Sat.Jan 08, 2011 - Fri.Jan 14, 2011

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Hey Now What You Doing

True Faith HR

'If its early-January, it means that many college professors and students are on winter break. It also means that it is the heart of tenure and promotion season. Untenured faculty are busy preparing to submit their application in the hopes of gaining that next step in their academic career. For most schools, the tenure and promotion is one and the same.

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How Employee Engagement Really Drives Stock Price

Josh Bersin

One of the hottest issues in human resources is the need to develop high levels of employee engagement and satisfaction. We all know that organizations with happy people have lower turnover, deliver. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Are You Aware of Your Rude Workplace Behavior?

45 Things

Do you think other people in the workplace are rude? If you have a pulse, the answer is probably "yes," or "hell, yes." I've yet to talk to someone in the last 20 years who doesn't think workplace manners could be improved. A recent story said that some concerned parents -- and even embarrassed employers -- are paying up to $400 an hour because young workers are committing so many social blunders in professional settings.

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Winter Snow Storms: Should You Make Your Employees Come to Work?

Evil HR Lady

It's a snowy mess outside and you're the boss. Should you require everyone to come into the office? Here are 5 things to help you make that decisions. Winter Snow Storms: Should You Make Your Employees Come to Work?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Project Social: Why Should HR Care About Sustainability?

Working Girl

'As an HR professional, you might think sustainability isn’t a high priority for HR. And, given all that''s going on in the HR world right now you may be right… for now. However, the business climate is changing. Increasingly, customers and investors want to know what kinds of companies they’re doing business with and they’re starting to ask for evidence of sustainable business practices.

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4 ways to Boost Your Standing at Work

45 Things

I can't tell you the number of people in the last two years who recommended to me that workers should just "hunker down" or "keep their heads down" while the job market was in such turmoil. The thousands of people who were left shaking in their cubicles -- wondering if they'd receive the next pink slip -- reminded me of the old saying that there are no atheists in foxholes.

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Employee Engagement 2010 Dozen (July): Do You Have a Red Dot?

David Zinger

Engage the Power of the RED DOT! The return of The One Ball. This post marks the return of the One Ball Theme to this site. The One Ball posts offered guidance in elevating and achieving fully engaged performance. You can read the first post in the series from January 2009: The One Ball: Engaged Performance. The Red Dot. Did you watch any of the 2010 British Open and the fantastic performance by South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen?

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Podcast: Protecting Yourself When Social Media Tools Disappear

The Bamboo Project Blog

Allyson Kapin, co-founder of the Rad Campaign , and I had the opportunity to record a Social Good podcast with Allison Fine for the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the demise of Delicious and the issues that arise when free tools disappear. In the podcast, Allyson Kapin makes some excellent points about the need to not put all your eggs in one social media basket and makes a plug for open source options, which are probably the most sustainable way to maintain free tools--unless you're Google.

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Leading Means Taking Advantage of Teachable Moments

Quickbase

Are you frazzled, worn out and tired of doing everything because your team members can’t manage to get even the smallest task right? It’s time to take a look in the mirror because you may be the problem. While chatting with a team leader recently, he told me about a situation with one of his […].

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A Benefits Leaders Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers? Cancer.

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5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations Problems, challenges and inefficiencies (in one way or the other) are a part of any organization. How organizations deal with them makes all the difference. In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. First are the ones who know the problem areas, but are not willing to invest in having the necessary structure to prevent them in future.

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Employee Engagement 2010 Dozen (Aug): Getting Results the Agile Way

David Zinger

Focus on Agile Results to Enhance Employee Engagement. J. D Meier has crafted an insightful and practical book on Getting Results the Agile Way. He is a principal program manager for the patterns & practices team at Microsoft and the author of the wonderful blog: Sources of Insight. I have always found his work thorough, thoughtful, and helpful.

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Winter Snow Storms: Should You Make Your Employees Come to Work?

Evil HR Lady

It's a snowy mess outside and you're the boss. Should you require everyone to come into the office? Here are 5 things to help you make that decisions. Winter Snow Storms: Should You Make Your Employees Come to Work?

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Getting what you ask for (oh, and it IS a popularity contest)

Strategic HCM

'I posted earlier this week about one of my submissions for this Summer’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston: HR2.0 and the Future of HR (I also posted on some other submissions about Culture and the Social Business on my other blog). In my HR2.0 post, I also noted that the conference’s selection process – using an enterprise 2.0 system from Spigit - is something a lot more conferences should use: “It doesn’t guarantee a good conference,but it gets much nearer to this”.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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Quality? Excellence? What?

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality? Excellence? What? I was casually discussing quality and excellence with one of my old friends. We were exchanging our ideas on these topics, when I realized that he used the words quality and excellence interchangeably. This led to some more thinking and here’s what I realized: Quality is generally extrinsic.

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Heroes, Cancer, & More Humble Pie for an HR Guy

NoExcusesHR

'Wednesday night I went to an NHL game and watched my Tampa Bay Lightning win against "our" arch rival for first place. I cheered, the crowd roared, and our team played well. As part of that experience, I had the privilege of enjoying the game with a family whose child is battling cancer and is a patient where I work. Following the game we visited with Vincent Lecavalier , now Captain of the Lightning, in an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience.

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Managers: Are You Spying On Your Employees?

Evil HR Lady

Have you ever called in sick when you were perfectly healthy? Of course not. You would never do that. You love going to work and would never lie. It’s those darn employees of yours who are claiming illness while mountain climbing. Companies, according to Business Week, are hiring private detectives to track down people who are lying about why they aren’t at work.

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HR 2.0 and the Future of HR

Strategic HCM

'The other thing (*) you can vote for me for is another submission to the Enterprise 2.0 conference. This is basically the same as last year’s submission to Boston (which didn’t get through) and Santa Clara (which did). But this time, I’ll be talking with Courtney Hunt of SMinOrgs , as unlike Peter Cappelli and others, I don’t like doing the same presentation twice, and co-presenting is much more fun.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Talent Management By the Numbers - 5 Ideas to Jumpstart Your 2011

DDI

While I can measure my 2010 in client events, boarding passes, and loads of laundry, I could just as easily measure it in the number of times I heard “cautious optimism”; read another article on managing generational differences in the workforce; or received an invitation to a free webinar on how to leverage social media tools.

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Power Post - More Humble Pie Please

NoExcusesHR

'In Monday''s post I challenged myself to embrace an opportunity to be humble this week. It didn''t take long to have that opportunity stare me right in the face. While I was speaking to a room of 200 hundred people. Twice. This is a big week at work. We recognize all of the Employee of the Month nominees from 2010 at two luncheons (800 or so), and then have a fabulous banquet and select an employee of the year.

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Unstable Employees at Work

Evil HR Lady

I've been reading about the Arizona shootings and was especially interested with the emails from one of the shooter's classmates--about how he was sure the guy was dangerous. And I thought, what could a company do in a situation where an employee was showing signs of instability? I didn't know, so I asked my favorite labor and employment lawer, Jon Hyman of the Ohio Employer's Law Blog.

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Retention Reflections from Doug’s Dad, and others

Strategic HCM

'I’ve had some great comments on my last couple of posts about retention. Andrew Marritt provides just about the most comprehensive comment I’ve had on this blog in his response to my post on ‘Exit as the Keystone’ and I agree with most of his points: Yes, some organisations are doing something like this. In fact, the original idea came from an organisation I spoke to about being a case study in my book, and which then decided they did not want to be featured in it, as they saw the approach as p

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Are There Gaps in Your HR Policies?

Putting the right HR policies in place can help your organization grow smoothly and help your company culture thrive. Use this essential HR checklist to cover the basics and make sure there aren’t any gaps in your HR functions.

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Talent Management By the Numbers - 5 Ideas to Jumpstart Your 2011

DDI

'While I can measure my 2010 in client events, boarding passes, and loads of laundry, I could just as easily measure it in the number of times I heard “cautious optimism”; read another article on managing generational differences in the workforce; or received an invitation to a free webinar on how to leverage social media tools.

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GNOSIS - You Have It, Right?

NoExcusesHR

'I''ve worked hard over the years. I bet you have too. It''s one thing to find a measure of success in life; but it''s even more fulfilling when that measure of success is in a professional discipline you love. That is quite a combination. Obviously we (read here -> "I") must be pretty bright to have achieved all of this. Right? KNOWLEDGE IS POWER The ancient Greeks have a word for knowledge - Gnosis.

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Why Do I Have to Interview For an Internal Promotion?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been with my company for several years, and I am now up for a promotion. The job description is a perfect fit for my career path, and came from discussions with my supervisor about my career goals and the needs of the company. Then in a twist I wasn’t expecting, the position was posted as a new position. Instead of being promoted directly to it, I was encouraged to apply for it like everyone else.

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The Even More Essential Advantage!

Strategic HCM

'I’ve been reading Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi’s new book, the Essential Advantage (and Mainardi and Art Kleiner’s Strategy+Business article, The Right to Win both of which build upon their earlier article in Harvard Business Review, The Coherence Premium). Given that all three texts are focused on ‘winning with a capabilities-driven strategy’ which is largely what I write about here, I had high hopes for these – which haven’t quite been delivered… I do like the articles and particularly t

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Workaiku: Spreadsheet Cells

David Zinger

control this and that. excel at spreadsheet numbers. Mike’s cancer jolts us.

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Why Do I Have to Interview For an Internal Promotion?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been with my company for several years, and I am now up for a promotion. The job description is a perfect fit for my career path, and came from discussions with my supervisor about my career goals and the needs of the company. Then in a twist I wasn’t expecting, the position was posted as a new position. Instead of being promoted directly to it, I was encouraged to apply for it like everyone else.

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How to Deal with Salary History Questions

Evil HR Lady

Here’s a question that should be illegal and is definitely unethical. “What is your salary history?” I think companies have a lot of. nerve to ask what you have been paid in the past. Isn’t this confidential information between an employee and previous employers? I’d like to hear what other people on this board think about this subject or better yet, a story on BNET about this practice.

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