What is Paul Thinking

JANUARY 20, 2016

( Steve Boese posted today on how Netflix sees their real time data and the HR spin. It reminded me of the following slightly edited post I wrote back in February 2015 on a different blog. Enjoy this blast from the past.). Big data is all the rage. It has been seen on all the fashion runways related to tech and HR. If you aren’t wearing big data, you are soooo behind the times. Right? It won’t.

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Linkage

JANUARY 20, 2016

The hustle and bustle of the holiday season has subsided. Chances are good that you’re back at your desk, fully immersed in everything that the start of the New Year brings. If you’re like us, you’ve got plans for the year outlined in a PowerPoint deck and have dutifully shared them with a myriad of stakeholders. You’re off to the races, right? Not sure how to get started?

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ATD Human Capital

JANUARY 20, 2016

“My company makes medical supplies,” she tells me sharply, like I should know better. “No, I understand that, I’m familiar with your industry,” I say apologetically, slightly confused. As a corporate social responsibility consultant, I’m only trying to help this woman’s organization develop its employee volunteer program (EVP). ” “Sure!”

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Avoid Mayhem: Don’t Let Your Employee Engagement Survey Turn Out Like Your Last DIY Home Improvement Project

Decision-Wise

JANUARY 20, 2016

5 Criteria You Must Meet Before Running Your Own Employee Engagement Survey. Most leaders understand that employee engagement surveys are an important tool in helping to attract, retain, and motivate an organization’s workforce. There are pros and cons to both options. Like many, I enjoyed watching the recently completed NCAA Football playoffs – but not just the games – the ads as well.

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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.

TLNT: The Business of HR

JANUARY 20, 2016

By Eric B. Meyer. Hiring Process HR Management HR News HR Trends Interviewing Talent Acquisition

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Positive Sharing

JANUARY 20, 2016

Is it OK to praise yourself at work? Could you tell a coworker something like “Hey, let me tell you what I just did – it was AWESOME!” ” Is it OK to send an email to the rest of your team to proudly share  that you found a creative solution to a tough problem? Most people are reluctant to do that. tell them what happened and what it was that worked so well. How do you do it?

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Ohio's Background Check System a Mess

EBI

JANUARY 20, 2016

The Columbus Dispatch and CBS local affiliate WBNS-TV conducted an investigation into Ohio’s computerized background-check system, and the results were chilling for anyone who had relied on it to vet an employee over the last few years. The investigation discovered crippling problems that make the entire system completely unreliable. Unfortunately, the fix is not a simple one. Background Checks

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TLNT: The Business of HR

JANUARY 20, 2016

What’s the WORST thing leaders can do to kill the spirit of people who work with and for them? Best Practices Culture Leadership Organizational Leadership Talent Management Featured

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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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Dice

JANUARY 20, 2016

Whether you’re already employed, or looking for your next great gig, sooner or later you’ll have to negotiate with a company about salary. While everybody’s circumstances are always a little different, the same kind of pre-negotiation prep work can translate into results, whether you’re discussing money with a longtime employer or a new one. Without further ado, here are the key steps of prep.

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Laurie Ruettimann

JANUARY 20, 2016

I work with a lot of recruiters, and many of them are complaining about job seekers who have inflated and unrealistic salary expectations. That’s not a new complaint. When people are in a position to negotiate for a new salary, they negotiate. If you don’t start strong, you end up weak. That’s just math. Does it seem like job seekers can’t win? Our savings rates are low.

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Dice

JANUARY 20, 2016

For years, security experts have told people they need better passwords protecting their online accounts: no more “123456” or “qwerty” or “password.”. Based on SplashData’s fifth annual list of the 25 most common passwords, however, it’s clear that relatively few people are listening to that advice. The firm based its list on more than 2 million leaked passwords during the year. qwerty (Up 1).

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Evil HR Lady

JANUARY 20, 2016

Many people stay at a job too long, and by the time they quit , they are quite ready to go. This can result in burning bridges at the old job. You don’t want to do that, at all. It doesn’t matter whether you think you’ll never need to see these people again, you still need to take care. You don’t control the future.

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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.

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Reward Gateway

JANUARY 20, 2016

Sometimes, in business, it feels as though your staff aren’t really in sync with you. You get the feeling that perhaps not all of them care as much as you’d like them to. The data from your exit interviews and employee surveys shows that they’re not engaged as before. And you need a plan to fix this. Do you send out long, all-staff emails that no one reads? Are they relevant to the company today?

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Blogging 4 Jobs

JANUARY 20, 2016

Ep 66 – Secrets to Workplace Teamwork from NASA Rocket Scientist, Adam Stelzner ( @Stelzner ). We all know that hiring isn’t easy and once you’ve built your team the expectation to perform now hangs over everyone’s head. We’re all striving to develop, lead and engage with our team members to drive the best results, ROI and productivity. Never is that more true with today’s podcast guest, Adam Stelzner. He’s a NASA rocket scientist who works on multiple missions on Mars. Makes the current project I’m collaborating on just a little old thing.

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Compensation Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2016

Compensation professionals love to cite “the open market,” while being less eager to admit that every market is different. Despite continual references to reliance on the free labor market, the competitive pay values established between and among employers almost never match. Organizations follow the competitive market the same the way people heed the outside weather. Vive la difference!

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Cielo HR Leader

JANUARY 20, 2016

The results are in. The best way talent acquisition leaders can add value to their business is by consistently delivering quality hires. If that is our goal, it is important to know that how you hire has as much impact on quality as who you hire. There are many methods for bringing talent into a company, but they can all be nicely grouped into two categories: direct and indirect hiring.

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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?

Pearson

JANUARY 20, 2016

Sometimes, the technology narrative doesn’t take into account the specificities of the powerful experience of learning. As Frank Catalano wrote  last year, a startup innovation competition at the Florida Education Technology Conference was rightfully dubbed the “ goldfish tank ” when an Uber raises in a year more than the optimistic figure for all of 2014 edtech investment ($ 2bn ).

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OmegaHR Solutions

JANUARY 20, 2016

You cannot have a blanket policy against an employee recording at work. The answer, like many in HR, is it depends on the circumstances. If you ask the NLRB they will tell you “No” if it interferes with an employee’s rights under the National Labor Relations Act. In fact recording of any kind, photographic or voice, has to be allowed baring some valid legal or business justification. The Case.

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WebEx

JANUARY 20, 2016

The post 5 Reasons to Join a WebEx Now appeared first on WebEx Blog. Collaboration Mobile Small Business Tips

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You Get Culture – Do They?

Great Place to Work

JANUARY 20, 2016

10 Strategies for Getting Executive Support for Culture Change People often talk about corporate culture as a matter of “getting it.” So it has gone with a variety of developments in the corporate landscape: the Internet, diversity and inclusion, quality, safety and so on. When encountering new terrain, influential senior executives fall on a spectrum: Blogs

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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.

Employee Engagement

TLNT: The Business of HR

JANUARY 20, 2016

Indeed.com , the biggest job site in the world, commissioned an end-of-year study showing that more than 50 percent of U.S. workers are thinking of making a career change in 2016. Change Management Disengaged Employees Engagement HR Insights HR Management HR News HR Trends Leadership Resignation Talent Management Featured

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Terryberry

JANUARY 20, 2016

 A Brief History of Employee Recognition. In 1948, Arthur Parker Terryberry wrote, “It has been my opinion that a man should be rewarded for the work he does — both as to quality and quantity — this is fundamentally the American principle.” ” A.P Terryberry. Join us on a journey back in the annals of time! Over the course of the next 68 years since A.P.’s

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O.C. Tanner

JANUARY 20, 2016

In this session of the Great Work Insights Podcast, Todd Nordstrom speaks with Larry Winget, author and business speaker, with a focus in personal development and self-help. In addition, Winget is a frequent business contributor on Fox News & Fox Business as well as MSNBC. This leads the way for people to be easily offended. Business gets better when the people in the business get better.

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Entelo

JANUARY 20, 2016

Of all the wonders of the hiring world, gauging a candidate's cultural fit could very easily placed near the top of the list. Every company has a recognizable culture, but defining that culture differs person to person. Vetting a candidate's resume is the first step, but how do recruiters assess the skills and qualifications that aren't on paper? Cue Amanda Bell. It's an expensive mistake to make.

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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.

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Halogen Talent Managment

JANUARY 20, 2016

There are lots of reasons why managers avoid having difficult performance conversations with their employees. One common reason is: “We’re a gentle, nice type of place to work and we avoid conflict.” But withholding information about poor performance isn't really nice. Especially when it means the employee will only hear about the problem when it's time for disciplinary action or an exit strategy

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PerformanceICreate

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t Tell Me You Don’t Have Any Influence At Work. Don’t Tell Me You Need A Diversity Initiative. Don’t Tell Me You Are Just An Assistant/Manager/Don’t Have The Power. HR operates in a space where we can’t always explain details due to confidentiality. We may want to explain that Trudy is “no longer with the company” because she was a poor performer but we can’t make a public announcement.

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APQC

JANUARY 20, 2016

APQC's Seven Tenets of Process Management (strategic alignment, governance, process models, change management, performance and maturity, process improvement, and tools and technology) consistently bolster successful process management programs and initiatives. Moreover, they reduce the risk of facing resistance, since they allow organizations to clearly communicate process management's value and effectively assign their resources. read more. Business Process Management (BPM) Process and Performance Management Process Process Improvement Process Management Articles and White Papers 1.2.5

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