Mon.Dec 17, 2018

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Keep Your Head In The Game: How To Stay Focused At Work During The Holidays

Forbes Coaches Council

Members of Forbes Coaches Council share ideas for keeping up productivity at work during the holiday season.

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How Texting Can Ruin Your Career -- and What to Do About It

45 Things

Everyone knows you shouldn't text and drive, and several cities (such an Honolulu) make it illegal to text and walk. The reason is clear: people driving or walking distracted are not only a danger to others, but to themselves. But there is something equally damaging going on in workplaces today that has to do with texting. It's texting too fast. It's responding immediately to a text, rather it's a question from a colleague, a request from a boss or a complaint from a customer.

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Connecting the Dots between Employee and Customer Experience

Working Girl

I disagree with Richard Brandson’s famous quote about taking care of employees so they'll take care of your customers. Let me qualify that because obviously, Richard Brandson knows a few more things than I do about running a successful global organization and any advice he gives on that score is well worth heeding. It’s just that this particular advice, while not wrong, is incomplete because it implies that if you take care of employees they will automatically take care of customers.

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Using Employee Feedback to Guide Decision Making

UpstartHR

Almost every conversation our team has with business leaders touches on today’s pace of change. That pace often prompts employers to make quick decisions, but the problem is those are not always made with the right data on hand. For example, you’re looking for ways to educate your workforce and provide them with the information they need to excel. But you’re using last year’s employee feedback survey as the basis.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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4 Examples of How to Use People Analytics Success to Inform HR Strategies

Reflektive

HR leaders no longer need to rely on instincts or past experience to make decisions. Through the use of people analytics, they can make better-informed decisions based on people-centric data. Plus, data helps measure the success of programs to advocate for budgets. Here are four examples of how you can use people analytics to improve processes and strategies.

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New to Your Company? 5 Things that Will Help Sell Your Ideas

The People Equation

Imagine this scenario: About two months ago, you landed a new gig as a leader at a respected company. You’ve done all the right things to set yourself up for success by priming the pump with these activities before Day One on the job. For the first month, you listened, networked, took copious notes and asked lots of questions. And wow, there are so many opportunity for improvement; the list of ideas is a mile long!

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AI Concepts: What is Moravec’s Paradox and Why Should You Care?

Lighthouse

In the 1980s, Hans Moravec and other AI researchers discovered a curious finding that we now know as Moravec’s Paradox. Essentially, AI can very easily learn to do things that are “hard” for humans, such as advanced statistics and analysis. On the other hand, things that are very simple for humans, such as identifying colors or recognizing faces, can be incredibly difficult for computers to do.

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How to Boost Employee Confidence and Morale

Hppy

As a leader, you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders. It’s not enough to simply oversee the daily operations and work in the office—you also have to ensure that employees feel confident, respected and empowered. High team morale is key to optimal productivity, and it can be surprisingly fragile—there are lots of conflicts and complaints that can easily bring a team’s morale crashing down.

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vote for the worst boss of 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s time to vote on the worst boss of the year! We’ll crown the worst boss of the year later this week, based on your votes … so please vote below. (Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. EST Wednesday night.). You may also like: the worst boss of 2017 is… the worst boss of 2016 is… the worst boss of 2015 is… vote for the worst boss of 2018 was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Struggling to Retain Top Talent? Be an Active Participant in Your Own Rescue!

EDSI

This past summer, my wife and I went white water rafting on the Nantahala River in Bryson City, North Carolina (which I would strongly recommend, by the way). As the guide explained the safety instructions, the group was told that if you have an “out-of-raft-experience,” it is important to “Be an Active Participant in Your Own Rescue.” In other words, if you fall out of the raft, don’t just give up and hope for the best.

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3 Must-Have’s for the Modern Employee in 2019

Kazoo

This week’s TLNT article, 3 Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Work , painted a clear picture of just how much the state of work has changed. The authors point to a new future shaped by the gig economy and technological advances and, in this except, the implications of each: “The result of these trends is an even tighter labor market with new demands for developing and retaining top talent.

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Complete Guide to Transformational Leadership

6Q

Transformational leadership is one of the most researched, studied, and debated approach to leadership that has ever existed. It also greatly influences many leadership approaches used today although most of these leaders aren’t even aware it exists. Transformational leadership is a management style that’s designed to give employees more room to be creative, look to the future and find new solutions to old problems.

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3 Must-Have’s for the Modern Employee in 2019

Kazoo

This week’s TLNT article, 3 Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Work , painted a clear picture of just how much the state of work has changed. The authors point to a new future shaped by the gig economy and technological advances and, in this except, the implications of each: “The result of these trends is an even tighter labor market with new demands for developing and retaining top talent.

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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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Let Employee Engagement Be Your Digital Innovation Lab

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by: Babak Ghoreyshi, director of product marketing, Oracle HCM Cloud. Augmented reality, natural language processing, machine learning—yes, this is the world of human capital management (HCM) that we’re talking about. In the Let Employee Engagement Be Your Digital Innovation Lab podcast, Emily He, SVP product marketing for HCM, and Jon Huang, senior director of product management, discuss the growing importance of emerging technologies in today’s human resources organiz

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playing a ukulele in an open office, coworker is greedy about supplies and snacks, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Playing a ukulele in an open office. For the last year or so, my best friend has been working in a large open office with maybe 30 or 40 other people. This brings with it the expected annoyances of having to overhear other conversations, lack of privacy, and so forth, but it has also brought a very unexpected and unwanted surprise: a woman who often plays a ukulele in the middle of the workday.

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Improving The Core Business Areas With HR Management Software

SutiHR

Today, employees’ preferences differ drastically from a decade ago. This reflects the new age workplace culture and the process management. While methods and tools for managing people are significantly transformed, the HR solution primarily focuses on productivity for the most part. The following are a few areas where organizations are optimizing productivity through technology: Recruitment.

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7 Things HR Leaders Should Know About Emerging Technologies

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Written by: Emily He, SVP product marketing, Oracle HCM Cloud. Oracle has just launched a new video series featuring a handful of chats between technology analyst, and Constellation Research co-founder, Ray Wang and Steve Miranda, Oracle’s EVP of applications product development. Future Talks explores Oracle’s recent innovations in user interfaces (UI) and emerging technologies, details new measures of customer and cloud success, and IDs the emerging technologies all of us will be us

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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4 Things All HR Leaders Need to Know About Implementing AI

HR Examiner

“AI is going to allow HR teams to improve every step of the HR process: recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, learning and development, and performance management. For example, Hilton Hotels found that by implementing AI in their recruiting process, they were able to shorten it by about 75%.” – Rob May. Artificial intelligence (AI) can have a profound effect on making businesses more productive, and HR teams are uniquely poised to benefit from it.

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6 Reasons Why Corporates Would Benefit From LMS

Hppy

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are the current trend in online learning and training for employees of an organization. The benefits that a company expects from an LMS program surpasses the cost of installation and training significantly. Apart from enhancing the skills of your employees, an LMS also makes sure that the productivity is increased and the expenditure is reduced notably by streamlining different corporate practices.

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3 Ways Healthcare HR Can Become Agile

Precheck

3 Ways Healthcare HR Can Become Agile Dec. 18, 2018. Bryan-Barajas.jpg. Bryan Barajas Marketing Director. Constant change is the new reality in healthcare. In this complex ecosystem where transformation is a given, HR departments that are able to leverage innovation are going help their organizations succeed. According to Harvard Business Review , agile teams that include small entrepreneurial groups that can adapt quickly to changing conditions are best suited to innovation.

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The Difference Between Master Data Management and Data Management

Take It Personel-ly

Master data management and data management are two terms that people often use interchangeably. But consultant Sam Ovens says that this is wrong because they are two distinct fields. Getting it wrong can mean not having an effective strategy for dealing with data within your business. This guide is going to reveal exactly what these […].

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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update: the men in our office use the women’s bathrooms … only for pooping

Ask a Manager

It’s “where are you now?” month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer last month with the male coworkers who did all their pooping in the women’s bathrooms ? Here’s the update. I have an update on already! First off, thank you to all the commenters who confirmed that our feelings that this whole situation was ridiculous were valid.

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Quick Base’s Guide to Empower 2019

Quickbase

Welcome to the Ultimate Guide to Empower 2019 – your one-stop-shop for the who, what, when, why, and how of Quick Base’s annual user conference. In the months leading up to the event, this blog post will be updated regularly with the latest announcements and helpful event information. Bookmark this page and check back often! . Current Promotion.

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Are You Really Going to Do Everything on Your To-Do List?

TLNT: The Business of HR

As an experienced professional, you may think you know your way around a to-do list, but do you really? Possibly you’ve gotten a bit off track. Is that list you’re putting together really a to-do list, or just a big pile of things you wish you had time to do but don’t?

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5 Benefits Communication Tips for Brokers in 2019

Jellyvision

I have a front-row seat to the evolution of benefits communications happening in the broker space. Here are five thoughts on how to become even more valuable to your clients next year, based on some of the communication trends I saw firsthand in 2018. 1. Bump HSA education up your priority list Here are two […]. The post 5 Benefits Communication Tips for Brokers in 2019 appeared first on Jellyvision.com.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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The Surprising Tech of Facial Analysis

TLNT: The Business of HR

Seemingly out of nowhere computers have learned to read human emotion from our faces. We can expect that any weaknesses this technology has now, in terms of accuracy or cost, will quickly erode as the technology advances. Marketing is interested in this technology to learn more about customers; HR is interested in using this tech for screening candidates.

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Retail Turnover Rates In 2018

DailyPay

The following article is another in our series that examines average employee turnover rates by industry. In this article, we hold the retail industry under a microscope to see what might be affecting employee turnover and retention rates, and why employees in this industry are some fleeting. While the average turnover for all industries in the United States sits at around 15 percent , the average turnover rate in the retail industry is slightly above 60 percent, according to the National Retail

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The Talent Fix Book Club Launching in January 2019! Monthly Development for your TA Team!

The Tim Sackett Project

If you are a regular reader of this blog than you clearly know I wrote a book, The Talent Fix, that was launched in April 2018. I have been overwhelmed by the awesome response and I would like to give back to the community that has given me so much. Beginning January 23, 2019 , I’ll hold a monthly book club webinar, for free, where I’ll be going over each chapter of the book in detail, from a discussion point of view.