Tue.Jun 05, 2018

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Diagnosing and Preventing Nurse Burnout Using People Analytics

Visier

Nurse burnout–a state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion caused by chronic stress–is a common problem in healthcare, one that came up often when I served as Director of Workforce Analytics and Special Projects at Vancouver Coastal Health, one of the largest healthcare organizations in British Columbia. It’s a prevalent problem industry-wide.

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5 Simple Ways To Really Engage Employees

Hppy

Why is employee engagement critical to an organization? Many think “getting more employees involved” is the end game. That’s true, but for what purpose? To make every person feel like they are making a contribution? To make them happier? To make them more supportive of leadership? If the purpose of employee engagement isn’t clearly defined, and a disciplined process to achieve that purpose isn’t established, the best that can happen is busyness and dysfunction.

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How to Address Early Signs of Employee Disengagement

Achievers

According to the Work Institute’s 2017 Retention Report, 75% of the causes of employee turnover are preventable. That’s excellent news for your HR budget, as the cost of replacing entry-level employees alone hovers near $4,000 per position. A small change in human behavior can be enough to indicate damage in employee motivation. Yet, detecting early signs of employee disengagement is never an easy task.

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Creating a Winning Culture Like a Sports Team

Kazoo

People often draw parallels between sports and business. At the conclusion of every championship game, there’s a fleet of managers ready to turn it into a lesson about success for their staff to learn from. And, for every championship banner hanging in stadiums and ballparks across the world, there are thousands of offices adorned with a motivational Wayne Gretzky poster (“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”).

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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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New Hires Not Engaged? How to Design an Onboarding Intervention

HR Bartender

( Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Readex Research , which provides expert survey services to help businesses understand their internal and external customers. Their services include employee experience surveys. Enjoy the post!). According to the most recent data from Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the average time to fill is 36 days.

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The Old/New Rules of LinkedIn Invites.

The HR Capitalist

If you're like me, you realize someone changed the informal rules on LinkedIn. Here's a primer on what the old rules were and the new rules ARE: OLD RULES: --You only connected with people you knew or were interested in their background. --You knew if you connected with them and tried to sell them something immediately, you ran the risk of complaints and might lose access to new invites, etc.

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Creating a Winning Culture Like a Sports Team

Kazoo

People often draw parallels between sports and business. At the conclusion of every championship game, there’s a fleet of managers ready to turn it into a lesson about success for their staff to learn from. And, for every championship banner hanging in stadiums and ballparks across the world, there are thousands of offices adorned with a motivational Wayne Gretzky poster (“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”).

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Virtual Reality Adds New Dimension to Employee Recruiting

TalentCulture

Virtual reality has generated a lot of headlines in recent years. For HR departments, the most talked-about use case for […]. The post Virtual Reality Adds New Dimension to Employee Recruiting appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Should You Build or Buy Wellness Technology?

CoreHealth Wellness Technologies

Technology can be a key competitive advantage for any wellness company. Here are 4 guidelines and a white paper to help you decide if you should build your own, buy a market-ready solution or outsource. Technology dictates a company’s efficiency but more importantly, it is a major influencer in your customer’s buy process. In just 50 years, technology has changed the world and the pace is increasing exponentially.

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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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Designing Diversity and Inclusion at Justworks

Justworks

Last summer, Justworks reached a turning point in the way we thought about diversity and inclusion (D+I). Our message and our actions were not aligned, and our commitment to diversity did not feel real. Employees felt it and leadership knew it. Justworks leadership responded quickly, putting together a leadership D+I council led by the CEO, appointing an existing employee to run the program, allocating a budget and a fairly loose mandate: “Nobody has really gotten this right yet, so let’s.

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Is it time for your first HR software?

cipHR

Divya Shankar explores five signs that your small or medium-sized business is ready to introduce a people management system. It’s good business sense to use specially designed software to help you manage functions such as marketing and accountancy – so why wouldn’t you want to find a digital solution that’ll help you refine and automate your HR processes?

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Change management: a manager’s guide to dealing with office gossip

HR Zone

5th Jun 2018. Change management: a manager’s guide to dealing with office gossip. It seems to be human nature to tell ourselves stories to explain the things that happen in our lives, but what happens when those stories. By. Jasmine Gartner. Training consultant.

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Popular Interview Questions (And Why You Should Avoid Them)

BambooHR

The interviewing process can be overwhelming. You’re trying to gauge culture fit, determine qualifications, avoid bias, and compare multiple candidates—all while trying to make the individual on the other side of the table feel comfortable. If you haven’t prepared in advance, it’s easy to fall back on the most popular questions. But the most popular […].

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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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The Power of Lifelong Learning and Personal Development

Workology

I just finished a book called Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by Dr. Barbara Oakley. Drawing on the latest neuroscientific insights, Dr. Oakley. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Can You Terminate an Employee on FMLA Leave?

HR Daily Advisor

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides job-protected leave benefits. This generally means that when an employee qualifies for and takes FMLA leave, his or her job (or an equivalent) must be available to return to at the end of the leave period. The FMLA also has an antiretaliation provision. Employers cannot fire employees for requesting or taking FMLA leave.

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5 Workplace Skills That Will Be Vital in The Future

Women of HR

In the future, when information and knowledge become more readily assessable to everyone and robots begin to replace humans at work, only one question remains… what will the future of workplace look like? Many believe that robots represent the future workforce and it is just a matter of time when technology will replace a lot of jobs (as they are beginning to do so already).

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What to Look For In an E-learning System

TLNT: The Business of HR

Once a corporate training alternative, e-learning services have become the new norm. Managers appreciate the way they streamline coaching; employees like educating themselves in the most convenient way possible. It’s no wonder global e-learning has grown by more than 900% since 2000.

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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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Rules for Long-Distance Leadership: An Interview with Wayne Turmel

David Zinger

Wayne Turmel and Kevin Eikenberry wrote a new book, The Long-Distance Leader, with 19 rules for remarkable remote leadership. This interview focuses on the connections between long-distance leadership and employee experience & engagement based on the book. It is a cool book that will really help you bear the demands of leadership from a distance.

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why do managers say they want feedback and then get annoyed when they get it?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a question for you about feedback — specifically, feedback that you’ve been asked to give. I’ve repeatedly been asked for feedback from managers, both at work and at the organization where I volunteer, and then it seems like the same thing always happens: the feedback vanishes into a black hole, or the person asking for it gets defensive or upset and starts throwing up reasons why the feedback I’m providing can’t be correct.

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The surprising reason behind cliques at work and what you can do

Insperity

When you see your employees breaking off in clumps, it’s likely they’re drawn to each other based on a common interest, work style, work location or personality. But what happens when those clumps turn into cliques at work? Let’s be clear: People tend to gravitate to others who understand them and where they feel safe. This isn’t a bad thing. Lifetime friendships can be born out of workplace relationships.

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3 Reasons Why Metrics Go Wrong

Compensation Cafe

A business mantra for decades has been “what gets measured gets managed.” Sadly, in some areas over the years, that’s become twisted to focus on the metric and not the behavior or goal underlying the metric. Knowing where we stand and how we’re doing in working toward targets is important, but these metrics must never supersede the original reason for pursuing the target.

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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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Microsoft Now Owns the World’s Two Most Important Recruiting Platforms

TLNT: The Business of HR

Love ’em or hate ’em, recruiters and vendors need to get used to the reality that Microsoft now owns the two most popular professional networking sites on the net. And as a result, it owns the two most important sourcing platforms in existence.

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someone spends an hour a day putting on makeup in our shared bathroom

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: Hi! I work in an office building on a floor that has three different offices on it. The bathrooms in our building are not very big (four stalls, three sinks, and roughly 80 women on our floor). I have IBS. I’m on a medication to keep me regular, but every so often it makes using the bathroom a sudden, painful, urgent need for me.

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How to Take Corporate Values and Make Them Local

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This article was written and originally published in advance of Starbucks’ half-day closure last week for anti-bias training.

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How to use public and private goals for employee development

Lattice

How do you navigate meeting company objectives while still achieving the more detailed goals employees personally want to accomplish and develop at work? To an employee, it can feel like being pulled in multiple directions, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The key is in deciding what the desired accomplishments are both for the company and on an individual level , and creating a plan to meet those desired accomplishments— or, more simply, it lies in the process of setting goals.

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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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Onboarding Employees in the Height of Summer Vacation Season

Employee Communications Council

Summer is underway and for a lot of businesses, it is also slow season! With slow season comes more time to revamp your brand message and bring on new employees for a fresh perspective. Whether it be new college grads or someone changing careers or direction, Employee Onboarding in the summer season can present opportunities for both parties. If your business doesn’t experience the slow time during the warmer months, maybe it is time to reevaluate the employees you currently have and determine i

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Tech: @Job_Adx Smarter Programmatic Job Ad Spend

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on The Weekly Dose I review the programmatic job ad platform JobAdx. JobAdx is one of a handful of new platforms on the market that talent acquisition teams can utilize to run their own digital job advertising. So, first I probably need to explain a little about what the heck is ‘programmatic’ advertising.“Programmatic” ad buying typically refers to the use of software to purchase digital advertising, as opposed to the traditional process that involves RFPs, human negotiations,

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How Can Employers Help Improve Employee Financial Wellness?

Extensis

Financial wellness is a growing concern for employees and employers alike, especially as the cost of living continues to increase. Personal finance issues can impact an employee’s productivity and performance, while also creating other wellbeing problems.