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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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Customer Spotlight: 5 Tools Making Life Easier for Pet Care Business Owners

Hireology

This is a guest post from Hireology client Cara Armour, founder of Boston-based Active Paws. Cara has more than a decade of pet sitting experience, winning Pet Sitter of the Year in 2009. Below, Cara highlights several tools that help her pet sitting business run smoothly. Read more insights from Cara’s 13+ of professional pet services experience here.

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#HotInHR: Improving Diversity Rates @Pinterest, Where Are All the Men in HR? Intern Takes Over Railroad’s Twitter

Advos

Get HR Funding News Delivered To Your Inbox. Every week we send a summary of funding announcements, M&A and partnership news from the HR marketplace. Sign up now. Week in Review – Popular Content. What We Learned from Improving Diversity Rates at Pinterest – HBR. In today’s workplace, diversity is more than just a buzzword; it’s a way to build a stronger business.

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How to Prepare Employees to Step Up When Leadership Steps Down

Cornerstone On Demand

Part of HR's greatest responsibility lies with succession planning: we must identify and develop the next generation of leadership so they may step up when current leadership steps down. It's incredibly important to the future of an organization: a 2016 Borderless survey on Leadership Development cited ability having enough capable leaders as one of the top organizational challenges most companies face.

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Investing in HR Software: How to Get Internal Buy-in

Buying HR software is a major decision. That’s why finding the right provider based on your needs and ensuring key decision makers are on board is vital. Download Paycor’s guide for tips to address common concerns across your buying committee.

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Best Practices for Scheduling Hourly Employees

nettime solutions

Your schedule forms the backbone of your daily business operations. Since payroll is one of the biggest items in your budget, the way you staff your shifts makes a huge impact on your bottom line. You also need to have protocols for when and how the schedule is displayed, how employees make time off requests, and how they swap shifts. It’s vital to respect the time your employees give you and your business.

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Stop Sabotaging Your New Hire! Try These Bold Onboarding Ideas

ClearCompany HRM

While the employee onboarding process should instill confidence in new hires, it goes beyond warm fuzzies. You and your team are preparing the new employee for the reality of the job. Give them the wrong idea about your company or their position, and you will see a quickly exiting or disengaged hire. Aside from the critical steps of the employee onboarding process , your team should be using your company culture and values to inspire a unique experience.

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Do Your Learning Metrics Invoke Emotion?

Cornerstone On Demand

In 2006, my organization's Leadership Academy—a 10-month long in-person and virtual cohort program—returned (quantitatively) four times the investment in the program. Part of this was in part due to the great relationship we had with our CFO, who helped us identify some traditional and some unique metrics to measure. But for me, the single most important measure was when the organization began to experience financial difficulties, resulting in the proverbial belt-tightening.

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Bookmark This! Change Management Edition

HR Bartender

I’ve been hearing lots of conversation about change. Whether it’s organizations that need to change OR departments that want to be more agile so they can respond to change OR individuals who want to create a change in their lives. Change is hard. Even when we want it. Typically, change involves developing new habits and routines. If change wasn’t hard enough, the speed in which we must adjust to change can be even more difficult.

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5 Learning and Development Questions You Can’t Answer Without Analytics

Visier

Learning is a key part of work, and science says it will continue to be vital in the workplace of the future. Without strong Learning and Development (L&D) programs, employees may have a harder time being productive, moving up in the organization, and contributing to financial performance. Additionally, it can also lead to lower employee engagement and increased turnover.

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Secrets to the Switch: Choosing the Best HR Software in 2023

Speaker: Patrick Sayers - President, Newcastle Research

Does your organization need more productivity (and less pain) from your HR software? With the increase of technology-dependent remote work and highly sophisticated cyber threats on the rise, it's critical to successfully implement an HR platform that can help your organization see actionable information in real-time to hit all your key workforce KPIs.

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The Massive Effect THIS Has on Your New Employees

ClearCompany HRM

Close your eyes. Think of a time when you were busy and needed to hire a lot of people. Were you concerned with candidate experience? Of course you were. Were you wary of long interview times and ensuring you hired for technical and cultural fit? Absolutely! Did you have your onboarding process mapped out before you sent out the offer letter?

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L&D Programs That Strengthen Leadership Across All Levels

CultureIQ

Engaging Employees Through L&D Programs … The post L&D Programs That Strengthen Leadership Across All Levels appeared first on CultureIQ.

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Human Resources: 2017 Changes for Form I-9

HR Bartender

There’s a lot happening in the news. Regardless of your politics, our legislators are talking about immigration, health care, elections, and much more. It can be a challenge to keep up with it all. For example, did you know that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office just released a new version of Form I-9? I didn’t know this change was coming until I was in New Orleans at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference.

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The Stats You Should Know If You are Recruiting Contractors in the UK

Linkedin Talent Blog

There are 7 million members in the UK on LinkedIn that identify themselves as contractors - that’s 15% of the total UK workforce today. The industry, made up of freelancers, contractors and the self-employed, has grown steadily over the last decade and, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 set to create exponential change to labour market dynamics, this is certainly an employment trend that we can expect to see grow!

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2023 HR Technology Trends: What's New and What's Next

Speaker: Ben Eubanks - Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory

The world of HR has changed so much in recent years, and so have the technologies and tools that support HR and talent leaders. But frankly, keeping up with the ever-changing HR tech landscape can feel like another full-time job. That's why we're sharing with you this webinar session with Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer for Lighthouse Research & Advisory.

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When the Going Gets Tough, Go Easy on Yourself

CONCERN: EAP

When you hit a rough patch, what does your self-talk sound like? For some of us, in those moments, our inner voice comes on like a drill-sergeant full of harsh words and criticism. Even people who are naturally supportive and understanding of others may find it hard to offer the same kindness to themselves. An area of behavioral science research observing self-compassion is taking a closer look at how kindly or unkindly we view ourselves, and the effects on mood, health, and overall wellbeing.

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Say Goodbye to the Annual Bonus

WorkHuman

Everyone in the world of HR is talking about the end of annual performance reviews. The chatter is focused on how to promote a coaching culture throughout the year to continuously improve employee performance. Few people, however, are offering a real solution to the compensation piece of the annual review. Traditionally, employees had their review with their manager and received a rating based on their performance over the past year.

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Your Organization’s Last Differentiator: Human Capital

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. The Boston Business Journal recently named Kronos as one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts. It’s their eighth time on the list and third consecutive year in the top three. Congratulations to them!

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As an HR How Do You Manage an Unsatisfied Employee?

Hppy

When you are an HR executive, you are expected to don many hats. One of the biggest challenges is keeping your company out of legal battles and knowing the role of human factors in production network. This calls for tact and inter-personal skills to smooth out “people problems”. Having a disgruntled employee is not something unusual or threatening. What is worrisome is when the unsatisfied employee continues to hold onto his grudge despite your best efforts at reconciliation.

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The HR Leader’s Guide to Recruiting & Hiring

62% of Paycor survey respondents say we’re in a permanent talent shortage. By 2030, we’ll see more jobs than workers (BCG).

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Dealing with a Narcissistic Boss

EmployeeConnect

Do you feel your boss is a narcissist? Do they expect you to be on call the entire day? Are they a person who blames everyone else other than themselves for any mistakes? Do they often argue and contradict themselves? Well, if the answer to most of these questions is yes, then it appears you are probably reporting to a narcissist! Some of the common character traits of a narcissist include being selfish, throwing temper tantrums, and taking away the credit for other people’s work.

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Pay Attention to Originality

WorkHuman

Adam Grant & Greg Stevens at WorkHuman 2017. Listen to the latest episode of WorkHuman Radio with Adam Grant and Greg Stevens, embedded at the top of this post. People can learn to increase their originality, developing creative ideas to improve the world around them and seeing those ideas through to reality. That’s the idea at the center of Adam Grant’s book, “ Originals.”.

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The Single Question that Drives Company Culture

HR Bartender

I won’t keep you in suspense. Here’s the question: Who comes first? It seems to me that organizations have to choose. Is it shareholders, customers, or employees that will come first? And you can’t say all three. Yes, all three are important. But one has to come first. Because the answer drives the vision, mission, and values of the organization. It drives company culture.

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Is “Being Predictable” Essential For Remarkable Success?

Hppy

You’ve heard these types of comments before as descriptors of an individual who attracts a positive rating from leadership and is viewed as someone with potential to go further in the organization. “He can be counted on to deliver consistent results; he’s dependable.” “She’s predictable; you get few surprises from her work.” Predictability is often, if not always, looked upon as a strength; an attribute that leaders find “comfortable” and des

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Upskilling HR: Future-Proof Your HR Career

Speaker: Jeanne Achille - CEO, The Devon Group

Is your HR department running around barefoot like the shoemaker's children? If so, you're on a collision course with the ever-changing realities of the workplace, which necessitate strong HR tech skills. In this webinar, we'll look at why HR should invest in learning to ensure organizational resiliency and employee retention. Consider it self-care as we discuss how to future-proof your own career through the opportunities provided by upskilling.

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Performance Consulting Tips: Finding Solutions When Learning Is Not the Answer

ATD Human Capital

I want to share a story from my consulting practice—one to which you can probably relate. My client, a vice president of branch sales at a regional bank, needed to increase the average number of banking products each customer used from around two products to four products. For example, most customers had checking and savings accounts, but the bank wanted each customer to have two additional banking products, such as credit cards or money-market accounts.

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When Suicide Hits Close to Home

Don Phin

I sense there is a lot of fear and depression going on. And…it can’t be ignored. While I have never entertained the thought of suicide, that’s not been the case for so many others. And… it’s been hitting close to home the last few years. A 13-year old boy, who was the younger brother of. Read More. The post When Suicide Hits Close to Home appeared first on HRSherpas.

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Answers to Your Top 5 Recognition Questions

WorkHuman

As a follow-up to WorkHuman 2017 , we hosted a webinar a few weeks ago around 5 Tips for Launching a Social Recognition Program. Derek Irvine, vice president, client strategy and consulting, and Lynette Silva, senior recognition strategist, led the discussion, which generated a ton of great questions from listeners. Lynette graciously offered to answer five of those questions below on budgeting for recognition, the science of turnover , “non-wired” workers , and setting up your program for long-

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Bringing Engagement and Culture to Invoicing

Hppy

There are many tedious boring tasks in the workplace and with it there are challenges. One of these tasks is invoicing and managing all other documents related to billing clients. And the truth is that repetitive, tedious tasks can make it hard to keep employee engagement high. . Employee Engagement with Invoicing. There are several steps to invoicing.

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Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template

When it comes to benefits, communication is critical. To help you easily explain your offerings at open enrollment, Paycor created an open enrollment sample letter (and a few tips). Download this free Employee Open Enrollment Letter Template today.