Aurico

DECEMBER 8, 2011

'FLRA Issues Guidance on Information Requests The Federal Labor Relations Authority’s General Counsel recently issued a guidance document stating that Federal agencies must provide their specific rationale for denying requests for information from Federal employees’ unions when that rationale is employee privacy-related. The guidance states that the agencies should consider the privacy protections in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) when considering the distribution of information to unions

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Insperity

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Bob, Susie and Mike all want to schedule their remaining vacation days for the last two weeks of the year. All three can’t be out of the office at the same time, and the decision must be made about who should be granted time off. Allowing workers to book their remaining vacation while keeping your business running smoothly can be a daunting task. As another year draws to a close, your employees may be scrambling to schedule their holidays, not wanting to forfeit their paid days off.

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ExactHire

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A thought occurred to me last week after a meeting with one of our clients — why don’t more organizations use employee assessments ? Here at ExactHire, we use and promote the use of assessment tools for many employee issues. Among those uses are hiring, team building, succession planning and 360 degree feedback for performance reviews. Then it hit me…most people (and therefore organizations) see these tools as “tests”, not assessments.

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Josh Bersin

DECEMBER 4, 2011

This weekend SAP announced plans to acquire SuccessFactors for approximately $3.4 billion (almost 10X 2011 revenues). Just last week I delivered a webinar on trends in the Talent Management Systems. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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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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The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Given the work that I do, I'm a sucker for skill lists. As our work worlds grow ever more complex and challenging, it seems that the skills themselves become more complex too. . Increasingly, though, I've begun to believe that these lists are distracting us from the real skills of success. While working with big data , operating in virtual teams and"cognitive load management"all sound great, I think there are far more fundamental skills we should be developing first. .

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TheHRBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2011

George Harrison said it all when he sang “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there”… Goal setting is about fine-tuning the direction in which you want to go in a pre-determined period. In a very important way, it is about taking the locus of control over your life in […].

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here is my personal list of the top 7 blog posts for 2011: 1. The Employee Engagement Pyramid What are the 10 actions managers can take to turbo charge employee engagement? Engagement is more than a feeling, survey number, or a YouTube happy dance. We engage in actions directed towards results. The first key to consider when acting to increase employee engagement is what results are you working to achieve and how can you involve all employees in formulating those results or achieving those re

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ExactHire

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Over the span of each of your careers, I’m sure you can pinpoint at least one time in which you had a very unfortunate, if not comical, recruitment experience with an organization. That is, the company made some major blunder while recruiting you…for example, during an interview or a follow-up communication. If so, I invite you to comment and share your experiences, though please keep the organization anonymous to protect the innocent.

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Josh Bersin

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Today Salesforce.com announced plans to acquire Rypple, a small but growing provider of social performance management software. In addition, the company announced plans to build out a set of human capital management products called SuccessForce (quite a stab in the eye to SuccessFactors), built on the “social enterprise” which Marc Benioff (CEO of Salesforce.com) has.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post on social artistry , on how I am shifting my understanding of what I do and how I do it, seeing myself more and more as a "social artist." Since then, I've been doing a lot of reading, thinking and exploring on the concept, particularly on how we can better use conversations for learning and to dig into the meaningful issues that we aren't addressing right now. .

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45 Things

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I carry a list in my purse that if lost, would mean the end of my sanity. The list contains all the presents I have bought so far for Christmas, what I have left to buy and all the things I need to do before I take time off for the holidays. If I misplaced that list, I might just have to go straight to the bourbon without the eggnog. But I know I'm making a mistake.

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TheHRBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Knowing what the ingredients of a successful life are is important in terms of our social, professional and personal lives. Taking these principles to heart will also ensure that we reach obtain the maximum benefit from all relationships that we forge on these three levels. Here are some of the principles that drive successful people: […].

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 6, 2011

3. Build Relationship – The Manager’s Employee Engagement Relationship BACKbone: Bids, Authenticity, Caring, and Knowledge . (Part 4 of a 10 part series on how managers can improve employee engagement). Foundation of relationships. Obviously relationships and relationship building are a foundation of employee engagement. Linda Hill in a Harvard Business Review article on Building Effective One-on-One Relationships cited research by John Kotter that found “that one of the facto

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ExactHire

DECEMBER 22, 2011

You may recall from “Part 1” of this story the emphasis I placed on creating and nurturing a recruitment brand for your organization. Because whether or not you address it, you have a brand…so make sure it is a recruitment brand you are proud to support! In this post, we’ll take a quick look at how you may use applicant tracking software to help maintain the recruitment brand you worked so diligently to create.

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Josh Bersin

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Today I had a chat with Paul Sparta , the founder of Plateau and one of the key product leaders at SuccessFactors and now SAP. Paul, who’s current title is Chief Integration Officer, shared some important thoughts with me which I felt were worth publishing. 1. As a result of the acquisition, the SuccessFactors. Read more» The post My Conversation with Paul Sparta: Update on Plateau, SAP, and SuccessFactors appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Accountabilty is the willingness to acknowledge that we have participated in creating, through comission or ommision, the conditions that we wish to see changed. Without this capacity to see ourselves as cause, our efforts become either coercive or wishfully dependent on the transformation of others. . Community will be created the moment we decide to act as creators of what it can become.

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 21, 2011

'Dave Ulrich’s latest update to the global HR competency framework was announced last week. I’ve been using and talking about the various iterations of this framework for about 15 years now and on first look, it’s my favourite list so far. The competencies are: Strategic positioners who understand evolving business contexts, stakeholder expectations, and business requirements and translate them into talent, culture, and leadership actions Credible activists who build relationships of trust and h

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TheHRBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Most employees would not even dream of giving their superiors feedback or suggestions. This unfortunate fact has a lot to do with insecurity and the misconception that those higher up in the corporate pecking order are, either by nature or by standing, infallible. However, nobody is perfect at any point in their career. Bosses, managers […].

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 13, 2011

4. Foster Recognition - Are you looking, seeing, and saying? . (Part 5 of a 10 part series on how managers can improve employee engagement). Expanding recognition. If we split the word recognition it can be viewed as to think again (re-cognition). We need to rethink what recognition means in workplaces beyond long service pins, toasters, donuts on Friday, and minimal encouragers such as, “good job.” Recognition can be strategic to assist in achieving results and advancing the enterp

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45 Things

DECEMBER 5, 2011

There are some days when I think I possibly have the coolest job in the world. Because I'm a journalist, I've attended presidential inaugural balls, I've been with cops as they raid a drug den and I now have interviewed a rapper. For this latest story I did for Gannett/USAToday, I learned that the power of marketing yourself for a job can be learned from college professors -- and from hip-hop artists.

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Josh Bersin

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Today Salesforce.com announced plans to acquire Rypple, a small but growing provider of social performance management software. In addition, the company announced plans to build out a set of human. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As we adapt to an ever-changing world, I've come to believe that a necessary career management skill is the ability to create your own job. Whether it's work you do for a company or work you do on your own, re-inventing yourself on a regular basis is going to become more and more important. . How to re-invent yourself is the question, of course. Via Angela Maiers comes a link to an interesting report on Jobs of the Future that suggests three strategies for creating new jobs: Retrofitting --Add

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Working Girl

DECEMBER 18, 2011

'I recently read an article called 12 Things Happy People Do Differently , and was struck by how closely it mirrored my recent thoughts. In fact, here are my tips for having a magical holiday season and a happier year to come. You’ll be amazed at the similarities. No, I didn’t copy, it’s just that great minds think alike! (And speaking of great minds, be sure to check out what Dave and Lyn have to say this holiday season over at HR Official and The HR Bacon Hut ).

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Strategic HCM

DECEMBER 7, 2011

'The CIPD’s social media conference has kicked off with a session from Bill Parsons, EVP HR at ARM Holdings. I met Bill at ARM in Cambridge earlier this year, so this post is a combination of his presentation, and my earlier notes. I’ll start off by saying ARM is one of my favourite companies – and in fact it’s one of the world’s favourite companies too.

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David Zinger

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Don’t myth out on Employee Engagement. 30 minutes on employee engagement. When is the last time you spent 30 minutes thinking about employee engagement? What myths surround employee engagement and how do they influence your outlook and actions? David Zinger’s research highlights a series of myths that are associated with employee engagement. These are myths we work by that may not be working for us.

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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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45 Things

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I have mixed feelings about performance evaluations. I've yet to talk to an employee or manager who look forward to them. But sometimes it's the only way to get workers and their bosses to sit down and actually discuss what's going on. For many years I've written about performance reviews, the pro's and con's, and so I decided it was time to revisit the issue and give pointers about how to not only survive your performance evaluation, but make sure it goes well.

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Josh Bersin

DECEMBER 6, 2011

We all know that talent management is a hot topic in business today. SAP’s acquisition of SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion demonstrates how important this market is to businesses around the. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

This weekend, I went on a retreat with 10 other women to reflect on our experiences in 2011 and plan for what we wanted to do in 2012. It was a fabulous experience that I'll be writing more about. . One of the most eye-opening realizations I had in our weekend away was the profound LACK of meaningful conversations at work and in our personal lives. Sure, we're talking all the time about transactions and meetings and getting work done.

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