Wed.Dec 27, 2017

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How to Train Managers on a Low Budget

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller's column “The Science of Workplace Motivation" on Inc.com. In 2013, at the end of my first week as Cornerstone OnDemand's first manager of learning and development , I sat down and wrote a three-year training plan. After just a few days on the job, I had no idea what my budget would be, but that didn't influence my priorities in the least.

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Where Is Employee Engagement Headed in 2018?

Reflektive

We live in an ever-changing, fast-paced world, so there’s an ongoing need to engage employees in novel ways. Employee engagement is crucial, because when employees are highly engaged , they take fewer sick days, and they tend to remain with the organization. Productivity and customer interactions increase, too, which leads to revenue growth. Uncertainty in the Workplace.

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Understanding the Power Behind Employee Happiness

Achievers

You likely know that people don’t perform as well when they’re feeling disengaged or distracted, but you may not realize how pervasive a problem this is in today’s workplace. How happy are your employees? Is employee happiness at a low or a high? The latest Gallup poll (collected from over 80,000 workers) on employee engagement tells a dismal story.

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Mood Lifting Tips for a Quick Pick-Me-Up

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryFeeling a bit sad? We all feel this way occasionally. Next time you need to turn around a bad day, try one of these proven tips to lift your mood and help you feel better.Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel your emotions without judgment. Make time for family and friends. Spending quality time with people you care about is beneficial to your wellbeing and can make a big difference when it comes to happiness.

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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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Artificial Intelligence for HR (a practical viewpoint!)

UpstartHR

Cover design for the new book. I’m in the middle of writing a book. Yes, a BOOK ! I’m having fun and writing a ton, but I’m also looking for a little help. See, I need some examples from vendors and employers to help me fill in a few case studies and would love to feature you in the book if you’re a fit for my requirements. The survey below is open to anyone and I would appreciate it if you would respond.

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Mood Lifting Tips for a Quick Pick-Me-Up

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryFeeling a bit sad? We all feel this way occasionally. Next time you need to turn around a bad day, try one of these proven tips to lift your mood and help you feel better.Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel your emotions without judgment. Make time for family and friends. Spending quality time with people you care about is beneficial to your wellbeing and can make a big difference when it comes to happiness.

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The Practical, No-Kidding View of Artificial Intelligence for HR

Lighthouse

Cover design for the new book. I’m in the middle of writing a book. Yes, a BOOK ! I’m writing a ton, but I’m also looking for a little help. See, I need some examples from vendors and employers to help me fill in a few case studies and would love to feature you in the book if you’re a fit for my requirements. The survey below is open to anyone and I would appreciate it if you would respond.

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Mood Lifting Tips for a Quick Pick-Me-Up

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience LibraryFeeling a bit sad? We all feel this way occasionally. Next time you need to turn around a bad day, try one of these proven tips to lift your mood and help you feel better.Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel your emotions without judgment. Make time for family and friends. Spending quality time with people you care about is beneficial to your wellbeing and can make a big difference when it comes to happiness.

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Driving Employee Engagement Will Drive Your Client Engagement

TalentCulture

Happy employees lead to happy clients. Knowing that, why do so few companies focus on employee engagement? At my company, we prioritize employee engagement for two reasons: First, disengaged employees are less productive at work, lowering the quality of deliverables and harming the company’s culture and reputation; and second, disengaged employees present themselves poorly to clients, creating negative impressions and reducing conversions.

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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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Building a Foundation for New Payment Models

Everwise

Building a Foundation for New Payment Models. The rise in new payment models is one of the most promising and exciting parts of being a retailer today. The vastness of opportunity is limited only by the ability to respond to it appropriately. From the rise in social commerce buy buttons to the “checkout-free” store models being ushered in by Amazon Go and Walmart Scan & Go.

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What are Schemas?

Ask a Manager

The word schema has been used for more than 100 years by psychologists but unfortunately, in its long history, researchers have not settled on a clear and precise definition of what exactly is meant by it. Nevertheless, in the following, I will (hopefully) provide a useful description of what a schema is and how it is related to learning and education.

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Which Employer Review Site is Best For Employers & Candidates?

Workology

As a consumer, you probably are familiar with the concept of reviews whether it is for a product or service like an Amazon product review or a review of a product or company on a Facebook Business. Workology is the art and science of work, HR and recruitment. Join the resource revolution.

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update: how can I be more assertive at work?

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer asking about how to be more assertive at work , especially in the face of sexism? Here’s the update. I realized, after reading your reply and the comments, that I was letting my self worth get too caught up in feeling like I wasn’t standing up for myself, and then beating myself up for it, which made the stakes feel even higher next time, which made it feel even harder to stand up for myself because it felt symbolic, instead of just a simple but tough work

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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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4 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged During Open Enrollment

Evil HR Lady

You’ve emailed your employees 37 times and put a sign up in the break room, but they still seem to miss open enrollment deadlines. It could be that they don’t understand why it’s so important. The result is that employees can end up with a plan that isn’t the best for them and their families. In fact, many people do, according to The New York Times.

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Why You Should Read Every Employee Survey Comment

Quantum Workplace

You just finished your employee engagement survey; the biggest hurdle has been cleared! While you might be tempted to sit back and wait for results, wait just a minute. What about the answers to your open-ended employee engagement survey questions? You might rely on NLP and comment scrubbing, but your comment analysis shouldn’t stop there. I am here to ask you (beg you, in fact!

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5 Tips to Find the Best Talent in 2018 [Infographic]

HireRight

Expect the challenge of sourcing the most highly-qualified candidates to become even more competitive as we enter the new year. And perhaps as younger employees, with fresh ways of looking at employment, join the workforce, new means of attracting – and keeping – them are worth considering. You may also think about tuning-up some tried-and-true – but dated - methods to stay ahead of the pack.

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7 Sure Ways to Fail as a HR Leader

The Tim Sackett Project

It’s tough being a Leader these days! You have all these boomers retiring and taking their typewriters and knowledge with them, you have all theses X’ers who think they are now the second coming, the GenY’s and the Millennial’s who have been told they are the second coming, and now we have these Generation Zs who think they can work from where ever since they grew up with a smartphone and an iPad in their crib.

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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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5 Lessons Learned from the Recent Harassment Complaints

ADP

Nondiscrimination laws require employers to maintain a work environment that is free from sexual and other types of harassment. Beyond compliance.

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updates: the boss’s baby, the stress exaggerator, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are updates from five people whose letters were answered here in the past. 1. My coworker is pregnant with my boss’s baby. If it’s even possible, this update is almost as dramatic as the original post. Before I tell you what has happened recently, I want to just clear up somethings that we’re not adressed in the original letter. Many people questioned why I showed him the pregnancy test.

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8 New Year’s Resolutions Every Employee Should Have For 2018!

Engagedly

With 2018 being just around the corner, it’s time for resolutions. Every year almost all of us make a long list of resolutions to improve ourselves in every aspect of our lives. But more often than not, we […].

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how can I address my employee’s bad attitude?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I have to meet with a staff member who is generally good at her job but has become increasingly disrespectful and resistant to any direction. Her attitude makes it difficult for me to work with her, but every time I talk to her about anything she is so unpleasant about it and afterwards it is almost the silent treatment. Do you have suggestions for me as her manager to address the attitude without making the whole situation even more unpleasant?

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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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5 Trends Shaping Employee Benefits in 2018

Benefitfocus

Get ready for another big year in employee benefits. Here are the top trends we see shaping 2018 and what you can do to prepare.

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updates: the smoking quitter, the daily gifts, and more

Ask a Manager

Here are four updates from people who had their letters answered here this year. 1. My employee quit smoking and is being a pain (#2 at the link). I mentioned in the comments of the article that by the time my letter was posted, Joy was already doing much better. She was still being rude/short to customers and team members occasionally, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as when I wrote.

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Part-time job interview questions

Workable

Use these part-time job interview questions along with our interviewing tips when hiring employees for part-time positions at your company. What you should know before hiring part-time employees. Part-time employment usually refers to working less than 40 hours per week. Consider hiring part-time employees to: Address seasonal needs and peak demand (e.g. holiday season in retail).

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8 Healthcare HR New Year Resolutions for 2018

Precheck

8 Healthcare HR New Year Resolutions for 2018 Dec. 27, 2017. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. The healthcare industry is under constant turmoil, caused by a sea of changes ranging from payment models to regulatory oversight and evolving accreditation standards and industry best practices. As we head into 2018, the following are a few resolutions to consider as you plan for a successful new year for your healthcare organization and your workforce.

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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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How Walt Disney, Ellen DeGeneres, and Vera Wang Unleashed Their Potential

DDI

To unleash your own potential, sometimes it takes perseverance to overcome obstacles—just as these three famous people did.

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8 New Year Resolutions Every Employee Should Have For 2018!

Engagedly

The New Year’s Eve is already around the corner and every year we all make a long list of resolutions to improve ourselves in every aspect of our lives. In our previous article, we spoke about what resolutions […].

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Retail Stylist job description

Workable

Use this Retail Stylist job description template to attract qualified salespeople for boutiques and luxury clothing stores. Retail Stylist responsibilities include: Identifying clients’ needs and helping them find clothing that suits their body types. Creating complete looks from head to toe to match clients’ style. Offering personalized styling tips.