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Make HR Analytics a Priority, But See the Bigger Picture

Visier

Making HR analytics a leadership priority is not just about encouraging HR to present the latest analytics innovations, but rather a true partnership to drive pivotal decisions. However, today’s HR analytics are mainly used for cost avoidance, not to drive broader strategic success. Sharing information across silos” was the #1 challenge to big data effectiveness.  .

How to Motivate Management to Support Company Culture Improvement

ExactHire HR Trends

Hopefully you’ve had the pleasure of working for an employer with a deeply rewarding work culture. One of the reasons you enjoyed the experience probably had something to do with the actual work you accomplished there, but that likely wasn’t the only factor. However, the impact of corporate culture is anything but fluff. Direct Motives. Play – the extent to which you love the work itself.

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The Only 3 Employee Perks That Actually Matter

Brazen HR

In today’s competitive job market, many companies are looking beyond salary and benefits to stand out to top candidates. Top-tier companies like Google and Apple have revolutionized the perks that employees enjoy in order to attract and retain their elite workforce — offering employees everything from unlimited time off to free automotive maintenance. One company even offers free scuba lessons !

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The 7 pillars of Employee Engagement

EmployeeConnect

Employee engagement is now a phenomenon that’s deeply implanted in the collective consciousness of progressive HR leaders. This is supported by the huge surge of content, conferences, awards, Internet chatter, and Facebook and LinkedIn social media groups solely focused on employee engagement. Large numbers of HR tech vendors and service providers roam the HR domain offering a smorgasbord of engagement-related products and services. Indeed, any product or service one could possibly imagine related to employee engagement is a couple of clicks away. dollars and growing very fast.

The SMB Guide to Posting Jobs

Whether you’re an HR professional for a small start-up, a high-growth company or a large enterprise organization, the quality of your team is the single best predictor of success. Learn how to build a solid sourcing strategy that consistently results in great hires by reading Jazz's new eBook, The SMB Guide to Posting Jobs.

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Boosting Your HR with a Gamification Program

EmployeeConnect

Gamification or in other words, the application of game mechanisms to other non-game areas, has spread to many domains in the past few years: social media, loyalty programs, and of course… HR! But since the word has become a staple of the business world, have you actually leveraged gamification in your organisation? We offer you a quick and practical guide to help you develop a compelling gamification program that will get your troops motivated! So why should HR learn from Game Designers? Employees will be more involved in their personal development if they have fun. What do they like?

How to Avoid Creating a Negative Culture of Cynicism and Sabotage

Switch and Shift

It’s no surprise that when senior executives perceive employee apathy and read that three-quarters of their people are looking for new jobs, despite $700 million spent on engagement, they become cynics. Some may even begin to suspect that employees claim to be disengaged just so they can get new perks, but, as we’ve said, engagement works. Let’s take a look at the first two issues.

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Could you legally fire Colin Kaepernick if he worked for you?

HR Morning

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has made a lot of waves for not standing during national anthem performances. And it has led a lot of employers to ask: Can workers who engage in such political protests be punished? Here’s the answer. . What the 49ers were referring to was Kaepernick’s protected speech rights under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

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10 Great Ways to Keep Your Employees Happy

Get Hppy

How often do you think about if your employees are happy with their job? We’re not just talking about the paycheck and various perks they get (though those are important too), but how they genuinely feel about the work they do. There are many types of leaders, but only the best ones are able to grasp the importance of their workers coming to the office ready to actually make a difference.

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Skill based learning – How it drives an organization’s performance

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.

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The Neuroscience of Collaboration: Building Strong Teams

EmployeeConnect

Humans have an innate ability to connect and collaborate.  In fact, some say it’s a biological need. As we grow and develop we crave human interaction – regardless of how extraverted or introverted we might think we are. So if we genuinely desire to collaborate, why is effective team collaboration and engagement often one of the most difficult things to achieve in the workplace? The Amazing and Unique Human Brain No two brains are alike.  Our brains are shaped by our genetics, our environment, our experiences and our thoughts. We can never be exactly on the same page as another person.

HR’s Critical Role in Creating Productive and Meaningful Workplaces

ATD Human Capital

HR needs to be a major force in reshaping the workplace of the future, one that can place it at the decision-making and change-management table with CEOs. Traditional approaches to HR, including a focus on compliance, regulations, compensation plans, and performance reviews with occasional forays into people development, will do much to make HR as we know it irrelevant. Frey and M.A.

Prevent Your Organization From Getting Sucked Into A Knowledge Vacuum

HR Gazette

No matter what an employer does, the simple truth is that even the best, most highly valued employees will one day leave your organization. Hopefully, it’ll be at the end of a long and happy career with your company, after having passed on their know-how and experience. But what if it’s not? Documented processes make for smother transitions. How do you learn something you’ve never done before?

The ROI of Inclusion and Belonging

Globoforce

One indication that we’re experiencing a renewed focus on inclusion can be found with a simple Google search. The top three questions associated with “diversity and inclusion” are: What is meant by inclusion in the workplace? What do you mean by inclusion? What is inclusive diversity? There’s a lot of curiosity around inclusion—and for good reason. The Millennial Take. RELATED POSTS.

Leaving performance reviews behind: Where to start [Guide]

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.

8 Culture Change Secrets Most Leaders Don’t Understand

Culture University

I spent 15 years learning and applying culture insights as a senior executive, consultant, and coach across multiple organizations before I started to proactively reach out to top culture pioneers and experts to learn about their culture facts and fundamentals. We can’t learn much about culture from the popular press and most social media is […].

10 Things That Make You a Better Leader When Starting a New Team

Switch and Shift

Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) members are young, innovative business professionals continually finding new ways to lead their businesses. Ten of them share how you can be different, disruptive, or rebellious as you launch a new team. Read More» The post 10 Things That Make You a Better Leader When Starting a New Team appeared first on Switch & Shift.

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Doing Gymnastics at Work

RecognizeThis!

by Traci Pesch. Recognize This! – The sport of gymnastics offer several lessons we can apply to make work more human. My daughter did gymnastics for 6 years. It’s an intense sport for which, unless you’re deeply in it, it is hard to understand the level of commitment necessary. Gymnastics is a unique sport, but some elements are the same for all sports that offer us lessons for the workplace, too.

Is Brainstorming Dead?

Get Hppy

I can’t tell you how many meetings I’ve attended where teammates have been asked to brainstorm ideas. Everyone comes prepared with some thoughts, everyone listens to all the ideas, and the best ideas rise to the top, right? This is democracy in action, the crux of collaboration, yes? Not exactly. Ever notice how the people who share first tend to be the ones whose ideas are heard most loudly?

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Innovation Buster: How Losing Your Best Employees is Killing Innovation

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.

The Business Benefits of Happy Employees

TLNT: The Business of HR

One of the biggest lies we’ve been told in our professional lives is that once you’re successful, you’ll be happy. You work hard, get ahead, make more money and all that is supposed to lead to happiness…right? Wrong. In the last several years, research has shown emphatically that the formula is reversed – happiness leads to success rather than success leading to happiness.

25 Epic Office Party Ideas That are Guaranteed to Be a Good Time

SnackNation

25 Epic Office Party Ideas Guaranteed to Be a Good Time. So you’ve been tasked with throwing your offices’ next big par-tay. Whether it’s Employee Appreciation Day, a Halloween spooktacular, or the annual holiday rager, throwing the perfect office party is a lot of pressure. Not only do you have to provide something for everyone, your idea needs to be new and different. Sumo Throwdown. Spirit Day.

Emotional Contagion: Containing Bad Attitudes in Your Workplace

CultureIQ

When we reflect on feelings in the workplace, most of us think we should leave our emotions at the door. After all, doing good work requires you to focus on tasks and accomplishing things, right? And the best way to handle moods and emotions when you want to get something done is to ignore them… right? . Or: “Oh, he’s toxic. The emotions of leaders and managers are especially powerful.

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Demonstrate Mastery in Education of the Future

Edcor

Higher education of the future students will find many ways to demonstrate mastery of knowledge and skills. In a world where higher education is a lifelong process there are many credentials that come before, are added on after, or take the place of a degree. How will higher education of the future students earn credit and demonstrate mastery? link] www.upcea.edu/content.asp?admin=Y&contentid=504.

The Essential Guide to Recruiting Performers

In today's competitive talent market, it's essential for HR leaders to be able to connect their recruiting efforts to hiring results. This eBook will show you how to easily navigate the talent market and focus on hiring employees with the most ROI: Performers.

A Job By Any Other Name…

Ultimate Software

We all wear a dizzying array of “hats” these days, both within and outside of our work lives, and I believe that this complexity, along with significant major sociocultural shifts, are pushing us toward increasingly blurring the lines defining what we do, how we work, and even who we are. With job fluidity, each employee becomes much more than the person’s profession, title, or job description.

Forced retirement is an age discrimination no-no

Ohio Employer's Law

Image credit: slate.com. The EEOC has sued a Colorado hospital for age discrimination. The key allegation? That it forced employees to resign because of their age. The lawsuit claims hospital managers made ageist comments, including that younger nurses could “dance around the older nurses” and that they preferred younger and “fresher” nurses. age discrimination

8 Elements to Building Trust with Candidates

Dice

It’s not easy recruiting skilled tech pros today. With the job market weighted in their favor, most of them are itching to give you an earful about the flood of calls, emails and texts they get from recruiters who’ve barely glanced at their résumé. As a result, a certain degree of tension exists before an employer and candidate even start talking. That’s the bad news. Always Be Honest.

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7 facts every HR manager should know about wrongful discharge

HR Morning

In today’s litigious workplace atmosphere, employers need to be mindful of the possibility of wrongful-discharge lawsuits from employees who have been let go — and are angry about it. If an employer terminates an employee, even one who is at-will, in violation of federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws, that’s illegal.

2016 Training Program Best Practices

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?

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When Incentive Pay Goes Rogue!

Compensation Cafe

A friend of mine likes to say: “It’s not that incentive pay doesn’t work well, it’s that it works TOO well. It usually does exactly what it is designed to do, even if that wasn’t your intent.”. Wells Fargo just paid $185M in fines and penalties because its employees fraudulently opened additional accounting for people who were already customers. But that’s hard to do this time. The Numbers.

Getting Uncomfortable in HR: Adapting to our Changing World

Blogging 4 Jobs

We hear it a lot: the world of work is changing. Often we hear it at the beginning of a big sweeping statement about how we need to become more ‘responsive’, more ‘agile’ and that because Google, Facebook and Snapchat are doing something new with their approach to employment then you should be too. HR practitioners in knowledge-based workplaces need to respond accordingly.

A Repeatable Methodology For Innovation

SuccessFactors

Your company is good at something. By that, I mean, your company has acquired a competency, or, more likely, a set of competencies. You’re good at product design, or customer service, or procurement, or logistics. Whatever they might be, at some point, your company acquired these particular competencies. You got better at them by doing them, again and again. You mastered these processes.

The Importance of Emotional Intelligence to Good Leadership

TLNT: The Business of HR

Developing the ability to tune in to how a diverse group of people feel about a situation is one of the most important tools that a leader can develop, because all decision-making depends on having reliable information. The problem is that the definition of “reliable” can vary wildly from individual to individual. Culture Leadership Performance & Personality Personality Testing Featured

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Ditching the formal performance review? Kineo shares 3 Elements for Success

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.