June, 2016

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Six Myths of Employee Engagement

TLNT: The Business of HR

With today’s global ability to produce carbon copy technology and business models, people truly are a company’s only competitive advantage. Businesses that want to accentuate and optimize their competitive talent advantage focus on employee engagement strategies that improve overall workforce productivity and return on staffing investments.

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3 things managers can’t say after FMLA requests

HR Morning

You know when employees request FMLA leave, those conversations have to stick to the facts about what the workers need and why. The problem is, a lot of managers don’t know that — and here’s proof some of their stray comments can cost you dearly in court. . Three employers are currently fighting expensive FMLA interference lawsuits because their managers didn’t stick to the facts when subordinates requested leave.

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Entrepreneurship Is A Sweet Deal

TalentCulture

The topic of entrepreneurship fascinates me. I often wonder what makes one person seek out entrepreneurial opportunities while others are content to be employees. I believe for some people the real and perceived risks of business ownership is too overwhelming for them to fathom. For others, there’s the immense commitment of time and resources and not to mention the financial implications.

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#SHRM Benefits Survey: 40% More Companies Offer Telecommuting

Workology

According to SHRM’s 2016 Employee Benefits Survey , published today, 40% more organizations offer telecommuting in 2016 than in 1996. It’s not that I didn’t expect to see a dramatic increase in telecommuting reflected in the survey. We know that telecommuting is both more common and more in demand from employees. Too, the SHRM survey spans 20 years and technological change during that timeframe has made telecommuting easier and easier with each passing year.

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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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Is employee engagement your No. 1 challenge? 5 other things to keep in mind

Ceridian

In most offices, talent management leaders have zoomed in on employee retention and productivity as crucial goals for both their short- and long-term needs. In an effort to put together a hardworking staff that’s built to last, companies have put a great deal of emphasis on engagement, and rightfully so. Engaged employees tend to stay in their positions longer and achieve more than their disengaged counterparts.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. 10 Red Flags Not to Hire That Promising Candidate -- by Jessia Stillman. 2. How to Hire for Team Skills -- by Lou Adler. 3.

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Still Using Spreadsheets to Track Your Labor Hours? Here’s Why it Might be Time to Stop

Trinet

Twenty years ago, when I started in the time and attendance business, manually tracking time and attendance was the norm. The majority of businesses used manual “punch clocks,” where employees would. Visit site for full story.

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10 Things Your Performance Review Tool Doesn’t Have, But You Definitely Need

Reflektive

Mid-year performance reviews have come around, and your organization is scrambling to fill out forms while you’re sending email reminders of deadlines. At the same time, you’re probably getting ready to plan the next process. There are always a few headaches that come out of a company-wide review, and for most organizations, their needs for reviews change as the company grows and updates its objectives.

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Why Are Culture and Engagement So Important?

EmployeeConnect

When business leaders are asked to name their biggest asset, what do you think most would pinpoint? Their answers could easily range from product to property, or the customer base. While these are all correct answers, the only true answer in my opinion is – employees. At the end of the day, your workers on the frontline ensure that customers are serviced well and the business continues to tick over, meeting the expectations of senior management, CEOs and stakeholders alike.

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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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5 Benefits of Employee Recognition Programs

Engage2Excel

The technological advancements in recognition software are being adopted by HR teams across the world. With the HR role stretched to included more and more responsibilities, this group is looking for ways to automate and assist with recognition initiatives and other strategic endeavors. From a simple system that sends out an email to a manager alerting them an employee is celebrating an anniversary next month to a complex system to support budgets with a tiered hierarchy, these tools are a way t

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10 Mind-blowing Statistics on Performance Reviews and Employee Engagement

ClearCompany HRM

Employees are constantly looking to improve themselves and are looking for timely, specific and helpful feedback. Don’t use the annual performance review as your only opportunity to tell your employees what's working and what's not. Daniel Pink , the Washington D.C.-based author says, "There's no way to get better at something you only hear about once a year.".

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. 65% of Americans Want This Over a Fancy Job Title -- by J.T. O'Donnell. 2. Guy's Stunning GQ Resume Earned Him an Internship Without an Interview -- by Andrea Romano. 3.

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Crafting the Perfect Push Message

15Five

So you have an app for your employees. Great! Now the engagement begins. The best way to continually keep them coming back for more? Push. But where do you start? Research from Localytics and our own experience show that there are five factors for a perfect push: Topic – It’s relevant to me. Quality – The subject line engages/teases me to open 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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Why Corrective Feedback Should Be Delivered In Person

Reflektive

The best managers are coaches. But one commonality of coaches is that they deliver bad news with grace — as a result, their reports do not become frustrated or feel unappreciated, but instead find they want to do even better based on the constructive feedback. Of the many tips around how to deliver corrective feedback well, doing it in-person is perhaps the most important. “Companies are now recognizing a huge skill gap in the ability to confidently and comfortably coach in person.

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The Salary Threshold for Exempt Status Becomes Effective December 1. Are You Prepared?

Trinet

We previously told you how the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) was in the process of amending the overtime exemption rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Recently, the DOL released the. Visit site for full story.

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There’s Nothing Kush-y About Marijuana Legalization: What Businesses Need To Know

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000000Marijuana Legalization has been a topic that evaded me until recently. I had no real interest in it. That was until I started watching a channel called Viceland on my Amazon TV. There is this very interesting show called ‘Weediquette’ The show is hosted by Krishna Andavolu and chronicles him visiting not only U.S. states […].

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Encouraging Workplace Reading for Employee Development

Everwise

We read every day at work. We read emails, reports, presentations, files and more, day in and day out. But when it comes to actually sitting down and reading a book cover to cover, most people would say that they do that kind of reading at home. Reading is, after all, a personal leisure activity, and not a work activity. Or is it? An increasing number of companies are implementing workplace reading programs and book clubs.

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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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Improve Employee Engagement Using Neuroscience

Hppy

Employee engagement can be a constant struggle for many leaders. They need to be thinking of new ways to keep employees engaged in order to increase job satisfaction, productivity, and retention. One of the growing factors in employee engagement is neuroscience. Neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, can inform leaders about processes involved with their own leadership, but also about the minds of their employees.

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Be the Colleague People Want to Work With

RecognizeThis!

by Lynette Silva. BIG , Robert Loggia, Tom Hanks, 1988. TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. Courtesy: Everett Collection. Recognize This! – As humans, we all bring different personality tendencies to our teams. We can choose how to amplify those that contribute to the greater good. Relationships. We all have them. Relationships with others are a condition of being human.

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Why You Need to Manage Change

ATD Human Capital

Change is tough, but it’s a reality that organizations need to be able to manage. According to ATD research , one in four organizations experience six major changes each year (that’s more than ever!). This volume of chaos could begin to hinder productivity if it’s not addressed. I had the opportunity to interview Peggy Greenberg, a change management expert with more than 30 years of experience in organization development.

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#SHRM16: Breakthrough Moments and 3 Must-Read Takeaways

WorkHuman

I’ve just returned from the annual SHRM Conference & Exposition in Washington, D.C., where the theme was Breakthrough —an ode to the ‘aha’ moments of clarity that we experience in our professional careers. While other HR bloggers like Mary Faulkner and Ben Eubanks wrote great posts about the value of the relationships and connections we make at SHRM, my breakthrough came in a moment of complete silence, stillness, and peace.

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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 was fired from my internship for writing a proposal for a more flexible dress code

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I was able to get a summer internship at a company that does work in the industry I want to work in after I graduate. Even though the division I was hired to work in doesn’t deal with clients or customers, there still was a very strict dress code. I felt the dress code was overly strict but I wasn’t going to say anything, until I noticed one of the workers always wore flat shoes that were made from a fabric other than leather, or running shoes, even though both of th

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Career Insights from Melissa Berger, PR Pro

Everwise

Drive down the legendary Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and you’ll be confronted with billboard after massive billboard adorned with familiar celebrity faces. Take a stroll past major studios and you’ll find yourself in the shadow of stories-high posters for the latest TV and film offerings. LA’s image is strongly associated with the rich and famous, and for good reason.

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Your Brain on Hormones: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Leader

Hppy

Hormones affect us every second of our lives. Our emotional and physical health is dictated by how these hormones interact with the cells in our bodies and our brain. Neuroscience has been able to show us the exact ways in which hormones impact us and the processes behind them. In the business sense, hormones and neuroscience can advise you on how to be a better leader.

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This Is Why Skill Set Isn’t Everything In The Hiring Game

Spark Hire

There are only a few organizations that truly need to hire based on skill alone. The New York Yankees, for example. Major movie studios, definitely. Modeling agencies would be another one. It’s tough to win a World Series, an Oscar or land a major ad campaign with someone who doesn’t have the necessary set of skills to get there. But for nearly every other type of business, a candidate’s skills are important, but they’re not the be all, end all.

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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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Why Gender Parity Means Big Returns for Your Business

ATD Human Capital

Building a more diverse and balanced team is no longer a goal rooted in idealism alone. Specific studies have examined the impact of having more women in the workforce, finding that this dramatically improves companies’ bottom lines. Around the World, Across Industries. In most major global industries, there are substantial shortages of skilled workers, and this is especially true in STEM industries.

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People Analytics Market Growth: Ten Things You Need to Know

Josh Bersin

I’ve been studying the use of analytics in HR and L&D for almost 20 years, and it has been a fun but frustrating space. While many have believed in data as a critical part of HR and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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I get bored with all my jobs and don’t know what to do with myself

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I’m 22, out of school, and will not graduate. I didn’t even like what I was studying in school (art-related) and I’ve changed majors three times now. Besides, I’ve never been good at it, and university has gotten me depressed, which is why I dropped out. The sadder part of my dropping out is that I can no longer afford an education anyway.

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