Sun.Jan 31, 2016

Trending Sources

You Can’t Own Your Career Until You Buy Into It

HR Bartender

There’s lots of talk about employees “owning” their careers. The idea being that employees are in the driver’s seat where their career development is concerned. Some of this stems from the fact that employees want more control over their future. Not just the jobs, but their work schedules, workspace, etc. They’ve vowed it won’t happen to them. Now, don’t get me wrong. Feedback. Manage.

Company 52
More

How to Motivate Employees – The Complete Guide

SnackNation

How to Motivate Employees – The Complete Guide. Inspire Your Team to Do Their Best Work, and Take Your Org to the Next Level. In the past, the topic of how to motivate employees was a non-starter with most business leaders. Managers held a position of power, and getting the most out of their workforce was relatively simple: Get results, or get fired. It’s their job. Chapter 7 | Happiness.

Legislative Alert – January 31, 2016: Drug Testing via Fingerprints?

EBI

Screening News Update. Criminal Record? No Problem in PA. Uber Easing Up on Some Background Checks. Indiana Cracking Down on Employers. Portable Fingerprint Drug Test Coming Soon? Subscribe To Our Blog To Receive Our Weekly Screening News Updates. Criminal Record? No Problem in PA. The 1997 law required a lifetime employment ban on anyone convicted of a crime. Indiana Cracking Down on Employers.

The #HR Suppliers as Bacon Trees Problem

101 Half Connected Things

Two guys are stuck in the desert, wandering aimlessly and starving. They are about to just lie down and wait for death, when all of a sudden one says……… “Do you smell what I smell. think it’s bacon.” ” “It does smell like bacon… ” With renewed hope they struggle up the next sand dune, & there, in the distance, is a tree loaded with bacon. There’s raw bacon, there’s fried bacon, back bacon, double smoked bacon … Every imaginable kind of cured pork. “We are saved! We won’t starve! What happened?”

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.

More

More Trending

employee’s husband hanging out in office, job searching from a work laptop, and more

Ask a Manager

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. Employee wants her husband to hang out in our office for hours every day. have a coworker who lives a good distance away from the office (a 1.5 hour commute), and as a result, she carpools with her husband to and from work each day. Her husband was recently laid off, but is still driving her to and from work each day. My coworker is now requesting that he be allowed to “hang out” in the office for a couple hours in the morning in order to allow time for traffic to die down, so his return trip home is not as difficult. Don’t do it.

It’s February?!

Engage Learn Build

It’s February!! (?) I don’t know how this has happened. returned to work last Wednesday after 10 days holidaying in New Zealand, which consisted of visiting family and friends, threatening to kidnap my nephew and bring him to Australia as carry-on luggage. Normal family stuff. It was wonderful to reset myself – I didn’t […]. Formal learning Working in People & Culture Career Development university

Shared Service Implementation: 10 Keys for Success

HR C-Suite

Efficiency, saving money, improving quality and service is necessary for businesses remain healthy and viable. It should be no surprise that many mid-size to large multi-location companies are looking at the Shared Service model as way of achieving those objectives. The shared services concept has been around since the early 1980’s.  It is sometimes confused […].

Keep Smiling !!

Everyday People

Quick set of questions. Do you know any children? Do you have children of your own? Have you ever been a child yourself? This may seem silly, but I think we forget. We’re so busy being adults that we lose the sight of what it was like to be a kid. This past week, one of my co-workers showed me a video of his daughter at gymnastics practice. ” Wow !! What happened to us ?? Smile !!

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.

Why Your Trust Mindset Matters

Great Place to Work

Your beliefs about trust shape your actions—and your company’s culture Imagine, as a manager, you're faced with a dilemma that's becoming more and more commonplace: a new employee joins your team, and after you've taught her about the new products your team has developed and ushered out to market, the newbie wants to tweet about them to her network. Blogs