Wed.Nov 15, 2017

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Creating a Leadership Development Roadmap: A Guide for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

Cornerstone On Demand

There's good news and bad news when it comes to business leadership development. The bad news is that traditional costly classroom training yields marginal results, if any. But the good news is that leadership development for small and mid-size businesses doesn't actually have to be expensive, nor do you need a big HR team to do it effectively. What Is Leadership Development?

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Setting Customers Up For Success With Big Data

Visier

Nigel Stoodley is Visier’s Chief Customer Officer , where he is responsible for overall customer success. Nigel oversees Visier’s innovative delivery model that removes the traditional enterprise software pains of statements of work, change fees, and customer dissatisfaction. He has over two decades of experience building teams that focus on customer success in the business intelligence industry.

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Creating a Leadership Development Roadmap: A Guide for Small and Mid-Size Businesses

Cornerstone On Demand

There's good news and bad news when it comes to business leadership development. The bad news is that traditional costly classroom training yields marginal results, if any. But the good news is that leadership development for small and mid-size businesses doesn't actually have to be expensive, nor do you need a big HR team to do it effectively. What Is Leadership Development?

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15 Office Holiday Party Ideas for Teams of Every Size (and Budget)

Justworks

It’s that time of year again at the office! Holiday lights, pies in the break room, end of year excitement.and boring or played-out holiday events. The holidays are a time when everyone feels festive, and offices often want to share in that feeling. And any holiday party should be a quality team bonding experience. But the result is often a waste-of-money gift swap or a bad cookie plate.

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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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Do Employees Need to Sign Off on Time Cards?

nettime solutions

While the Fair Labor Standards Act says that employers must keep records of all hours their employees work, it does not prescribe a specific timekeeping system or method. From that standpoint, the key is to choose a process that works for you and your company—as long as the information is complete and correct. For most companies, this involves some system of sign off before they submit an employee’s time card to payroll.

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The Future of Workforce Engagement

Engage2Excel

Many consultants and analysts would have us believe that the future will bring fundamental changes in how we do our jobs. That, of course, is what keeps them in business. However, what changes can HR leaders realistically expect when it comes to managing workforce engagement? And, to what extent is the past a prologue to the future? We put these questions to Engage2Excel’s Chief Scientific Officer, Jack Wiley, Ph.D., who has three decades of experience in conducting engagement surveys and analyz

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Don’t Forget to Forgive

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library As the old saying goes, forgiveness may be divine, and if recent research is right, it may also be healthy.Recent studies indicate that holding a grudge can trigger a prolonged physical stress response—one that can lead to health complications and inhibit emotional and physical healing. On the flip side, letting go of grudges and bitterness has been shown to lead to healthier relationships, greater psychological well-being, less anxiety and stress, lower

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4 Steps for Aligning Your Organizational Goals

Reflektive

Many of us are familiar with the power behind SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely – goal-setting. Researchers find a strong correlation between companies’ financial performances and the presence of an effective goal-setting process. SEE ALSO: 5 Key Benefits of Real-Time Performance Feedback. However, specifying SMART goals on the organizational scale can be a challenge, and aligning goals at every level of an organization, from the highest level down to each individua

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Preparing for the HR Certification Exams: Audio Style

UpstartHR

Earlier this year I launched a “beta” version of the HR Certification audio product. That has continued to mature and develop and now has 50+ tracks and several hours of content that ranges from technical to practical. For example, it covers highly technical analyses of specific HR elements, such as: Executive compensation Validity vs reliability in pre-employment selection testing Performance evaluation methods However, unlike virtually every HR certification prep tool on the market

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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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[Infographic] How To Have More Productive Conversations At Work

Hppy

No matter how much time you spend glued to your computer, the real fabric of daily work is woven from the human interactions you have with colleagues and clients. Yet the art of conversation is a factor that tends to get overlooked in both academic and on-the-job training. Just because most of us can get through a conversation without triggering disaster, doesn’t mean we’re doing the best we can.

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The IRS is Sending Million Dollar ACA Penalty Notices to Employers

ACA Times

The letter no one wants is now in the mail! (click the image for the full letter). Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, are starting to receive the IRS’s Letter 226J. The letters are being sent to ALEs the IRS believes have failed to comply with the requirements of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 2015 tax year.

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Don’t Forget to Forgive

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library As the old saying goes, forgiveness may be divine, and if recent research is right, it may also be healthy.Recent studies indicate that holding a grudge can trigger a prolonged physical stress response—one that can lead to health complications and inhibit emotional and physical healing. On the flip side, letting go of grudges and bitterness has been shown to lead to healthier relationships, greater psychological well-being, less anxiety and stress, lower

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What is the Employee Experience Worth to You?

Kazoo

When describing the competition for corporate talent in today’s job market, the word fierce is just not descriptive enough. November 2017 marks a 17-year low in unemployment, and a 3-year high in the number of people participating in the labor force. Skilled workers are able to pick and choose the jobs they want. And often, they’re grading the company on the employee experience it provides.

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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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Don’t Forget to Forgive

CONCERN: EAP

From the CONCERN: EAP Resilience Library As the old saying goes, forgiveness may be divine, and if recent research is right, it may also be healthy.Recent studies indicate that holding a grudge can trigger a prolonged physical stress response—one that can lead to health complications and inhibit emotional and physical healing. On the flip side, letting go of grudges and bitterness has been shown to lead to healthier relationships, greater psychological well-being, less anxiety and stress, lower

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Your Open Floor Plan Office Space Is Negatively Affecting Your Team

TalentCulture

Open floor plans are synonymous with hip , disruptive startups. Unfortunately, they can also be terrible for morale and productivity. When we tried to make an open office work, we soon realized our employees were more irritated and distracted than before. We used our experience from that experiment to build an office space that worked for everyone without sticking them into a cubicle farm. .

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Employee experience and why it's critical

Jostle

If you neglect your employees’ experience, you do so at your own peril. I didn't write that to be dramatic; employee experience impacts everything in your business—productivity, retention, your workplace culture, and more.

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The ‘datafication’ of HR – how will this impact reward?

HR Zone

Retention. The ‘datafication’ of HR: the impact on reward?

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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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4 reasons why your HR staff are best placed to create brilliant EB comms

Papirfly

A strong employer brand attracts strong talent. Companies who want to stay competitive need to really build and foster their image as a great place to work. That's essential not only in attracting but also retaining today's and tomorrow's top talent. Strong (employer) brands require consistently positive associations inside and outside your organisation.

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How can organisations improve job quality?

HR Zone

Business. How can organisations improve job quality?

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How can a new CEO address a rancid culture?

CultureAmp

Culture might be led from the top, but it doesn’t stop there. So when things go bad and the CEO is replaced, how can the new CEO deal with the legacy of a toxic culture?

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Setting the Stage for Success: Who is Getting Onboarding Right?

Sterling Check

New employees are a business’s biggest investment and they must be treated as such. First-day gifts and get-to-know-you games will drive measurable business outcomes and make a new employee feel more welcome to their new teams. Employees who go through an effective onboarding program become more productive quicker and put out more valuable work.

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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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The Day the Chicago YWCA Blew-Up HR

TLNT: The Business of HR

When you’re a 140 year-old social services institution that wants to be more like a startup, what do you do? If you’re the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, you start with your own people first.

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New to HR? How to Prepare for a Meeting

Workology

I know, it’s crazy, you’d think business professionals would know all of the steps to prepare for a meeting, but oh, would you be surprised. Meetings are a major part of the workforce no matter what level or title you hold, you will at one point or another be in a meeting or even conducting […] Source.

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8 Stats That Prove Building a Corporate Culture is Critical

Bonfyre

More than 50% of executives agree that building a corporate culture drives outcomes like productivity and profitability. And 87% of organizations cite culture and engagement as one of their top challenges. Yet, only 50% of the organizations who responded see this problem as “very important” Company culture grows from roots formed from the daily practices, traditions, beliefs, and programs in place in a work environment to create an undeniable impact on our work experience.

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Service Recognition Still Does Make a Difference

TLNT: The Business of HR

Every few months, chatter in the media – and from some competitors – attempts to make the point that in the millennial-driven gig economy, service award programs must surely be irrelevant to employees and ineffective tools for organizations.

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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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3 Reasons Your Employees Want Frequent Feedback

BambooHR

If you’re an informed, strategic HR professional (which, if you’re here, then you must be) you’re well aware that traditional annual performance reviews are rapidly falling out of favor within many companies. Reserving feedback for one session per year is silly—as silly as asking sports coaches to meet with their teams only once per season. […].

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Taking a Closer Look, Part 1 – Workplace Morale

Payactiv

The U.S. Army spent $287 million in attempt to make troops more optimistic and Johnson & Johnson saved $250 million over the past decade due to their wellness programs, proving just how necessary it really is—whether you’re at war or in an office—to feel good. The post Taking a Closer Look, Part 1 – Workplace Morale appeared first on PayActiv.

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“LGBT people still get a raw deal.”

HR Zone

Change. “LGBT people still get a raw deal.”.

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