Wed.Jul 20, 2016

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Want More Workforce Diversity? Erase the Jargon from Your Job Descriptions

Cornerstone On Demand

Workforce diversity is on the mind of every HR professional and executive. But many companies, especially in industries like tech and finance, struggle to increase the number of minorities and women in their ranks—even while consciously trying to close the race or gender gap.

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Think Brexit Has Nothing to Do With You? Think Again

Compensation Cafe

I had doubts about writing this column, but I just couldn't get it out of my mind. Then I realized that I might be on to something that you would find interesting when my Board of the Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA) invited Gary Schlossberg of Wells Capital Management to speak about, 'From "Goldilocks" to "Alice in Wonderland:" The U.S. and Global Economies in a ""Post-Brexit" World.'.

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How Google Used Data to Validate the Impact of Good Managers

i4cp

"At Google, we strive for all people decisions to be informed by data and analytics," says Kathryn Dekas, people analytics manager. Google, which employs nearly 60,000 employees (referred to as "Googlers") across more than 100 offices in 50 different countries, has a culture that's naturally attuned to data—its founders were both engineers— "And as we all know, engineers LOVE data," says Dekas.

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Deal with it: Employee Feedback for the Rest of Us

ClearCompany HRM

Feedback is such a crucial part of the work environment and so effective at improving performance culture when done right, that it seems downright crazy that people are so darned scared of it!

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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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Why Culture Changes Occur and How to Manage Them

Pomello

. Guest Q&A with Todd Hoskins, Founder of Canopy Gap. What are the most common reasons that you see companies pursuing a company culture change management strategy? Many organizations view “culture” as a problem that needs to be solved, typically after an increase in employee turnover, declining performance, or some disruption such as a merger or acquisition.

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6 Employee Onboarding Tips

Engage2Excel

In a previous post “ Make Your Employee Onboarding an Engaging Success ” I shared the strategy behind why onboarding programs are necessary. In this post, I am taking those strategies and listing six tips to make onboarding effective in your organization.

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Get Employees Emotionally Involved By Giving Them Visibility

Hppy

“Research indicates that workers have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.”. Zig Ziglar. When your employees feel emotionally involved with your organization, they are much more likely to be engaged, and to stick around. How do you help your employees feel like an integral part of your company?

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Employees May Not Love Their Work, But They Can Still Be Engaged

ATD Human Capital

It’s normal for employees not to love their work. A Gallup poll found that only 32 percent of U.S. workers are engaged in their jobs, for instance. Yet employees who don’t love their jobs can and should still be engaged. CustomInsight distinguishes employee engagement from employee satisfaction. Engagement is defined as “the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs, are committed to the organization, and put discretionary effort into their work.

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Event Activities at the 7th Annual ACE 2016

Achievers

Are you ready to change the way the world works? Considering a 1% increase in employee engagement equates to an additional.6% growth in sales for companies, it’s not surprising that businesses are eager to find ways to improve in this area. Additionally, Gallup has found that companies in the top quartile of employee engagement see real measures of business success (compared to bottom-quartile organizations), including: 21% higher productivity. 22% higher profitability. 41% higher quality. 48% f

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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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Developing Alternative, Non-Management “Guru” Tracks

Everwise

Climbing the corporate career ladder is inextricably linked to management roles, as well as higher pay and more attractive job titles. Management, however, is its very own skill set. New managers will find themselves having to do things well outside of their previous jobs, and they’ll also have to learn the language and techniques of management.

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Critical Conversations: The Importance of Good Questions

ATD Human Capital

Asking good questions is a skill that is often neglected. Unfortunately, this means that managers often ask poor questions, ask too many questions, talk too much, do not actively listen, and shy away from being honest and direct. Good questions stimulate insight, raise awareness, provoke reflection, and lead to better answers and, often, a clearer understanding of why one answer is better than others.

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HR Technology Conference Preview: How Many Silos of HR Tech Exist? Too D**n Many.

The HR Capitalist

I'm running a panel at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago in October. As I've said before, this is my favorite conference in our industry - the perfect mix of HR and Talent topics with solutions and conversation enabled by technology. Click here to get the early bird discount, which ends on 7/27/16. The shows runs from October 4th through the 7th.

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A Time for Giving Leadership

TalentCulture

We’re in the silly season, the time of U.S. presidential primaries, and one effect of the media assault is that it makes us examine this thing, this force in our lives, called “leadership.”. It’s easy to think of leadership as something that relates only to the elite few: the CEO, the president, the general, the boss. But silly season notwithstanding, leadership happens everywhere — in our relationships and our families, our communities and our work, and in every domain of our lives.

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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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NoExcusesHR

Sometimes it only takes one. - person to believe in you - leader to give you a chance - voice to stand up to bigotry - glance held for an extra moment - kind word to change the course of someone's day - act of courage - chance encounter that changes.everything. How About You Today, you should be the one. I'd love to hear from you. No Excuses. pic.

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5 Ways To Reinvent Your Recruiting Strategy

TalentCulture

A client of mine is a multinational company with a vibrant, fast paced culture has been through the ringer lately. We talked about the talent issues they are dealing with, which were precipitated by losing two big accounts. The hit to income and profits distracted the CEO, and eventually, after months, led to a restructuring of the business to focus on different verticals.

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Gender Parity: Career Advice for Women in STEM

WorqIQ

When it comes to gender parity in the workplace, the business case is clear: diversity is good for the bottom line, and most see it as an important objective. So why do women still have so much trouble making headway in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)? Read More» The post Gender Parity: Career Advice for Women in STEM appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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5 Ways to Improve Your Customer Referral Process

Paychex

The quality of your customer referral process may determine the future growth of your business. Here are five ways to breathe new life into your customer referrals.

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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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Connectivity & Ownership: The Fifth Component of Safegagement™

Total Employee Recognition

As we’ve touched upon in our past blog entries, connectivity and ownership are vital to the concept of Safegagement ™. Not only should their presence resonate within every position, department and office setting, but connectivity and ownership also serves as our fifth and final component of Safegagement. Possibly the most important we will discuss, these two elements have the power to truly ignite individuals and unlock their potential.

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3 Things Rockstars Can Teach Us about Accepting Feedback

Bonusly

The life of a musician is riddled with all breeds of feedback - from positive and constructive to downright negative. While most of us aren't receiving feedback beneath the same limelight in our professional careers, it also comes in all shapes during our day-to-day interactions. How we respond to it can make all the difference. 46 percent of newly hired employees will fail within the first 18 months , according to a study conducted by the global leadership and training research company, Leaders

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New Overtime Laws are Coming!

Evil HR Lady

Today, over at Comstock’s Magazine I go into detail about how the new Department of Labor regulations are going to affect your business–since this is a California based magazine the focus is on California, but it affects the entire United States. If you are currently an exempt employee earning less than $47,476 a year, you’ll want to read this.

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Seasonal Employer Attracts and Hires Talent Faster with Oracle

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

Each year, Mt. Hood Meadows, a resort for skiers and snowboarders in Oregon, faces the daunting task of finding and hiring enough staff members to service the annual onslaught of eager winter sports enthusiasts. The resort is located in a pristine but very rural location, making it a major challenge to find and hire seasonal employees in a compressed time frame.

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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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What to Look for When Hiring Remote Workers

TLNT: The Business of HR

Due to a lack of accountability, maintaining tabs on off-site workers is necessary, but difficult. If your company is hiring a large number of these employees, you’ll want to look out for specific traits that can key you in to how much success they’ll have in an often challenging environment.

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Breaking the barrier to employee engagement

Ceridian

Employee engagement is one of the most critical areas for businesses today. It plays a pivotal role in the success and performance of an organization, affecting everything from job satisfaction and retention rates to the overall culture of a company. However, there is still a huge amount of organizations struggling with how to effectively approach, implement and manage engagement initiatives.

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Success beyond the Four Walls

Outmatch

The transition from general manager to multi-unit manager is especially challenging, and sometimes even your best GMs aren’t ready for it. In this article , learn how to select the right GMs for multi-unit management. Then, listen to our webinar for an even deeper dive into the traits, competencies, and critical experiences that lead to success in multi-unit.

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4 Ways to Encourage Healthy Eating in Your Employees

Take It Personel-ly

There a number of factors that make up the culture of any workplace, and one that can have a serious impact on a company is the eating habits of its employees while they are on the job. From holiday parties to sweet-laden birthday celebrations, temptation is everywhere on a daily basis and may eventually have […].

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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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my boss keeps emailing me on the weekend

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I work a 9-5 job in the creative industry. I am fairly low down in the pecking order, so to speak. The company recently hired someone to be my new boss. He has now started emailing me on the weekends and expects me to reply to him immediately. I get work email on my own personal cell phone (which I pay the bill for), but can I really be expected to respond to work issues on the weekend that could honestly wait until Monday?

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What are SaaS Bundles?

Laurie Ruettimann

Most of HR technology is SaaS technology. What is that? Software as a Service ( SaaS ; pronounced /sæs/) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. It is sometimes referred to as “on-demand software.” SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser.

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How to Build a Culture That Has A ROI

TLNT: The Business of HR

Recognize This! – Successful cultures depend on clearly defined values and aligned, measurable behaviors, both of which are positively influenced through social recognition.

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