Thu.Jun 21, 2018

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Not Your Grandma?s Mid-Year Performance Review (No Offense Grandma)

15Five

“Summertime and the living is easy.” A nice sentiment for Ella Fitzgerald , but for most of us that probably hasn’t been true since grade school. Expectations for productivity are as high as any other time of year, and for some organizations the mid-year performance review is just around the corner. Maybe right now you’re doing performance reviews only once a year.

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7 Strategies to Hire Diversity of Thought In Your Organization

Achievers

If you always recruit from the same places, with the same methods, you will always get the same people. In today’s competitive market you need to be creative. You have to go where the candidates are and have a long enough lead-time to get a good selection of candidates. If you want to be ahead of the competition, and bring in more innovation, then think with a diversity of thought mindset.

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How to implement a flexible time-off program

Ceridian

Following the launch of Ceridian’s new Time Away From Work program, Chief People and Culture Officer Lisa Sterling shares how to implement this type of program successfully.

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Why HRs pros want to kill I-9 and what they want instead

HR Morning

If you’re in favor of ditching the current employment verification process – the paper-based I-9 form – for a mandatory electronic system, you’re not alone. According to the SHRM Employment Verification Survey, 83% of employers either strongly or somewhat support a mandatory electronic verification system. Plus, employers’ support of such a system would be even higher if it: avoids allegations of employment-based discrimination (cited by 95% of employers). includes a strong safe harbor to protec

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Women in Automotive: How to Conduct Interviews Free From Inappropriate Questions

Hireology

Women make up almost half of the U.S. workforce, but only 1 in 5 dealership employees are women. And with dealerships facing staffing shortages – fewer than 1% of job seekers would consider working at a dealership – dealers need to make more of an effort to ensure their employment brand and hiring process are inclusive and open to women. One way dealers can improve their hiring efforts to attract more women – and create a more diverse workforce overall – is by asking all job candidates the same

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What Effective Performance Management Truly Looks like in 2018

ClearCompany HRM

54% of employees in a McKinsey survey said [current] performance management has not had a positive effect on employee performance. Performance management remains a challenge for many organizations as the people, processes and technologies within the workplace evolve. With emerging technologies built to automate and streamline the way we work to the way we continue to redefine labor, performance management gets more and more complex.

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4 Ways to Combat Toxic Company Culture

Kazoo

Companies don’t usually start out of the gate with a toxic company culture. Over time, with market changes, company changes, and leadership changes – company culture may turn toxic without you noticing. Suddenly, departments are hoarding information, coworkers don’t want to help each other out, and people don’t want to come into work in the morning.

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Shattering Stereotypes: Cisco?s New Parental Leave Policy

TalentCulture

It may take a village to raise a child, but based on many parental leave policies, apparently it only takes […]. The post Shattering Stereotypes: Cisco’s New Parental Leave Policy appeared first on TalentCulture.

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How to use technology to support healthy living and boost the employee experience

HR Zone

Employees. How to use technology to support healthy living.

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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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can I go barefoot at work?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work in a legal office. I am the assistant but I sit in an open area outside my boss’s office. I wear business casual clothing and shoes. However, my feet get uncomfortable in the shoes. I often take my shoes off and go barefoot. They’re under the desk for the most part, but occasionally people will have to look at my computer.

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#SHRM18 Recap Told Through Tweets

Advos

SHRM Annual 2018 set some records. There were over 700 exhibitors and about 17,000+ paid attendeesleaving no doubt that SHRM is the largest human. resources conference globally. Prior to the conference we published our Conference Twitter Primer which listed all of the Twitter ID’s for the speakers and sponsors — helping companies to engage with #SHRM on Twitter.

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Tackling Health Care Costs in the Era of Abundance

Benefitfocus

The rise in choice and cost in employee benefits has resulted in a perfect storm for both employees and employers. Learn how smart employers are using their benefits data to tackle these issues, contain costs and improve outcomes for their employees.

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how do you deal with freelancer terror?

Ask a Manager

I meant to make this an “ask the readers” question as per my new Thursday tradition, but I started writing just a short response to it and then it got longer and longer. So it’s not quite that anymore, but hopefully readers will weigh in as well. I’m an avid reader of your blog, even though I haven’t had a standard office job in about a decade.

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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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Four ways to improve communication with your employees

Ceridian

There are better ways to connect with employees than using impersonal, generic communications. The organizations that set themselves apart use their culture to inform exactly how they do that. Here, four ways to better engage employees with culture-based communication.

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6 Tips for Avoiding Hiring Bias

Namely

When it comes to hiring top talent, we want to believe we give everyone a fair chance and choose the most qualified candidates. But what if our judgments aren’t as fair as we think they are? We all carry unconscious biases , both positive and negative, that influence our opinions of others. When we see a piece of ourselves in someone else, we’re more likely to have a favorable impression of them; however, when we see others as different from ourselves, we may be quick to judge.

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Managing Your Team More Effectively Using DISC Leadership Tools

Extended DISC

Managing people is definitely one of the most challenging jobs around. The My Team Report: Manager's Playbook, is specifically designed to help a manager lead his/her own team more effectively.

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The Dark Side of Strengths

Chris Heinz

You have your strengths, and you’re feeling good about them. You want to move in and develop those areas. You know there’s more to be gained by investing in strengths than trying to turn your weaknesses into strengths.

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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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7 Ways to Increase Productivity

Take It Personel-ly

Productivity is important to all working professionals, since high levels of productivity means a lot of work is getting done. One of the difficult things to do is to increase productivity levels, as we all have tendencies to plateau. Despite these tendencies, there are still ways to increase productivity levels. I used to be a […].

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Is your workforce re-subscribing? The new model for employee retention

Ceridian

Chances are that if you think highly of your people, another company will as well. So, start thinking about your relationship with employees as a subscription, and create experiences through which employees choose to actively re-subscribe to your company. Here are four tips to entice them.

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What Does Workplace Diversity Look Like in 2018?

Namely

The world is diverse, but is the workplace? Diversity and inclusion have long been HR buzzwords, and many HR leaders cite diversity as a key objective in their strategic planning. For many talent acquisition pros, hiring a diverse array of employees is top of mind. But once those employees enter your organization, it takes the entire community to create a genuinely diverse and inclusive workplace.

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Your employees are your best advocates: Four ways to leverage them

Ceridian

The best and most authentic promotion comes from within. Marketing through employee advocacy can drive sales, help your company develop new audiences, and increase engagement, recruiting and retention rates. Here, key ways to encourage your employees to be company advocates.

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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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Put Some Lipstick On It

Compensation Cafe

One of the reasons that I never liked my (much) earlier role as a Job Evaluator was that the litany of requests by managers to change the grade of jobs never ended. I rarely had a moment of peace after completing one request before the phone would ring again. “Can you look at the assigned grade of my XYZ Administrator? The grade is wrong.”. This opening line is then rapidly followed by, “I have a new job description.

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Five ways that data helps HR be more strategic

Ceridian

From smarter recruiting, to identifying flight risks, to increasing employee engagement to boost productivity – HR has an increasingly strategic purpose in companies today. Here, Ceridian’s Director of Product Management Paul Jelinek discusses five ways HR can be more strategic by using data.

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Managing the wellbeing needs of a multigenerational workforce

HR Zone

Employees. The multigenerational workforce's wellbeing needs.

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5 Things I Learned From the Gig Economy

SocialChorus

Last April, I started driving for Uber. I joined the over one million Americans who drive for a variety of reasons, from lack of full-time work to the independence of being self-employed. Up until then, I was like most people. I tried out TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and other gig economy apps, with their promise to make my life easier, better, and more affordable.

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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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Independent contractor or employee? California Supreme Court adopts new classification criteria

Ceridian

The new standard presumes all workers are employees unless the hirer can establish three rigid factors that qualify a worker as an independent contractor.

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Rocking Chair Leadership

NoExcusesHR

"I'm on it!" "We're moving fast on this one!" "The team is all over it!" "Everyone is so busy working on this!" I. Don't. Believe. You. Activity Does Not Equal Progress How many leaders have you heard describing how 'busy' they are; or, their teams are? How many times did you hear those same updates week after week with no real progress to show for it?

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New Jersey passes paid sick leave law

Ceridian

The new state-wide law replaces all 13 existing city-level sick leave laws in New Jersey and bans cities from enacting their own sick leave laws. Here, Compliance Counsel Emerson Beishline discusses how employers can prepare for the new change.