package for Your Nonprofit

Justworks

Should your nonprofit company offer benefits? And perhaps more importantly, can you afford it? According to the Nonprofit Times, about 85% of nonprofits offered some kind of medical plan to their employees. If you’re evaluating your options, read on for some information on how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) impacts nonprofits offering benefit plans, how you can select a group benefits provider, and how you can offer free or low-cost perks to keep your best employees around longer.

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15 Advantages of Video Interviews You Didn’t Know About

Spark Hire

Technology has made the hiring process much more streamlined, providing an improved experience for both interviewer and job seeker alike. While interview scheduling tools can help take the back-and-forth struggle out of hiring, other software such as a platform for conducting video interviews has also helped to alleviate hiring headaches. Video interviews are becoming increasingly popular among businesses of various sizes.

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The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 10 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 10 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast. Listen as co-author of the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Tracy Maylett, discusses chapter 10, “Engagement MAGIC.” The Employee Experience – Chapter 10 – Building the EXtraordinary.

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Motivating Employees to Give Back and Volunteer

Hppy

Employee Volunteer Programs should be a part of every small business and corporation. Volunteering allows employees to develop character traits, such as compassion, empathy and humility. Volunteering also helps employees have a more positive outlook toward themselves and their employer as well as a strengthened bond with their co-workers. It can also help the companies improve their image in the communities where they reside and the increased employee engagement will help reduce employee turnove

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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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Be A Conscious 21st Century Leader!

TalentCulture

For the 21st century leader, whatever we create in our business should have a meaningful impact and inspire others to share in our higher purpose. To truly be the leader the world needs today, we need to consider and discuss the importance of these elements as part of our journey to creating a more humane and saner world: Be A Conscious 21st Century Leader!

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Research that Supports Being “Good with People”

The People Equation

For years, I’ve written about how to “master the people equation” to make a positive impact in your work life. It seems obvious (to me, at least) that people who “get along” with others are more effective at getting stuff done. People aren’t real fond of Negative Nellies and Neds. They don’t like to work with bullies. Life in the workplace goes more smoothly when folks are courteous to one another.

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#WorkTrends Recap: Workplace Diversity is More Than Just a Business Imperative

TalentCulture

There’s been a lot said about the need for workplace diversity in our world today. But it’s not a phrase to be tossed around. It goes deeper than what can be seen by internal and external stakeholders. It’s a business operative and more than that, a moral issue that cuts to the heart of why companies need to show their inclusive human side to everyone.

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8 Influential HR Leaders to Follow on Twitter Today

Paychex

Which influential HR leaders are you following on Twitter? Here's a list of eight thought leaders who may be able to help you better navigate today's evolving HR space.

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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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4 Reasons to Replace Performance Reviews With Frequent Feedback

Workology

2016 might be remembered as the year we heard the death rattle of the traditional annual performance review. As those of us in the HR space know, there’s been a revolution brewing for a while, with companies like Deloitte, Microsoft, Adobe, and Accenture doing away with their review systems, well before the end of last […] Source.

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Mushroom Coffee

Laurie Ruettimann

I was listening to a podcast last week and heard a commercial for mushroom coffee. That’s right. You read that correctly. Mushroom. Coffee. Apparently, regular coffee isn’t good enough. Mushroom coffee will make you smarter, thinner, and more productive. And, if you consume enough of it, mushroom coffee will make your dick bigger. YOUR DICK.

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Four Telltale Signs of a Disconnected Organization

WorqIQ

Most leaders appreciate the importance of leadership, culture, and engagement within their organizations. While they may not consciously think about the impact on individuals from a human perspective, managers sense these concepts are critical to healthy organizational performance. However, these three areas are often addressed individually, as if one doesn’t interact with the others.

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10 Stress-Reducing Activities You Can Do During Your Lunch Break

Paychex

Everyone deals with stress at work on occasion. For many of us, we just need to find a quick distraction to take our mind out of work mode. Consider these ten low-cost/no-cost activities that employees can do in less than one hour for a little welcome distraction from work.

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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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I used a white-sounding name on my resume and got way more interviews, our meeting food keeps getting eaten, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Coworkers keep eating the food for meetings that they’re not attending. I work in an office where it is common to have catered lunches for executive meetings. The conference room is too small to set up the food inside, so it is usually set up buffet style in a common area outside of the conference room, which is right across from my desk.

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What Would Happen If Your CEO Died?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This is part one of two parts. Today’s article focuses on corporate readiness for a sudden loss of key leaders. Tomorrow’s article discusses on how HR should respond to an on the job death.

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if you think a PIP always ends in firing, you are wrong

Ask a Manager

Whenever performance improvement plans (PIPs) come up here, people always declare that they’re only ever used as a way to push employees out and that a manager who puts someone on a PIP is just covering their own butt while gearing up to fire the person. This is absolutely, 100% not universal. It’s certainly true in some cases. Some PIPs are indeed just the manager checking off a box on the way to firing the person.

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How to Handle a Know-It-All To Get What You Need

TLNT: The Business of HR

Know-it-alls walk the halls at every level — from the basement to the executive floor. It’s not their title or expertise that’s the problem. Most everyone welcomes helpful information or experience when solving a problem or seeking innovative ideas. The know-it-all label comes from a person’s communication style and attitude — that is, the manner in which their expertise winds its way into the discussion.

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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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Cro-Magnon HR

NoExcusesHR

Effective healthcare human resources leadership, and more recently, recruiting and employer branding are the center pieces of my career. As in, my entire career. It's been a wild ride, but for the most part, I wouldn't trade any of it for a different path. Except perhaps, for what feels like an eternally long time before I figured out how to lead in the modern world.

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Leadership Intelligence Is What Matters Now

TLNT: The Business of HR

Being an effective leader of people in today’s world seems to be much more complicated than in years past.

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15 Advantages of Video Interviews You Didn’t Know About

Spark Hire

Technology has made the hiring process much more streamlined, providing an improved experience for both interviewer and job seeker alike. While interview scheduling tools can help take the back-and-forth struggle out of hiring, other software such as a platform for conducting video interviews has also helped to alleviate hiring headaches. Video interviews are becoming increasingly popular among businesses of various sizes.

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Millennials Are Reshaping Workplaces and Talent Management

HR Daily Advisor

by Philipe Bruce, founder of P.O.D.S Professional & Organizational Development Solutions. There’s a war out there—a war for talent—and it’s the Millennial generation that make up increasing talent pools in the corporate world. Yes, they don’t stay long in an organization. Yes, they are laidback and rebellious. But they also bring value and talent that Millennials to an organization.

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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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Medical Sales Representative interview questions

Workable

These sample Medical Sales Representative interview questions can help you identify candidates who combine sales skills with knowledge of pharmaceutical products. Feel free to add specific interview questions that meet your company’s requirements. The post Medical Sales Representative interview questions appeared first on Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better.

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Should I Use a Job Description Template?

Workology

So you need to write a job description. Either you’re setting out the parameters of a new job in your workplace, or you’re changing the description of a job that already exists but has changed substantially. Should you just wing it or go the tedious route of working off a template? Be boring. Use the […] Source.

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The Top 3 Benefits Retailers Find in the Cloud

Ceridian

By John Orr, SVP of Retail, Ceridian. While most retailers have given some thought to cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions, the underlying needs and anticipated benefits varies. In a previous blog , I shared high-level insights from Ceridian’s collaboration with Innovative Retail Technologies to survey more than 150 retail workforce managers.