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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Earlier this month we were fortunate to host an interactive HR Leadership workshop for Visier customers, led by father of modern HR and leading business consultant Dave Ulrich. In this workshop, Ulrich focused on the top questions of the group, the first of which was focused on, “What is blocking HR’s progress?” Here are some key takeaways. They understand the general business conditions (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

It’s hard to attend an HR conference or visit an HR website and not hear the term “employee engagement.” Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2015 report rated culture and engagement as “the most important issue overall, slighting edging out leadership (the No. issue last year)” in 2015. And for good reason. The employment landscape has changed dramatically in the past few decades. The problem?

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JULY 16, 2015

This one is for you, Bill Kutik. At Visier the security and privacy of our customer data is our highest priority. When determining the validity of our predictive analytics capabilities, customer data analyzed was anonymized. Many HR software vendors talk the talk of predicting “at risk employees,” but how many can prove they walk the walk… and that their predictions actually work? Hold on?

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

2016 promises to be a year of seachange for HR with HR professionals accelerating their embrace of a fact-based and business-oriented mindset (see the fifth point in this Josh Bersin post ). Brilliant HR in 2016 is data-driven, strategic, and impactful. Its practitioners ask not just how many , but — more importantly — ask why. The HR Leadership Revolution — Will You Thrive?:

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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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AUGUST 20, 2015

In September 2013, top HR leaders undertook a voluntary and collective effort to envision the HR profession in 2025.  They conducted interviews, focus groups, reviews of published findings and drew upon their significant personal experience through CHREATE (The global Consortium to Reimagine HR, Employment Alternatives, Talent, and the Enterprise).  Five Forces Shaping the Future. Lawler III.

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JULY 29, 2015

Frontline employees for companies conducting a substantial amount of work with Facebook are probably “liking” a recent announcement made by the social networking powerhouse. In May, Facebook announced a new set of standards for vendors and contractors with respect to employee pay and benefits. And as a recent Economist article indicates, the market is taking notice. Consider This.

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APRIL 27, 2015

More than ever before, the business world needs strong HR leaders. The workforce in the developed world and China is rapidly aging. New, first-time workers are barely replacing workers who are retiring. Despite increasing automation, in the next 20 years there will be a serious shortage of skilled workforce everywhere. The results are clear: strong CHROs are crucial to business success.

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MARCH 27, 2015

This may go without saying, but your employees aren’t like cars and trucks. The average automobile depreciation rate is 15% per year, with new vehicles dropping in value immediately after you drive them off the lot. Unlike cars and trucks, people appreciate in value the longer they work for you. They get more skills and experience, and create essential networks for your business.

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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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AUGUST 7, 2015

It’s peak vacation season. The next time you find yourself sitting in the airport or maybe lounging by the hotel pool, take a look around at the people who are glued to their smartphones and iPads. While kids may be connecting with friends, checking Facebook or reading the latest Buzzfeed post, the furrowed brows and frantic typing of adults may point to an ongoing connection to the office.

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JUNE 19, 2015

It seems no one in HR has escaped the story of Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. For those few who haven’t, however, it is the story of how Billy Beane, as the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, challenged conventional methods of player evaluations. Even the best, most experienced managers can make poor judgment calls about individuals. Availability Heuristic.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

As an HR leader, you’re often put in a tough spot. It’s not unusual to have to choose between a decision that’s unpopular and one that’s ineffective. Case in point: A Visier customer told me about the time the manager of a business unit demanded a meeting with HR. The HR team knew from past experience that an across-the-board pay raise was the wrong thing to do. The Metrics Trap.

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MAY 8, 2015

The digital era has created a peer-to-peer economy , forcing organizations to re-think business operations from the ground up. As Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, explores in his newly released book, Disrupting Digital Business , the leaders in this new economy have moved from selling products or services to focusing on experiences and outcomes. Another example is Marriott.

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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.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

As an HR leader, you’re often put in a tough spot. It’s not unusual to have to choose between a decision that’s unpopular and one that’s ineffective. Case in point: A Visier customer told me about the time the manager of a business unit demanded a meeting with HR. The HR team knew from past experience that an across-the-board pay raise was the wrong thing to do. The Metrics Trap.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Marie, a sales director earning $120,000 per year, enters her manager’s office one day and announces that the firm down the street has offered her a position with a 10% salary increase. In the mind of her manager, Marie’s work performance is above average and she has potential, according to a recent talent review. Should the manager counter-offer to keep Marie? Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

“Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.”. When he wrote these words in Space Chronicles , astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was referring to the driving forces behind space exploration advances. Fact: Analytics is a journey.

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MARCH 12, 2015

If your job is to run an HR function, you likely encounter this challenge on a regular basis: It is often the managers and department heads who make decisions that impact the results of key programs, such as retention and recruitment. These are busy people and too often they rely on intuition in the decision-making process — or they default to the simplest solution.

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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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MAY 12, 2015

The company with the best talent will often win, but talent alone is not enough. Talent is wasted if those who possess it are not given the freedom to do what they believe is right, or are not aligned with the company’s strategy. Great HR leaders understand this and can demonstrate how workforce dynamics impact business outcomes. At the same time, talent is very expensive.

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MARCH 20, 2015

It can feel like preparing for a trip up Mount Everest. Along with gaining buy-in from people at all levels, turning your HR function into a well-oiled fact-based decision-making machine will require you to attain both some new hard and soft skills. And yet, research supports that it is well worth the effort. To identify those, you need to ask yourself and your colleagues some key questions.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

When a company acquires another business, bringing the two workforces together is the single most challenging undertaking of the entire project. This is a lesson I learned during my tenure as a senior executive at Business Objects and Symantec, where I led several strategic acquisitions. Now, how does one do this with data in two or more separate, incompatible HRIS systems of record?

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JUNE 12, 2015

Making drastic changes to talent programs without thinking through the outcomes is like introducing rabbits to the Australian ecosystem: both can bring a myriad of unintended consequences. Consider Jack Welch’s famous Stack Ranking policies , which focused on ranking employees and then firing the lowest 10% of performers. How do you prove it? Prove the retention problem. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Three . Back in 1747 Scottish physician James Lind finally put an end to the age-old “what-treats-scurvy” debate: is it cider? seawater? vinegar? He found 12 scurvy-inflicted sailors, conducted one of the first ever clinical experiments in the history of medicine…. and confirmed that two oranges and one lemon would do the trick. Step 2.

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JULY 9, 2015

It’s time to put HR on an equal footing with Finance. Who decides what is the right budget to cover the people resources or how many resources are affordable within the budget? Typically it’s Finance. According to the survey, the sought-after HR leader is: Data-Driven. Business-Oriented. Performance-Focused. HR Leadership HR leadership advice HR Transformation

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AUGUST 28, 2015

Amazon’s alleged “bruising workplace.” Walmart’s boost to its minimum wage. Google’s focus on diversity. HR topics like workplace culture, compensation, and diversity often go viral. But what about less “Hollywood” topics that are keeping HR and business leaders up at night? Manager’s 10-Step Guide for Hiring Top Talent , by Lou Adler, CEO, The Adler Group, Inc.com. Retaining Top Talent.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

During the holidays, it’s not unusual to receive a slew of out-of-office messages from people squeezing in one last getaway before the new year. Unfortunately, it is also becoming just as common to receive emails and phone calls from people working through the season, even if they have paid time off (PTO) to burn or worse, they’re on vacation. The Hidden Costs of Unused PTO. billion.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Two. The second in a four-part series on linking workforce metrics to business outcomes, this post looks at five key metrics for manager effectiveness that will help your organization motivate talented people. In the tech industry, competitive threats loom large. But staying ahead of the competition need not be a thankless, grueling task.

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APRIL 24, 2015

As Vice President of Workforce Management Practice and Principal Analyst at Brandon Hall Group Mollie Lombardi wrote in this Workforce Planning blog post last year: “Workforce planning is tricky business. Not just because of the complexity entailed in the process, but because if you ask four people what workforce planning is, you’ll likely wind up with five definitions.”. So, what is Workforce Planning? Essentially, it is about: Projecting labor supply based on where you are today. Capturing labor demand for where you want to go. Enabling data-driven decision making.

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MAY 29, 2015

Editor’s note: Cold, hard numbers about critical workforce trends can seem theoretical. But these numbers represent real life situations: whether it’s people exiting the company to seek opportunities elsewhere, or candidates turning down job offers because the head office is nowhere near a hip urban city center. Reality, of course, is typically very different. Is a signing bonus justified?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Engagement surveys are a mainstay in the arsenal of HR tactics. And for a long time engagement scores have been the go-to metric that HR teams use when they need to demonstrate their impact on business results. The theory is that employees who are more engaged will also be more productive. Take a hospital, for example. The Missing Piece. Is the increase in cost worth the increase in engagement?

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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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MAY 21, 2015

As an HR leader, you know that people sometimes behave irrationally: they can let office politics get in the way of productivity or abruptly leave a job because something set them off. Remember the JetBlue flight attendant who made a dramatic exit from his career by sliding down the emergency-evacuation chute after a dispute with a passenger?). The assumption here is that people act in isolation.

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

“HR Tech is closer to a marathon than a sprint,” notes the event’s Co-Chair Steve Boese ( @SteveBoese ) in his annual conference tips post. We couldn’t agree more: With as many as 10 sessions running at the same time (and an expo floor with 300+ exhibitors vying for your attention), it can be difficult to wade through all the content in the agenda to find out which speakers are worth your while.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Should you encourage managers to differentiate performance and rewards among workers? The typical assumption is that more differentiation is better. Merit-based rewards are seen as a hallmark of a “high performance culture.”. 91% of companies linked pay to performance in 2011 , up from 78% in 2009. 89% of companies differentiated performance using numerical ratings in 2014-2015. Lawler III.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

How to Link Workforce Metrics With Business Outcomes, Part Two. The second in a four-part series on linking workforce metrics to business outcomes, this post looks at five key metrics for manager effectiveness that will help your organization motivate talented people. In the tech industry, competitive threats loom large. But staying ahead of the competition need not be a thankless, grueling task.

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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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