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July 2, 2015
Top 5 Takeaways from #SHRM15
Thousands of HR professionals descended upon Las Vegas this week for the annual SHRM conference to network and learn the latest trends and best practices in the field. I was lucky enough to be part of this incredible event. Here are a few things I learned (besides the fact that I am a huge fan of air conditioning):
HR needs better data. 61% of performance management data is more about the rater than the person being rated. Marcus Buckingham, Tuesday’s keynote speaker, said this results in...
June 26, 2015
Gartner’s New Report on Recognition Technology
Have you had a chance to look at the new report/technology overview Gartner has published onEmployee Recognition and Rewards Software?
Does your company still use a spreadsheet program to track employee recognition and rewards? Are you looking for a new, flexible platform that offers greater impact?
Recognition, says Gartner, has become a hugely impactful way to influence culture in medium- and large-sized organizations. The research, says Gartner, “is designed for HR and IT leaders in midsi...
June 19, 2015
(Webinar) How The Hershey Company transformed its global recognition strategy
Sweet Success at Hershey
Tuesday, June 23rd at 2 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. PT | 1 p.m. CT | 6 p.m. GMT
How does your company recognize employees? Do you have disparate programs or one comprehensive strategy?
The Hershey Company grappled with the same questions. From 2012 to 2013, the recognition and reward category in their “Many Voices” employee survey dropped 8 percent.
But all that changed after Hershey Smiles. In just one year, this successful new program has helped The He...
June 18, 2015
What It Really Means To Humanize Work
Mindfulness, values, play, and other themes from the inaugural WorkHuman Summit
By Tim Leberecht
It was about time. As Derek Irvine, Vice President, Client Strategy and Consulting atGloboforce, pointed out in a quick historical office tour stretching from the Ancient Greeks to the knowledge age, we have “2,000 years of experience in removing humanity from the workplace.” And the window for the human workplace, barely a crack open nowadays, is closing fast: “Someday robots will take over the...
June 17, 2015
WorkHuman 2015 Reading List
One of the surprise hits of WorkHuman 2015 last week was the element of the conference that was perhaps closest to my own heart–the WorkHuman Bookstore. Well, maybe not such a surprise. We put the bookstore right into the center of the event for a reason. The ideas and research of our WorkHuman speakers are critical takeaways for us to bring back to our organizations. We were happy attendeesseemed to agree.
If you visited the WorkHuman Bookstore, you probably met Anne Marie and Sarah–who did...
June 12, 2015
WorkHuman Music Playlist
Many of you who attended WorkHuman 2015 this past week have mentioned the music, and asked if you could get a copy of the playlist. (We are secretly ridiculously delighted about this, because we designed WorkHuman 2015 to be an immersive experience, and took a great deal of trouble around making sure the music was fun.)
Here is a link to our WorkHuman Spotify playlist, which contains all 11 hours and 52 minutes of inspiring WorkHuman songs. The list is also embedded below. Enjoy!
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June 11, 2015
Witnessing the Beginning of a Movement
Ten months ago, it was just an idea.
It was audacious. It was risky. It was a little breathtaking. And we hoped it would work. We hoped we had enough time to put it together. We hoped we weren’t too far ahead of the curve. We hoped that putting “another HR conference” in between Total Rewards and SHRM wasn’t going to be event suicide.
But this wasn’t another HR conference. And at Globoforce, we tend to follow our own star. That star led us to a place called WorkHuman 2015.
I’ll be honest tho...
June 3, 2015
Meditative Running at WorkHuman
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“Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.” — Jimmy Buffett
For years, local HR teams have been badgering employees into participating in departmental weight-loss competitions. They’ve taken potato chips out of the vending machines and lectured workers about eating right and get more exercise.
For once, HR is right.
Exercise can boost your memory, keep you alive to see your grandkids, and may help fight anxiety. Exercise isn’t enough, though. Diet matters. (Trust me: it wouldn’t k...
May 20, 2015
10 Things I Learned at Total Rewards
Brenda Pohlman (Globoforce) and Cesar Villa (The Hershey Company)
WorldatWork’s Total Rewards conference kicked off on Monday in Minneapolis and we attended tons of sessions these past few days—feverishly recording everything we learned along the way to share with you. Here’s a wrap-up of top 10 most interesting things we learned:
Humanity in the workplace is a growing trend. In the session “Incentive Pay Design as an Enabler of Company Culture,” Capital One presented their completely redes...May 11, 2015
Micro-interview with Pandit Dasa
What does a human workplace look like—to a monk? What are some ways we can reduce stress in the workplace?
In this next installment of our “Three Questions” series of micro-interviews, we asked Pandit Dasa, author, inspirational speaker, and urban monk, a few questions on creating a more human workplace. In his book, Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness and the Divine, Pandit writes about how he learned to deal with and overcome the loss of his family’s multi-million dollar fortunes th...
