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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Ways to Engage Employees and Have More Fun

Get Hppy

Many of us spend more of our waking hours at work than in the rest of our lives. It’s important to create the type of culture where employees feel connected and don’t mind spending such a huge chunk of their time at your company. The invention of the smartphone virtually eliminated any remaining line between personal and professional life. It seems we’re always “on the clock.”

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Oops! How Failing an Interview Question Taught Her About HR Strategy

UpstartHR

I had been on the job search for a little while, and I was very thrilled when I received a request to come in and interview for a manufacturing operation that produced rubber molds and other rubber pieces. This was going to be my first big HR role, and I was really nervous. Fast forward to the interview session, and I was feeling a little more confident. ” So I thought about it for a minute.

LinkedIn Adds 2 New Features for Recruiters & Job Seekers

Blogging 4 Jobs

I talk to recruiters and job seekers every day. hear about the great divide.Recruiters can’t find talent; Job seekers can’t find the right new position. It feels like they are miles away from each other. The crazy thing from my vantage point is that there is really so much opportunity everywhere. LinkedIn just gave a nice connection lift to both recruiters and job seekers with two new updates.

A Millennial’s Hard Learned Lessons About Managing His Generation

TLNT: The Business of HR

Our 2015 summer internship program was a disaster. My company, HireTeamMate/Hiretual , hired one software engineering intern after another — failure after failure — but on paper they seemed perfect for us. Culture Performance & Personality Talent Management Workforce Featured millennials

The SMB Guide to Posting Jobs

Whether you’re an HR professional for a small start-up, a high-growth company or a large enterprise organization, the quality of your team is the single best predictor of success. Learn how to build a solid sourcing strategy that consistently results in great hires by reading Jazz's new eBook, The SMB Guide to Posting Jobs.

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Can you explain employee engagement in five minutes? Ready, set, go!

Reward Gateway

Picture this, you have five minutes to not only explain employee engagement to a room full of HR professionals, but you have to do so in a disruptive way. This was the challenge I was given when I agreed to speak at the recent DisruptHR event held in London, with the brief being to ‘energize, inform and empower executives, business leaders and people in the HR field.’ Absolutely not. Definitely!

Age is Just a Number: How Peer-to-Peer Learning Can Strengthen a Multigenerational Workforce

Switch and Shift

Companies today face a multigenerational workforce that spans up to four generations. It’s not uncommon for a fresh-out-of-college millennial to join a company that has workers with 30 or more years of experience. Each generation brings its own values, skillsets, and contributions to the office. In theory, this diversity should be a strength, but sometimes it’s hard […] Read more.

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5 Ways to Amplify Your Diversity Recruiting Efforts

Blogging 4 Jobs

Recruiting a diverse group of candidates is essential to having a well-rounded organization where ideas, experiences and backgrounds help organizations and teams reach their productivity and sales goals.For example, research has found that every 1 percent increase in racial diversity correlates with a 9 percent increase in sales revenue. We all do. Diversity Job Boards and Forums. Hackathons.

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13 Musts for Breaking Bad News to Employees

Kontiki Enterprise Video

Have to tell the troops about layoffs, an upper-level scandal, an imminent hostile takeover or divestment? Follow these essentials. You know these people. You work with them. And before you break bad news, it’s intimidating to picture the disappointment, grief or anger in their faces. Whether you’re revealing upcoming layoffs or a reduction in benefits, […]. General

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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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Do You Have a Job, a Career, Or a Calling?

TLNT: The Business of HR

“No my background is different from everyone else. I am a petroleum engineer.”  . Engagement HR Insights Motivation Featured

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Changes in the sales world are outpacing the FLSA

OmegaHR Solutions

Inside sales positions are by law most frequently nonexempt positions. As I wrote yesterday the FLSA overtime regulations are changing, subsequently increasing the number of employees considered non-exempt. However, that is not the only change occurring that will increase the number of nonexempt employees. Outside sales positions disappearing. According Mary Shea, Ph.D. The law is outpaced.

Tracking the Elusive Compliance Beast

ej4 HR

No matter the size of your company, there are going to be laws and regulations that mandate certain kinds of training. Companies have to stay in strict compliance with these mandates, or else face penalties. OSHA, for example, penalizes companies every year for lapses in required training or training inefficiencies. This creates a need for delivering compliance training quickly and efficiently, and then proving that the training was completed according to the pertinent laws and regulations. This is where the exercise gets difficult. Twenty-one percent listed it as their #1 concern. Compliance

The 5 Recruitment Video Tricks That Will Have People Begging to Work for You

Capterra

There are two kinds of recruitment videos in the world. First, there are the recruitment videos that are excellent. They’re informative about the company’s business and culture. They’re snappy and well-edited. The people on screen look inviting and excited to share their workplace with you. And then there’s everything else. Those recruitment videos that are cringe-worthy. know what you’re thinking.

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.

How 3 Companies Improved Their Hiring

TLNT: The Business of HR

You may think you’re bad at judging which candidates will become star employees and which will crash and burn. But it turns out almost everyone is. Performance & Personality Personality Testing Screening & Assessment Talent Acquisition Featured

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3 Ways Managers Can Create Better Communication

ReviewSNAP

Communication is key. Whether verbal or nonverbal, you communicate with everyone you meet and it can mean a lot, especially with those we work with.  Studies have found that some form of communication with managers every day allow workers to be more engaged and have a sense of mentorship – knowing they could come to … Continue reading 3 Ways Managers Can Create Better Communication. The post 3 Ways Managers Can Create Better Communication appeared first on Reviewsnap. Communication Skills Performance Management productivity

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Talent OS: Why We Built It

ClearCompany HRM

ClearCompany has always strived to help organizations achieve their own mission by hiring top talent and managing that talent to success. When businesses support employees, they get A-players and those A-players bring a whole world of benefits. Organizations with high engagement have…. Talent Management

Four Ways To Make Candidate Experience A Recruiting Brand Win

TalentCulture

We are all job seekers. You can bet that at some point you’ll get contacted by a recruiter, whether or not you are: actively looking, entrenched in the C-suite (especially then), a hungry upstart in new clothes, even wanting to notice — chances are, you will. In that sense, we’re all just waiting to be, well, activated. Weird and awesome all at the same time, huh? My friend Kevin W. Get social.

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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.

How to Communicate About Disability Insurance

Winston Benefits

It can be hard for anyone to talk about becoming disabled, but the conversation is especially touchy at work. The idea of not being able to provide for oneself or one’s family can be dismaying, enough so that employees don’t like to think about it or plan for it. Communicating about disability insurance takes discretion and compassion as you debunk misunderstandings about the product.

Is There Something Wrong with Employee Loyalty?

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the idea of “cultureboarding.” The concept being that organizations need to educate new hire employees about organizational culture. Preferably during their onboarding process. Culture + Onboarding = Cultureboarding. After publishing the post, I discovered that some people found the term to be less than perfect. Thank you.” to guests. As a result, “Excellent.

Customer Focus: Creating Memorable Moments for HCM Technology Clients

TLNT: The Business of HR

Many of us reading this attended the 2016 HR Technology Conference and Exposition, which was held in Chicago last week.  There were hundreds of vendors showcasing their products and thousands of attendees walking the expo floor. 

10 Acts of Humanity Standout Leaders Perform Daily

TalentCulture

Standout leadership doesn’t have to be complicated; it doesn’t have to conform to doctrine advocated by leadership gurus and HR pundits who advocate a more theoretical model. In my experience, leadership that sets you apart from the crowd boils down to how well you practice a few basic human acts, not on how well you comply with text book principles. Help others. Keep your promises.

The Essential Guide to Recruiting Performers

In today's competitive talent market, it's essential for HR leaders to be able to connect their recruiting efforts to hiring results. This eBook will show you how to easily navigate the talent market and focus on hiring employees with the most ROI: Performers.

An internal website employees actually use

Jostle

Most companies regard their internal websites (or intranets) as mission critical, but they seldom work. Employees typically don’t use them because they’re cluttered with outdated content, are hard to navigate, and don’t engage users. We’re out to change this. Jostle’s People Engagement ® platform makes it easy for companies to create internal websites that employees actually want to use.

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Maximizing Millennial Engagement

WorkXO

Millennials are the largest generation in the history of the United States--and half of them aren’t even in the workforce yet. That means the companies that figure out how to effectively engage this generation are going to gain a significant competitive advantage in the years to come, in the form of productivity gains, lower turnover, and more innovation. REGISTER HERE FOR THIS FREE WEBINA

Get the Session Notes for HR Technology Conference 2016

Visier

The 16 th annual HR Technology Conference and Expo was a fast-paced three days of learning, idea sharing, connecting, and of course, trying out the latest in HR tech. As mentioned in our previous post , top themes from the show included: Making Sense of HR and People Data. Engaging and Retaining Talent. The Continuing Impact of Marketing on HR and HR Tech. Succeeding with Modern HR Technology.

10 Ways to Tell You're Working in a Toxic Environment

RecogNation

If there’s one thing that all professionals learn throughout their career, it’s that there is no such thing as a perfect organization. Just as every person has their flaws, so does every business. But there’s a definite difference between a less-than-perfect company culture and a flat-out toxic work environment. Have your friends noticed you being anxious and discouraged? Company Culture HR Tips

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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Employee Engagement: Engage Right Up to the End

David Zinger

I was inspired by the sunflower growing outside of my office window. It is October in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada yet this sunflower bloom is so alive. Some of us as we get close to the end of something begin to coast but let this sunflower inspire you to stay engaged until the end. Don’t let the autumn of your career mentally prevent you from being fully engaged.

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The Gamer’s Guide to Leveling Up: Career Edition

Ceridian

By Kristina Cleary, Chief Marketing Officer, Ceridian and BP Gallucci, Communications Manager, Ceridian. Career tips for leveling up by KC, gaming concepts applied by BP Gallucci! It’s tempting to think of your career in video game terms, where leveling up is simply a matter of putting in the time – collecting more power-ups and wandering around for an extra 5k – but your life and the goals you set for yourself take a lot more than that. While there are no cheat codes in life, there are lessons you can take from the world of gaming and apply to your career. So gamers take heart.

Music in the Workplace: Tune In or Tune Out?

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Listening to music is popular among employees as a way to focus and avoid distractions during the workday. Read about the pros and cons of allowing music in order to help you set a policy that makes the most sense for your business and your people

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Ways for Employers to Utilize the Gig Economy

HR Daily Advisor

It seems like everywhere you turn there’s another statistic being quoted about the fast growth and expansion of the gig economy. More and more people are turning to freelance and gig-focused work as either their primary source of income or a secondary source of income separate from their primary employment. What does this mean for employers? Let’s take a look at why employers are keen to do so.

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