Sat.Sep 08, 2012 - Fri.Sep 14, 2012

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Corporate culture on a budget

Achievers

Although sparking a corporate culture movement is not easy, it most certainly is a worthwhile investment as it can change employee productivity, engagement and loyalty to a company. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh considers company culture to be the #1 thing CEO’s should focus on for long-term success. At Zappos, 50% of what employees are evaluated on is their fit in the company culture.

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September 12 Carnival of HR

True Faith HR

'Welcome to the latest edition of the Carnival of HR. There is a veritable cavalcade of HR knowledge provided from a bevy of HR Subject Matter Experts ready for your perusal. Cue the Deer. Some Questions Mervyn Dinnen at T Recs wonders "Is Success Overrated?" Check out the link to find out his perspective. Chris Young at the Rainmaker Group asks " Employee Engagement: Just How Screwed Up Is Your Team ?

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How to Negotiate a Salary

45 Things

If you’ve just been offered a new job, you probably feel very fortunate to be one of those people who will no longer have to spend endless hours surfing job sites or supplying perky Twitter updates to garner some attention from a recruiter. But now you’re about to take on one of the most difficult tasks in this job search journey: Negotiating a salary.

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Who's On First?

NoExcusesHR

'Strategic plans.new ideas.reimbursement changes.regulatory interference.technology breakthroughs.excitement and enthusiasm to keep moving forward. These issues impact us each day in our work lives. We get fired up, or we should , and charge off down the trail ready to change the world. But sometimes as we''re racing along with the wind in our hair, we look around and see that we''re the only one who has gone along for the ride.

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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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Stay interviews: Ask before they’re gone

Achievers

Dear A Advisor, We have great staff retention, but sometimes our employees choose to continue their career paths elsewhere. We conduct exit interviews so we can understand their reasons for leaving; however, we’d like to be more proactive. What can we do to understand employee concerns before they resign? Thanks for your help! Sad to See Them Go. Hey there, SSTG, Consider the positive impact of conducting stay interviews that will allow employees to voice concerns well before they resign.

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10 Salary Negotiation Mistakes To Avoid

TheHRBlog

Whether you’re new to job-hunting or a seasoned pro, whether you love the art of salary negotiation or dread it, the truth is that knowing salary negotiation tactics — and avoiding salary negotiation landmines — are key to obtaining the job offer you seek and deserve. While much is written about the tactics of salary […].

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It Doesn't Have To Be That Way

NoExcusesHR

'Low morale. One of the most dreaded phrases in the world of work. This label is intended to soften the reality of a deteriorating workplace. Turnover is rising, staff are voluntarily heading out the door as fast as they can, and the ones that are left behind are not exactly who you hoped would be staying. That''s grim. What To Do? Um, really? How about a quick list: 1.

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How Gen Y is dictating the workforce

Achievers

A multitude of stories have recently published in a variety of publications about the state of the Gen Y worker. One particularly interesting article came from The Wall Street Journal titled, “ More Firms Bow to Generation Y’s Demands.”. In the article, Leslie Kwoh discusses how employers say concessions are necessary to retain Gen Y workers. Many companies face retention issues with Gen Y, and they are discovering and trying to adapt to the needs and expectations of this younger workforce

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Employee Engagement Dialogue: Elizabeth Lupfer and David Zinger on the Social Workplace

David Zinger

Employee Engagement and the Social Workplace: A Dialogue with Elizabeth Lupfer. This recorded twenty minute dialogue between Elizabeth Lupfer and David Zinger discusses the social nature of work and engagement. Here is a snippet from the recording: Yes. Let me think about how I want to phrase it for you, but what my big statement would be or my big mission is that it’s really that the relationship between employees and managers has historically, in my opinion, been taken for granted, and what I

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How To Be Happy & Live Happy

TheHRBlog

Do you know how to be happy? Or are you waiting for happiness to find you? Despite what the fairy tales depict, happiness doesn’t appear by magic. It’s not even something that happens to you. It’s something you can cultivate. So, what are you waiting for? Start discovering how to be happy. The happiest people […].

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Rent or Own

NoExcusesHR

'One of the things I find most satisfying about work is that there are always opportunities. I mean issues. Okay, there are always problems. These problems aren''t necessarily awful, but they do represent items that need to be addressed. I like that. a lot. Rental Leadership For many years I found myself feeling relieved when the problems at work didn''t specifically identify Human Resources as the source.

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WIFFM: The rule of common purpose

Achievers

Fast Company recently wrote about “How To Foster Outrageously Awesome Employee Engagement.” They touched upon the importance of seeing your employees as your competitive advantage and treating them accordingly, emphasizing the value of positivity and implementing expectations that you want to see. However, my favorite tip was “The Rule of Common Purpose,” making sure that the interests of each employee are meaningfully represented.

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Global HR Competencies ~ 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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The Engagement Engine: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Culture

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover

Many companies strive for a positive culture with happy employees. But what if you could achieve more? High-performing cultures are the McLarens of the business world, leaving Camrys in the dust. They unlock exceptional results by fostering innovation, engagement, and continuous growth. In this webinar, we'll demystify the concept and provide practical steps to kickstart the journey toward a high-performing culture in your organization.

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Stanford’s Free Online Courses – Fast Track Your Career

TheHRBlog

Stanford University is recognized as one of the world’s leading universities and is offering free online courses. This is a great opportunity to upgrade your knowledge. God supplies us with the opportunity, but he cannot take advantage of it for us. Many employees now use their spare time to try their hand to learn new […].

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How to Manage the Best in Tech Talent

45 Things

Yesterday I was affected for several hours by the Go Daddy crash. As I felt my blood pressure spike, I calmed myself by knowing that I had just talked to some pretty smart folks who reassure me that the bad guys who caused it will be found -- and stopped in the future. Here's a recent story I did for Gannett/USAToday.com. Hackers often are portrayed as basement-dwelling, junk-food eating computer geniuses who enjoy wreaking havoc on unsuspecting people by sneaking into their computers.

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ACE 2012 attendees: You’ve been recognized!

Achievers

We did it! The A chievers Customer Experience event ( A CE 2012) is now behind us, and we couldn’t have made it happen without our guests. We’d like to recognize our customers, prospects, industry thought leaders and business community for connecting with us at A CE 2012. Whether you were a first-timer or returning attendee, we’d like to say “thank you”, and we hope to see you next year.

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HR from the Inside Out (sorry, ahem, Outside In) ~ HR to HR 2.0 and.

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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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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Career Resolutions as a Key to Career Thriving

The Bamboo Project Blog

A few weeks ago I read Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project , which chronicles Gretchen's year of personal experiments to increase her happiness--her version of the 30-Day trial ! One section on goals vs. resolutions really struck a chord with me. This is what she writes on her blog about it: . You hit a goal, you achieve a goal. You keep a resolution.

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Serial Innovation: How to Guarantee Job Security for Yourself

Quickbase

Much has changed over the past decade in the way jobs are structured and the way we think about work. With increasing adoption of information technology solutions and the growth of outsourcing, tedious and mindless work is less valuable than ever. This places many jobs, especially entry-level and individual contributor style jobs, at risk. In […].

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It should be simple. Now it’s Workable.

Workable

Here’s a challenge: walk around a contemporary office and spot the one thing that dates back to the fifties. It’s the resumé. If it’s not sitting in a stack of papers with hundreds of its friends, it’s in your email, dutifully converted in PDF, preserving the unstructured form of its paper ancestors. Hard to decipher, even harder to compare with other resumés, each carrying the stylistic creativity of its author.

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Staying In Contact And Collaborating With Fellow Employees Is Easy With Our Message Wall

Humanity

Miscommunication has haunted the employee workplace for years. Not being able to communicate with colleagues correctly can slow down productivity and cause the loss of valuable time. Many companies use endless forwarded emails and phones calls as a way to communicate and relay messages. This can be ineffective and time consuming. With Humanity’s unique Message Wall feature employees and management staff can effortlessly communicate without frustration.

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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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Disaster Recovery: 5 Ways You Can Help Employees Return to Work

Insperity

Hit by Hurricane Isaac a few weeks ago, many business owners have reopened their doors and are getting back to business as normal. But with so many people still cleaning up their homes and neighborhoods, some employers are struggling with the question: How can I help my employees get back to work? In the wake of a natural disaster, having a business continuity plan and handling your employees with compassion can make the transition back to work much easier and quicker for everyone.

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How Task Management Software Addresses the Big Three: Scope, Time, and Budget

Quickbase

Project managers know the biggest factors pertaining to their project’s success are: time, budget, and scope. In other words, a project must be completed on time, within the specified budget, and must deliver what is necessary within preconceived project constraints. Project managers need certain tools to complete this challenging art and science—and today’s task management […].

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E-Verify State Requirements

Aurico

'States continue to mandate E-Verify for all or a large segment of their employers. The following states require or will soon require all employers to participate: Alabama, Arizona, Mississippi and South Carolina. Other states, including Georgia and North Carolina, require most employers to participate. A third category of states require E-Verify for public and state employers.

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Humanity Is Excited To Introduce Our Multiple Time Zone Support Feature!

Humanity

We are really excited about our multiple time zone feature that went live a few days ago! Our application has the capacity to handle businesses that operate around the world, in multiple time zones. No matter where you are and how many time zones your business is stretched across, our application can securely and accurately complete all of your scheduling , workforce management and payroll processes.

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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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Missing Out: Five Ways to Misuse Online Screening Tools - Part 1

DDI

'For online screening to meet intended objectives—improve quality of hire and increase process efficiency—users must proceed with care.

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The Emotional Make-Up of a Motivated Employee

Quickbase

Motivation. We all know what the word means, but the factors that drive a person’s motivation might vary greatly depending on who you ask. This is especially true in a corporate office setting. Certain employees might be motivated by money, job titles, power, and/or responsibility; while others might be motivated by the ability to “fly […].

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India's IT HR Headache: 1 in 5 CVs Fake

Aurico

'BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: Recently, a 33-year-old IBM employee was discovered to have used his wife''s academic credentials to get his job, highlighting the growing problem of resume fraud faced by India''s $100-billion IT services sector. Had it not been for an argument between the two of them, he might have gotten away with it, too. READ MORE.