Wed.May 03, 2017

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Four Ways Company Culture Can Support Women in Leadership

Cornerstone On Demand

While more than 75 percent of CEOs say gender equality is part of their top 10 business priorities, women remain underrepresented across every level of the corporate pipeline—comprising just 37 percent of management positions and 19 percent of C-Suite positions, according to a recent study from McKinsey and LeanIn.org. This gender disparity doesn't stem from the inability of women to perform at top levels.

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Employee Retention: Tomorrow’s Recruiting Metric

Lighthouse

As HR is increasing its presence as a strategic part of the business, key performance indicators, or KPIs, are becoming a key part of the language for discussing how it is actually performing. Recruiting, in some ways, is actually easier to measure because it is very similar to sales: you either have results or you don’t. This is evidenced by our recent study on talent acquisition priorities , where half of talent leaders said that they were focused on improving the recruiting process over

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The Risks of Using Paper Time Sheets and Time Cards

nettime solutions

Risk is often thought of as something that happens from the outside –– such as a natural catastrophe or economic slump. Yet risk exists within your own business. And if you still use paper time sheets and time cards with your employees, you may be exposing your payroll process to a great deal of risk. Take employee time theft, for example. No one likes to think of employees stealing.

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To Improve Your Customer Service, Start With Your Employees

Everwise

The experience a customer has with your company, positive or negative, has immense power over your business. In fact, seven out of 10 consumers will spend around 13% more money with a company that provides a top-notch customer experience. But how can you most effectively improve customer satisfaction? Start by looking to your employees. The power of happy employees engaging positively with your customers is hard to ignore.

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Correct & Prevent I-9 Errors: Your 2024 Audit Toolkit

Simplify your I-9 compliance process and minimize the risk of costly fines with WorkBright’s comprehensive audit toolkit. Created in collaboration with employment law experts, this essential two-part guide will help you conduct a thorough internal audit in 2024. The first section outlines a three-step process for ensuring error-free and compliant I-9s, followed by two printable checklists to streamline your audit process.

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Convert to a Point System – a Simple and Effective Employee Productivity Tool

nettime solutions

On paper and according to the Black’s Law Dictionary, the term employee is defined as “a person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.”. To be practical, employees are what make, build and grow a business.

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3 FAQs on stratustime Mobile

nettime solutions

With 90% of American adults owning a cell phone and 58% of those using a smartphone, it’s no surprise that stratus time’s mobile module is a hot topic among our clients (Source: Pew Research Internet Project ). As a technical sales engineer for nettime solutions, I demo stratus time’s mobile interface daily, and frequently hear the following questions from our clients and prospects in the HR and IT industry: 1.

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How To Make Your Pre-Employment Screening Super Effective?

EmployeeConnect

Recruiting new people to join your company comes with many responsibilities and umpteen factors which a hiring professional should be aware of. It is necessary to properly and completely know your prospective candidates before you even consider hiring them. Pre-employment screening tests are used primarily for filtering job applicants and can include assessments of aptitude, personality, cognitive and language skills as well as functional knowledge.

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8 Methods To Reduce Costs During Slow Season

nettime solutions

All businesses have a slow season. It’s within this period that companies have a tendency to place urgency on reducing costs. In most cases, it’s a good way to tackle costs by trimming the fat. Unfortunately for some organizations the presumption is that managers will take the right actions to control their department costs. Or perhaps follow their CFO’s suggestions to delay critical investments, shift costs from one accounting category to another, or reduce overhead.

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What Science Says About Rewards and Incentives for Employees

Kazoo

As an evidence-based person, I like to see what science has to say about subjects that are important to me. If you’re of a like mind, it may interest you to know that science has long suggested that rewards and incentives for employees can easily backfire. Gifts, trophies, and other types of “extrinsic motivation” can be a bummer instead of a boost — and, if you can believe it, sometimes they actually spread unhappiness.

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Hey, Can You Cover My Shift Today?

nettime solutions

If you’re in the service industry – managing a busy restaurant or a retail store – some of your biggest challenges center around employee scheduling. Keeping track of who’s available to work, setting your shifts for a full week, and covering for last-minute absences or surges in customers. We designed stratustime’s new Advanced Scheduling capabilities based on client feedback to address these challenges and help you: Create and customize shifts and capacities.

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Leading With Positive Influence At Work While You Have Family Struggles

Hppy

When you have a leadership role at work, it’s your job to make sure your workers are happy and working efficiently. You need to keep things running smoothly in every possible circumstance. If there is a problem between two of your team members, you need to mediate the problem. If your employees are having personal issues that impact your work, then you should do what you can to help them through it while still maintaining appropriate boundaries.

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4 Tips For Planning Your Time and Attendance Implementation

nettime solutions

Software implementation can be tricky. If you’re not a computer programmer, it’s enough to make your head spin. Yet in today’s technologically advanced workplace, software conversations often bubble to the surface, regardless of whether your role is in payroll, IT, or even finance. Below are four tips to help your time and attendance implementation go smoothly: 1.

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update: I accidentally insulted my boss’s daughter

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter a few weeks ago from someone who, uh, ended up calling her boss’s daughter a whore ? Here’s the update. Thank you so much for your compassionate response, and to your commenters for their objective input. I am happy to report a relatively good outcome. There may have been only one or two commenters that guessed this, but it turns out my boss wasn’t upset.

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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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Managing Meals and Breaks with Time and Attendance Software

nettime solutions

The federal wage and hour law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), does not require lunch or coffee breaks. But when you do offer short breaks, the FLSA considers the breaks as compensable work hours. Therefore, these breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), are included in the total of hours worked during the workweek –– and should be considered in determining if overtime was worked.

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What You Need to Be the HR Activist Your Business Needs

TLNT: The Business of HR

Throughout the last decade it has become painfully apparent that while most CEOs recognize there is a drastic talent optimization problem, they have absolutely no idea how to fix it, nor time to take it on alone. Most CEOs address people and workforce issues like a hot potato — they want it off their plate immediately. This is where the 21 st century HR professional steps in.

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What to do when you can’t stand the people you manage

PI Worldwide

Frustrating employees got you down? Here are 5 ways to combat this management nightmare. In one key area, senior management differs not at all from the role of the supervisor on the shop floor.

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You Think You Know What HR Does (and Doesn’t) Do? You’ll Be Surprised by This List

TLNT: The Business of HR

Here’s a little contest for you: In the next five minutes name 20 things HR people are, do, or are are accused of doing, but don’t. Be sure to add enough color so we know what you mean.

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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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A CHRO Reader Sounds Off: Have HR Vendors Lost Their Ever-Loving Minds?

The HR Capitalist

If you choose to click through and read this, you have experienced a large uptick in the volume and aggressiveness level of pitches from HR vendors. I could say more to introduce this post, but the best path is just to allow a CHRO friend of mine tell you how he feels. "Dan" is a CHRO for a large employer in the US with thousands and thousands of employees.

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Building a Great Candidate Experience Will Help Your Employer Brand

Cronofy

Over the last few decades the balance of power has switched from brands to consumers. Most products can be purchased from different companies online or offline. The internet has provided consumers with endless means to research a product and a company before they make a purchasing decision. This has resulted in companies dedicating huge resources to building their brand image to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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30 Emotional Intelligence Training Opportunities Hidden in Your Workday

Bonusly

There's little controversy over the value of emotional intelligence (EI). Yet most efforts still focus on arguing its importance without much, if any, organizational scaffolding in place to support its pursuit. This article gets right to what you can do, right now. These are everyday opportunities anyone can take to support and develop EI for individual and organizational growth.

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Upcoming Webinar – Low Hanging Fruit For Running Better Tech Interviews

Spark Hire

Tech recruiting is a challenging mission. Unlike recruiting for other roles, it can be difficult to determine the skill level of the candidate you are speaking to. While you can get a good idea of the skills they may possess from their past experiences and projects, there is really no tell tale sign to truly know if they will fix the gap you are trying to fill.

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Breaking the Burnout Cycle: Empowering Managers for Excellence

Speaker: Adri Glover - Head of People, and Mollie Hinz - Sr. People Partner

In the fast-paced world of work, burnout has emerged as a critical issue. Alarming statistics reveal two in five U.S. workers experience feeling burned out. However, the situation is even more dire among managers, with nearly half reporting burnout, often hidden behind their responsibilities and the desire to uplift their teams. Recognizing the severity of this problem is crucial.

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Webinar: Creating A High Performing Remote Company Culture

15Five

One of the common concerns we hear from leaders is how to create or maintain strong company cultures. This challenge is exacerbated considerably when the business (like ours) is globally distributed. My co-founder, Shane Metcalf, and I thought it would be helpful to share some of our experiences leading a distributed team and solutions for growing camaraderie and cohesion even when employees are located all across the globe.

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Considering Cloud-Based HCM Applications? Start With a Transformational Journey

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Guest post written by Cognizant & KBACE , Oracle Cloud partners and sponsors of Oracle HCM World 2017. Making the transition to Cloud applications is not a matter of “if,” but “when.” Gartner forecasts that 30% of new software acquisitions by the world’s largest vendors will be Cloud-only by 2019 while IDC predicts by 2018, at least half of IT spending will be Cloud based, reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60-70% of all software, services and technology

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Finding A Mentor Might Be Easier Than You're Making It

Forbes Steve Cadigan

Don't get discouraged if you haven't found the perfect mentor. Mentorship doesn't mean finding the ideal individual, it's most valuable to have multiple mentors with various backgrounds.

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The Impact of President Donald Trump’s First 100 Days on Affirmative Action Compliance

Berkshire Associates

In this podcast-style recording, Lynn Clements, Berkshire’s Director of Regulatory Affairs, talks about regulatory and enforcement issues within President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office. She also covers three important things federal contractors need to do during this critcal time of transition. This eight-minute presentation was recorded on May 1, 2017, and is the first in an on-going series of short presentations designed to bring our colleagues and clients the latest information as i

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From Awareness to Action: An HR Guide to Making Accessibility Accessible

Speaker: Danielle Johnson - Director of HR, Compliance & DEI in AI tech at Impact Observatory

Making accessibility accessible for organizations of all sizes may seem complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Prepare to broaden your understanding of Disability, Cultural Competency, and Inclusion with this insightful webinar. We’ll explore disability as a vibrant culture, understand the nuances of reasonable accommodations under the ADA, and navigate the complexities of undue hardship while challenging the status quo of accessibility practices.

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Kronos Chief People Officer David Almeda Named HRO Today’s Chief Human Resources Officer of the Year for Innovation

Empower Software

Kronos Incorporated today announced that Chief People Officer David Almeda has been named the 2017 Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) of the Year in the Innovation category by HRO Today. Almeda was awarded this top honor, along with an additional award naming him a “leader of distinction”, at the HRO Today awards gala on May 1.

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Engaging New Hires: A Step-by-Step Recipe for a Structured Onboarding Experience

WorqIQ

The average job tenure has shrunk to two years in some industries, and it continues to shrink. Younger millennial and post-millennial workers (the largest cohort in the workforce) aren’t staying as long at their jobs and want more immediate feedback from management. So many companies blend their recognition/engagement programs with their hiring efforts to create a structured onboarding experience.

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Nuances of Nonprofit Compensation: 2017 Compensation Best Practices

Compensation Today

In a prior life, I did compensation and HR for a nonprofit. Every year, the age-old question would come up when it came time to benchmark our fundraising and programmatic jobs. The fundraisers, especially the Major Gifts Officers, had some pretty hefty goals to bring in cash. As a grantmaking foundation, if we didn’t have cash, not only could we not pay our operating and payroll expenses, we couldn’t do our core work.