Sat.Nov 10, 2012 - Fri.Nov 16, 2012

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Switching Payroll Providers: How to Prepare

Insperity

Not happy with your payroll provider? Maybe it’s time to switch. Before you do, though, make sure you are thoroughly prepared in order to make the transition as smooth as possible. The preliminaries – why are you leaving? First, examine why you’re considering a switch in the first place. List the reasons you don’t like your current provider to help you determine the questions you need to ask new payroll providers you are considering.

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Losing Sucks

NoExcusesHR

'I''m a pretty competitive person. Check that, I''m an ultra-competitive person who loves to win. Second place is fine, for someone else. I want to be on top.at the cutting edge.or at least try as hard as I can to get there. I compete in everything from sports, to ping pong, to battles with myself from workout to workout. I even love to compete in my work.

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Why You're Never Too Old to Launch Your Dream

45 Things

Workers over age 50 may only feel exhausted when they think of starting over. But there are plenty of older workers that are successfully launching new businesses that will inspire anyone of any age. Here's the story I did for Gannett/USA Today on one older entrepreneur who has launched a new business. When Anthony Full decided to launch his own business in 2010 at age 52, some people might have considered him crazy.

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Working with Why: Employee Engagement and Meaning

David Zinger

Employee Engagement: Putting Strengths on a Weekly Calendar. The pyramid of employee engagement offers a model of the 10 blocks of employee engagement. Here is a link to a 50 page booklet on the pyramid. There are 10 posts in this series. To learn more with a chance to be interactive on strengths and engagement plan to attend an educational workshop in London on the importance of strengths for employee engagement and a fusion of the pyramid of employee engagement with a strength-based approach

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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What Do You Want to Do with Your Life

TheHRBlog

It’s time for the big questions everyone asks themselves: Why am I here? What am I here to do? Suddenly, I knew what I wanted. It was the eve of my fourth birthday, and for weeks I had been trying to decide what big present I’d like on my special day. Nothing had sprung to […].

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Get Up and Look

NoExcusesHR

'“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw~ Make it happen in your world today. It''s worth the effort. I''d love to hear from you.

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Employee Engagement: My Daily Discipline of Strengths

David Zinger

Employee Engagement: Putting Strengths on a Weekly Calendar. The pyramid of employee engagement offers a model of the 10 blocks of employee engagement. Here is a link to a 50 page booklet on the pyramid. After completing the strengths inventory, Strengthscope, from Strengths Partnership in the UK, I have embarked on a systematic application of my 7 significant strengths to each of the 10 blocks of the pyramid.

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Suffusion theme, CommentLuv Premium, live chat, oh my.

Effortless HR

'New Blog Theme. After what seems like forever, the EffortlessHR blog has a new theme (Suffusion). For your enjoyment and to be forever archive, the blog looked like this before: Old EffortlessHR Blog Theme. CommentLuv Premium. If you don’t know what CommentLuv is, then you are in for a treat. To keep it short: each time you comment, you can choose to link directly to one of YOUR blog posts.

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Crowdsourcing #SHRM Speakers

True Faith HR

'On Tuesday, the monthly #SHRMChat focused on the vexing topic of chapter programming - where do you find your speakers? The lack of collaboration among chapters sharing information about successful speakers was noted as well as a desire for a Yelp -like tool where chapters could identify good (and not-so-good) speakers. Hearing about this, the St. Norbert College SHRM chapter sprung into action and put together a tool using list.ly for chapters to utilize in addressing the programming issue.

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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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Furniture Obsession!

NoExcusesHR

'I spend a lot of time discussing human resources leadership, strategy, risks, social media, and accountability. This week, I have the distinct pleasure to participate in a large conference of marketing and web professionals from the healthcare industry. It turns out we have a couple of things in common. Most of these similarities are very positive.things like the awareness that we need to leverage brand, integrate social media into every aspect of our work, and continue to push ourselves to con

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Employee Engagement: Brand New Engage For Success Site is Awesome

David Zinger

Successful Employee Engagement from the United Kingdom. A big congratulations to all those involved in helping develop and launch the brand new Engage for Success Website and resource site. If you are interested or involved in employee engagement this will be a site to bookmark and visit frequently. It just launched and here are some of the early features that I have already engaged with: The Four Enablers.

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Symposium Events: Wellbeing and Stress Summit

Strategic HCM

'Keeping with my recent employee engagement theme, yesterday morning I attended Symposium’s Wellbeing & Stress Summit. We started with a engaging presentation from Gill Crowther, HR Director at Nominet UK. Gill talked about using the Best Companies to Work For process to create love in their employees. She wants to see ‘Nominet’ stamped through any of her employee’s flesh if she were to cut off their arm.

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Target, Thanksgiving and Work

True Faith HR

'Dear Target Employees, We hear you (as well as your friends at Toys R Us and Wal-mart) are upset about the possibility of working on Thanksgiving day, taking time away from your families. If Target corporate backs off, will you be joining us for some popcorn and a showing of "Life of Pi" or "Red Dawn" that evening? Regards, Your local movie theater employees.

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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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How To Handle the Mean Girls at Work

45 Things

Many women would like to believe that the ugly behavior they may have experienced at the hands of other girls in junior high – or perhaps even exhibited themselves – is just an unhappy memory by the time they join the working ranks. But the truth is: The mean girls are alive and well in the workplace today. In a new book, “Mean Girls at Work: How to Stay Professional when Things Get Personal, ” authors Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster say they were at first reluctant to tackle such a subject f

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Employee Engagement Friday Factoid #8: Social Media Wasteland

David Zinger

Zinger Friday Factoid #8: Employee Social Media Wasteland? Each social media user, according to learnstuff.com costs their company $4452.00 every year. ( [link] ). Commentary. When it comes to social media in an organization it is good to have an open mind but not so open that your brains fall out. I like this factoid because it makes us think about the potential waste and drain to an organization because of employee involvement in social media.

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#E4S Engage for Success launch ~ HR to HR 2.0 and Human.

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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Best Practices: How to Build Your Own Online Database Application

Quickbase

I’m the senior member of the Intuit QuickBase Support team and have been with QuickBase for five-and-a-half years. In that time I’ve worked with hundreds of QuickBase application managers to help them create applications for their businesses. I have a good idea what is needed to make an online database application successful. Unfortunately, I’ve also […].

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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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A manifesto for better hiring software

Workable

Eliminate the frustrations that a hiring manager faces with old-school applicant tracking tools. We wanted better hiring software, so we made our own. I should not be managing documents and email s. A computer should be collecting, organizing and showing me job candidates the way I browse people on LinkedIn or Facebook. I should not be decoding a million different resume styles that basically contain a few standardized pieces of information.

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The George Foreman Grill of Scheduling: Humanity Melts Away the Excessive Time Spent Creating Schedules

Humanity

Excel tastes great, but it’s not quite right for this party! My first job out of college was a pretty high-volume pizza place in California. We were continuously understaffed, constantly on the phone trying to find replacements, and always rushing to do so. I was 23 years old, working with other college students, recent graduates, and perpetual “shift traders” who showed up late and missed shifts based on schedule “confusions”.

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Workday Rising 2012: Highlights on Film

Workday

'Experience the energy of Workday Rising in this two-minute video.

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Introducing the New QuickBase User Interface!

Quickbase

Over the past year we have been working hard to make QuickBase easier to use and more intuitive. Here are some of the enhancements you may have already noticed in QuickBase: a mobile version, improved user management screens and consistency across the platform. We’re now ready to take a giant step on the journey to […].

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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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Engagement or Entwistle? ~ 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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Make a Business Case for Paperless HR Software – How to Talk Your Boss’s Language

ExactHire

A challenge for many Human Resource professionals has always been getting a seat at the proverbial table. In other words, how can HR and the workforce, in general, be viewed less as an expense and more as an asset? After all, that’s what we all want, right? Speak the Same Business Language One of the primary reasons this remains a difficult task is because the language and analytics traditionally used by human resources professionals may not be as meaningful to others in leadership roles.

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#E4S Nailed! ? now what? ~ 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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More on the #E4S report – a meaningful metaphor – used in the wrong way

Strategic HCM

'The one paragraph that did resonate for me in the Engage for Success ‘Nailing the Evidence’ report was the one instance when the report strayed away from presenting its statistics. It’s not quite a story but it’s a nice little aside about one attempt to explain the importance of engagement a bit more engagingly: “The scale of the engagement deficit in the UK is staggering.

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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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Applicant Tracking Software for Blue Collar Employers

ExactHire

In my dealings with organizations around the country, I occasionally (though not as often as in the past) hear concerns about moving the hiring process online for positions that are entry-level or blue collar in nature. I especially run across this objection when speaking with individuals from manufacturing companies. When digging a bit deeper with these organizations, the concerns typically boil down to two things: Do their applicants have internet access readily available?