Mon.Aug 29, 2016

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5 Coaching Skills to Use at Work

Cornerstone On Demand

For many of us, the best part of being a manager is making a difference in the lives of our team members. We see coaching as an ideal way to help someone become better at what they do and more satisfied in their role.

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How a Leading Staffing Firm Has Set Itself Apart From Competitors

Linkedin Talent Blog

One of the biggest challenges that staffing firms face is how to attract quality hires when time and resources are spread thin. Russell Tobin , a 65-person staffing firm headquartered New York City, with seven offices nationally, has built its entire business around solving this problem. How did they do it? By creating lasting relationships with candidates that set the firm apart from its competitors.

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Cutting Through the Clutter of Internal Communications

15Five

How well are you communicating your most important company information to employees? The answer has as much to do with the medium as with the message. And most of the time, that message isn’t being received. The problem of disconnected communication channels at work isn’t a new one. Companies have been trying to figure it out for years by communicating with employees through snail mail, paper memos, faxes, emails, intranets, digital signage, and more.

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How to Get a Job in HR When You’re Not Working in HR

UpstartHR

Over the last week I’ve received more than half a dozen emails from people looking for their first foray back into the HR realm after making a move to a new city, taking time off for childcare/maternity leave, and other similar stories. It’s a challenge, but this is easier than breaking into HR in the first place if you have some sort of track record to point to.

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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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Employee Engagement: This Is What Professionals Do

EmployeeConnect

We live in a world where everyone would like to think that what they do is perfect. Reality is, it’s not. You may be a perfectionist or see yourself as a nit-picker where you strive for 100% accuracy, only to end up feeling disappointed that you nail 99.95%. This 0.05% that no one seems to cover is what presents a dystopic area in a utopic perceived world.

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Which Talent Should Your Organization Be Investing Resources Into? Why? A Few Thoughts…

Something Different

…Okay, so over the weekend I read an outstanding blog post from CEB here. It talks about how to distinguish between high performers in their current roles (who are doing good work but may not be a good fit at higher levels) versus the kind of talent that has the potential, desire and commitment to keep progressing. It turns out that – if you are in fact like 83% of companies – only 15% of your high performers are promotable multiple levels above where they are now, and 55% of t

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10 Ways An Outdoor Corporate Event Can Enhance Your Team’s Morale

Hppy

Boosting your team’s morale can be tough. However, it is a fundamental aspect in business. Companies must strive to please employees if they want their productivity and bottom line to improve. People with increased, positive morale are a lot more eager to do their jobs, and they don’t see challenging tasks as a chore, but as an opportunity to develop their set of skills.

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Minimum Essential Coverage: Looking Ahead Toward 2016 Reporting

ACA Times

Let’s call the details of the Affordable Care Act a work in progress, even still. Since its humble 2010 beginnings, the ACA has evolved based upon the needs of (almost) everyone involved. As we inch toward the close of 2016 and its inevitable health care reporting, the IRS is taking those needs into consideration and making new modifications in a variety of ACA-affected arenas.

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Killing the Traditional Performance Management Approach

Lighthouse

In the last few years, there have been tons of stories about how companies are ditching performance management as it has long been practiced and replacing it with a variety of approaches. Just a few of the many recognizable names: Sears. SAP. Adobe. At the same time, there have been a large number of companies popping up to support different approaches to performance management.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Rayanne Thorn on the “Paul”Cast … Do the thing you suck at?

What is Paul Thinking

Rayanne Thorn joins the “Paul”Cast to chat about doing something different with your life and your career. Normally we talk about leveraging your strengths and focusing on what you do well while outsourcing the stuff you suck at. Rayanne is the Vice President of Marketing at Dovetail Software , ( [link] ) a case management and help desk solutions for HR and also Clarify Solutions.

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Some of Kobe Bryant’s Fans Want to Rape Me

Laurie Ruettimann

During a week when Time Magazine wondered why the internet is so full of rage , and Leslie Jones’s personal website was hacked , I learned that some of Kobe Bryant’s fans want to rape me. Not all of his fans. Just a few on Twitter. I tweeted about a past rape allegation against Kobe Bryant on “Kobe Bryant Day.” And that’s when the floodgates opened.

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Olympic Swimmers and the Trials/Tribulations of the Low Cog Employee/Candidate

The HR Capitalist

By now, you've heard all you need to hear about the Olympic swimmers who who were robbed/not robbed at gunpoint/not at gunpoint after vandalizing/barely vandalizing a convenience store in Rio. Who's to blame? Like most of the stuff we deal with in HR, the truth is somewhere in the middle. And it's messy. There's one thing that's certain, however. Whatever happened, we're dealing with the equivalent of a log cog employee/candidate when it comes the response of the primary swimmer in question.

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How to Stop Your Bad Hiring Decisions

TalentCulture

I’ve heard it said before that if you end up with a bad employee, you’ve probably made a bad hiring decision. Now, please understand, I’m not excusing an employee’s poor work ethic or a “less than engaged” employee, but more often than not, there’s a good chance that person wasn’t the right fit in the first place. Bad hiring decisions are costly. Beyond how an under-functioning employee affects team morale, workload, and deliverables productivity, the wrong hire also hits hard from a financial p

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Five new ways to communicate with millennial employees to try next

Reward Gateway

The other day I was talking to a client who was facing a problem that I tackle every day, so she thought I might have some solid advice. Her question? “How do I communicate with millennial employees?”. Well, hi. I’m Cat, and I’m a millennial.

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Attention Helicopter Parents: You Can’t Come to Your Child’s Job Interview

HR Daily Advisor

Not sure what a helicopter parent is? According to Wikipedia , “A helicopter parent (also called a cosseting parent or simply a cosseter) is a parent who pays extremely close attention to a child’s or children’s experiences and problems, particularly at educational institutions. Helicopter parents are so named because, like helicopters, they hover overhead, overseeing their child’s life.”.

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Employee Engagement: Lighten Up Your Monday

David Zinger

John Junson is both a fine friend and a brilliant workplace cartoonist. He creates a new cartoon every week on for the Employee Engagement Network. This one was perfect: Stay light, stay nimble, and have an engaging week ahead. David Zinger is an employee engagement speaker and expert.

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Finding Your Voice

NoExcusesHR

Have you heard this phrase? finding your voice. It's often associated with writing. It's intended to make the connection between what you think and believe as a person, and your ability to express those thoughts and beliefs in a blog post, article, or book. It can also apply to speaking as well. Have you found your voice? Step One: Who Are You I think the most overlooked part of the "voice" strategy is stopping to define who we really are as people.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Holding Space for Change at Work

The Bamboo Project Blog

I have been absent for some time from this blog, in large part because I have been consumed for the past several months with holding space for people going through big changes in their lives. . This has not been easy. Holding space for change never is. . What has been confusing and confounding to me in this process is WHY I've struggled so much with what I'm doing.

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Brain-Teaser Interview Questions Serve a Purpose

Entrepreneur

Unusual questions allow hiring managers to see how potential employees think on their feet.

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How Traditional Employers Can Start Stealing Their Workers Back from the Gig Economy

Workforce Software

Workers all over the world are flocking to the Gig Economy. If you’re a traditional employer, this article will teach you how to win them back.

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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Are There Gaps in Your HR Policies?

Putting the right HR policies in place can help your organization grow smoothly and help your company culture thrive. Use this essential HR checklist to cover the basics and make sure there aren’t any gaps in your HR functions.

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The Quiet Ones: How to Create Introvert/Extrovert Harmony

Reviewsnap

Some workplaces are full of gabby, fun-loving extroverts. Other offices are quiet as a tomb, inviting visitors to wonder if they walked into a workplace or a library. But most departments are a mixture of both; loud sales teams working alongside their quieter service counterparts. Boisterous marketing departments who avoid the glares of the engineering … Continue reading The Quiet Ones: How to Create Introvert/Extrovert Harmony.

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Top 10 Annoying Water Cooler Topics

Evil HR Lady

Do you have annoying co-workers who spill way too many beans around the water cooler? (Or coffee pot, depending on your office culture.). I asked my readers for their top annoyances and comprised list of the top 10 over at Inc. Right after I published, I got another one where one of my readers confessed to being the annoying one as she complained about her husband’s parrot.

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Team Efforts: Smooth Dancing or Stepping on Toes?

WorqIQ

How coordinated are team efforts in your organization? Do team members gracefully engage, solving problems and supporting each other, or are their interactions messy, frustrating, or even chaotic? Recent experiences have shed light on the latter, in many organizations. Some of the most glaring have been on a very different stage. literally. Read More» The post Team Efforts: Smooth Dancing or Stepping on Toes?

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS. Your learning program has been managing itself for years, or at least that’s what your boss thinks. But you know the dark secret that is lurking barely below the surface. You spend a ridiculous amount of time organizing and determining methods of learning dispersal among personnel within your organization.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Certification Management Nightmares

TalentGuard

Certification Management Nightmares. Certification management is crucial for businesses across a multitude of industries, yet the administrative upkeep is a nightmare. Unfortunately, the consequences of non-compliance are even more dangerous. Hefty fines. Government sanctions. License suspensions and revocations. Lost clients. Discontinued revenues.

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Facebook Recruitment Marketing 101: What type of business page is right for your company? (Cat memes optional.)

Workology

Unless your target candidate is from Europa, they are likely on Facebook. With over a billion daily active users, this platform should not be ignored by any brand. When using this platform, there are many factors that you should weigh including company size, brand recognition and budget. BEGINNER: BECOME AN ADMIN OF YOUR CORPORATE FACEBOOK PAGE. This page is usually owned by your marketing or communications team, but they can add you as an admin, allowing you to post occasional career content a

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Can Healthy Snacks Really Boost Employee Engagement?

HR Daily Advisor

Engagement in the workplace is as bad as it has ever been. Today we’ll hear from Sean Kelly, CEO of SnackNation on why something as simple as healthy snacks really can make a big difference. By Sean Kelly, SnackNation cofounder and CEO. There’s an epidemic in the American workplace. It’s undermining your company’s ability to reach its full potential and zapping individual employees of their energy and purpose.