Why You Should Take a Fresh Look at Your Application Materials
Recent research has shown that many take their application materials for granted when a fine-tuning to approaching revisions and the materials themselves might be in order.
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HRDA Frankly Speaking: Hyatt’s Next Gen Leader—A New Mandate for HR
The world of HR is evolving faster than ever, and a new title is emerging for HR leaders. It’s no longer enough to just keep up; it’s time to take the lead. That’s the message from Carlee Wolfe, a speaker at the upcoming Spark Talent 2025 conference and Associate Vice President of Leader Development at […]
Is Unconscious Bias Training Making Matters Worse?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are all the rage, with Fortune 1000 companies spending roughly $1.5 million on DEI programs annually—all while slashing budgets in other critical areas. If this were merely a case of wasted corporate resources, that would be the good news. Yet the bad news is more alarming: Mounting evidence reveals […]
Rethinking Work/Life Balance
For many workers, particularly those spending most of their time in an office, the line between work hours and personal hours started to blur significantly with technological advances like e-mail, cell phones, and smartphones. These tools largely eliminated the need for staff to be in the office for their teams or bosses to reach them, […]
How to Delegate Hard Tasks to Subordinates
In a previous post, we talked about the mistake many managers make when it comes to delegating work to their subordinates: they hold back on assigning challenging tasks.
Are There Trust Issues at Your Company?
Do you sense that there are many people within your organization that simply don’t trust each other? A lack of trust can drastically affect a company’s culture for the worse—and that, in turn, affects the bottom line. But what does trust really entail in the workplace? Expert Claudia St. John has some advice.
What, Not Another Employee on Jury Duty?
No manager or supervisor wants employees out to serve as a witness or to serve jury duty-for who knows how long-but these appearances are required by law and participation is protected. Any resistance can be viewed as retaliation. As BLR®‘s Family and Medical Leave Act Compliance Guide notes, the federal Jury System Improvement Act of […]
‘Foreseeable’ and ‘As Soon as Practicable”–2 of FMLA’s Key Concepts
FMLA—always rated the number one headache (well, migraine) for HR managers. Learning the definitions of “foreseeable” and “as soon as practicable” helps lessen the pain. When Leave Is Foreseeable When the need for leave is foreseeable, the law requires that employees provide their employers with at least 30 days’ advance notice before FMLA is to […]
The Pros and Cons of Signing Bonuses in Today’s Job Market
In the battle for talent in the U.S. labor market, employers have several arrows in their quivers: salary, annual bonuses, benefits like health and dental insurance, vacation time, flexible scheduling, company culture, etc. All of these can be used to entice candidates to apply to work for a given employer, and these various arrows can […]
How Do You Use Social Media Tools to Effectively Support Learning?
Is your employee training program missing the mark? Are you struggling to find new tools to keep employees engaged? Have you tried using social media? If not, you may want to give it a shot. “Learning has always been social, and it’s how we learn to do most things we do,” says Jane Bozarth, an […]