Sat.Mar 11, 2017 - Fri.Mar 17, 2017

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Build a Team of Personalities: One Consultant’s Approach to Improving Employee Engagement

Everwise

Personality tests like DISC, Myers-Briggs, Caliper, and others are a standard part of the hiring and onboarding processes in many organizations , but their results aren’t widely shared and discussed. For most employees, these personality tests can seem like a waste of time, or, worse, an invasion of privacy. What’s the value of these tests and how can we make better use of this kind of information while team building?

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Your Hiring Process: A Trip Down the Red Carpet or an Episode of Survivor?-

TalentCulture

There’s no doubt that hiring qualified people is important. Having top-notch talent who do quality work will help your organization reach its goals. Unfortunately, in an effort to get hiring right, some organizations have made their selection process an obstacle course. Take, for example, a prominent company in Seattle. It’s a great place to work. However, a less prominent employer in town, with whom they compete for employees, is winning the war for top talent.

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M&A Friday! This Week’s HR Deals

Advos

Happy Friday. Our weekly recap of funding, mergers & acquisition, and partnership news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace is below. Sign-up for our weekly Hot in HR newsletter to get these updates via email. FUNDING. Applied Business Analytics Leader Visier Closes $45 Million in Financing to Meet Growing Demand for its People Strategy Platform.

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Dubai Airports Automates Employee Scheduling Using Kronos

Empower Software

Today, at the inaugural KronosLIVE Middle East event, Dubai Airports announced it has selected the Kronos Workforce Central suite of workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated to help meet the demands of staffing the airport’s expanding passenger and freight cargo infrastructure.

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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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The Best Way to Advocate For Growing Your Team

Everwise

If you’ve ever worked for a startup or high-growth company, you know how much time, work, and energy each person invests in their role. There are long hours, sleepless nights, and grueling work involved. Oftentimes, you find yourself doing the work of multiple people, which isn’t sustainable and leaves you feeling like you could accomplish much more if you just had a bit of help.

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Companies Should Include Feedback Training in Onboarding

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at SilkRoad , a global leader in Talent Activation. SilkRoad recently announced that Carey Lohrenz, the first female to pilot an F-14 Tomcat Fighter jet for the Navy will be the keynote speaker at their annual Connections conference taking place in May. Hope to see you there! Enjoy the post.).

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The Future Worker Redefined—From Employee to ‘Contributor’

HR Daily Advisor

The word “contributor,” not “employee,” will be a better representation of a worker in 2025, according to 47% of companies and 57% of workers. The findings come from a study from Randstad US , an HR services and staffing company in the United States. Workplace 2025 took an in-depth look at the views of more than 1,500 HR and C-suite executives and 3,100 workers across the U.S., and found the majority of respondents said they prefer the term “contributor” – de

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What is Talent Success™ and How to Drive it

ClearCompany HRM

An "A Player" is a top performer that has measurable impact on your business and whose traits and competencies are desirable in being applied to the hiring and talent management process. Simply said, an A Player has the DNA you want to replicate to create organizational success. In most cases, companies believe that hiring A Players comes few and far in between, and that this top talent will only be a small minority of their workforce.

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How a Little Flexibility Can Help Fix the Gender Pay Gap

Cornerstone On Demand

“Eighty percent of companies say they offer flexibility, but it's a black market topic. You raise it [as an employee] and you're not taken seriously," Annie Dean, former attorney and current entrepreneur, told the New York Times last month. Dean founded Werk , a company dedicated to helping people find flexible work schedules. And while there aren't solid numbers to back up Dean's statement, it rings true to many of us.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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Employee Coaching Is a Form of Accountability

HR Bartender

I ran across this image the other day from last year’s HR Technology Conference. It reminded me of the times when an employee has said to me, “My manager is out to get me.”. In fact, I was conducting a training session with a group of managers recently and someone asked about having HR in the room when managers are coaching employees. My thought on this is “No, HR should not be in the room” when a manager is coaching an employee.

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Reinventing Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

Visier

John Schwarz founded Visier to address what he saw as the major failing of business intelligence and big data analytics. Download his new ebook and read on to learn more. Business intelligence and big data analytics, as we know them, have largely failed. Massive value can be attained when businesses use data to understand and optimize their operations, and to outsmart and outperform their competition.

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3 Recruitment Funnel Metrics You HAVE to Start Tracking

ClearCompany HRM

Numbers and statistics can guide many decisions, however, many recruiters still rely heavily on instinct when it comes to sourcing and hiring. The idea of a “data-driven hiring cycle” is becoming more relevant than ever as the use of analytics becomes more attainable for many companies. A 2015 survey reported 43% of companies struggle with finding the talent analytics they need.

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Three Steps to Make Learning Last

Cornerstone On Demand

I think it’s fair to say we all want our learning to last. I think we call it ‘sticky’. We spend many hours reading, watching videos or in training classes, we want to see our efforts (and our expense) pay off. From a corporate perspective, CEB, a research firm, reports that sales representatives are forgetting 70 percent of the content that they receive in one week , and 90 percent in one month.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Don’t Tell Employees Why the Company Culture is Great

HR Bartender

One of the core topics in any orientation and onboarding program is company culture. We want candidates to see the company culture before they apply and during the hiring process so they know they’re a good fit. And we want them to fully immerse in the culture once they arrive. And I use the word “immerse” because some organizations are taking the challenge literally and creating cultural immersion programs.

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3 Examples of Evidence-Based HR in Action

UpstartHR

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a workshop based on metrics, evidence-based HR, and change management. The session was a lot of fun, because we were able to tie the three topics together in a variety of ways to help reiterate not only why each of them matters, but how each of them can really build value when used in conjunction with one another.

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HR Technology Solution Provides Customers with More Options: A Look Inside Lanteria HR

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000000Campaign/FTC disclosure: This is a sponsored product review. I will receive compensation for this post. I only work with companies I feel have great products, services and offerings. In accordance with my blog disclosure statement, I will only work with and showcase products, events and/or companies I believe my readers will benefit from.

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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. Warning: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Talent Planning. 2. 5 Things Top Employees Deeply Care About -- by Davide Migali. 3.

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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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Adam Grant’s Tips for Hiring & Developing Original Thinkers

WorkHuman

Lots of companies say they want to be innovative and push beyond commonly accepted boundaries in their industry. But is your HR strategy truly supporting this endeavor? Are original thinkers flourishing – or being stifled – in your organization? Are you taking the right steps in hiring, developing, and recognizing the next generation of original thinkers?

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Technology and Employee Burnout: Don’t Have Them Unplug. Teach Them to Lean In.

CONCERN: EAP

We live in a technological age. Devices connect employees continually, and their use (and overuse) can sometimes lead to unintended consequences, including overwork and burnout. The constant presence of tech seems to correlate with another trend—the erosion of the average attention span—with a series of studies showing a decline from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2013.

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What I learned at the Inaugural DisruptHR in Kitchener/Waterloo

Kazoo

I attended my fourth DisruptHR event today, and this time it was at the inaugural Kitchener/Waterloo event! If you’re not familiar with DisruptHR – definitely check it out. With the plethora of events and conferences out there, we all struggle to choose where we to spend our valuable time, but this is a disruptive event (ugh, couldn’t help the punniness) that’s fun, entertaining, educational and just a great experience as an attendee.

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What Neuroscience Teaches Us About Employee Feedback

Reflektive

Picture a boxer in active stance, fists up next to her face. Then, picture your loved one, waiting for you at the airport, arms out wide when he sees you walking up. Each of these scenarios triggers a response in our brains. It’s not unlike the response an employee has to a manager when a conversation starts with, “There’s something we need to talk about.” Extrinsic motivation can actually lessen the impact of intrinsic motivation Click To Tweet.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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What's a PEO? Time to Find Out!

Justworks

Update: We've written a white paper comprehensively outlining PEOs. If you'd like to download it for free, you can do so here. Have you ever heard the term PEO? If not, you're not alone. But PEOs can be incredibly helpful to small- and medium-sized companies, so here's our version of a 101. What is a PEO? The acronym PEO stands for Professional Employer Organization.

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8 Powerful Ways to Create a Culture of Innovation [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Innovation is often discussed as an activity available only to a select few people or companies. but it is an incredibly powerful tool for companies, especially when we seek ways to use our HR influence to drive a culture of innovation. [ Click here to listen to “8 Ways HR Can Drive Enterprise Innovation “] In this episode of the We’re Only Human podcast, we point out 8 key ways that HR leaders can create, reinforce, and drive innovative behaviors in the business.

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What I learned at the Inaugural DisruptHR in Kitchener/Waterloo

Kazoo

I attended my fourth DisruptHR event today, and this time it was at the inaugural Kitchener/Waterloo event! If you’re not familiar with DisruptHR – definitely check it out. With the plethora of events and conferences out there, we all struggle to choose where we to spend our valuable time, but this is a disruptive event (ugh, couldn’t help the punniness) that’s fun, entertaining, educational and just a great experience as an attendee.

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Killing Anxiety at Work

Trish McFarlane

“There is anxiety, but it comes after you’ve finished filming because it’s out of your hands; people are editing it, they’re cutting it, marketing it. And it’s… part your career sort of rides on that. But when you’re actually filming it’s a team thing and it really feels good there for me.” ~Hugh Jackman.

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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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Case Study: Growing Your Sales Organization Beyond The Deal

15Five

Sales teams are the lifeblood of every company that has reached a certain stage in their growth trajectory. Whether sales are stagnant or growing, many leaders of sales teams face the same challenges – they need to understand why their methodologies worked or didn’t work, so that insights and learnings can be shared throughout. In either of these scenarios, the sales organization needs a solution to navigate through underperformance or growing pains.

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Increase Employee Retention with Career Pathing

Everwise

As businesses compete to attract top-notch talent, the need to retain and engage existing employees becomes increasingly important. One option: help employees with their career development. One in four Millennials would switch from their current job to do something new, or join another organization. By offering career pathing, you’ll motivate these employees to invest in their career at your company.

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Build a Long-Lasting Internship Program with Our Downloadable Guide

Justworks

So you’re ready to create an internship program. Bringing on interns is an exciting prospect for any company. It offers the opportunity to build a collaborative, potentially long-lasting professional relationship and mentor an up-and-coming employee. You may even pick up some savvy social media skills from your digitally enlightened counterparts. But maintaining a long-lasting internship program should take thought and intention.

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