Sat.Aug 18, 2018 - Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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The Blindspot in Employee Engagement

Jason Lauritsen

A couple years ago, as my wife and I were returning home from an employee engagement conference where I had spoken, she said something to me that I didn’t fully understand at the time. I remember it sounding something like this. “The content here was good, but it was all focused on the happy, positive side of being human at work. Where’s the conversation about all of the hard, painful stuff that humans bring with them to work?

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How to Help Your Employees Set Their Goals

Hppy

One of the first things great leaders know is that they should set goals with the employees, not for the employees. In a dynamic and ever-challenging work market, successful managers and entrepreneurs turn their employees’ professional goals and objectives into motivators, not burdens. Why is it Important to Help People set their Goals? The process of involving the employees in the goal-setting process empowers them, instills responsibility and accountability, gives them freedom, and keeps them

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Squash Bullying to Protect Your Bottom Line

eni

According to the Employment Law Alliance, almost half of American workers have experienced bullying at work. Common bullying tactics range from humiliation and sabotage, to threats and intimidation, all of which interfere with productivity and may create a toxic work environment for one or more employees. Many managers may be tempted to simply tell employees to work out their own differences and put their personal issues aside, but ignoring that bad apple can actually cost the company much more

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The Future of Work and How to Improve Job Satisfaction

Cornerstone On Demand

We spend an average of 90,000 hours of our lives at work. But according to psychologist, bestselling author and host of the WorkLife podcast Adam Grant, too many of those hours are unhappy ones. From managers who don't provide feedback in a productive way to the growing fears around robots taking our jobs, there are many reasons why we find ourselves feeling frustrated at work.

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Ready to Save Time With AI? Try 14 ChatGPT Prompts for HR

ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can help you quickly brainstorm, draft, and refine tasks on your to-do list. But it can take a bit of strategy and practice to get generative AI to give you the time-saving results you’re looking for. Try these 14 detailed prompts to unlock the power of ChatGPT. You'll discover ways to streamline tasks for hiring, employee engagement, and performance management.

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Is Working With Multiple Staffing Agencies a Good Idea?

Celarity

By Katherine Konrad, an experienced marketing professional and recent Celarity contractor . Putting your name in more hats increases your chances of being picked, right? I’m actually really asking because I was never that great at Statistics. I may have taken that class two times in college. Maybe more. But who’s counting? Not me. Though I wasn’t as confident on Statistics test questions, I’m certain the answer to this one is: it depends.

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Leaders Drive Organizational Culture [poll results]

HR Bartender

A few weeks ago, I asked the question “ Which comes first: Leadership or culture? ” Honestly, I must admit that I agree with the person who wrote me on LinkedIn to say this is the ultimate chicken or egg question. But you guys said in a 4 to 1 margin that leadership comes first. It totally makes sense. It also means that organizations need to understand how this dynamic impacts them.

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How Recruiting Automation Can Improve Candidate Experience

Cornerstone On Demand

In a high-employment economy, there's a critical tangle in the modern recruiting experience that technology can help unravel: Job candidates want a simple and transparent application process with regular updates about their status—not frustrating silence. "Candidates often make a decision to join an organization solely on their interaction with a recruiting team during the talent acquisition process," says Madeline Laurano, co-founder and chief research officer at Aptitude Research Partners.

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The Psychological Effects of Praise

Reflektive

Carol Dweck is a pioneer in the field of developmental psychology. Her work introduced the concept of fixed vs. growth mindsets. Essentially, a person with a fixed mindset believes that people are born with certain traits and abilities, while someone with a growth mindset believes that these abilities can be learned and mastered through hard work and deliberate practice.

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4 KPIs to Track Your Employee Engagement

Achievers

The time has come to start thinking about employee engagement as a measure of organizational success that is as important as growth and revenue. In today’s hyper competitive and connected world, true employee engagement may just be the differentiator between businesses that succeed and those that don’t. Because engagement is a critical business metric, you may be wondering, how do you accurately measure it?

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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5 Activities You Do Not Want to Miss At the HR Technology Conference – #HRTechConf

HR Bartender

One of my absolute must-attend events in the fall is the HR Technology Conference and Expo (nicknamed HRTech). This year’s conference is being held September 11-14, 2018 at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. If you’ve never attended HRTech, now is the perfect time. I don’t have to tell anyone the significance of technology in our personal and professional lives.

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Cartoon Coffee Break | OOO Note

Cornerstone On Demand

Editor's Note: This post is part of our " Cartoon Coffee Break " series. While we take talent management seriously, we also know it's important to have a good laugh. Check back every two weeks for a new ReWork cartoon. Wondering what your PTO policy should look like? Read on.

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Talent Success Toolkit Lesson 8: Engagement

ClearCompany HRM

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a monthly quit rate of about 2% , making the insights and data analysis of exiting employees extremely valuable. When an employee departs your company, you probably have at least a vague idea of the reason, whether it was mandated by leaders, voluntary or due to retirement; but without exit interviews, you’re left with nothing to put back into your talent management strategy, and a huge bill.

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Attention HR: What You Need to Focus on to Facilitate a Healthy Company Culture

Achievers

In my last blog , I talked about how culture is no longer an HR thing, it is a business thing. This means that every owner, executive, and manager needs to make culture a priority and make decisions that support the desired culture. But this is not to say that HR doesn’t play a critical role in culture. HR owns many of the mechanisms that influence the employee experience, and is an important part of facilitating the company culture.

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How to Create Sales Email Sequences That Convert

Modern go-to-market teams know it takes more than one email to break through the noise. Multiple touchpoints means more ways to get your pitch right — and, potentially, more ways to be wrong. The good news? Once you know how to write compelling, one-off emails to entice prospective customers, you can easily do the same across a short sequence of emails.

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Digital Transformation: Small Activities Bring Big Results [infographic]

HR Bartender

At this year’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference , I had the chance to meet with the folks from Microsoft about digital transformation. Digital transformation is the idea that technology can help individuals solve their digital and non-digital problems. It’s about making processes more efficient and effective using technology.

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TED Talk Tuesday: Why We Need to Talk About Mistakes

Cornerstone On Demand

This is part of our monthly TED Talk Tuesday series, spotlighting can't-miss TED Talks and their key takeaways. You can learn more about our partnership with TED here. For doctors, the stakes are high every day. They're required to treat maladies and save lives on a regular basis, often performing miracles to help patients. And yet, it's easy to forget that they're human and they make mistakes.

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Great Scot! How HR has changed since the 80s

HR Zone

Future. How has HR changed over the years?

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Workforce Planners: 4 Steps to Improving Profit Margins for Services

Visier

Professional services firms face a delicate balancing act in determining how to best staff a client project. Assign too many junior people, and client satisfaction may suffer. Assign too many senior people, and the salary spend may be higher than is necessary to deliver project outcomes. To further complicate things, when dealing with a multi-year project, the workforce will likely become more expensive within the contract’s lifetime.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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How to Create a Happy Workplace

Hppy

When you really break it down, we spend the majority of our time working, commuting to and from work, and thinking about work—even when we’re doing other things. If you want your employees to be productive, pleasant members of the team, it’s important to focus on creating a happy workplace. Everyone is in the building for around a third of each weekday, and finding ways to keep people feeling happy, healthy, and satisfied with their jobs has incredible benefits for everyone involved.

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The Ethics of AI: It’s Much Trickier Than You Think

Josh Bersin

Last week I had the opportunity to join the O’Reilly Foo Camp, where around 200 of the world’s leading technologists, academics, economists, and business innovators come together to talk. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Working parents: shared parental leave has the potential to positively impact gender equality

HR Zone

Culture. Shared parental leave promotes equality.

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The Ultimate Guide to HR Technology Conference 2018

Visier

Recently, HR Technology Conference 2018 co-chair, Steve Boese, said that “good HR tech solutions either help the organization win the war for talent, create an environment where people can do great work and help the organization succeed or enable HR and business leaders to make the best ‘people’ decisions that they can.”. This is a great maxim to keep in mind as you take in all the research, learning, and solution offerings at this year’s conference.

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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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Customer Spotlight Series: Protective

Reflektive

How do you continue to innovate and grow after being in business for over 100 years? That was the question that leaders at Protective Life faced. “What’s made us successful up until now will likely not be what gets us where we need to go,” says Stephen Owens, AVP of Learning and Talent Development. Chief Human Resources Officer Wendy Evesque says, “Our customer demographics are changing, the needs of our customers are changing, and we’re seeing HR evolve to support those changing needs.”.

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Worlds Apart: Leading a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce

WorkHuman

By Robin H. Everhart —. In this week’s WorkHuman Radio, we interview Robin H. Everhart, senior vice president and chief diversity officer at Cintas Corporation. Read her guest post below. When companies are asked about their diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy, they often defer to their chief diversity officer, or a similar title. But as a D&I practitioner, I would argue D&I is everyone’s responsibility.

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Flexible working: a vital differentiator in a challenging labour market

HR Zone

Acquisition. Why the UK needs more flexible working.

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Hiring in Healthcare: Does a Nursing Shortage Exist?

ExactHire

There’s a nursing shortage! I don’t know when I started hearing about it, but it was probably in the early 2000’s right before I set off for college. I distinctly remember hearing that nursing was a great career choice. And I once considered pursuing it–even after the movie, Meet the Parents , played up the stigma around male nurses. There was a shortage of nurses, I was told.

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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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HR Passion Series #9: Featuring Kalli Yaklyvich, Sr. HR Business Partner at River Valley Bank

Kazoo

We’re happy to bring you weekly insights and inspirations from esteemed HR Professionals. We’ve created the HR Passion Series as a medium to connect individuals in the HR World, to learn from each other, create community, and inspire. This is where you get to hear full, unedited opinions and answers from top practitioners in the field who are excited to reach out and share with the community.

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When Should a Growing or Small Business Offer Employee Benefits?

Justworks

For a growing or small business, finding and retaining quality employees goes beyond compensation. Employers are able to offer benefits that employees can't access on their own, and so benefits provide value for employees at a relatively low cost to companies. The benefits package your company offers is often a deciding factor for candidates. When to Offer Employee Benefits Corporations and better-funded companies may seem to have access to the best benefits.

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Recruitment: are first impressions unfairly influencing your hiring process?

HR Zone

Acquisition. The problem with first impressions.