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Regular People Return as Most Credible Trusted Sources, Study Finds

by Fran Melmed on Feb 3, 2012, 1:27 PM | No comments yet

Regular employees and “people like me” are once again among our top three most trusted, credible sources, according to the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer.

They’re back in the limelight after fading away last year, somehow losing ground to CEOs. But this year, things look much as they did in 2004, when regular folk vaulted to the top of the heap of credible spokespeople.

In health communication, the Regular Joe or Jane has continuously held a starring role. While we defer to medical professionals for information about health treatment, Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet & American Life Project has written that we look to people in our shoes — people like me — for emotional support and empathy, encouragement and care. This is particularly true for those who are living with a chronic condition, are acting as caregiver, or have experienced a medical crisis. It’s also true for those who have gained weight, had a pregnancy, or quit smoking. Read more…

HR News & Trends

Weekly Wrap: Reverse Mentoring Cuts Through the Generational Logjam

by John Hollon on Feb 3, 2012, 11:47 AM | No comments yet

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t understand the generational issues in the workplace that we’re constantly squabbling about.

Many, many times I have written here (and elsewhere) that Millennials get a bad rap, especially when it comes to their workplace ethic. Just late last year I wrote:

The Millennial generation, in my view, is no better or worse than any other generation that came before. Yes, they have their own unique generational issues but in my close experience with them, Millennials reflect what you find in other generations and society as a whole — some are good, some average, some clueless.”

A lot of the negative stuff that Millennials (or Gen Y, if you prefer) get hammered with has to do with the perceived notion that somehow, their workplace ethic is wildly out of whack with what everyone else is doing and that managers need some special kind of coaching to learn how to cope with them. Read more…

HR News & Trends

January Job Growth: One Good Month, or Evidence Recovery is Growing?

by John Zappe on Feb 3, 2012, 10:13 AM | No comments yet

Strike up the band. Break out the confetti. The market’s going to love this. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent and non-farm jobs grew by 243,000 in January.

This morning’s monthly report from the U.S. Department of Labor blasted through even the most optimistic of expectations. The jobs gain would have been the largest since May 2010, except that the Labor Department’s data group adjusted 2011′s jobs numbers. Now, only March (+246,000) and April (+251,000) had stronger numbers.

January is the second consecutive month to beat estimates. Economists predicted anywhere from MarketWatch’s tepid 121,000 to the more optimistic 182,000 in the Bloomberg survey. None of the widely reported surveys saw a decline in the unemployment rate. Read more…

Leadership, Talent Management

Improving Engagement: Do Workers Know the Game You Want Them to Play?

by David Lee on Feb 3, 2012, 9:35 AM | No comments yet

One of the biggest frustrations I’ve heard from managers — both middle and senior level executives — is how few employees seem to care about how they, the employee, can help their employer. To them, their employees seem more excited about the upcoming weekend, than they do about making a contribution.

In short, their employees act more like “hired hands” than real “players.”

While there are many reasons for such lack of interest, if you experience this problem with your employees, one significant source to examine is this:

“Do your employees know what game they’re supposed to be playing and how it’s played?” Read more…

HR Management, Leadership

Why You Need to Install Civility as a Workplace Business Process

by Stephen M. Paskoff on Feb 3, 2012, 8:55 AM | No comments yet

By Stephen M. Paskoff

Tell business leaders there’s a new operational process that has the potential to transform their organization. Then notice their reactions when you list what it can do for them:

increase safety
surface problems
reduce errors
improve quality and teamwork Read more…

Rewards & Recognition

The 10 Big Myths of Employee Rewards and Recognition

by Derek Irvine on Feb 2, 2012, 11:49 AM | No comments yet

I’m honored to have an article included in the December issue of Canadian HR Reporter in which I debunk 10 recognition and reward myths.

Employee recognition is best given at an annual awards show.
Cash is the best reward.
Employee salaries should be reward enough. Read more…

TLNT Events

Business Success & Engagement? You’ll Hear More About It at Transform

by John Hollon on Feb 2, 2012, 10:45 AM | No comments yet

I get lots of white papers and case studies in the course of a month, and a couple of days ago I got one titled, “Does Engagement Really Drive Results?”

That’s a pretty hot topic, and not surprisingly, it was co-authored by Laurie Bassi, author of Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era, and one of the scheduled speakers at our first ever TLNT Transform conference that will be taking place in Austin, Texas on Feb. 27-28.

“Smart organizations,” Laurie asks in the white paper, “are beginning to ask what’s beyond employee engagement. Is there a more powerful way of analyzing and optimizing the human drivers of your organization’s business results?”

Those are great questions for any talent manager to be asking, and my sense is that Laurie will be giving her perspective on them when she speaks at the Transform conference later this month. Read more…

HR News & Trends, Legal Issues

Court Rules That Supervisors May Be Liable For FMLA Violations

by Eric B. Meyer on Feb 1, 2012, 12:27 PM | No comments yet

By Eric B. Meyer

In this case of first impression in the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the court ruled that a supervisor in a public agency may be subject to personal liability under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The court further emphasized that there is “no reason to distinguish between public agencies and private employers under the FMLA insofar as individual liability is concerned.”

The court also emphasized that Congress intended to include individuals with the scope of the FMLA definition of “employer”: Read more…

HR Insights, Talent Management

Two Ways to Fix Mistakes at Work

by Derek Irvine on Feb 1, 2012, 11:55 AM | No comments yet

What do you do when you mess up at work? The gamut of responses runs from “lie and hide” to “sweep it under the rug and hope no one notices” to “confess and fix.”

That’s always been my motto – in work and life. If you mess up, ‘fess up. Then offer first a clean-up plan, and then ideas to make sure it never happens again.

We’re all human. We will all make mistakes at work. Sometimes, those “mistakes” turn into a highly profitable innovation, but often mistakes are just that – errors in judgment or execution requiring rectification. It’s how we deal with the mistakes – as both the perpetrator and the person in charge – that contributes to the tone of your organizational culture. Read more…

Articles tagged 'HR trends'

Regular People Return as Most Credible Trusted Sources, Study Finds

Weekly Wrap: Reverse Mentoring Cuts Through the Generational Logjam

January Job Growth: One Good Month, or Evidence Recovery is Growing?

Improving Engagement: Do Workers Know the Game You Want Them to Play?

Why You Need to Install Civility as a Workplace Business Process

The 10 Big Myths of Employee Rewards and Recognition

Business Success & Engagement? You’ll Hear More About It at Transform

Court Rules That Supervisors May Be Liable For FMLA Violations

Two Ways to Fix Mistakes at Work

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