Sat.Mar 30, 2013 - Fri.Apr 05, 2013

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Health Care Reform: Cutting Your Employees’ Hours Isn’t Always the Answer

Insperity

The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as health care reform, requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees (including full-time equivalent employees) to provide health coverage to employees who work an average of 30 or more hours per week. If employers who are subject to the rules don’t comply, they can face hefty fines.

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How to Write Job Descriptions Optimized for Job Boards and Internet Search, Tip 3

ExactHire

What’s in a job’s name? Sometimes…not enough. Particularly, if the job opportunity your company is trying to fill has an über common job title. So common in fact, that its chances of appearing near the top of search results for your intended applicant audience are nil. In my third installment of the “ How to Write Job Descriptions Optimized for Job Boards & Internet Search” blog series , I’ll discuss three techniques for giving your job title (and therefore job description) a fighting

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The Ever Changing State of the Learning Technology Industry

Josh Bersin

Over the last ten years the learning technology industry has undergone radical change. With a flurry of acquisitions and many new technologies now available for learning, it is increasingly difficult. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Analyst Insight: Empower your managers to drive employee success

Achievers

Business Success may start with Employee Success™, but Employee Success starts with engaged managers. In its latest report “Empowering Managers to Drive Employee Success,” the Aberdeen Group dives into the manager’s role in employee engagement. The report explores the importance of manager tools in driving success in the workplace. It found that in order to improve business results, managers need solutions to help them understand activity within their team and highlight areas to manage and optim

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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 Limiting Beliefs About Our Careers We Need to Change

The Bamboo Project Blog

Video Blog 1--Limiting Beliefs - Computer from Michele Martin on Vimeo. I'm taking my own medicine--doing some experimenting and taking a bit of a risk-- so today's blog post is a video where I go over 5 limiting beliefs that get in the way of your career in today's economy and the alternative beliefs we need to put in their place. . I also want to point you to this post on 3 ways to create your own opportunities. .

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The Craft of Human Resources

Josh Bersin

I’ve had the opportunity to study talent management, training, and human resources for more than ten years now. And after talking with literally hundreds of companies, leaders, and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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A paycheck is not a thank-you

Achievers

David Brennan is a man of strong opinions. “First of all, I’d like to apologize to any accountants,” he said in his recent webinar, “Obtaining and Sustaining Executive Buy-In,” “but they ruined engagement.” Although technically, they weren’t the ultimate problem, he ceded—it was direct deposit. Before direct deposit, he explained, the payroll department had to physically hand out checks.

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Defensive Listening

NoExcusesHR

'We all know what it means to get defensive. Typically there is a negative connotation, even though its really more about our survival instincts than something negative. If we feel we''re being attacked, or criticized, we naturally get a little (or a lot) defensive. At least I do.or should I say I used to. Talk Is Cheap ?? ? Part of my job is to strategize the most effective way to handle very complex and difficult situations.

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What Is Feedback & How To Give It

TheHRBlog

Giving feedback is an honest two way dialogue with another person without any intent to show them down or in poor light. Feedback is not a bashing exercise! Feedback helps people maximize their potential at different stages of life or career, it raise their awareness of strengths and areas for improvement, and helps them to identify actions […].

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Unlocking Employee Potential with the Power of Continuous Feedback

Speaker: Erin Daruszka and Nakisha Dixon

Recent studies show that only 21% of employees feel their performance and growth are within their control. What if the answer to employee development and high performance lies elsewhere? Enter continuous feedback. Imagine a work environment where feedback isn't a dreaded annual event, but a constant source of growth. Join us to discover how ongoing, actionable feedback empowers your team to take ownership of their performance, boosting engagement and development.

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The Craft of Human Resources

Josh Bersin

'I’ve had the opportunity to study talent management, training, and human resources for more than ten years now. And after talking with literally hundreds of companies, leaders, and. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Write Your One Page Management User Manual

David Zinger

Adam Bryant in his Corner Office Column in the New York Time s interviewed Ivar Kroghrud, the lead strategist at QuestBack, specialists in feedback management. Kroghrud stated that he created a one page user manual about himself so others know how to work with him. Here is a snippet of the interview: Q. Can you give some examples of what it says? A.

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Technology is Eating Your Job (Part 2)--For Those Who Need More Convincing

The Bamboo Project Blog

Last Friday, I wrote about how technology is eating your job. Since then, I've been immersed in further exploring the extent to which this is true and finding more resources to convince you that this is one of the most critical trends impacting your career today. . First, if you care at all about the future of your job, I encourage you to watch Andrew McAfee's TEDXTalk in Boston above.

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Changing Jobs – How To Evaluate A Potential Employer

TheHRBlog

In the current volatile business climate, it is important to evaluate a prospective employer and the new job from various angles. Remember that it is your future that you are taking a call on. There is no scope of snap decisions in such a scenario and no point jumping from the devil into the deep sea.

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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 Ever Changing State of the Learning Technology Industry

Josh Bersin

'Over the last ten years the learning technology industry has undergone radical change. With a flurry of acquisitions and many new technologies now available for learning, it is increasingly difficult. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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An employee engagement lesson from Berlin: It is the cook and the recipe.

David Zinger

How to create employee engagement. I presented two sessions on employee engagement in Berlin on March 13 & 14 sponsored by the Connecting Group. The speakers and participants were exceptional. Certainly a major benefit of presenting at conferences is learning from all the other presenters. I was inspired by the engaged and passionate presentation of Ramiro Garces , Vice President Human Resources Latin America at Kimberly-Clark.

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Reader Question: Tech is Eating My Job, So Now What?

The Bamboo Project Blog

'Tech Is Eating My Job, So Now What Do I Do? from Michele Martin on Vimeo. In response to yesterday''s post on how technology is eating your job, Deborah Gabriel commented : So, Michele, I cannot argue with your research data as mine confirms it. What I want to hear are solutions. Solutions are what interest me, too, so I went to video to explain how I think we, as individuals, can deal with the this issue in our careers.

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Use Social Pressure to Get a Slacker Colleague Back on Track

45 Things

I haven't posted on this blog in a while because I was taking some time off. I wasn't just slacking, I swear! I was busy eating my way through New York City and visiting the M&M store on multiple occasions. You'll understand why I don't want you to think I was just being a typical slacker after you read this column I did for Gannett/USA Today. If you worked an additional four to six hours last week because a slacking colleague didn’t pull his weight, you’re not alone.

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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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Understanding Quality: Duty Towards Self

QAspire

Gross definition of quality is externally oriented – meeting and exceeding customer expectations, satisfying their implicit and explicit requirements, the degree of excellence, and conformance to specifications. They all refer to something outside of us. At a subtle level, quality stems from what is inside of us. More than deliverance to others, it is deliverance [.

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Internal Expertise Is an Untapped Learning Resource

Reviewsnap

'While learning programs are going more digital, don’t forget that your company has many internal experts who have knowledge to share. Those specialists have expertise in areas that affect different parts of the business. For example, the logistics manager will have insight into how the supply chain affects whether products are delivered on time. When marketing needs to set product launch dates, it’s critical to partner with the logistics manager.

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Cloud, big data and social media transforming HR ~ HR to HR 2.0.

Strategic HCM

'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Home. Bio-Contact. Consulting. Speaking. Writing. About-HCM. Welcome. Welcome height=200 id=Image1_img src=[link] width=220/>. Connect with me. Jon Ingham. Contact me at. info [at] strategic [dash] hcm [dot] com. Skype: strategic-hcm. +44 7904 185 134. Read more by me in. Contributions from David Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Peter Cappelli, Noel Tichy, Ed Lawler, Jon Ingham, Beverly Kaye, Sharon Jordan-Evans.

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Harnessing Social Media for Leadership Development - Part 2

DDI

'Exploring the use of social media for leadership development, we look at barriers to success and how leaders can hurdle them.

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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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Pre-Hire Assessment Science Revealed: Value for Employers, Value for Candidates

Bersin with Deloitte

These days there is a lot of talk about BigData in HR. And it's a good thing: there is a science to people management, and the more data we have about people the easier it becomes to make critical people decisions. Data helps us understand why some people perform better than others, why some people […].

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Identify and Uplift Disengaged High Performers

Reviewsnap

'Employees are always asked to do more, and while there’s the very real employee population that’s only productive 60 percent of the time, many more are productive and performing well. They might also be burned out. Believe it or not, some employees want to do a good job, even if the workplace is beating them down. Maybe they’re going through a rough patch, or maybe they’re having issues with a colleague.

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The Real Reason Marissa Mayer Should Catch Flack

Inpower Coaching

The same week Yahoo! rescinded teleworking policies for its employees, Best Buy did the same. Many pointed to the fact that Yahoo!’s working mom CEO got flack when Best Buy’s working dad CEO didn’t as unfair for gender inequity reasons. While I suspect that unfortunately Marissa Mayer was a better criticism target because she’s a woman/mom, I also think Yahoo!

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Harnessing Social Media for Leadership Development - Part 2

DDI

Exploring the use of social media for leadership development, we look at barriers to success and how leaders can hurdle them.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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On Seasonal Employment and PAAS Easter Dye Kits

True Faith HR

'It is Easter Sunday, which means that many of you spent the past couple of weeks dyeing Easter Eggs. Most likely, you used the PAAS Easter Egg Color Kit. Is there a company more synonymous with a holiday than PAAS? No big brand name for fireworks for the 4th of July. Lots of competition for your Halloween and Christmas dollar. If you dyed eggs, it was with PAAS : PAAS , an Ocala-based egg-coloring company owned by Signature Brands, accounts for 80 percent of the egg-decorating market, said Brit

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Goodwill Offers Blue-Collar Workers a Way to Network

45 Things

'One of my first pieces of advice for anyone starting a career or job search is to get their profile on LinkedIn, then be vigilant about maintaining it throughout their career and adding connections. But after doing this story for Gannett/USA Today, I realize that my advice is a bit short-sighted. I now understand that social networking online isn''t always easy for everyone.

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Post jobs to multiple job boards

Workable

We’ve been working behind the scenes to simplify the task of getting results from free job sites, and today we’re ready to break the good news: Automated posting to 6 major free job boards. Workable has partnered with Indeed , SimplyHired , Glassdoor , Trovit , JobRapido and Recruit.net to allow you to post jobs to multiple free job boards and easily reach a global audience of hundreds of millions job seekers performing billions of job searches per month.