March, 2018

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Four Employee Engagement Challenges Facing Modern Energy Companies

Bonfyre

Nearly 2 million people in the United States work in a job related to electric power generation or fuels according to the U.S Department of Energy. While we often think of police, fire, and medical personnel as first responders, it’s easy to forget that this vast workforce plays a significant role in crisis response, especially after natural disasters.

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The Role of Employee Happiness in Talent Management

Cornerstone On Demand

Intuitively most managers and HR professionals think that happy employees are more productive. But what does it take for employees to be happy in their jobs and in their personal lives? And how does that happiness translate into improved job performance? The booming area of happiness research provides answers, along with practical tips for improving talent management.

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Organizations Don’t Change Until People Do

HR Bartender

Organizations decide they’re going to change all the time. Especially during times like we’re experiencing today, when recruiting is tough, engagement is a challenge, and retention is a top priority. It’s not unusual for an organization to say, “We need to change so we can get the best talent and crush the competition.” But organizational change doesn’t happen just because: Something goes offline, like a system.

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How To Take Action On Employee Feedback Using The Agile Method

Visier

Agile software development was created as a way to meet the rapidly changing and complex demands of customers. Agile HR is gaining momentum as a way to meet the rapidly changing and complex demands of today’s workforce. From sprint-based project cycles, to kanban boards for communication and more, there are many visual reminders of how Agile works. However, Agile is so much more than a way to decorate an office–Agile teams get results.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Thinking of Changing Performance Reviews? Focus on These Core Components

Lighthouse

Performance reviews are dead, or so we have been told. The data shows a shrinking support for the traditional method: only 15% of companies have not adjusted their annual performance management process and do not plan to. But the data from our Performance Management, Culture, and Business Results study shed a different light on the subject as well. High-performing companies, those with increases in revenue, retention, and engagement, are more likely to prioritize multiple goal-setting and review

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The Pros and Cons of Unlimited PTO

Reflektive

An employee who spends more time in the office isn’t necessarily a more productive employee. “The State of American Vacation 2017” report—a survey of over 7,000 American workers—found that 38% of employees want to be seen as a “work martyr”, someone who sacrifices time-off to put in more hours at the office. This mindset is part of the reason that the majority of employees, 54%, end the year with unused vacation time. 54% of employees end the year with unused vacation time.

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4 HR Learning Technology Trends Changing Corporate L&D

Cornerstone On Demand

Organizations are investing in talent development now more than ever. According to LinkedIn's 2017 Workplace Learning Report , talent is the top priority for 69 percent of learning and development (L&D) professionals. And despite the rise of new learning technologies, a majority of L&D professionals—78 percent—say in-house, instructor-led classes are still the primary way they teach employees.

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Creating an HR Function – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, small businesses accounted for 62 percent of net new jobs. They play an important role in our economy. But one of the biggest questions that small businesses face is how to successfully grow their organization. Specifically, when and how to bring the HR function into the company. That’s what today’s reader wants to know.

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Why Managers Need To Be More Vulnerable And Authentic To Give Effective Employee Feedback

15Five

Employee feedback should be simple. Just speak with your employees, right? Not exactly. Most managers are afraid to communicate with employees and for good reason. Research shows that feedback interventions can often backfire and more than one-third of feedback conversations actually decrease performance. As a manager, giving feedback is something you will probably do as the most frequent part of any continuous performance management process.

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Getting Employee Experience Right Is Hard – But It Doesn’t Have To Be

Employee experience has expanded from a basic focus on well-being to a more comprehensive approach that covers all aspects of an employee's journey. But as important as it is to develop and retain top talent by giving employees positive experiences, tension can exist between balancing experience desires and achieving business outcomes.

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4 Effective Tips For Creating a Strong Employer Branding Strategy

Hppy

With today’s job market and unemployment rates, there’s a big focus on branding oneself to be as attractive as possible to employers. But companies need to brand themselves as well—not just for customers, but to attract the best possible candidates. We’ve already explored some of the branding mistakes and pitfalls that companies often encounter. If you want your employer branding to truly shine, here are some helpful strategies and techniques that you should keep in mind.

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How to Use the 80/20 Talent Rule to Increase Quality of Hire

Linkedin Talent Blog

Most companies unknowingly violate this the 80/20 Talent Rule every day. The rule is: Focus 80% of your hiring and recruiting efforts on the most important 20% of the talent market. When companies don't follow this rule, they overpay and work too hard to hire average candidates. This entire concept is summarized in this graphic. It doesn’t take much research to discover that the best candidates come from referrals, as shown in the graphic.

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8 HR Metrics to Start Tracking in 2018

Reflektive

Numbers speak louder than words, especially when it comes to tracking performance and making strategic decisions that drive growth. So, the question becomes: What numbers should HR teams focus on? The most important human resources metrics are the ones that tie into the company’s high-level goals and bottom-line numbers. Executives want to get a pulse on the company culture , they want to know how efficiently the HR department works, and they want to know where revenue is being lost and where it

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Upskilling HR in People Analytics

Bersin with Deloitte

People analytics has rapidly become an essential tool for improving individual performance, enhancing employee experience, and achieving business goals. But while many companies now have people analytics teams in place, HR practitioners are not all conversant with data or analytics yet. In fact, in nearly 60 percent of companies, basic data literacy skills are not […].

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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How to Support the Creative Process of Ordinary People

HR Bartender

I loved this Harvard Business Review white paper by Teresa Amabile titled, “ In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity ”. From a business context, we’re constantly focused on creativity and innovation. We place value on it. My takeaway from the white paper is that we tend to label people as “creative” versus looking at a creative process that anyone could use successfully.

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Human Resources Today: Interview with Joanne McDonagh 2017 MVP Awards Winner

Rezoomo

Joanne McDonagh, blogger at Rezoomo, won First Place in the Talent Acquisition Category of Human Resources Today’s 2017 MVP Awards. Our judges and audience at HRT had hundreds of nominated articles to read through, so her article, 2018 Trends in Candidate Experience – What You Need To Know, really was the best of the best! Now that it’s been a few months since the conclusion of the awards, Shelley Trout, editor at Human Resources Today, has some questions for her.

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6 Powerful Ways To Keep The Inspiration In A Culture

Hppy

Some say that an institution can kill inspiration. Not true. Institutions don’t kill anything; people do. That said, every leader wants to grow their company; it is THE imperative of their strategic game plan. The founder of a startup has a vision that they can only realize when a larger and larger market consumes their product or service. Their dream is to be a significant world player in their chosen market.

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. From Campus to Career: How the Johnson & Johnson BE VITAL App is Re-Imagining University Recruiting -- by Cynthia Ghazali. 2.

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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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How to Ask for Constructive Feedback

Reflektive

Imagine that you were going to an optometrist and you weren’t able to tell them when the lens they applied worked best – do you think they would be able to write a prescription that would actually work well for you? During your visit to an optometrist’s office you will normally get asked, “can you see it now…. how about now,” by doing this, they are changing lenses to better understand your vision needs, but in order to do this they need to know what isn’t working.

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Breaking Down the Difference Between HMO and PPO

Justworks

When choosing health insurance for your company, there are many decisions to make. One of the first may be what type of plan to choose. If you’re shopping for health insurance, you’ve probably come across the acronyms HMO and PPO. HMO stands for Health Maintenance Organization, and PPO stands for Preferred Provider Organization. Knowing the difference between HMO and PPO is an important first step to determining which kind of plan is right for your company and employees.

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Employees Are Not Seeing Their Feedback Turned Into Results – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

You’ve heard me say before that one of the worst things organizations can do is ask employees for feedback and then not do anything with it. This HR Bartender reader knows it’s true and is wondering what to do about it. About four months ago, I incorporated ‘Feedback Friday’ at my organization, and have received very positive comments. However, I still struggle on what to do with the results, besides just sharing them.

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Language Matters in the #MeToo Movement

WorkHuman

By Laurie Ruettimann. You can’t go online without hearing about another leader falling from grace. We don’t always know what happened, but we assume it’s bad. Ford Motor Company just fired a top executive for misconduct. A company investigation found that Raj Nair’s behavior was inconsistent with the company’s culture and code of conduct, but a spokesperson declined to use specific language to elaborate on the claims.

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The Definitive Guide to Onboarding for 2024

Hiring a new employee is an expensive and time-consuming process. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), it typically costs $4,425 to hire a new employee — not to mention the 36 days the average team spends trying to fill a position. Yet nearly 1 in 5 employees (16%) of employees quit in their first week — and 17% leave after the first month.

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3 Ways To Integrate Remote Workers Into Your Business

Hppy

Every business has a group of remote workers which are scattered all over the country and even the world. Though these workers can provide invaluable help to your company and beyond, there are a few small problems that can arise from having them so far away. Also read: 9 Tools For Engaging and Managing Remote Employees. Communication barriers and misunderstandings are just two of the problems you may encounter if you make use of remote workers, however, there are many ways to keep in contact in

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The 10 Most Popular Articles Among Recruiters This Week

Linkedin Talent Blog

In case you need a stimulating read, here’s a great list for you. We took a look at the articles staffing and corporate recruiters shared, liked, and commented on the most on LinkedIn during the last 7 days and posted them below. Here are the top posts for this week: 1. I knew within five minutes I could never hire you -- by Liz Ryan. 2. A friendly request from some mums returning to work -- by Lianne Baker. 3.

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Emerging Performance Management Lifts the Lid on Leadership

Reflektive

In his 2011 bestseller, “ The 5 Levels of Leadership ,” John C. Maxwell suggests that there is a five-tiered progression of leadership development: Positional Leadership: People follow you because they have to. Permission Leadership: People follow because they want to. Production Leadership: People follow you because you make them more productive. People Leadership: People follow because you help them to become better.

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Defining Work-Life Balance for Your Small Business

Justworks

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “work-life balance?” Is it an unlimited vacation policy, or catered lunches? Maybe you think of remote work opportunities. Or that not being in the office equates to time with friends and family, and being disconnected from work entirely. Work-life balance is almost always referred to in the abstract.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Employee Engagement Roadmap: It Is Not Too Late to Create Yours for 2018!

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Workify , an all-in-one employee engagement platform that makes it easy for companies to understand and take action on what’s motivating and demotivating employees throughout the employee experience. Enjoy!). Over the course of last year, we talked a lot about employee engagement.

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Becoming Irresistible Part 3: A Positive Work Environment

Josh Bersin

(This is part 3 in our series, creating the Simply Irresistible Organization, click here for part 1 or part 2) As our Simply Irresistible Organization™ model shows (see below), there are five. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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[Infographic] Millennials vs. Generation Z: How Do They Achieve Success in The Workplace?

Hppy

Changes in a workplace are inevitable, which means HR teams, hiring managers, and recruitment firms must adapt and keep up with their employees. Generations will keep on evolving, and soon, workplaces will be dominated by Millennials. You’ve probably seen five different generations working together in your office such as the traditionalists, baby boomers, gen X, Millennials, and gen Z.