HR Tradewinds Newsletter - March 2012
 
This Month's Hot TopicHot Topic

Development of the Fittest

by Doug Williamson, President & C.E.O. of The Beacon Group

Who owns the 'burden' for executive development and talent retention within an organization? The executive or senior manager who aspires to greater things? Should they be spending their time planning their career path and seeking out new development opportunities? Or is it the employer who must take the lead in this process, through identification, selection, reward and recognition?

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Research

Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success

Research After effective recruitment and selection, one of the most important ways that organizations can improve the effectiveness of their talent management systems is through the strategic use of onboarding.

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Disclosure Isn’t Enough If You Want People’s Trust

by Lance HaunOpinion

I think a lot about trust. And maybe more importantly,
I think about how mistrust happens. Specifically when it comes to writers, columnists, bloggers, and journalists.

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GiggleFor Giggles

Funny Conference Call Meetings

Very Funny Video by David Grady.
Bloop! Bloop!

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Upcoming Complimentary Webcasts
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Move Beyond Measuring Employee Engagement: Start Improving It

Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST Webcast

Learn the five steps to winning engagement initiatives. Find out how to select change initiatives that treat causes, not symptoms, and involve staff from the beginning.

Learning objectives: 
• Use your organization’s employee engagement survey results to identify the top three priority areas to focus on improving those areas that scored poorly but are of high importance to your employees
• Run effective brainstorming sessions with your department’s staff to conduct a gap analysis between current reality and ideal state
• Use brainstorming sessions to generate ideas for engagement initiatives that will close those gaps
• As a management team, compare and select the best change initiatives identified during the brainstorming sessions
• Put the five steps to winning initiatives into action
• Walk through a case study of a mid-sized organization to learn about successful initiatives that were implemented and why they were chosen—e.g., a rotational program that provides employees with more one-to-one contact with senior management

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Stress and Employee Engagement: What EmployeeStress is Costing your Business

Thursday, March 8, 2012 | Time: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. EST Webcast

This webinar will assist attendees in better understanding what stress is, howit effects employees and organizations, and the cost to your organization. Specifically, attendees will gain a broader understanding of:
• How stress erodes employee engagement
• The Brutal Facts about the economic impact of stress in the workplace
• How to increase emotional intelligence to improve employee engagement

This webinar has been approved for 1 (General) recertification credit hour toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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How to Improve Quality-of-Hire and Efficiency Using Web 2.0 Reference-Checking

Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012  | Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ESTWebcast

Join Jack Kramer of SkillSurvey for an overview of Web 2.0 reference-checking tools and discover:
• How to improve quality-of-hire immediately.
• How to improve reference-checking efficiency by 85 percent.
• How to infuse consistency, reliability and validity into each reference check.
• How to improve passive sourcing

This webinar has been approved for 1 (General) recertification credit hour toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

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Recent Supplier News

What new products have just come out? Who's the new CEO at a competing company? Which key industry events are coming up, and who's just won a big award? HR Tradewinds seeks out the latest and greatest supplier news and compiles it for you right here.

Featured Supplier News:

HR Webinar: Overcoming Performance Review Challenges
Tired of low participation and engagement in the performance review cycle? Join us for a first-hand look how a best practices performance management system dramatically simplifies and streamlines the entire employee performance evaluation process so you spend less time pushing paper and more time helping your organization build a world-class workforce. Register Now!
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  Trade Picks

Favorites from the Trades.
Direct Links:

1   Don’t Let Low Engagement Drag Down Your Bottom Line
Improved communication and creative career development opportunities can turn the rising tide of employee discontent and boost results.
 
       
2   CLASS dismissed
Shelving of the CLASS Act presents communications opportunities and challenges for employers
 
       
3   How to Teach Your Employees to Out-Behave the Competition
Educating employees on how to do the right thing should be inspiring, and it can be if a company doesn’t put all of its eggs in the e-learning basket.
 
       
4   The Cost of Caregiving Employees
Nearly 62 million Americans already care for another adult at least part time, an expensive and time-consuming undertaking their companies aren’t sponsoring.
 
       
5   Beyond Engagement
The employee survey has long been seen as a way for organizations to reach higher engagement numbers, but some forward-thinking employers are revisiting such processes, looking to glean business insights and more meaningful feedback from their workforces.
 
       
6   Dear Workforce
How Do I Counsel My Companys Morale-Killing CEO (and Not Get Fired)?
 

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7   Innovation-Driven Leadership
Leaders are critical about creating a sustainable culture of innovation, but they shouldn’t be.

 

       
8   Boosting HSA Participation
What if you threw an HSA party and nobody came? That might be the feeling among employers that have adopted a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) and paired it with a health savings account (HSA).
 
       
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