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5 Key Components of Any Successful Performance Management Process

HR Bartender

Regardless of your opinion of the annual performance review, organizations still need to have a performance management process. Performance management is a way to provide feedback, accountability, and documentation for performance outcomes. Even organizations that are “ditching” the annual review aren’t abandoning accountability, feedback, and documentation.

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10 Tips on How to Mentor Emerging HR Talent

Cornerstone On Demand

One of our greatest assets in the field of human resources is our next generation of thought leaders. As we undergo significant changes in our industry and prepare for a new world of work in the information age, there is no better time to start focusing on how we lead the next generation through these uncertain times. As someone who has spent decades in HR rising through the ranks, one of the greatest joys of my career has been coaching my younger teammates.

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Aspiring to be a CHRO? Here's How to Get There

ClearCompany HRM

Do you have your sights set on a CHRO position? Good choice! Whether a business succeeds or fails is determined by the quality and happiness of the employees who work there. And because over 50% of the U.S. workforce is not engaged, companies are crying out for talented CHROs.

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How To Use Cohort Analysis for Better Workforce Decisions

Visier

Talking compensation and promotions with your employees can be a tricky business, yet many managers make these costly (and sometimes time-sensitive) people decisions based on hallway conversations and gut feel. Intuition — a mental “shortcut” — is the result of two hardwired processes ( pattern recognition and emotional tagging ), which frequently lead to cognitive errors.

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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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Everyone Needs to Change Their Communication Style – Friday Disctraction

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. For a second year, Kronos CEO Aron Ain has been recognized as one of the Top 20 CEOs in information technology by Glassdoor.com. Many congrats to him! Enjoy the post.) . When we’re asked to be a part of something – like being on a project team or getting a promotion or even starting a new job – it’s very tempting to think that

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The 11 Habits of Highly Effective Teams

ATD Human Capital

In my book, The Collaborator: Discover Soccer as a Metaphor for Global Business Leadership , I describe the game of soccer as the best example of a sport with teams charged to perform their work under changing conditions. Why soccer? Played at its highest level, the best soccer teams in the world succeed by applying a mindset that recognizes a mutual dependency between players on the field, described as genuine collaborative teamwork.

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The Underground Workforce: Immigrants

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000010 A little over a month ago, I traveled to Queens to go pick up my 10th wedding anniversary cake from a family friend. To give you some context, I live in Long Island, NY (the forgotten borough, unless you talk The Hamptons) so anytime I want food or goods related to my West-Indian culture […].

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Recruiters: Do You Know the Quality of Your Web Traffic?

HR Bartender

One of the most interesting conversations that took place during this year’s TAtech Spring Congress was about web traffic. According to a report by software company DeviceAtlas, almost half of all web traffic (48 percent) is now generated by bots (aka web robots) and crawlers. Bots and crawlers are software that’s designed to visit your site and perform a function.

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Ted Talk Tuesday: Rewards Aren't the Key to Employee Motivation

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. Daniel Pink is trying to change the way companies view the modern workplace. He is the author of five provocative books, including three long-running New York Times bestsellers: A Whole New Mind, To Sell is Human and Drive.

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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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Experiences, Not Stuff: From Parenting to Business

UpstartHR

Last weekend my wife forwarded me an article that hit her right between the eyes. And to be honest, it did for me as well. It was a parenting piece that focused on one of the rampant problems we deal with in our house: toys. The gist of the piece is that our kids have enough toys and that buying them more just makes them more bored and more hungry for the next thing.

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5 Ways To Help Your Employees Manage Stress

Hppy

It’s no secret that with time, professional lives have become increasingly demanding and complex. The ‘24X7-always-on’ lifestyle, along with mounting work pressure, often results in extreme stress, burnout, and anxiety in employees. This directly affects their productivity and engagement. In fact, according to a survey by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted in collaboration with National Public Radio and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 44 percent respondents say their job aff

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The Best Way to Study for an HR Certification Exam – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I’ve written before about the importance of HR certification and recertification. Today’s reader question has to do with a different part of the process – studying for the exam. I am interested in obtaining a HR certification and had a few questions for you. What do you recommend is the best way to prepare for the exam besides professional experience?

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Got Goals? Work the System with the Power of Tiny Habits

CONCERN: EAP

If goals are the destinations we want to reach someday, then the systems we put in place are the paths we take to get there. Those paths might be long or short, direct or winding, downhill or up, but we must walk them to reach our goals, no matter what.The more we commit to the system, instead of just the end goal, the more progress we can make. That’s because, unlike a goal, a system is something we can easily put in practice.

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Fortify I-9 Compliance With The All-in-one Team Training Handbook

USCIS estimates that 76% of paper I-9s have at least one fineable error —with high-volume hirers at the highest risk. But worry not. WorkBright’s Ultimate I-9 Compliance Guide is a comprehensive resource to instantly level up your team’s I-9 process and reduce your audit risk. What to expect: Written for HR teams: No cryptic legal jargon here. We’ve made it fast and easy to find concise answers to nearly fifty I-9 questions in simple terms.

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14 Characteristics of a Great Workplace

EmployeeConnect

Have you ever wondered what is it that secret formula that makes a great workplace with extraordinary employees motivated to report to work every day? Or what makes a workplace to attract, retain, and motivate the very best talent in the industry? This article discusses some of the attributes which characterise a great workplace and makes it attractive enough to lure the very best of talent in the industry.

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The Change is Coming, the Change is Coming!

Don Phin

Sometimes change can feel like some monster lurking in the deep, ready to pounce on us in an instant. Nice calm day one moment, disruption the next. People are in fact losing jobs…and companies… to AI and robotics and other technologies. But it should come as no surprise. Woe be the unprepared. (I think that. Read More. The post The Change is Coming, the Change is Coming!

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What is Disability Insurance, and Should You Offer it to Employees?

Justworks

According to the Social Security Administration, 25% of all 20-year-olds will become disabled and unable to work sometime before reaching the age of 67. But unlike with health, dental, and vision insurance, very few people know that there are insurance products designed to replace a portion of their income when they become ill or disabled and cannot work.

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Event Activities at ACE 2017 in New Orleans, September 12-13, 2017

Achievers

The effect of employee engagement on key business objectives is staggering. According to Gallup , highly engaged business units see: a 17 percent increase in productivity. 24 percent less employee turnover. a 41 percent reduction in absenteeism. With such dramatic increases in crucial aspects of business sustainability, the importance of employee engagement cannot be ignored.

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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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A Wellness Culture at Work Takes More Than Words

Hppy

Popular mythology, particularly among America’s older generations, imagines that kids today are born knowing how to use smartphones, computers, and tablets. Before they so much as crawl or exclaim, “Ma-ma!” they seem to intuitively know how to swipe, snap, and scroll on touch screens. While this might be an overly generous assessment of youth skill, there is another talent common among millennials and other younger generations that is of similar utility in the modern world.

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The 7 Corporate Culture Questions Every CEO Should Ask

ATD Human Capital

Leadership and learning are indispensable from one another. —John F. Kennedy. I like questions. Questions make people think. Statements may go in one ear and out the other, but a good question will bounce around inside your head until you come up with an answer. And good questions often breed even better questions. And the outcome of all these questions is often a new insight.

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Compensation: The Gap in Communicating Company Culture

Everwise

The catchphrase among companies these days is “corporate culture.” The Harvard Business Review recently recorded a 90-minute strategy meeting of Fortune-500 company leaders and found that they brought up the word “culture” a whopping 27 times. While this might seem extreme, it makes sense given the extent to which employees have made clear that having a fantastic corporate culture is not just an option.

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Bringing Recognition to Real Estate: Minto Group’s Story

WorkHuman

Bringing about culture change can be a challenge for any organization – where do you begin? How can you organically build a culture of appreciation, even with a large population of offline workers who don’t have access to computers? We recently spoke to Dave Bond, director of talent management and total rewards at the Minto Group, to discuss how the home building and property management company modernized its approach to social recognition and saw immediate results in terms of employee reach.

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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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HR Tech and Relocation: In the News

UrbanBound HR

We're back with some of the top news from HR Tech and relocation in the past week! It was a busy week in the wonderful world of HR and relocation, so we did you a favor and gathered some of the most noteworthy news and compiled it for you in one place.

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CEO Jennefer Witter Wants Women to Build an Old Girls' Network

Justworks

As Founder and CEO of The Boreland Group Inc, Jennefer Witter has headed a successful public relations business for 14 years. Jennefer is author of The Little Book of Big PR: 100 + Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed. She wears many hats — from business leader to networking expert to public speaker — and Justworks was proud to have her as a panelist for women in business at our recent Justwomen event in New York City.

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Are Company Trips a Good Idea?

Hppy

Team retreats sound good in theory. What better way to show your team you appreciate them than to send them to a beachy paradise or a swanky ski resort? It’s an extravagant gesture, and in our current working climate of low engagement, extravagant gestures might be just what you need to perk up team productivity, morale, and teamwork. However, company trips can have some drawbacks , and it’s important to think carefully before you send out an email proposing a trip to Hawaii.

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5 Tips for Launching a Social Recognition Program

WorkHuman

Derek & Lynette will share 5 tips for launching a social recognition program in our webinar this Thursday. Are you interested in bringing social recognition to your company, but not sure where to begin? And what if – like in most organizations – you’re limited by time, budget, and resource constraints? How can you get the rest of your company on board?

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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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When HR Makes a $2,666,594.03 Mistake

Evil HR Lady

We’ve all made mistakes at work , but have you made a $2,666,594.03 mistake? On one employee? Hold onto your hats, because you don’t want this to happen to you. Here’s what happened. Trico Products Corporation laid off Francois El-Hayek after 28 years of service. He was supposed to receive 34 weeks worth of severance pay in exchange for signing a general release.

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How to Grow Your Company Without Losing Its Culture

TalentCulture

Hiring dilutes your culture unless, along with resumes and skill sets, you look at a candidate’s personal alignment with your company’s core values. The concept of startup culture, which is synonymous with open innovation, agility, risk-taking and bootstrapping your way to success, has become the antithesis to traditional corporate hierarchy.

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SME’s Guide to Creating Your First Employee Handbook

Hppy

Hiring staff is a big responsibility and it’s vital that as a business owner, you approach HR correctly with good policies and best practices in place. Whilst there are many HR factors that you will need to consider, creating an employee handbook (also known as a Policies and Procedures Manual) should be a priority if you are looking to grow your team.

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