Sat.Sep 07, 2013 - Fri.Sep 13, 2013

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Keeping your employees’ vision aligned with the company’s vision

Achievers

Guest post by: Janine Truitt. When it comes to performance management, it can be a daunting task to keep your employees on task with the company’s goals year-round. It is especially difficult when most performance conversations happen once a year. Sporadic performance conversations coupled with other organizational complexities make team and individual engagement in company goals a challenge for leaders.

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Employee Engagement: Why Good is Good Enough

David Zinger

'The Blasphemy of GREAT WORK. Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you are no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn’t just a means to an an end but a unique event in itself.

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Getting to Neutral

NoExcusesHR

'He was on the fast track. Brought in to the organization to help turnaround a woefully ineffective department. His arrival was filled with high energy, creative ideas, and a level of brainpower not seen in that department before. Fundamental problems were tackled, poor performers were moved out, and a new team was born. Everything was on the right track.

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Employer adds yoga, dance and fun to retain workers

45 Things

'Often the little things can make a difference in how an employee feels about a workplace. Maybe the boss ensures that you get your favorite color of nail polish at holiday time. Maybe you can bring your dog to work. Or, maybe the culture asks you to do kind things for other people. Michele Litzky does all those things and more when it comes to trying to keep her workers happy.

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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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How To Increase Your Productivity

TheHRBlog

There are many exotic answers on how do you increase your productivity? The secret to increasing productivity is to replace unimportant tasks with valuable ones. That’s according to London Business School professor Julian Birkinshaw and PA Consulting Group productivity expert Jordan Cohen, who have spent three years researching how knowledge workers (mis)spend their time.

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Who Helps You Succeed?

NoExcusesHR

'"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer I''ve written about Dietrich Bonhoeffer''s influence as one of my personal heroes many times here on NoExcusesHR.

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In 100 Words: The Pursuit of Happiness

QAspire

'My one year old son seems to be in a perennial state of happiness. His playful presence and vibrant energy makes everyone around him happy. He knows how to make the most of simplest of things. “What’s his secret?” I was thinking to myself when heard I this wonderful story from a friend. A man once asked a Buddhist monk, “I want happiness.” The monk smiled softly and said, “First remove ‘I’ – that is your ego.

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Reviewsnap Will Launch First Performance Management Mobile Application at the HR Technology Conference

Reviewsnap

'Reviewsnap , the leading cloud-based performance management software solution, is pleased to announce that it will unveil its new performance management mobile application at this year''s HR Technology Conference on October 7th and 8th in Las Vegas. The development of the application came in response to widespread feedback from the company''s global client base.

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Busy? How's That Going For You?

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . My friend and colleague Nancy Seibel over at Keys to Change is looking at our busy lives and gathering some information on how we cope with our busy-ness. I wrote about Nancy''s questions to help you diagnose what your busy-ness is telling you a few weeks ago and now she''s posted a survey to learn more about how busy we are. Definitely stop by to fill it out and learn more about Nancy''s work. .

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Aurico Receives Veteran-Owned Business Certification

Aurico

'The Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) has verified Aurico to be a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB). The CVE, better known as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), provides this designation so veterans can participate in the Veterans First Contracting Program. By law, this program allows a percentage of government funded projects be awarded to companies and organizations that meet certain standards, such as businesses owned by women, minorities, or veterans.

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How to Prepare Well: 3 Lessons

QAspire

'A few years back, I was coordinating the interview process of my team members with the client before they start working on the client projects. My team members were not fully confident because they had never faced a client interview before. To build their confidence, we planned three mock interview sessions where I would play the role of a client. We did these interviews in-person and over-the-call.

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6 Ways to Evaluate Your Selection System

DDI

'Do the math: If your business relies on talent to compete, consider the critical, costly, bottom-line consequences of your selection decisions.

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Embracing Continuous Change at Workday

Workday

'At Workday we’re focused on developing enterprise solutions that are easier to use, easier to change, and easier to integrate than traditional applications. When we started the company we thought “easier to change” meant two things. First, we envisioned cloud applications that our customers could configure without breaking our ability to upgrade their changes.

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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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Update on the MOOC Market: Things Moving Fast

Bersin with Deloitte

This week we just published our new research bulletin on the MOOC market (available to members) and things are changing fast. A few important new announcements which I will be discussing at the HR Technology Conference in October. 1. Coursera announced that its new "Signature Track" has now generated a million dollars of revenue and […].

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11 Human Resources, Recruiting & Leadership Practitioner Speaker Recommendations

Unbridled Talent

I attend and speak at dozens of conferences each year – many focused on audiences of practitioners in the Human Resources, Recruiting and Leadership Development professions. One common theme at all of these events? A paltry number of actual practitioners (i.e. professionals who work in their field at a company that they don’t own and/or isn’t a consulting firm and/or isn’t a law firm) on the agenda as Speakers.

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6 Ways to Evaluate Your Selection System

DDI

Do the math: If your business relies on talent to compete, consider the critical, costly, bottom-line consequences of your selection decisions.

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On Campus With Workday

Workday

'With two kids in college and three more close behind, like any parent, I hope for the best possible experience for them. I want them to have a clear understanding of the course paths they’ll need to take to earn their degrees, course availability, other interesting on-campus opportunities, and so forth. I want them to feel that their universities are supporting their needs and guiding them through their college years.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Are Leaders Prepared to Meet These Challenges?

DDI

'More than 40 percent of leaders give low marks to their effectiveness on five critical skills necessary for future performance.

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Are Leaders Prepared to Meet These Challenges?

DDI

More than 40 percent of leaders give low marks to their effectiveness on five critical skills necessary for future performance.

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Workday Rising 2013: News Highlights

Workday

'Workday Rising 2013 in San Francisco got off to an exciting start yesterday with news announcements from Workday Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri during their keynote address. Watch the highlights from those announcements in this five-minute video.

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Developing Workday Big Data Analytics With Customers, For Customers

Workday

'At last year’s Workday Rising our Co-Founder and Co-CEO Aneel Bhusri announced our plans to offer Workday Big Data Analytics. Earlier today, Aneel announced during his Workday Rising 2013 keynote address that Workday Big Data Analytics is now available as part of our latest update, Workday 20. The timing is very fitting, and not just because it’s our annual customer conference.

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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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Meet the New Notebook, Better Than the Old Notebook

Workday

'Years ago the human race made a tough trade-off to gain a wonderful thing. While we had gotten along just fine for a very long time with the ever-flexible and portable pen and paper, those tools couldn’t support the volume of data our world was generating. Then along came computers, launching the most important revolution this world has known. Yet this also meant trading our reliance on the nimble pen and paper for electronic systems that while being fantastic at collecting and storing informat

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Five Lessons Learned from Deploying Workday Financial Management

Workday

'On July 8, Brown University went live on Workday Financial Management and Grants Management. This is a big deal for us, and I think it will be helpful to share with others both the impact of having this unified data and some lessons learned from our deployment.

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11 Human Resources, Recruiting & Leadership Practitioner Speaker Recommendations

Unbridled Talent

I attend and speak at dozens of conferences each year – many focused on audiences of practitioners in the Human Resources, Recruiting and Leadership Development professions. One common theme at all of these events? A paltry number of actual practitioners (i.e. professionals who work in their field at a company that they don’t own and/or isn’t a consulting firm and/or isn’t a law firm) on the agenda as Speakers.