Editor’s Note: As I wind down as Editor of TLNT — yes, I’m leaving in April — I wanted to share some of my all-time favorite TLNT posts. Here’s one from June 2012. Once upon a time, I made the case we should celebrate June 25 as “Bad Management Day,” a day when we reflect on...
Time is a valuable commodity, and it is not surprising that professionals expect to be compensated for it. More time worked equals more time paid, right? Not for everyone. More salaried employees, exempt from overtime pay, want their employers to provide the perk. In a survey conducted by my company, HealthITJobs.com, health IT...
When a recent Gallup poll found that only 68.5 percent of workers consider themselves “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” at work, it’s no surprise that we find ourselves in an employee engagement crisis. Despite this, it’s still challenging to get leaders and managers to focus on employee engagement. We know that it’s crucial to...
By Travis Vance An otherwise entertaining and unique election cycle took a violent turn Friday night. Angry protestors stormed a planned Donald Trump rally at a convention center in Chicago, inciting violence among attendees with several insults yelled and many punches thrown. The protesting spilled over into the street outside the arena, where...
One of the largest themes emerging from Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report is the need for companies to be much more agile. In the face of rapid change and frequent disruption, a full 92 percent of companies put responsive organizational design at the top of their priority lists. With these types...How many expensive employee engagement programs do HR teams deploy that just don’t show results? We all know the answer to that one—too many. The fact is, once you hire someone they rarely change, and expensive programs are unlikely to change that. New science shows the key to improving HR’s effectiveness may be to place more focus on recruiting the right candidates in the first place.
As budgets are tightened but the expectations from the business continue to rise, it makes sense to focus resources on recruiting people who want to work for your company for the right reasons rather than on trying to correct that later.. When we hire purpose oriented people, it radically changes everything and removes the need for many HR programs currently eating up money and frustrating everyone.
In this webinar, we’ll look at what it means to hire purpose oriented candidates and examine how West Elm fundamentally changed their HR team, making it into a more strategic business partner, when they shifted HR spending to focus on recruiting.
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Our speaker, Aaron Hurst, will share his experience in creating teams and communities around purpose-driven work, and will be joined by Allison Hyers of west elm.
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