Sat.Aug 03, 2013 - Fri.Aug 09, 2013

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10 Ways to Give Recognition

Kazoo

What does good recognition look like? We get that question a lot. If you think the answer should be obvious, try to think back to the last time you gave someone recognition that mattered, that moved them, and that actually connected to them in the way you had hoped. It’s more difficult that you think! I can recall a time that I wanted to tell a co-worker that they really mattered to me, that their contribution was so important, and to PLEASE NEVER LEAVE ME!!!

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Ask Achievers: How do I get started with employee referrals?

Achievers

This week’s reader question goes to Kate Pope, our Manager of Talent Acquisition. As our resident expert on all things recruitment, she shares her advice for getting the most out of employee referrals. Dear A chievers, I really want to encourage employee referrals at my company, but I’m not sure where to start. What’s the first step? Is it going to be a lot of work (and if so, is it really worth the effort)?

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When You Can't Change What You Do, 3 Steps to Change How You Do It

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . I''m aware that for many people, a job change just isn''t in the cards right now. They know that they are unhappy--or at least restless--but for a variety of reasons, changing jobs or changing careers just can''t happen for awhile. . This is OK. In fact, it can be a good thing. Your current job can be the home base from which you experiment with some new possibilities.

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Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story?

David Zinger

'Why strategy needs to be a story. Shawn Callahan from Anecdote wrote a fine post on the potential for organizational leadership to be disengaged from strategy because they don’t really understand or feel the strategy. If this is true for leaders it is frightening to think about how disconnected or disengaged other employees may be from the strategy of the organization.

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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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101 Top Employee Engagement Experts You Can Follow

TheHRBlog

Kevin Kruse in his new book – Employee Engagement for Everyone: 4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work encourages you to follow these 101 top employee engagement experts to deepen your understanding of motivation, engagement, and happiness at work. Contrary to popular opinion individual employees can increase their engagement and happiness at work.

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The Power of The One Big Move

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Fifteen years ago I did a weekend mini-retreat with myself to figure out my next career move. I planned for it on a Thursday and ran through my exercises on Saturday and Sunday, in between dropping my girls at softball practice and doing loads of laundry. On Monday, I walked in, quit my job and never looked back. . This is the power of the One Big Move , something Rosetta Thurman wrote about in 7 Steps to Release Negativity, Set Big Goals and Live the Life of Your Dreams.

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Higher Education: Get Faculty Engaged in Performance Reviews

Reviewsnap

'Engaging college and university faculty in the performance review process is a unique challenge. But that doesn’t mean you have to fail at it. A few best practices targeted at academia can solve the problem and engage college faculty in the performance review process. First, it’s important to understand why higher education faculty members are less likely than campus staff employees to see the value of performance reviews. · Faculty may have a professional bias against performance reviews, feel

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Management Tip: Setting Expectations with Your Team

Quickbase

Setting expectations is one of the basic fundamentals of management; yet, many managers fail to do this very important step effectively. Setting expectations first requires planning. The more time you invest on the front end, the more effective your team will be when it is in operations mode. The second component of setting expectations requires […].

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Are You Asking Your Team to Read Your Mind?

45 Things

'Bosses often tout the importance of everyone “singing from the same choir book” or a variation of that theme. The point, they stress, is that everyone needs to communicate constantly so that team efforts are being directed efficiently and productively toward the same goals. Why is it then that many workers believe their bosses aren’t inclined to follow the same advice?

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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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On A Very Silly Social Media List - the Top 100 Best and Most Collaborative Colleges

True Faith HR

'F rom HR''s favorite list maker, Vala Afshar , comes his latest creation - " The Top 100 Best and Most Collaborative U.S. Colleges." (Hat tip to Laurie Ruettimann and John Hudson for bringing it to my attention). According to Afshar, "the very best schools are also the most collaborative." So why is this list incredibly silly? 1. Let''s start with the methodology.

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SHRM Top 20 Indian HR Influencers Active on Social Media 2013

QAspire

'Social media has become mainstream and an integral part of business strategy. Social media is at the center of how people connect, consume information, drive conversations, initiate movements and promote brands. At a time when everyone seems to be on social media, the challenge for those who wish to make a difference is to generate influence. Last year, SHRM India published a first-ever list of Top 20 Indian HR Influencers on Social Media – people with distinct voice that reflects engaging idea

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AccountSight Dashboards make Reporting easy and simple

AccountSight

AccountSight's powerful dashboard has the options to slice and dice all time tracking, expense tracking and online invoicing data for effective reporting.

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Career Advice to Learn from Dunder Mifflin

45 Things

'For eight years the Dunder Mifflin gang from “The Office” made us laugh as characters like the annoying Dwight and the crabby Stanley and the inept Michael interacted and make us think about our own cast of characters in our office. Still, despite their follies and fights, there are plenty of lessons to be learned from this fictional workplace that can be applied to our own careers, especially when it comes to collaboration.

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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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Research Says: Gender Diversity Improves Team Performance

Inpower Coaching

Study: The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment ( Tinbergen Institute, 2011, Hoogendoorn, Oosterbeek, van Praag ). Finding: Teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated teams in terms of sales, profits and earnings per share. InPower Insight: Neither women nor men are “better” at delivering business outcomes; together we are stronger.

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Critical Thinking and Talent Development: A New Blog

QAspire

'Traditionally, career success was linked with 3 R’s (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) but in American Management Association’s critical skills survey 2012 , respondents emphasized on 4 C’s ( C ritical thinking and problem solving, Effective C ommunication, C ollaboration and team building and C reativity and innovation) as their key priorities for employee development, talent development and succession planning.

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AccountSight Dashboards make Reporting easy and simple

AccountSight

AccountSight's powerful dashboard has the options to slice and dice all time tracking, expense tracking and online invoicing data for effective reporting.

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Do You Make These 3 Decision Making Mistakes

Insperity

Your business is at a crossroads and it’s up to you to pick the next move. What do you do? Do you go with your gut or lay low and hope it all blows over? Or, maybe, you stay up for a week straight agonizing over every last detail before making the call. While you may think you’re doing what’s best for your business, rushing, dodging and overanalyzing decisions could create a whole new set of problems.

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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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Why Workday Recruiting Puts Mobile First

Workday

'The reason we are taking a mobile-first approach to Workday Recruiting is simple: the hiring process does not take place at a desk. The most fundamental aspects of recruiting, including sourcing candidates, sharing those prospects with hiring teams, nurturing top candidates, and even making the offer, take place between meetings or while people are on the go.

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Four Things to Look for in a Frontline Leader Assessment

DDI

'Avoid mistakes. How to sort through the dizzying array of available assessments for frontline leadership.

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Enhance productivity with bulk T&E entries- The AccountSight Way!

AccountSight

AccountSight timesheet software allows users to submit bulk timesheets using Excel upload. This feature makes online timesheet submission easier than ever.

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5 Things To Beat The Fear Of Public Speaking

Impact Coaching Solutions

They say that the 3 top fears for a human being are public speaking, death and dancing, and it seems they are in that order. As I have worked as a Coach and consultant with many people and also as a manager of teams, I can confirm that public speaking is indeed very threatening for many people. The reasons behind it might vary from just an introverted personality, insecurities or just the regular fear that we experience when we are trying something we are not proficient at, something new that is

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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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Crafting a Sustainable Career

The Bamboo Project Blog

'Imagine crafting a sustainable career for yourself. Year after year, you perform work that makes full use of your skills and challenges you to develop new ones. Your work not only interests you, it gives you a sense of meaning. You enjoy opportunities for learning and development. You work with people who energize you. You are confident that your skills and competencies make you valuable and marketable and that you can access opportunities through your network.

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Four Things to Look for in a Frontline Leader Assessment

DDI

Avoid mistakes. How to sort through the dizzying array of available assessments for frontline leadership.

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Enhance productivity with bulk T&E entries- The AccountSight Way!

AccountSight

AccountSight timesheet software allows users to submit bulk timesheets using Excel upload. This feature makes online timesheet submission easier than ever.

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5 Things To Beat The Fear Of Public Speaking (The Short Version)

Impact Coaching Solutions

The post 5 Things To Beat The Fear Of Public Speaking (The Short Version) appeared first on Impact Coaching Solutions.

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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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#ILSHRM13 - A Sort of Homecoming

True Faith HR

'I''ll be there I''ll be there. Tonight A high road A high road out from here In two weeks from today, the 2013 14th ANNUAL ILLINOIS HR CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION will begin at Drury Park in Oakbrook Terrace, and I will be serving on their social media team, hopefully bringing you the highlights of the events. Much like a person has a bucket list of seeing all the Major League Baseball or NFL Stadiums, this will be my 4th state SHRM conference (having attended the Wisconsin , Mississippi and Te

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Are You the Pilot of Your Own Career?

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . Earlier this week in my post on crafting a sustainable career , I mentioned that you have to start by believing you are the pilot of your own career. In my experience, shifting into a mindset that YOU are in charge is the number one thing that has to change for us to thrive in an uncertain world. . I talk to a lot of people who believe that they are piloting their own careers, but often what I see is that they have actually put their careers on auto-pilot.

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AccountSight paves a faster way for approval from client manager

AccountSight

Blog about how AccountSight allow users to get client's physical signature on a printed online timesheet and upload it for employee timesheet approval.