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We’ve enjoyed a full week of online events and digital resources about learning and development best practices. As this year’s HR Upskilling & Employee Learning Week comes to a close, let’s take a look at what we’ve learned from the event’s discussions and resources. Monday Panel Discussion | Utilizing Learning & Development Opportunities to Acquire and Retain […]
For recruiters and hiring managers who like to stay up-to-date on the latest hiring trends, conflicting reports are leaving everyone scratching their heads. Is hiring up, down, or in-between? We’re getting to the bottom of it once and for all!
By Bryan Wempen and William Tincup How is social media changing HR? Bryan Wempen and William Tincup, SPHR, find out in a revealing conversation with Jay Kuhns, SPHR, vice president of human resources at All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. Wempen and Tincup are hosts of DriveThruHR, a daily talk radio blog that focuses […]
By Karin A. Vernazza, SPHR, as told to Archana Mehta Three years ago, President Obama announced a challenge to the U.S. private sector — hire or train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. Many companies nationwide took on that challenge and started veteran-hiring job fairs to attract military talent but […]
As the name implies, competency-based training is a type of training that is focused on specific competencies or skills. Today, we take a look at this type of training and its benefits.
The value of mentoring to mentees, mentors, and organizations in general has been well established. But what happens when mentors offer poor advice?
Dear Readers, If you’re like most of our subscribers, you’ve got so many daily tasks that it’s hard to get to the really important things. This survey will help us find out which are the really important tasks and which are the time-robbing tasks.
Don’t act like Miranda Priestly, actress Meryl Streep’s character in the 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada, if you want to keep your employees happy. For Administrative Professionals Week 2013, the International Association of Administrative Professionals asked office professionals to rate the worst and best bosses from TV and the movies. Though many of the […]
Yesterday’s Advisor offered 10 steps for creating a workplace culture of respect. Today, we’re taking a closer look at how respect can be essential when working to resolve workplace conflicts.
Few would argue that the way people work has changed. The COVID pandemic made clear that organizations don’t have to always gather employees together in an office to get work done. Indeed, advances in technology make communication and collaboration possible when workers are nowhere near each other. But even though employers were relieved that work-from-home […]