Get Out of Your Recruiting Rut
Another year is almost in the books, with another on the horizon. If your response is “ho hum,” it’s time to shake things up. Recruiting is a dynamic field, with tremendous opportunity for improvement.
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Healthcare Benefits—Who’s Offering What? (SHRM Survey)
The survey, sent to a random sample of SHRM members, had 510 respondents, which was a 13% response rate. SHRM released the survey at its Annual Conference and Exposition, held recently in Orlando.
7 Must-Have Features for Your Millennial Recruiting Video
In yesterday’s Advisor we explored what Ryan Jenkins, known speaker and author, had to say about making a recruiting video really pop for Millennials. Today we’ll hear more from Jenkins. by Ryan Jenkins Check out yesterday’s Advisor to read the first 10 tips he has to offer when it comes to making a recruiting video […]
Should We Ditch the Dreaded Performance Appraisal?
In today’s Advisor, BLR® Legal Editor Holly Jones, JD, outlines challenges of appraisal systems and offers tips for making them meaningful. Don’t worry, she says, skepticism about appraisals is not unusual. A Google search on performance appraisals will return numerous articles calling for the death of the performance review, a defunct management ritual that […]
Improving Actual Communication with Virtual Teams
As a manager, communicating with your team is a top priority and yesterday we reviewed simple tactics for ensuring your staff is well informed. But what happens when you’re supervising virtual team members? Maintaining great relationships with these people takes a little extra – and different – effort.
Are You Providing Effective Training for Your Coaching Program?
Coaching is spontaneous, one-on-one training. Providing immediate, specific feedback and correction is an important tool managers use to improve performance. Furthermore, as a motivational tool, it offers you an opportunity to give personal attention and recognition to your employees, and to gain their participation in advancing growth and achievement. In addition, it establishes you, […]
We’ve Come a Long Way (Except for Michael and Dwight)
Litigation Value: $50,000. In this week’s episode of The Office, Michael Scott is on camera calling Kelly Kapoor dusky and exotic, and then Dwight Schrute, the assistant to the regional manager, refers to her southern India birth before he threatens her. A jury somewhere will find against Dunder Mifflin for race discrimination. Of course, that […]
Why Solving the ‘Work Problem’ Is A Must for CEOs
CEOs across the healthcare industry are losing sleep thinking of ways to alleviate workforce challenges. While there isn’t one simple solution, AtlantiCare Health System president and CEO Michael Charlton thinks he and his peers should be focusing on one area in particular: lessening the work that is causing burnout and mass exits by workers at all levels. […]
Corporate Triage—When to Call Counsel
In yesterday’s Advisor, attorney Julie Moore outlined the particular circumstances in which HR managers should call legal counsel before acting. Today, more such situations, and an introduction to an extraordinary new turnkey training system. Moore’s tips came at BLR’s National Employment Law Update held recently in Las Vegas. Moore is president and founder of Employment […]
Why Do You Want this Job? ‘To Make Dough’
Imagine you are reading a résumé and the applicant calls himself out as a genius and proceeds to invite you to his apartment to interview him. Would you take him up on the offer? That is just one of the many responses to CareerBuilder’s recent survey about hiring managers’ real-life outrageous résumé experiences. While the […]