Ask a Manager

JUNE 19, 2017

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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HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 20, 2017

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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Visier

JUNE 21, 2017

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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Hireology

JUNE 23, 2017

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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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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HR Bartender

JUNE 19, 2017

(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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Cornerstone On Demand

JUNE 21, 2017

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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Entelo

JUNE 20, 2017

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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HR Bartender

JUNE 22, 2017

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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15Five

JUNE 21, 2017

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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Reflektive

JUNE 23, 2017

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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UpstartHR

JUNE 19, 2017

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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HR Bartender

JUNE 18, 2017

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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EmployeeConnect

JUNE 19, 2017

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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Hppy

JUNE 21, 2017

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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China Gorman

JUNE 20, 2017

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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WorkHuman

JUNE 20, 2017

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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CONCERN: EAP

JUNE 22, 2017

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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Reflektive

JUNE 19, 2017

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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Achievers

JUNE 22, 2017

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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Everwise

JUNE 19, 2017

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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Justworks

JUNE 22, 2017

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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WorkHuman

JUNE 22, 2017

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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Hppy

JUNE 22, 2017

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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Everwise

JUNE 22, 2017

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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ATD Human Capital

JUNE 20, 2017

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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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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Entrepreneur

JUNE 22, 2017

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

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Hppy

JUNE 19, 2017

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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Ask a Manager

JUNE 21, 2017

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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