When new managers hit the ground running, it makes HR’s life easier. Good managers keep your brightest stars engaged, which improves retention and keeps you from having to fill talent gaps. Poor managers — or at least those who start off poorly — have the opposite effect. . Below are three common, but avoidable, mistakes new managers make that prevent them from hitting the ground running. They come from Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D., associate director for the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School. They are: 1. Being overconfident. Not true. MORE >>

Screening News Update. Tennessee Buried Under Expungement Requests. Hawaii Lawmaker Asks "How Much is Too Much?". News from the FTC and EEOC. Tennessee Buried Under Expungement Requests. The city of Chattanooga, Tennessee has been making efforts to help those with criminal records get a second chance and become self-sufficient. Late last year the City Council voted to ban the box on all city employment applications. Now city leaders are tackling another roadblock. It turns out the Chattanooga Police Department still has 23,000 records on file that should have been expunged. Legislative Alerts MORE >>

By Kristina Cleary, SVP Global Marketing, Dayforce HCM. Recent events, both sad and touching, have reminded me how important my colleagues are to my work life. That all the great things I get out of working here, all the pleasure and enjoyment I take in coming to work, is so much more than just the tasks I complete. People make my work life what it is. Love your colleagues, and you’ll love coming to work every day, working alongside them, catching up over a Starbucks, or jumping on a call with them. Love your colleagues, and you feel it that much more if something happens. Communicate. Values. MORE >>

Sometimes people who haven’t ever been managers imagine that being a manager is somewhat like sitting in a big leather chair and issuing proclamations. The modern  day equivalent of being a king. The reality is there might be a leather chair involved, but proclamations are few and far between. The responsibilities are serious and heavy. Even if you’re the CEO, there’s someone you’re reporting to in – the CEO’s case the stockholders or the board of directors or just your own bank account – and all other managers have managers above them as well. MORE >>

Although it’s tough to outshine a news like the Panama Papers leak, we’ll still going to try and bring into focus some of this week’s best articles in the HR world. Here they are: Inside the happiest office in London — where some employees get a $14,000 travel allowance. Glassdoor’s 2016 rankings named online travel company Expedia as the best place to work in the UK. Go on a written tour around Expedia’s London office and see what employees have to say about it. -> Read more. The Easy Way To Have Tough Conversations With Employees. Happy weekend! Friday Finds MORE >>