How to Leverage the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in Your Company

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

How well do you know your team? More specifically, what are their strengths or areas of opportunity? Understanding what makes your employees tick is part of being an emotionally intelligent leader. As we’ve discussed previously , EI leaders kill it at workplace culture because they make the investment in getting to know their team. But you don’t have to be a mind reader to get a sense of your employee climate. In fact, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a great place to start. Know the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator basics. This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). Bottom line.

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Let’s End the “Toxic Employee” Talk

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

People are complex—which makes for an interesting workforce. Since we do not live in a perfect world, problems and complications arise at work , potentially bringing out some undesired traits from your employees. That said, labeling employees as toxic is counterintuitive to building workplace culture. Employees can have a bad day or week at work, but should they define how leaders view their talent? Great leadership requires one to look beyond the surface to see where the heart of the issues lies. Behavior: Negative Nancy. Behavior:  Slacking. Pop in and ask about their workload.

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How to Leverage the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in Your Company

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

How well do you know your team? More specifically, what are their strengths or areas of opportunity? Understanding what makes your employees tick is part of being an emotionally intelligent leader. As we’ve discussed previously , EI leaders kill it at workplace culture because they make the investment in getting to know their team. In fact, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a great place to start.

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Let’s End the “Toxic Employee” Talk

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

People are complex—which makes for an interesting workforce. Since we do not live in a perfect world, problems and complications arise at work , potentially bringing out some undesired traits from your employees. That said, labeling employees as toxic is counterintuitive to building workplace culture. Behavior: Negative Nancy. Behavior:  Slacking. Pop in and ask about their workload.

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Training and learning organizations today play an active role in contributing to the bottom line of any organization by aligning their objectives to the immediate business objectives. This provides a solid ground for cost justification and encourages businesses to place training groups right where they should be, at the heart of a growing, thriving, learning culture.

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Manager vs. Leader: Which are you?

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It’s no secret that the workplace is changing. With Gen Y poised to make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025 , we’re seeing open office floor plans, flexible schedules, and open-ended vacation policies. Yes, the structure of the 9 to 5 has indeed evolved. What does this mean for the traditional workplace hierarchy? Well, that is changing too. The major difference is motivation.

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3 Things the Holiday Season Can Teach Us About Workplace Culture

CultureIQ

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The holidays are a time of cheer and wonder for many. In fact, leaders can learn a thing or two about how to apply holiday principals to ramp up their workplace. Think about it—this time of year requires people to listen, empathize, and share experiences together. The same happens in the workplace. Listening. Around the holidays, people have to do a fair amount of listening. Giving. Receiving.

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Laurie Ruettimann

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Here are 17 truths about working in HR. Create core values like birthdays and puppies. The rest is overrated. Communicate candidly, kindly, without pretension, and directly via text. Fine, okay, use the phone. Avoid email. Never send an email more than five sentences long. Give feedback kindly, with specificity, directly to the person who needs to hear it. Always demonstrate integrity and honesty.

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ClearCompany HRM

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Having goals is never a bad thing. The tough part, especially in managing employee goals and performance, is the battle may be up a long, steep hill and some goals will not be successful. Whatever the case may be, sometimes employees (and managers) need a little extra push to keep themselves engaged and working towards the performance goals they’ve taken so much time and energy to plan and pursue.

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Is your company ready to move beyond the annual performance review? Where do you start? What are the keys to success? In this guide, you’ll gain an understanding of: the forces driving change, three foundations of success and take a deep dive into the skills gap many managers have that will sink your efforts before they start and how to address them.

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ClearCompany HRM

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The enormous, interlinked web that is the organizational goal alignment process can seem daunting at first glance. But as we’ve been discussing , successful goal alignment can be achieved with the right roadmap and technology. Setting up your own roadmap doesn’t have to be a headache if you do your homework (and we’ve got plenty of resources to help you get there). Goal-Setting

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Globoforce

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Imagine if a coach just sat on the sidelines, watching their team win and lose games without giving any feedback. If they saved all of their coaching and strategizing for the last game of the season, it would be too late to even make a difference. They would likely be fired for incompetence. And yet, this is essentially how businesses have designed performance management since the third century.

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TriNet

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Business today is all about leveraging the power of technology for efficiency, security and convenience. With new cloud technologies, automating your HR tasks doesn’t need to be cost-prohibitive. Visit site for full story. HR Technology HR technology

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Linkage

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Today, we’re sharing words of wisdom and a simple exercise from top executive coach Richard Leider. Richard Richard is widely recognized for his work helping 100,000 leaders from more than 50 corporations discover the power of purpose. Last fall, he helped our 650 Global Institute for Leadership Development ® participants tackle big questions like: “Why lead?” Enjoy—Ed.

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Employees at the front lines often have better ideas for innovation than others within the business, but when they walk out the door, they take those ideas with them. Want to innovate better and faster than the competition? You need to hold onto your best employees and the ideas they have. In this session we will explore how various pieces of the talent life cycle are related to retention and examine more than 20 strategies and ideas for improving retention outcomes for your business.

ej4 HR

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Over the last few months we’ve published a few articles on learning cultures in organizations, including the benefits of having a learning culture, the ROI of such a culture, and encouraging continued learning with eLearning tools. There’s a good reason why we’ve focused on learning cultures this much: They are at the heart of what [.]. The post Can ej4 Help You Build a Learning Culture? appeared first on. Corporate Training Training & Development building a learning culture building corporate learning culture

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Laurie Ruettimann

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

People ask me about the future of HR. Am I an optimist? Am I a cynic? think you have to look at the past to understand the future. Business leaders brazenly defrocked HR between 2009-2014 and invested in software, which has largely failed. Meanwhile, a talented cohort of HR professionals became disenfranchised and moved out of the function. They found jobs in marketing or sales.

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RecognizeThis!

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Praising conversations are a key tool for new managers across generations, improving their capacity for communication and relationship building. There is no shortage of skills that new managers need to develop as they transition from individual contributors to leading people for the first time. The value of praise is immense.

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The Aristocracy of HR

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

000000000000You all know I love me some HR. believe in its fundamental tenets of understanding work behavior. also enjoy the small window of opportunity we have to balance both the needs of the business and the employee. To many, it seems like a job anyone can do, but for those that do it […].

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Can you hear the collective groan when you launch that new compliance course? Do you get complaints both public and private from trainees about the uselessness of the training courses you've launched? Is there anything that can be done about it?

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Linkage

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I look forward to a time when there is no need to differentially invest in the development of women. time when the makeup of leaders in an organization roughly matches the percentage of women and men in the world. I don’t want this to take until my great-, great-, great-granddaughters wonder what the “women’s leadership fuss” was all about.  But it will. If we own our part, here is what we will do.

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TriNet

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In February 2015, the IRS issued final forms and instructions related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Back in December, 2015, the IRS issued a deadline extension for the new ACA reporting. Visit site for full story. Affordable Care Act tax compliance

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WalkMe Change

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Where do you belong on the Org Chart? Most change management consultants still see themselves as part of HR or part of an IT project or any project for that matter, really?  . John Wesey has asked this question on the LinkedIn group “ Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP) ,” and stirred an interesting discussion I thought you’d like to read. Change Management

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HR Bartender

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

In the human resources world, we talk all the time about ditching, killing, abolishing, etc. the performance appraisal. And I understand that the concerns about the effectiveness of the performance review are very real. But I ran across this article on the blog Get Rich Slowly that really showcases a facet to the issue that we’re not talking about. Pay increases. loved my job, but the pay was low.

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Is your organization thinking about moving towards a performance development culture? What are the elements to succeeding and keeping managers and employees engaged? Download “A Road Map for Change” to find out and gain insight into making the transition as smooth as possible on your journey into this brave new world.

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Get Hppy

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Standing out from the crowd is proving to be a particularly challenging task for many companies looking to recruit top talent. While some of them might offer great job openings, in an open-environment that promotes engaging work and encourages learning and development, if they haven’t built a strong employer brand, they might be left sending countless emails to potential hires. 2015 Jobvite Survey.

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RecognizeThis!

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

By Derek Irvine. Recognize This! Peer-to-peer recognition is an effective and powerful way to scale up behaviors that align to organizational success. One of the most difficult things for leaders is scaling great ideas, behaviors, or performance- bringing excellence to more people and more places across an entire organization. This is no easy feat, but it can be done with the right culture.

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HR Morning

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

You can never have too many great interview questions in your back pocket. . Throughout the past year, via in-depth research and conversations with HR Morning readers, we discovered a variety of fine-tuned interview questions top employers are relying on to vet their job candidates. Here, we’ve compiled the best of the best from the past year: 1. What’s your favorite part of your current job?

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TriNet

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

There are many steps hiring managers must take to fill an open position. These include sourcing applicants, screening candidates, interviewing, skills assessment, writing the offer and onboarding the. Visit site for full story. Talent Acquisition Hiring better

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Today’s workplace is characterized by chaotic forces—low employee engagement and productivity levels, and declining employee well being. HR Leaders have a critical role in defining the vision and strategy to transform and create a more productive and happy workplace.

UpstartHR

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Investigations are one of the toughest parts of working in HR, because you have to work between very fine boundaries and there is always going to be someone upset with the result, no matter how gently you tread. In the various investigations I’ve been a part of, I have picked up some tips and tricks that help to make the process more smooth. Does this scenario sound familiar?

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ATD Human Capital

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Of all talent management processes, performance management is arguably the most important to get right. And, arguably, it’s also the most difficult to do well. The potential upside for getting it right is significant; the potential downside of doing it poorly is even greater. Unfortunately, few organizations do it well. Compliance may activate the brain’s threat network.

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Dice

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

At first glance, the numbers are intimidating: every year, hundreds of schools churn out thousands of graduates in a wide variety of technical disciplines. That’s a lot of people competing for the same pool of jobs, especially in popular disciplines such as programming and data analytics. So how does the individual job applicant stand out amidst this scrum? Much more compelling, no? The end result.

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HR Morning

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

This U.S. district court ruling is a real game-changer for employers — and not in a good way. Turns out, you CAN now be sued for simply reducing an employee’s hours. . Here’s the deal: If an employee can show that your intent in reducing his or her hours was to deny the person access to some benefit or right he or she would’ve otherwise been entitled to, you can be sued.

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Training and development professionals often bemoan the lack of apparent initiative in their trainees. Learning professionals spend huge sums of money creating or acquiring skill aligned libraries of learning content, only to watch almost helplessly as learners refuse to engage with any training available that isn’t mandatory.

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Laurie Ruettimann

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Yesterday, I wrote about the future of human resources. One reason I’m not worried about HR? The driving forces of human behavior. I’m not just talking about the poor choices that employees make when they think nobody is looking. I’m referring to a whole host of conflict-avoidant behaviors. The tendency to hack your way to success, and by hack, I mean cheat. HR is necessary.

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PeopleDoc

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Policies are a course or principle of action adopted by a business or individual. In human resources, we’re often accused of having too many policies. But policies are what keep everyone on the same page so, the answer isn’t for HR to have fewer policies. Well, maybe it is. The real goal is to have effective policies. Insider policy human resources

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The HR Capitalist

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

First up, let me say that I don't think LinkedIn can kill Glassdoor. Buy them? Maybe, but that would have been easier before the street hit their stock hard a few weeks back. But back to the title of the post - LinkedIn has a beta product that's asking for Salary data. Here's what it looks like when members get tagged for inclusion in the beta: What could go wrong? Final note. Everybody Wants Some.

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The People Equation

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Have you been struggling through a dilemma and spinning your wheels? You know the feeling: you’re trying to come to a decision, but you just can’t shake the niggling sense that something is out of place. You’ve made a list of “pros” and “cons,” you’ve talked with friends. You’ve searched the internet and read dozens of chat boards on the topic. And still, no decision. Why is this?

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Needed: A shift from traditional performance management systems (organized as an annual review process) to newer performance development systems (organized around real-time dynamics). Download part one in a series to gain insight into why this shift must happen and why it needs to happening now

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