Sat.Jun 17, 2017 - Fri.Jun 23, 2017

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my boss keeps leaving work to go to her second job

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: As a long-time reader, I’m fully aware that Other People’s Time Off Is None Of My Business, unless it’s affecting your work, in which case you can approach your boss about the work segment. But what if it’s your boss’s time off creating the issue? We work for a very small nonprofit (fewer than 10 people), which falls under the umbrella of a larger organization, and my boss’s boss is the executive director.

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What Are Talent Analytics, and How Can You Use Them?

HR Daily Advisor

Do you use data and have metrics related to sourcing talent? For example, do you know which of your recruiting pipelines generates the highest percentage of hires? Do you continue to use data to assess employee productivity, engagement, and retention? What about using and analyzing data to ensure the right staffing levels or to know in advance when to hire new employees?

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It’s About More Than HR: Analytics Learnings from Tom Davenport and Dr. John Sullivan

Visier

At this year’s Visier Outsmart (our annual user conference), we were fortunate to have two notable industry thought leaders take part: Tom Davenport, Big Data luminary and pioneer of the concept of “competing on analytics,” and Dr. John Sullivan, internationally renowned HR thought leader (and guest writer on the Visier blog ). The underlying theme tying their two presentations together was that in order for HR to be successful with analytics, it’s necessary to connect HR goals (or your people s

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How Your Small Business Can Attract and Retain Top Talent

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is sponsored by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), a leading provider of insurance, annuities, retirement plans, and other employee benefits. They were recently recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as a 2017 World’s Most Ethical Company. Many congratulations to them. Enjoy the post!) . All businesses face the same challenges.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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4 Steps to Small Franchise Business Success

Hireology

If one of your career goals is to start a business, buying a small franchise business is a great way to achieve this goal without starting from scratch. And becoming a franchisee offers a variety of opportunities depending on your business interests – more than 300 different industries have embraced the franchise business model with a new franchise location opening every 8 minutes in the U.S.

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Are You Ready for Personalized Learning?

Cornerstone On Demand

When my family moved to Florida eight years ago, we bought a house with a pool. We loved looking outside at night with the pool light on; peaceful and beautiful. But a few months later, the bulb burned out. Rather than call the pool guy, my husband went on YouTube and learned how to replace the bulb. I was a new CLO in a large healthcare system at the time and witnessing him turn to YouTube boggled my mind.

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Everything #HR Needs to Know About Boolean Search

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I attended the SHRM Talent Management Conference and TAtech Spring Congress. Both events are very heavily focused on talent acquisition, which isn’t a surprise given all of the media attention on “full employment”. But it made me realize that there are some fundamental tools human resources professionals might not have focused on over the past few years.

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Last Week in Talent - Tuesday, June 20th

Entelo

Hello friends! This is Last Week in Talent, where yours truly runs down all the most interesting, important and intriguing talent and recruiting-related information from the last week in recruiting and hiring. In case you missed it, Entelo (yes, us!) announced our Series C round last week (ps, we're hiring ) , Amazon announced they are buying Whole Foods (for the estimated equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of Kumbucha ) , Careerbuilder just got bought , Wordpress is closing their super nice SF (

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Why You Should Invest In Servant Leadership – An Interview With Marcel Schwantes

15Five

Who are the thought leaders you turn to for business and management advice? Got room for one more? Over the past several months, my eyes have been caught by informative articles on leadership and productivity from the same author. I found an Inc. column so valuable that I asked if I could interview the author for our blog. Fortunately, he agreed to answer several questions about leadership, employee engagement, and organizational health.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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Top Voices at SHRM 2017

Reflektive

For many human resources professionals, this past weekend was spent waltzing down Bourbon Street with Mardi Gras beads in hand for the annual SHRM conference. For those who don’t know what SHRM is, it is the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference, which is the largest annual gathering of HR professionals in the world. Each year the SHRM weekend is jam-packed with keynote speakers, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities for people of all backgrounds to participate and

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Onboarding: Your Connection Between Recruiting and Learning

HR Bartender

We’ve all seen the headlines lately about the U.S. being at “ full employment ”. On the surface, full employment might sound like a good thing, right? Well, not so fast. Full employment can create a couple of challenges. Over inflated compensation and benefits. I’m all for a competitive job market. Top talent should be able to get what they deserve for their skills and experience.

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How Talent Technology Enables Employee Engagement [Podcast]

UpstartHR

Listen on Stitcher Listen on Blogtalkradio Talent management technology has come a long way in recent years. I can still remember seeing a demo for a technology solution back in 2014 and the salesperson was so proud of the fact that I could copy and paste data into the system. By the way: It wasn’t searchable. You couldn’t run reports. You couldn’t export anything.

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Why You Should Love Upward Feedback

EmployeeConnect

If you’re in a managerial position and you are not getting feedback from your direct reports, you need to change this situation. It’s quite important for managers to receive upward feedback because it contains valuable inputs can be extracted into modified behavior, policies & process. In fact, soliciting upward feedback helps boost the morale of the entire team.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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[Infographic] The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence In The Workplace

Hppy

If you want your workforce to be happy and fulfilled, or to be more productive (which likely requires them to be happy and fulfilled), you need to know what these terms mean and to understand how emotions function in your place of work. Put simply, there is no substitute for developing your emotional intelligence – and helping those around you to develop theirs, too.

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The Woodstock For HR

China Gorman

The competitive world of HR Conferences may be changing forever. And that’s not a bad thing, in my opinion. Innovation is happening in this space – from stronger SHRM state conference offerings, to an additional HR technology-related conference ( HR Tech World ) being introduced in the U.S,, to other new entries – all designed to disrupt the usual HR conference offerings and deliver greater value to attendees.

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How to Kill Happiness at Work – Part 2

WorkHuman

One of our most popular blog posts last year was titled, “How to Kill Happiness at Work.” Either HR people are really cruel or they’re genuinely concerned about the happiness of their employees (we’re guessing it’s the latter). In that post, I shared some interesting research from Woohoo Inc. on the causes of bad days at work. A global survey of more than 700 workers showed the top five causes of bad days are: Bad bosses (lack of help and support) – 40%.

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Find Your Happy Place in the Moment

CONCERN: EAP

Recent studies have uncovered something surprising about happiness and attention. In one study, 15,000 participants were sent signals at random times during their day which asked them to respond to an in-the-moment poll. The poll contained a few questions like these: How do you feel on a scale ranging from very bad to very good?What are you doing?Are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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5 Key Benefits of Real-Time Performance Feedback

Reflektive

What we call performance management was first introduced in the 1970s, following the dawn of scientific management. Performance management emerged when it was discovered that worker satisfaction drives efficiency — the beginning of an emphasis on workplace happiness. But by 1992, 20 percent of companies were satisfied with their performance review systems, and in 1997, that number dropped to 5 percent.

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Staying Engaged During Corporate Change (Part 3)

Achievers

In fact, change can sometimes feel downright terrible. Even if change feels frustrating, scary, or pointless, transformation can often lead to growth and opportunity for any person willing to accept it. But why would someone buy in to corporate transition amidst the chaos that comes with it? In the first two parts of this three-part series, I discussed how science shows that to successfully navigate change, employees need to stay engaged in the workplace.

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Learn this HR Leader’s No-Fail Approach to developing leaders

Everwise

Over the course of his 20-year career, Ranu Gupta has held HR and Learning leadership roles at global corporations like Procter and Gamble, Western Union, and GE Capital. He has an M.B.A. from Xavier’s Institute of Management and is currently working towards a graduate degree in Executive Management at Stanford University. Above all, Gupta understands the importance of self awareness, reflection, and being a trusted sounding board when developing yourself as a leader.

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Boost Your Online Networking Skills in 5 Easy Steps

Justworks

Business networking can feel tiring. Even if you’re a social butterfly, occasionally it’s nice to skip networking events and relax at home instead. The good news is, you can still expand your professional networking connections even if you begin online. In fact, many small business owners and entrepreneurs use online networking to boost their businesses and make valuable connections — and websites like Startup Nation and The Small Business Hub include online forums and community meetups to.

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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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#SHRM17: A New Perspective on ‘All In’

WorkHuman

At SHRM’s annual conference in New Orleans this week, the theme was “all in” – what it means to be all invested in your career, in the business, and in your people. What happens when you’re not all in? What if you don’t treat your employees like humans ? I got a glimpse of that on my journey home yesterday. While waiting for a layover in Newark, I received several text updates that my flight was delayed.

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Giving Gifts to Coworkers: 7 Gift Ideas for Office Friends

Hppy

Finding the right gifts to give to coworkers can be downright frustrating and stressful if you can’t come up with any good ideas. Getting unique office gifts for coworkers can be even more difficult than for friends because in spite of how much time you spend with your coworkers, it’s likely you keep business and personal matters fairly separate.

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The HR Side Of Management: Having Difficult Conversations In The Workplace

Everwise

As you rise from junior staff to senior leader, you will undoubtedly come across situations where you disagree with your superiors. For many, the knee jerk reaction to this kind of scenario is to shy away from confrontation. However, Jean-Francois Manzoni, professor of human resources and organizational development at INSEAD, advises that the key to dealing with these situations is to learn how to handle them in a way that produces “a better outcome: less pain for you, and less pain for the pers

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How to Promote Change in Your Organization

ATD Human Capital

Change means giving up something. What are you willing to give up to move forward? Stop resisting change, even if it hurts. The way you look at a changing situation, or even a person who is changing, determines your reaction. Think about the times you have changed in your personal life without the support of your friends or family. It hurt, right? But with or without them, you made the change happen.

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Living With My First Employee for 2 Weeks Taught Me Everything About Recruiting

Entrepreneur

This entrepreneur couldn't fly out to meet a prospective hire, so she invited him for a two-week visit.

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Mentoring and Finding Purpose

Hppy

They were like ships without a rudder, a sailboat without any wind. They were frustrated and becoming more and more disengaged as the days went by. Some had already hit the breaking point and left for what we hoped was greener pastures on the other side of the fence. What if nothing changed though? What if things were not any better next door? It all seemed to be better from the outside but once we get inside it – will it be that way?

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the Ask a Manager book is coming

Ask a Manager

Y’all, I wrote a book. ASK A MANAGER: Clueless Coworkers, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and Other Work Conversations Made Easy will be published by Random House/Ballantine next spring. The book — which is nearly all new content that you haven’t read here — takes on more than 200 difficult conversations you might need to have during your career (with your boss, your coworkers, your employees, or your job interviewer) and gives you the wording to do it … focusing especially on the awkwa

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