TriNet

AUGUST 13, 2015

This post is part of the TriNet ongoing series about the Affordable Care Act and its effects on small business. If you’re a midsize business owner, you may have heard that you will soon be required. Visit site for full story. Affordable Care Act Benefits Health Care Reform Employee Benefits Healthcare Reform

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PeopleStrategy

AUGUST 13, 2015

You’ve done your due diligence, evaluated more Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions than you thought possible and selected the right one to meet your needs (PeopleStrategy eHCM, no doubt). You’ve negotiated, reviewed and signed a contract. Now comes the fun part – implementing your shiny new piece of technology. So how can you ensure your implementation is more Bruno and less hidden disaster?

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ClearCompany HRM

AUGUST 13, 2015

Talent Management System

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ATD Human Capital

AUGUST 13, 2015

We hear it time and again that Millennials (those born between 1982 and 1993) lack soft skills. However, a new study by my company WorkplaceTrends.com, conducted in a partnership with Virtuali, found that Millennials are confident in their soft skills over their hard skills. Millennials Strengths. Our survey focused on the strengths and weaknesses that Millennials have regarding leadership skills. The majority of Millennials we spoke with aspire to become leaders, which is good news for companies seeking to fill management and executive-level positions with new talent. Why this disconnect?

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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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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 13, 2015

Does your organization conduct background checks as part of the hiring process? Many organizations do, but the type of background check—and the extent of it—varies considerably. Let’s take a look at some of the most pertinent reasons so many businesses opt to perform some type of background check on any potential new employee. Some of the Reasons for Conducting a Background Check.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 13, 2015

Culture is not about being cool or even being a “best place to work.” It’s about being more successful. Period. They directly connect their culture to what drives their success. Quality Living, Inc. How do they do it? Not through happy hours or foosball in the break rooms; they do it by being crystal clear on what drives the success of their enterprise and designing their culture around that.

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The HR Capitalist

AUGUST 13, 2015

Welcome to Best Practices on the Capitalist. said Best Practices - that means everyone drinks! But seriously, let's talk about the way you submit candidates to hiring managers when you have your recruiting/talent acquisition hat on.  . First - are you slinging resumes their way or are you actually doing a true submittal? Not sure what I'm getting at? My recommendation? Communications Recruiting

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Six Most Powerful Words in Networking

TalentCulture

AUGUST 13, 2015

The idea of “ networking ” can often make people freeze up. How do I do it? Where do I start? And small talk is difficult! What if I’m not good at it?! hear ya. But networking is a critical aspect of career development, and the good news is you can strike up conversation anywhere. Here are five places to give it a go. WHO should I talk to like this? Anyone. What will you learn?

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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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Evil HR Lady

AUGUST 13, 2015

Anyone can become a boss – all that takes is hiring someone. Becoming a  manager that your employees respect  and willingly follow is a bit more difficult. If you want to be a leader and not just a boss, you can learn how to do it. For some people, these things come naturally, but for most of us, you have to consciously set out to become a great manager. Here’s how. To keep reading, click here: How to Become a Manager Employees Want to Follow

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3 Methods To Strengthen Your Next Generation Of Leaders

TalentCulture

AUGUST 13, 2015

The value of one’s life can be measured by how much of that life is given away. Nearing the end of life, we celebrate one’s selfless acts. Title, status, and accolades do not matter. Selfless actions expand our lives outside of just us. If leadership is all about you, at the end of your life everything you taught dies with you. We all get prideful at times. We all have schedules that keep us busy.

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WalkMe Change

AUGUST 13, 2015

Here you can read the most intriguing change management articles I noticed this week. They can all expand your knowledge about this sphere and contribute to your confidence when approaching a change, and will strengthen your belief in the need of change. So many people before me have quoted Heraclitus, the great Greek philosopher, who said that “The only thing that is constant is change”.

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my office is going overboard on team-building activities

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 13, 2015

A reader writes: I’ve been in my office for about 10 months. When I initially joined, we had a weekly event called Friday Fitness, where each week a different person would lead a quick 15-minute workout. Everyone in our office thoroughly enjoys Friday Fitness because it breaks up the monotony of our office desk jobs and is a great team-building activity. Unfortunately, the success of this event has prompted my manager to start initiating new team activities. When these ideas were being floated around, I almost fell out of my seat! Only one other coworker and I raised objections.

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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.

FingerCheck

AUGUST 13, 2015

Credit: [link]. Back to school should make things easier for parents or primary caretakers; however, the school year often comes with it’s own set of challenges. Here are some tips to help you balance being a caring parent with a career — and how employers can support employees like you too! For Parents: Organize A Pinch Hitter Team. For Parents: Request Flexible Work Options.

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45 Things

AUGUST 13, 2015

There’s no shortage of stress these days at work, which is why many workers have turned to yoga, meditation , exercise and even aromatherapy to handle the pressure. But what if we’re making a mistake by trying to look at stress as something to be conquered and suppressed in our lives? What if we thought about pressure as something that can energize and help us, instead of something to be feared?

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Dice

AUGUST 13, 2015

Algorithms make the world go ‘round, and they take a lot of time and anguish to not only develop, but also refine. Not all independent contractors and startups can spare that sort of effort (not to mention money), which is why a number of them have turned to algorithm marketplaces. And for those who do build algorithms, placing your work on such a platform could expose you to a whole new audience.

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Infographic Thursday: Employees With Benefits

Something Different

AUGUST 13, 2015

I am in the middle of a move this week so apologies for the sporadic update times, but check out this infographic from Jobvite highlighting the most common employee benefits and their popularity with employees and prospective employees. If you like this infographic,  as always follow its author on Twitter here. Best, Rory. Benefits Infographic Thursday benefits hr

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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

AUGUST 13, 2015

You need to learn the rules before you break them, as the old saying goes. That’s doubly true in programming, where not internalizing the basics can result in you building buggy, broken software. When you’re applying for that first programming job and need to submit work samples, you want to present yourself as someone capable of building production-grade code. Aim for Production Quality.

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Thought(ful) Leadership

AUGUST 13, 2015

By: Marilyn Hoare So you’ve been “declared healthy and sent back into the world” (Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted ). Career interruptions have taken place since the proverbial dawn of time. However, as more women have joined the workforce over the last several decades, the number of career interruptions have increased. There is no need to go into great detail; just give a very simple statement.

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Spark Hire

AUGUST 13, 2015

Adding strong female leaders to your team helps your business to grow and better serve your client base. However, it’s important to understand the steps necessary to make your company especially appealing to female candidates. In order to verify that your workplace is welcoming to both male and female talent alike, consider these tips: Know that bias exists. Get involved.

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High Potentials in Multinational Companies…an Investor’s Dilemma

DDI's Talent Management Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2015

Multinational corporations invest more and focus more on high potentials than domestic firms, but does that translate to success

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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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4 Steps to Make Your HR Tactics Strategic

TribeHR

AUGUST 13, 2015

In his article Strategic vs. Tactical Thinking: Empowering the HR Professional, Hebe Lugo differentiates between the two as follows: “doing things right” is tactical thinking, while “doing the right things” is strategic thinking. The challenge for HR professionals is that success relies on “doing the right things right!” Function: Employee Relations.

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Netflix Now Offers Generous Parental Leave Plans - Should You?

Justworks

AUGUST 13, 2015

We’ve written about the basics of maternity leave before - and how to start your company’s policy. The minimum time off is 12 weeks according to the FMLA (subject to other requirements), but companies are increasingly offering above and beyond the minimum for new parents. Netflix Announces Unlimited Parental Leave Policy - Should You? Netflix announced last week that it is now implementing an unlimited leave policy for the first full year after birth or adoption. Their reasoning? Employee retention. Here are a few examples: Benefits

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ADP

AUGUST 13, 2015

Adopt HCM best practices -- proven, repeatable, documented techniques that deliver measurable business performance management improvements. Human Capital Management Best Practices HR Strategy

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How Wellness Must Evolve

HRE's The Leader Board

AUGUST 13, 2015

Last month a diverse group of experts gathered in New York for a roundtable discussion on “redefining workplace wellness.” ” The group spanned academia, the health professions and corporate America and while their conclusions weren’t necessarily groundbreaking, they were nonetheless insightful and thought-provoking. The Global Wellness Institute organized the meeting and they’ve just released a report summarizing the discussion — I’ve included some of the highlights below: 1. It’s Time to Get Past “Unscientific Mud-Slinging on ROI.”

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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

AUGUST 13, 2015

As management thinker Roger Martin reminded us recently in his Harvard Business Review article , despite all the innovation and business model changes we’ve seen, there are still only two ways by which businesses compete: through cost leadership or differentiated products. They can hire away some of your best people. They can reverse engineer your processes and clone your business model. 

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The Anatomy of an Amazing Startup Culture

Namely

AUGUST 13, 2015

It’s the moment an entrepreneur waits months for, maybe years. After countless pitches, hundreds of no’s, and a few maybes, finally the checkbook is out. The funding you’ve been seeking is en route, and your startup dreams are about to become reality.   Now, the hard work continues. Growing a business is a whole different beast than starting one. Three key tactics emerged from these conversations.

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Empower Software

AUGUST 13, 2015

The proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have prompted many businesses to reappraise their time tracking and task management practices for salaried employees, and with good reason.

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