Tue.Aug 28, 2018

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Think You Know Your Total Cost of Workforce? Think Again.

Visier

Do you have a detailed and accurate understanding of your total cost of workforce (TCOW)? If your organization is anything like most large businesses, the answer is no. Organizations are usually pushed to review their TCOW only when facing upheavals, crisis, or simply a pivot in the sector. This is because, in too many organizations, just finding the data can take several months, and as a result, this kind of overwhelmingly large project is only considered when it can no longer be avoided.

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Office Hours: How a Learning Experience Platform Can Solve Long-Standing Business Problems

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly " Office Hours " video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. We all know the importance of a good customer experience. It's what keeps people coming back to the brands they love over and over again. But a negative interaction can be costly—a survey by PWC found that 32 percent of customers stopped doing business with a brand after just one bad experience.

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Final Paycheck Has Too Many Deductions – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Final paychecks are always a source of employee questions. If you think about it, kinda makes sense. We don’t get that many final paychecks. Today’s reader note is questioning the number of deductions on their final pay. Hi. I got fired last month in District of Columbia. When I asked my employer to pay my final paycheck, including my unpaid sick and vacation as well as severance pay, they put the severance pay in the same final check as bonus.

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Diversity and Inclusion Is A Business Strategy, Not An HR Program

Josh Bersin

Corporate diversity and inclusion is a very hot topic. It comes up in almost every client I visit. Why? With the #metoo movement, #blacklivesmatter, and a continuous political discussion about income. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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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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Best practices for promoting employee wellness

PeopleStrategy

Employee wellness has taken on a greater importance in the workplace over the past decade. Workers want to feel like their organizations are committed to them beyond measuring their productivity and contributions to the bottom line. They want a tangible connection between themselves and the company, and part of that is knowing that the organization cares about their well-being.

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How to Apply Innovation Principles to Your Engagement Strategy

Achievers

Any people-centric company lives through its employee experience : engagement, culture and performance management brought together. In the employee recognition and rewards space, this translates in continuous engagement efforts, closely aligned to individual preferences. But the 2018 Deloitte Human Capital Trends report states that only 8% of organizations considered “their rewards program was very effective at creating a personalized, flexible solution.

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How Businesses Can Spot an Employee in Need

Hppy

Employers have a responsibility to protect their employees’ health and wellbeing. If you are worried a member of staff might be struggling in their role, with a mental health issue, or a personal problem, you must learn to spot the signs to help them get back on the right track. Also read: 5 Signs of Employee Burnout You Might Be Missing and What You Can Do About It.

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The Benefits of Internal Recruiting

BambooHR

Hiring for a new or recently opened position can be a complicated and stressful process. A lot of effort goes into attracting, vetting, interviewing, and ultimately securing a candidate for the job. Even after all that, sometimes you end up with a candidate who isn’t a good fit, and the process starts all over again. […].

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How the Small-Business Community Is Becoming More Diverse

TalentCulture

The small business community appears to be growing more diverse, according to a new survey by BizBuySell, an online marketplace for buying and selling small businesses. BizBuySell’s president, Bob House, says there are demographic shifts between the current generation of business owners and the next generation of owners (the would-be business buyers).

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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The Case for a Chief People Officer

TLNT: The Business of HR

Over the past few years, human resource departments have had a renaissance. They’ve evolved from an administrative team into a skilled unit that builds and manages a company’s most important asset – its people. This next-generation HR department needs to fall under the leadership of a chief people officer who is fluent across multiple disciplines. They’re policy designers, strategists, information scientists, and team builders.

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my boss is giving us the silent treatment

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: My department is in shambles. We are all miserable, we are all job searching, and we cannot leave fast enough. Unfortunately though, for the time being, we are stuck in our positions. To paint a picture of our situation: On a company-wide engagement survey, our team came in with the lowest morale and happiness in the company, and it has become a well-known fact due to our HR team’s loose lips and unprofessionalism.

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Employee engagement: why its time for HR to step up and deliver on ‘purpose’

HR Zone

Employees. ‘Purpose’ is the key to true engagement.

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sick coworker says he can’t work alone

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m an avid reader and I have a question on behalf of a friend. She works in retail and recently told me she felt too sick to work but couldn’t call in because her coworker, “Bob,” who has stage 4 cancer says he can’t work alone. This sounds off to me. I understand that due to ADA requirements he is entitled to reasonable accommodations but I am unsure if he indeed can require that a sick coworker stays at work with him.

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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 To Look for When Interviewing a Candidate

Workology

A friend who is job searching recently asked me what I look for in a candidate during an interview. The answer, of course, is that it depends on the role I’m trying to fill, and the company I’m working for. I recently read something on LinkedIn that suggested you look at a candidate’s behavior in […] Source.

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my office space is completely open and I can’t concentrate

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work for a tiny nonprofit in a small office where the 5-6 of us work. The way it’s laid out, there is a central pod with desks and dividers, two executive offices with thin sliding doors, a separate kitchen with printing station that also has a sliding door, and a “conference room” that’s actually just a space with a half wall blocking it off.

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6 Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Assessment Provider

Criteria Corp

Pre-employment tests help you make more informed hiring decisions by shedding light on your candidates’ skills and abilities. But setting up a testing strategy that produces great results for your organization depends heavily on the assessment provider you choose.

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Maternity discrimination: why do we continue to stereotype returning mothers?

HR Zone

Business. Returning mothers dealt short straw.

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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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3 Stages of Career Transition: Putting Yourself “Out There” For a Job Search

Inpower Coaching

Maybe you’re a little bored. Maybe you’re too comfortable. Maybe you hate your boss. Maybe you’re about to be laid off. Maybe you’re just operating below your top capacity. Maybe you’re not sure it’s time for a job search, but you’re thinking about it anyway. Wherever you’re at, even if you’re relatively new in a […]. The post 3 Stages of Career Transition: Putting Yourself “Out There” For a Job Search appeared first on InPower Coaching.

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Factors for Effective Succession Planning

HR Digest

A time will definitely come for some employees to move on and quit the stage due to various irrepressible factors. But the job won’t have to stop. Or do we wait until that happens before we can plan? Succession planning ensures that employees who will fill potential openings are on standby or available to take up the roles created by disengaging employees.

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SHRM Changes Online Learning Recertification Requirements

Workology

Interested in checking out LEARN by Workology? We have 5 free courses available for both HRCI and SHRM recertification credits. Click here to access. Earlier this month, SHRM made the bold move announcing that they will no longer have a maximum limit on self-faced activities. Previously, they capped the self-paced activities such as book reading, online […] Source.

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HR 101: 5 Simple Keys to Keeping Your People Engaged

TLNT: The Business of HR

Your people leave for various reasons. However, thanks to Gallup Research which collected data from more than 195,600 U.S. employees, we now have a #1 reason people say, “Peace, see ya later”: They don’t feel they are encouraged or supported to do what they do best.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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7 Drivers of a Contagious Strengths Movement

Chris Heinz

Last week I suggested that a sweeping strengths movement larger than we've ever seen could be coming. I defined strengths as, “your best means of contribution and contentment,” and wrote that few us have really tapped into the talents, traits, skills, knowledge, values, and more that are within us. And I commended us to seek humility as we seek our strengths.

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How Elon Musk Can Become a "For All" Leader

Great Place to Work

By Ed Frauenheim. Elon Musk admits he’s had an “excruciating” year as CEO of Tesla , working long hours and sacrificing time with family and friends to build his business and change the world. It’s a trap many leaders fall into. ‘If I work hard enough, I can solve it,’ they think. It’s an old tale that leads to predictable places – bad outcomes and burnout.

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HR: Always be Marketing with Katharine Mobley

The SHRM Blog

Katharine Mobley is an award-winning marketer who is blazing a trail for the next generation of women in technology. With over 20 years’ experience in her field, she has witnessed drastic changes in marketing and advertising and the impact they’ve had on technology companies. She is a highly regarded marketing maven, as well as a self-proclaimed data geek and social media addict.

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Managing Different Generations in the Workplace

HR Daily Advisor

As the economy continues to grow and the job market becomes increasingly robust, many employers around the country are probably starting to get antsy, wondering how they can entice their best employees to stick around instead of looking for a bump in pay or responsibilities elsewhere. Building employee loyalty can be a tough task for managers, but it’s something they can’t afford to ignore, as competition for skilled talent grows fiercer every day.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Whistleblowers are trying to do the right thing – so why don’t employers support them?

cipHR

Although whistleblowers have legal protection, many organisations lack a culture that encourages them to come forward. Dorothy McKinney explains how employers’ attitudes need to change. If the personnel department received a letter from a ‘whistleblower’ in the 1970s, we’d have torn it up and put it in bin. What else were we supposed to do? There were always going to be a few moaners.

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can I ask my husband’s boss not to renew someone’s contract, keeping personal files at work

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I ask my husband’s boss not to renew someone’s contract? My husband told me that he and a contractor had an affair while on a company trip. This contractor’s contract is due to expire in a few months. Can I ask my husband’s boss to not renew the contractors contract for personal reasons (to save my marriage) without it bouncing back on my husband?

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A look inside the Limeade Engage Hearts & Minds Tour

Limeade

This summer we hosted the Limeade Engage Hearts & Minds Tour. We took two interactive, research-based employee engagement workshops to four cities: San Diego , Dallas , Philadelphia and Boston. HR leaders came together to discuss the topics of employee engagement, burnout and how to authentically invest in and support employees. Workshop #1 – Employee Engagement: The Next Chapter.