Mon.Oct 30, 2017

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my department will fall apart if I get pregnant and take maternity leave

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am currently an HR generalist for a medium-sized not-for-profit (health care). I work under the HR director and am also over one HR assistant. I learned that my boss will be moving in the next few months and my company wants to promote me to HR director. I am only 26, and have been trying to start a family with my husband for one year (with many failed attempts, loss, and much heartbreak).

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Debunking 9 Myths About RPO Partnerships

Cielo HR Leader

While it is true that Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is not always the right solution, there are times when that decision is based on false assumptions. We have collected 9 common misconceptions regarding RPO that you can sift through to make sure your organization has all the right information when assessing its talent acquisition needs. 1) RPO is a temporary fad.

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when an employee turns in late work, telling your interviewer “I really want this job,” and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My employee said he didn’t know his late project was important — but he did. I manage a team of six in a small STEM firm. My employees are, by and large, fantastic. They do their work on time, at a high level, with great attitudes. I love my team and my job. Recently, one of my employees didn’t complete a project on time.

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Ted Talk Tuesday: Why Everyone Needs a Champion

Cornerstone On Demand

This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. Rita Pierson , like both of her parents and grandparents, spent her entire life as an educator. Although she taught all different ages and abilities over the course of her career, Pierson's philosophy on teaching remained constant: You have to get to know your students and support them in their growth, no matter how small, in o

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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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A Moneyball Pioneer On Why Baseball Data Has Feelings

Visier

In this new profile series, we sit down with interesting people and ask them to share the various ways their data-driven approach has served them in their life and career. Baseball is a numbers game, but Ari Kaplan is invested in more than the ones on the scoreboard. He is the co-founder of Scoutables (formerly AriBall) and widely considered to be one of the pioneers of sabermetrics, which is the practice of using in-game activity data and analytics to improve baseball game day strategy and play

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Mentoring and Hiring the Right People

Hppy

With the constant demand of searching for and then retaining the right people for your organization it is imperative that organizations have first class hiring processes in place. Empowering your managers to hire the right people is a key element of that hiring process. Ensuring that they have the right tools in order to be able to make those judgement calls is important.

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The Neuroscience of Great Learning Content: Attention, Memory, and Exploration [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Ask any business leader, and they’ll tell you they invest in the development of their workforce with the goal of improving performance. Yet the training and content delivery methods of the past aren’t keeping pace with the needs of the modern learner. No longer can you throw an hour of eLearning at a problem or slap a speaker in front of an audience and hope that knowledge will transfer and behaviors will change.

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How to Destroy Employee Motivation

WorkHuman

Earlier in my career, I worked for a tech company in the Boston area. My managers were my coaches and my biggest supporters. Our four-person team was very collaborative and it was a fun environment. Over time, my managers left the company to take outside promotions. I stayed on because I was dedicated to our team and our product mission. After my second manager left, I was assigned a new manager – let’s call her Kim.

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What You Need to Know to Jumpstart Your 2018 HR Strategies

Kazoo

For many HR executives, these fall months means one thing: planning for the year ahead. It’s a time to set budgets, goals and expectations, in hopes of hitting the ground running come January. To make the most informed decisions, they must look both outside and inside their own organizations and ask questions like “What’s working for other companies, and what’s not working for my own?

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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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Mentoring Circles: A New Spin on a Timeless Learning Technique

ATD Human Capital

Modern organizations are no longer the ones doling out development and training. Instead, today’s forward thinkers are allowing their employees to thrive by enabling them to self-organize into groups for their personal and professional progress. One way in which innovative organizations are handling this is through mentoring circles. What Are Mentoring Circles?

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What You Need to Know to Jumpstart Your 2018 HR Strategies

Kazoo

For many HR executives, these fall months means one thing: planning for the year ahead. It’s a time to set budgets, goals and expectations, in hopes of hitting the ground running come January. To make the most informed decisions, they must look both outside and inside their own organizations and ask questions like “What’s working for other companies, and what’s not working for my own?

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4 Tips to Move from Frozen and Fixed to Agile and Growing at Work

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – All humans have the capacity to grow, learn and develop but are too often held back by fear of failure. A growth mindset in an agile work environment is key to working more human. I heard a fascinating podcast recently on applying the agile software development method to your family. (Here’s the TED talk version.) Our company applies the agile method to nearly every part of our business far beyond our software developer group, and I can see how it could easily

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What is the Point of Corporate Team Building?

TalentCulture

Love them or hate them, team building activities are a part of the modern corporate landscape. But as you and your colleagues outstretch your arms to catch Jackie from accounting for yet another trust fall, part of you might start to wonder: what’s the point? Team building exercises, particularly ones which are somewhat left-of-centre, are swiftly gaining in popularity.

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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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What Does it Mean to Work Human? Join Me in Austin, Texas to Find Out

The People Equation

Would you like to bring a bit more humanity into your workplace? Who wouldn’t? Sometimes our work lives make us feel like numbers on a spreadsheet. As an antidote to the daily grind of the workplace, I attend the WorkHuman conference to hear the best and brightest talk about the science behind human motivation, happiness and performance—and how those things contribute to a company’s bottom line.

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#WorkTrends Preview: Kicking Off the You Matter Marathon

TalentCulture

If you have ever felt isolated at work or in life, you know what a difference it can make to be reminded that you matter. That’s exactly what Cheryl Rice wants to do through the 2nd annual You Matter Marathon , which starts today. Cheryl started the You Matter Marathon (which, by the way, does not involve running) when a colleague gave her a simple card that said, “You Matter.

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Dumb Device/Rich Cloud: Talent Philosophy in Apple Vs. Google Product Terms.

The HR Capitalist

I saw this on the web r ecently and thought it had a lot of application beyond the way Apple and Google ideate and develop products: "I’ve said before that Apple’s approach is about a dumb cloud enabling rich apps while Google’s is about dumb devices are endpoints of cloud services. That’s going to lead to rather different experiences, and to ever more complex discussions within companies as to what sort of features they create across the two platforms and where they place their priorities.

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How Emotional Intelligence improves the recruitment process

HR Zone

Acquisition. How EI improves the recruitment process.

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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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Open for Business! Kronos Celebrates 40 Years of Innovation with Grand Opening of 500,000 sq. ft. Global Headquarters

Empower Software

Today, on the company’s 40th anniversary, Kronos Incorporated officially opened its new global headquarters, uniting nearly 1,500 Massachusetts-based Kronites under one roof across more than half-a-million square feet at the Cross Point towers in Lowell, Mass.

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Why It’s A Mistake To Think Managers Are Effective Coaches

TLNT: The Business of HR

In 2015, Joseph R. Weintraub and James M. Hunt argued in the Harvard Business Review that there were two types of managers: those who coach and those who don’t. After years of researching the topic, they identified how the two were inherently different in their approach.

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New to HR? Ways to Help Improve Turnover

Workology

The end of the year is coming, which means soon we’ll be knee deep in turnover reports. They can be as grueling as open enrollment, but instead of having employees ignoring time frames, you. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Pick Up the Full Armor

NoExcusesHR

Leadership in the digital age is a curious thing. On one hand we try to inspire, motivate, and encourage other leaders to be as impactful as possible. We share positive images from our lives, we call each other out, we push ourselves.all wrapped in an online presentation that seems.just right. Sometimes Things Go Wrong Despite all the effort we put into sharing our world online, sometimes that world turns upside down.

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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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HR Roundtable: What HR Can Do to Help People Thrive

TLNT: The Business of HR

As everyone gathered for the September HR (Cincinnati) Roundtable, you could sense optimism because the topic for this month was geared to having a more positive impact than normal. We were getting together to discuss how people can “ thrive in their company culture.

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Mobile Apps for Better HR Management

SutiHR

Managing the company’s workforce is not an easy task; from finding and recruiting top talents to organizing training and employee engagement programs, HR departments have a lot to do. Technology can have a huge impact on and significantly improve HR departments’ services to employees and free up time to focus on other issues, such as. The post Mobile Apps for Better HR Management appeared first on SutiHR.

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HR past and future: time-travelling at HR Tech World in Amsterdam

HR Zone

Future. HR past & future: time travelling at HR Tech World.

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Combating Workplace Violence: What OSHA Has to Say

HR Daily Advisor

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has no standard or regulation specifically addressing workplace violence, but employers’ responsibility to address violence is covered under the General Duty Clause of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. And that means employers need to be ready for the agency’s inspection and enforcement efforts.

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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 Solution Buyer’s Guide

Sterling Check

Having a good new hire onboarding experience in place can make a big impact on employee morale and retention. Most recruits will decide within the first six months if they want to stay with a company. If they are happy in their jobs, the first six months can be their most productive. More and more companies are creating formal onboarding programs with over 30% having programs that are longer than one month.

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Three new responsibilities of the modern CFO

Sage HRMS

“Is the new CFO really a COO in disguise?” asked the CFO Daily News in a September article. It’s a good question: The concept of a chief financial officer as simply a numbers-cruncher is an outdated one. “Good CFOs have become more strategic,” says J. Peter Bardwick, former CFO of predictive marketing software company Rocket […].

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 300 - Taking Care of Employee Caregivers

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 300 - Taking Care of Employee Caregivers. Host : Steve Boese. Guest: Adam Goldberg, CEO and Founder, Torchlight. Listen to the show HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, Steve is joined by Adam Goldberg , CEO and Founder of Torchlight , an outcomes focused, employee caregiver platform that reduces the costs and complexities of modern caregiving for families and employers in the U.S.