HR Tradewinds Newsletter - May 2012
 
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The Power of Leading with Honor and Self-Empowerment

I had the honor and great pleasure of speaking to a group of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy last week. I don’t use the word “honor” lightly. I told them I work every day with current leaders, but rarely get the opportunity to work with future leaders. They were a brilliant audience and their enthusiastic service to our country is genuinely humbling and worthy of our deepest appreciation.

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Research

Video interviewing is not only the wave of the future — it is the here and now!

ResearchGreenJobInterview is proud to offer Aberdeen Group’s prestigious Analyst Insight report to help organizations better understand the challenges, key trends and best practices for building a business case for video interviewing.

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Breakdown of EEOC Guidance on Criminal Background Checks

by Angela Bosworth

It’s here! The much-anticipated EEOC guidance on the use of criminal records in employment was issued today, setting off a flurry of interpretations, complete with webinar invitations and blog posts. Not to be outdone, here’s our take on the matter.

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GiggleFor Giggles

Positive Attitude is Everything

Positive and negative are directions. Which direction do you choose?

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Featured Conference

11th HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit
IQPC & SSON present the 11th HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit- May 14-16, Chicago, IL. There are over 100 HR professionals who have registered to attend the event and this year’s sponsors include: PwC, Neocase, ScottMadden, CIC Plus, Enwisen, and Empower Software.
Can you afford to miss out?

11th HR Shared Services & Outsourcing Summit

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Upcoming Complimentary Webcasts
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Effectively Manage A, B and C Players
Webcast

Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012

Time: 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST


Every manager faces the challenge of managing different talent and personality profiles. Most leave performance gains on the table because they don’t adjust their management approach to meet individual requirements. Too often they treat all employees the same. Learn how a major research study discovered that managing A, B, and C players according to their needs, motivations and goals can help you increase performance, retention and overall employee engagement.

Learning Objectives:

  • Train your managers to manage talent more effectively using McLean & Company’s A, B, C Player performance personas
  • Identify the most common performance persona types on your teams using easy-to-identify performance personality profiles like “The Wizard” and “The Striver”
  • Show your managers how to tailor their management style to each performance persona
  • Understand how to leverage the strengths of each performance persona
  • Learn to mitigate the challenges associated with each persona
  • Help your managers build productive teams using each performance persona

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The Evolution of Reference-Checking into a Strategic Hiring Solution

Date: Wednesday May 16, 2012 
Webcast
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST 


Join Jack Kramer of SkillSurvey for an overview of the evolution of reference-checking and discover:

  • How to improve quality-of-hire by avoiding 10-15 percent of candidates who score low with references
  • How to capture behavioral feedback from 5 references in 2 days for each candidate
  • How to infuse consistency, reliability and validity into each reference-check
  • How to identify developmental needs of each candidate
  • How to provide information to hiring managers that influences decisions
  • 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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Expert Panel: Monitoring and Improving the Workplace with Preventive Employee Relations

Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 
Webcast
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM EDT


Preventive employee relations help organizations create a happier workforce and a healthier workplace. Think of it as adopting an ER wellness solution.

An esteemed group of panelists will address this compelling topic in an interactive webinar taking place on Tuesday, May 22 at 1:30 EDT.

Join our discussion to learn:

  • What it means to have a healthy work environment—and its implications.
  • Why HR, ER and an organization’s executive team should care about creating and maintaining a healthy work environment.
  • How to conduct an organizational “ER health check.”
  • What processes and systems must be in place to effectively analyze and improve the workplace.

Register Here >

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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:

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Featured Research

Sponsored by:

Ventana Research

 

ResearchSocial Media in Recruiting - Using New Channels To Source Talent

Ventana Research undertook this benchmark research to acquire real-world information about levels of maturity, trends and best practices in organizations’ use of social media in recruiting and talent management. It explores how they do this now, how people at various levels feel about the current processes and tools, plans they have to change or improve them, and benefits they hope to gain by doing so.

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  Trade Picks

Favorites from the Trades.
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1   Five Tips to Make the Most of Exit Interviews
From lack of salary increases to excessive workloads, find out why employees are quitting so you can fix the problem and prevent a mass exit in the future.
 
       
2   Employers give more flexibility, but less money
Employers are giving employees more flexibility to work from home and work various hours as long as employees get work done, but they’re not willing to pay more for various work-life benefits. This is according to a new study released Monday from the Society for Human Resource Management and the Families and Work Institute.
 
       
3   Breathing the Same Air Is Not Enough
Access alone is not sufficient to pass along knowledge and know-how from experienced leaders to new ones. Structured mentoring has marked benefits for developing high-potential talent.
 
       
4   Five Steps to Embed Diversity and Inclusion Into Organizational Culture
Diversity and inclusion efforts can play a positive role in a firm’s culture. Here are five steps diversity leaders must take to ensure diversity is properly embedded.
 
       
5   Employment Cost Index Update
Employer costs for health insurance increased 3.0 percent for the 12-month period ending March 2012 on a cost-per-hour-worked basis, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Employment Cost Index (ECI).  A year ago the increase was 3.4 percent.
 
       
6   The Future of HR
HR leaders should rethink their traditional roles if they want to become -- or remain -- effective leaders of their organizations. It requires understanding some key issues affecting HR as well as adapting the tools of other functions for its own uses.
 

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7   Insurer Goes After Surgery Centers for Out-of-Network Charges
Employers are addressing the practice in part by looking at their benefit design and increasing deductibles and lowering out-of-pocket maximums so workers must pay a larger share for going out of network.

 

       
8   Global Leadership Begins With Learning Professionals
With all of the volatility and uncertainty happening in the world and in the workforce, our profession must take responsibility for creating effective global leaders—starting with ourselves.
 
       
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