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Successful Leaders Build Trust - An Interview with Matt Paknis

by Ross SmithOn January 17, 2019 0 comments

 

As written before on the SHRM blog, here and here, I believe trust is a critical component of successful teams and organizations. Matt Paknis has written a great new book, “Successful Leaders Aren’t Bullies” and I wanted to get his perspective on the importance of trust – in organizations, on teams, and in life.

Matt Paknis is a senior management consultant with six years of college football coaching and ten years of playing experience through five championship seasons whose focus is on lessening bullying in the workplace....

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Innovate with Design Thinking

by Jessica Miller-MerrellOn January 16, 2019 0 comments

 

 

 

If anything I bet you are a lot like me where your world is filled with calendar appointments, tasks lists and to do list exhaustion. The endless list of tasks to accomplish and problems to solve often put us in the unenviable position of working to enact solutions that don’t necessarily represent a huge value-add. That’s why design thinking is so interesting to me (and the rest of the world) right now. Well that, and these results from a survey by Deloitte:

“Respondents at companies where HR delivers the...

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What'll You Have?

by Diane FennigOn January 16, 2019 0 comments

 

 

What'll You Have...What'll You Have? is chanted across the counter if you visit the iconic Varsity in Atlanta. Your response will most likely be a chili dog or two and a Varsity frosted orange.  

How is it we can step up to the counter and tell the staff what we want to order, however, asking for what we want in life is so much more difficult?

This past week, Kristina Minyard, one of our HR Colleagues, posted a challenge - do what you want to do.  She went on...

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Simple Ways to Prioritize Your Mental Well-being in the Workplace

by Osasumwen Arigbe On January 15, 2019 0 comments

 

 

One of the highlights of 2018 was seeing the attention that the subject of mental health received globally. This awareness of mental health issues has shown us the importance of creating environments that support the mental well-being of people.

In my role, one of the areas of HR that I champion wholeheartedly is Workplace Wellness. I like seeing how responsive and appreciative employees are toward the resources that support their physical, emotional, mental, or financial well-being. However, in this blog, my focus is on mental wellness in the workplace. I...

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Do it Anyway

by Nicole Roberts, SHRM-CP, PHROn January 15, 2019 0 comments

 

 

We’ve all been there.  Someone on our team or in our organization is behaving in a manner that would not exactly motivate us to want to help…may cause us to want to react defensively or simply ask “why should I help them when they are being so difficult?”

Do it anyway.  Help because that’s the right thing to do.  You are not in leadership and certainly not in HR for the accolades, so keep that in mind, perform whatever visualization exercise you need to get through it, and help anyway....

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What’s the Most Luxurious Benefit You Can Offer an Employee in 2019?

by Tim SackettOn January 15, 2019 0 comments

 

I read a bunch of articles about what’s the next greatest benefit to offer employees. I read one the other day that tried to make it seem like now offering food at work is normal, like everyone is giving away breakfast and lunches, like you give away health insurance.

It’s the one thing I hate about reading mainstream media HR articles. Apparently, the only employers in America are located in the 50 square miles around Silicon Valley. Do you really think I believe that the majority of companies...

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#Nextchat: Hiring Millennial Talent in 2019

by Tom Gimbel On January 14, 2019 0 comments

 


 

With a sub-four percent unemployment rate and one of the highest quit rates we’ve seen in decades, we are currently experiencing a very tight labor market. Companies across all industries, and of all sizes, are finding it challenging to attract and retain top talent.  

To help solve that problem, LaSalle Network recently collected data from more than 5,000 millennials (millennials make up 35 percent of the workforce, making them the largest generation in the workforce) to discover what they want in a career and company, and why they...

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The Workplace Sophomore Slump—And What Bosses Can Do About It

by Tom Gimbel On January 14, 2019 0 comments

 

 

 

Year one of anything is new and exciting. Whether it’s freshman year of college, a new relationship or marriage, or the first year of a job at any stage of someone’s career. Then year two hits, and what was once new starts getting repetitive. Things start to get stale and aren’t as exciting. This is known as a sophomore slump.

Being in the staffing and recruiting industry for two decades, I see this all the time in the workplace. New hires join a company and in their first year...

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Can We Dock an Employee for Using Company Paid Leave?

by Ben EubanksOn January 14, 2019 0 comments

 

Reader Question: Can an employee be docked on a yearly/scored performance evaluation for using their paid sick leave benefit for legitimate medical appointments?

The Purpose of Employer Paid Leave

The purpose of offering leave is to give people options when they need to use their time for something unrelated to work, such as personal medical appointments. From a practical standpoint, it makes little sense to punish people for using the benefit you have offered them, especially if (like many sick leave plans) the time expires at the end of the year...

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