February, 2011

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Companies Continue to Invest in HR Technology to Manage Workforce, Towers Perrin Report

Insperity

Despite current economic challenges, global organizations continue to invest and find value in human resource (HR) technology systems, according to a recent study by Towers Perrin. Although survey respondents expressed mixed views on the effectiveness of certain technologies, particularly around talent management, technology investment overall remains a clear focus for organizations in 2008.

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Workforce Visibility: If They Knew, What Would They Do?

Workday

'If business leaders knew the characteristics of high performers, would they make better staffing decisions? If they knew the factors that lead to costly voluntary turnover, would they change their retention strategies? And if they knew the true cost of getting work done, would they make better decisions on what regions to hire from or whether to use contractors?

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Working Overtime

True Faith HR

'I am the son of teachers. My dad was a professor of psychology for 35+ years at Michigan State University. My mom was a Grammy-award winning choir director who taught at all levels of education. Growing up, I never was deprived of much. As public sector employees, they earned a reasonable salary and received reasonable benefits. They were home when I went to school, and they were home when I returned.

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Carnival of HR: Food Edition

Evil HR Lady

Welcome to the Carnival of Human Resources. It's a good thing it isn't performance appraisal time because none of you sent me brownies. Or any food, for that matter. But, the truly high achievers managed to incorporate food into this carnival, which makes me happy and hungry. It seems like most of you were too busy writing about the stuff you actually do, and I realize why it's so difficult to answer the question "Just What Does HR Do?

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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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21 Ways Employee Disengagement Hurts

David Zinger

A Bad Buzz in Employee Engagement. You say that employee engagement is just a buzz word. I think you are wrong. Employee disengagement hurts. Employee disengagement: lowers results. cuts profits. reddens finances. sickens well-being. frays relationships. crumbles organizations. poisons community. starves performance. undervalues individuals. fragments teams. crashes careers. saps energy. corrodes connections. erodes employees. scares stakeholders. deadens days. weakens weeks. mangles months. irr

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Modern Workforce: Managing Remote Workers

Working Girl

'As an HR executive, my project social partner Dave Ryan ponders how to manage remote employees , which he wrote about over at HR Official. And as a remote employee, my challenge is to stay engaged. So as our next tandem blog topic we decided to tackle remote workers from these different perspectives. How do you keep a remote employee engaged? The simple answer is, you don’t.

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A Model Lessons Learned System – The US Army

Conversation Matters

The US Army Lessons Learned system has evolved over 40 years to become a model lesson learned system. What began as an AAR process in the 1970s has become a robust system of identifying, collecting, analyzing, transferring, and moving lessons learned at all levels of command. I have detailed the progression of this system using the model I constructed for The Three Eras of Knowledge Management.

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Hay Group: Engagement Matters

Strategic HCM

'I’m pleased to introduce an additional new sponsor for my blog: Hay Group. I’ve been looking through some of the firm’s recent research and wanted to comment on one study in particular: Engagement Matters. This is based on research conducted in Europe and the Middle East with the Economist Intelligence Unit ( Re-engaging with Engagement ) which assessed attitudes to engagement of 300 C-suite executives, supplemented by Hay Group questioning 3000 mid and junior managers about how engaged they ar

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Would You Like Your Resume Reviewed by An Expert?

Evil HR Lady

Lots of people claim to be resume experts, but have only seen a few resumes and rarely hire anyone. Wouldn’t it be great for someone who has seen hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes to look at yours and tell you how to make it better? I’m looking for resumes to publish on BNET. The resumes will be part of a post that contains a critique of your resume–the good, and the bad–and how to make it a great resume.

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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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6 Fantastic Free E-Books on Employee Engagement

David Zinger

Leading Employee Engagement Resources. 6 books. Here is a short slide presentation on 6 terrific e-books the employee engagement network produced. Over 200 members from the Employee Engagement Network were involved in their creation. They are informative, collaborative, colorful, and helpful. Employee engagement free e books. View more presentations from David Zinger.

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Three Rituals For Constant Alignment And Learning

QAspire

When we work on large scale projects, long term assignments or complex change initiatives – we decompose our work into smaller chunks that are more manageable. Geeks refer to this technique as “modularization”. We create a set of smaller tasks that we perform according to a schedule to achieve milestones, and hence the objective. It all [.

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Modern Workforce: Favorite Posts Jan 2011

Working Girl

'I recently kicked off a Modern Workforce series, which focuses on workforce diversity topics such as remote workers, global teams, generations, working moms and adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. This week I want to highlight a few other authors that are contributing to this topic in their own blogs with some really great posts. First up, Dan McCarthy wrote a hilarious post about the multiple generational workforce: 10 Things Boomer Managers Shouldn''t Have to Give Up.

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Krafty

True Faith HR

'In my efforts as professor, I have always been interested in the effect altering class policies and changing incentives has on student behavior. I fiddle around with changing attendance policies, the grading scale, the number of exams, the point values of exams to see the impact on how students approach the class. For the past few semesters in the statistics class I teach, I''ve asked students to fill out a survey telling me things such as the name they liked to be called, their e-mail, etc.

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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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HR Challenges 2011 – Survey Results

Strategic HCM

'As may know, I’ve been running a short survey over the last few months. This is now closed and I’ve been through the results. A lot of my questions for qualitative, making it difficult to communicate the results in a short summary but I’ll come back to individual questions from this over the next couple of months. Anyway, I started with key business challenges.

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Job Hunting Secret: They Desperately Want to Hire You

Evil HR Lady

It's true that hiring managers and recruiters have so many applications that they'll reject you for small problems. So here are some hints on making yourself the right candidate.

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Employee Engagement: Management Moxie Through Subtraction

David Zinger

What do you need to subtract to increase full employee engagement? Subtraction is one of the four basic arithmetic operations; it is the inverse of addition, meaning that if we start with any number and add any number and then subtract the same number we added, we return to the number we started with. Subtraction is denoted by a minus sign in infix notation.

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Book Review: From Bud to Boss

QAspire

When we work as an individual contributor in early years of our careers, we are in-charge of our own outcomes. At some point, we get promoted to a leadership position, and we have to get things done through people. This is one of the most significant transitions in our careers, and the one that is [.

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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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Project Social: Finding the Right Person

Working Girl

'My project social partner Dave Ryan and I were chatting Monday about recruiting and how hard it is to find the right person. As a busy HR person, he must frequently rely on external recruiters even though recruiting is traditionally an HR activity and he’ll be posting on the outsourcing aspect of recruiting over at HR Official. Whereas I’m more interested in how recruiting has evolved over the years.

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Waiting for the Siren's Call

True Faith HR

'These are heady times in our little hamlet called Green Bay. The excitement is palpable as our football team is playing in Super Bowl XLV. Everywhere you turn, people are dressed in green and gold and conversation inevitably turns to what will happen in this weekend''s game. However, some are taking this weekend''s festivities a bit far. At least one Green Bay organization is experiencing a significant number of personal and family illness days being submitted for Friday, February 4, 2011, and

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HR Evolution through HCM Technology

Strategic HCM

'I’ve had, and have made, a couple of comments on my recent post about Westminster Council relating to the value of technology and the need to focus on behaviours – and I also commented on a very similar point at last week’s social business jam. So I thought it might be a good time to discuss my perspectives on the role technology can play in supporting HR to create value.

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5 Ways to Conduct a Secret Job Search

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I used to love my job. To make a long story short my boss (who is fantastic) has a new boss (who is not-so-fantastic). The culture of my team and the things I loved about my job are vanishing and I feel the need to make a move. I am in sales in an industry which functions like a very small town. If I send out a resume with my name and/or my company I will be able to measure in nanoseconds how quickly the news that I am looking will get back to my boss.

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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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Unlocking the Mystery of Employee Engagement with 3 Thai Phrases

David Zinger

Standing up to the Elephant of Employee Engagement: jai yen – mai pen rai – sanuk. Playing with elephants. I spent 3 weeks in Thailand recently. The picture above shows me trying to bathe an elephant but mostly engaging in a lot of playfulness and fun. Before leaving Thailand I came across 3 phrases that embrace much of the perspective in Thailand.

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Building Rapport

QAspire

Rapport building isn’t just something you do when you first meet someone or as a part of a sales call or a negotiation. As leaders (and human beings) one of our goals must be to build better and deeper relationships, and one of the tangible ways we can do that is through an ongoing [.

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Project Social: You Can Still Be a Good Boss

Working Girl

'A friend of mine recently recently told me she feels frustrated by the fact that although she works for a ‘performance management’ company the people on her team barely receive a living wage. I was discussing this with my Project Social partner Dave Ryan the other day and we decided to tackle the topic of good management for less. Be sure to check out Dave''s post over at HR Official.

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Getting the Most from Your HR Outsourcing Company

Insperity

Take time to visit the company’s website and see what services it provides. Read your contract. You may be surprised to learn that your PEO can identify ways to incentivize your employees at no cost through flexible hours and performance appraisals, for example. Small business owners often focus on the liabilities that HR outsourcing companies can remove from their operations and tasks that they can absorb instead of services they can provide, he adds.

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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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Social Media Week London

Strategic HCM

'This week is Social Media Week in many cities around the world, including London. It’s great to see lots of participation from Connecting HR folk on this: Monday includes a Social Recruitment Panel Debate with TRU’s Bill Boorman, and taking my place on the panel (as I couldn’t make the date), Andy Headworth. On Wednesday, Abi Signorelli will be speaking at media140 Futures: A guide to how social technologies can maximise your work force.

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How Do I Make My Boss Recognize My Productivity?

Evil HR Lady

Dear Evil HR Lady, I have been working at my job since the building opened about 5 months ago. I was usually working 5-6 shifts a week (35-40 hours) & have recently been cut down to 2-3 shifts a week (15-20 hours). My work ethic/pace has not changed at all, but my manager keeps telling me that I work too slow. I know for a fact that that is not true and I have tried asking the other managers and even the General Manager for help, getting the same response from all of them: “That’s not my dep

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Employee Engagement Zinger: Subscribe to the 1 Idea Newsletter

David Zinger

Engage With Just One Idea at a Time. Receive 1 Engagement Idea a Week. The One Idea Newsletter. I am overloaded with information. I want people to give me focus and value but not have to read a ton of stuff. If that is what I need I believe that is what others may also need. We don’t need to drown in a ton of information preventing us from engaging in our most important work.