Achievers

MARCH 2, 2012

What are you doing for your employees to show that you value them and their contributions this year? Last year, A chievers participated in this flashmob! Here are some easy ideas to show your employees in a cheap and cheerful way how much you value them: – Handwritten notes. – Complimentary breakfast or lunch. – Take your team out for lunch. – Host a First-Round Friday. – Call a company or department meeting and genuinely thank your employees. – At a departme

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The Bamboo Project Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Last night I did an Image Center session with a friend who is going through my Getting Unstuck course. I had her do two images--one that shows where she is now and one that shows where she'd like to be. . Here's the image for where she is now: And here's the image for where she wants to be: It wasn't hard to figure out why she feels stuck. She has too much going on!

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Your employees are the heart of your business, and their productivity—or lack thereof—directly affects your bottom line. Understanding what helps and hinders work rate is paramount to your success. Read on as a host of human resource professionals weigh in on the top eight reasons why productivity may be suffering in your organization. 1. Lack of a big picture view. “Employees often don’t see how the work they do contributes to the company’s overall product, and it leads to a l

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David Zinger

MARCH 2, 2012

Here is my TEDxManitoba talk on the work I am doing with honeybees and the connections between honeybees and humans paired with engagement, organization, and community. This is very experimental and an example of thinking differently inside the hive. I trust this work will give us living lenses to examine employee engagement, our organizations, and how strong a role social factors are playing in our work and organizing.

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Achievers

MARCH 1, 2012

Dear A , We’re a results driven company, but a lot of our employees are beginning to feel like all of their effort is usually discredited. We want to keep our environment focused on the end outcomes but don’t want the workforce to feel discouraged along the way. How do we manage both parts of this equation without taking away from the importance of getting business results?

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45 Things

MARCH 1, 2012

I've been told that when I am in meetings, my body language screams "I hate being here." Nice to know my body is listening to my mind. Seriously, there are some meetings I enjoy and find myself fascinated by the interesting comments and dynamic personalities. When the meetings are over, I feel recharged and ready to take on the world. But sometimes, I hate being there.

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

'Day 2 of the wonderful Transform HR conference kicked off with Billy Beane, GM of the Oakland A''s, and focus of Michael Lewis'' " Moneyball." Given the emphasis on managing talent with an uneven playing field, having Mr. Beane as the keynote speaker couldn''t be more apropros (especially given the multitude of blog posts on Moneyball (self-promotion alert: check out a couple of them in the 2011 season of the 8 Man Rotation )).

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Achievers

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Human Resources Professionals go head-to-head to prove who is better at engaging their staff through their rewards and recognition program. Who will come out on top? Check back next Wednesday to find out! The post Rewards and recognition providers go head-to-head! appeared first on [engage]- The Employee Success and Engagement Blog by Achievers.

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Strategic HCM

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'I’ve been re-reading a couple of books in preparation for another workshop on HR Metrics. One of these has been Calculating Success by Carl Hoffmann, Eric Lesser and Tim Ringo. It’s a pretty turgid book, but then it does focus on measurement, which isn’t the most naturally entertaining topic area (I always struggle slightly to make my measurement workshops as stimulating as my other trainings).

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The Bamboo Project Blog

MARCH 1, 2012

As I dive ever deeper into the rabbit hole of what I call Positive Professional Development , I keep thinking about how to harness what's positive in our lives, rather than spending so much time with the negative. How do you increase the awesome ? . Today I was reading this blog post on hopeful trends for 2012 and it got me thinking about how to build a career on hopeful trends--what would it look like if we did that?

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

'Margaret Morford had the tough task of following Billy Beane with her presentation "HR Fiddles While Organizations Burn!" Starting off, working HR, she notes, should be measured in dog years, given the challenges HR managers face on a daily basis. To meet this challenge, Morford discussed her strategic six things HR needs to do: be different in your thinking, ignore fads, get brave, develop talent & skills, outrun the pack, and get out of HR (temporarily).

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Achievers

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

“While recognition and engagement scores hit bottom, people still inherently want to feel connected with others more and more. Tweeted, posted, and liked recognitions allow employees to share positive moments at your business with their internal network.”. The post Inspire your team while building a brand appeared first on [engage]- The Employee Success and Engagement Blog by Achievers.

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 2, 2012

'As well as the books, I’ve been re-reviewing the Human Capital Institute’s recent Talent Strategy and Workforce Planning conference (which I’ve also already posted on here ). Although this was mainly focused on, as the name suggests, talent strategy and workforce planning, it included a lot of broader stuff on analytics too. I particularly liked SuccessFactors’ description of their analytics process, eg this phrase: “Unless an indicator is aligned with either HR or corporate strategy, it is unl

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Aurico

MARCH 1, 2012

'On December 29th, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of Administration (GOA) properly redacted the partial birth dates of state employees from salary records produced in response to a media request. The court overturned the state''s Office of Open Records’ (OR) determination that the full birth dates should have been released.

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

'Kicking off the afternoon sessions of Day 2 of the Transform HR conference is "The Second-Generation Workplace Wellness Program" with Fran Melmed, Founder of Context Communication. Given that wellness affects all employees, its important to not only learn about the continued barriers to effective workplace wellness, but the trends, innovations and successes that mark effective wellness programs.

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Achievers

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

It is not uncommon for employers and workplaces to become accustomed to certain sales processes and a particular work environment. Comfort is typically equated to stability, but for companies to exceed goals and truly establish themselves as industry leaders, scaling people to push boundaries by focusing on aggressive annual sales goals is critical to helping the organization get ahead.

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Strategic HCM

MARCH 1, 2012

'You may have thought from my last post that I’ve got quite worked up about ‘Calculating Success’. Well I haven’t really, but I am feeling quite irate at John Boudreau’s latest, ‘Transformative HR’. First of all: “Talent management is not an imprecise art form. Rather, it is a rigorous science based on solid numbers.” It’s complete nonsense of course, and I don’t understand how Boudreau gets away with it.

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Aurico

MARCH 1, 2012

'On January 23rd, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that held that companies making bulk purchases of personally identifying information from state driver''s license databases for future permissible uses did not violate the Driver''s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA). The lower court had ruled that as long as the ultimate use of the records by the company or another end user is for a statutorily permitted purpose, the DPPA doe

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

'Some 200 passionate HR people made their trek to Austin for the first Transform HR conference sponsored by TLNT.com. Ron Thomas , Principal Consultant, Strategy Focused HR, kicked off the introduction of the conference talking about how attendees are all transformers. He noted that HR needs to be people focused, scalable, repeatable and analytical Jim Knight , Senior Director of Training for Hard Rock, and the morning''s keynote focused on how to build a team of "rock stars" for your organizati

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Reviewsnap

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'The employee who refuses to believe anything that might be remotely negative about their performance or behavior can be frustrating to say the least. That unwillingness to listen and accept something that could actually help them improve no doubt partially explains why their performance may be less than acceptable. If denial is a pattern for an employee, it can be next to impossible to get through to them.

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Inpower Coaching

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

A while back I read a blog post by a soon-to-be-entrepreneur who sounded so excited about his new adventure that I didn’t have the heart to write this post in response until after he’d launched. Who was I to burst his bubble? And the last thing I wanted to do was burst his bubble. After a decade on my own, I’ve learned that this optimism is a critical personal power and key to entrepreneurial business success, but it’s much more than that.

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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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Aurico

MARCH 1, 2012

'Pepsi Beverages, formerly known as Pepsi Bottling Group, has agreed to pay $3.1 million, develop a new background check policy and provide job offers and training to resolve a race discrimination charge filed against them for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) revealed that more than 300 applicants were adversely affected when Pepsi applied a criminal background check that disproportionately excluded minori

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'This week marked the beginning of the 2012 HR conference season with the Transform HR Conference in Austin, TX. As a confession, I attended the conference on a press pass which helped defray much of the cost of attending. This certainly was not the first time that I was able to attend a conference on a press pass, and I hope it is not the last. But, it made me think about expectations.

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Reviewsnap

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'Have you ever wondered what those looks some employees shoot your way really mean when you''re conducting a performance review session? Here''s our rendition of what some of the more common looks mean: The "You don''t know #%$@" look - A common look among low performers.the one with the wry little smile, arms crossed, and slightly red face. What this really means is "Oh, oh, they''re on to me".

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NoExcusesHR

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

'I''m getting a little worried. Apparently a whole bunch of people are going to be retiring soon and I''m not sure we''re preparing the next generation of leaders to fill their shoes. No, you can''t replace dynamic leaders, but you certainly can help up-and-comers transition from a wanna-be leader into the leader. Right? But These Young People Are.Different Thank God they''re different!

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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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Aurico

MARCH 1, 2012

'Often we hear clients ask about national databases, search quality and options to access criminal reports. Our answer? Searching for criminal records isn’t the one-step process you may think it is. It’s easy to assume that the process is simple. After all, film and television detectives pull up a person’s criminal history with a few keystrokes. But real life isn’t that convenient.

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

'Jennifer Benz, Founder & CEO of Benz Communications, brought the Transform HR Conference to a close with her session "3 Steps to Success: How Benefits Can Help Drive Your Strategic HR Transformation." Health care costs are a significant part of compensation spending (20-30%). They are a significant part of employee engagement. Impact of lack of physical activity costs businesses $150 billion a year.

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True Faith HR

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

'The afternoon session of Transform HR kicked off with Tim Sackett discussing "What You Wished HR Would Do." Sackett first highlights his several trips flying on a corporate jet with his CEO; it gave him a new way of thing about things. Some of the points noted were: CEOs want to see metrics that lead to a course of action HR pros need to take off the HR Hat, collaborate, and understand the business HR need to be creative as traditional HR forecasting is not effective HR should hire out of their

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