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I’m getting a smaller raise because I negotiated when I was hired, talking publicly about career struggles, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. I’m getting a smaller raise because I negotiated when I started. I’ve been working for my current company for just over a year now. My boss has been thrilled with my work, and a few months ago he verbally expressed that he would like to give me a merit raise. He said we would discuss it at another time as the raise wouldn’t kick in until performance review time, early this year.

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A Brilliant Culture Is Made Up Of These People

Hppy

Cultures that deliver a high level of performance and create competitive advantage for an organization are grown by leaders with the foresight to recruit the right “human essence” that ensures long-term success. You hire to fill a job but you recruit to build a successful culture. In my three-decade career as an executive leader, I discovered that there are some basic competencies in people that, when operating in unison, not only create a workplace where people love to work together, but also d

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HighGround and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Kazoo

The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), put forth by the European Commission in 2012 and finally agreed upon by the European Parliament and Council in December 2016, is set to replace the Data Protection Directive 95/46/ec. Although many companies have already adopted privacy processes and procedures consistent with the Directive, the GDPR contains a number of new protections for EU data subjects and threatens significant fines and penalties for non-compliant data controllers and proc

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HR Technology Vendor Demos: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly [Podcast]

UpstartHR

One of the aspects of my job that I love is helping HR leaders select the right technology for their firms. (Thinking about changing technology this year? Let’s talk. ). How many vendor demos have you been through lately? Could the demo have been run more smoothly? Were there any issues? Do you have pet peeves about how vendor demos should run?

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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Less Than 30 Days to First IRS Filing Deadline for 2017 ACA Information

ACA Times

We are less than 30 days away from the first deadlines for filing Affordable Care Act (ACA) information for the 2017 tax year. How time flies! Here is who must file, when they must file and some helpful resources. Who Must File. Organizations (including certain of their related entities) with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, referred to as Applicable Large Employers ( ALE s), are required to make annual information filings with the IRS under sections 4980H and 6056 of the

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The Art of the Job Advertisement: The Best Way to Attract Candidates

Spark Hire

Many people think writing a job listing is easy. You put in the necessary skills and experiences. You list a few details about the position. Then you publish it to a job board and wait for the applications to pour in. But there’s a lot of competition to stand out on a job board. In fact, Spark Hire’s latest research found that job boards are the number one source of candidates relied upon by companies.

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Compliance Corner: February 2018

Workforce Software

The ADA reasonable accommodation process can be perplexing, with mistakes often resulting in unwelcome and costly litigation. This blog post lists 7 common mistakes employers should avoid during the reasonable accommodation process.

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How To Talk To Your Manager About Burnout

Lattice

You’re sitting at your desk, trying to write an email updating your supervisor on a big project, but you can’t seem to type anything that makes sense. Or, you can’t muster the energy to work on that report that’s due Friday, even though it’s your most important task this quarter. You feel as though you’re drowning in work, but instead of throwing you a lifeline, people just keep dropping more tasks on you.

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Want to Be a Great People Manager? Don't Watch The Ball.

The HR Capitalist

I've got a simple post today. It starts with sports and rapidly moves off that. Hang in there. You know what separates good and great coaches in team sports from average ones? They don't watch the ball. Regardless of the sport, the best coaches are the ones who spend 80% of their time watching the activity off the ball. They figure the guy with the ball is going to react to what's going on and do what's necessary.

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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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How HR Will Be Different This Year

TLNT: The Business of HR

Two competing forces are impacting the world of HR this year. On the one hand, the rate of social and business changes is accelerating, resulting in an ever more complex business environment. On the other hand, employees are pushing for even simpler, more engaging, and human-like experience from their enterprise applications. For HR to survive, they will need to leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robots, and chatbot to support rapid business ch

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Beyond employee benefits: How to create a culture that sticks

HR Zone

Culture. How to create a culture that sticks.

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From our CEO: The three things Culture First companies do

CultureAmp

At Culture Amp putting Culture First is the way we want to succeed. Culture First is not an outcome and it’s not an alternative form of success. Culture First is how we will achieve success - through developing our people and our culture.

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How Goals Boost Employee Performance

SutiHR

Setting goals is important for employee growth as well as the overall business. The goals that you define should be challenging but still attainable and realistic, whilst boosting employees towards success. Strong and clear business goals improve performance by motivating employees to increase their efforts. Organizations can achieve this by implementing the latest HR management.

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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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Which Comes First: Management or Analytics Software?

TLNT: The Business of HR

Since time immemorial, human beings have puzzled over, and been fascinated by dualities: yin and yang, thought and action, strategy and execution. As CEO of Visier, a company that helps business leaders use data to answer critical questions, the dynamic that I find myself ruminating about most is management and analytics software.

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I’m supposed to write 23 mini-essays in 24 hours before an employer will even interview me

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am in the early stages of job searching and have a situation that I’m not sure is abnormal or not. I received the following questionnaire to complete after I applied for a director level job in the nonprofit/association industry. The initial request was to complete this within 24 hours. I was out of the country at the time and I responded informing the hiring manager as such.

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Creating a Career Pathing Program Employees Want to Use

TalentGuard

Creating a Career Pathing Program Employees Want to Use. Employees value growth and development in their careers, and career paths are one of the most effective ways to support employee goals and increase retention. However, while 70 percent of employees will leave their jobs if they perceive a lack of development, many companies still don’t know how to design or implement an effective career development program.

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To Succeed In Business, Build Your Millennial Leader Through Character Development

Forbes Coaches Council

You can't eliminate character failures overnight. However, you can ongoingly invest time to develop solid character qualities in your millennial sales leader.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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4 Keys to Accurate Payroll for International Businesses

Celergo

For multinational businesses, maintaining an accurate payroll across borders is one of the most complicated tasks. Whether it’s determining how to establish a legal entity in the new country to pay employees, managing multiple international payroll providers, or even handling the exchange of currency to be able to employees properly, there’s a laundry list of items to check off to get it right.

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my coworker is crowdfunding for IVF and keeps asking everyone for money

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work in the HR department in payroll for a medium-sized company. My coworker (and his wife) want to have a child. They have already tried the conventional way, drugs, IUI, IVF, and surrogacy with her eggs/his sperm. They have not had success. Adoption OR surrogacy for a non-biological child is not an option for them because they both have past addiction issues and criminal records, although they have since turned their lives around.

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Why we need a new approach to conflict resolution

HR Zone

Business. Why we need a new approach to conflict resolution.

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New to HR? Confidence vs. Arrogance

Workology

Believing in yourself and your skills is important in any career field. You want to be the very best at the job you’re doing at all times. As an HR Newbie, there will be a lot of challenges while you’re learning the job, the workforce, the company, and upgrading your skills. Walking into a new […] Source.

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Trending Payroll Statistics

Staying up-to-date on the latest decisions and payroll statistics ensures businesses can remain compliant and efficient. B2B Reviews research compiled the latest data to help businesses stay on top of payroll in 2024 and prepare for the future.

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How and why wellbeing proactivity pays

HR Zone

People. How and why wellbeing proactivity pays.

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Please don't follow this email advice

Steve Boese

I don't know why I still keep the Inc. site in my feed reader, (remember feed readers?), because about 80% of the articles are inane '5 Ways to Crush XYZ process' or 'Celebrity ABC in one sentence gave us a master class in leadership'. Awful. So it was with a kind of hate read perspective that I clicked through my Feedly link to this latest gem from Inc. - A study of 386 million emails says this is a perfect time to send an email'.

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Engagement Guru and HRDA 2018 Keynoter Predicts Top 10 Workplace Trends

HR Daily Advisor

2018 is here and with a new year, comes new workplace predictions. As luck or prescient knowledge would have it, seven of the 10 workplace predictions I made last year turned out to be correct. AndreyPopov / iStock / Getty Images Plus. While I am happy with that outcome, I hope to do even better in 2018. Here are my top 10 predictions for the 2018 workplace: 1.

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Recruiting and Hiring: Lessons Learned from Marketers

Outmatch

In today’s world, recruiters and talent acquisition leaders are acting more and more like marketers. Why? Because the process of converting a candidate into a hire is a lot like the process of converting a prospect into a customer. It’s all about the funnel. The recruitment funnel, much like the sales and marketing funnel, is the best way to understand how effective your messages are, and if you’re attracting the right people to your brand.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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When Is a Discrimination Complaint against a Manager an Act of Harassment?

HR Daily Advisor

What if a manager accused of unlawful discrimination based on employees’ religion asserts that the complaint itself is an act of harassment? You owe duties all around, and you may not be able to perform one duty without risking a violation of the other. See how one employer successfully avoided that minefield. Survey Says. My Manager Discriminates Based on Religion.

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How to build and maintain an effective wellbeing strategy

HR Zone

Culture. How to build and maintain a wellbeing strategy.

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How to Hire Teams

HR Daily Advisor

Did you catch the Advisor articles about hiring entire teams? If not, you can catch up here for part 1 and here for part 2. In that article, we talked about some of the benefits of hiring entire teams instead of individuals. These benefits include: An entire team may be able to integrate more quickly into the organization. Hiring an entire team is more likely to bring in complementary skill sets, all at once.

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