Wed.Jan 18, 2017

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Why Big Brands Are Funding Small Tech Startups

Cornerstone On Demand

StickiBoard began as a small startup company in San Francisco creating a shared, digital "dashboard" that could be accessed from anywhere. After moving into their first office, growing by 48 employees and receiving a bit of guidance from the Samsung Accelerator—an incubator that provides startups with resources to improve and grow—they were acquired by Samsung's SmartThings.

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The Demands of Millennials Make Our Workplaces Better

Achievers

By: Anna Peters. Content Manager at College Recruiter. For all the complaining about Millennials and their approach to the modern workplace, they are actually responsible for much of the change happening in the modern workforce. joining Their entry into the workforce, was accompanied by a slew of stereotypes, followed recently by a round of myth-busting, with statistics and all, aimed at debunking those stereotypes.

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Mentorship and the Changing Nature of Work: An interview with Lyft’s Alyssa Schwartz

Everwise

Today is Thank Your Mentor Day and to celebrate, we’re sharing mentor and protégé stories to thank our community. . In the summer 2013, Alyssa Schwartz had just moved to San Francisco to work for a local branding firm. One day, a giant, fuzzy pink mustache attached to the grill of a car whizzed past her on the street. “I thought it was a funny hipster car at the time because who else would put that on a car?

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7 Tips for Successful Meetings

ATD Human Capital

Whether you’re leading a meeting or simply sitting in, there’s plenty you can do to make sure everyone involved gets the most out their time. Putting in the extra effort to make meetings productive is more important than you might think—according to the Muse , management spends 35 to 50 percent of their total work time in meetings.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Slideshare: How To Set Effective Quarterly Objectives In 2017

15Five

What are your company’s top objectives for this year? How will each team contribute to those objectives every three months, and how will you measure the progress of employees over the course of every quarter? These are the questions that you must be answering to have effective, repeatable results at your organization. Otherwise you run the risk of employees glorifying busy or getting sh*t done , without making the desired impacts to your bottom line.

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Combat the Hazards of Dissatisfaction

Hppy

More than anything, Millennials want engagement at work, but often have to settle for morale. In countless organizations, engagement is often conflated with morale–as if engagement is just another metric assessing how employees feel about their work and their roles. That’s a mistake, especially where the new (majority) generation is concerned.

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The Free Resource for Recruiting Top Talent

Entrepreneur

This inbound recruiting technique helps build a remarkable candidate experience by ensuring strong alignment between the candidate's values and your company values.

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Which Comes First: Employee Engagement or Performance?

Kazoo

HR has the difficult task of serving both employees and executives. They determine the processes that drive engagement and a positive company culture. While at the same time, they’re responsible for the strategies that create a high-performing workforce that delivers an outstanding customer experience and top business results. While there’s certainly a correlation between engagement and performance, it’s widely misunderstood.

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The Empire Just Bought Luke Skywalker (Also Known as ADP Buying the Marcus Buckingham Company).

The HR Capitalist

The Empire in the Star Wars series had it wrong. You don't need to fight the rebels. You just need to pull out the checkbook and buy the rebel who is most representative of the cause. In Star Wars, that was Luke Skywalker. Hell, you could also make the case that at one point it was Anakin Skywalker, but the empire didn't need to buy Anakin - they just needed healthcare technology that the rebel movement/jedi couldn't provide.

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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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Business Travel & Sleep

Laurie Ruettimann

I can’t sleep on the road, which sucks because my job requires a significant amount of time away from my home. I toss and turn for a good part of the night, waking up to worry about whether or not I’ve missed the alarm. Even when I’m not worried, I can’t get comfortable and fall into a restful sleep. Then it’s time to wake up.

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The Promising Opportunities of Mentorship for Women

TalentCulture

Mentors can teach us many things. Among those things include how to develop and enhance our professional lives. Each female can benefit from a mentor to teach her how to expand her network, accept herself, and access career satisfaction and success. Mentors can play a fundamental role in what career is chosen and the ultimate direction that is chosen in life.

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HR Data Alone Won’t Make You Strategic

TLNT: The Business of HR

Embedded analytics — defined by Gartner as analytic capabilities that are “easily accessible from inside the application, without forcing users to switch between systems” — are one tactic that has been heralded as an effective approach for facilitating data-driven decisions.

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Maternity coaching: a crap name for an incredible development opportunity

HR Zone

Culture. Maternity coaching: it needs a new name now.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Americans Say Training Is Up to Workers and the Schools

TLNT: The Business of HR

While I was browsing the internet looking for some economic data, I came across this 2016 report from the Pew Research Center: The State of American Jobs. And it is compelling! The Pew Research Center is “a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.”.

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How to be a motivational leader - without carrots and sticks

Jostle

Many managers, at one time or another, struggle to motivate their team. Getting people to give their best at work can seem like a complicated challenge. Leadership often falls back on over-simplified solutions, such as "carrot" and "stick" approaches. But surely there's more to motivation?

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It just got a little easier to charge you with discrimination

HR Morning

Now, even if you’re trying to help individuals work for your company, you could be charged with discrimination. . New regulations, which kicked in January 18, 2017, just made the employee verification process a little more dangerous. The new regulations , which come from the Department of Justice (DOJ), say it’s now discriminatory to treat workers differently when requesting verification documents during the I-9 or E-Verify process — regardless of whether the employer’s i

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10 Tips for Reducing Employee Stress in the New Year [Infographic]

WorqIQ

With the holiday season over, we are all likely experiencing some stress while we try to ramp up for the new year, and manage our backlog of work and our endless stream of emails. This might be a good time to think about what we can do to reduce employee stress. Read More» The post 10 Tips for Reducing Employee Stress in the New Year [Infographic] appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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why should I have to help clean the office kitchen when I never use it?

Ask a Manager

Two letters, same theme. The first: The directors at my workplace have introduced a policy that each week two people are responsible for cleaning the kitchen every afternoon before leaving. I find it unfair to have to clean other’s mess, given that the only use I make of the kitchen is for a coffee or tea during the day, and I always clean up before and after myself.

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How to keep your Brand Authentic on Social Media

Papirfly

Social media has become a crucial tool for recruiting and building your employer brand. In fact, a lot of companies, 92% to be exact, use social media in their recruiting according to staff.com. 29% of job seekers said they are using social media as the primary tool in their job search, with numbers rising. Social media channels are great for communicating employer brand values and work culture.

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Penalties for employment law violations just increased … again

HR Morning

The Department of Labor (DOL) and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), for the second time in just six months, are raising the penalties for employment law violations. . In November of 2015, the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act was passed. It directs federal agencies to adjust their civil monetary penalties for inflation every year.

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Financial wellbeing – time for businesses to act?

HR Zone

Future. Financial wellbeing – time for businesses to act?

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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EEOC Releases Guidance on Mental Health Conditions

HR Daily Advisor

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released informal guidance for advising employees of their legal rights in the workplace with regard to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other mental health conditions. Although the guidance is geared to employees, it provides insight for employers as to the EEOC’s position on protections provided for employees under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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Corporate Giving: Lessons From Bell “Let’s Talk”

Workology

Bell Let’s Talk is a mental health initiative by Canadian telecom giant Bell Canada. On January 25 Bell will donate $0.05 to mental health programs for: Every text message, mobile call and long. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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my manager keeps disparaging millennials on Facebook (and I’m a millennial)

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’ve got an issue with my manager that I’m not sure how to address. My manager and I are friends on Facebook (she added me, and not the other way around). Normally, I wouldn’t have accepted, but it’s unfortunately a cultural norm around this company that everyone, across several layers of management, is friends on Facebook, so I went along with it.

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DOL Announces Final Rule Relating to Disability Benefits Claims Process

HR Daily Advisor

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a final rule requiring that plans, plan fiduciaries, and insurance providers comply with additional procedural protections when dealing with disability benefit claimants. “Disability benefits are a lifeline for workers who are unable to work after becoming disabled,” said Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security Phyllis C.

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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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Death To The Performance Review! Long Live The Performance Review!

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

This article, written by Rob Preston or Oracle, was originally published on Forbes OracleVoice. The business press is rife with stories declaring the demise of an HR ritual: the annual employee performance review. Managers view them as a chore, especially if the review process relies on archaic systems. Employees see them as one-sided, formulaic, and too infrequent.

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Don’t forget human touch in your benefits communication

HR Morning

There are plenty of technological innovations in the world of benefits services and communications, but HR pros should never forget the importance of old-fashioned human interaction. . That’s one of the main takeaways from a recent Health Advocate study that was part of the whitepaper titled “Striking a Healthy Balance: What Employees Really Want Out of Workplace Benefits Communication.”.

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when a manager keeps saying he took a chance on you, boss keeps canceling meetings, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Manager kept reminding me that he took a chance on me. Is it appropriate for a manager to constantly remind an employee (in one-on-one check-in meetings and evaluations and the like) that they “took a chance on him” by hiring him because he didn’t have the skills required, needed training, etc.?

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