Sat.Aug 30, 2014 - Fri.Sep 05, 2014

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Taking the Gloves Off: Leaders and HR

Lisa Rosendahl

'Human resources can be complex, confusing and exasperating. Communications between leaders and their human resources department don''t have to be. Unfortunately, they are. Photo credit: iStock. It''s time to step out of the ring and start working together. When human resources professionals live and breathe human resources everyday, they forget what it''s like outside the bubble.

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Putting the “Strategic” into Strategic HR (and Management)

Josh Bersin

'One of the buzzwords we often use in the talent world is “strategic HR.” Given all the administrivia which HR people do, is it really possible for HR to be “strategic?” If so, Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Transforming Leadership—Selecting a Style for Your Team

ATD Human Capital

'When you search on the various leadership styles you end up with 25,200,000 hits. That tells me that there has been a lot of time spent researching the topic. A good place to start is Daniel Goleman’s 2000 study for the Hay/McBer Group, Leadership That Gets Results. This research encompassed three years and 3,000 middle managers and identified six distinct styles.

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MGM Resorts: 2 Takeaways from a Game-Winning People Strategy

Achievers

What does it take to implement a remarkable employee engagement strategy? Last week, Achievers had the pleasure of hosting Christopher Henry, VP of Talent and Organizational Development for MGM Resorts International , on the webinar titled, How to Put Employees First to Win Customers. Chris shared with us how MGM’s investment in the development of their people and culture is largely responsible for the brand’s amazing turnaround.

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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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10 Payroll Tips You Should Know

Namely

'Staying on top of payroll can be a time-consuming and stressful process. Especially if you take care of your payroll in-house, it can quickly become a nightmare for business owners. According to the National Business Association 2013 Small Business Taxation Survey , 60 percent of small businesses handle their payroll processes internally. Regardless of the size of your business, it’s important to have an organized payroll system in place to protect you from IRS penalties and to ensure your empl

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Leadership Improv: Turning the Unexpected Into an Advantage

ATD Human Capital

'In Part Four of a four-part series on using improvisational behaviors to drive performance, Karen Hough focuses on three steps to dealing with the unexpected. This flexibility and the sense that anything can happen, keeps us on our toes and ready for anything. It’s a critical skill in an ever-evolving, global professional world. Click here to read full version.

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Learn from the Best: The Most Amazing Companies in the World

Achievers

Are you ready to feel inspired and motivated by some of the top companies worldwide? With new businesses popping up everywhere, “fun and hip” companies are pretty widespread. Businesses claim bragging rights based on all sorts of measures, like great benefits, cool products, flexible work hours, and free lunches. So how can we differentiate these surface-level trendy workplaces from truly amazing companies?

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Get Nerdy with Your Employee Engagement Statistics

Quantum Workplace

'When I was perusing the latest Employee Engagement Trends Report that our research team assembled, I came across the idea of uncertainty, or neutrality. Here’s the gist: When the majority of employees respond to certain survey items with a three or four (somewhat disagree or somewhat agree), the items represent areas of uncertainty within an Read more.

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Are You an Exceptional Leader?

Newmeasures

'We exist to help our client organizations use employee and manager surveys as business intelligence. It almost seems unconscionable to think that some of our client managers question the importance of helping employees feel valued at work. Yet, on a regular basis we are challenged by senior leaders around the validity of even caring about employees’ thoughts, feelings and concerns.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Grateful Leaders Choose “Yes”

ATD Human Capital

'The time for an acknowledgment is the moment you become conscious of it. There are few real excuses for not delivering it now. Click here to read full version.

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While You’re On Holiday, Would You Like to Have Your Work Emails Automatically Deleted?

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

'By Richard Doherty. Daimler’s recent decision to give employees the option to have all email received while on holiday automatically deleted ( see story here ) has generated lots of healthy discussion and debate with many for and against such a policy. Personally, I think the key take away from this initiative is the fact that it is an option. How each of us achieves work/life balance is a very personal thing – we’re all different and manage that balance in different ways.

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On Down Time

The Bamboo Project Blog

' . At the end of July, my husband said to me, "We need to take off the last two weeks of next month." I immediately felt two things. . Panic--how the hell could I "afford" to take off two weeks? Desire--OH I want to do this! I sat with these two feelings for awhile. They represented the two aspects of myself that are always at war with each other it seems. .

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Is Your Need to Be "Right" Hurting Your Career?

45 Things

'When you were in school, did your teacher instruct you to choose the “wrong” answer on a test? What about at work? Does your boss now tell you to try and make "wrong" decisions? From the time we are children, we are counseled to make the “right” choices, and how to look “right” and how to do the “right” thing. That often continues in the workplace, that need to always be "right.

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The Employer’s Guide to Early Cancer Detection

A comprehensive early detection strategy for cancer is no longer a nice-to-have for employers; it’s a must. The reality is 1 in 2 women and 1 in 3 men will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and the physical, emotional, and financial impact on both employees and employers is great. To help improve your employees’ health outcomes and reduce cancer-related costs, download The Employer’s Guide to Early Detection.

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Why Should You Care About Employee Engagement?

ATD Human Capital

'The author shares a list of seven key reasons engaged employees are vital for an organization. Click here to read full version.

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Inclusive Leaders Turn Performance Reviews into Gold Mines

Reviewsnap

'Attention managers and team leaders! Here’s great advice from Great Place to Work (Gulf) CEO, Ron Thomas : “Our workforces have the ability to be a percolator of ideas and solutions if we would just turn the spigots on. Letting our employees know that we are dependent upon their ideas and thoughts has the potential for any organization to break out of the pack and shift power to the people who are closest to the issues.

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How to Live Fully at Work: The New Employee Recognition

David Zinger

'We need more authentic and robust employee engagement and recognition. I am honored to be invited by Klinic Community Health Centre in Winnipeg to speak during lunch hour at Vimy Ridge Park in Winnipeg during “Connecting Canada” for World Suicide Prevention Day. If you are in Winnipeg on September the 10th., I encourage you to come by for the short presentation and the free community barbecue.

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Kids, Mind Your Orthodonist: A Day in the Life Sunday

Lisa Rosendahl

'Anna Curzan, delivered a wonderful TED talk, What Makes a Word "Real." While you wonder if "hangry," "unfriend" and "multislacking" are real words, let me give three real words that are ignored at your own risk: wear your retainer. Photo credit: iStockphoto. After years of complaining about an overbite (think thumb under front teeth), I set out to correct it as an adult.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Why Should You Care About Employee Engagement?

ATD Human Capital

'The author shares a list of seven key reasons engaged employees are vital for an organization. Click here to read full version.

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Headbanger

NoExcusesHR

'As you look at your task list or calendar each day, what goes through your mind? What emotion hits first? Does your competitive side see a challenge; or, does your heart race as you realize it will be nearly impossible to accomplish all of those items in one day? DERAILERS Lately I''ve been wondering how that first rush of emotion impacts our mindset at work.

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The Power of Workplace Culture [Infographic]

GuideSpark

'Many companies struggle to create, manage and foster company culture. While it might seem simple to spot good and bad company cultures, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly how or why the culture is good or bad. It can also be tricky to figure out how to turn it around if you suddenly realize that yours needs fixing. So what exactly is company culture, and how do you know if yours is good or bad?

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Anything but chaos: EmpowerWFM helps strike the balance between employee welfare and efficient scheduling

Empower Software

'Schedules generated a week in advance. Employee hours are for the most part, consistent and stable. Store associates enjoy the ability to balance work with everyday responsibilities, such as parenting, or studying and attending school. If only it were that simple.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Transforming Leadership—Selecting a Style for Your Team

ATD Human Capital

'When you search on the various leadership styles you end up with 25,200,000 hits. That tells me that there has been a lot of time spent researching the topic. A good place to start is Daniel Goleman’s 2000 study for the Hay/McBer Group, Leadership That Gets Results. This research encompassed three years and 3,000 middle managers and identified six distinct styles.

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Leadership, the Imposter Syndrome, and Being REAL

Inpower Coaching

Do you ever feel like an imposter? Like someone will figure out you aren’t up to the job you have? Guess what? The Imposter Syndrome is a thing. And it’s a thing all kinds of leaders learn to deal with and overcome. Women. Men. Even people like you who are in exactly the right place at the right time to overcome it. Mitch shows us we’re not alone. – InPower Editors.

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I'm Always Right

NoExcusesHR

'".and above all, stay humble because just when you think you have all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don''t.” - Tom Hiddleston Have you figured it all out? Have you convinced yourself that your view of the world is the " right " one? Have you ever considered that what you believe to be true and right; may, in fact, be off-base?

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Next-Generation Financial Reporting in Workday 23: It’s Time to Burn the Binder

Workday

'Anyone who works in finance knows the binder. Many operational managers know it too. It''s the binder you take to quarterly business reviews and send up to the CFO. The one stuffed with printouts of spreadsheets and documents that took tens of hours to compile and reconcile. It''s the binder that may have you—and the auditors—nervous that it''s being passed around with a lot of important information in it, or sweating that within those print-outs there could be inaccuracies.

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2024 HR Calendar of Important Dates

64% of HR managers lack the time and resources to meet HR compliance challenges and 50% of HR professionals lack confidence in their ability to keep up with ever-changing rules and regulations ( UpCounsel ). This free calendar from Paycor can help.

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Leadership Improv: Turning the Unexpected Into an Advantage

ATD Human Capital

'In Part Four of a four-part series on using improvisational behaviors to drive performance, Karen Hough focuses on three steps to dealing with the unexpected. This flexibility and the sense that anything can happen, keeps us on our toes and ready for anything. It’s a critical skill in an ever-evolving, global professional world. Click here to read full version.

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How Leaders Can Keep "No" From Being a Buzz Kill

45 Things

'How do you keep people engaged after telling them “no”? That’s often a question with which leaders wrestle, knowing that saying “no” can be demoralizing, and even push employees to start looking for another position if it happens too often. But leadership and engagement experts say that it’s critical that managers learn to handle such an issue. Without a solution, they may find that a team becomes uninterested in coming up with creative, innovative or workable solutions that are critical to bus

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The North Star

Dave's Weekly Thought

What is it that engages people in their work ? It certainly isn't something that can be packaged or sold. Some people see their job for what it is worth and are driven to make as much money as possible. Some people want to use their profession as a social network. There are people who live to create extraordinary products and those for whom a pay check will validate a higher personal purpose.

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