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Why Culture Change is Like Working Out
CultureIQ
AUGUST 11, 2016
Every summer, I tell myself that I’m going to be beach-body ready by the time the sunshine and 90-degree weather hit. I buy new yoga pants. join a gym. Yet after two days straight of jumping on the cardio machines, other priorities start to creep in. have too much work to do. need more sleep. My My good intentions remain just that – good intentions. It takes time. It’s often de-prioritized.
Advice for First-Time Mentors
Everwise
AUGUST 11, 2016
The benefits of mentoring are clear. Mentees get the opportunity to bounce ideas off of and learn from professionals who are more experienced then they are. Mentors get to improve their leadership skills by practicing developing others and get to revisit lessons they’ve already learned, and may have forgotten. Both parties also gain exposure to a completely different perspective.
Courts Shut Down Professional Plaintiff
EBI
AUGUST 11, 2016
Businesses have always had to worry about frivolous lawsuits. Con-artists “slip” and fall, others find a bug in their food. Sometimes the hot coffee is just too hot. All of these kinds of things have cost companies money over the years, but now some of those who are out to make a quick buck are evolving. Over the years this guy has applied for hundreds of jobs. He is not looking for a job.
7 warning signs a great employee’s about to quit
HR Morning
AUGUST 11, 2016
We all want to hold onto our best, brightest employees. And sometimes, a key component of that retention effort is being able to recognize when they’re trying to locate greener pastures and finding ways to increase their loyalty. But what you need to know first are the red flags that indicate an employee is conducting such a search. Training software company Mindflash recently compiled a list of the red flags employers should be on the lookout for: 1. Sloppy work habits. Chances are your best employees consistently complete top-quality work on deadline. Ties start appearing. Isolation.
The New World of Employee Engagement
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In this webinar, Josh Bersin will describe the new world of employee engagement, focusing on ways companies can reinvent their employee experience, better measure and analyze engagement, and build a new model to create a “simply irresistible” workplace. The webinar is on Wed. Sept. 7th at 11AM Pacific Time.
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Student Loan Debt will end up being an Employer Problem
The Tim Sackett Project
AUGUST 11, 2016
Take a look at this chart: Basically, what this chart is showing you is that America has a massive student loan debt problem. Want to know what the next ‘housing crisis’ will be? It’s right here in this chart! The average student is now leaving college with over $35,000 in debt. They’re in the business of empire building. You can take that to the bank. What should you do?
30 employee handbook do’s and don’ts from the NLRB
HR Morning
AUGUST 11, 2016
To help employers craft handbooks that don’t violate the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board has issued a compilation of rules it has found to be illegal — and rewritten them to illustrate how they can comply with the law. It was issued as a memorandum by NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. to “help employers to review their handbooks and other rules, and conform them, if necessary, to ensure they are lawful.” ” Specifically, the memorandum points out employer policies found to violate and conform to Section 7 of the NLRA.
How Noise and Distractions are Killing Office Productivity – And What You Can Do To Fix It.
TalentCulture
AUGUST 11, 2016
Is your office feeling a little too “open” lately? You’re not alone. Open floor plan layouts have become increasingly common in a wide range of industries. These environments can enable better collaboration and innovation which can help businesses stay competitive. But an open office also usually means greater distractions in the workplace. Distractions come in all forms.
How Good Leaders Manage Anxiety
TLNT: The Business of HR
AUGUST 11, 2016
Dealing with the pressure to keep pace and grow in the midst of VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) has become the new norm for many of us at work. Culture HR Management Leadership Wellness Featured
Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance
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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.
Guest Blogging for EmployeeConnect
EmployeeConnect
AUGUST 11, 2016
Contributing to the EmployeeConnect Blog is about sharing your passion and expertise with thousands of other HR professionals everywhere in the world. It’s also being able to share best-practises, innovative ideas, and the latest happenings in the world of HR. We We like to constantly reconsider current practises to offer new options, with the aim of providing improved solutions. And also, it’s always nice to hear new views and perspectives. Why Guest Post? You will find a lot of value in guest posting. What Could You Write About?
8 Reasons Why the “HR” in HR Service Delivery Matters
PeopleDoc
AUGUST 11, 2016
As employee expectations grow, and the digital workplace becomes more concrete, HR leaders are beginning to transform how they deliver service to their employees. The old methods of HR email distribution lists, hard to use intranets, and paper forms are not sufficient - or efficient - for the modern workforce.
5 Benefits of a Data-Driven Recruitment Strategy
Visier
AUGUST 11, 2016
The latest JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) came out earlier this month and as the graph below shows, there continues to be more job openings than hires being made. Companies cannot hire fast enough to keep up with their workforce demands and competition is fierce for those high potential people who will deliver innovative solutions or go above and beyond for your customers.
How Facebook Is Recruiting Exceptional Talent Today
TalentCulture
AUGUST 11, 2016
Facebook, the largest social network with 1.55 billion monthly active users, is consistently one of the top employers in America. Don’t you wonder how a company with nearly 13,000 employees and 49 offices around the world manage to lure top talent year after year? Let’s examine Facebook’s magnetic appeal and see how we can all learn from it to recruit exceptional talent. Embraces constant change.
Improving employee performance with OKRS
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Since the 1950s, business leaders have embraced a variety of management techniques designed to improve employee performance. In 1999, John Doerr introduced Objectives – Key Results (OKRs) to Google, a model he first learned about at Intel, and revolutionized goal setting. Today, OKRs are a de facto standard for aligning company and individual goals.
A Thoughtful Perspective on Learning and Development
Everwise
AUGUST 11, 2016
Shveta Miglani has been leading the learning and development function at Legacy SanDisk, a Western Digital company. In her day to day, she gets to “define, execute, and manage all of the employee development”. She’s responsible for answering questions like, “What does a manager or leader need to look like?”. How did you get into learning and development? What interested you about doing what you do?
my friend was horrified that I asked an interviewer what the job pays
Ask a Manager
AUGUST 11, 2016
A reader writes: I work in media. About a year ago, I saw a job listing for a position at a prestigious company that looked like it would be a good fit, so I reached out to a contact who worked at the company, she passed on my resume to the hiring manager, and they invited me in for an interview. The interview went extremely well — I answered their questions to their satisfaction and asked a few of my own. My final question was about the salary range — it hadn’t been mentioned on the job listing, and I wanted to get a sense of what they were offering. This is, obviously, ridiculous.
How to attract millennials to your workplace
Sage HRMS
AUGUST 11, 2016
LaDonna Lewis, product manager at Sage Payroll HCM shares how to attract millennials to your workplace. By 2020, Millennials will make up 50 percent of the workforce as baby boomers continue to retire. In any competitive industry, Millennials aren’t going to find your company attractive if you do not have a good talent recruitment process in place. Reputation is everything.
7 HR Priorities (and the online resources that can help you stay afloat)
cipHR
AUGUST 11, 2016
The internet's become the number one information resource for pretty much everything in our personal and professional lives. When it comes to HR priorities, there's a number of great sites and individuals who can provide tips, tricks and best practices regarding a number of key HR priorities. 1. Attracting top talent. How do potential applicants find work? What are they looking for? Loves red wine.
Increased Employee Performance Starts with Data-Driven Company Culture
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Your employees are the most valuable asset in your organization, so ensuring that they are performing at their best should be a priority for any leadership team. This is where building a strong company culture using data becomes critical to achieving your strategic goals. Strong cultures are associated with higher employee engagement and performance, as well as stronger financial performance for the company as a whole.
Look to the Past to Build Your Culture
Reflektive
AUGUST 11, 2016
This post originally appeared on Glassdoor’s blog , and is republished here with permission. Jill Kelly is director of people ops at Imgur, an online image sharing community and image host. In HR circles, for quite some time now, culture has been a big buzzword. See Also: The HR Innovator’s Guide to Evolving Performance Management. Influencing the Future. become. Click To Tweet.
HR Tech Weekly: Episode #82: Stacey Harris and John Sumser
HR Examiner
AUGUST 11, 2016
Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with transcriptions here. HR Tech Weekly. Episode: 82. Air Date: August 4, 2016. This Week. Illegal in Massachusetts: Asking Your Salary in a Job Interview Link. About HR Tech Weekly. Audio MP3 Audio MP3.
interview with a budget and money coach
Ask a Manager
AUGUST 11, 2016
Lynne Somerman is a regular reader here, and she’s also a budget and money coach. asked her if she’d do an interview here about her work, and she gracious agreed. Here’s our Q&A (and here’s her website ). So you’re a budget and money coach! Tell us more about what that means — what kind of work do you do with people? What does a typical client engagement look like? In a nutshell, I’m a budget and money coach who’s passionate about working with women entrepreneurs. believe that budgeting is an act of self care and that they change lives. interesting jobs
What workers really want in the workplace
Ceridian
AUGUST 11, 2016
The backbone of any organization lies in the performance of its employees. HCM professionals are tasked with the responsibility of finding the most qualified and highly skilled candidates to fill the specific needs of a position. However, looking for top performers is only half the battle. And the same goes for existing employees: High turnover rates can hurt a company. Flexibility.
The Performance Management Storm: Four Macro-Trends Driving the Change
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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
The Finance Dilemma: Choices, Choices
Workday
AUGUST 11, 2016
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”—Robert Robert Frost. find myself thinking about that line often in my conversations with finance leaders about the systems running their finance shops. Aging legacy systems compared with new alternatives such as cloud-based solutions are presenting them with two options, and I am often seeing these leaders frozen at which path to go down. On the one hand they can continue addressing legacy system deficiencies at the margin: Bolt on a reporting tool here, a planning tool there, which is a tried, true—and failed—strategy.
Could Waiting Tables Be Better for Your Career Than an Internship?
Evil HR Lady
AUGUST 11, 2016
The most important thing we do is school and internships, right? So many parents tell their kids to focus on school while mom and dad pay the bills. But, what about a restaurant job? Does that have value, or is it just a way to pay the rent? HotSchedules CEO Anthony Lye thinks that a restaurant job may be the way to gain great skills that you can’t get anywhere else.
The Social Era Has Changed Views on Business and Quality of Life
Switch and Shift
AUGUST 11, 2016
The social era has intensified the effect of opinion on what good business is or should be. We now expect business professionals to consider issues of fairness to other people. Read More» The post The Social Era Has Changed Views on Business and Quality of Life appeared first on Switch & Shift.
Evil Michael Phelps: For All Our Talk About Being Global, We Still Like to Stick it To Other Countries.
The HR Capitalist
AUGUST 11, 2016
By now, you've seen the pictures of Michael Phelps brooding while some South African dude who beat him four years ago was gyrating in front of him like an exotic dancer in Rio. One of the biggest sporting moments of his life, and Phelps knew what to do. He nourished the rage, the hate and let the anger do the work for him. We loved him for it. More please. Unless you win. We also love winners.
2016 Training Program Best Practices
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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?
How Crowdsourcing Changes the Game for Performance Management
Globoforce
AUGUST 11, 2016
If even traditional companies are doing away with annual reviews , what is replacing that process? How can you leverage crowdsourcing to get a better picture of an employee’s performance? And what role can social recognition play in humanizing performance management? Read the conclusion of our Q&A with Gerry below. . Why do you think crowdsourced feedback is now coming to the forefront?
Bullying or Harassment or Am I Missing Something?
Evil HR Lady
AUGUST 11, 2016
I was brought to your site by fate, and have finally decided you are probably the best person to give me advise with my current situation. I don’t do so well with ambiguity so your straight forward demeanor is exactly why I am finally writing this email. In a nutshell, I believe my supervisor intimidates and harasses everyone she can. She is incredibly elusive, manipulative, and micromanages all aspects of my job, to the point where it is becoming difficult to complete tasks because she will withhold information. Now that you have the foundation of the story, the rest is very easy to lay out.
4 Tips to Effectively Manage Remote Teams
FingerCheck
AUGUST 11, 2016
These days, managing remote employees is an assumed responsibility many managers take in stride, as technology has made keeping in contact with remote employees easier than ever before. Thanks to advancements in video chat technology and other management applications, workforces are no longer limited by the bounds of geography. . Implement a way to count hours worked. . Utilize video technology. .
Corporate Training: You Can Learn Anything
HR Bartender
AUGUST 11, 2016
“You only have to know one thing. You can learn anything.”. That was the takeaway message from Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy. Khan was the closing keynote speaker at this year’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference and Expo in Washington D.C. His presentation told the story of the Khan Academy, which you can see in his TED talk. Flipping the classroom.
Improving employee performance with OKRS
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Since the 1950s, business leaders have embraced a variety of management techniques designed to improve employee performance. In 1999, John Doerr introduced Objectives – Key Results (OKRs) to Google, a model he first learned about at Intel, and revolutionized goal setting. Today, OKRs are a de facto standard for aligning company and individual goals.
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