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A Formula for Building an Engaged Workforce - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Do you feel like workplace performance is down, like your managers are lacking leadership, and you aren’t seeing the success or outcomes you know your team can create? One of the easiest things you can do to fix this is review your employee engagement. What is Employee Engagement? Employee engagement is not a feeling employees have when the break room cupboard is stocked with their favorite snacks.

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Are Freelancers Your Best Performers? Applying Organizational Network Analysis to the Gig Economy

Visier

Whether you call it “gig,” “fluid” “liquid,” “agile,” or something else, an increasing proportion of work is done through engagements other than regular full-time employment. While estimates of the number of workers who fully support themselves with work outside of employment vary , the amount of work being done outside of employment (including contracting, freelancing, and moonlighting by regular employees) is increasing.

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This CTO Has Performance Conversations After Every Sprint

Reflektive

Think about the last time you finished a project. How did you feel? What did your teammates think? Did you have a strong idea of what you did well, and what you could improve for next time? Were you able to reflect on all of this and make adjustments before moving onto the next project? One of the biggest contributors to a demotivated workforce is the fact that most employees still don’t get quality, timely feedback from their manager.

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The Weekly Dose of HR Tech: CareerBuilder Partners with Google Cloud Job Discovery

The Tim Sackett Project

The week on The Weekly Dose I dig into CareerBuilder’s partnership with Google Cloud Job Discovery and let you know what it means to you as a Recruiting Pro and Leader! CareerBuilder was one of the early partners with Google in a number of fronts. When Google for Jobs launched, CB was the first TA technology company to work directly with Googles team to build out their job schema and make sure that CB users who were posting jobs on CB would have those jobs show up high on GFJs search resul

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Predict Retention with Confidence: What to Look for Before You Hire

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Turnover isn’t random. It’s a pattern rooted in hiring misalignment. In this practical, fast-paced session, you’ll learn how HR, Talent Acquisition, and Operations leaders are improving retention before day one using personalized assessments. You’ll walk away knowing how to: Identify early signs of alignment Focus on traits that truly matter Predict shift reliability with confidence Reduce risk in high-turnover roles Whether you’re dealing with summer churn or ongoing attrition, this session wil

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Sirenum Slays Dragons at SIA Gig Economy Event

Sirenum

Dynamic Workforce Management vendor takes both audience and dragons’ prizes at Staffing Industry Analysts’ Collaboration in the Gig Economy Dragons’ Den competition London, UK–Sirenum, the leading provider of dynamic workforce management technology to the temporary staffing industry, is proud to announce that it was the audience and dragon favorite at the Dragons’ Den competition during SIA’s.

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How to Be a Proactive Manager

Cornerstone On Demand

Years ago, I shadowed a night manager at a large grocery store chain. She didn't sit down a single time during her entire eight hour shift. She tackled problem after problem, putting out fires. I was completely exhausted by the end of it, and asked her how she did it. She said, "Well, I've been here six months and I've lost 20 pounds without dieting.

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Résumé Screening Is Not Very Effective

HR Daily Advisor

A new survey from staffing firm Robert Half suggests that companies may not be great at reviewing résumés. Source: VectorStory / iStock / Getty. Employers impressed by a job candidate’s résumé often discover the person isn’t such a good match for the position after all, research shows. More than six in 10 senior managers (64 percent) responding to the survey say it’s common for an applicant with a promising résumé to not live up to expectations when interviewed.

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Hiring & Managing Remote Teams in 10 Steps!

ClearCompany HRM

Whether this is your first remote employee or your 50th, hiring and managing a team that spans beyond one office can be a challenge. This checklist is perfect for leaders who are looking to hire a remote employee/team or who have remote employees, but want to boost their program. As with any employee, hiring the right remote worker is crucial to productivity and performance.

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Recruit Better: Create an Online Realistic Job Preview

HR Bartender

“Tell me one of your weaknesses.” is a classic interview question. Of course, no candidate wants to answer with a weakness, so they often come up with a weakness that can also be considered a strength. Like “Oh, I work too much.” Or “I have perfectionist tendencies.”. The same holds true for companies. During the interview process , no organization wants to show off their weaknesses.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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How to Prepare Your Organization for Robot Workers

Cornerstone On Demand

Do you hear that sound? It's the collective gasp of the millions of workers threatened by the likes of artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones and even autonomous vehicles. Recent headlines like " Robots Are Coming for Jobs of as Many as 800 Million World Wide " and “ Workers at Risk as Robots Set to Replace 66M Jobs " deliver a dire forecast of imminent job loss—a robot apocalypse where human workers become redundant.

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NLRB Looking for Clarity on Joint Employment, But Change Won’t Be Quick

HR Daily Advisor

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is considering entering the long and cumbersome process of rulemaking in an effort to create a clear standard for determining what puts two or more employers in a joint-employment relationship under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The standard for determining joint employment has gone back and forth in recent months between employee-friendly and employer-friendly definitions as the Board and courts have tried to bring clarity to the issue.

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Webinar Recap: Cultivate A Healthy Company By Focusing On Employee Growth And Development

15Five

Whether you’re a farmer, have a fruit tree or two, or simply enjoy fresh produce, you likely know that cultivating crops requires more than just sticking seeds in the dirt. (Yes, this is going to be a metaphor about employee growth and development.). First, you have to prepare the ground and make sure it’s a fertile environment. Loosen the soil so that the seeds have room to sprout.

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Ethics: Taking Credit For Someone Else’s Ideas – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Many of us can relate to today’s reader note about ethics. What do you do when you discover that someone has stolen one of your ideas and made it their own? Can you write a blog post on intellectual integrity and ethics? I recently became aware of a situation where a senior leader in a position of trust overheard and borrowed someone’s idea and passed it off as their own.

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Stay Ahead Of I-9 & Immigration Changes: Compliance Strategies for Employers

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With a new administration and increased scrutiny on employment compliance, employers must navigate complex, fast-evolving regulations. From I-9 audits to major immigration policy updates, staying ahead is critical. Join Chapelle Ryon, CEO of WorkBright, and Kimberly Best-Robideaux, an immigration attorney with over 20 years of I-9 expertise, for a practical, forward-looking discussion on what’s changing and what it means for your organization.

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The Millennials Are Right: Continual Performance Feedback Works

Cornerstone On Demand

As millennials continue to flood the workforce, one of the most obvious differences about the cohort is their constant need for performance feedback and continual reward. Standard annual reviews and rewards are not enough for this group of upstarts—managers cite that millennial employees want to check in at the end of every initiative and get feedback on how they performed.

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8 Twitter Accounts That All HR Leaders Should Be Following

Reflektive

Twitter is a wonderful resource for HR professionals, but it can also be a challenging environment to navigate. From hashtags, to accounts, to lists, to moments, there are so many different ways to keep up with trending news that it can be difficult to figure out who to follow. Here are eight accounts that we think all HR leaders should be following to get a well rounded glimpse of what’s happening in the world of human resources.

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Should You Offer Summer Fridays to Your Employees?

Justworks

Summer Fridays are a relatively small gesture that can make a tremendous impact on employee happiness. What exactly is a Summer Friday? Well, it depends. Offering summer hours is a business policy where companies give paid time off, typically on Fridays that occur between Memorial Day and Labor Day, in addition to employees' regularly allotted paid time off.

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Bookmark This! Anti Harassment Edition

HR Bartender

This post has been a long time in the works. I think it’s fair to say that #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have changed us – both individually and organizationally. While so much progress has happened in a short period of time, there are still many conversations that need to happen and a lot of action to be taken. At this year’s WorkHuman Conference, pioneered by Globoforce , there was an incredible panel moderated by Wharton professor Adam Grant that included journalist Ronan Farrow, actor Ashley

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From One Location to Many — Grow Smarter with Mitratech

Hospitality and food & beverage businesses—especially those managing multiple locations—are under pressure to grow quickly while staying compliant with evolving labor laws and industry regulations. High turnover, time-consuming onboarding, and regulatory risk can strain even the most efficient operations. That’s where this free solutions guide can help.

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Office Hours: 3 Ways Wendy's Empowers and Engages Their Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly " Office Hours " video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. Investing in employee engagement doesn't just improve the well being of your workforce—it also drives profits. According to a Hay Group study that looked at responses from millions of employees worldwide, companies that score highest in employee engagement earn 2.5 times more revenue than others.

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What is the HR Business Partner Model?

Reflektive

The role of human resources is changing. The growing influence of automation and the need to deliver measurable value has transformed HR’s responsibilities. In the traditional model, HR departments were responsible for recruiting and hiring employees, administering payroll and benefits, and handling employee relations. Automated HR technology now handles many of those tasks, often freeing up bandwidth for HR to take on new responsibilities.

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5 Data-Based Reasons to Make Employee Education a Priority

Achievers

If you’re not offering employees education opportunities then you might want to reconsider. Today’s generation of workers have put employee education and development high on their list of the most-desired benefits that a company can offer. Offering educational opportunities has a wide variety of benefits for both employees and companies, and gives a competitive advantage from a recruiting standpoint.

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Strategically Managing Manufacturing Skills Gaps With Learning Analytics

Visier

For many companies struggling to fill job vacancies, “corporate colleges” have become a necessity. At one factory complex in Washington, workers check out books from a company library, reports this recent WSJ article. At another in Atlanta, a faculty teaches workers lessons from the factory floor. If you work in HR for the manufacturing sector, you may be wondering if your company should be following suit: By 2025, over 2 million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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How To Make Your People Plan Bloody Brilliant

Hppy

The human resource plan is the expression of how the organization intends to acquire and retain the skills and competencies it needs to execute its strategic game plan. The plan should also address how to deal with existing skills and competencies the organization possesses but no longer requires. Also read: How To Align Your People Plan With Business Objectives.

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Designing an Impactful Employee Learning Experience

Everwise

Organizations of all sizes are seeing a greater need for learning and development (L&D). According to the 2017 Training Industry Report , spending on training climbed nearly 33% to $90.6 billion in the U.S. last year. And with good reason, L&D programs help support critical business objectives, from top-line growth to ongoing employee development.

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What’s the Best Cadence For Surveying Employees?

15Five

Nearly 70 percent of U.S. employees are disengaged at work, and business leaders want to know why. But getting to the bottom of engagement issues requires an understanding of employee sentiment that can only happen through a deep-dive into engagement data. We know collecting feedback is the first step … but how often should we do it? Determining the ideal feedback cadence requires an understanding of how your company plans, acts on, and evaluates other mission-critical aspects of the organizatio

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2018 HRCI Certification Changes: What You Need to Know

UpstartHR

If you haven’t heard, HRCI recently came out with some major changes to their learning content structure–the biggest I’ve seen in the last ten years. Below I outline what you need to know, how to prepare, and a major announcement from me about what we’re doing to help you prepare. Before I jump into the changes, one of the most common questions I’m getting is whether our certification materials help with this NEW exam.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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How (not) to Engage Millennials

Hppy

The young prince had grown weary of the jester – his jokes fell flat, his singing was out of tune and his attempts at acrobatics were dismal. “Perhaps you’d be funnier without your head,” admonished the monarch, “I can easily find a replacement for you.”. The same challenge as the jester befalls HR managers – how do we engage millennials?

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Listen: How to Redirect Emotional Waste in the Workplace

WorkHuman

By Sarah Payne —. Is workplace drama an inevitable part of doing business? Cy Wakeman, WorkHuman 2018 speaker and president and founder of Reality-Based Leadership , argues there’s a better way. Cy started her career as a marriage and family therapist. She took what she learned about human behavior and psychology and now helps organizations improve the way they manage and motivate their people.

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How to Listen, Learn & Create a Success-Fostering Company Culture

Kazoo

Fostering company culture is more than just ping pong tables and videogames at work. It’s about cultivating the type of company mindset that upholds a positive set of values that make employees feel inspired, accepted, and heard. As Recode states: “Creating a thriving, positive workplace culture doesn’t “just happen,” nor will installing a foosball table instantly fix a company.