Tue.Oct 17, 2017

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It Looks Like Medical Prices May Be Increasing in 2018. Here Is Why and What You Can Do to Help Your Business Prepare

Trinet

It’s time to start thinking about open enrollment and benefits renewal. It can be frustrating for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) to have to budget for benefits when each year they see significant increases that outpace inflation. So what’s an SMB owner or HR professional to do? This post takes a deeper look at what the PwC annual report identifies as the three inflators and two deflators that are driving health spending increases for 2018.

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Contractor Makes Stupid Mistake At a Client Site – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Many organizations use contractors and freelancers to get work done. According to the Freelancers Union, freelancers make up 35 percent of U.S. workers and earned close to $1 trillion dollars last year. It’s important for companies to properly manage a contingent workforce. Especially when they make a mistake. Today’s reader note shares a freelancer’s situation: Earlier this month, I got a contracting gig with a respected organization.

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Cartoon Coffee Break: Halloween Party

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon.

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#1 Thing Incentive Programs Get Wrong

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. New post on the new site: I get frustrated sometimes when I read articles, posts and even books about incentives, rewards, recognition and other topics related to designing and delivering great influen

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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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Growth Mindset, Feedback, and the Power of Peers

WorkHuman

Hear more from Lynne Levy on feedback, growth, and development in the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio, embedded at the top of this post. Meaningful feedback is the lifeblood for learning and growing. As an employee, leader, and learner, I am always looking for new education, new projects to work on, and new ideas to explore. I don’t consider mistakes to be failures, but rather, learning opportunities.

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Understanding the Future of Work with Alec Bashinsky

Everwise

While no one can predict the future, we can certainly do our part to understand where we’re heading and why. And understanding the evolution of work feels like a particularly relevant, modern day challenge. Technological advancement, the gig economy, and an increasingly overworked population are all contributing to a future that can feel murky. Understanding the future of work is something Alec Bashinsky has dedicated much of his 30+ year career to.

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#1 Thing Incentive Programs Get Wrong

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. New post on the new site: I get frustrated sometimes when I read articles, posts and even books about incentives, rewards, recognition and other topics related to designing and delivering great influen

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News You Might Have Missed – October 17

Kazoo

Check out a few of the recent stories that caught our eye as well as HR industry news you might have missed. Remote Work: A Productive Perk Worth Keeping. Companies that scale back remote work policies to boost productivity have the wrong idea, our CEO Vip Sandhir tells CIO. Communications Tactics You Should Be Using Internally to Help Your Own Team.

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The Gig Economy: Distraction from a Real Problem or Disruption to the System?

TalentCulture

Uber. Airbnb. TaskRabbit. Fiverr. These companies and many others like them have been recent harbingers of change in the business world. Known as the “gig economy,” this new way of working that allows people—with the click of an app—to earn a little money on the side, when and where they want, appears to be here to stay. In fact, a recent study showed the number of Americans benefiting from alternative work arrangements rose by nearly 10 million between 2005 and 2015.

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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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5 Quotes to kick your fear of networking in the pants

Sage HRMS

Networking. Small talk. Approaching complete strangers and striking up conversations. Feel uncomfortable yet? For some, even the word “networking” can trigger a bit of anxiety. One study found that the notion of networking leaves people feeling physically dirty and morally impure. Yikes. So, what’s the deal? Is networking itself an icky pursuit…or are our perceptions […].

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Five Steps to Payroll Transparency

TalentCulture

If you have decided that payroll transparency is right for your company, you may be excited to get the ball rolling and post the numbers for all to see. Going about payroll transparency in the wrong way can make for disgruntled employees and potentially even lawsuits, however. Taking the time to implement payroll transparency by moving through the following steps can mitigate issues and help generate excitement about the new policy.

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7 strategies to boost your leadership skills through self-awareness

Insperity

What does it take to be a great leader? Honesty, drive, confidence, perseverance – of course, these are all admirable traits of good leaders and there are many more. But what sets great leaders apart from the rest is their willingness to know themselves and others. People with high self-awareness understand what makes them tick and how to respond effectively.

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What HR can learn from DevOps culture

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Melanie Hache outlines five ways HR can become more lean and agile. According to the Gartner glossary , D evOps represents a focus on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices as part of a system-oriented approach. Importantly, DevOps puts the emphasis on people and on collaboration between operations and development teams.

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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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my employee isn’t performing well — but is getting a ton of public praise

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a direct report who is not performing as well as expected after a year in his role. He is on a development plan and has clear objectives to work towards. He receives monthly feedback (positive and developmental) and we discuss ways I can help him to achieve his objectives. My problem is this: others in my immediate network and some senior managers are praising him publicly for work that he has very little real ownership of and has not contributed to enough on his own meri

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3 Strategies to Improving Patient Safety in Healthcare

Precheck

3 Strategies to Improving Patient Safety in Healthcare Oct. 18, 2017. Antique-Nguyen.jpg. Antique Nguyen Marketing Specialist. Patient safety is an ongoing issue across the continuum of care. This includes workplace safety, healthcare-acquired infections, and medical errors, just to name a few examples. In fact, a study finds that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease and cancer.

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The personality traits you want to have on your team

Lattice

Say you’re heading up a new department and you’ve been given license to assemble a team. You’re not sure where to start exactly, but you’ve been on bad teams and good teams, and you want to do this right. So you do some research. You find out that Harvard Business Review looked into how personality traits factor into group dynamics.

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Are shorter attention spans hampering your best efforts In L&D?

Looop.co

“According to scientists, the age of smartphones has left humans with such a short attention span even a goldfish can hold a thought for longer” The Daily Telegraph, 2015. We know this, right? We’ve read the headlines and our Facebook feeds remind us constantly that our smartphones are eroding the attention of our children, our colleagues and, well, everybody!

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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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What the Enterprise Gets Wrong About Mentoring Programs

Bonfyre

Ever get the feeling your corporate mentoring program might be in need of a mentor itself? Mentoring programs are susceptible to the same pitfalls of many well-intentioned culture investments; lack of leadership participation, resources, time—you name it. But peel away the layers and you’ll find that corporate mentorship has more than a handful of issues.

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The Basics Of Emotional Intelligence

New to HR

Emotional Intelligence [EI] is the ability to achieve success by controlling and exploiting our emotions and the emotions of others. Numerous studies share how one can achieve success in life with EI. Unraveling these secrets behind our brilliance has been. The post The Basics Of Emotional Intelligence appeared first on New To HR.

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Disability Confident: what is the future of this scheme?

HR Zone

Employees. Disability Confident: future of the scheme?

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Ask These Four Interview Questions to Identify Star Candidates

Hireology

Note: This post originally appeared on Inc.com , where Hireology co-founder and CEO Adam Robinson is a regular contributor. As the leader of a high-growth company, you should be spending at least 50 percent of your time on people-related functions like recruiting and hiring ; more importantly, it should be spent wisely. That means not rushing into an interview winging it – as a matter of fact, research shows that hiring managers make worse hiring decisions after an interview than if

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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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Why Startups Desperately Need to Hire Human Resources

Workology

In light of the recent scandals at high-growth startups like Uber and Thinx, we need HR in our organizations from small startups to large corporations. However, HR isn’t just there to be the fashion. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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How Employers Can Promote Diversity and Inclusion At Work

Ceridian

This week I’m speaking at Ryerson University’s Inclusivity in STEM Conference. I’ve been asked to speak about barriers that I’ve faced in my career as a result of my identity, and how I’ve worked to overcome them. As you can imagine, this has had me reflecting upon my time in the world of work and thinking about what it’s meant to be a woman working in a non-traditional industry for women (my early work in radio broadcasting, which was, as with media in general at that time, dominated by men) an

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my coworker uses the office bathroom as her personal phone booth

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: At my company, we have large restrooms with 6+ stalls in both the men’s and the women’s bathrooms, with long counters that have three inlaid sinks. (I’m telling you this to let you know the rooms are large, echo-y, and there are no private “one-stall with a locked door” options.). A coworker is choosing to use the bathroom as her personal phone booth.

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2018 Pay Budget Increases Remain Flat—with Notable Exceptions

HR Daily Advisor

A new Mercer survey has found that pay budget increases remain about the same as last year—at 2.8%. However, according to a press release on the findings of its 2017/2018 US Compensation Planning Survey, base pay for certain jobs with in-demand skillsets is advancing at a far greater pace, Mercer has found. “While companies are holding the line on increases to fixed compensation, they are getting much smarter about how they distribute those budgets, focusing on in-demand skills and jobs emergi

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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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How HR Leaders In SMBs Can Make the Shift From Tactical to Strategic

TLNT: The Business of HR

Many HR practitioners who find themselves working in small or medium-sized companies share a common frustration. They complain that their time is spent playing interference between faulty management practices and disgruntled or entitled employees or pitching in and helping with superfluous administrative and office management functions; neither which drive the employment brand or foster employee engagement.

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Creating Better Teams with Authenticity

Talent Anarchy

Your conversations about talent are likely too small. Most managers and HR leaders I interact with talk about talent exclusively on the individual level. Everyone is fighting the so-called “war for talent.” And while engaging and retaining talented individuals certainly matters, we do not do work as individuals. More and more work, decision-making, and problem solving is being done by teams.

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Are You at Risk of Losing Your Rising Stars?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Rising stars are great performers and a welcomed advantage for any leader. But if you’re not careful with how you manage them , you can easily lose them to another organization.

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