November, 2015

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Being Thankful for Higher Education and its Benefits

Edcor

The topic of higher education invites discussion about disruption and innovation, calls for problem solving about how to meet the needs of diverse student groups, and is fraught with controversy over debt and graduation rates. In spite of all this there is much to be thankful for regarding higher education. The United States higher education system. In 2013 there were 17.5 Online Education.

Engaged Students and Employees Benefit Business

Edcor

Numerous studies show that highly engaged employees are more productive. A key element of engagement creates ownership of tasks and a sense of value. The 2015 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) “Engagement Insights” shows a similar effect with students and their education. The experiences and attitudes of engaged employees and engaged students parallel each other.

Magnet Hospitals Deliver Patient Satisfaction

Edcor

Hospital patients who are post-operative or ill depend on nurses to provide care that leads to recovery, and how they perceive their hospital stay often relates to the care they receive from nurses. Patients in a Magnet hospital are very likely to report high levels of satisfaction with their care, and the nurses who deliver the care are likely to have levels of job satisfaction. percent.

Learning Conference Provides Insight for Business

Edcor

If there is one thing that Elliott Masie’s Learning 2015 conference this month reinforced it is that business and education are more tightly interwoven than ever before. Business learning leaders attended sessions on topics such as understanding learners and meeting the needs of different generations in the workplace. The main goal is to fill in the gaps that the person doesn’t know.

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Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance

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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The (New) Definition of Employee Engagement

Grovo HR

Employee engagement has been one of the most talked-about topics in human capital management for twenty-five years. And yet, despite the attention of professionals from every area of the business world—or maybe because of it—the term itself has never gained a universal definition. There’s no reason it couldn’t, though. What it’s not. Engaged employees are more motivated than disengaged employees.

Why Candidate Experience is Least Important for Many

UpstartHR

One of the most common terms around recruiting these days is candidate experience. If you’re late to the game, it’s basically a look at how candidates are treated as they enter your recruiting funnel all the way to getting an offer, if they move that far. Think about it. In addition, you’d probably be unsure just how to make that a reality. And to actively court them. The pay-off?

Data integrity and security: What you absolutely cannot overlook as you evaluate employee engagement solutions

Kanjoya

Few things could be worse for a company that is aspiring to build the best employee experience than a breach of employee data. Not only would it cause employee anxiety, anger, and frustration, it would also jeopardize employee trust. Moreover, the company would likely incur the hard and soft costs of legal fees, compensatory damages, and lost employee productivity. If so, how frequently? 3.

Encourage More Productivity From Your Employees

ClearCompany HRM

Despite how well employees may be performing, sometimes you just need a little bit more out of them. Although you won’t be able to squeeze every last bit of productivity out of them, you can give them a nudge in the right direction. Talent Management

Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]

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.

How to Coach Employees and Managers on Career Options

UpstartHR

As I look back on the past five years and all of the people I’ve met, I have made some interesting conclusions about career choices. My background as an HR pro has helped to expose me to a wide variety of experiences, people, and career options. I was talking with a friend a few days ago about some of the HR positions I have had over the years. Think about it. So, what’s the answer?

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The President’s Repeal of the ACA Small Group Market Rule: What Employers Need to Know to Avoid Penalties After January 1, 2016

TriNet

This post is part of the TriNet ongoing series about the Affordable Care Act and its effects on small business. President Obama recently approved of the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees. Visit site for full story. Affordable Care Act PACE Act

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Competitive Partnerships Powering the Future of Business

The Aristocracy of HR

000000000010 I was at IBM Insight last week and as per usual it was an awarding experience. There is a shift going on in business and technology that I find both interesting and exciting. It is a shift that is about partnership over competition. Big name technology companies are partnering with new school app developers […].

Why Telecommuting Is The Future of Work

Brazen HR

If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound? If work is done away from the office, does it still count? The answer to both, of course, is yes — and corporate America is taking notice. By 2016, Forrester expects 43% of Americans will work remotely. That’s 63 million people who can work literally anywhere. Like it or not, the face of the workplace is changing. How can remote work do all this?

Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation

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.

Build a Diverse Workforce with These 5 Best Practices in Mind

ClearCompany HRM

Higher revenue, better job performance, a more trusted employer brand, and increased customer base are just a few of the benefits of a diverse workforce. Not to mention, according to Glassdoor’s 2015 Top 50 HR and Recruiting stats, 67% of active and passive job seekers say a diverse workforce is important to them when evaluating companies or job offers. Company Culture diversity hiring

9 Employee Retention Statistics That Will Make You Sit Up and Pay Attention

TLNT: The Business of HR

Retention in the workplace is in a predicament — the revolving door is circulating faster, and the organizations struggling with this are on the lookout for a solution. Best Practices HR Management HR News HR Trends Retention & Engagement Talent Management Featured

7 Tips for Using Trust to Keep You and Your Employees Happy

CultureIQ

If you’re a manager or human resources specialist, you know a strong workplace requires trust. So much so that a SHRM study found trust between employees and senior management to be the number-two contributor to job satisfaction. Trust Trust leads to internal motivation, a sense of pride and ownership, and happy people. If your workplace lacks trust, it’s never too late to get started. One common fallacy is that building trust takes forever, but this type of thinking can lead to inaction. Project Warmth to Show You Care. You’re not really listening, and respond, “Oh, that’s too bad. Great chat!”

Your Disengaged Employees Don’t Trust You

ATD Human Capital

Employee engagement is a good news/bad news proposition. On the bright side, employee engagement is at its highest level since 2000, and overall employee engagement was up 2 percent from 2013 to 2014, per a January 2015 Gallup poll. Overall, 31.5 percent of U.S. employees are engaged at work. This is a good statistic, but only in the “sort of” sense. There’s also bad news.

2016 Training Program Best Practices

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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Sleep Better Knowing Your Payroll Accuracy Is No Longer An Issue

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Payroll is often one of the most complex and time-consuming processes within a workplace. Relying on manual entry or an outdated system can leave your company vulnerable to time theft, errors and unreliable data due to limited system functionality. Reduce your risk of inaccurate data and stop relying on unsupported software data. Automatic federal and state payroll tax deduction.

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How To Convince Your Employees Change is Good

ClearCompany HRM

George Bernard Shaw once said, “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” His powerful words ring true in our personal lives as well as in the world of business. Employees’ common misconception that change is bad hinders plans for maximizing performance and efficiency. Tips HR

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Do Emotions Belong In The Workplace?

Grovo HR

Knowledge workers care about what they do for a living. They can’t help it. A job in the knowledge economy requires years of education, innate talents, and a lot of an employee’s time. It’s not just button-pushing. Asked to bring their whole selves to the job, modern knowledge workers crave work that engages their whole selves—including their emotions. Do emotions even belong in the workplace?

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How to Save More Time Screening Candidates

ClearCompany HRM

Interviewing candidates is time consuming. It’s exhausting. It’s expensive. How can you shorten the interview process without sacrificing great clients? You screen the talent pool first. The solution to an easier, faster, more effective screening process is through video. Screening Candidates

Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success

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.

3 Mindsets That Will Cost You Passive Candidates

ClearCompany HRM

When it comes to critical roles that need to be filled, 95% of the people who you ’d hire aren’t even looking. They’re already cashing a paycheck from another company. It’s why passive candidates are the most sought after candidate in recruiting. It’s like dating, all the good ones are either taken or not interested.

3 reasons you should let Millennials manage

Achievers

Are you hesitant to put Millennials in managerial roles because of their youth and lack of experience? This This hesitancy is certainly understandable. As an experienced professional manager, you’re well aware that years in the industry provide insights that no newcomer can automatically acquire. Millennials are big on transparency. Millennials seek networks, not hierarchy.

You are your own competitive advantage

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For Women in Leadership Institute ™ faculty member Carla Harris, success is not just about surviving, but thriving in your role. Leaving Harvard Business School, she subscribed to the theory that hard work would mean success. As she found out, that is not always the case. How did she do it? I’ll let her tell you in her own words: Which of Carla’s Pearls resonates the most with you?

Your Outdated Time & Attendance System May Be Costing You Money

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Buddy punching, inaccurate time records, and non-work-related activities are three examples of how productivity levels can be affected within the workplace. Often times, business owners look for solutions to build and grow their company from outside resources instead of reviewing internal processes to improve it. On average, 54 minutes are stolen every workday by one of your employees. Human Error.

HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces

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.

Learn How Detailed Reports Can Assist With Your Employee Performance

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With consistent labor cost increases, tight profit margins and competitive advances, manufacturers are always seeking ways to cut costs. Reviewing where the added expenses are taking place within a warehouse should be a standard practice; unfortunately the data may not be simple to retrieve. Eliminate wasted resources and improve employee performance with an automated cloud-based solution.

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7 telltale signs you’ve outgrown your employee engagement solution

Kanjoya

If the topic of this article piques your interest, your business is in growth mode. Congratulations! You’re experiencing an exciting time in your company’s history. But growth is often accompanied by growing pains that force you to rethink investments in people, processes, and technology. Here are 7 glaring signs your employee engagement solution cannot scale with your business: 1. leadership?

5 Reasons Compliance is Easier with Video Interviewing

ClearCompany HRM

In Human Resources, we’re constantly managing risk. New technologies, while they introduce convenience into our lives can often bring worries of compliance, new risks and fear that our highly protected employee information could be misused or mismanaged. Video Interview

Manufacturing Survey Results Reveal the TopAdministrative Complexities Within The Warehouse

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Automation is key when it comes to maintaining a successful workflow within a Manufacturing environment. Unfortunately, automation isn’t consistently implemented for all processes across the warehouse. As a result, bottlenecks can occur and labor productivity levels are negatively affected. Reporting Incidents. Manually tracking incidents in the workplace, and accurately reporting them takes time.

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Learner motivation explained! Learn how to use an LMS to motivate your learners to upskill

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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Three Principles for Developing Talent

EDSI

Understand People’s Strengths& Our goal is to understand each EDSI representative’s strengths, skills and future goals. Oftentimes, a person’s passion is not completely fulfilled by one job description. And that’s ok. Our goal is to give people opportunities to connect and build relationships across roles, projects and regions. By matching individual strengths with future opportunities outside of their day-to-day routines, our employees will be empowered, motivat

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3 Techniques to Tell Your Company’s Culture Story

ATD Human Capital

An organization’s brand plays an essential role in attracting and maintaining clients. Similarly, culture has also become a big factor in building relationships between an organization and its employees. Building a strong corporate culture and brand is a lot like telling a story: The best ones have three common components. They Make You Feel Like the Protagonist. They Have Interesting Plots.

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Why Employee Recognition Matters (and 3 Easy Ideas You Can Start Using Today)

TriNet

Guest post from SnackNation People crave recognition from their peers. It’s human nature – we’re satisfied when people notice our hard work but it’s brutally frustrating when our contributions. Visit site for full story. Leadership employee recognition

7 Smart Ways to Reinvent Your Recruiting Strategy

TriNet

Guest post by BankOpening.co.uk In a competitive hiring environment, successful recruiters take advantage of various novel trends to build a robust working culture and attract top talents to their. Visit site for full story. Recruiting HR recruiting

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The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change

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