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A New Approach for a New Year

HRchitect

Written by: Brandie Hurtado. Over the last four years, I have seen many shifts in the HCM marketplace and in HR technology trends.   I’ve noticed one constant – almost every organization who opts to handle selection or implementation of HCM technology in-house, ends up regretting it later. In reality, that assumption by business leaders does not always hold true. How can it be fixed?

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[Infographic] The Benchmark of Successful Internal Email Campaigns

Get Hppy

Even though social communication is on the rise, email remains a reliable ally for most workplaces and it can be a powerful channel for employee engagement. We recently discussed business transparency practices and how internal communication can drive this transparency, making employees feel empowered, informed and engaged. million recipients between October 2014 and October 2015.

How To Get Honest Answers From Candidates In A Job Interview

Spark Hire

The job interview can be a nerve-wrecking process for everyone involved. You want to make sure you’re asking questions that will best expose an accurate representation of the candidate’s personality, experience, and attitude. Although, it’s hard to predict how well a candidate will perform when the interview itself is something they’re desperate to ace.  . Don’t give them any hints.

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5 Reasons Internal Recruitment Is the Way to Go

Brazen HR

Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other gold. If you were in the Girl Scouts, you know that old campfire song by heart. The sentiment may seem trite, but it actually holds a valuable lesson for folks in human resources — appreciating the people you already have is just as important, if not more so, than bringing new people on board. should know. It was in quality assurance.

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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6 Training Ideas for a Smoother HR Technology Rollout

Visier

Training colleagues to use a new HR technology can be daunting and there is a lot of pressure to get it right. If users feel frustrated and uncertain while using a new tool, such as a workforce intelligence (WFI) solution , they may return to the old methods of figuring out their HR data despite how antiquated or cumbersome they are. Planning and communication were key to success. panicked.

How to Effectively Promote Your Work

Dice

Many tech pros would rather crawl under a convenient rock than engage in rigorous self-promotion. That’s totally natural: not everyone likes tooting their own horn, even if they’re more than qualified to do so. But remaining invisible to colleagues, bosses, and respective employers could end up harming your career. How can you do that without coming off as arrogant or conceited? Show Metrics.

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5 Ways Technology is Changing the Face of HR

TalentCulture

Human resources departments are typically a frenzy of activity, but technology has given HR professionals tools that help reduce administrative tasks so that they can focus on issues that require more hands-on attention. By simplifying responsibilities like recruitment, record keeping, and payroll, technology has drastically improved efficiency, accuracy, and even employee morale.

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Supporting women past impostor syndrome and into leadership

HR Zone

Engage. Supporting women past impostor syndrome

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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.

Dear United: I Solved Your Problems

WorkXO

United is an easy target these days, and I know it's a tough nut to crack, but there's one thing they MUST do first to turn things around

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Are HR Measures Really Too Soft and Subjective?

TLNT: The Business of HR

By David C. Forman. Culture HR Insights HR Management HR Trends Leadership Performance & Personality Featured

Why Engagement Happens In Employees Hearts, Not Their Minds

TalentCulture

Winning Your Employees Over To Stick With The Company Long Term Involves An Array Of Factors—But First Among Those Is Love. What are the real drivers of human engagement in the workplace? What are those things that consistently inspire people to fully commit themselves in their jobs and to willingly scale mountains for their bosses and organizations? Why We Want More. Why It All Comes Down To Love.

[Infographic] HR Can Improve Efficiency Using Automation

Paychex

Your HR department's time and activity may be wasted on unnecessary administrative tasks. Learn how HR automation can help your team rediscover their true calling

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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.

Rising Salaries Challenge Employers

Dice

Rising salaries for tech professionals are putting the squeeze on employer budgets when it comes to new hiring, making it more important than ever for recruiters and HR professionals to find tech candidates with the right mix of skills and experience. Tech salaries rose 7.7 percent between 2014 and 2015, the biggest year-over-year increase in the history of Dice’s Salary Survey. percent in 2014.

My Boss Asked Me to Resign

Evil HR Lady

I am a middle manager without a union who has been told that because of poor job performance, I would need to step down. My boss had offered me a lower level position that I do not wish to fill as I don’t want to work for them any longer. asked my boss to dismiss/terminate me for poor performance. They won’t dismiss me and have asked me to resign. Any thoughts on this? Keep working.

Embracing Technology: The True Connection Between Employers and Job Seekers

TalentCircles

The sheer volume of information and technology available to us each day can be a bit overwhelming, to say the least. But when it comes to establishing a real connection between employers and job seekers, it’s also an incredible gift. As the forerunner of electronic communication, email used to be enough when it came to reaching out to the qualified candidates in your resume bank.

The Tricky Business of Incentive Compensation

Compensation Cafe

Modern businesses must respond to increasingly fast-paced changes in today’s VUCA environment (an acronym that stands for increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity). The linchpin connecting these two groups are middle managers. One solution has been to implement incentive compensation or “pay for performance” plans. How does your company help motivate manager performance?

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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My Starbucks Addiction is Vanquished

Laurie Ruettimann

My name is Laurie Ruettimann. I was once addicted to Starbucks, but that’s all over now. Before I left for Cuba , last November, a friend joked that I might die without Starbucks. thought, hey, that’s a little extreme. Cubans have good coffee. I’ll be just fine. Turns out, I did nearly die. My morning drink at Starbucks is the equivalent of six cups of coffee. Literally.

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How to Keep Benefits Communication Going Beyond Open Enrollment

Winston Benefits

Now that open enrollment is over, you and your employees can breathe a sigh of relief and forget all about this for another 10 months or so, right? Wrong. Now that employees have made their selections and may be working diligently to become healthier or more financially savvy in 2016, they’ll be heading to the doctor or financial planner and will have questions.

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Josh Bersin Video Series: When Analytics Prove ‘Common Sense’ is Wrong

Workday

If you don’t have data about what’s working—and more importantly, what’s not—your leaders can’t make smart decisions. In some instances, long-held assumptions and gut instincts are plain wrong. With analytics, organizations will discover things that “feel like they’re obvious later but they weren’t obvious when you started,” Bersin said.

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Confessions of a PI convert

The Predictive Index

By Ed Nathanson. Employee Engagement & Retention Team Development Discovering High Performers Employee Onboarding Assessments People Data Behavioral Assessment

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.

Large Employers May Soon Have to Report Pay Data

Paycor

Federal Law Alert. Late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ( EEOC ) announced a proposed change to the annual Employer Information Report, or EEO -1, which would require that employers with more than 100 employees report pay data in addition to the information they currently provide on race, ethnicity, sex, and job category.

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How we used open communication during a private equity deal at Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway

The last post discussed why you should have open communication with your employees during a business sale. Now, we'll tell you what we did when we were in that situation. Open & Honest Communication

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Employee Engagement: People Artists See Behind Their Own Lenses

David Zinger

How to Leap into People Artistry. Please take 3 minutes to view this short video about six photographers being given six different stories about the man they are asked to photograph. Their story influences the shot they take. Are you any different? trust with this exercise you will recognize that being a good People Artist is as much an inside job as an outward expression. Special offer.

Stop Complaining About Millennials

WorkXO

Seriously. Just stop. Be curious and learn from them instead

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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.

There Are No Rules

NoExcusesHR

"The future of work will not include the archaic rules we cling to today." - Me Protocol How many times do you consider protocol before making a decision? When you think about what is "acceptable" in your workplace do your decisions change? Is there an established set of rules, policies or procedures that everyone must follow? So then, what is so powerful about protocol? That is impossible.

Shocking Stats Affecting Employee Performance You May Have Overlooked

ReviewSNAP

Performance management has come to mean many things to many people. Some take it to be the day-to-day interactions managers have with their employees, others feel it’s strictly the domain of Human Resources professionals. Whoever is in charge, performance management touches many areas of the world of work. Employee or performance reviews, for example are … Continue reading Shocking Stats Affecting Employee Performance You May Have Overlooked. The post Shocking Stats Affecting Employee Performance You May Have Overlooked appeared first on Reviewsnap.

Can an employer prohibit an employee from job hunting during FMLA leave?

Ohio Employer's Law

Earlier this week, an employee out on FMLA leave posed the following question to the Evil HR Lady : While I am out for surgery, I was informed of a new job in another hospital. It looks like no one has applied for the position.… Can I apply for this job while I am on leave? What is the consequence of doing so? Can they take my pay back? On one of the FMLA paperwork, it states no job hunting while on FMLA. Is that true? I do not want to be in some legal battle. What an interesting question. I am not aware of any provision in the FMLA that specifically addresses this issue.

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