HighGround

AUGUST 10, 2016

Five rings, every four years, three medals, two weeks, one city. The Olympics are underway in Rio de Janeiro, bringing nations together to celebrate the talent and athletic skills of their athletes. Whether it’s the inspirational, tear-jerking commercials (just me?) or the pride felt when your home-country athletes step on the top podium, the Olympics remind us of workplace values such as dedication, teamwork and performing your best. Here are some parallels between the Olympics and the employee engagement in the workplace. It Requires Preparation. It’s a Team Effort.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 10, 2016

We have all witnessed it. Some really well-liked, productive employee suddenly tenders his or her resignation, or maybe just doesn’t show up for work one day. The workplace quickly becomes abuzz with rumors of why the person quit. If the rumors are accurate then the reason most often lies with the manager. Culture Engagement HR Management Leadership Retention & Engagement Featured management

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Aetna

AUGUST 10, 2016

On August 10, 2016, Aetna announced it will help thousands of employees improve their financial security by addressing a significant issue – the cost of higher education and student loans. The program to help employees repay student loans comes a year after Aetna raised its minimum base hourly wage for U.S. employees to $16 an hour, affecting about 5,700 employees. Watch video

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PeopleDoc

AUGUST 10, 2016

Salesforce.com. Netflix. Amazon. There are many common themes these company names evoke. For one, you’ve probably heard of them; they are brand names. They’ve generated billions of dollars in revenue and raised millions of dollars in fundraising. They are all market leaders in their respective categories.

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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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Switch and Shift

AUGUST 10, 2016

In today’s workplace, being a change agent is crucial or soon your organization will become a fossilized relic. Merely staying the course is not enough. Change is only going to get faster as time progresses. Don’t believe me? Look at your job description. I bet if it’s over one year old it’s outdated. You will have to reinvent yourself several times over the next five years.

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HR Gazette

AUGUST 10, 2016

It is about asking the right kind of question. She met with her mentor for the second time since they had started to work on building a relationship. She felt that it was definitely not a trusted relationship , as of yet, even though that was the goal that their corporate mentoring coordinator had outlined for them. Mentoring as a means to grow personally and professionally. Having ownership.

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The Tim Sackett Project

AUGUST 10, 2016

I’ve been a Monster customer for at least fifteen years.  I’ve used Monster in four different companies that I’ve worked for. also use (or have used) CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, Indeed and Dice. So, I’ve got experience dealing with large spends on the Job Board side. Having a presence on Job Boards is part of almost every recruiting strategy that’s out there, it’s one place most organizations need to be, I truly believe that. If you’re not, you’re going to miss a pool of talent. If you’re not, you’re going to miss a pool of talent.

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HRWatchdog

AUGUST 10, 2016

The potential liability from pay stub problems can be staggering. California employers must provide employees with an accurate, itemized wage statement, either as a paystub or a separate written document. If those pay stubs don’t meet California’s strict legal requirements, companies may find themselves facing a lawsuit. Approximately 28,000 employees are part of the preliminary class settlement.

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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.

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David Zinger

AUGUST 10, 2016

Take a mindful moment… Mindfulness enhance employee engagement. have experimented and landed upon my ideal engagement zone or E-Zone: the optimal length of time that I can remain fully engaged. It is 12 minutes. To learn more about how to determine you engagement zone   visit my post on the E-Zone. often string many 12 minute periods together when working on larger projects.

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Emergenetics

AUGUST 10, 2016

In our professional lives, we meet a variety of people who bring a plethora of talents, skills and interests to the workplace. Some of the skills are natural fits for the team – the assertive leader who delivers, the analytical who flies through spreadsheets, the person who keeps every piece of paper archived and can […]. The post How Quiet, Introspective Employees Add Value in the Workplace appeared first on Emergenetics International Blog

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SuccessFactors

AUGUST 10, 2016

Employee empowerment is crucial. Not only does it help with recruiting and retaining employees, it also builds a team of better, more productive workers. 2016 survey done by my organization,  HonorSociety.org , found that 44 percent of professionals want a manager who empowers them to be independent. Fortunately, employers have more tools than ever before to empower their staff, thanks to the rapid advancements in technology. This is how you can leverage new technology to better manage employees and guide them to being more independent: Provide educational materials. Make the most of it.

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Blogging 4 Jobs

AUGUST 10, 2016

In September 2014, I started the Workology Podcast after nearly three years of telling my friend and now producer, Peter Clayton that I wanted to create a podcast. I’m not sure he really believed I would ever actually do a podcast, but I finally did. Top 10 Workology Podcast Episodes. Podcasting has been great. Biro where we take a look at the HR technology predictions. Meyer. | Stitcher.

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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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RecognizeThis!

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Lynette Silva. Recognize This! Working more human requires we allow our humans to be fully themselves, inside and outside work. You could call me a football fan if, by “fan,” you mean I sit and a read book next to my husband while he watches the Patriots game. But I seem to have picked up more than I realized by this fan-through-proximity method. When bosses “let you be you,” magic happens.

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Compensation Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2016

Any seasoned compensation practitioner will tell you that having business objectives for an employee's short term incentive plan (the annual STI) is a critically important design element.  Lacking that you will face the prospect of misguided busy work being claimed as having provided a valuable contribution. Specific :  Avoid the vague and generic. What To Focus On. But the organization has to win.

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45 Things

AUGUST 10, 2016

When you’ve been researching how to work smarter for more than 30 years as productivity expert Brian Tracy has done, you’ve learned a thing or two about how to get the best out of others – and yourself – on the job. That’s why in his latest book, “ Get Smart!: While they may complain that they’re overloaded with work, the truth is that they’re responsible for overloading themselves.

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HR Morning

AUGUST 10, 2016

If you haven’t hung up these two revised posters yet, the time is now. They became mandatory on August 1. . Which posters were changed? The Federal Minimum Wage poster , and. The Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) poster. What changed? The look of both posters has been refreshed, and a QR code was added to both posters to direct users to the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division website.

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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.

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EmployeeConnect

AUGUST 10, 2016

It can be said that those who work in PR or Marketing for an organisation are those who speak for it. They use creative ways to create buzz, hype it up and attract stakeholders that are the cream of the crop. It could start with successful campaigns, great commercials or even killer social media strategies. Being either of the methods, they basically build the company brand. This perspective is true, but shouldn’t be entirely relied upon when trying to start up the image of your company. In other words, being a brand ambassador without the need to implement specific marketing approaches.

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The HR Capitalist

AUGUST 10, 2016

It's every manager's worst nightmare. You did the right thing with some problematic employees, but then you got investigated/sued. Getting sued is a scarlet letter. Without question, it's much better not to get sued, but if you do the right thing and get sued as a result, sometime you LOOK LIKE A BETTER LEADER THAN OTHERS AROUND YOU. Earleywine, a Jefferson City, Mo., You play to win the game.

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Get Hppy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Effective employee communication matters. It matters to your employees, it matters to your managers and it matters to your shareholders. Research conducted by the HayGroup showed companies with engaged employees generate 50% more returns for stakeholders than their competitors. Effective communication and financial performance are strongly related. times as likely to outperform their peers.

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Ohio Employer's Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

Are your Department of Labor posters up to date? Unless you’ve updated them in the past 9 days, then the answer is likely “no”. On August 1, the DOL updated its mandatory posters for the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Employee Polygraph Protection Act. Now, print and post away. wage and hour

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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

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TalentCulture

AUGUST 10, 2016

I remember my first encounter with a bully – we’ll call him Paul Bugbee. He chased a neighborhood friend of mine home from school for two years, shouting destructive words, despite his parents’ pleas with the school and Bugbee’s parents. What changed the pattern? My brother, who even at the tender age of nine was more than up to the task of making sure Bugbee regretted his impulse to bully. 

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s Sunday night in a dimly lit regional office. Major presentation is due Monday morning to senior management on the recent changes to corporate HR policies. The majority of the new initiatives are bound to create ripples among the local workforce, especially, in terms of shrinking career advancement opportunities on foreign postings and cutbacks in benefits relating to long term employment.

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Jive Software

AUGUST 10, 2016

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over the years, human resources has been bumped down lower and lower on the influencer list in organizations, and losing what seats professionals ever had at the executive table. This shift has been largely caused by HR’s increasing focus on operational tasks. Consequently, HR is seen as a support group rather than a strategic influencer.

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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?

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Workday

AUGUST 10, 2016

Kevin Loegering. Kevin Loegering is CFO at Johnson Brothers Liquor Company, a family-owned wine, spirits, and beer distributor established in 1953. Johnson Brothers is grounded in the old-fashioned values of hard work and a commitment to excellence, but it’s also a modern, progressive company that’s expanded from its Minnesota roots into 20 states. A few years ago, Johnson Brothers realized its legacy enterprise system was not going to keep pace in the digital age, so it deployed Workday for financial management and human capital management. How has the digital age impacted your industry?

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 10, 2016

A reader writes: I have had a number of members on my team come to me lately with concerns about one particular employee. They say that she takes long breaks, leaves early (she’s got a job where she needs to be in the office at set times), and spends too much time socializing. This came as a surprise to me as her output is within the normal range for my team. I’m not in my office enough to observe the exact times she is at her desk, but I was concerned that I was hearing this from so many people so I brought it forward to her for discussion. good management

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TalentCulture

AUGUST 10, 2016

“People don’t care who they hurt or beat. For the love of money.” excerpt from the song “For the Love of Money,” by The O’Jays. Pay inequity. This is a well-worn topic that has been getting a lot of attention, especially over the past few years. Pay inequity is an insidious practice felt by many and one that knows no boundaries. You’ve Not Come A Long Way Baby. Other Casualties.

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Acacia HR Solutions

AUGUST 10, 2016

I received an email from a reader last week that asked for a bit of HR advice. This company is small, approximately 45 employees with no HR onsite. The office manager handles HR and this question was a bit out of her expertise. The question surrounded two employees who traveled together for a work trip. Human Resources Small Business HR

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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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