Explore HCI's collection of curated research, white papers, case studies and infographics on trending talent management topics.
Winning with Culture: How Top Workplaces Outperform the Competition
In the late 1990s, Peter Drucker claimed, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Twenty years later, we take that a step further. Today, the best culture wins the trophy — and we have the evidence to prove it.
The Definitive OKR Checklist
The Definitive OKR Checklist
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4 Steps to Upgrade Your Leadership Development Program
DDI’s research shows that simply having a leadership development strategy that is tied to the business strategy is the way forward. In fact, companies with a leadership development strategy in place are over 4 times as likely to accurately ...
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Don’t Sabotage Your New Hire! Try These Bold Onboarding Ideas
While the employee onboarding process should instill confidence in new hires, it goes beyond warm fuzzies. You and your team are preparing the new employee for the reality of the job. Give them the wrong idea about your company or their position, and you will see a quickly exiting or disengaged hire. Aside from the critical steps of the employee onboarding process, your team should be using your company culture and values to inspire a unique experience. Don’t worry, bold doesn’t always mean costly. Read on to see some of our favorite employee onboarding ideas.
Bringing Your Employer Brand to Life with a Unified Engagement Platform
The launch of the new recognition and reward program generated so much excitement that 380 of Hollard’s 400 employees had logged in within the first few days of the program launching. Within the first three months, employees had celebrated ...
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2018 Third-Party Recruiting Benchmark Report
Each year BountyJobs takes a deep dive into our vast treasure trove of data to curate a report tailored to the top trends and analytics across industries in third-party recruiting. As they’ve been at this for over a decade, they have the largest database chock full of hiring metrics that have been instrumental in forming the recruiting strategies of untold numbers of talent acquisition professionals. They do this because they know that finding the right person for your critical roles is imperative – and is even more of an uphill battle in this ultra-tight hiring market.
Electronic Arts: Building a Data-Driven Culture with Workforce Intelligence
After going live with Visier’s Workforce Intelligence solution, HR’s initial challenge was to scale workforce reports to business leaders and HR business partners. Part of the challenge was to deploy enterprise workforce measurements ...
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The Business Case for Recognition
It doesn’t matter the industry or locale, every organization today is facing the same set of integrated issues: How do you meet the rapid pace of technological changes? How do you effectively attract and retain the talent necessary to ...
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Is Your Organization Inclusive Enough to Be Diverse?
Organizations have learned that increasing diversity — the variety of differences between people in their workforce — and inclusion — helping those employees feel a greater sense of belonging — creates a more engaged workforce and greater competitive advantage.
Employee Engagement for Today’s Workforce
In what seemed like the blink of an eye, how we engage employees has completely changed. Not even 15 years ago, some of the largest social platforms – LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, to name a few – were nowhere to be found. And now, ... Read more
Build Your Own 90 Day Onboarding Roadmap
Using the categories and components of the 3Ps listed below, design a 90-day onboarding plan for an employee segment. Define specific activities (e.g., lunch, welcome videos and/or gifts, etc.) you think should be included. Details will help you ...
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Introducing Change Management for HR: HCI’s Newest Certification Program
In our most recent HCI Member Survey, we learned that developing change management skills is the top priority for HR professionals seeking to align their professional development goals with supporting their organization’s strategic priorities. This comes as no surprise, considering 80% of HR professionals say their organizations are in a constant state of change. Yet the statistics on successful change leave plenty of room for improvement. When we asked HR practitioners about their change efforts, only 15% reported that 76% to 100% of their change efforts were successful.
Finding The Right Recognition Partner For A Workforce On The Move
Roto Rooter is the largest provider of plumbing repair, sewer, and drain cleaning services throughout the United States and Canada. The company’s 80-year legacy of taking care of North America’s drains has also made it one of the ...
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Working in a New Way: Modeling the Human Side of Organizational Success
When learning is part of an organization’s culture, there is a difference in the success that the business is able to drive. And when organizations create learning that fits the reality of what humans can accomplish during a workday, ...
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For More Organizations, Workforce Planning Includes Regional Workforce Development.
Organizations plan their workforce to keep pace with the emerging needs of the marketplace, evolving business objectives, and changing roles. But even the most organized planning efforts can’t resolve widening gaps between the skills necessary for new roles and the capabilities of existing talent. Internal learning and development programs can help, but in many industries, these are not enough to cover an organization’s needs. In response, organizations are searching for fresh alternatives for getting the right talent into the right roles at the right time.
OKR Examples: The Ultimate List of OKR Examples for B2B Companies
Think of an OBJECTIVE in OKRs as a name for a “Strategic Theme” (aka a “Burning Imperative” as some companies call it) – it is a broad, overarching headline or title which is a qualitative name of a set or group of ...
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Strategic HR Business Partner: A New Certification Program for a New Era in Talent Management
Historically, HCI’s Strategic HR Business Partner certification program has been one of our most popular courses. Thousands of HR professionals worldwide have completed the certification, boosting their business and financial acumen and learning how to become better strategic partners to the business.
Yet, the role HR should play in driving the business forward continues to evolve. At HCI, we’re always on top of what’s coming next in HR, and our certification programs are no exception.
The Economic Impact of Visier People
It’s no secret that—in any industry— the workforce plays a key role in determining how an organization performs.
When organizations take advantage of workforce data to inform their people decisions, research has proven that ...
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Recognition Vendor Guide
As you begin your search for an employee recognition partner, it’s helpful to understand the recognition industry at a high level. Is there one primary type of recognition company or are there many? How do you compare apples to apples? Why ...
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Are machines better at discrimination than human beings?
Human beings are inherently biased. We would like to believe that we are largely rational beings but as years of research has proved, we aren’t. In fact, there is an entire field of study (behavioral economics, social psychology, call it what you may) dedicated to studying human irrationality.