Mon.Nov 16, 2015
How to Coach Employees and Managers on Career Options
UpstartHR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
As I look back on the past five years and all of the people I’ve met, I have made some interesting conclusions about career choices. My background as an HR pro has helped to expose me to a wide variety of experiences, people, and career options. I was talking with a friend a few days ago about some of the HR positions I have had over the years. Think about it. So, what’s the answer?
Build a Diverse Workforce with These 5 Best Practices in Mind
ClearCompany HRM
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Higher revenue, better job performance, a more trusted employer brand, and increased customer base are just a few of the benefits of a diverse workforce. Not to mention, according to Glassdoor’s 2015 Top 50 HR and Recruiting stats, 67% of active and passive job seekers say a diverse workforce is important to them when evaluating companies or job offers. Company Culture diversity hiring
Mastering the Mobile Workplace
WebEx
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
The post Mastering the Mobile Workplace appeared first on WebEx Blog. Mobile
The Key to Great Leadership? It’s Consistency — AND Flexibility
TLNT: The Business of HR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” s aid psychologist Abraham Maslow. HR Insights HR Management Leadership Organizational Leadership 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.
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A Successful Support Model – Part 2: Meat and Potatoes
HRchitect
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Written by: Julia Hatton. Establishing a support model for your new Human Capital Management (HCM) system that ensures quick assistance to your end users and minimal disruption is a key part of an implementation project’s overall success. In my prior post, A Successful Support Model – Part 1: A Phased Approach , I suggested thinking of support in terms of initial and ongoing.
Hiring Wisdom: How You Gonna Keep Your Best From Jumping Ship?
TLNT: The Business of HR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
What are you doing to ensure your best team members don’t jump ship? Hiring Process HR Insights HR Management HR Trends Recruiting Talent Acquisition Uncategorized Featured
Employee Assistance Programs: A Powerful Employee Perk
Insperity
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
No one exists in a vacuum. Your employees will inevitably face distracting personal problems and responsibilities during their employment at your company. And while you may wish that employees could just ignore these things once they cross your threshold, that’s not always possible. But there are ways to help your employees stay at work and stay productive during difficult times. Offering an employee assistance program (EAP) is one of them. What is an EAP? EAP Benefits. According to the U.S. Department of Labor , EAPs have been shown to contribute to: Decreased absenteeism. EAP usage.
Turnover Isn’t Always a Bad Thing*
Blogging 4 Jobs
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
*This reminder provided by Lady Gaga and American Horror Story. The entire concept of American Horror Story has always been interesting to me. You bring together an immense amount of talent for one season to bring a story to life. Some of those people return in the future recast, some don’t. How do you ensure that changing things up amplifies the awesome instead of losing it? Recast With Care.
Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]
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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.
Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning
ej4 HR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Let’s be honest: most training does not transfer well into the “real world.” You can sit someone down and expose them to a rigorous 48-hour training session, and even if they ace the material, precious little might come of it. The problem is exactly that traditional format where information is blasted at the learner [.]. The post Getting Training to Stick with Bite-Sized Learning appeared first on. eLearning eLearning Courses Off-the-shelf eLearning Training & Development bite sized learning courses bite sized training videos success with bite-sized learning
Best of HR Roundtable: The Challenges Handling Religion In The Workplace
TLNT: The Business of HR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Editor’s Note: TLNT has been publishing Steve Browne’s recaps of the HR Roundtable in Cincinnati for more than five years. For two weeks, we’re bringing back some you might have missed. HR Insights HR Management HR Trends Religious Accommodation Featured
Six Leadership Tips for Thriving Wellness Programs
TalentCulture
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
When corporate wellness works well, it starts from the top-down. Leadership buy-in of corporate wellness programming can make a big difference in the success of the program. In fact, research shows that sincere interest in the well-being of employees is considered a top driver of sustainable engagement. Be a wellness role model. Beat the boss. When leadership walks the walk, everyone benefits.
How to motivate employees during the holiday season
Achievers
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
The winter holiday season is often a distracting time for employees. They may be hosting family members or planning to travel, the kids are home from school, and they may be working under generalized holiday stress. The common outcome for business is a high absentee rate and a distracted work force, leading directly to lowered productivity. Plan ahead and be flexible. Create a festive atmosphere.
Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation
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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.
Patience: Competency or Skill?
Thought(ful) Leadership
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
by Judy Fort How well do we really know the difference between skills and competencies? At the recent Deltek Insight conference, we posed this question to a group of our customers at got a variety of views on the subject. Most memorable to us was the discussion around patience , with about half of the group saying it is a competency and the other half saying it was a skill. Read more by Judy.
Pass Go and Collect an Integrated, Workable Technology
HRchitect
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Written by: John A. Hinojos. We are all familiar with the original game of Monopoly, or maybe the various country, state or movie versions. It has been around for over 100 years, and is played by millions. The game teaches valuable lessons in planning and strategy, as each player tries to obtain various associated properties and create monopolies. An HCM strategy will provide you with both answers.
EMV Liability Shift: What Restaurant Owners Need to Know
Paychex
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
EMV technology has arrived and restaurants must prepare for this dramatic change in customer payments and transactions. Here are tips for smoothing the process
3 benefits that millennials value most – and how you can take advantage
Ceridian
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Perhaps the most challenging thing about recruiting is that you’re constantly trying to appeal to a wide range of possible employees all at once. You can’t recruit everyone in the same way – it won’t work. The strategies that you use to pry a 52-year-old industry veteran away from his current job won’t be successful […]. Recruitment & Talent Management career development employee incentives employee retention flexible work millennial recruiting training
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?
Find Your Perfect Job Candidate Through Social Media
CareerCo Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Find a restaurant. babysitter. mover. why aren't you also using social media to find your next best employee? The post Find Your Perfect Job Candidate Through Social Media appeared first on CareerCo Today. Online Recruitment Marketing
Python’s on the Rise… While PHP Falls
Dice
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
While this month’s lists of the top programming languages uniformly list Java in the top spot, that’s not the only detail of interest to developers. Which language has gained the most users over the past five years? And which are tottering on the edge of obsolescence? Over the same period, PHP also declined by 5 percent. Plan appropriately. Programming Developers PHP Python
The Problem with "Trapdooring" Candidates During On Site Interviews
Entelo
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
One great fear among the multiplicitious and ever present recruiting nightmares is your hiring manager bringing a candidate on site only for the team to want to eject them before they've met the full interviewing panel. Here's why your organization should stop trapdooring, and how you can go about eliminating it. Why it's Bad Practice. Identify the Crack in the System. Is it Ever Acceptable?
5 Ways to Engage High-Potential Employees
Halogen Talent Managment
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Why do employers always think HiPos want to be challenged and stretched? Maybe it’s true, but I think it's one of those HR urban legends we can't seem to kill. Sure they're willing to work outside their comfort zone, but HiPos also have outside lives and personal needs that are equally as important. Explore five ways to engage and develop your high-potentials without jumping on the HIPO bandwagon
Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for 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.
Data, Systems, and Workforce Management – #KronosWorks
Robin Schooling
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
I’m thrilled to be attending # KronosWorks for the 3rd year in a row. always have a great time and I’m thankful the team at Kronos keeps inviting me back. Even after I had a bit too much wine at dinner a few years back and gushed all over Joyce Maroney. Hey… she runs the Workforce Institute and is just awesome. It was justified. KronosWorks is a user conference in every sense of the word of course; there’s one-on-one access to Kronos employees, experts and partners. Customers will get the first-look at new technologies and product enhancements. Government. Healthcare.
Coworker Sabotaging Your Office? Maybe She’s a CIA Spy
Evil HR Lady
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Have you ever worked with someone who seemed genuinely more interested in ruining morale than in doing any work? Turns out the CIA thought that an employee could do serious damage to a business. If it was a business the CIA wanted to destroy, their best bet was to send in someone to destroy it from the inside out. The Simple Sabotage Field Manual from 1944 details all sorts of technical ways to sabotage a business. To keep reading, click here: Coworker Sabotaging Your Office? Maybe She’s a CIA Spy
View from inside the Salesforce economy
FinancialForce
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
From time to time you need to step back and take in the big picture. With that, we’d like to say t hank you to Salesforce and IDC for publishing their study on the Salesforce economy. It’s only just begun. Only 3% of IT spend is on public cloud. . You expect IT to be the catalyst to do new things rather than the thing that gets in the way of change. What’s the secret sauce? Come and join us.
HR Reflections: Learning to Lead
NoExcusesHR
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Crawling It was all about that first opportunity.and learning what I didn't know. Laws, compliance, rules, policies, structure, control, process.that was good HR. Then it was about managing.and learning what I didn't know. People, behavior, expectations, deadlines, accountability, communication.that was good HR. Walking Next it was about complex organizations.and learning what I didn't know.
HR's Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces
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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.
my manager offered to take a pay cut, rescinding a recommendation, and more
Ask a Manager
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. 1. My manager offered to take a pay cut so the rest of us can earn more. work for a small nonprofit. It is common in our industry for there to be a big pay difference between the local manager and the rest of the staff. It is what it is, but at the same time, boards constantly bemoan how difficult it is to recruit and retain skilled staff. At a recent general voter meeting, my manager said that she would be willing to take a pay cut to give some of those funds to other staff salaries. Everyone present was surprised by this statement. Ooooh.
Recharge HR: How Digital Transformation Can Save HR – And Your Business (Part 2)
SAP Innovation
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
As discussed in Part 1 of this series , the pressure to adopt digital strategies and technologies is only increasing. With 35% of our population soon to be over the age of 50, this change is coming out of necessity. This is especially true when you consider that people in this demographic group are in a position to influence how a business conducts itself in the future – well beyond their tenure.
Have you been using E-Verify more than 10 years? Take Steps to Preserve Your Records
HRWatchdog
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
All E-Verify transaction records over 10 years old will be deleted after December 31, 2015. If you have been using E-Verify for more than ten years, you should be aware that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be deleting records created prior to December 31, 2005. The report will include all transaction records for cases more than 10 years old. Not a member?





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