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April 12, 2013 By Bonnie Clark
5 Questions: Dancing with HR Star, Dwane Lay
In this, my second post with a featured expert from the Dancing With HR Stars eBook, I had a chance to learn more about what it takes for successful technology user adoption – a critical “behind the scenes” component for successful HR service delivery – from the illustrious Dwane Lay, Head of HR Process Design for Dovetail Software and author of LeanHR…[click here to read the full entry]
April 10, 2013 By Bonnie Clark
5 Questions: Dancing with HR Star, Kane Frisby
I recently caught up with a passionate player in the HR Services space – the respected and seasoned Kane Frisby, Chief Strategy Officer for Dovetail Software. Since he is one of our featured ‘performers’ in the Dancing With HR Stars eBook, I thought it would be good to get his thoughts on the HR Service Delivery space…[click here to read the full entry]
April 5, 2013 By Bonnie Clark
May I Have This HR Service Delivery Dance?
Thankfully, you don’t have to know how to moonwalk to leverage technology to support your HR service delivery performance and make it look & feel effortless. You can create an efficient model for HR service delivery that truly delivers on the promise of providing an engaging environment in which employees can thrive. It is with this in mind that we are pleased to introduce Dancing with HR Stars: Five Essentials for Making HR Service Delivery Look and Feel Effortless. This complimentary eBook is a joint-effort with Dovetail Software that provides an in-depth look at all the components necessary to make your HR service delivery perform at the highest level to allow HR the opportunity to focus on more strategic initiatives…[click here to read the full entry]
March 8, 2013 By Devin Harris
Show the Whole Picture: 3 Keys to Improving Employee Satisfaction Through Total Rewards Transparency
If “a picture is worth a thousand words”… what is ½ a picture worth? Or ¼ of a picture? Without the benefit of the entire picture it is impossible to determine its worth because we can’t assign value to the parts we don’t have visibility to…The value of communicating employee total rewards information is undeniable when it comes to increasing engagement and retention…[click here to read the full entry]
February 19, 2013 By Bonnie Clark
3 Ways That Agile HR Shared Service Delivery is Like the Super Bowl
The other day I was watching ’The Big Game’ (along with about 109 million other viewers) and, as I watched, I couldn’t help but feel that there was something very familiar about the interaction and execution style of the teams, coaches, etc. It struck me that the dynamic I was witnessing was similar to the winning behavior I have seen in many effective Human Resource service organizations. The more I watched, the more fascinated I became with what I saw. Let me explain….[click here to read the full entry…]
December 17, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 7: Let’s Get Technological
You’ve worked hard and plotted out everything you want and need your strategic onboarding process to do in order to reach your clearly defined and company/business-supported goals and to create an employee onboarding experience that’s second to none. It’s going to be a seamless process handing off smoothly from recruiting and keeping the momentum going strong throughout each new employee’s rookie year at your company. Time to put this in place!  But wait a minute… how will this work?...[click here to read the full entry…]
December 7, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 6: Onboarding is Now in Session!
Properly judging the effectiveness of your strategic onboarding process is important.  It helps identify opportunities for improvement.  It can also build credibility within your organization and support for both this and subsequent future HR efforts.
So what does effective onboarding look like?...[click here to read the full entry…]
November 30, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 5: The Personal Standard
Imagine you are an employee showing up for your first day of work.  Surprise! Turns out that your manager is away on vacation and forgot to hand this off so nobody was expecting you… Creating a positive onboarding experience is key to building a culture that motivates your employees.  To be effective and successful, strategic onboarding must be:
  1. standardized – in order to create a consistent experience for all new employees, and
  2. personalized – to make the onboarding experience more welcoming and meaningful…[click here to read the full entry…]
November 23, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 4: Onboarding by any Other Name
Thinking of preboarding as an opportunity to create an overwhelmingly positive experience for the new hire in preparation for their first day and indeed the start of their career working for the company transforms how a company uses and values this time.
Companies begin to see the preboarding period as an opportune time to socialize an employee into their new work team and the organization by introducing them to company leaders, peers, managers and especially mentors.
Simply thinking of everything you wished you had known prior to your first day will give you numerous ways to create a meaningful, welcoming and engaging preboarding experience…[click here to read the full entry…]
November 16, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 3: Beyond Day One…
As companies look at designing their strategic onboarding process, a common question is “how long should our onboarding process last?”
Research findings on this matter have been consistent.  According to Aberdeen Group:
  1. 77% of best-in-class organizations say that onboarding starts before day 1
  2. 76% say it lasts for over 1 month
  3. Best ratings were from companies with an onboarding process longer than 3 months
Forrester Research reached similar findings:
  1. Effective onboarding takes six to nine months…[click here to read the full entry…]
November 9, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 2: Real Business Results…
We hear the topic “employee onboarding” mentioned quite often these days. It is discussed by human resource industry analysts in reports, featured in people management webinars, the subject of many a HR technology blog post and discussed in hiring onboarding articles in HR industry publications.  It is trumpeted as a key area for improvement within talent management and key opportunity for the productive application of social technology. But does a strategic onboarding process produce any real business results? …[click here to read the full entry…]
November 1, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Strategic Onboarding – Part 1: On Your Mark…
At cfactor, we believe that the best way to improve organizational performance is to focus on the employee experience… We’ve noticed that there remain many questions about strategic onboarding within companies and among HR practitioners.  We’ve tried to capture these questions and have refined them down into the following list of 6 key questions…[click here to read the full entry…]
September 6, 2012 By Cary Schuler
The Future…
I have been thinking a lot about the future lately. Maybe it is because my oldest boy is in Grade 1 this year, an official “full-timer” at school. Or, maybe it is because my little 4 year old girl started her first day of Zoo Camp this morning. [click here to read the full entry…]
August 21, 2012 By Karl Tischler
HR for the Entrepreneurial Enterprise
I’ve come to realize that people naturally seek to optimize their position within their environment – including work.  This means that everyone has an entrepreneur inside of them with a Dragon claw or Shark tooth waiting to be bared.  Given the right motivation, alignment and direction, employees, without question, will invest themselves in achieving the company’s success! [click here to read the full entry…]
July 4, 2012 By Cary Schuler
Employee Experience Lessons from Kindergarten
It got me thinking – we could learn a lot just watching kids interact during a kindergarten field trip.
So, what does this all have to do with HR Tech?  What if we approached architecting HR software not from the technology perspective but more from the human factor?  What kind of employee experience could we deliver? [click here to read the full entry…]
July 4, 2012 By Karl Tischler
Using HR Tech to Optimize your Total Rewards Investment
To be successful a company needs to understand what their employees value most in return for their time and effort. The better a company’s understanding, the better they can influence their employees’ productivity by optimizing their investment in total rewards… [click here to read the full entry…]
May 21, 2012 By Cary Schuler
Talent Management & “The Voice”
OK, I admit it, my wife and I are suckers for a good reality TV talent show…In particular, there was something really compelling about the recent edition of NBC’s “The Voice”.  Maybe it is the “against all odds” vibe that gets me.  Or it could be the fact there are these “hidden gems” out there that are finally getting their chance to be discovered… [click here to read the full entry…]
April 29, 2012 By Cary Schuler
Social Media For HR: When Pliers Aren’t Necessarily Pliers
Depending upon who you talk to, social technology for business and more specifically HR, is either one of the most profound transformations happening in the workforce or the most overhyped thing since the introduction of the Segway – and typically there isn’t much middle ground.  So why the Great Divide? [click here to read the full entry…]
April 20, 2012     By Cary Schuler
This is a Preboarding Announcement. We are now inviting all New Employees…
We’ve all heard preboarding announcements many times over while waiting patiently to board a flight. If you are at all like me you’ve probably secretly thought to yourself “if I could only find a way to sneak into the preboarding line I could get comfortable before the rush of general boarding (and I could also…[click here to read the full entry…]