Wed.Dec 19, 2018

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Getting More Conscious About Unconscious Bias

Symantec

On December 12, Symantec employees at our Mountain View campus stopped by PwC's Unconscious Bias Mobile Tour to experience the reality of living in a biased world.

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Can You Foster Inclusion with Floating Holidays? We Say Yes

Justworks

Holiday pay can sometimes be a source of confusion for employers. For which days are you required to allow employees time off, and must that time be paid? What about when employees ask off for personal religious holidays, but the office as a whole remains open for business? Private sector employers generally have full discretion over exactly which holidays are observed by the business.

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Wouldn’t It Be Better If You Talked to Them About Pay?

TLNT: The Business of HR

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Perhaps you’ve heard that cliche. And maybe your answer is, Who cares!

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updates: the employee who wouldn’t sit near men, and more

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. Here are five updates from past letter-writers. 1. Our employee says she’s not comfortable having her desk near men. I wanted to give an update on the employee who was uncomfortable with a male seated behind her.

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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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Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market? Microsoft.

Josh Bersin

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending time with Microsoft, and the company is doing some interesting things in the HR Tech space. In this article I’d like to give you some background, and share why I believe Microsoft is going to have a big impact on the market. First point: Microsoft is on. Read more» The post Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market?

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Embracing Your Leadership Role: 15 Effective Strategies For Women In 2019

Forbes Coaches Council

Women in leadership positions in business can find success by drawing on their unique strengths and embracing their roles with confidence. Members of Forbes Coaches Council share their tips for women leading businesses in 2019.

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The future of talent acquisition: traditional recruitment models are no longer enough

HR Zone

Acquisition. The future of talent acquisition.

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Women in Tech: Hiring Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Hacker Earth

Studies have shown that companies are more productive when they have a gender-mixed workplace. In order to attain this gender balance, companies need to devise a flexible recruiting approach that takes into account women’s specific needs and aspirations. These benefits go beyond simple remuneration and reach areas of women’s lives that are particularly important to them.

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The recruitment evolution: five predictions for 2019

HR Zone

Acquisition. Recruitment evolution: five predictions for 2019.

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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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Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market? Microsoft.

Josh Bersin

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending time with Microsoft, and the company is doing some interesting things in the HR Tech space. In this article I’d like to give you some background, and share why I believe Microsoft is going to have a big impact on the market. First point: Microsoft is on. Read more» The post Guess Who’s Looking At The HR Tech Market?

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coworker’s food restrictions are restricting me, someone told my boss I’m job hunting, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My coworker’s food restrictions mean that I’ll be the one restricted. My company is based mainly in two cities. Every so often, we all meet up in one city or another and go out to eat, paid for by the company. It’s usually a really nice evening, and viewed as a real treat. We’ve always had to be a little careful where we book, because a couple of employees need gluten-free food.

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Three Leadership Behaviors That Can Suck The Life Out Of Your Team

Forbes Coaches Council

It’s time to stop being blind to how your leadership behaviors can negatively impact your team and business outcomes.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Talent Management Process

Digital HR Tech

Managing talent is arguably the most important job for any HR department. In this article, we will dive into the nitty-gritty of creating a talent management process, including all the steps involved. Employees are a critical part of any organization, offering their time and commitment towards advancing the organization’s goals. The organization benefits from this labor and through the right talent management practices can reap even more benefits.

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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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3 Things HR Pros Should Never Apologize For!

The Tim Sackett Project

I think HR Pros apologize way too much, and I got the idea from the Fast Company article – “ 3 Things Professional Women Should Stop Apologizing For “, which are: Their Financial Expectations (I.E., pay us the same!). Their Physical Appearance (I.E., Sorry we aren’t club-ready – I was up with a sick kid all night!). Their Professional Accomplishments (I.E., Just because I’m a woman doesn’t mean I can’t brag about what I do great!).

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Payroll Trends: What to look out for in 2019

Ascender

Payroll is changing: What to look out for in 2019. As new technologies like artificial intelligence and the internet of things (IoT) look to fundamentally alter industries around the globe, payroll is expected to change greatly in the coming years. But how far off are those changes, and what does its immediate future look like? To get a clearer idea of where payroll and the broader human resources (HR) industry is headed, it is apt to analyse what 2018 brought.

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15 Tips For Re-Energizing The 'A-Players' In Your Business

Forbes Coaches Council

When a top performer at your business — an "A-player" — becomes disengaged or less productive, it's important to take the right steps to get them back on track. Members of Forbes Coaches Council offer suggestions for helping an uninspired A-player get their groove back.

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Listen Up: Managers Aren’t Infallible, But Tune Them Out at Your Own Risk

Evil HR Lady

Let’s face it: Managers can be annoying and, from time to time, you may be tempted to ignore their instructions. This is all completely logical, of course. Managers often haven’t done the job you’ve done—at least not for years—and you likely have insights that they lack. But, ignore managers at your own peril. Managers Have Power Over You. Your manager may be a brilliant and skilled technician who can guide and direct you to do a better job.

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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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Women in the workplace: taking centre stage

HR Zone

Culture. Women in the workplace: taking centre stage.

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18 Ways to create a more effective Customer Retention Strategy

Babette Ten Haken - Professional Development

These 18 ways create a more effective customer retention strategy. However, they are contrary to everything you have learned as a sales professional. Or a sales engineering professional, a customer service professional, or any other professional engaged in acquiring and retaining customers. Which is just about everyone in the organization. Sshhhh…. This is super-secret stuff.

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3 Ways to Handle Nosy Co-Workers

45 Things

Believe it or not, some people don't like to talk about their personal life. I know, I know, this seems bizarre in a time when people post photos of themselves sitting on the toilet or reveal every detail of giving birth. In the workplace we often form friendships -- some of them very close -- and as a result we share details of our lives. The woman in the next cubicle, for example, knows that your teenager is getting into trouble and your husband lost his job last week.

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Are HR and Employees in a Dysfunctional, Codependent Relationship?

Compensation Cafe

Cafe friend Paul Hebert has written an intriguing article at the HR Examiner (where he serves on the Editorial Advisory Board) in which he puts forth a very interesting assertion. His premise is this: that the HR/employee relationship is dysfunctional and amost surely codependent. (Yeah, that last part stings - doesn't it?) And further that our increasing dependence on technology in general - and AI in particular - is actually increasing the dysfunction.

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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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The Internet and Extended Lifespans and Ease of Life

Take It Personel-ly

The life of Americans has changed a great deal in the last thirty years in many positive ways. While there were some aspects of a slower pace and a more personalized world thirty years ago, there are very many positive changes that have occurred in quality and longevity of life. Advancements in both medicine and technology have […].

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Knowledge Workers Take Charge

Conversation Matters

In 2002, Kessels and Keursten wrote, “When in the 21st-century knowledge productivity becomes the driving force, and as this knowledge production will be found at every level of economic activity, the knowledge workers will take charge.” . I see that prediction coming true in numerous organizations where workers are actively impacting the policies and strategy of organizations, as the following 2018 headlines attest: Google to Drop Pentagon AI Contract After Employee Objections to the “Business

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updates: coworker gives us the silent treatment, a high coworker driving, and more

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. Here are five updates from past letter-writers. 1. My coworker gives everyone the silent treatment for weeks. Jane continued to give the silent treatment, and I took your advice and started being more direct with her, up to and including waiting at her desk for an answer while she ignored me.

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How Your Organization Can Benefit from Integrated ATS and Background Check Solutions

General Information Services

Bah, humbug! ‘Tis the season for curmudgeons, and Ebenezer Scrooge is your paragon of grumpiness. The man was irked by virtually everything. If he were here today, ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future notwithstanding, he’d probably bemoan how frustrating it is when some phone support rep tells him to provide his name and account [.]. The post How Your Organization Can Benefit from Integrated ATS and Background Check Solutions appeared first on Employment Background Check Blog - HireRight

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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 terrible date at the Christmas party, and other tales of office holiday mayhem

Ask a Manager

It’s the holiday episode of the podcast! This week’s show has questions from people about holidays at work, including a party Not Meant for vegetarians and a question about kissing balls (which I didn’t even know were a thing), as well as some really funny stories from people about ways that office holiday celebrations went terribly wrong, including someone who brought a very questionable date.

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Seven Leadership Myths to Stop Believing

DISC Assessments

This week’s edition of Platinum Rules for Success explores the qualities of Leadership. Contributor, Mark Sanborn, exposes some of the most common leadership myths. Lucky for us, Mark also offers up truths debunking these leadership myths. Mark encourages us all to get out of our comfort zone and become the leader within. Seven Leadership Myths to Stop Believing. by Mark Sanborn.

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Why You Should Shut Down Between Christmas and New Year’s

Evil HR Lady

90 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas. It’s an important day for most of your employees. More importantly, it’s an important day for most of your clients. Almost one-third of Americans traveled at least 50 miles between December 23rd and January 1st last year. In other words, the office is not where your employees or your clients want to be.

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