Tue.Mar 13, 2018

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Sterling Talent Solutions Receives Stevie Awards for Customer Service and Global Sales Teams

Sterling Check

We are very proud to announce that Sterling Talent Solutions was recently awarded a Gold Stevie Award for Global Sales Team for the second year in a row and the Bronze Stevie Award for Customer Service Department of the Year-All Other Industries. The Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service honors “the achievements of contact center, customer service, business development and sales professionals worldwide” Winning a Stevie Award is a terrific way to benchmark an organization̵

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Employee Engagement Roadmap: It Is Not Too Late to Create Yours for 2018!

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Workify , an all-in-one employee engagement platform that makes it easy for companies to understand and take action on what’s motivating and demotivating employees throughout the employee experience. Enjoy!). Over the course of last year, we talked a lot about employee engagement.

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Thinking of Changing Performance Reviews? Focus on These Core Components

Lighthouse

Performance reviews are dead, or so we have been told. The data shows a shrinking support for the traditional method: only 15% of companies have not adjusted their annual performance management process and do not plan to. But the data from our Performance Management, Culture, and Business Results study shed a different light on the subject as well. High-performing companies, those with increases in revenue, retention, and engagement, are more likely to prioritize multiple goal-setting and review

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Office Hours: Is Your Organization Too Focused on Culture?

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly " Office Hours " video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. It's pretty certain that office environment affects the way employees think, act and work. One result of a cutthroat office culture, for example, is almost 50 percent higher health expenditures when compared to other organizations.

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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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It’s All Connected: Unearthing The Potential in Hidden Collaborative Networks

Visier

Lois Weisberg, Chicago’s commissioner for cultural affairs from 1989 to 2011, passed away at age 90 in January 2016. She was made famous in part by Malcolm Gladwell, author of the book “The Tipping Point,” who described her as the quintessential “connector.”. Her connections included Tony Bennett, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur C. Clarke, as well as doctors, lawyers, environmentalists, real estate moguls, politicians, activists and street peddlers, according to her obituary in the New York Times.

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The Shift from Years of Service Awards to a Culture of Recognition

Achievers

We’ve all been there. Your coworker Sam is moving on to a new opportunity. Goodbyes are being said. Personal email addresses are being exchanged so everyone can “stay in touch”. Sam’s cardboard box is filled with the usual suspects: family photos, a mousepad with the Dallas Cowboys logo, the chrome stapler he secretly lifted from the supply closet and a Ziplock bag full of client business cards he has gathered over the years.

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Breaking Down the Difference Between HMO and PPO

Justworks

When choosing health insurance for your company, there are many decisions to make. One of the first may be what type of plan to choose. If you’re shopping for health insurance, you’ve probably come across the acronyms HMO and PPO. HMO stands for Health Maintenance Organization, and PPO stands for Preferred Provider Organization. Knowing the difference between HMO and PPO is an important first step to determining which kind of plan is right for your company and employees.

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How Growth Drives Employee Engagement - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

The five keys to unlocking the power of employee engagement are Meaning, Autonomy, GROWTH, Impact, and Connection (MAGIC). Download this PDF that dives into how GROWTH drives employee engagement. The PDF will help explain: . Growth is about challenge and trying new things in order to progress professionally and personally. It’s a universal human need and that’s not necessarily linked to advancement or job promotion.

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How to Identify and Hire Servant Leaders

Hppy

Ever heard the term “service leader?” It’s what it sounds like — leaders who make service their priority. For them, leadership centers around the “one for all” musketeer mentality without the “all for me” in return. Servant leaders strive to do more than your typical do-gooder. Despite human resources education, many professionals still carry around the idea that leaders tell employees what to do, the staff falls in line and that’s the end of it.

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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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Infographic: Building a Best-in-Class Employee Experience

Kazoo

At Kazoo, we are dedicated to giving our customers a platform that delivers a best-in-class employee experience. But what does a best-in-class employee experience look like? We recently conducted market research to answer this question. Kazoo surveyed more than 2,000 employees across a variety of company sizes, industries, and levels of responsibility.

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HBR Research on Complexity of Promoting High-Performers to Management Roles.

The HR Capitalist

The best widget-maker becomes the widget-maker manager. Which means we promote the people who are best in the functional area role, right? And sometimes it's an absolute disaster. We've all been there. We promoted someone because they were strong as an individual contributor, then they became a manager and it turned into an absolute dumpster fire.

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A Step By Step Guide To An Effective Employee One On One Meeting

Engagedly

According to Gallup’s comprehensive 2015 study, ‘The State Of The American Manager’, 50 % of Americans have left a job “to get away from their manager”. The survey also says that workers feel like they’re given little guidance […].

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Lead Like a Human, Not a Manager

The People Equation

In today’s fast-paced world of business is it possible to bring humanity back to leadership? A new book backed by research and co-authored by a Harvard Business Review contributor aims to answer that question for you. In The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results , authors Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter offer a simple, yet compelling thesis for what makes a strong leader: it all starts within.

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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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Hear from the Industry Experts: Breaking Through the Hype of #AI in #HR to Learn What Drives Measurable Success

Advos

HR is no stranger to transformation. From Rolodexes to chat bots, the art and science of talent acquisition and talent management is constantly undergoing substantial change. But, how do you know what the latest shifts in technology mean to you and your organization? How do you know what’s real and what’s just hype about AI? A panel of leading industry influencers will join me on Tuesday, March 20th from 1:30 pm to 2:10 pm at IBM Think in Las Vegas to help answer these questions that so many in

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Remote control: how to build culture across a team of remote workers

HR Zone

Culture. How to build culture in your remote teams.

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How to deal with employees who don’t get along

Insperity

Any business will have employees who don’t get along from time to time. Whether it’s because of differences in their personalities, lifestyles, opinions or some other factor, sometimes employees just don’t mesh. And when there’s discord in the workplace, it affects everybody. The resulting tension not only makes the office environment uncomfortable – it can also negatively impact your business’s productivity.

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10 Free Ways to Motivate Employees

FingerCheck

It’s stated time and time again that a business’s most valuable asset is their employees. Employees who are inspired, hard-working, and innovative grow and sustain businesses. Keeping employees happy and engaged is the secret to moving your business forward. . So how can you ensure your employees are motivated? By offering a rewarding culture — which doesn’t have to be reliant on fiscal incentives. “ When it comes to motivating employees, cash is king, but only for

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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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I hate the idea of networking — it feels slimy

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m a college student, so I’m very early in my professional career, but so far I’ve already had trouble overcoming my aversion/distaste/ineptitude for networking. I’ve only done one summer internship, but I’m always hearing that the only real way to get jobs and find success professionally is through “networking”—a challenge for me, someone who often does poorly in overly performative social situations.

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Reimagining People Management With a Sense of Urgency

Reflektive

Following several years of product innovation, real-time performance management cloud adoption, and customer success across industries and market segments – we’re more confident than ever about our future. New funding will enable us to continue to reimagine people management processes for HR and business leaders, their employees and agile organizations concerned with sustainable growth.

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is “secretary” a demeaning title?

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work in the tree care industry at a company where the hierarchy is the owner and manager (“Will”), his assistant on the field providing estimates, then me, the owner’s secretary, then the tree workers (who have their own hierarchy). I work in the office by myself taking calls from clients for estimate appointments, managing correspondence for Will through calls or emails on his behalf, getting mail, making sure bills are paid on time, and taking messages from people tryi

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How to transform your HR Strategy with the use of Predictive Analytics

AssessHub

The HR department in any organization is responsible for a bunch of vital functions. They handle talent acquisition, performance tracking, up-skilling, productivity mapping, and even talent retaining. So, how can you upgrade/modify your existing HR strategy in order to make the operations more effective, efficient, and seamless? Well, predictive analytics can transform your HR strategy and bring many positive changes in your organization.

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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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20 Words that Describe the Best Workplaces

Quantum Workplace

Every employer strives to create a good workplace for their employees. But amidst this war for talent, leaders are quickly learning that a good work environment isn’t good enough. Employees are looking for top-notch, grade-A workplaces, and they won’t stop until they find it. So what makes the best work environment? Our latest research helped us uncover the answer.

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How to Integrate Social Learning into a Company’s Operations

Rallyware for Human Resources

Social learning becomes increasingly important in today’s world of corporate training. According to the Brandon Hall Group study , 73% of companies plan to focus even more on social learning over the next year. A report from Bersin by Deloitte states that organizations with at least 10,000 employees spent three times as much on social learning tools than they had in the previous two years.

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Being Yourself on Job Interviews Provides a Competitive Advantage

IO At Work

Researchers demonstrate that being yourself, or self-verification, can provide an edge to otherwise qualified candidates.

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I Saw, Today

NoExcusesHR

I saw commitment today. I saw dedication to patients. I saw a team completely focused on a goal. I saw preparation. I saw real-time accountability. I saw transparency. I saw energy. I saw follow through. I saw transparency. I saw communication. I saw passion. I saw priorities. I saw teamwork. I saw action. I saw results. How About You What did you see today?

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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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5 Powerful Interview Questions and Why They Work

BambooHR

Hiring managers often struggle with determining whether a candidate is a solid fit for the position, their team, and the company. How do you get your candidates to reveal who they truly are in one interview? What are the questions you should ask? What are the red flags you need to watch out for? We’ve […]. The post 5 Powerful Interview Questions and Why They Work appeared first on.

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Easily Manage Your Consultants’ Availability with Replicon’s TimeOff

Replicon

The most critical asset for professional services firms is their employees’ time — their resources’ billable hours can make or break their bottom line. Part of efficiently and accurately managing this time and optimizing resource allocation means maintaining a firm grasp of your consultants’ availability and anticipated time off.

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How Managers Can Improve Employee Engagement & Retention

Inpower Coaching

By: Patricia Hughes. Organizations are experiencing another perfect storm in recruiting and hiring. A combination of decreasing employee engagement, increasing turnover and fewer skilled candidates available, is making it tough for companies to get the right resources. Given these challenges to bringing people in, we know that retaining our rock stars and setting up good alumni referral relationships with those who do leave is critical.