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Spring Clean Your Hiring Process [Infographic]

ClearCompany HRM

It’s officially spring and you know what that means? Time to spring clean your talent management processes. From sourcing to onboarding to performance management, it’s the perfect time for lean, efficient processes to set your company up for success for the rest of the year. Take a look at our new infographic and motivate your company to jump start spring cleaning your talent management house now!

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5 Ways to Keep Performance Reviews From Becoming Boring

HR Bartender

I wonder sometimes if the reason there are so many complaints about annual performance reviews is because people find them boring. Let’s face it – it’s the same process using the same form. And if the goal is for employees to have consistent performance, that means that managers are discussing the same thing with employees. Every year. Long-term employees have participated in the same process each year for what seems like an eternity.

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5 Ways Employers Can Embrace Election Season in the Workplace

Trinet

Discussion of politics in the workplace has traditionally been considered taboo by most organizations however, these days, it’s difficult for people to hide their personal viewpoints. Many people. Visit site for full story.

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10 Key Trends from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends Report (2016) -

DecisionWise

I have taken the time to summarize this year’s (2016) Global Human Capital Trends report that was published by Deloitte. Deloitte’s report lists 10 key trends in human capital, and I am presenting them in their order of importance. I encourage everyone to read Deloitte’s report in depth. The report is invaluable, and, as a Deloitte alumnus, I applaud Deloitte for making this report available to the public at no cost. 1.

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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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5 Tips to a Fresher Onboarding Process

ClearCompany HRM

Ah, onboarding: the breakfast of employment. No new hire should begin their position within a company without a balanced and well-planned onboarding program. Unfortunately, just like the most important meal of the day, onboarding is often overlooked, rushed or simply forgotten all together. Many HR administrators seem to agree as 56% feel their onboarding solutions are only “somewhat structured” to “not at all structured.”.

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3 Things to Stop Doing to Managers Now

Kazoo

People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. We’ve all heard it before, but we don’t think business leaders really believe it. According to a recent Gallup study, 50% of employees leave jobs “to get away from their manager.” Ouch. If you want engaged individuals and a successful business, your managers can be your secret weapon. And since companies struggle to believe or implement all the literature out there of how to approach it – we’ll try something a little different.

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7 Trending HR Topics You Must Know in 2016

Trinet

The legal landscape for employers is constantly shifting and can be very confusing. Below, we touch on seven trending HR topics you need to be aware of in 2016 and direct you to resources to learn. Visit site for full story.

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Are You a Candidate Hoarder?

ClearCompany HRM

If you ’ve never had the pleasure (or discomfort) of watching the television show Hoarders , you may not know how unsettling clutter can be. Stacks of newspapers, shelves collapse under canned goods. Furniture, pets and even people can find themselves disoriented and hidden under piles of old items that are no longer useful. It’s impossible to find anything, enjoy anything or use the homes featured on the show for their intended purpose.

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Who Owns Your Company Culture

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. To learn more about designing and managing a company culture that drives bottom line success, check out fellow board member and Kronos Chief People Officer David Almeda’s chapter in The Workforce Institute’s latest anthology, It’s All About Bob(bie): Strategies for Winning with Your 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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3 Things to Stop Doing to Managers Now

Kazoo

People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. We’ve all heard it before, but we don’t think business leaders really believe it. According to a recent Gallup study, 50% of employees leave jobs “to get away from their manager.” Ouch. If you want engaged individuals and a successful business, your managers can be your secret weapon. And since companies struggle to believe or implement all the literature out there of how to approach it – we’ll try something a little different.

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The Problem with HR Technology Integration

UpstartHR

Technology is everywhere in the workplace today, but one of the biggest problems for many companies is integrating the various systems they have. If you have a favorite performance management system and want that to feed into your company’s learning management system so you aren’t duplicating entries and potentially messing up data, good luck.

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3 Key Metrics for Predicting Performance, Engagement, and Turnover

Pomello

Human resources leaders focus on engagement, performance, and turnover for good reason: They’re some of the most important indicators of a company’s productivity and value. Yet many companies still struggle to influence and predict their HR metrics consistently. . Infinite variables affect employee engagement, performance, and turnover.

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5 Ways to Keep Performance Reviews From Becoming Boring

HR Bartender

I wonder sometimes if the reason there are so many complaints about annual performance reviews is because people find them boring. Let’s face it – it’s the same process using the same form. And if the goal is for employees to have consistent performance, that means that managers are discussing the same thing with employees. Every year. Long-term employees have participated in the same process each year for what seems like an eternity.

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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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The Affordable Care Act Turns Six: Let’s Take a Look at the Year Ahead!

Trinet

Six years ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) transformed healthcare and became part of the business landscape for every employer. Since then, we have seen significant changes in regulations, Visit site for full story.

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Engagement Surveys: There is a Middle Path

Kazoo

It’s not unusual for companies to conduct an annual, company-wide survey. But it’s also not unusual that these surveys leave you and your employees with more questions than answers. Here are a few familiar scenarios that you might encounter during your annual company survey, the questions you’ll get asked, and why your current approach might not be working.

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3 Ways to Build Meaning Into Your Workplace

WorkHuman

Forward-thinking HR and business leaders are focusing more on metrics related to employee well-being and happiness, in addition to traditional satisfaction or engagement. But how do we define happiness and well-being? Are they related? WorkHuman speaker Shawn Achor defines happiness as “the joy you feel striving toward your potential.” He outlines four main qualities that sustain happiness: Optimism – believing that our behavior will eventually matter.

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Team Bonding Ideas: Our Favorite Outings in NYC

Justworks

Your team works hard. So every once and a while, they deserve to blow off some steam and have a great time together. Not only does leaving the office help team bonding, it also creates memories and boosts employee morale. We’ve written before about team building activities for work that people will actually enjoy , but there is something about team outings in NYC that merits its own attention.

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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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Avoiding the Perils of Awards Programs

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – The negative consequences of specific award programs aren’t likely generalizable to well-designed rewards and recognition programs. A recent academic study is catching a few headlines, suggesting that award programs can have negative motivational spillover effects and actually lead to decreased productivity. The study focused on an award program for attendance, implemented by a plant manager in one facility of a commercial laundry company.

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[Video] HighGround Customer Story: LRW

Kazoo

Lieberman Research Worldwide wanted a way to help its managers become better coaches and leaders. It turned to HighGround to help re-tool performance management from an annual, dreaded process to more continuous, real-time feedback and coaching. The post [Video] HighGround Customer Story: LRW appeared first on HighGround.

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The Antidote to Always-On Work Culture

WorkHuman

As life and work gets busier and more distracting, companies like Google, Target, and General Mills are all investing in mindfulness to improve productivity and corporate culture. Even Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll encouraged players to meditate daily before their Super Bowl win. Could mindfulness help your work culture? What are some simple tips for bringing mindfulness into daily life?

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5 Steps for Starting an Employee Recognition Program at Your Business

Justworks

Check out our free guide on how to motivate your employees through incentive programs. By now, you probably know how important rewarding employees is for your company. It boosts morale, makes employees feel like they are integral to your company, and even lowers voluntary turnover rates. In fact, according to a Globoforce study , “The number one reason most Americans leave their jobs is that they don’t feel appreciated.

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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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The 9-Step Checklist for Evaluating and Improving Employee Performance

Hppy

Did you know that that only about 30% of U.S. employees are engaged at work? It’s true: Recent data from a Gallup poll shows that nearly two-thirds of workers are not invested in the work they’re doing. That’s a pretty high percentage, don’t you think? The good news is that there is a clear path toward improving those numbers within your organization.

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3 Steps to Strengthen Peer Recognition

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Recognition of one’s peers can be daunting at first, but these steps can help employees build their skill and competency to achieve greater benefits. One of the challenges of implementing a social recognition solution is developing employees’ capacity and comfort around peer-to-peer aspects. Especially where recognition has traditionally or predominantly been a top-down process, it can be difficult for all employees to know exactly where to begin when recogniz

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How to do a job you hate.

Laurie Ruettimann

My adult life has been defined by doing one job: talking people off a ledge who hate their jobs. I don’t particularly enjoy my job of listening to other people complain about their jobs, but as America’s big sister, it is a constant in my life. Here’s how I manage a job that I hate while helping you hate yours a little less. 1. Look for the truth.

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3 Approaches to Common Millennial Conflicts

UrbanBound HR

By now you should be familiar, or getting familiar, with these stellar young men and women. But just to be safe, Millennials are the cohort of children born between 1980 and 2005ish, and the largest age group since the Baby Boomers, totalling around 80 million. Just in the last year, they passed Generation X to become the largest percentage of the workforce.

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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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This is How to Create an Effective Employee Handbook

Hppy

Making an Employee Handbook that Truly Engages Your Staff. You could be working with the most talented staff the world has to offer, and still have an organization with high turnover, low engagement, and unmet expectations of your company by employees. A lot of problems can be solved by addressing management issues through training and other means. But, if you learn how to create an effective employee handbook, you can e many of these issues from the very beginning of someone’s employment with y

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Are You Thinking About Your Performance Management System Too Narrowly?

ATD Human Capital

Performance management system failure most often comes down to a lack of clear purpose. It cannot be a garbage can of different objectives. However, a lack of alignment can also derail performance management systems. Is Performance Management Aligned? While the performance review or appraisal process is usually the key point in managing performance, it is only one element of the performance management system.

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NC Gov. Pat McCrory and Anti-LGBT Legislation: My Take

Laurie Ruettimann

It is 2016. My governor, Pat McCrory, just signed a bill restricting LGBT rights. My local paper reports two key highlights : local governments cannot open bathrooms for people to use based on their gender identity, and it provides a statewide nondiscrimination law that doesn’t mention protections for LGBT people. Some argue that it can also gut protections for women and minorities, although that’s to be determined.