Cornerstone On Demand
AUGUST 31, 2016
Editor's Note: In today's fast-paced news cycle, we know it's difficult to keep up with the latest and greatest HR trends and stories. To make sure you're updated, we're recapping our most popular articles every month in our " In Case You Missed It " series. Keep reading for August's top stories!
The Tim Sackett Project
AUGUST 31, 2016
This is the third annual conference we’ve done and they just keep getting bigger and better! We’ll have 150 Corporate TA Pros and Leaders joining us this conference, all working to become the best damn TA pros we can be! This year’s lineup includes: – Laurie Ruettimann – Mrs. Punkrock HR-Cynical Girl-Marathon Runner! – Gerry Crispin – The Godfather of Candidate Experience & Co-Founder of CareerXRoads!
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Engage2Excel
AUGUST 31, 2016
HR leaders are rethinking the role of HR along with fundamental aspects of organizational design to create more engaged and agile cultures. According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends Report, 92 percent of survey participants ranked organizational redesign as a critical priority.
DecisionWise
AUGUST 31, 2016
5 Employee Engagement Best Practices. In the VIDEO: 5 Employee Engagement Best Practices I share 5 employee engagement best practices from our 2016 State of Employee Engagement Report. To compile this report, we surveyed HR professionals from over 200 organizations around the world on what they were doing to address employee engagement. Join the WEBINAR: “Employee Engagement Survey Best Practices” and get HRCI or SHRM credit.
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Hoops
AUGUST 31, 2016
“To thine own self be true.” Shakespeare wrote those words of wisdom and Drake, international superstar and unofficial rapper laureate of Canada, preaches the same thing in his song "Know Yourself”. Self awareness plays a huge part in your quest for a great job, one that is a fit for your particular set of skills (kind of like this guy). Many of the traditionally tough interview questions you’ll encounter, like: • What motivates you?
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Everwise
AUGUST 31, 2016
Orland Yee is the first to admit he works too much. “ I think on time management I’m the worst person to give advice, ” he says. “ I tell all my people not to do what I do. ” That said, he has a lot of wisdom to impart about climbing the corporate ladder. After 12 years as a consultant at Microsoft, Yee went on to the executive level at several companies, stepping into the CEO role for the last decade at his own company, Softbase Inc.
Kazoo
AUGUST 31, 2016
There is no shortage of blog posts, articles, case studies and news stories focusing on company culture. They typically start something like this: “How to… What it Takes to… Six Steps to… Nine Ways to…” and always end with “…Create a Strong Company Culture.” We’ve probably said it ourselves. But really, creating a strong culture isn’t always a good thing.
EDSI
AUGUST 31, 2016
1) Shackleton recruited people of passion.& From the beginning he knew that he needed men of passion to have a remote chance of success. Shackleton’s recruitment efforts were unique to say the least; the job posting Shackleton published read “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness.
ACA Times
AUGUST 31, 2016
Medicaid expansion is not a fixed journey, as we’re slowly learning from states like Kentucky and Louisiana. The Wall Street Journal reports a pleasant change in events for the aforementioned states, whose Medicaid expansion denials have been reversed thanks to the electing of new respective governors. Louisiana’s change in the course of events happened when Gov.
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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.
Kazoo
AUGUST 31, 2016
There is no shortage of blog posts, articles, case studies and news stories focusing on company culture. They typically start something like this: “How to… What it Takes to… Six Steps to… Nine Ways to…” and always end with “…Create a Strong Company Culture.” We’ve probably said it ourselves. But really, creating a strong culture isn’t always a good thing.
Hppy
AUGUST 31, 2016
Telecommuting has transformed the way people think about employment and many companies have already proven the benefits of remote work policies. If you haven’t considered the option and don’t have a work-from-home policy in place, you shouldn’t reject such requests as difficult to manage or harmful for productivity. Approach the possibility of allowing remote work with an open mind.
ATD Human Capital
AUGUST 31, 2016
Over the last few weeks I’ve been avidly watching Olympic athletes from around the world compete. While I listened to the interviews and heard about the tens of thousands of hours they invested in their goal, one thing became clear: They all had a vision of victory. Warren Bennis said, “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
The HR Capitalist
AUGUST 31, 2016
Here's a good podcast for you to pick up - Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History , where Gladwell breaks down topics that we previously thought we understood completely, but now looking back it appears we were wrong. I've listened to two episodes - the first one was a fascinating recount of the Toyota stuck accelerator scandal, which now shows that it's user error (the driver) and panic 99% of the time.
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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.
TalentCulture
AUGUST 31, 2016
In our current society, noise rules. We are told the more likes we have, the better life is. We are told influencers rule. Get to know them and you can write your own ticket. Some of our Outlook or Google calendars are filled with back-to-back meetings. We run from one to another, being busy and “working.”. And at the end of the day, we may feel exhausted (justifiably) and a little bit empty.
TLNT: The Business of HR
AUGUST 31, 2016
Companies and employees are increasingly focused on finding a healthy work-life balance, but that doesn’t mean the two need to be entirely separated. We spend the majority of our days in the workplace, which means we spend a majority of our days with our coworkers, and it turns out, we’re happier if these coworkers are our friends, too.
TalentCulture
AUGUST 31, 2016
Labor Day’s coming up. To me, national holiday not only reminds me of honoring the workforce (which we’ve been doing as a nation since 1894), it also signifies the start of a new season. I may have left my school days behind, but that feeling of sharpening my pencils for some serious buckling down has never left. What’s on the curriculum? In the university of HR, celebrating the workforce is more important than ever — and celebrating them every day.
HR Morning
AUGUST 31, 2016
The first official ACA reporting season just came to a close, and figuring out how to comply wasn’t easy. Now you’ve got to start thinking about how you’re going to incorporate the IRS’ changes to the process for next year. . Talk about no rest for the weary. Immediately after this year’s reporting season ended, the IRS went to work switching some things up on employers for next year.
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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?
Humanity
AUGUST 31, 2016
Praising your employees for a job well done sounds like a pretty simple concept, doesn’t it? Every good boss has a natural impulse to heap praise on his or her staff members when they are doing a great job, but the process is a very nuanced one; it’s not all black and white. Believe it or not, there are incorrect and detrimental ways of praising your staff.
IO At Work
AUGUST 31, 2016
Do you want to be a charismatic leader? Do you want to inspire, motivate, engender commitment, and intellectually stimulate your followers? Do you want to lead them on a mission that is extraordinary and earth-shattering? Do you really want to do all of these things? If so, start by going to sleep! [Read More]. The post What Does Sleep Have to Do With Charismatic Leadership?
Evil HR Lady
AUGUST 31, 2016
Contrary to popular opinion, you boss isn’t perfect. (Okay, that’s not popular opinion–although that could be your boss’s opinion.) Sometimes you have to give the boss negative feedback. “Hey, boss, you’re doing it wrong!” As you well know, that doesn’t always go over well. Today at the Field Service Digital Blog, I give you some helpful tips and tricks for breaking the bad news to your boss, without getting yourself in trouble.
TLNT: The Business of HR
AUGUST 31, 2016
We’ve all had our moments of poor communication. That instance where you mistakenly send your coworker the wrong time for a team meeting because you hear 1 pm when the manager said 2 pm. Or the time when a new project takes the wrong direction after a game of telephone between the client, manager and employee.
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.
HRExecutive
AUGUST 31, 2016
The online learning company Coursera is making a push into the world of corporate training. Its new service, called “Coursera for Business,” repackages existing courses and adds new tools for employer learning-and-development programs. Coursera is a venture-backed company launched in 2012 with partners that include big-name universities like Duke, Stanford and University of Pennsylvania.
Advos
AUGUST 31, 2016
In my last blog I wrote about why I’m going to IBM HR Summit #PowerUpHR , and provided an overview of the intriguing speakers and topics. But as I reviewed the agenda , there was one session that jumped out to me as a must-attend. It’s a panel discussion on Thursday, September 8 from 12:00 – 12:45pm. Here is how the session is described on the event’s website: Title: Meet the Industry Experts: What’s on the Horizon for Workforce Analytics in 2017.
Workology
AUGUST 31, 2016
Your startup just secured a new wave of funding. Congratulations! You’ve outlined your plans for expansion, your cool new office and now you just need to bring on some new staff. I know what you’re thinking. You want a Rockstar. A superstar employee who has talent, charisma and loads of energy. Someone who will take your organization to the next level.
HR Morning
AUGUST 31, 2016
If you want a financial wellness program to be effective, you need to know the types of money issues that are causing your staffers the most stress. . To that end, a new study by GOBankingRates.com uncovered the financial stressors that impact people the most. The study, which compiled reasons from more than 7,000 respondents, asked participants from all 50 states plus Washington, DC, to choose the top sources of financial stress from a list of seven choices.
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.
NoExcusesHR
AUGUST 31, 2016
One of the most dangerous jobs in corporate life today is leading a progressive human resources team. You know, the kind you're leading, right? This is not up for debate. The pressure to deliver new talent is at an all time high. The need to retain good employees is critical to achieving business goals. The costs associated with both of these priorities is so immense that most HR leaders can not quantify what is being spent today.
HRGem
AUGUST 31, 2016
If you work in HR, then I reckon you have seen the eye roll. The ‘one of my employees has just announced she is pregnant’ eye roll.
Ceridian
AUGUST 31, 2016
By Jayson Saba, VP of Market Research & Industry Relations, Ceridian. Cloud computing has provided businesses with a vast array of technology to improve processes and productivity. One sector where it has gained significant traction is in human capital management (HCM) – the technology leveraged by human resources (HR), offering employers new, innovative strategies for improving a wide range of functions ranging from basic record keeping, advanced workforce planning and everything in between
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