Sat.Oct 29, 2016 - Fri.Nov 04, 2016

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Ceridian Cares: The Road to Giving Away One Million Dollars!

Ceridian

By Lisa Bull, VP of Employee and Leadership Learning, Ceridian. The launch of Ceridian Cares, Ceridian’s own charity, shows the importance of listening to your employees. While our late President, Dave Mackay was a tremendous champion early on, it was by reaching out to our people and asking for input that lead to Ceridian Cares. Our people have always been generous, even before Ceridian Cares, but they wanted to have a more visible impact.

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The 7 Deadly Words You Should Never Say To a Candidate

The Tim Sackett Project

Communication is a tricky thing. It’s so easy to turn off another party by simply using just one wrong word, especially when you’re trying to build a relationship with a candidate you potentially want to hire. I think there are some words and phrases that have a high probability of turning off a candidate to want to come work for your organization. I speak to students a few times a year about interviewing and I tell them something similar, which is what you say can automatically make a hiring ma

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Cornerstone Named One of the 2016 Best Workplaces for Women

Cornerstone On Demand

We need more women in the HR technology industry. There are countless studies linking gender balance with increased performance, innovation and creativity — but currently, only 26 percent of computing jobs and five percent of leadership positions in the technology industry are held by women.

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Don't Let Stranger Things Happen to Your Hiring Process

ClearCompany HRM

Having an outstanding hiring process is a must for organizations trying to bring and keep great talent. Of candidates who have a bad experience with an organization, 42% would never apply for any other job opening at that company again, and 22% would convince their friends not to as well. How do you keep your process from turning into something of supernatural proportions, though?

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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HR Is Not the Only Profession Redefining Itself

HR Bartender

Human resources has been the subject of many articles and conversations over the years. Specifically, the need for HR to evolve and become more analytical in their approaches. While I don’t always agree with the way the argument is being presented, I’m cool with the idea that HR needs to stay on top of their game. I think it betters the profession which is good for HR pros as individuals, our organizations, and the employees we serve.

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Dear ReWorker: What Should I Do About a Lack of Learning Opportunities?

Cornerstone On Demand

Dear ReWorker, During the interview for my current job, I emphasized that I wanted a job with professional development opportunities. The hiring manager said that professional development was important and definitely a priority. After six months, I approached my supervisor about a recognized professional certification that I wanted. It was an 18 month online course, so I wouldn't miss work, but it was expensive.

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The Conversation Process Every Manager Should Follow in Employee Reviews

ClearCompany HRM

Effective employee reviews aren’t something leaders do at employees; reviews are something that leaders do with employees. Use these questions to gauge and establish employee alignment with your organization, then follow up accordingly to solicit feedback from employees in regards to how they’re managed.

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Your Office Space Should Be Determined by Your Work (Not Your Pay Status)

HR Bartender

I wanted to share with you an interesting conversation I had with a couple of human resources professionals about the upcoming changes to the overtime rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). One of the people in the group mentioned a challenge they were having, not because of the pay change, but because the employee impacted was going to have to move from an office with a door to a cubicle.

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10 Workplace Dysfunctions That Create A Toxic Culture

Hppy

Every organization would like to build a high performance culture, but these ten non-strategic activities are in the way of making serious progress. Here are the top 10 workplace dysfunctions that consume precious time and suck up emotional energy: 1. Committee work. How many committees do you have working on various projects? What would happen if you reduced the number by 50% and empowered folks to make decisions and get on with execution?

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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4 Keys to Learning and Development in the 21st Century Workplace

Cornerstone On Demand

Learning for the 21st century and beyond—sounds like a sci-fi novel, right? The term “ learning " is thrown around a lot lately. Many organizations even have Chief Learning Officers, responsible for the development of the organization's human resources. Is the Chief Learning Officer really a glorified Training Director, though? It's an important question, because learning today is vastly different from years past when "training" was the go-to term.

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12 Reasons Why Your Employees Are Stressed at Work

EmployeeConnect

Stress at work is an issue that is often overlooked by employers. Given its psychological nature, organisations can feel out of their way when it comes to dealing with work-related stress. It’s nonetheless one of the greatest problem of today’s modern society. Workplace stress corresponds to the feeling of employees who experience a disconnection between the tasks they need to accomplish and the resources they have available to complete it.

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Everyone is Looking for a New Opportunity [infographic]

HR Bartender

It used to be that part of an organization’s recruiting strategy was to identify passive job seekers. Those are the individuals who aren’t actively seeking an opportunity but they might be persuaded to accept one. After seeing LinkedIn’s annual Talent Trends report , I’m beginning to wonder how many passive job seekers exist. One of the key findings in this year’s survey was that 90 percent of global professionals are open to hearing about a new job opportunity. 90 percent!

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The HR Metric You’re Not Measuring (But Should Be)

WorkHuman

New research suggests employee engagement may not tell the whole story of the employee experience at work. For years, HR leaders and professionals have been laser-focused on measuring and improving employee engagement. In fact, Josh Bersin noted in a Forbes editorial that the roots of engagement surveys go all the way back to the late 1800s when Fredrick Taylor studied how people’s attitudes impacted their productivity in the steel industry.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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3 Ways To Improve Employee Development Programs

Hppy

Employees who wish to grow and prosper are always looking for training programs that aim to hone their skills set and challenge their creativity. Employee engagement and satisfaction is inevitably linked to the number of growth opportunities available, as a recent study shows, where 25% of employees said that if they were given the opportunity to do what they are most proficient at, they would certainly be more satisfied with their current job.

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Infographic: Why is Employee Retention So Difficult? - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Why is employee retention so difficult? Well, times have changed a bit. Gone are the days when companies held complete control knowing that their employees would stay their entire careers with the same organization. Gone are the days of employees enduring hardships and mistreatment from the all-powerful organization. The Age of the Employee. We have entered the age of the employee where talent rises to the top, and job opportunities and technology give employees control over their career path mo

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Moving Past Exam Failure – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

It’s okay to make a mistake. We all do. The tough part is moving past the mistake. That’s the situation this HR Bartender reader is facing. I’ve been in my profession for over a decade and have a master’s degree in my field. Recently, I tried to obtain my professional certification but was unsuccessful. I’ve never been good with tests, so I took a preparation course.

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13 Podcasts on Human Resources You Don’t Want to Miss

Reflektive

We look to organizations like Human Capital Institute and SHRM for research, learnings, and best practices related to running an HR or people operations department. For HR leaders who don’t have time to browse all the newsletters or attend the conferences, a podcast is a great way to keep up on the latest news. They’re audio-only, and are easy to turn on during a commute or while you’re working on another project.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Why Great Leaders See More And Exclude Less

15Five

The central dilemma of a modern leader is to balance apparently conflicting virtues and beliefs without choosing sides between them. Decisiveness, for example, is widely and rightly perceived as crucial to effective leadership. It’s the opposite of uncertainty and insecurity, which are paralyzing. But decisiveness overused eventually congeals into certainty.

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Take the State of Employee Engagement Survey - DecisionWise

DecisionWise

Take the Second Annual State of Employee Engagement Survey! Start the Survey! It only takes 5 minutes! By researching the effectiveness of Employee Engagement programs in organizations around the world, DecisionWise hopes to provide valuable information to HR professionals on this important topic. Participants will receive a complete analysis of the results and have the opportunity to attend a webinar to learn specific insights and findings.

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How To Enable Continuous Learning And Development Using Technology

Hppy

It seems like every month there is some new app that emerges, some new system to adopt, or a new technology to learn. How does the saying go? The more things change, the more they stay the same. That is true for learning and development in organizations. Employees want to continue to learn new skills and develop their competencies. That doesn’t change.

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How to Protect Your Company from High Employee Turnover

Achievers

Every manager and HR professional views employee turnover as a headache, but do you actually know how expensive and damaging it can be to your organization? Here’s a look at the dimensions of this complex problem and some tested managerial practices to alleviate it with long-term solutions. The dimensions of the problem. Current statistics from Catalyst show that it costs an average of one-fifth of an employee’s salary to replace that person, which means that for a position paying $50,00

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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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Getting Great Results from HR Technology

PeopleStrategy

“If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.”. ― Albert Einstein. This quote has been attributed to a variety of people over the years, and it still makes a valid point. When you think about it, the problems HR faces on a day-to-day basis are not new. Since companies have been employing people, there have been challenges with attracting, retaining, and engaging talent.

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Compensation Cafe: Cultural Practices for a More Dynamic Workplace

RecognizeThis!

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! – Shifting away from too much hierarchy, organizations need to emphasize more dynamic and more human ways of working. The pace of changes facing modern businesses is incredible. Many organizations are finding that those changes require an evolution in management philosophy- away from aspects that were successful during the Industrial Era and toward aspects that allow the organization to be more dynamic.

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Pitfalls of Working Sick and How It Affects the Workplace

Everwise

“Contagious presenteeism” is an erratic plague that businesses worldwide are fighting to get rid of. The term, which was recently coined by researchers studying employee behavior trends, refers to the act of ignoring one’s ill status and going to work sick, while increasing the risk of infecting other individuals in the space. Most businesses are aware of the negative effects of contagious presenteeism , but some don’t know why workers are resorting to such actions.

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The Most Attractive Benefits for Globally-Minded Millennials

UrbanBound HR

As the millennial takeover of the workplace population continues at a rapid pace, your corporate policies need to be updated to reflect the changing expectations of this new generation of employees. For many offices, the first round of millennials caused a fair bit of shock and culture clashing between the various generations in the office. Those initial sparks should be dying down, as employees have had time to settle in and you have had plenty of time to update policies to address the changes.

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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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How to Have “The Talk” with a Lax Employee

Hppy

You’ve recently hired an employee who nailed the interview. They answered every question with optimism and creativity and their CV was off the charts. Thinking of yourself as a good judge of character, you didn’t bother to call and check their references; you could tell they were going to fit in well. A couple of months go by, and the person you thought you hired still hasn’t shown up to work.

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The Best Workday Integration You Never Knew About

WorkHuman

Learn more about Globoforce’s pre-packed integration for social recognition in our webinar this Wednesday. Are you a Workday customer or currently going through a Workday implementation? Did you know you can quickly and easily launch a recognition solution that integrates seamlessly with your Workday HCM solution? Globoforce is the only certified Workday partner offering pre-packed integration for social recognition.

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Your Mission Statement: What You Need To Improve Hiring

Spark Hire

It goes without saying that finding a technically competent professional is a crucial part of the hiring process. You don’t want to go through the trouble of adding a new member to your team, only to find they don’t actually have the knowledge base to do their new job successfully. However, now more than ever, you’ll want to look beyond just what this person knows in order to ensure the hiring choice is a wise one from a cultural fit standpoint.