1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Labels: Events , Talent management. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Strategy - Talent - Engagement - Change and OD. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Labels: Careers , HCM technology , Talent management. MORE

Furthermore, if we find ourselves in a situation in which we simply can’t afford to lose the talent that we have, why not consider moving the work to them rather than forcing them to come to the work? Talent Supply Chain Management. The “War for Talent” is as ubiquitous of a phrase as any in the world of HR and talent; Lance Richards suggested that in reality there is no shortage of people in the world, however people does not equal talent. MORE

The beauty of returning to somewhere that you’ve visited many times, at various stages of your life, is that it remains a constant – relatively unchanged – no matter how much your life changes from one visit to the next. And as HR professionals, do we encourage our employees to do the same? I’ve been on vacation in Myrtle Beach over the past week soaking up some sun and unwinding from the daily grind. MORE

About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee communications, and currently works in talent management in the retail grocery industry. The sign of any great conference is when you continue to mull over the ideas with which you’re presented and the concepts you learn even after the event itself is over. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Strategy - Talent - Engagement - Change and OD. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Managers /. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Managers /. MORE

We use that platform monthly for North America and Europe, the second week of each month, and address four different topics: talent acquisition, talent management, employee relations and services and outsourcing. MORE

Even when a decision had to be made that wasn’t necessarily in the favor of the employee, the question that needed to be asked was “have we ensured that we’ve given them every opportunity to fix the issue first?” About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR exp erience in employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee communications, and currently works in talent management in the retail grocery industry. MORE

Eventually what I realized is that it caught my attention because it actually related directly to that concept of pushing out of comfort zones that I had already explored earlier in the year. About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR exp erience in employee relations, talent acquisition, and learning & development, and currently works in talent acquisition and development in the retail grocery industry. MORE

About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee communications, and currently works in talent management in the retail grocery industry. Editor’s Note: This post originally ran in January. I’m reposting it now due to some site issues that required taking down the original. It happens to the best of us. MORE

As a leading global talent acquisition and management provider, Alexander Mann Solutions has a front row seat to the changes sweeping across workforces worldwide. I took my first operational position with Alexander Mann Solutions in 2007 and my role has evolved across the HR function, starting with employee relations and then moving into business partnering. “The market for talent acquisition and management can be volatile—it’s the nature of the beast.” MORE

That means I have the distinct pleasure of attending as a voice for the conference, helping the spread the word about all of the great conference related happenings, learnings, and general goings on. About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has over 16 years of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, and learning & development, and currently works in talent acquisition and development in the retail grocery industry. MORE

As one of the more recent overused prevalent catch phrases and trends in the Human Resources profession, discussions about “employee engagement” in the workplace have been going on now for quite some time. Just Google the word and undoubtedly you find thousands of articles, blog posts, and best practices about how to achieve and attempt to measure how engaged your employees are. Titled “Celebrating the Final Conversation on Employee Engagement?” MORE

As leaders and as HR professionals, we have the opportunity to touch our employees’ and coworkers lives every day. Are you creating environments where employees feel a part of something bigger than themselves? I’ve been thinking a lot about legacies lately. MORE

As Labor Day has now come and gone, and the long and sultry days of summer begin shifting towards the cooler, brisker days of fall, the change in seasons also brings us just a little bit closer to the mecca of all things HR tech related, the annual HR Technology Conference. MORE

I work for a retail organization so I see it firsthand; there’s probably no other industry where it’s more common to have multiple generations working under the same roof, side by side. But no doubt multi-generational workforces do attribute to varying degrees of technological adaptation, disparate expectations regarding how and where work should and could be done, and different viewpoints on the nature of work and the employee/employer relationship. MORE

In today’s global economy, sending talented employees abroad has not only become a growing trend, but a competitive necessity. Monetary gain is only one piece of what employees consider when deciding whether or not to go abroad for business. MORE

An increasing industry trend is to replace CHROs that have risen through the HR ranks with business leaders rotating into the top HR role for a period of time to both strengthen the function and gain valuable experience. The problem is that identifying top talent does not go far enough today. MORE

About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has over 16 years of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, and learning & development, and currently works in talent acquisition and development in the retail grocery industry. Sunday afternoon brought the kick off to the 2015 SHRM Annual Conference at the Las Vegas Convention Center. MORE

Women have to conform to men’s way of “playing the game” in order to gain respect, or struggle with “old boys networks” in some companies and industries. About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has over 16 years of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, and learning & development, and currently works in talent acquisition and development in the retail grocery industry. MORE

This got me thinking about gender stereotypes as related to career choices. About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee communications, and currently works in talent management in the retail grocery industry. MORE

The morning kicked off with Globoforce’s Derek Irvine, Vice President of Consulting Services, sharing among other things the following stats: Only 20% of employees have received some kind of recognition within the past month, and that percentage only goes up to about 30% when stretched to a six month time period. And let’s face it, without engaged and productive employees, no business can be successful in the long run. MORE

Was there a distrust of leadership present among employees? We must create environments where our employees feel comfortable and know how to speak up for each other, and we need to train our managers on creating environments within their control where bullying is not allowed, and how to stop it if it in fact appears. MORE

About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has almost two decades of HR experience in employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and employee communications, and currently works in talent management in the retail grocery industry. HR Conferences Personal & Professional Effectiveness #WorkHuman employees engagement happiness Human resourcesI grew up knowing him best as Alex P. Keaton and Marty McFly. MORE

There will be an explosion of big data talent acquisition solutions claiming to “predict” if this or that candidate will be perfect for your business.At Businesses will demand their HR teams implement predictive analytics to solve employee related problems that exist outside of HR. HR (and the workforce in general) will begin to embrace machine learning for areas like talent acquisition. MORE

Employee Appreciation Day was observed on Friday, March 6 th – a chance to “support, thank and reward workers” for their hard work and dedication throughout the year. Business and Workplace On My Mind #RTOK appreciation Connection employees recognition MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Im at the Economists Talent Management Summit today. MORE

Do we tend to assume a particular employee or teammate is thinking a certain way….because In communicating with employees, do we tend to neglect certain details that might be important to others, because they don’t cross our minds as being important? MORE

About the Author: Jennifer Payne, SPHR, SHRM-SCP has over 16 years of HR exp erience in employee relations, talent acquisition, and learning & development, and currently works in talent acquisition and development in the retail grocery industry. MORE

As an HR practitioner who spends a great deal of my time in the trenches, dealing with the day to day challenges of balancing the needs of employees with the needs of the organization, I often get the question, “Why HR Tech?” MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. ECTalent - Doug Baillie, Unilever on talent and t. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Social Talent Acquisition. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Strategy - Talent - Engagement - Change and OD. MORE

1 global online influencer in talent management. #6 Fistful of Talent. Employee Engagement Zingers. Employee Engagement Strategy: What’s Your Story? SuccessFactors Performance and Talent Management Blog. Innovative talent management - financial services. MORE