Tue.May 22, 2018

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4 Steps to Retraining Employees in the Age of A.I.

Visier

For humanity, major socio-economic transformation is nothing new, but the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) requires the world to adapt and realign to a new reality more rapidly than ever before. How will we cope? It took 150,000 years to become an agrarian society and complete the transition from hunting and gathering. Over the next 10,000 years, the economy slowly evolved as populations grew.

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Why Company Leaders Should Focus On Boosting Workplace Happiness

15Five

Humankind has long struggled to find the secret to living a happy life, but what about workplace happiness? Have you ever wondered how your employees feel at work ? Perhaps you’ve tried to create a fun and satisfying environment, with activities like foosball and ping pong or by offering free lunches and snacks. But if you haven’t found success, it may be because those perks focus more on downtime, rather than creating a productive work environment.

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How to Be a Savvy Staffing Service Consumer on the Perm Side

Onboardia

Getting started with a staffing service can be fairly quick and easy. They are eager to have your business. You are eager for their product (qualified people for jobs). Because of this, the process can start running away with itself. The staffing service is part of what is going to build your business, so perform your due diligence wisely. If there’s one thing I have learned working with staffing services for over twenty years, it’s that the client (i.e., Human Resources/Managers) needs to drive

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Bookmark This! The GDPR Compliance Edition

HR Bartender

Last week, I shared with you an interview with Tom Wetherill from Unum’s United Kingdom offices about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The compliance deadline is Friday, May 25, so I thought it appropriate to share a few more resources you might find helpful. Undercover Recruiter published an article on “ Why GDPR and GDPR-Compliance Matters ”.

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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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What Role Does Mentoring Play In Employee Well-Being?

Hppy

Our well-being is something that we most often overlook. We allow our environment to dictate what our day is going to look like and how we are going to feel. How we feel can change as our environment changes. How we manage that is something that we do have control over. This morning, for example, we were dealing with some turmoil in a work environment that could have exploded into something far worse.

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What Is Employee Empowerment & What Are Its Top Principles?

Reflektive

When considering how to boost employee engagement, many organizations work from the outside in—trying to figure out which perks and benefits will keep employees happy. They should be working from the inside out—making employees feel valued by giving them greater autonomy over decision-making. This concept is known as employee empowerment. While it’s a challenge for some executives to “give up control,” it ends up paying major dividends.

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How to Navigate Culture Change During Mergers and Acquisitions

Achievers

News of one company buying another one makes for splashy headlines, broadcasting rising stock prices and the overall cost of the deal. Just look at the headlines Disney garnered for its recent $52 billion bid to acquire most of 21st Century Fox , as well as all of Sky News. However, what really counts after the dust settles is how you help your employees adjust to the cultural shift.

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How 3 Innovative Companies Are Rethinking Learning at Work

TalentCulture

According to a 2017 survey, 71 percent of employees have had to undergo training to either keep or advance forward […]. The post How 3 Innovative Companies Are Rethinking Learning at Work appeared first on TalentCulture.

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Six reasons why fun in the office is the future of work

cipHR

Happy employees are healthier and more productive – so don’t overlook the importance of having fun in the workplace. While most people, generally, would rather spend time with their friends and family than be at work, there’s no need for work days to be all doom and gloom. Investing time and effort into making your workplace a more enjoyable place to be can have tangible positive benefits for employees, teams, and your wider organisation.

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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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Will Algorithms Ultimately Write Coaching Scripts for Managers?

The HR Capitalist

There's a lot of talk about AI, robots and algorithms ultimately replacing people in some, if not all, of the jobs we know and love. While I believe that's going to happen (it already has and will continue), there's a couple of myths we can dispel about the displacement of people out of jobs. . Those myths include the following: The revolution will happen fast and we'll all be out of jobs.

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5 Questions with HighGround CEO Andee Harris

Kazoo

Things have been in full swing over here at HighGround since CEO Andee Harris took the helm, so much so that we haven’t had time to stop and introduce her on the blog. We’re excited to do so today and give you a peek at why we’re so happy to have her in the top seat. While Andee is new to the role, she’s not new to the company or even the acronym. Andee celebrated her two-year HighGround anniversary last month and was previously our Chief Engagement Officer.

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What are the Real Roadblocks to Fast Hiring in Today’s Marketplace?

Workology

In this fast-paced talent market, great candidates are not waiting. They are in demand, meaning that our organizations must be able to hire fast and effortlessly. We need to be flexible and focused. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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Designing For How People Really Learn, At The Point-Of-Work

Looop.co

“We exist in a culture in which fact-based knowledge dominates traditional instruction. People who are good at “knowledge games” like Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy are considered smart. But life requires us to do , more than it requires us to know , in order to function. It makes more sense to teach students how to perform useful tasks. There is only one effective way to teach someone how to do anything, and that is to let them do it.

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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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What makes remote work, work?

CultureAmp

In 2016, 43% of full-time employees worked remotely at least some of the time. That number is still on the rise. Companies that once offered remote work as a perk now use it to attract and retain top talent.

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#MeToo Is About Everyone

NoExcusesHR

Anger is rampant. Accusations are rampant. Accountability is rampant. Men are running for cover, and women feel more empowered than ever before. It's embarrassing that in a country with as much potential as the United States, it's taken this long for these voices to be heard. It's also embarrassing that men continue to behave this way. When we consider the racial and religious divide that has been reignited and supported over the last two years, it's a miracle that anyone dares speak out.

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my boss wants to give me his kidney — but I don’t want it

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have a question that is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the boss who (shudder) tried to force his employees to donate an organ to his brother. I have a serious chronic kidney disease. I was diagnosed almost a decade ago and have been able to control many of the most serious complications with diet and medication. Recently however, my kidney function has diminished.

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The Four Questions that Coaching Explores

Chris Heinz

Before I knew what coaching was, this is what I thought coaching was: you paid a coach to tell you how great you were and how everything would work out, if you just believed in yourself.

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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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Show Your HR Value With ‘Pain Point’ Metrics

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the trickiest parts of providing HR services is that the better you do your job, the less visible your work is. When everyone on a team is happy, fulfilled, and engaged, the business can operate as the founder envisioned – and that founder may fail to realize the importance of the behind-the-scenes HR work that’s made that reality possible.

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Time & Attendance Software for Technology Startups

nettime solutions

Is there a “right time” for a tech startup to add operational management functions, especially if they’re not ready for a human resources department? Some startups begin thinking about HR and management functions when they reach about 20 employees. That’s when a number of federal and state employment laws kick in. Others will apply when an employee count reaches closer to 50.

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Guide to a Customized Data-driven Training

Rallyware for Human Resources

Working as an HR specialist or L&D professional and being responsible for corporate training in your company is challenging, but keeping employees engaged and excited about training is even more challenging. Another level of difficulty is proving to executive staff that your training program is actually working and directly contributing to the business’ growth.

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Scientific people analytics: are you in the know?

HR Zone

Change. Scientific people analytics: are you in the know?

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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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Planning an Office Move? Here’s What You Need to Know

SnackNation

Planning an Office Move? Here’s What You Need to Know. Office moves start out exciting. You envision the finished product—everyone in your company working and thriving in a shiny new, perfectly organized office. The panic sets in when you realize you have to figure out how to move and organize everything in that shiny new office. Office moves involve an overwhelming number of literal and figurative moving parts.

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The Simplest Keys to Success: 2 Tricks for Goal-Setting and Personal Change

Inpower Coaching

Leadership, career and success gurus place a huge focus on goals. There are tons of articles, books, videos, classes and “systems” on how to set goals, how to organize them and how to “keep” them. Entire franchises have been built on this one productivity skill. And with good reason; goal-setting and goal-keeping truly are the simplest keys to success in any form.

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Résumé dos and don’ts: 10 tips for screening job candidates

Insperity

Résumé dos and don’ts abound for job seekers. But what about the hiring managers, HR directors and other business leaders tasked with screening candidates? Are résumés still a useful recruiting tool? Although many experts predict that networking and job-hunting websites may one day render résumés obsolete, it will probably be a while before they go the way of wagon wheels and telephones with cords.

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how does your job interviewer find out what you’re really like?

Ask a Manager

When you’re interviewing for a job, it’s easy to wonder how the standard hiring process – a resume screening, an interview or two, a reference check – tells an employer what you’re really like. How are employers able to figure out whether or not to hire you based on such limited contact with so many different candidates? The truth is, to some extent it’s a crapshoot.

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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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Work Style Reforms: how HR and payroll departments can prepare

Ascender

Download our free ebook. The Work Style Reform legislation, launched by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2016, aims to rectify the work culture that exists in many Japanese organisations. While it promises to benefit both employees and companies, its introduction will undoubtedly signal a period of transition for Japanese employers, and this is likely to greatly impact payroll and HR.

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Want to keep valued employees? Conduct a stay interview

Workplace Coach

If you’ve ever been blindsided by a valuable employee’s resignation and conducted an exit interview, you may have asked the right questions six months too late. Exit interviews detail why employees leave your organization. In contrast, stay interviews—rarely done—provide a valuable tool for retaining valued employees. What’s a stay interview? Stay interviews uncover what really matters for each key employee—such as a raise, dental as well as health benefits, decision-making autonomy, knowing the

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can I ask a new hire to use a nickname, manager asks for money for food and gas, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Can I ask a new hire to use a nickname since we share the same first name? We’re in the process of interviewing and we’ve found a great candidate that we might be ready to move forward with. A big snag though is that she has the same first name as me. We work in a small office with less than 10 people, but we utilize over 300 volunteers, most of whom are 60+.