Kanjoya

MAY 8, 2015

If your company’s annual or pulse survey is your sole or predominant source for measuring employee engagement, you are missing critical insights about your employees and culture. Leverage other key sources of employee opinion and feedback to generate a full picture of the employee experience. Employee surveys have become the workhorses of employee engagement initiatives at companies of all sizes.

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Visier

MAY 8, 2015

The digital era has created a peer-to-peer economy , forcing organizations to re-think business operations from the ground up. As Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, explores in his newly released book, Disrupting Digital Business , the leaders in this new economy have moved from selling products or services to focusing on experiences and outcomes. Another example is Marriott.

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Dice

MAY 8, 2015

A good reference can easily assure a prospective employer that you’re right for the job. But what makes a good reference? It should be someone accomplished and respected in your particular field, whether that’s network engineering, front-end development, or data science. Educating Your References. Job applicants also need to make sure their references know exactly what jobs they’re applying for.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 8, 2015

I have been working with a client lately to help them understand their engagement survey results. The numbers are easy to read and see where scores increased or decreased, but numbers don’t tell the whole story. To get the stories behind the number, I have been hosting employee focus groups to hear what is on employees’ minds that is impacting their engagement and work satisfaction. And

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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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Symbolist

MAY 8, 2015

It’s Friday – no one reads blogs on Friday. But those of who write them are a bit outside the “normal distribution,” or, as my father always said about me… “he’s a half a bubble off plumb.”. So, let’s compromise. I’ll write a short post with a big graphic which you can then scan and tell your friends about it. Mmkay? Here’s the thing. Because we’re human and as humans we are weird. Go figure.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 8, 2015

Of all the offensive managerial types, the narcissist has got to be one of the worst. For our purposes, the term “narcissist” does NOT refer to those with narcissistic personality disorder (although God knows you don’t want someone with this diagnosis in your workplace). Instead, we’ll be talking about your garden-variety but nonetheless dangerous self-serving and self-loving boss. more…).

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5 Reasons Your Employees Leave (And 1 Big Reason They Stay)

TalentCulture

MAY 8, 2015

There’s a lot of disagreement about why employees leave their jobs. Is it because they don’t have the chance to grow? lack of work/life balance? Not being paid enough? Many of the statistics cited in this article will disagree on what the biggest reason is (since survey responses change depending on where, when, and how a survey is applied). Advancement. No way to effect internal mobility?

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 8, 2015

“Neutron” Jack Welch is back in the news. He’s been on a speaker circuit with his wife, Suzy, promoting their new book The Real-Life MBA: Your No-BS Guide to Winning the Game, Building a Team, and Growing Your Career. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve read a few articles centered on him, his leadership style, and his wisdom for leaders today.  more…).

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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.

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Halogen Talent Managment

MAY 8, 2015

How valuable is ongoing performance management? According to Brandon Hall Group’s 2014 Performance Management Study, companies that invest in ongoing performance management improve revenue, retention, and customer satisfaction. So what’s not to like about making it an ongoing, collaborative process in your organization

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Paychex

MAY 8, 2015

Who doesn't love a summer road trip? If only you could be as confident in the business running smoothly as you are in your vacation. For success on the road and in the office, these four personality types are a must

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Talent Acquisition Today

MAY 8, 2015

IBM and SAP Partnership: An Unlikely Marriage or a Force to Be Reckoned With? Hundreds of startups have entered the HCM space over the past few years. The goal is often to help companies rethink traditional processes and innovate different areas of talent and workforce management. Some of these providers achieve significant growth and profitability. Others do not. What This Means for the Market.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

MAY 8, 2015

Editor’s Note:   Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. Science tells us people with power feel less compassion for the suffering of others. more…). Classic TLNT bad business practices Best practices Company culture HR management Leadership talent management

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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.

Robin Schooling

MAY 8, 2015

Seriously. I’m filling up space and making sure I generate ‘content’ so Google keeps liking me. Today I offer no words of solace. No observations about the workplace or the general state of the human resources profession. There is – truly – nothing. Except this really old meme. That’s something. Happy Friday y’all! miscellaneous nonsense

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Compensation Cafe

MAY 8, 2015

Molly Graham calls her approach to start-up compensation counterintuitive.  Having joined Facebook (as Manager Culture & Employment Branding) at the point when the company had reached 400 employees but had not yet created any "official" compensation system, she had the chance to work with Sheryl Sandberg and HR Chief Lori Goler to change that.  and have to make a hard decision on compensation. 

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ChristopherinHR

MAY 8, 2015

Welcome to #BestBlogs, the weekly curation of the world at work. The latest ideas on organization life, collaboration and our personal power in worklife from practitioners around the globe are collected here so you too may become more effective, perhaps … Continue reading → Best Blogs business career character disruptive engagement growth HR Human Resources learning management organization people relationships strategy team work

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Entelo

MAY 8, 2015

Sourcing candidates to create a substantial top of the funnel is one of the biggest challenges in the talent hunt. This is where most people fall off – having a long list of candidates becomes a good and bad thing. Without the right resources, recruiters can fall behind in reaching out to, following up with, and filtering through the right and wrong people. Follow the 5-20-5 rule. Check it out!

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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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Dice

MAY 8, 2015

Writing a good cover letter takes a fair degree of practice, skill, and knowing what prospective employers want. After a couple years of writing them, most job candidates are very good at hitting all the necessary points—they don’t include generic salutations, always end the last paragraph with a call to action, and never, ever forget to proofread before sending in. Job Hunting Cover Letters

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SAP Innovation

MAY 8, 2015

You receive an invitation from someone to be your friend on a social media platform (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,etc). You accept the invitation and feel good about it. Immediately, you receive a message talking about liking their Facebook page, visiting their website or buying their product. All of a sudden, you feel like another number and realize the person does not care about you.

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7 HR lessons We Learn from Watching FRIENDS Reruns

BambooHR

MAY 8, 2015

Ahhhh, FRIENDS finally made it to Netflix. That means people all over the world have a second chance at watching all our favorite episodes. Of course I watched them all the first time around (and realized I could always turn to Monica or Joey for a good laugh). But this time through, I realized just […]. General HR HR human resources hiring interviewing onboarding resumes training

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SAP Innovation

MAY 8, 2015

With every company and startup business wanting to promote their products online, starting and managing social media campaigns have become more challenging than ever. Cashing in on the online marketing phenomenon, there are a number of tools that have come up in recent times to manage your social media campaigns. How do you keep your online audience engaged ? Deliver value via content curation.

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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.

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HR Bartender

MAY 8, 2015

Today marks the 7 th anniversary of HR Bartender. Just in case you’re curious, here’s a link to my first post. Many thanks to you for being a part of the discussion. Your comments and shares are a very valuable part of the conversation. As I was looking at the analytics for the blog, it occurred to me that many of the things we talk about as human resources professionals can be seen in the numbers.

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SAP Innovation

MAY 8, 2015

Intuition tells us that high-performing companies don’t operate like underperformers, and now research from Oxford Economics confirms it. The new findings are from the “Workforce 2020” survey of over 2,700 executives from 27 countries worldwide, which I’ve written about before. High performers are more prepared for the future. There’s no question myopia hurts low performers.

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Examining the Impact of Expectations Management on Retention

Something Different

MAY 8, 2015

…So I have been thinking a lot about retention lately – specifically about how two people with similar careers and backgrounds can be in the exact same 1. wondered about the etymology of the phrase “Happy as a Lark” as I wrote this. For example(s): Did an employee agree to join your organization at 20% below what he/she made previously?

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Ohio Employer's Law

MAY 8, 2015

One of the curricular pieces I love about my kids’ school is that they start foreign language in kindergarten. My daughter, Norah, is now in her 4th year of French (which she gets every other day), and my son, Donovan, gets both French and Spanish, alternating each day. Imagine my surprise a few months later when I sat at school and watched the kids masterfully pull it off. what I'm reading

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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.

SAP Innovation

MAY 8, 2015

Throughout my career, I have seen collaboration come in many forms: Post-It notes, flip-charts, e-mail, whiteboards, SMART boards, web conferencing (which is dear to my heart), wikis, and co-authoring tools. As you can see, the way we collaborate is still evolving – sometimes on a daily basis. Thanks to the popularity of social media, collaboration has become more social in the workplace.

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Leading a Horse To Water: Too Much Training Within Industry

TalentCulture

MAY 8, 2015

For those of you who are not familiar with TWI, a.k.a. Training Within Industry , well, have you ever seen those WWII era posters lionizing Rosie the Riveter? The collective ability of Rosie and her many colleagues to manufacture tanks and B-29′s at an astonishing rate was one of the main reasons why the Allies won the war. But Rosie and friends were not master machinists.

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SAP Innovation

MAY 8, 2015

Building a creative team – and nurturing the creativity of individuals — is an art and a science. Here in the SAP Design and Co-Innovation Cente r, we have made it our mission to foster creativity that sparks innovation. Here are seven practical steps to cultivate creativity in your organization. Hire people with the right mindsets. We let the candidate pick the game to play. Empower the team.

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