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4 Ways To Use The Cloud For Field Workforce Management

Hppy

Today’s workplaces as we know them may soon be a thing of the past. Last year, 43 percent of employees spent at least some time working remotely , according to a recent Gallup survey. In fact, this statistic reflects a 4 percent increase since 2012, highlighting a growing work-from-home trend in the years to come. Also read: HR’s Future is Big Data.

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Women in Leadership: Creating an Inclusive Community of Interest

HR Bartender

Communities of interest (sometimes referred to as affinity groups or employee resource groups) are exactly what you would think. They are groups of people who share a common interest, experience, or passion. The group is formed to share ideas and thoughts. Organizations have supported affinity groups for decades. There was a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled, “ Deloitte Thinks Diversity Groups are Passé ”.

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Office Hours: 3 Ways to Invest in Future Company Leaders

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. According to research from the Brandon Hall Group, over 10,000 baby boomers retire every day. By 2020, millennials will make up 46 percent of the workforce. A demographic shift is taking place—if you don't properly invest in younger employees, your organization will soon lack solid leadership.

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10 Affordable Ways To Improve Team Morale at Your Company

Justworks

What is morale? And why is it important to a team's success and a company's business goals? Morale is the capacity of a group of people to pull together persistently and consistently in pursuit of a common purpose,” says sociologist Alexander Leighton. Clearly, this is something everyone wants for their company. Good morale means employees are productive, collaborate better, miss fewer workdays, and feel more satisfied by their work.

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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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4 HR Strategies for Optimizing a Multigenerational Workforce in the Hospitality Industry

Trinet

It is a common misconception that the hospitality industry is made up of mostly young workers. It is not uncommon for restaurants, hotels, resorts and other hospitality businesses to have four or more generations of employees working alongside one another. Here are four specific strategies hospitality employers should implement to get the most from the full generational range of employees.

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The Benefits of a Holistic Learning Experience

Cornerstone On Demand

In order to survive and thrive in today's tech-driven world, organizations must place learning at the forefront of their company's culture, processes and planning. The vast majority of CEOs —90 percent—say their organization is facing disruptive change driven by digital technologies, yet 70 percent of them admit their organization doesn't have the skills to adapt to these changes.

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Fact or Hype: Validating Predictive People Analytics and Machine Learning

Visier

The 2016 Conference Board Survey of CEOs found that “Human Capital” is the CEOs number one global business challenge – for the fourth year in a row. For many HR professionals, this doesn’t come as a surprise. Since the peak of the recession in 2009, the number of unemployed persons per job opening in the US has steadily declined to the point where there has never been a higher number of job openings.

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Try These 35 Inexpensive Employee Appreciation Day Ideas

Justworks

We all work long, hard hours. And that hard work can sometimes go without much recognition or appreciation. But it’s important to reward your employees for a job well done. Some surveys have shown that employee recognition has a direct correlation to employee satisfaction, and satisfied employees do better work and are less inclined to leave. Recognition makes employees feel appreciated: you're showing your peer, manager, or direct report that his or her work matters.

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High Performance Involves Taking Care of Yourself

HR Bartender

It goes without saying, but I’m going to say it anyway. If you’re stressed out, you can’t do your best work. Arianna Huffington talks about the importance of taking care of yourself in her six-part LinkedIn Learning course “Thrive”. My big takeaway was a confession that Huffington made at the beginning of the course. She talks about her own health struggles and says it shouldn’t take a crisis for us to focus on ourselves and what matters to us.

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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with California’s New Legal Requirements (SB-553)

Speaker: Speakers:

Every company everywhere should have a plan to combat workplace violence and properly respond to violent incidents. California has stepped to the plate and become the first state to mandate workplace violence prevention requirements for employees and employers. Even if you are in a different state or country, these workplace violence requirements are applicable to almost every employer anywhere.

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5 Things Every New Manager Should Know

Cornerstone On Demand

This article was originally published under Jeff Miller’s column “The Science of Workplace Motivation” on Inc.com. I recently sat down with a new manager who was overseeing a team for the first time. When I asked how she was doing, she explained that she was loving every minute -- but that every minute also felt packed. “I have so many meetings !” she said.

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Tips and Tricks: Hiring on a Budget

Achievers

If you’ve ever touched the recruiting process, you’re well aware that hiring can be expensive! However, you probably also know that making a bad hire is even more expensive. According to Forbes, a bad hire can costs an employer “thousands of dollars”. So what are the best ways to hire with different levels of budget? We’ve helped compile some top tips and tricks for those hiring on any budget.

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4 Type Of Communicators: Secrets To Better Team Collaboration

15Five

What’s the true culprit of all misunderstanding? Lack of good communication, how you communicate and how you receive feedback. Well meaning people who believe they have communicated their best intentions, often have the listener receive the feedback harshly. Here are some examples of where miscommunication might happen: 1) Coaching. 2) One-On-One Meetings. 3) Giving a Colleague Constructive Feedback. 4) Brainstorming Sessions. 5) Delegating Tasks. 6) Setting Work Expectations.

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Companies Should Strive for Perfect Paychecks – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

One of my favorite videos is an old clip from the television show “Scrubs” where Dr. Cox gives a lesson on the endless pursuit of perfection. If you haven’t seen it, you can check it out on YouTube. We often talk about the challenges of being a perfectionist. That trying to be perfect can lead to stress and burnout. But aren’t there times when we should want the endless pursuit of perfection?

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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What Do Broken Windows and Your Learning Experience Have in Common?

Cornerstone On Demand

If you are in the learning space and follow the trends as of late, you’ve seen that the market is shifting from a focus on learning management systems to learning experiences. This assertion is not a dismissal of learning management systems, but more so a focus on the experience that a learner may encounter. The fact remains that regardless of focus, we all have experienced learning to some degree.

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If Neuroscientists Ruled the Workplace

WorkHuman

I’ve just returned from a super nerdy and fascinating conference – the NeuroLeadership Institute Summit in New York City (coined “the most brain-friendly conference in the world”). Now in its 10th year, the summit brings together speakers from academia and the business world to discuss how we can lead more effectively using neuroscience. When Dr. David Rock co-founded the NeuroLeadership Institute , this idea was very new to business leaders.

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Want a Sneak Peek at my Upcoming Ignite Talk?

UpstartHR

This week I’m at the HR Technology Conference. I wrote about everything I’m looking forward to and planning to talk about last week on the Lighthouse blog if you want to check it out. One thing I’m doing again this year is a 5-minute Ideas and Innovators talk to close out the conference, and this time I’m talking about something very personal and very close to my heart.

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5 of 5 – The Final Chapter Enterprise Incentive Design – The FIRST Thing You Should Do

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. The End. Fin. The last man standing. This post is the final post in the 5-part series.

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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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Can You Be Free Having a Job?

Don Phin

Jim Altucher is one of my favorite writers. In a recent blogpost, he did his usual spiel about ditching your job so you can free yourself. Challenge is most executives I know have a job and aren’t ready to leave it. Can you be free having a job? is the question he challenges us with. I wouldn’t. Read More. The post Can You Be Free Having a Job? appeared first on HRSherpas.

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Today’s Top Talent Acquisition Priorities [Free eBook]

Lighthouse

Earlier this summer we published a graphic detailing some of the top priorities for talent acquisition leaders this year. We received so much positive feedback on the data that we broke it out into a special eBook to explore each of the top priorities in greater detail. The link to the free PDF is below. Here’s a snippet of the content to whet your appetite… Global Talent Acquisition Priorities, Ranked.

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Q&A with Doug Lawrence: Mentoring as An Employee Engagement Driver

Hppy

Mentoring and Engagement – Is there a connection? There are different perspectives on what employee engagement is in the workplace. It is a topic that drives most leaders in an organization crazy as they struggle to get a handle on what the whole engagement thing is all about. Here is one definition that we found: “Employee engagement is the emotional commitment the employee has to the organization and its goals.” .

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Ask Your Employees These Feedback Questions To Impact Key Objectives

15Five

Company leaders, especially at burgeoning businesses, often take on several different roles. Regardless of what’s typed on their business card and what objectives they own in terms of a specific team, they may use diverse knowledge and skills to impact other aspects of the business. For example, I’m officially the Vice President of Customer Success, But I’ve also had the privilege of helping to shape our work culture from the ground up by creating many of the rituals that keep

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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NeuroLeadership Summit: Better Feedback Can Drive 34% Lower Attrition

Reflektive

While several members of our team are hustling out in Las Vegas for this year’s HR Technology Conference, our CEO Rajeev Behera got to spend some time in New York City for the annual NeuroLeadership Summit. This year’s panel titled “ Next in Performance Management: Feedback Management ” featured distinguished panelists from trailblazing companies and institutions such as Microsoft, HP, NYU, and of course, Reflektive.

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What is Paul Thinking - Untitled Article

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. The End. Fin. The last man standing. This post is the final post in the 5-part series.

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The New Disrupted World of Work: Seven Practices For High-Impact HR

Josh Bersin

The world of work has been disrupted in ways I’ve never seen. We’re working many more hours (we’ve lost an entire week of vacation time since 2000), employees feel overwhelmed (40%. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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[Infographic] Post-Lunch Dip? Here’s How To Get Your Energy Back

Hppy

We’ve all experienced the dreaded post-lunch dip. It can ruin a second half of your day if you don’t recover quickly enough. Sometimes, coffee isn’t enough to get the job done. But, luckily there is a ton of research out there that can help everyone from the night-owls to the early birds to rework their schedules to stay productive and boost energy the old fashioned way.

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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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Performance Consulting Tips: What Are You Doing to Ensure Skills Transfer to the Workplace?

ATD Human Capital

If people do not apply what they learn within 60 days, it is improbable they will ever use the skills. There are many studies to determine what percent of skills actually do transfer to the workplace. The range reported is not encouraging—somewhere between 10 and 50 percent, depending on numerous variables. That means that more than half of the investment made in developing people is lost!

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Newest “Paul”Cast with Kelly Irons from DevelopUs – Feedback as a Gift?

What is Paul Thinking

As I make the transition to the new site I will be publishing updates here that link to the new site and once again urge you to subscribe to updates from the new site. I hope you do subscribe and hope this isn’t too much of a pain for you. Consider subscribing to the the new site by clicking here. My favorite podcast so far (and that is saying a lot!).

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The More Your Company Wins, the More Great Talent Will Allow You To Coach.

The HR Capitalist

I saw this one last weekend. I think you'll enjoy it. Here's your set up. Alabama's football team is coached by Nick Saban - did a post early this week after what a control freak he is. The thing is, if your system gets great results, you have the ability to be a complete control freak. If you're not a world class leader, you can't be a micromanaging control freak, because people you manage won't take it - they'll revolt.

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