Fri.Jun 22, 2018

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To Maintain Employee Morale Through Big Changes, Communicate Wisely

Justworks

Employers regularly face the awkward yet crucial challenge of communicating changes within the organization to their employee base. A longtime employee resigns. You let someone go with significant visibility in the organization. The company is about to go through some restructuring. Too often, companies don’t publicly acknowledge such changes. This can leave employees feeling confused and unsettled, potentially compelling them to gather information through gossip and hearsay.

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10 Signs You?re Succeeding at Employer Branding

Hppy

A strong and engaging employer brand is essential in both marketing and recruitment. What your brand communicates speaks volumes to what it may be like to work for your company, employee culture, and core values. How do you know if you’re doing it right? Check out our 10 factors for gauging employer branding success below. 75% of job seekers consider an employer’s brand before even applying for a job. 1.

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Cafe Classic: Is Your Incentive Plan a Strategy Killer?

Compensation Cafe

Editor's Note: Do your incentive plans make the right decisions seem wrong and discourage the choices most critical to your organization's future? The Classic lesson here: It can happen more easily than we realize if we aren't paying attention! Are your incentive plans designed to support or defeat your organization's business strategy? It's a fair question.

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Managing Your Schedule Is a Skill ? Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For a third year, Kronos CEO Aron Ain has been recognized as one of the Top CEOs in information technology by Glassdoor.com. Many congrats to him! Enjoy the article.) . Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a planner.

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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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The 4 Elements of Analytics Storytelling

Visier

For decades, HR organizations have operated with a “softer approach” to business—relying more on intuition and less on hard facts to make workforce decisions. It’s an approach that allows HR practitioners to get the job done, but makes it more challenging to align HR strategy with business value. Thanks to the digital revolution, it’s now easier for HR departments to make workforce decisions based on concrete data.

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Small company super-glue: how to grow up without growing apart

HR Zone

Culture. Small companies: growing up without growing apart.

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Employee Onboarding: Tips and Best Practices from HR Experts

BambooHR

Just like with people, first impressions of a company are crucial. During your customers’ initial interaction with your business, they’re looking to see if you’re reliable and trustworthy. Their evaluation of your company will have a significant impact on their upcoming decision whether to pay for your goods or services or not. Similarly, new team […].

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Goal Setting Processes: KPI Vs OKR

Engagedly

Measuring performance is one of the many important aspects of every business. It is a continuous process that involves collecting and analyzing information regarding performance of individual employees or a specific department. How do you measure performance? There […].

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Being Smart Isn?t Enough to Succeed

TLNT: The Business of HR

Note: This article is part of an occasional series dedicated to exploring the contribution of human capital assets (people!) to the valuation of a business. Welcome to The New ROI: Return on Individuals. Previous articles in the series can be found here.

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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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Market forces driving payroll trends in 2018

DailyPay

Parallels Between the Movie Industry and the Payroll Industry. In the early 2000s, Blockbuster had several opportunities to acquire a small upstart called Netflix. Secure in its belief that the home movie business would never change, Blockbuster declined every time. In 2011, Blockbuster went bankrupt, and tod ay we can now watch a movie on our phone while waiting in line, thanks to Netflix.

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Standing Ovation: Recognizing Exceptional Employees | Tony Fournier-Ehrhart

WEX Inc.

A Standing Ovation is a special reward program at benefitexpress that honors two employees who have gone above and beyond in fulfilling our Community Pillars. Each quarter, nominations are tallied, read, and carefully considered before being awarded at our company “Town Hall” all-staff meetings where the final nominations are read aloud to highlight just how much the winners have done to deserve the award.

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Improve Retention, Safety, Quality, and Profitability in the CPG Sector with Safegagement?

C. A. Short Company

Over the past few weeks, we’ve written a great deal about Safegagement™ and its role in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) sector. We’ve done this by tackling big issues head on – dedicating full articles to key concerns such as safety or turnover. But today’s post is different. Instead of further breaking apart and segmenting the data, we’ll put all those pieces together to see how Safegagement improves your employees’ lives, your customers’ health, and your company’s bottom line.

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If I hire you to shovel snow in hell, when hell eventually freezes over, you?d better shovel!

The Employer Handbook

By flydime – [link] , CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link. Remember that as I share with you a recent Tenth Circuit opinion dealing with essential job functions under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Here are the undisputed facts: The plaintiff-employee worked for the defendant-employer first as a shopping-cart attendant, then as a maintenance associate. The job duties of a maintenance associate listed cleaning restrooms as an essential job function.

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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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5 Creative Features to Add to Your Company Career Site

Ongig

Company career sites keep getting better and better. Finding new ways to attract and engage job seekers once they hit your careers site is getting harder. Here are 5 company career site features to help get your creative juices flowing: 1. Diversity Pie Chart. If you’re serious about diversity, why not show your data. Pandora and Apple are leading the pack.

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Look For the ?Human? When Buying HR Technology

TLNT: The Business of HR

What attracted you initially to a career in HR? Chances are, it wasn’t the opportunity to fill out forms, perform accreditation checks, resolve insurance conflicts, analyze compensation data, or — most of all — create and email spreadsheets.

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Market forces driving payroll trends in 2018

DailyPay

Parallels Between the Movie Industry and the Payroll Industry. In the early 2000s, Blockbuster had several opportunities to acquire a small upstart called Netflix. Secure in its belief that the home movie business would never change, Blockbuster declined every time. In 2011, Blockbuster went bankrupt, and tod ay we can now watch a movie on our phone while waiting in line, thanks to Netflix.

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I want my coworkers to stop venting to me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work at a large university. Professors here wield a lot of influence in academic and administrative decisions. Although I don’t always agree, I accept this is the way things get approved and done. I have two coworkers who must get permission for much of their work from professors. I hear about this frustration because they will come to my office to tell me what their latest roadblock or hold-up is.

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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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8 things your managers need to know about the FMLA

HR Morning

Whether they realize it or not, managers have the power to make or break FMLA lawsuits. . Experts say employer violations often occur when managers respond too quickly and emotionally to FMLA-triggering situations. The good news is, proper training is the key to preventing these costly manager mistakes. Responding carefully. At the annual SHRM conference , Jeff Nowak, partner at Franczek Radlet and founder of FMLA Insights , and Matt Morris, VP of FMLASource, shared eight things you should tell

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open thread ? June 22-23, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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Podcast: The Future Role of The Recruiter

WorkTech

The problem trying to predict the future of the recruiter role is that we have no history – no use cases – to draw from. New tech like AI, automation, and machine learning are coming at us faster than previous tech cycles. Where does that leave us? With a lot of hype and even more […]. The post Podcast: The Future Role of The Recruiter appeared first on HRWins by LAROCQUE, LLC.

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Managers Support (and Destroy!) Continuous Performance Improvement

Quantum Workplace

It goes without saying: managers are critical to employee performance. However, recent research by Quantum Workplace has discovered exactly how critical they are. Looking at survey results from more than 8,000 organizations and over half a million employees, we examined the roles managers play in improving performance. What did we find? Managers are, in particular, the driving force behind continuous performance improvement.

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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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4 Leadership Topics Gaining Steam and Why They Matter

Select International

Every few months, I step back and think about the world of leadership and review what's new, what people are writing about, what my clients are doing, and what new challenges have arisen. It's sometimes fun to predict if a new topic is a fad or if there is some meat there. Below are four topics that have come up several times in my work this year. Some of them are new while others have been discussed for some time.

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Calling for a Retreat

Jason Lauritsen

In my June newsletter, I shared that my wife, Angie, and I had a “retreat” scheduled. For those who may not know, Ang is not only my life partner but is also my business partner. This quest to make work more human is a family affair for us. . On a walk together in May, we realized that we’d started to lose some of the discipline we once had in regards to preventing the business from consuming our relationship.

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How do I take the Myers Briggs personality indicator test?

Cloverleaf

Q: How do I take the Myers and Briggs personality indicator test? A: There are many Myers Briggs type assessments available online but only one has the rights to the Myers Briggs name. The underlying science behind the Myers Briggs 4 character result is based on Carl Jung’s work from nearly a century ago. Cloverleaf.me offers one of these assessments that you can take for free along with many other assessments.

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Employer Probably Should ?Give a f about? Employee?s Religion

HR Daily Advisor

Religion has been a major feature in many historical conflicts. It probably comes as no surprise then that religious conflicts around the globe are on the rise. And it’s no wonder that in our religiously pluralistic nation, employers and employees find it difficult to navigate the religious accommodation requirement in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. benjaminec / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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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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What types of people go to networking events?

PI Worldwide

Ever wonder what type of people attend networking events? Well after last week’s TechJam we now have a data set that outlines what the events' attendees were like from a PI Reference Profile perspective. But first, some background information: Last week The Predictive Index sponsored TechJam, Boston’s largest tech gathering. During the event we invited all attendees to take a productivity killer survey and a free PI Behavioral Assessment (BA).

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Reputation management for HR professionals

HR Zone

People. Managing your personal brand.

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Entrepreneurial spirit: How managers can inspire their youngest employees to think like leaders

Business Management Daily

Here are some simple ways you can inspire employees to embrace their roles and think more like leaders regardless of their level of experience or responsibilities. The post Entrepreneurial spirit: How managers can inspire their youngest employees to think like leaders appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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