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Getting Ahead of Yourself: Pre-crastination Pitfalls

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What is pre-crastination? As defined by the Penn State University researchers in their study (which you’ll see below): “We define pre-crastination as the tendency to complete, or at least begin, tasks as soon as possible, even at the expense of extra physical effort” Now to the actual study. The catch? The heaviest buckets were closest to the start line. Thanks, Bob.

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New Video: Emails and Negative Intentions

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Have you ever obsessed over an email you were writing? You meticulously selected each word to ensure you wouldn’t alienate or offend anyone. After it’s perfectly perfect, you hit send and what happens? Despite your best efforts the message in your email is misunderstood, misconstrued and misinterpreted! Check it out now! Make your consistent message now with a free trial of Thinkzoom.

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Thinkzoom 2.0 is Now Live!

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We’re so excited to announce that Thinkzoom 2.0 is now live and ready for you all to explore! To reiterate, Thinkzoom 2.0 is a redesign integrating your feedback with user experience experts to make Thinkzoom the best learning platform. Be sure to check back to our blog later this week as we’ll have other Thinkzoom 2.0 In the meantime, here’s a recap of Thinkzoom 2.0’s highlights. Groups.

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New Video: Top Leadership Traps

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Whether you’ve held a high post for 10 years or you’re a newly anointed leader for your company, there are always going to be tough decisions headed your way, and if you’re not careful, mistakes will follow. And while you can’t outrun failure completely, you can learn to avoid the bigger potholes with better knowledge and training. Like what you see? Start Your Free Trial Today.

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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.

How Companies Can Make Seasonal Onboarding Easier

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According to a report by Calculated Risk, the seasonal hiring boom begins in October and is strong through November. As such, now is the time when retail companies strengthen their forces to handle the increase in customer shopping. In fact, retail groups brought on about 600,000 employees collectively in 2013. For instance, those 600,000 people all need to be trained. Cover the Bases.

How to Prepare Your Company for eLearning Training Tools

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Taking on eLearning for business is a step toward a modern and effective training program, but poor implementation can negate the benefits of digital tools. Companies that want to use eLearning courseware should take time before purchasing a subscription to think about what they need and how they’ll introduce new training tools. Furthermore, they must consider how they’ll ensure the program satisfies employees needs. You should also identify what was not working in your last program to figure out what you’ll need to change in this next one. Reduce training spending. eLearnin

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Catering to Different Learning Styles in Your Corporate Training Program

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While training employees at your company, you may have noticed that some grasp concepts better than others. It’s true that people do process information at different paces, but the issue could also be that your old training program didn’t cater to numerous learning styles. This theory posits that, while everyone can learn the same information, the way they do differs. Develop a program.

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eLearning Inspired by Game Design

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As you’ve trained employees on job-related skills, you’ve probably encountered a couple of outcomes: Some may get bored and zone out, others could appear interested and then fail to integrate their new knowledge into their performance, and a few could leave the training and excel at work. How do you achieve that outcome? Covert guidance. Achievement as motivation.

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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 Show Genuine Appreciation During Thanksgiving

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Everyone likes to feel that they’ve done a good job or are appreciated, and that’s especially true when it comes to work. Employees who are praised are more motivated to put effort into their jobs. In fact, according to a Gallup poll that was published in the book “How Full is Your Bucket?,” ” the No. “The No. Because of your keen eye, we avoided a disaster.”

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Succession Planning Success: The Golden Rules for Future-Proofing Your Business

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Succession planning is about managing the risk associated with any type of critical skills gap. Consider the role of a senior nuclear engineer: This is not a job you can fill easily by posting on LinkedIn. Imagine the problems it would cause for a nuclear plant’s operations if not enough nuclear engineers were developed in time to fill the gaps created by retiring baby boomers.

The Most Common “I Quit” Motivators & What You Can Do About Them

ClearCompany HRM

There are many different types of turnover; some are welcome, and some aren’t. When a consistently poor performer with a bad attitude is replaced with an employee who excels, that’s the kind of turnover you want to see. However, that’s not always what happens. Very often, turnover can have some seriously negative effects on the organization. For a manager making $40K, that’s $20-$30,000.

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The 5 disciplines of a successful leader

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There are no “magic bullets” or “secret formulas” to successful, results-oriented leadership. However, we’ve identified 5 core disciplines that all successful leaders share. And each of the following disciplines can be learned and improved upon. It simply takes commitment and practice. 1. Have a clear picture. This may sound obvious but it’s just too important to gloss over.

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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.

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Emotions Run Hot for iPhone 6

Kanjoya

Kanjoya analyzes mobile market emotional response to Apple’s iPhone display announcement. Apple is finally stepping into larger displays, and it’s likely we’ll see long lines again at Apple stores this fall. The WSJ reports that Apple has asked suppliers to manufacture between 70-80 million units combined of iPhones with 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch displays by Dec. 30th, 2014. Apple’s move to 4.7 and 5.5-inch displays impacts telephony providers, manufactures, suppliers and of course mobile users across the globe. To get an early indicator on market reaction to Apple’s 4.7

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Tips for Wrapping Up the Year

The People Equation

Are you working this week? If you have an office job, most likely it’s going to be fairly quiet in the office because many of your colleagues are on vacation. That makes it a perfect time to finish those things you never seem to get around to doing—like filing your expense reports or cleaning off your desktop. They had some great ideas and agreed to share them with you. The “Not to Do” List.

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Onboarding Pain Points for New Employees

ClearCompany HRM

In our work with many client companies, we have found that onboarding is often put on the back burner. Too many leaders believe onboarding is such a low impact function that it gets neglected. No one is really in charge of the process and employers have no clue how harmful this can be to their employer brand. Onboarding New Hire Paperless Onboarding Employee Onboarding

The 4 Leadership Issues You Can’t Ignore Anymore

ClearCompany HRM

Bad bosses take the blame for a lot of what goes wrong in the workplace. Low engagement rates, high turnover, employee dissatisfaction and even poor employer branding will often get placed squarely on the shoulders of supervisors. constant passing of the buck, and probably some not so fair statistics have lead to the idea that a bad boss epidemic is at the core of business issues.

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?

5 Essential Components of Feedback at Work

ClearCompany HRM

You might not be surprised to learn lack of communication contributes to about 80% of workplace issues. While giving and receiving feedback can at times be uncomfortable, when embraced and structured, feedback becomes one of the strongest processes in driving success, productivity and collaboration. Here are the 5 essential components of effective feedback at work.

Monkey See Monkey Do: New Leaders Emulate Their Bosses

The People Equation

Nobody likes to be told what to do, but give them a positive example, and you might be surprised at the results. Consider this social experiment conducted by author Daniel Pink for his TV show Crowd Control  , as reported on the blog Barking Up the Wrong Tree . Pink and his team painted two lanes on a sidewalk, one for people talking on their cell phones, the other for non-cell-phone users.

The Dangers of Employee Silence

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“No news is good news” is a common, fingers-crossed sentiment in many HR departments. It isn’t that we aren’t open to hearing from employees. But often we spend so much time running around putting out fires that a little bit of silence can be truly golden. It means things are finally running smoothly. Or does it? Silence, says author Elizabeth W. Employees perceive a lack of control.

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4 Major HR Tech Trends to Keep Up With in 2015

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We’re all talking budgets, must-haves and laying out plans to kick 2015 square in the saas. Everyone is ramping up with their recruiting and HR technologies - are you ready? Keeping up with market trends in this space can leave HR and talent acquisition professionals feeling a little like Lucy in the chocolate factory. HR Tech HR Tech Trends 2015

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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.

Generations React Differently to Facebook’s Psychological Experiment

Kanjoya

Kanjoya analyzes the emotional reaction to Facebook’s experiment across Twitter. If you haven’t already heard, in a recent social experiment, Facebook secretly altered the tone of 689,003 people’s Facebook feed. In their experiment, they manipulated the number of posts containing either positive or negative emotions and then monitored the tone of subsequent posts produced by those users. The study was a collaborative effort between Facebook’s data science team, and US scientists. Facebook cites their data use policy and that all users consent upon initial signup. De-activating this weekend”).

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Why Your Compensation Management is Failing to Attract and Retain

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Compensation – it is so tightly connected with performance management, attraction and retention. Yet, all of these processes are incredibly disjointed. Ventana research revealed the top goals for compensation management among the companies they studied are to better align the workforce to strategy and goals while improving efficiency.

Why Most Leadership Development Programs Are Not Worth the Time (and Money)

ATD Human Capital

For leadership development programs, better leadership should be a means to an end, but not an end unto itself. Click here to read full version

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2015: The Evolution of HR

ClearCompany HRM

The way businesses operate has changed drastically in a very short amount of time, and many (like us) believe the rate and impact of these changes are only picking up steam. More interesting than that, we believe HR is going to have a huge role in leading and shaping the future of business as we know it, and we aren’t the only ones. HR Marketing HR Marketing

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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.

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Leadership and Being a Role Model – 20 Ideas

The People Equation

At one time or another, we’re all in a position to lead. We’re parents, teachers, coaches, managers and committee leaders.  As such, we know that setting a good example is an important part of leadership. But it’s not always easy. wrote a post for Smartblog on Leadership called The Six Saboteurs of Positive Role Models. Being a role model is about being true to myself. ”. ? Joe DiMaggio. Epictetus.

Inclined to Collaborate? You Should Be

All Things Workplace

"Collaboration is a key driver of overall performance of companies around the world. Its impact is twice as significant as a company’s aggressiveness in pursuing new market opportunities (strategic orientation) and five times as significant as the external market environment (market turbulence).". As a general rule, global companies that collaborate better, perform better. It’s just that simple.”.

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Is Your Talent Management Ready for the Contingent Workforce?

ClearCompany HRM

It better be, because the contingent workforce is the fastest growing workforce segment, and that growth is showing no signs of slowing down. The Rise of the Extended Workforce Report by Accenture revealed that 20-33% of U.S. workers are freelancers, temporary workers and independent contractors. When you consider that number was at 6% in 1989, the contingent workforce is changing drastically.

Building a Productive Learning Culture: Rightsizing Learning Opportunities

ATD Human Capital

This installment of the blog series on building a productive learning culture examines how organizations can rightsize learning opportunities (instead of offering too many choices) to ensure that employees engage in relevant and high-quality learning. Click here to read full version

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.

Grateful Leaders Know That Communication Leads to Connection

ATD Human Capital

Judy Umlas reminds leaders not to wait for the right way or right time to express their appreciation. Just do it NOW! Click here to read full version

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13 Talent Attraction Stats for the Perfect Company Pitch

ClearCompany HRM

Recruiting, the first step of the talent lifecycle is insanely crucial to nail. Quality talent attraction is a growing concern for employers. In fact, a recent study revealed that 39% of employers have jobs that stay open for four months or longer due to the inability to find people with appropriate skills.

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"Who Do You Want to Become?" vs. "What Do You Want To Be?"

All Things Workplace

Which question are you asking yourself? Your choice will help determine the depth of your life as well as the comfort-level of your career. . I''ve been watching a new CEO client begin his tenure at a global company. He is very comfortable listening, talking, giving direction, and saying "I don''t know. That sounds good to me. Go ahead and do it." Whatever the "it" is). Who do you want to become?

What Do Employees Want Most? Appreciation and Good Relationships at Work

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Recognize This! Research from the Boston Consulting Group and The Network show employees around the world most need to know their work is valued and appreciated. They are different in [insert country other than your own.] They want different things than we do.”. How true do you believe that statement to be? It’s no surprise “appreciation for your work” leads the list. You must be appreciated.”.

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