Sat.Jul 07, 2012 - Fri.Jul 13, 2012

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The power of positive thinking

Achievers

Have you ever had a bad morning, and then determined the rest of your workday to be a disaster? You may have overlooked the fact that a little positivity could go a long way. Positive thinking can be a powerful tool, especially when it comes to engagement in the workplace. In the recent Inc.com article, Positive Thinking: 7 Easy Ways to Improve a Bad Day , Geoffrey James discusses seven mental tricks to change your momentum from a bad morning.

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Is meditation the key to a happier work life?

45 Things

I had never tried meditation until a few years ago, when personal and professional stresses were giving me insomnia and constant headaches. I decided to give meditation a try, and visited some sites online to learn how to do it. At first, I was impatient to get results. "OK, I'm breathing, dammit," I'd think. "I don't feel calmer. How come I'm not feeling calmer?

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Join the Employee Engagement Network Before July 21!

David Zinger

The Employee Engagement Network needs 35 more members to reach 5000 members. We offer over 9000 free resources for you on employee engagement: Reach out to over 4960 members. Watch 384 videos. Download 8 free e-books. Engage with 4 50-word case studies. Participate in 713 forums. Read 2955 blog posts. Join 38 special interest groups.

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Fresh Water in the Talent Pool: Go Social for Sourcing

Bersin with Deloitte

I was talking to some interesting folks at San Francisco’s Jobscience today about locating talent. The issues of the oh-so-yesterday concept of the “talent pool” came up in our conversation. Remember that? It was the idea that businesses would have candidates apply, and keep their resumes and applications on file if they were at all […].

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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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Feeling off-balance? Improve culture with recognition

Achievers

Dear A Advisor, I’m a manager of a large team and my company is thinking of introducing a recognition program. I know that our current company culture could be better: some of my employees feel like their work gets ignored while others’ work is disproportionately appreciated and it fosters resentment amongst my team. I’m willing to put in the hard work to improve morale and change the culture of my workplace, so how do I leverage a recognition program to correct this issue?

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The Hallways of Learning

Conversation Matters

A number of years ago I wrote an article, “The Hallways of Learning” published in Organizational Dynamics , in which I suggested that we might look at the creative, open ended conversations we have in the hallways of our organizations as a metaphor for the kind of conversations we need in the many organizational meetings we hold each day. Our hallway conversations have several useful attributes; they remove some of the sense of hierarchy making participants in the conversation more equal; they i

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The Need for Agility in Corporate Learning

Bersin with Deloitte

Earlier this year at our IMPACT conference we launched our big theme for HR in the coming years: building the Agile Enterprise. (You can view the keynote slides here.) Let me briefly talk about agility and what it means for corporate learning. Agility is a hot topic right now, because it addresses the most important […]. The post The Need for Agility in Corporate Learning appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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The rise of “restless employees”

Achievers

Worried, anxious and uneasy. As an employer, you do not want these three words to describe your workforce. Instead of being productive, focused, and driving results for your organization, these restless employees are distracted, unhappy and anxious to leave the company for the next best opportunity that comes along. Unfortunately, millions of Americans are experiencing this feeling on a daily basis in the workplace, and the trend is on the rise.

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Journal Your Way to the Top — Three Ways to Use Performance Journaling

Reviewsnap

'Remember that little diary you kept as a pre-teen? The one filled with your childish thoughts and experiences, all safely tucked away behind an imposing-looking plastic lock. As you got older, the little diary was replaced with a more sophisticated journal to capture all the pleasures and pains of daily life. Some stories were of experiences meant to be savored and relived; others were of life’s greatest lessons learned when things didn’t go your way.

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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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Work, I'm Gonna Leave You

NoExcusesHR

'How do you feel about your job? Does it make you want to get up in the morning and make an impact; or, does it make you want to hit that snooze button so hard it breaks off your alarm? What concerns me the most about these two ends of the spectrum are those employees, particularly in leadership, who are caught in between. They''re working.but they''ve checked out.

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How to respond to the jerk at work

45 Things

While most of us expect criticism from time to time at work, is anyone ever prepared for a verbal assault from a colleague that leaves us humiliated, angry or stunned? It might be a snide comment about your appearance, or it might be outright yelling about your performance on a project. No matter the situation, such actions leave many people tongue-tied as they try to formulate the correct response.

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A lesson from co-founder and CEO of Wayfair.com

Achievers

Adam Bryant, specialist on the challenges of leading and managing, recently conducted an interview with Niraj Shah, co-founder and CEO of Wayfair.com. Shah drew upon his experiences leading the largest online retailer of home furnished in the US, to speak on the importance of recognition: “One thing I’ve learned over time is that it’s important to take a minute and celebrate a win before you move on to the next thing you want to accomplish.

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Lying on one's resume and the case of Mitt Romney

True Faith HR

'In 2001, five days after being hired at Notre Dame, George O''Leary resigned from the head coach position. Why? O''Leary stated he had played three years of college football and had a Master''s Degree on his resume, but background checks showed it wasn''t true. Flash forward 11 years, and we have the case of former CEO of Yahoo Scott Thompson, who stepped down when it was learned he had made a false claim on his resume.

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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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Speed Demon

NoExcusesHR

'I hate waiting. I hate slow decision-makers. And I loathe analysis-paralysis. My work life is moving so fast ( just like yours is ) and I don''t want to waste time waiting for decisions to be made so I can get the results I want so badly. I want it all. I want it all now. And I absolutely can not stand it when I''m the reason decisions aren''t being made.

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Social HR Camp ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)

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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Metrics beat bonuses: How to motivate with measurement

Achievers

As working professionals, we look forward to our paychecks because of our need to pay bills, put food on the table, and have a place to live. Paychecks arrive on schedule and are expected, similar to year-end cash bonuses. In the Inc.com article, Metrics Are More Motivating than Bonuses , CEO Justin Moore differentiates between year-end bonuses and the positive effects of a performance-based recognition program.

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What's Your Most Memorable Phone Call?

True Faith HR

'One of my favorite movies is "Night Shift," directed by Ron Howard, and starring Henry Winkler, Shelley Long, and Michael Keaton (pictured above). Keaton has been all too absent from movies the past few years or so (just check out his imdb.com resume), so I was intrigued to see a new interview with him on Grantland.com this afternoon. It''s a nice interview, and it''s good to catch up with Keaton, but it also contains one of the more intriguing questions that you''ll see ( it even took Keaton a

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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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Do Nothing

NoExcusesHR

'"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing." - Edmund Burke Have you seen anything that troubles you lately? An employee being treated unfairly by a powerful leader? Maybe you overheard an innuendo that you know makes an employee uncomfortable? What about a colleague being overwhelmed with their workload and you realize you can step in and help with your team?

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Review: The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau

QAspire

Through his new book titled “The $100 Startup – Fire Your Boss, Do What You Love And Work Better to Live More”, Chris Guillebeau shares amazingly inspiring stories of people who transformed their ideas and skills into viable businesses. Some people start on their own because of situations and others start based on their internal [.

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Early Preparation is the Key to Successful Negotiation

TheHRBlog

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail is a very old saying and fits in aptly for negotiations. Any successful negotiation is about mutually agreeing to terms which lead to a long lasting relationship. Negotiations is never about scoring a quick one way victory at the expense of the other party. Negotiation is your opportunity […].

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Show Me Your Money!

Strategic HCM

'I’ve just been watching a Channel 4 programme on pay transparency: Show Me Your Money. This is a semi-live blog so apologies if it’s a bit hard to read through…. The programme features Pimlico Plumbers which has recently asked all its employees to be open about their pay, so that the best paid (tradesmen can earn over £100k/year) can support pay rises for the least (most of the staff at HQ are on a lot less).

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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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Fire Up Summertime Performance — Reinforce Development-driven Learning During the Lazy Days of Summer

Reviewsnap

'Fire Up Summertime Performance! The temperatures are soaring, the birds are singing, and your employees’ thoughts are drifting toward summer vacations and leisure time in the great outdoors. You’ve got a business to run and customers to wow, so how do you keep everyone happy this time of year? A recent survey of American workers suggests that employers are becoming more flexible and accommodating to their employees’ schedules during the summer. [1] Giving employees some reasonable leeway in dec

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Eleven Small Steps to Improve Your Recruitment Brand and Engage Applicants

ExactHire

Let me start off by saying that this blog is not about high-level recruitment strategy or your master plan for world recruiting domination. This piece is about sweating the small stuff in talent acquisition – specifically, raising the bar on employer recruiting etiquette…dotting all of your i’s and crossing your t’s. Especially, if your organization has been doing alright in getting decent candidates in a reasonable amount of time, but now wants to refocus, shape up and really win th

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Sosialhjelp 2.0 ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human Capital (HCM)

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.