Mon.Jan 16, 2017

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How A Strong Company Culture Promotes Success

Hppy

Some leaders believe workplace culture is all about ensuring employees are constantly happy and satisfied. The truth is, while positive attitudes from employees is a great sign, there’s much more to it. In fact, an August Business Pulse Survey by The Alternative Board (TAB), What Makes A Culture Strong , shows 86 percent of business leaders agree company culture is a major contributor to the success of a company.

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Hiring at the Push of a Button: An Interview with Wonolo Cofounder [Podcast]

UpstartHR

The idea of a “gig” isn’t anything new, but the concept of using gig workers as an alternative source of talent certainly is. More companies are starting to realize that getting a job done doesn’t always have to mean creating a requisition, posting a job, interviewing candidates, and making an offer. In the case of some new applications on the market, companies can bring talent to their front door at the veritable push of a button.

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The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 7 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The Employee Experience Book – Chapter 7 – Leadership Intelligence Podcast. Listen as co-author of the book, The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results , Matthew Wride, discusses chapter 7, “The Psychological Contract.” The Employee Experience – Chapter 7 – The Psychological Contract. “The Psychological Contract,” from Chapter 7 of the book, “The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain

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How Cloud Computing Has Revolutionized the HR Industry

ExactHire

The cloud has had an incredible impact on business operations in today’s modern economic environment, and Millennials, who represent half of the working population and could represent three in every four workers by 2020, are at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution. HR is one area of business that is seeing the need for change with a focus on integrating technology at its core.

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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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Increase Employee Retention with an Exceptional Onboarding Process

Justworks

Do you remember your first day at the job you have now? You were probably excited, a little nervous, and wanting to make the right impression. More often than not, employers also feel the same way. However, the onboarding process can feel overwhelming when there’s so much paperwork to handle and so much to learn. Although it may be easy to overlook, an employee’s onboarding experience has a significant impact on how long she’ll stay with the company.

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The A to Z of Feedback

TalentCulture

It’s no secret that feedback is a hugely important in the workplace. Giving and receiving useful feedback is a key part of both personal and organizational development. It impacts individual growth and allows people to work on self-improvement, whilst also pushing people towards organizational goals. We’ve put together a handy overview: all you need to know about feedback from A-Z.

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What Workplace Studies Can Tell Us

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Experiments in the workplace can help show the impact of innovative practices, and provide insight into management philosophies. Experimentation in the workplace isn’t necessarily a new idea. As early as the 1920s, studies have looked into the effect that various workplace changes , such as lighting and scheduling adjustments, could have on productivity.

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#WorkTrends Preview: The New Digital Workplace: Four Key Trends

TalentCulture

Many pundits in the HR and tech space are speculating on trends we need to be mindful of. Many anticipate the workplace as we know it today will be a great predictor of what’s to come. As more and more companies develop a global footprint and with that employ people based in different countries with varying cultural nuances, the need for better digital tools and accessibility to remain connected continues to rise.

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The leadership manifesto: developing leaders at all levels in 2017

HR Zone

Development. Developing leadership at all levels.

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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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our company is making us do unreasonable things to accommodate a coworker’s mental health

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My coworker, “Casey,” has worked at the same company as me for just over two years. Casey has mental health issues with obsessive-compulsive disorder (self-acknowledged and openly talked about) that have gotten progressively worse as time goes on. Casey is on medication and currently in therapy, but it isn’t enough any more.

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Be Your Own Container

Laurie Ruettimann

My cat Jake is old, deaf, and fully retired. I come at him three times a day with medication, and as long as he’s pain-free and using the litter box, I don’t mind being his home healthcare nurse. This arrangement could go on for years if you ask me. I’m happy he is still around. But, in reality, it won’t go on for years. Jake is in the fourth quarter of his life, and there are nights when I have to poke him with a feather-on-a-stick him to make sure he’s sleeping an

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What Candy Crush Taught Me About Being a Good Manager

TLNT: The Business of HR

Business lessons can sneak up in the oddest of places. Even viral online games can give us insight into important organizational processes.

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5 Rules for White Guys Talking About Diversity.

The HR Capitalist

Capitalist Note - Rerun for MLK day. Topic: White Guys engaging on their beliefs related to diversity in the world of work. Hashtag: #complicated. Full disclosure - I'm a white guy. . There's lots of angry white guys out there who feel that all "this diversity talk" has made them a protected class. I'm not one of those, but I'm interested in the dialog.

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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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What Makes a Good Manager – Tips

EmployeeConnect

If you want to be a great manager, it’s critical to be a leader and not a follower. A better manager leads by example instead of telling people how to act. Situational leadership has rapidly replaced leadership best practices in today’s fast-moving and agile business environment. The premise of the situational approach to leadership was developed by Hersey and Blanchard in 1969.

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7 Ways Smartphones Are Rewriting the Rules of Shift Work

Workforce Software

Traditional employee mechanics are dead. Here are 7 ways that smartphones are being used to modernize the way that shift workers are managed.

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Kronos Earns Great Place to Work® Certification!

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that it has officially been certified as a great workplace by the independent analysts at Great Place to Work®. Kronos earned this esteemed credential based on extensive ratings given by its employees in an anonymous employee engagement survey administered by Great Place to Work.

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Our Favourite HR, Business and Leadership Books of 2016

Workology

Like many of you, we here at Workology have already started building our 2017 reading lists. But we thought it would be a good idea to take a look back at some of the books that influenced us last. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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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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How One Call Center Reduced Turnover to Zero

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recognize This! – Understanding the importance of the work and the people doing it make work matter and make work more human.

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A Quick Guideline to Content Marketing for Small Businesses

Paychex

Content marketing for small businesses is a potential game-changer. When done correctly, this increasingly popular marketing strategy can establish your business as an industry leader and provide information of value to your customers. Consider these ideas to engage potential customers.

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5 Tips to Help Develop Great Leaders

HR Daily Advisor

by Anita Bowness, global practice leader, Business Consulting, Halogen Software. Like a stone thrown into the water, what leaders do has a ripple effect that extends well beyond those immediately around them. Besides impacting performance, leaders serve as role models, impacting the attitudes, behavior, and organizational culture with almost every interaction they have with their peers and direct reports.

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Don’t Confuse High Potential with High Performance — Here’s Why

Outmatch

It’s easy to talk about potential and performance as if they’re the same thing. You assume that your high performing employees will deliver rock star results in any capacity because that’s what’s driven them succeed so far, right? And you assume that your high potentials will master any new opportunity they’re given because that’s what potential means… Right?

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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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HR in retail: interview with David Bannister, ex-HRD, River Island

HR Zone

Future. Interview: David Bannister, ex-HRD, River Island.

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10 Characteristics of Companies that Succeed

QAspire

What differentiates companies that succeed over a long run from those that don’t? As the rate of change and disruption continues to accelerate, companies need a strong foundation of fundamentals that enable long term success and growth. In this respect, I recently read Leandro Herrero’s post on characteristics of companies that succeed in long run. 10 characteristics are outlined in the sketch note below.

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#HotInHR: Why Open Source HR, Importance of Cognitive Diversity, Choosing Conferences Worth Your Time

Advos

Sign-Up For Our Weekly Recap Of HR Funding News. Every Monday we send a summary of the previous week’s funding announcements, mergers, acquisitions, and partnership news from the HR technology, recruitment, talent management and employee benefits space. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. Why HR Needs To Go Open Source – Fast Company.

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Do You Know What Business You’re In?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here is an important question to ask yourself as well as your entire staff: “What business are we really in?”.

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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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3 Steps to Better Performance Management

TalentGuard

3 Steps to Better Performance Management. The days of the traditional performance review are behind us. Today, 75% of companies surveyed either have switched, are switching, or are planning to switch to a more updated performance model in an effort to boost employee engagement and drive productivity. Defining that model, however, is a difficult task, as each organization is unique.

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Workers Reveal Plans to Land New Jobs in 2017, Says Survey

HR Daily Advisor

A new year means new beginnings, new opportunities, new resolutions, and for some workers, a new job. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, more than one in five workers (22%) are planning to change jobs in 2017, similar to last year (21%). Among younger workers, the numbers are even higher. More than a third of workers ages 18 to 34 (35%) expect to change jobs in 2017, compared to 30% last year.

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Want to Inspire Your Team? Develop This Leadership Trait First

Inpower Coaching

Leaders must inspire team members to achieve their personal and professional best. Pep talks and motivational speeches can only go so far, and if you lack one trait in particular, they may not help you at all. A team of researchers from the graduate business school INSEAD has uncovered a surprising connection between emotional intelligence (EI) and the leadership behaviors of inspiring others.