Looking Past Skills Shortcomings
No doubt you’ve heard, “hire for attitude, train for skill.” But is this really the right approach?
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How to Effectively Train, Engage, and Develop Employees in an Era Full of Distractions and Big Data (Part 2)
Continued from yesterday’s post, here are more tips for training, engaging, and developing your employees in an era of distractions and big data.
Best Practices: Training Your Employees to Accept/Manage Change (Part 1)
Employees get accustomed to certain platforms, policies, procedures, and workflows over time, even if they weren’t always a fan of how everything gets done inside your organization. Humans are still innately creatures of habit and tend to collectively abhor change.
How to Effectively Train and Retain Contract Workers
One out of five jobs in the United States is held by a contract worker.1 And more and more employers are starting to consider hiring them for impending job vacancies.
DOL Continues Fiduciary Rule Enforcement Relief, But Confusion Remains
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) confirmed that neither it nor the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would punish prohibited transaction exemption (PTE) violations by investment advice professionals who are fiduciaries working in good faith to comply with impartial conduct standards.
How HR Can Foster Resiliency to Create Stronger Teams
As a mom to my two-and-a-half year old daughter, Henley, and the Director of People and Culture at Square Root, a fast-growing tech startup, I often find myself facing similar challenges.
RecruitCon 2018: Getting the Attention of Candidates that Are Not Looking for You
Lindsay Stanton, Chief Client Officer of Digi-Me recently reminded a crowd at RecruitCon 2018 session: Social Media and Mobile Recruiting: New Trends Every Employer Should be Leveraging that the candidates you are looking for are not looking for you. So how can you get their attention?
Opioid Crisis: Keeping the Workplace Drug-Free and ADA Compliant
The opioid epidemic is affecting workplaces across the country. Because opioids can be lawfully prescribed (but are increasingly abused), employers must tread carefully when taking adverse action against opioid users to avoid running afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). “Recovery-friendly” workplaces may provide an alternative solution to help combat the crisis, but that […]
Reconstructed Travel Logs Inadequate for Documenting Mileage
In a recent case, Velez v. Comm’r, the U.S. Tax Court ruled that travel logs that were re-constructed years after the fact were not adequate to substantiate business-related miles as required by Section 274(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.
#MeToo Takeaways from the Case of Bikram Choudhury
Over the Memorial Day weekend, I listened to a five-part ESPN 30 for 30 podcast series entitled Bikram. The series discussed the rise and fall of yoga guru Bikram Choudhury. As an occasional practitioner of Choudhury’s method of yoga, I was somewhat familiar with the accusations of sexual misconduct made against him that ultimately resulted […]