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Tough Questions: Aligning Workforce Strategies to Organizational Objectives: What are the best ways to integrate workforce and business performance data into your analytics tools? And how do you align workforce strategies with business objectives? HRIQ readers and industry practitioners weigh in. read more
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Weekly News Recap: W-2 Reporting; Automated Succession Planning; and Investment Outsourcing: The 2012 tax year is the first year of mandatory reporting of the value of coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan; New technologies on the market are helping global organizations to automate their succession planning processes; Faced with major pension deficits and the requirements of the Pension Protection Act, many major companies have announced large increases in planned contributions to pension plans. read more
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Obama's State of the Union Address: A Call to Action for L&D Professionals: Although businesses have created more than three million jobs in less than two years, millions of Americans are still out of work. It may be seemingly incongruous to those outside of HR and business development that many companies—especially those in the science and technology arena—are struggling to close the infamous “skills gap” presented by a lack of trade-specific training. During the January 24th Presidential State of the Union address, United States President Barrack Obama addressed this burning issue. read more
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Delivering HR Technology on Mobile Devices: It's virtually guaranteed that your employees can already surf the internet, chat with their friends, network on social media or do their banking on their mobile phones. So why do they have to log on to their PC to access the HR tools and systems they need to manage their employment? Why is it that the technology inside an organization lags networking and mobile platforms in the social worlds of its employees? read more
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HR Technology in Layman's Terms – Pillar #4: Self-Service: Without self-service systems in place, employees have to phone the call center or trigger a manual process to get something done or query data about their remuneration. Many self-service HR systems allow users to customize their interfaces to suit their roles and even set up favorites if they regularly perform the same transactions. Importantly, the user screens should be intuitive and easy to navigate since employees will be casual users of the system and not build up much proficiency through frequent usage. read more
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HR Technology in Layman's Terms– Pillar #5 Case Management: Central to any processing environment is the ability to track a task throughout its lifecycle with the aim of completing the task more efficiently. read more
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Drive Big Change with these 6 Corporate Learning Tactics: Corporate learning functions are critical to driving organizational change. We are in the middle of analyzing our 2012 Global Best Practices Research on Leading Change and “culture change” is a priority globally. 62 percent of over 550 global respondents said that they are involved in culture change projects. Cultures only change when employees change behavior. So who better than Corporate Learning to advise on how to drive this change? I interviewed several leading learning executives to find out how they do it. Here are their six must do’s... read more
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The 6 Secrets Leaders Use To Get Buy-In: The research is clear – the main reason change fails is lack of buy-in. So what can you do to overcome the odds and get real buy-in for important organizational changes? I asked seasoned internal change leaders for their input and this is what they told me. read more
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The Shockingly Simple Way To Make Changes Stick: By the time you read this, over 25 percent of New Year’s resolutions have been broken or given up on. Another 25 percent will fail before June. There is only one reason for this. read more
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The Social Media Password Debate: Apparently, in response to the legal cases reprimanding employers for improperly obtaining access to their employees’ and applicants’ personal social media sites, employers came up with what would seem to be a very effective work-around—demanding the passwords or threatening termination or cessation of the application process. Really? read more
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An Employee By Any Other Name Is Still An Employee: Misclassification Woes: In late 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at efforts to halt what they termed “the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” read more
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The NLRB Is Watching Your Social Media Policy Whether You Have a Union or Not: Although you may not realize it, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is usually thought of as protecting the rights of union workers in the U.S., also has the ability to reach into non-unionized workplaces. Most recently, the NLRB has been scrutinizing company Social Media Policies and routinely finding that they violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) section 7. read more
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Drucker’s Billion Dollar Reality Test: Drucker discovered that all executives needed to understand and apply the correct principles of marketing research in HR, manufacturing, sales, management and virtually all business areas. Let’s say that you’re an HR manager and need to develop a radical new procedure to handle new and complex human resource procedures in our company. You can get it completely wrong even if your basic idea is right on target. Think that this can’t happen? read more
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Marketing And Selling May Be Adverserial: “Marketing and selling are not necessarily complementary and may even be adversarial.” I had heard Drucker make some rather unusual statements during the two years that I had been his student, but this certainly had to be one of the most astonishing. Yet he was right. read more
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Success by Abandoning Success: Drucker’s concept of abandonment comes from the dynamics of knowledge advancement and requires a single imperative for every organization: management of change has to be instilled at the cellular level, that is, in the organization’s very structure. read more
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The Online University App: Blending "Rah-Rah" and Success Measures:: Companies use various means to create and stir the workforce to be engaged, productive and happy. HR has to find the means to animate and align employees with company objectives to achieve unity of focus and enhance productivity. But that is not enough-- accountability has to be factored in. Targets have to be established and ways found to track and measure progress toward goals. This can’t be solely “rah-rah” and group rant. This is serious business. read more
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4 Examples of What Mentors Can Offer the Walking Wounded: It is required to identify a unique source of direction and to search for developmental options which are incremental—that stretch existing managerial levels and roles beyond current limits and even job descriptions—but which also break new ground horizontally. Although a number of such options are available, the four examples below may suggest the range of what mentors can genuinely offer the walking wounded. read more
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Mentoring and Managing of Discontent in the Upper Ranks: One of the unintended consequences of virtually all leadership development programs is discontent. Conceived as a journey only to the top, when it falls short—as numerically it has to—many are unhappily left behind. But what can be done? read more
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Lin-sanity and Racial Juxtaposition: People have excessively harped on Lin’s success in the NBA, in great part because Chinese is not the first ethnic group that comes to mind when thinking of professional basketball players. This takes us right to my theory of racial juxtaposition, which I would define as the American obsession with constantly defining and redefining racial “norms”— and finding it notable when someone is a success outside of the so-called norm. read more
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Neural Pathways at Work: How Our Brains Deal with Diversity: How we view and handle workplace diversity may not be rocket science, but it does have scientific support through the study of the human brain and neuroplasticity which impacts how we view others. read more
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What HR Can Learn about Diversity from "Angry Birds": I'm a huge believer that life is just one big metaphor. A metaphor explained by a good analogy. On a long recent train trip without access to WiFi, it hit me that the game Angry Birds is a lot like workplace diversity. read more
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Engaging Your Corporate University to Generate Revenue: As a learning professional within your organization, you have a responsibility to develop your employees to improve their performance for your company’s clients. Today we are asking if you can see yourself using the structure of your corporate university to generate revenue or become a cost-neutral operation. read more
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Do You See Yourself as a Learning EnVisioneer?: Today, we are asking, “Do you see yourself as a Learning EnVisioneer?” History is filled with examples of those with strategic vision that were unable to execute. Conversely, many teams with excellent technical skills have been doomed by a lack of leadership and vision. Vision and execution are not mutually exclusive. You must have both vision and the ability to act upon it. In a learning environment, we call this person a Learning EnVisioneer. read more
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The Importance of Induction: Induction has to be about how the employee is welcomed to the organization: how they establish their relationship with colleagues and with supervisors; how they engage with the overall direction and vision of the organization and how they see their role within the structure. How the individual responds to this and performs will then be a matter of assessment during the probation period. HR Managers have a responsibility to develop more welcoming processes for bringing new staff on-board. read more
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Leadership and the Comfort Zone: I have often wondered how we should prepare those we expect to take on leadership roles in our organizations. HR practitioners need to think outside their own comfort zone to provide more effective leadership solutions for their organizations. read more
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HR & Community Engagement: Building and Re-creating Local Relationships: HR can play a role in building these competencies within the business and actively seeking ways of using the community engagement framework as an active source of new talent. read more
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No, Thank You: Very often, the best we can strive for is to avoid getting something we don’t need or shouldn’t have. A few more “no, thank you’s” in our world may well lead to happier and more successful people and companies. read more
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What's Wrong With Being Wrong?: Why are you so afraid of being wrong? The posturing in our companies to be right, or at least not in proximity of wrong is ubiquitous. It is a sad state of affairs for many. Being wrong can be so right in so many situations. read more
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Stop To Think. Rush To Execute.: In any endeavor of relevance nearly every time I have ventured forth without the structure of a plan, I have found that my time and energy have (to say the least) not been rewarded. I attribute any success achieved in the absence of a plan pure luck. read more
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