Strategic HR is Not an Oxymoron
“HR’s battle for a seat at the table is over. We did ‘win,’ so to speak—no one doubts the value of strongly aligned talent and business strategies. Our challenge now is to actually use that seat to make strategic ...
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2018 Betterworks Continuous Performance Management® Survey
A motivated workforce is key to competing and winning in today’s environment and ensuring your business is ready for tomorrow’s challenges. Motivated employees are well-equipped to quickly acquire and apply new skills and align their ... Read more
Prioritizing the Candidate Journey Through Recruitment Automation
When considering recruitment automation, the benefits to the recruiter and talent acquisition team are hard to deny. Yet, the benefits to the candidate are too often ignored. Recruitment Automation plays a critical role in communicating with ...
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MIT Sloan Management Review: With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
To execute strategy, leaders must set ambitious targets, translate them into specific metrics and milestones, make them transparent throughout the organization, and discuss progress frequently.
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Forbes Insight report: Competing for Talent in the Digital Age
Learn how small and midsize companies have HR advantages and more agility to react to employee and market trends. Digital HR, using cloud-based models, can help them capitalize on advantages by leveling the playing field for recruiting, ...
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Recognition Vendor Guide
As you begin your search for an employee recognition partner, it’s helpful to understand the recognition industry at a high level. Is there one primary type of recognition company or are there many? How do you compare apples to apples? Why ...
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The Forrester Wave™: SaaS Human Resource Management Systems, Q3 2017
Forrester’s research uncovered a market in which Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle, and Ultimate Software lead. ADP and Ceridian follow closely behind. Meta4 and Ramco are competitive choices in their respective operating regions.
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Employee Relations Benchmark Study Executive Summary 2017
Empowering HR and Employee Relations leaders with the relevant tools to manage employee behaviors and allegations of misconduct with integrity has always been our top priority. After receiving countless requests for benchmarks around these ...
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Employee Relations Benchmark Study 2017
Empowering HR and Employee Relations leaders with the relevant tools to manage employee behaviors and allegations of misconduct with integrity has always been our top priority. After receiving countless requests for benchmarks around these ...
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Case File Review
INSTRUCTIONS: Read through the contents of the investigation file and indicate if the documents noted are available and meet the criteria listed. While every case will be different, a pattern of “NO” responses could indicate more ...
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Interview Protocols Checklist
Investigation Interview Protocols Checklist; including suggested opening statement, opening protocols and closing protocols.
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Look for these 4 Traits in Your Coaches and Mentors
A culture of continuous growth and development is an ideal that all companies strive for. To make it a reality, you need coaches and mentors in place at all levels of the business, from the front lines all the way up to the ...
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The Changing Role of the CHRO
Never have CEOs had to handle so much change so fast. The current business environment confronts them endlessly with perplexing decisions and opportunities. Talent needs can change from quarter to quarter, so quickly that some industries rely on ...
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Top Competencies for Career Success
Do you know which competencies are most critical for success at your organization? Your competencies for success will depend on several things: company culture, strategic vision, the size of your organization, and the type of business ...
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How to Create Healthy Habits and Improve Employee Wellbeing
Employee wellbeing is about more than just gym memberships, team events, challenges and other wellness solutions. Here are some ways you can affect real change and get employees to adopt healthy habits that improve their wellbeing.
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Top 5 Emerging Priorities for HR
A recent people management survey asked over 600 HR executives, “What are your top people management initiatives for 2018?” The answer revealed common themes, as well as emerging trends in HR.
The 2018 survey, which ...
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How Does a Luxury Hotel Staff Create Memorable Moments for Guests From Vancouver to Quebec City?
One word: celebration. For decades, employee recognition has been at the core of Fairmont’s worldwide culture of customer service. By sharing stories of colleagues who deliver great experiences for guests, and rewarding employees for ...
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The 6 Aspects of Workplace Culture Employees Care About Most
Workplace “culture” is trending everywhere. The culture-chasing trend has led to office space redesigns, wellness programs, on-site massages, and unlimited free food. Everyone wants to be like Google or Apple. But which cultural ...
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HR Joins the Analytics Revolution
Knowledge workers are in short supply, the competition for talent has gone global; turnover is rising; and employee engagement is stagnant at best. The economic recovery is welcome, of course, but improving fundamentals can create headaches such ...
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Agile Role-Based Enablement Is the Key to Organizational Success
To bridge the gap between businesses and their customers, people must be empowered and enabled to fully play their role. But the enablement of people is not only a matter of creating a training program that magically changes their ...
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