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How to Think “Strategically” about Workforce Planning

EDSI

SWP is critical because it helps maintain a focus on longer-term workforce development and business goals. We all know it’s easy to get caught in the weeds and tough to get out. SWP is the framework around which companies can build a longer-term plan to overcome fire-fighting tactics. This drives intention, focus and thoughtful stra

3 Ways To Prep Your Company’s Internal Tech For Digital Natives

SuccessFactors

Now that millennials are the  largest generation in the workforce , the business world has officially entered the age of digital natives. Unlike its predecessors, this valuable rising cohort of the workforce has grown up with instant access to information and with the intuitive interfaces of multitouch devices. The business world has officially entered the age of digital natives. .

45 Healthier Office Party Snacks & Drinks Your Coworkers Will Rave About

SnackNation

45 Healthier Office Party Snacks & Drinks Your Coworkers Will Rave About. ‘Tis the season for office parties! You know what that means: a whole lot of eating! Just say “no” to the cheese ball, step away from the buffalo chicken dip, and don’t even think about making Grandma Ruth’s double-butter cookies. Browse by Category: Click any of the links below to jump to each category. Sangria.

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How the Dunbar Number Can Help You Maintain a Strong Organizational Culture Through Growth

CultureIQ

Your company will face many different challenges as it grows: expanding your office space, scaling customer service, and onboarding new team members to say the least. But have you ever worried about what will happen to your tight-knit company culture as your staff roster increases? And how do you maintain a sense of community if your company spans cities, states, or even countries?

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13 Ways to Get Reward and Recognition Right

Keeping and engaging your best people is crucial. Learn why reward and recognition helps you do just that, 13 ways to reward and recognize the right way, and how to get your boss onboard.

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5 Tips for Overcoming a Mid-Career Slump

Dice

Are you finding it difficult to drag yourself into the office? Has your job become a bit boring? If it seems like your career has plateaued, you may be one of the many tech pros suffering from a case of the mid-career blues. Only 19 percent of tech pros in a recent survey felt overwhelmingly positive about their work life. Here are some ways to get your career moving forward again.

DOL Takes Another Beating: Court Blocks Persuader Rule

HR Daily Advisor

A federal district court has permanently blocked a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulation that would have created new requirements for employers looking to keep unions out of their workplaces. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on November 16 granted summary judgment to business groups and states challenging the so-called persuader rule, finding it “unlawful.” Perez , No.

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FLSA Stories: It’s Starting to Get Real

Compensation Today

Companies are starting to implement changes in anticipation of the FLSA changes happening on December 1 st. While there are still some efforts to delay under way, it’s unlikely that the changes will be prevented from happening. The more uncertain thing is whether the Trump administration is likely to keep , or work to reverse, the changes. Click To Tweet. Organization A. Organization B.

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Well-Being Is a Trend Because It Makes a Difference

TLNT: The Business of HR

High turnover is an issue in any job market — especially in the medical field where time and training really can’t be wasted. It’s critical to understand what’s causing the turnover. Engagement Retention & Engagement Talent Management Wellness Featured

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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What Obstacles Are Involved When Using Gamification as a Training Method?

HR Daily Advisor

Gamification is an effective tool to make training engaging and fun, because it uses the “dynamics of games,” such as collaboration, chance, and progression, to tap learners’ intrinsic desire to master and complete tasks, says Monica Cornetti, founder and CEO of Sententia Games. However, it is important to recognize and address common obstacles that can crop up when using gamification in training.

Too Many Tools Are Killing Your Recruiting Effort

TLNT: The Business of HR

You’ve heard of this concept of the inverted-u curve , right? It’s fairly straightforward. In the beginning, you have nothing or very little. As you increase the resources you begin to become more effective. Eventually, as you add more resources you’ll actually reach maximum potential. Corporate Recruiting HR Insights Recruiting training Talent Acquisition Featured HR technology

Video: Customers Share Experiences at Workday Rising Europe in Barcelona

Workday

“I’ve never been to an event before that was so genuinely focused on the customers, and where all customers make a concerted effort to come together to share their knowledge.”. Watch this three-minute video to hear our customers and partners share this experience and more at  Workday Rising Europe in Barcelona. Company News & Culture

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U.S. Women’s Ice Hockey Team Eyes Shot at Olympic Gold in Latest #UltimateTeamMoment

Ultimate Software

Though the Games have ended in Rio, Team USA’s athletes still have gold on their minds. The latest #UltimateTeamMoment follows the U.S. women’s national ice hockey team, and its trek toward Olympic glory at the 2018 Winter Games. Read how the United States defeated Sweden, Finland, and Canada to win the Four Nations Cup and advance closer to its ultimate goal. By Karen Price. The U.S. The U.S.

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.

Weekend Disconnect: The Science Behind Working Less [Infographic]

Switch and Shift

Studies show that Americans have a bad habit of taking their work with them when they have time off. If you’re one of these people, it may be time for a weekend disconnect. The Opposite Effect We all want to be successful. We want to impress the boss. Maybe we want to earn a few extra […] Read more.

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Managing Seasonal Overtime: Rallying Your Staff for the Busy Season

Evil HR Lady

Organizations that have busy seasons can have significant seasonal overtime challenges. Those challenges can include time management, filling shifts and compensating employees. When gearing up for a busy season, organizations are wise to anticipate obstacles and address them before they ramp up. Who Is Eligible for Overtime? In most states, employers only have to pay overtime when an employee works more than 40 hours in a week. In a few states though (California and Nevada), overtime may kick in when an employee works more than eight hours in a single day.

[Infographic] How to Improve Productivity

Get Hppy

Maintaining a productive workforce is a tricky task. Especially considering the varying personalities that sit on your office floor; each one accustomed to their very own way of working. But productivity is an important factor in any businesses success. The infographic also takes a look at what employ ees and employ ers can do to promote a more productive attitude within the workplace.

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Will DOL Overtime Regulations Be Trumped?

Paycor

On November 8, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States. Regardless of your political stance, this election is a historic moment for our country that will likely result in future compliance changes for HR professionals and small business owners. Any Change Will Take Time. Though speculation is running rampant, you should still approach 2016 year-end in the same manner.

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.

This Week in HR: BizLibrary’s #MustReads | “Hijacking Diversity and Inclusion” and More

BizLibrary

This week’s must read topics include how we think of diversity, wellness at work, improving ethical behavior, and competencies for successful managers. The post This Week in HR: BizLibrary’s #MustReads | “Hijacking Diversity and Inclusion” and More appeared first on. Article

How Oracle HCM Cloud is Delivering the HR User Experience of the Future

Oracle HCM - Modern HR in the Cloud

More than 40% of organizations are looking to improve or develop a new strategy for enterprise HR systems this year, according to the results of a recently released survey from Sierra-Cedar. The 19th annual survey , which includes input from more than 1,500 organizations, annually tracks the adoption, deployment approaches, and value achieved from HR technologies. ” 4. Innovation

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Five for Friday: Employee opinion

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Do you ever have a sneaking suspicion your employees don’t like you? Maybe they seem to avoid eye contact or go quiet when you walk past their desk? If employees don't like or respect their managers, it can affect communication, productivity, retention, and quality of work.

Hiring in California? You Might Need to Update Your Employment Contracts!

Ceridian

By Julie Palmer, Technical Writing Manager, Ceridian. Do you hire in California? If so, you’ll need to take another look at your employment contracts (including ones that will be modified or extended in the new year) to make sure that they adhere to legislation taking effect January 1, 2017. The legislation in question prevents employment contracts from including provisions that apply another state’s laws, or require appearing in another state’s court system, if the employee resides and works primarily in California. You should also consider reviewing any modifications with your attorney.

Workplace Deal Breakers: Where’s the employee breaking point?

What are the “deal-breakers” that make your people leave? Learn why it's not all about compensation and why issues related to advancement and work-life balance are often far more important.

Budgeting Comp For a Blended Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the key missions of a CHRO (or those who want to become CHROs) is to create a compensation plan. This has become increasingly complicated and dependent on other departments (like procurement) as the workforce has drifted to a more contingent/permanent blend. Compensation Compensation & Benefits Contingent Labor Contract Labor Future of HR HR Insights contingent Featured

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Announcing Zoho Desk — the industry’s first context-aware help desk software.

Zoho People

Today, we are announcing the release of Zoho Desk — the first context-aware customer support software — that presents customer issues against the broader context of their prior activities and interactions. But first, allow us to give you a bit of context for the release itself. Almost twenty years ago, Zoho started out as a company that built software for modems and routers. Research supports us.

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Company tried to “sprinkle a little salt” on its worksite; pays $50K to the EEOC.

The Employer Handbook

Are you guys old enough to remember that old NFL Films Dial ‘M’ For Moron bit? What can I say? I’m a sucker for the classics. Well, it’s all I could think of after reading this EEOC press release , highlighting a recent race discrimination and retaliation action against a car dealership because it did the equivalent of Dial ‘M’ For Moron. Race Retaliation

What Can Workforce Predictions Learn from Polls, Surveys and the Election?

Talent Analytics

Nate Silver and other election prognosticators have received some flak about his predictions in the presidential election.  Since we are also in the predictive modeling business, we collectively discussed his results and how or if it could have been more accurate. Hypothetically we know certain variables were there. Can HR and Workforce Professionals Learn from this Election?

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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I Believe I Can Fly: Leadership that Inspires Innovation

DDI's Talent Management Intelligence

Learn the three conditions that we as leaders should be setting for our teams to create and execute innovative change

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Staying competitive: One tweak you should make to your PTO policy

HR Morning

If you’re still making employees wait one-to-three months after being hired to use their paid time off (PTO), you may wind up losing top talent to the competition.  . That’s because more than half of employers (56%) allow employees to start using their PTO the day after they’re hired, according to a recent WorldatWork report. 90-day waiting period still common but ….

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Opening Doors

HRGem

Today is my last day as an official employee at my current place, after three and a half years or so. For the first time since I left university I don’t have a job to go to on Monday. No … Continue reading → Other Stuff

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