Wed.Oct 24, 2018

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5 Top Leadership And Culture Articles For 2018 (So Far)

15Five

Many business leaders will end the year with the same concerns they started with: how to retain employees and create a work culture that motivates them , makes them feel included, and brings out their best work. In every industry, and particularly in tech, quit rates are climbing, and fierce competition makes employee recruiting and retention two very daunting tasks.

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How to Build Bridges Among Your Diverse Workers

TLNT: The Business of HR

We live in a world in which challenging differences confront us on a daily basis. We often live with the illusion that we can keep these challenges at home and just go to work to do work. But people bring their concerns with them wherever they go, whether it’s a reaction to the political circumstances of the day, breakdowns in moral beliefs or emotional responses to racially charged incidents.

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Three Anchors for your Employee Experience Framework

Bonfyre

Understanding the milestones in employees’ professional and personal lives that impact their work is crucial to building a tailored employee experience framework. Employee experience is about a person’s entire journey from the time they become aware your company exists to the point where they leave the planet. I like to call it the “hire to retire experience.

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How to Empower Your Employees to Make Better Business Decisions

Cornerstone On Demand

Steve Jobs was notorious for his autocratic leadership style. Instead of empowering his employees to make their own decisions, he would set the strategy, goals and method—and expect them to follow suit. While Apple was incredibly successful under his leadership, some of the downsides of this style are apparent since his passing in 2011. The most recent example involves the removal of movies from people's iTunes accounts.

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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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The Four Day Work Week Might be the Future

Vantage Circle

For a long time, both science and health experts have been saying that less is more. That working for fewer hours actually increases productivity. Employees have been asking for it. Employers have read about it. But very few companies have actually done it. Until this organization. A New Zealand company, Perpetual Guardian, has been in the news a lot this year.

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The Four Day Work Week Might be the Future

Vantage Circle

For a long time, both science and health experts have been saying that less is more. That working for fewer hours actually increases productivity. Employees have been asking for it. Employers have read about it. But very few companies have actually done it. Until this organization. A New Zealand company, Perpetual Guardian, has been in the news a lot this year.

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We Know Diversity & Inclusion Is Important–But How Do We Do It?

Kazoo

According to Indeed ’s Inclusion & Diversity report: “89% of Canadians in tech think a diverse workforce positively impacts business performance”. However, even so: “32% of Canadians in tech feel they have been personally discriminated against at their current company”. Diversity and inclusion–we all know it’s important. B ut how do we carry it out successfully?

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How to Give Feedback if Your Office Dog is a Millennial

Reflektive

This is part two of our series on giving your office dog their performance review. Please find the first guide here. Congratulations! By deciding to give your office dog performance feedback, you’ve made the pivotal first step in developing your office dog’s career. In our first guide, we discussed ways to approach the feedback and review process by giving examples of how to frame discussions and ways to initiate conversations.

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We’re Only Human 42: How to Prioritize Learning in the Business

UpstartHR

Is learning a priority for your business? It better be. Research shows that learning, development, and growth opportunities are some of the most highly prized components of the employment relationship, and this is even more important when you have an influx of younger workers as the workplace has seen in recent years. . In today’s conversation, Ben interviews Corey Marcel of Docebo to discuss how to tell when learning is a priority for the business as well as what happens if learning takes

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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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Open Enrollment Missing ACA Individual Mandate

ACA Times

3 minute read: The open enrollment period on HR.gov will run from November 1, 2018, to December 15, 2018, only 45 days, the same as the previous year’s open enrollment period. The major change for this year’s enrollment period is the knowledge that the tax penalty levied by the IRS for the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate goes away on January 1, 2019.

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my new job is a nightmare built on a hellmouth

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I spent almost seven years in property management before vowing to never, ever, ever go back. I don’t know if it is just my local market or if it is like this everywhere, but in the course of working for several different companies I encountered everything from sexual discrimination, retaliation, and a whole host of other crazy, unacceptable things culminating in being fired by a manager because she thought I might try to take her job.

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How to Build a Better HR Tech Stack

TalentCulture

With the HR tech marketplace expanding at record pace and offering innovative solutions for every part of the talent life cycle, it’s easier than ever for organizations to implement meaningful HR transformations. “With the availability of so many cutting-edge tools and apps, HR teams can easily build an impressive tech stack to meet the 360-degree needs of employees,” says Mike Hicks of Igloo Software, a Canadian-based company that develops online communities and social software for […].

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Ep 156 – Workplace Politics and Running for Office While in HR

Workology

Two years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party, and with a record number of women running for Congress in 2018, a majority of Americans say they would like to see more women in top leadership positions – not only in politics, but also […] Source Two years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major U.S.

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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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Ask a Recruiter: Why and how do you use WhatsApp for recruiting candidates?

Workable

WhatsApp is predominantly known as a messaging app, but it could be the next big thing in recruitment. We’re living in such a competitive market at the moment, so if you can’t secure someone within two or three weeks, you’re in danger of losing them to competitors. We need to think out of the box and shorten the hiring process as much as possible – and I’ve found WhatsApp very useful for this.

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Greenhouse Drives Inclusion and Elevates Agile Recruiting Processes

Workology

Learn more about HR Technology and Product Reviews from Workology. See our FTC disclosure at the end of this review. In talent acquisition, one of the biggest challenges is finding a recruiting technology and hiring platform that can move and grow with you, but is also aligned with your larger business strategies. For most fast-moving and […] Source.

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Is a four-day working week really possible?

HR Zone

Culture. Four-day working week: is it possible?

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Seven Forward-Thinking Leadership Attributes Your Organization Needs Today

Forbes Coaches Council

The way individuals and the organization respond to change provides a snapshot of how successful an organization is, and it will dictate how successful it will be in years to come.

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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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Recruitment: why age-friendly employment is a win-win for everyone

HR Zone

Employees. Five steps to an age-friendly workplace.

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This is what you’re getting wrong about the negotiation process

Fast Company The Future of Work

Most of us, regardless of what type of negotiation we are in, have the same assumption about how it should go: We want to maximize what we get while minimizing what the other person gets. But that’s all wrong, says Art Markman, psychology professor and Fast Company contributor. Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York on Tuesday, he said that many negotiations should be mutually beneficial.

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Why HR needs to get to grips with the gig economy

HR Zone

Business. Why HR needs to get to grips with the gig economy.

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my entry-level employee gave me a bunch of off-base “constructive criticism”

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I am a manager in a smaller group (less than 20 people) in a huge firm. The hierarchy is pretty firmly established by my firm, but within my group my directors have given me a lot of freedom and I oversee all of the staff and on occasion other managers (who do not have the same authority over the junior employees). The expectation is that I will be the head of our group in a few years if I want it.

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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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#SHRMDIV – How Do You Get People to Talk?

SHRM

Day One of the 2018 SHRM Diversity & Inclusion Conference began with a keynote address from Brandon Stanton, creator of the wildly popular (it reaches 25 million people) blog, Humans of New York. I’m a fan of the site because I like hearing/reading people’s stories. Everyone has one. I care about people so it would follow that I care about their stories.

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How to Win the War for Talent

SumTotal

“With record talent shortages around the world, it’s no longer a question of simply finding talent; we need to build it.” — Jonas Prising, CEO, ManpowerGroup. With each new headline, it is becoming more and more evident that organizations need to prioritize their talent acquisition strategies now. The labor shortage is the worst in ten years, and 90% of American companies have job openings.

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How to Attract Top Talent with Recruitment Videos [INFOGRAPHIC]

Digital HR Tech

Videos are booming. A quick look at some stats on video-sharing platform YouTube says it all – the site is used by almost 75% of American adults. Among 18 – 24 year-olds this percentage is even 94%. In recruitment, the use of video is becoming more and more common in various stages of the funnel. From job postings accompanied by – or even completely consisting of – a video to pre-employment assessment tools using video and, of course, video interviewing software.

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Why Social Media Matters for Your Employer Brand (Because it Really Does)

The Muse

When it comes to social media for employer branding, it's tempting to wonder if your efforts and strategies even matter. We have news for you: Yes, they really do. We're sharing four compelling reasons that social media carries major weight with your employer brand.

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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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Why Generation Z and Millennials Want Pay Cards

ADP

A new generation of workers wants new payroll options. Here's why pay cards for employees are advised for any organization hiring Gen Z and Millennials.

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Four Ways To Stop Culture From Killing Your Company

Forbes Coaches Council

A company’s culture today may not be its culture tomorrow, and that’s okay. The important thing is to never forget the definition of culture: the collective mindset and attitude of your people.

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The Importance of Paid Time off and Vacation

Evil HR Lady

Americans famously get less paid time off than other developed nations, and yet we don’t manage to use it all. While it may seem better to have your employees working than to have them enjoying their PTO, the reality is that you should want them out of the office. Taking a break is good for them and good for your business. Here’s why and how to get your employees to take advantage of their PTO allotment.