November, 2016

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[Infographic] The Modern Faces of Mobility

Cornerstone On Demand

With mobile devices offering on-the-go access to everything from emails to work files, and video meetings connecting colleagues across the globe, the world is the new workplace. In fact, experts predict more than half of all full-time workers could be working remotely by 2020—just four years from now. Employees are craving the independence that comes with project-based freelance work and the option to work remotely—but offering more flexibility has benefits for employers, too.

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Struggling with FLSA Conversations? Use These Tips

ClearCompany HRM

Recent updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have companies making some tough decisions regarding employee statuses within their organization.

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8 Ways to Deliver Training that Employees Retain

HR Bartender

The biggest concern organizations have when they invest in training is retention. By this, I mean having employees retain the material once they leave the class. No company wants to create a program and take employees out of the operation only to have the same issues occur repeatedly. It’s important for training programs to be designed and delivered in a way that increases retention of the content.

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The 4 C’s of Quality of Hire

Visier

You may be familiar with the 4 C’s of diamonds – cut, color, clarity and carat. These are four variables that combine to evaluate and communicate the quality of diamonds. Quality has many facets (if you’ll forgive the pun), all of which must be considered to ensure you are getting the characteristics you desire in a stone. The same can be said of quality of hire.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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How To Fit OKRs Into Your Company Mission and Values

15Five

In Simon Sinek’s Ted Talk entitled, How Great Leaders Inspire Action , Sinek refocuses companies away from thinking first about what they do, and instead advises them to figure out WHY they’re doing it. This not only impacts their services and products, but also the people who build out and fulfill the company vision. No matter how great your vision, the world will always be pulling your company away from fulfilling your higher purpose.

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AI Won't Replace Recruiters, But It Will Make Them Better

Cornerstone On Demand

Similar to how technology has created efficiencies in operations, marketing and sales departments, human resources is being transformed by emerging AI technology. AI is getting a lot of attention in recruiting specifically due to the huge potential to automate some of the low-value, high-volume recruiting tasks that continue to monopolize time and attention.

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How to Set a Foundation for Effective Performance Appraisals

ClearCompany HRM

Whether they happen once a year or once a month, performance reviews are an essential part of any business. If you want to build a performance culture, how you conduct performance reviews can make or break your business. If you want your reviews to have positive results, you have to lay the groundwork. Good performance reviews don’t just happen. They take work and preparation, and you have to set a foundation.

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Where Is the Talent of Tomorrow – Friday Distraction

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a global provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. For the second consecutive year, Great Place to Work has put Kronos on its list of the 50 Best Information Technology Companies to work for in India. Congratulations! And enjoy the post.). “I’m looking for the talent of tomorrow.”.

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Closing the Loop: Linking Workforce Planning, Analytics, and Hiring

Visier

We often talk about the employee lifecycle , the “recruit to retire” journey of an individual through multiple human capital processes. But the employee lifecycle really is a finite process. It starts with the hiring process, may go through several cycles of performance management and development and the like, and then ends with separation from the organization.

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Transform Employee Wellbeing and Control Costs Through Data-Driven Strategies

In today's dynamic business environment, HR leaders face immense pressure to optimize costs while maintaining a competitive edge to attract, retain and engage their workforce. Gallagher can help you meet that challenge head-on. Our proprietary data and people analytics platform, Gallagher Drive ® , provides the elevated insights you need to make impactful program decisions that are aligned with your organizational goals and set your strategy up for long-term success.

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7 Strategies for Hiring and Managing Creative Employees

UpstartHR

Today we’re going to explore the intersection of creativity, innovation, and intrapreneurship (entrepreneurial activities occurring within an organization) and how these activities bring value to the business world. I hope you enjoy! Innovation is a curious thing. In a research report published by the International Board of Innovation Science, Dennis Stauffer explored what separates wildly successful companies from the rest.

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12 Ways To Turn Stress Into Productivity (Infographic)

15Five

From the cradle to the grave, life hands us stressful situations — so much so that we should consider stress to be an integral part of living a full life, rather than a nuisance to be avoided at all costs. Rather than ignoring stress, it can be healthier and even more productive to harness the energy that such trials create and direct it towards a more successful outcome.

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3 Tools to Improve Communication with Your Employees

Cornerstone On Demand

Professional development guru and philanthropist Paul J. Meyer once said, “Communication—the human connection—is the key to personal and career success." As the tools that make up this “key" have evolved, businesses have invested time and money in staying on top of popular trends like text, mobile apps and social media. But these trends aren't only for communication with customers.

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The One Component of the Annual Review that Must Stay

ClearCompany HRM

The traditional annual performance review has been criticized for missing the mark in specific feedback, timeliness and progress. 45% of HR leaders do not think annual performance reviews are an accurate appraisal for employee’s work and only 14% of organizations are happy with their performance management system.

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Protect Your Business: Tackle the Future of I-9 Fraud with Expert Strategies

Speaker: Speakers

Is your business ready for the future of document fraud? AI advancements have made forgery easier, increasing risks for employers. With 85% of identity fraud last year linked to impersonation, proactive compliance is essential. Join WorkBright’s webinar on October 8 to equip yourself with crucial insights for protecting your business from fraudulent I-9 documents, including: Understanding Risks: Learn about new fraud tactics impacting your business.

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Peer-to-Peer Feedback: An Opportunity to Activate Employee Performance

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is brought to you by SilkRoad, a global leader in cloud-based talent activation solutions. At this year’s HR Technology Conference, they announced the availability of SilkRoad Agile Performance , a solution designed to help organizations activate employee performance with apps for check-ins, goals and reviews that maximize productivity, engagement and alignment with corporate objectives.

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Q&A with Gustavo Franco: On Employee Engagement And Managing A Coworking Space

Hppy

Worldwide there were around 7,800 coworking spaces in operation in 2015. This figure is predicted to reach 37,000 by the year 2018. Coworking has become a preferred way of working for many entrepreneurs, freelancers and remote employees. This type of space has been proven to encourage productivity and stimulate work, because of the close proximity and connection that it offers to like-minded employees, entrepreneurs and startups.

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7 Examples of Constructive Feedback That Actually Add Value

EmployeeConnect

Whether we’re looking at improving performance in a sportive or professional context, receiving constructive feedback is precious. Feedback allows people to modify their behaviour to help them attain their goals. For a manager, giving feedback is a way to help employees reach the goals that they have been assigned. It consists in identifying the gap that exist between expectations and objectives.

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How to Leverage Learning and Development to Improve Employee Engagement

Achievers

Are your employees reaching their full potential at work? According to a Middlesex University study cited in a recent Sh!ft infographic , of almost 4,300 workers polled, a whopping 74% felt that they weren’t achieving their full potential at work. So how does a business engage its employees to make them feel empowered and more productive? One answer is by providing the right learning and development opportunities.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Why Training Seasonal Employees Is the Key to Holiday Success [Infographic]

Cornerstone On Demand

For retailers in the U.S., Thanksgiving Day marks the eve of the most hectic day of the entire year: Black Friday. The National Retail Federation estimates 137.4 million shoppers will hit stores this year looking for deals. In order to cope with the influx of shoppers, which starts Thursday but continues through the New Year, retailers have been onboarding and training hundreds of thousands of seasonal hires over the past few months.

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TOS Overview | How to Use it, Ways to Build it Into Your Company

ClearCompany HRM

As a leader within your organization, you’re tasked with balancing people management, team and departmental tasks as well as your very own list of deliverables. It’s a tough job, but technology has been stepping in to make the duty a bit more efficient. Recently we announced the launch of a new addition to the ClearCompany suite of products, Talent OS.

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Should HR Be Autonomous From the Operation – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

I’m sure you’ve seen articles – and we’ve written a few here – about the role of human resources. Today’s reader note wants to know about a different aspect of the role of human resources. What’s your opinion on HR managers “directly” supervising a department within a company, where other departments in that organizational structure are autonomous from HR?

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Managing HR Compliance in the Age of Technology

Hppy

Compliance may not be the rock star of HR tasks, but it is the one that is necessary to keep the band together. In every country, laws and regulations exist to make sure that companies are conducting business with a certain level of standards. Without compliance, businesses are at risk of fines, lawsuits, bankruptcy, and closure. Research by Forrester concluded that businesses who do not effectively manage risk or implement compliance policies are at risk of losing billions of dollars.

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[Free Templates] Plant the Seed for Successful Onboarding!

Our Free Welcome Email Templates (designed for both in-office or virtual employees) are ready for you to customize and use to plant the seeds of success for new team members.

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What Happens When Employee Motivation Is Low

EmployeeConnect

According to Gallup ‘s research, only 13% of employees would be motivated by their job worldwide. And with 63% of employees being “not engaged”, how can such low levels of motivation be explained? Low salaries, gruelling work days, poor work environment or lack of appreciation, are as many culprits for the disengagement of employees around the globe.

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15Five Expands Into a Full Performance Management Suite with OKRs

15Five

There’s a transition happening in the workplace, and HR technology is prime for disruption. With more Millennials, cross-team collaboration, faster pace of work, and distributed teams, businesses are changing the way they manage people. Tarun Kalra, Principal of Next World Capital stated in TechCrunch , “The market has moved beyond a focus on administration and process.

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The Best Strategy to Achieve True Innovation

Cornerstone On Demand

In your organization, does innovation mean finding new ways to exploit what you already do well, or exploring arenas where you're unfamiliar and will make mistakes? Or both? If you simply tell your employees and leaders that you want them to "innovate," then even the most motivated and intelligent employees might steer their efforts in the wrong direction.

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5 Step Process to Increase Workplace Collaboration Immediately [Worksheet]

ClearCompany HRM

The following worksheet can be used to audit existing departments and teams that act like silos within any organization. Silos are a mentality that may exist when departments or teams within an organization do not effectively share information and knowledge with others in the organization. The 5 step process identifies the silos, examines them externally and internally, aligns the silos with other silos they work well with and don’t work well with and provides actual feedback depending on the le

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The Upskilling Advantage: Transforming Your Workforce For Future Growth

Speaker: Brian Richardson

With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, mastering upskilling is now more critical than ever. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in workforce upskilling. You'll walk away with a deep understanding of how to build a culture of continuous learning, expert insights into assessing the current skills of your employees, and a strategic too

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For #HR Career Success: Here Are the Ingredients

HR Bartender

Regardless of your career, you need to know what it takes to be successful in that profession. Given the theme of this blog, let’s call it the recipe for success. Specifically, what are the ingredients? For some professions, like human resources, the ingredients (aka competencies) are regularly under review. The business world is changing, so the competencies need to reflect what’s happening in the workplace today.

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[Infographic] Top Skills Recruiters Must Have in 2017

Hppy

Over the past few years, Millennials have dictated the pace of the recruitment landscape: fast, and dynamic. This generation has completely vacated the classic recruiter-job seeker relationship. The advent of the Internet also amplified this change by introducing tools like job search sites and apps to easily put themselves in the job market through uploading their resumes online and building portfolios.

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What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for HR?

EmployeeConnect

Artificial intelligence (AI), has been the focus of thousands of technological developments for decades as mankind attempts to engineer increasingly sophisticated tools that can think, plan and adapt in ways that mimic the human brain. However, AI typically performs these processes at exponentially faster speeds than brains can manage without making computational errors or growing fatigued or bored.