Fri.Jul 06, 2018

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When Good People Quit.Do You Really Know Why?

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The Stanley Cup is one of the most revered trophies in all of sports. Awarded annually to the champion of the National Hockey League, it is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded to any professional sports franchise, originally commissioned in 1892. Hockey players and coaches worldwide dream of hoisting the cup in triumph. Surely Barry Trotz, the head coach of the Washington Capitals, had this dream many times.

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What’s the Difference Between Remote Work and Telecommuting?

Zenefits

Remote work and telecommuting are often used interchangeably, but there can be small differences between the two. Remote work suggests that the employee is just that—remotely located. It’s not a technical definition, but it does imply that the employee is too far away from the company to come into the office. They may “work remotely” on a temporary basis, such as while traveling, or they might be a permanent remote worker.

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Career Confessions from Gen Z: How Painful is Your Onboarding?

The Tim Sackett Project

One of the most painfully awkward experiences of my life was my college orientation. I remember being so excited to go; this is the start of a whole new journey where you’re supposed to meet all of your lifelong friends and become a whole new person! I failed to remember that forcing a group of 17 and 18-year-olds to try and become friends in an 8-hour time span probably won’t work that well.

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Convert to a Point System – a Simple and Effective Employee Productivity Tool

nettime solutions

Many of today’s companies recognize that their employees are the key to their success. Whether their people help drive innovation, create great customer experiences, or follow through on efficiencies, engaged and productive workers typically lead to a successful business. Right now, retaining employees is a hot topic. The Right Point System is a Reward.

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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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How to Align Your Employee Goals with Business Goals

Reflektive

Research has shown that there is a clear connection between collaborative goal setting and employee engagement. Unfortunately, most companies aren’t capitalizing on this connection: Only 13% of employees strongly agree that their manager helps them set performance goals. But among millennial employees whose manager does help them define goals, 72% are engaged.

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How Your Digital Presence Can Improve Employee Relations

Hppy

Employee relations are your first step to success because it is your employees that work to give your company the edge over your competition. That being said, typically traditional marketing efforts can actually do wonders for your employee relations. Also read: 5 Marketing Trends that Are Shaping the Recruitment Industry. All you need to do is expand your marketing efforts and improve your digital presence, and you can, in turn, attract both more customers and better your relations internally

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Need Help Picking an Outsourced HR and Payroll Solution? Get This Guide

Justworks

HR solutions are third-party service providers who can help ease the administrative burden of certain HR functions such as payroll, benefits administration, and policy creation. By having access to tech-forward HR tools and a team of industry experts, you’ll have more of your time back to focus on growing your team and delivering on your business goals.

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The Calm Before the Storm…

UpstartHR

It’s been quiet this week, because I’ve been finishing up the final round of edits on my book that comes out later this year. Yesterday I turned in what I think is the 99.99% version to the editor (you never quite get that 0.01% from what I can tell). I’ve learned a lot in this process, and obviously there’s still some ways to go with the publishing and marketing process.

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What Every Leader Needs to Know About Retaining Millennials

TalentCulture

By 2025, millennials will make up 75 percent of the global workforce. While it’s tough to assign broad characteristics to […]. The post What Every Leader Needs to Know About Retaining Millennials appeared first on TalentCulture.

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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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CAPITALIST DEFINITIONS: "Renegade Demo"

The HR Capitalist

From a meeting with a client last week: Renegade Demo (?ren????d/?dem?) - The time when you walk by an office or your cube as a leader in your company and realized your growth has outpaced your ability to properly train new hires at your company, especially those charged with evangelizing your product. In use: "Damn, it happened again. I popped into a call the new guy Bill was having with a prospect and his positioning of what we do was all ####ed up.

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Technology Can Help Streamline Your Referral Program

TLNT: The Business of HR

The employee referral is the best source of hire for a number of reasons. Referrals cost less money and require less time to hire, especially, if you have properly trained your employees to assess candidates before referring them.

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Does your company discourage vacations?

Jason Lauritsen

A few weeks ago, I had an interesting chat with my Lyft driver on the way to the airport in San Francisco. He was a career business development professional who uses Lyft to supplement his income. Our conversation turned to company culture and work experience (shocking, I know). He told me about how he had changed jobs and moved his family to Sacramento because he worked for a company that consumed every moment of his life.

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The true value of financial wellbeing

HR Zone

Employees. The true value of financial wellbeing.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Employee Experience and a Positive Bottom-Line

HR Daily Advisor

For companies looking to get an edge, the employee experience is increasingly a key area of focus as an enabler of this type of capability. Much like the customer experience, the employee experience is defined as the full set of perceptions that an employee has interacting with an organization, with colleagues, and with the work itself. It is broader than either engagement or commitment, which have tended to emphasize how organizations can get more out of their human capital – a notion that stil

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DOL Overtime Rule: What We Know Now

Paycor

Flashback to June of 2016. If you were like most employers, you were left scrambling in a panic, trying to navigate the Department of Labor’s (DOL) recently proposed overtime rule changes. Since that period of uncertainty, a lot has changed. An injunction was passed, pressing pause on the much anticipated and highly debated rule, and two years later, it’s anyone’s best guess as to when, or if, a new regulation will ultimately be passed.

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Do You Know about Green Benefits?

HR Daily Advisor

Does your organization offer “green” benefits? Green benefits are benefits that are environmentally friendly in some way. Employers may want to offer green benefits for several different reasons. First, they may be in alignment with company goals and values. Next, they may be a great way to recruit individuals who value the environment and sustainability.

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4 Retail Onboarding Best Practices to Consider

Efficient Hire

It’s not unusual for businesses in the retail sector to struggle with managing human capital. With high turnover and a strong reliance on seasonal and part time staff it’s essential to develop a set of retail onboarding best practices for. Read more. The post 4 Retail Onboarding Best Practices to Consider appeared first on Efficient Forms.

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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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These 6 Steps Companies Should Take to Adapt in the #MeToo Era

HR Daily Advisor

The #MeToo movement has empowered women and men to speak out about their personal experiences with sexual harassment in and around the workplace. People may choose to speak out in various ways—for example, by reporting a formal complaint to their employer, sharing their allegations on social media, or making other public disclosures. The discussions—and sometimes very public statements—about inappropriate conduct, sexual harassment, or even sexual assault have shined a spotlight on the pervasive

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It’s Time to Embrace Everything-as-a-Service

Aberdeen HCM Essentials

When I was in college, I had an epic movie collection; piles of tapes and DVDs lining the walls of my dingy apartment. Filled with all the self-importance that only a 20-year-old could muster, I felt as though the size of my movie collection was in some way a reflection of my own self-worth. That Gumby set I found in the dollar bin at the gas station, and the water-damaged copy of 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, were inextricable components of my personal value as a human being.

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Bonfyre Breakdown: The Downsides of Being Work Friends with Your Boss

Bonfyre

Friendships in the workplace are one of the greatest influencing factors on employee engagement. On Gather Around, we’ve discussed the significant benefits of building cultures where employees can become work friends, but here’s a quick breakdown for the non-believers out there: Employees with best friends at the office seven times more likely to be engaged in their work and 40% more likely to be recognized for it.

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PODCAST: #HRHappyHour 328 - SHRM Annual Recap with My Daughter

Steve Boese

HR Happy Hour 328- SHRM Annual Recap with My Daughter. Sponsored by Virgin Pulse - www.virginpulse.com. Hosts: Trish McFarlane. Guest: Carleigh McFarlane, Trish's daughter. Listen to the show HERE. This week on the HR Happy Hour Show, host Trish McFarlane is joined by Carleigh McFarlane. Trish and Carleigh attended the SHRM Annual conference, with Carleigh being a junior blogging ambassador.

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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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open thread – July 6-7, 2018

Ask a Manager

It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on anything work-related that you want to talk about. If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to talk to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please don’t repost it here, as it may be in the to-be-answered queue.

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How to Fix Unequal Pay

HR Daily Advisor

Employers know that they have a legal obligation to have fair pay practices. The pay offered should not be discriminatory and should strive to equally pay employees who do the same work. There will always be allowances for differences in performance and other permissible factors, but pay differences should never be based on discriminatory reasons—not even inadvertently.

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Disaster Preparation in the Workplace

ADP

Creating, implementing and sustaining an effective disaster preparation plan will hopefully enable a workforce to be as safe as possible.

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C.A. Short Company and Sysco Kansas City Prove People Are Everything

C. A. Short Company

One of the reasons I love working for C.A. Short Company is because they get it. They understand that a company’s greatest asset isn’t our intellectual property, production capabilities, or financial holdings. It’s our employees. People Are Everything (PAE) is more than the name of our employee engagement, recognition, and safety platform – it’s the foundation of every decision we make.

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Just landed: Ultimate Guide to I-9 Compliance

If you’re seeking guidance in the complicated world of I-9, you’re in the right place! As a pioneer in virtual onboarding tech, WorkBright has been simplifying the I-9 process since 2014 when they launched Smart I-9, a digital form built for speed, accuracy, and compliance. Ten years later, they’ve heard just about every I-9 question imaginable, so their team of experts has developed this comprehensive FAQ to distill years of experience into a practical and accessible guide to all things I-9.

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Social Mores Have Changed; Biology Hasn’t

Evil HR Lady

Let’s talk about three sexual harassment cases. A female coach and physical education teacher sued the school district because another employee, also female, made crude remarks about her breasts, touched her without permission, and said, “I will think of you next time I am f—ing.”. A female employee receives sexually explicit text messages from the man responsible for training her.

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How to Get Millennials to Sign Up for Your Health Insurance Plan

Employee Communications Council

According to the 2018 Millennial Benefit Trends Report , the millennial participants were asked to rank the benefit categories from most to least important. Number one on the list is “Health Insurance,” which 63.64% rated as “Extremely Important”. Once millennials turn 26 years of age, they are usually kicked off their parents’ insurance and have to enroll in their own, either through work or independently.

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14 Essential Team Management Skills for First-Time Managers

SnackNation

14 Essential Team Management Skills for First-Time Managers. So you’ve been promoted to management. That’s… kind of a big deal. You’ve been doing great work. Leadership has recognized in you all the makings of an inspirational boss. In short, it’s definitely time to celebrate. (We’ll wait.). It’s also time to pick up some new skills. That’s right—while your existing skills earned you a promotion, you’re going to need a whole new set of team management skills if you really want to excel in