Get Hppy

AUGUST 7, 2016

“Creative thinking is not a talent; it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits.”. Edward de Bono. Your employees want to feel connected to your organization in a meaningful way. Yes, you hired them to do a particular job, using their skills, knowledge, and expertise.

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HighGround

AUGUST 10, 2016

Five rings, every four years, three medals, two weeks, one city. The Olympics are underway in Rio de Janeiro, bringing nations together to celebrate the talent and athletic skills of their athletes. Whether it’s the inspirational, tear-jerking commercials (just me?) or the pride felt when your home-country athletes step on the top podium, the Olympics remind us of workplace values such as dedication, teamwork and performing your best. Here are some parallels between the Olympics and the employee engagement in the workplace. It Requires Preparation. It’s a Team Effort.

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Reflektive

AUGUST 9, 2016

It was my first year as an account manager at Glassdoor and I sat down with the chief human resources officer at a well-known, ~2,500 person tech company on the East Coast. They were already promoting their brand on Glassdoor and I was there to talk about posting their jobs, since Glassdoor is the top platform to engage talent. In an ideal scenario, talent would be dying to work for them.

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HR Morning

AUGUST 11, 2016

We all want to hold onto our best, brightest employees. And sometimes, a key component of that retention effort is being able to recognize when they’re trying to locate greener pastures and finding ways to increase their loyalty. But what you need to know first are the red flags that indicate an employee is conducting such a search. Training software company Mindflash recently compiled a list of the red flags employers should be on the lookout for: 1. Sloppy work habits. Chances are your best employees consistently complete top-quality work on deadline. Ties start appearing. Isolation.

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Why Culture Change is Like Working Out

CultureIQ

AUGUST 11, 2016

Every summer, I tell myself that I’m going to be beach-body ready by the time the sunshine and 90-degree weather hit. I buy new yoga pants. join a gym. Yet after two days straight of jumping on the cardio machines, other priorities start to creep in. have too much work to do. need more sleep. My My good intentions remain just that – good intentions. It takes time. It’s often de-prioritized.

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Get Hppy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Effective employee communication matters. It matters to your employees, it matters to your managers and it matters to your shareholders. Research conducted by the HayGroup showed companies with engaged employees generate 50% more returns for stakeholders than their competitors. Effective communication and financial performance are strongly related. times as likely to outperform their peers.

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EmployeeConnect

AUGUST 7, 2016

Some say that when an employee feels satisfaction with their job, it means they feel engaged at work. What’s wrong with this belief is that for starters, employers take this feeling of being satisfied to stem from what’s being given in return aka. salary. Secondly, it’s not always true because you can totally be satisfied with your job but it might not be enough of an incentive to get you showing up to work every day. The problem here is that; you’re left with unmotivated individuals who aren’t fully contributing to your organisation. It should navigate around the concept of fulfilment.

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EBI

AUGUST 11, 2016

Businesses have always had to worry about frivolous lawsuits. Con-artists “slip” and fall, others find a bug in their food. Sometimes the hot coffee is just too hot. All of these kinds of things have cost companies money over the years, but now some of those who are out to make a quick buck are evolving. Over the years this guy has applied for hundreds of jobs. He is not looking for a job.

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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.

Two Approaches to Measuring the ROI of Employee Engagement

CultureIQ

AUGUST 9, 2016

When you enter the field of human resources, it only takes a few months to observe an indisputable natural law: engaged employees do better work. While HR professionals understand the power of people, it is difficult to translate that power into a clear return on investment (ROI). The result? Defining Employee Engagement. Before we can make the case for employee engagement, we have to define it.

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What is Paul Thinking

AUGUST 11, 2016

Culture – the tapestry of who and what your company is and stands for. Woven from many different behaviors – large and small. Culture isn’t what is written on posters outside the offices of your senior leadership team. Culture is what happens in the conference rooms and on the phones of your employees. Culture is the space between words and actions. You think I’m kidding right? But I’m not.

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Get Hppy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Fifty-seven percent of people report that  benefits and employee perks are their top considerations  before accepting a job, according to a survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Glassdoor. However, companies lacking the financial resources to afford employee perks can get innovative with their compensation plan. Not all benefits have an expensive price tag attached. Think flexibility.

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SuccessFactors

AUGUST 11, 2016

Levels of employee engagement across the nation, and even across the world, are dangerously low. According to Gallup, only 30 percent of employees worldwide feel engaged at work. That translates to three in every ten workers. How do you rectify this? Many companies make the mistake of believing employee engagement is a job best left solely to the HR department.

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HR Morning

AUGUST 11, 2016

To help employers craft handbooks that don’t violate the National Labor Relations Act, the National Labor Relations Board has issued a compilation of rules it has found to be illegal — and rewritten them to illustrate how they can comply with the law. It was issued as a memorandum by NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. to “help employers to review their handbooks and other rules, and conform them, if necessary, to ensure they are lawful.” ” Specifically, the memorandum points out employer policies found to violate and conform to Section 7 of the NLRA.

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ej4 HR

AUGUST 9, 2016

The term “workplace harassment” often conjures images of 1950s-style gender-based pestering where men made women feel uncomfortable and powerless through comments and touch that would not fly in today’s workplace – “Mad Men” style. The issue has become much wider than just gender though, and is recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court. By its definition, harassment can include ethnic, racial, age, disability, color, religion, pregnancy, and gender-identity harassment. This means that education about and awareness of harassment should be a top priority for organizations.

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Get Hppy

AUGUST 11, 2016

Stress in your business environment increases costs and challenges your ability to compete. Stressful conditions contribute to communication and productivity problems as well as employee sickness and absenteeism. Business owners must develop an awareness of stress within their organization and find ways to eliminate its sources to stay running at peak efficiency. Talk to your workers. Be flexible.

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Visier

AUGUST 11, 2016

The latest JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey) came out earlier this month and as the graph below shows, there continues to be more job openings than hires being made. Companies cannot hire fast enough to keep up with their workforce demands and competition is fierce for those high potential people who will deliver innovative solutions or go above and beyond for your customers.

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HR Morning

AUGUST 10, 2016

The DOL has said that by the end of 2018, it plans to audit every employer covered by the ACA for compliance with the healthcare reform law. Realistic or not, it sent a strong message to employers. . It’s certainly debatable on whether the DOL can make good on its lofty goal — but the implication is crystal clear: Many employers will have their ACA practices put under the microscope.

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Quick and Easy Doesn't Always Mean Legal

EBI

AUGUST 9, 2016

Some of you might have discovered this blog post by searching terms like "background screening" or "background search". If so, you might also get a lot of ads popping up promising the chance to do all kinds of background checks on anyone you want. These online companies might sound dependable. They might seem reliable. Why is this so important? The FCRA is a gatekeeper, of sorts. Period.

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ClearCompany HRM

AUGUST 7, 2016

The guts, the glory, the gold. Olympics junkies everywhere will be keeping tabs on the Americans in Rio starting August 5th. The summer Olympics are dominated with major team events in sports such as soccer, basketball and beach volleyball as well as mixed individual-team sports like gymnastics, swimming and track & field. Talent Management

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The People Equation

AUGUST 9, 2016

If you asked your team members what saps their productivity, what would they say? They’d probably mention unnecessary meetings, interruptions or poor communications, right? What if — shockingly — you were listed as one of the reasons that your team couldn’t get their work done? Wait a minute, you say, I’m not a micromanager; I give them space. Get input. Try it yourself. Stick to it.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 9, 2016

Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared on Content Marketing Institute website. It was written specifically to assist marketers in their recruitment and hiring of skilled content marketers. However, it is excellent advice for an overall recruiting strategy designed to attract passive candidates regardless of the company or role.

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ATD Human Capital

AUGUST 8, 2016

Despite compelling research from McKinsey , which found that companies with gender diversity are 15 percent more likely to outperform less diverse companies, diversity and inclusion (D&I) progress in American companies has been painfully slow. Corporate boards are still 70 to 75 percent white males. Multiple factors contribute to the current state of inequity in the workplace. Never let up.

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ClearCompany HRM

AUGUST 9, 2016

A lot goes into interviewing, candidate sourcing, applicant screening, selecting candidates for interviews, coordinating schedules for the interview, preparing interview questions, conducting the interview, following up after the interview… it’s exhausting to say the least. Applicant tracking systems with built-in interview scheduling tools are a need to have.

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Reflektive

AUGUST 11, 2016

This post originally appeared on Glassdoor’s blog , and is republished here with permission. Jill Kelly is director of people ops at Imgur, an online image sharing community and image host. In HR circles, for quite some time now, culture has been a big buzzword. See Also: The HR Innovator’s Guide to Evolving Performance Management. Influencing the Future. become. Click To Tweet.

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TLNT: The Business of HR

AUGUST 8, 2016

Does your company have a culture in which innovation thrives? Are people challenging the status quo and being encouraged by leaders to take risks in pursuit of innovation? Or is the opposite true?  Do you managers greet new ideas and suggestions with the comment, “But we tried that last year and it didn’t work?”. Creativity Culture HR Insights Leadership Featured

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Positive Sharing

AUGUST 8, 2016

This 2014 letter from US vice president to his staff is AWESOME. Here’s the full text: “To my wonderful staff, I would like to take a moment and make something clear to everyone. I do not expect, nor do I want any of you to miss or sacrifice important family obligations for work. This is very important to me. This has be an unwritten rule sine my days in the Senate. Sincerely, Joe.”.

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VIDEO: The Impact of 360-Degree Feedback Coaching - DecisionWise

Decision-Wise

AUGUST 9, 2016

Download 360-Degree Feedback Survey. Take a look at our research on the impact 360-degree feedback coaching.  By coaching, I mean sitting down with someone to debrief their 360-degree feedback results and helping them to create an action plan.  For the purpose of this study, we collected feedback from 244 leaders from a Fortune 500 company with locations around the world. 

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Switch and Shift

AUGUST 6, 2016

Levels of employee engagement across the nation, and even across the world, are dangerously low. According to Gallup, only 13 percent of employees worldwide feel engaged at work. That translates to about one in eight workers. Read More» The post 5 Employee Engagement Pitfalls Senior Leadership Should Avoid appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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