Fri.Nov 02, 2018

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Why Your Direct Reports Wish You Were Better at 1-on-1s

Reflektive

The 1-on-1 meeting, an often under appreciated, under-utilized performance management tool. While some managers consider it an unnecessary use of time or an informal performance review, the 1-on-1 is so much more. It’s a manager’s best opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of individuals and team dynamics, build relationships with their direct reports, and focus development and goal-setting efforts.

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Keep On Communicating Benefits

eni

Offering top-notch benefits may attract competitive talent, but how much do your employees actually know about those benefits? Competitive Total Rewards Programs come with a lofty price tag that directly impacts every organization’s bottom line. With most organizations spending 30 percent of their budget on employee benefits, benefit ROI remains top of mind for most HR departments.

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C-Level Burnout: A Problem No One Talks About

TLNT: The Business of HR

When Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne recently passed away, the corporate world mourned one of the greatest turnaround leaders of the modern business era. Marchionne was one of the auto industry’s most tenacious and respected CEOs, who took over Fiat in 2004 and spearheaded the acquisition of Chrysler in 2009.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals and Trending #HotInHR News

Advos

Our weekly recap of fundings, mergers & acquisition, partnership and other interesting news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace. FUNDING. *This week’s fundings: $120M+. Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation. Ethos Raises $46.5M To Simplify and Modernize Life Insurance.

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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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Are You Planning to Blow Off the Company Holiday Party?

Workplace Diva

Ah, it's November. This means the company holiday party is right around the corner! And just so you know, your manager expects you to show up. We all know the drill. The date is set, the venue is lined up, and the boss says she "hopes" to see you at the party. No pressure, just show up if you can make it, and bring a potluck item! Don't fall for it, because a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam reveals that your manager might just expect all employees to show up, no excuses, with hamburger

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Understanding the Limits of Convenience – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

Regular readers of this blog know I’m a planner. I plan everything. I think I’d even plan spontaneity. That’s why I couldn’t help but laugh at this Time Well Spent from our friends at Kronos. It reminded me that, even though we can do a lot of things with planning, there are some things that just shouldn’t be planned. Nor should people be penalized for making last-minute changes to a plan.

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AI Comes To Recruiting: Will Interviews Go The Way Of The Dinosaur?

Josh Bersin

One of the most important things companies do is hire people, and it’s still a bit of a black art. Most companies look at candidates job history, they call references, they give them tests, and they bring them in for interviews. And despite all this effort, HR leaders tell me they still make mistakes as. Read more» The post AI Comes To Recruiting: Will Interviews Go The Way Of The Dinosaur?

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Identifying Successors to Run Your Company: Family Vs. Non-Family

EDSI

Many business owners dream that their sons or daughters will take over the family business, but struggle with feeling confident it’s what’s best for the company. In a report from the Family Business Institute, 88% of family business owners said they believed their family would control their business in five years. Yet, according to the report, only about 30% of family-owned businesses survive into the second generation.

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Employing Individuals with Disabilities May Solve Your Talent Crisis

Entrepreneur

Employment rates won't change until companies begin to shift attitudes and awareness about people with disabilities.

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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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Webinar: How to Develop Managers Who Engage Their Teams

Kazoo

If there’s one thing that can truly transform a company’s culture, productivity, and turnover rate, it’s good management. And though most businesses want to believe their leadership teams are stacked with engaging managers, the numbers tell a different story. In fact, Gallup’s recent studies show that 50% of all employees cite poor management as a reason they leave their jobs.

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Millennials Are Old News: What Does Generation Z Want From Work?

Entrepreneur

Pay attention to how young employees respond to the professional world to make sure they have the resources they need to succeed.

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ACE 2018: Key Highlights and Takeaways

Achievers

“The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but new eyes.” – Marcel Proust. They call it the Silicon Valley of the North. And with good reason. Understanding that Toronto has been driving innovation and charting the future of tech, Achievers chose to host its ACE 2018 conference in the city it calls home. The Six, as it is affectionately called by residents, quietly emerged as the fastest-growing tech-jobs market in 2017.

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5 Ways CEOs and Other Entrepreneurs Can Attract the Top Talent They Need

Entrepreneur

Job posts with salaries and other specifications about benefits receive a 75 percent boost in applications vs. those that lack them. Are you paying attention?

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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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#WorkTrends: The Evolved Executive

TalentCulture

The way we work is leading to stressed-out employees, unfulfilled leaders and unhappy teams — and author He ather Hanson Wickman is adamant that there is a better way. On this episode of #WorkTrends she tells us why she wrote her new book — “The Evolved Executive: The Future of Work Is Love in Action” — and why caring matters more than ever in the modern workplace.

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What are the legal implications of managing mental health in the workplace?

HR Zone

Employees. The legal implications of managing mental health.

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Why it pays to praise: 20 ways to say ‘good job’

HR Morning

You probably realize how powerful your words can be when you’re praising someone for a job well done. By recognizing that person at just the right time with just the right words, you can impact that person – and your company – in a highly valuable way, say researchers. Since a compliment’s free to give out and does much for morale and more, it pays to show your team much love.

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Words of Gratitude #2: Start with the Most Important (A Love Letter to my Wife)

Jason Lauritsen

Note: I’m writing a note of gratitude on the blog each day in November leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. My hope is that these posts will inspire you to do the same. Write an email, Facebook post, or a text to tell people they have made an impact on you. Gratitude is contagious. . When I reflect on what I am grateful for, the first thing that comes to mind every time is my wife, Angie.

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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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Study: What hiring managers want most from resumes, interviews

HR Morning

Every HR pro has a different idea of what constitutes the perfect candidate. . But according to a Netquote survey of 800 professionals in charge of hiring, there are quite a few common things catching pros’ eyes that are guaranteed to get applicants noticed — in both good ways and bad ways. Do your preferences match up with everyone else’s?

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Building A Coaching Culture: How To Create Your Strategy

Forbes Coaches Council

Chief executives, senior executives, and in particular, HR executives, are critical players in making the change from being an organization that provides coaching to an organization with a coaching culture.

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5 Ways to Adapt to a Talent Shortage in Your Business

ADP

It is important your business has a recruitment strategy in place to deal with a talent shortage. Read on to learn how to navigate that challenge.

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This Company Makes Every Day a Bring Your Dog to Work Day

TLNT: The Business of HR

Dolly goes to work every day, greets her coworkers in the break room, exhibits enviable people skills and offers much-needed support to anyone having a rough day.

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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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AI Comes To Recruiting: Will Interviews Go The Way Of The Dinosaur?

Josh Bersin

One of the most important things companies do is hire people, and it’s still a bit of a black art. Most companies look at candidates job history, they call references, they give them tests, and they bring them in for interviews. And despite all this effort, HR leaders tell me they still make mistakes as. Read more» The post AI Comes To Recruiting: Will Interviews Go The Way Of The Dinosaur?

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Giving Workers Time Off to Vote Is Good Business

TLNT: The Business of HR

If civic responsibility isn’t reason enough for you to give employees time off to vote Tuesday, try these two:

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5 Productivity Roadblocks Hiding in Your Home Office

Take It Personel-ly

Part of the beauty of working from home is the flexibility it provides. You can set your own schedule, take breaks when you want to and even take days off when needed. In general, you should be able to work “less,” or it should feel as though you are. However, much of this depends on […].

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Better Interviews with Value-Based Intuition

HR Daily Advisor

In yesterday’s Advisor we began to explore how you can conduct better interviews by supporting your intuition with an understanding of your values and learning how to recognize those values in your candidates. Today we’ll look at some details of how to use these skills in an interview. Source: Steve Debenport / E+ / Getty. To do this, I want you to recognize what it is like to take a test.

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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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The Newest Leadership Concept that will take 2019 by Storm: “Sunshining”!

The Tim Sackett Project

Have you heard of “ Sunshining “? I’m guessing most of us haven’t. I came from Reed Hastings the CEO at Netflix. Netflix has a really transparent work environment and Reed and his executive team has started telling employees exactly why someone has been fired. They call these talks “Sunshining”! It’s not just about explaining why someone got fired, it could be about almost anything.

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Why HR teams should recognise and reward a 'mission-centric' work ethic

HR Zone

Retention. Rewarding 'mission-centric' behaviour.

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Tech’s ethical problem is also a diversity problem

Fast Company The Future of Work

Principles and profit are not mutually exclusive. The balance between being profitable and being principled is only as hard as a business leader makes it. Some in Silicon Valley think hiring a chief ethics officer will help save their company from their own potential missteps. However, I would posit that the larger issue links back to the lack of diversity at tech companies.