Fri.Sep 11, 2015

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Diversity: It’s More than a Numbers Game

Kanjoya

As someone who works on a product to increase diversity in the workforce, it has been exciting to witness the media attention around diversity issues this year. Articles abound, dominated by reports of diversity statistics and pledges at leading tech firms, discussions of measures, like the Rooney Rule, to increase the number of diverse candidates in the pipeline, and coverage of diversity lawsuits. While I am encouraged by the discourse and the positive changes it can foster, I have become increasingly aware of what is largely left out of the conversation. Kanjoya Can Help.

Why You Need to Bridge Your Workforce Skills Gap (and How to Do It)

TLNT: The Business of HR

People love to talk about “the skills gap” on a macro level. That’s because (1) it’s scary, and (2) it’s a perfect red herring for internal HR deficiencies. HR Communications HR Insights HR Management Talent Management Training, Learning & Development

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3 Critical Elements of Teamwork

HR Ringleader

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.  It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”  ”  ~Dale Carnegie. “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”  ”  ~Kenyan proverb. One is work, the other is personal. Louis, MO.   .

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New ADP Branding Campaign About “Building Better … Happier Workplaces”

TLNT: The Business of HR

You may know that ADP has been around since forever (1949), that it has been in a  much-talked-about  rivalry with Zenefits, and that it’s handling payroll for half the companies in town. HR Management HR News HR Trends Wages, Pay, & Salary

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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Announcement: Marsh makes recommended offer for Jelf Group plc

Jelf

Issued by Marsh’s UK Media Centre on Thursday 10 September at 18.37hrs: . Marsh and Jelf today announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash acquisition by which the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Jelf will be acquired by Marsh. Under the terms of the acquisition, each Scheme Shareholder will receive 215 pence in cash for each Jelf Share.

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What to Know When You’re Looking at a Candidate’s Social Media Profiles

Spark Hire

Social media plays a major role in the hiring process today. You may think you have the perfect candidate, but some online research shows you that this person isn’t exactly the person they presented themselves as in the interview. As a result, you’re suddenly left with some questions about whether they’re actually a good fit for your company. Make sure HR is involved. Compare apples to apples.

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The Week in HR (9.11.2015)

Something Different

<faithfulprovisions.com> It’s Friday, so I wanted to share some of the best articles I’ve read this week. In no particular order: Tim Sackett has a great piece up on his blog wherein he talks about the powerful effect that ‘filling buckets’ can have on your life and the lives of the people around you. comp/ben/payroll etc.) Check it out here. Happy Friday, Rory.

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How Employers Really Hire an Employee

Evil HR Lady

Everyone knows how hiring works from the candidate’s point of view. It goes like this: Job is posted. Candidates submit resumes. The recruiter reviews the resumes and does phone screens. The top candidates come in and interview. The hiring manager decides which candidate to hire. HR performs background checks. The company extends an offer, the candidate negotiates, and then it’s done! Sounds easy, enough, right? It is,  until suddenly you’re the hiring manager. Here’s what the hiring manager is actually doing in order to get the best person on board.

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.

What is Talent Mapping and How Can it Help Grow Your Business?

Paychex

Are you cultivating the talent today that your business will need tomorrow? Read how talent management can help you meet your staffing goals

Want More Meaningful Reviews? Build a Survey for Better Performance Management

TLNT: The Business of HR

Close the door and sit down. Best Practices Evaluations, Reviews & Appraisal High-Performance Workforce HR Communications HR Insights HR Management Organizational Leadership Performance Management Talent Management Featured

The Talent Shortage and High-Turnover Industries

Talent Acquisition Today

In this age of low U.S. unemployment rates and increased talent competition, 54% of employers surveyed in Brandon Hall Group ’s recent research believe there is a shortage of qualified talent in their industries. But to what extent is this belief prevalent among typically high-turnover industries (technology and software, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and hospitality)? Feeling the Same Pain.

Employee Engagement and Working with Halogen Software

David Zinger

I am in Ottawa right now at the Halogen Software Conference. It was a pleasure yesterday to facilitate a session on employee engagement. Halogen Software was welcoming, supportive, fun, and well-organized. think this site is worth a visit at least once a week. For two and a half years I have written a monthly blog on employee engagement for Halogen. Thank you Halogen for making my day!

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.

Cut the B.S. and Evaluate The "Fit" of Potential Hires With Just 2 Questions.

The HR Capitalist

We're doing a Cultural/Motivational Fit Month over at my company - Kinetix.  Re-running this post today here since it fits that theme. Head over to our blog at Kinetix, Tremendous Upside , to get more nuggets on evaluating cultural and motivational fit on your candidates and sign up to see the themes we talk about each month. -. When it comes to interviewing, Larry King you are not. Then, s.h.u.t.

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Starting Small: Communicating Compensation Doesn't Have to be All or Nothing

Compensation Today

Rita Patterson, Onboarding Team Lead, PayScale Convinced that communicating comp means exposing every employee salary to the masses? Think you can’t communicate comp until you have a fully detailed, flawlessly executed Compensation Constitution in place? Rest assured, there is a middle ground between a comp plan that is shrouded in secrecy and one that is published on the internet.

how to manage a hard worker who’s making mistakes

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I manage a woman who is a very hard worker. She goes the extra mile, never complains, stays late and always volunteers to help…but lately I have noticed she is getting lax on things like returning important emails in a timely manner or getting things done that I asked her to do. know she is busy as we all are right now because we are understaffed and everyone is doing their best to fill the gaps. Do I let it go with the excuse that we are all so busy right now or do I address it? She is pretty hard on herself naturally, so I want to make sure that I address this carefully.

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What if… Tinder was your Appraisal tool?

Visions for HR

I had the pleasure of presenting at SAP’s HR Innovation Day about the Future of Work. We had a lively panel discussion on the role of HR, the wisdom of abolishing performance ratings, diversity and 360-degree feedback, after which Mark Raben (@markraben) from SAP challenged me to blog about the use of Tinder as your HR system. So here goes… Read more. Gallery HR Social Media Workforce

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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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How Silence Creates Everyday Leadership

SAP Innovation

Everyday leadership begins with the silence inside of us; it is the platform of our own self-knowledge. It stands as the pillar of our character which motivates our outside behavior. Yet, these qualities are often invisible to others. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry , The Little Prince. Their answer: “Yes.”.

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Surviving a Startup as an Introvert

Dice

So you’ve joined a startup, or a midsize company that works at a startup’s frantic cadence. The hours are long, the tasks and deadlines are soul-crushers, but the rewards are potentially vast. There’s just one issue: You’re an introvert, in a job whose particulars demand pretty much near-constant interaction with other human beings. What to do? Working in Tech Lifestyle Startups Workplace

THE NEW AGE HR/CONVENTIONAL HR IS DEAD!

Ramco

The post THE NEW AGE HR/CONVENTIONAL HR IS DEAD! appeared first on Ramco Blog. Ramco HCM Suite Open Culture Strategic HR Strategic Planning

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5 ways to make meetings more engaging

Achievers

All too often, business meetings are unproductive, unfocused, and just plain boring. While meetings may have a bad reputation, that doesn’t mean your team can’t work together to create a positive experience for everyone involved. When employees feel engaged in a meeting, it can generate an environment where ideas flow, team collaboration improves, and social bonds are strengthened.

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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.

Nobody Is Indispensable, Or Why You Really Need Succession Planning

TLNT: The Business of HR

Editor’s Note :  Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Best Practices HR Communications HR Insights HR Management Leadership Organizational Leadership Featured

The Snowball Effect Of Implementing “Cheap IT”

SAP Innovation

I’ll be honest. I don’t like the ring of it when people utter the words “cheap” and “IT” in the same breath. But wait, this post isn’t about my personal preferences, right? Actually, it is! I’m going to talk about why “cheap” and “IT” are not best buddies from a business standpoint, and why it is dangerous for any company to cut corners with IT. Why businesses underinvest in IT.

The Critical Difference Between Mothering, Managing, and Mentoring Millennials

TLNT: The Business of HR

In Western cultures, the transition from school-to-work-to-career generally happens between the ages of 16-to-24. Coaching & Mentoring Generational Issues HR Communications HR Insights HR Management Organizational Leadership Talent Management Training, Learning & Development Featured

From Research to Action: Introducing BersinOne

Technology for Talent

For almost 15 years I have been focused on using research as a tool to help businesses solve strategic HR, learning, and leadership challenges. Throughout this journey our goal has always been simple: to help companies address their most pressing talent challenges, and hopefully make their own workplaces more engaging and rewarding. Moving from Understanding to Action. Where do we start?

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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.

Can you hear me now?

Working Smarter Cafe

It’s been a weird morning so far. Every time I tried to log into WordPress to write this post, I was instead getting radio highlights of the New England Patriots 28-21 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Man, I hoped this radio thing wasn’t some conspiracy that would make me kick two post opportunities wide, leave […]. Uncategorized customer experience customer loyalty KronosWorks

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4 ways to turn corporate health and wellness into a competitive advantage

Ceridian

For a long time now, a majority of companies across North America have made corporate health and wellness a fundamental part of their HR plans. They’ve looked out for the health of their employees in various ways, including weight loss, smoking cessation, physical fitness and even other aspects of wellness that extend beyond the physical. […]. Uncategorized corporate health and wellness employee benefits employee health employee productivity employer brand HR Human resources recruiting Wellness Program

We’re running the Worcestershire 10k to support Midlands Air Ambulance

Jelf

Employees from Jelf in Malvern will soon be hitting the tarmac to complete a 10k run. On Sunday 20th September they’ll be lacing up to complete the Worcestershire 10k raising vital funds for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. The run starts at Worcester Racecourse, providing stunning views of the River Severn and Worcester Cathedral, before circling back to the Racecourse. Our brave runners include; Ben Wickett, Glen Curran, Ryan Lane and Tobie Vermeire. Jelf in the news

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