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Is Your HR Help Desk System Smart Enough? See if it Passes the Test.
Help Desk systems have become mainstream solutions in virtually every aspect of business operations, including Customer Support, Salesforce Automation, IT Support, HR Support, and more. Though there are many similarities in these applications, it is a keen understanding of the inherent differences that can make or break a successful deployment. Selecting a product that falls…
Read MoreBYOD: My Employee Resigned – And His Smartphone Is Full of Business Data
Recent research from British law firm EMW paints a distressing picture of employee data theft. EMW found that cloud computing makes it easier for employees to take enterprise data when they leave, and that court cases over theft of business information increased 56 percent from 2011 to 2012. Adopting “bring your own device”, or BYOD, …
Read MoreHR HelpDesk Can Burnish Your Employer Brand
The days are gone when a company could control its brand either as an employer or a market solution. Gone also are the days when nearly everything a potential candidate or buyer knew about a company came directly from its public affairs office, from stories the company urged its employees and existing clients to disseminate,…
Read MoreTop HR Influencers to Follow on Twitter
The following is a purely subjective list of the top Human Resources Influencers and Bloggers to follow on Twitter. There are really so many – we wanted to keep the list at 100 but it stretched to 131. The list can also be found on Twitter and List.ly. It’s in no particular order, other than…
Read MoreWhat Is a Company’s Most Valuable Asset? Its Employees
Recently I closed one of the biggest contracts of my career. The last key piece that sold it was “our employees”. During one of the sales meetings the prospect’s CFO said something profound – “after all, it is not so much about choosing Company A over Company B as it is with being comfortable with…
Read MoreHow Your Employees Communicate with Each Other Does Matter
Phone, email, text, instant message (IM), in person? Unfortunately, many younger workers have grown up in a world where face-to-face (or even phone) communications are not deemed necessary in order to interact effectively with others. The nuances of verbal communications have given way to graphical emoticons and cryptic acronyms. Why bother interpreting visual or audible…
Read MoreStay True to Your Mission Statement
Almost every organization has a formal, written Mission Statement. These statements have at least two primary purposes — to clearly state long-term corporate goals, and to generally set the guiding principles by which employees conduct themselves internally and with their customers. Mission Statements are top-down mandates that every employee must follow in their daily professional…
Read MoreDid You Know LBi HR HelpDesk includes a Saved Reports section as part of its robust reporting capabilities?
November 12, 2013 The Saved Reports section is available to store commonly used reports for future use and to schedule automatic email delivery of selected reports. The Ad-Hoc Reports section allows you to customize a report template with the desired parameters. The selection can then be saved privately or marked standard so the report may be generated…
Read MoreBullying in the Workplace
One of the top sports stories in the news lately has been the issue of player bullying in the NFL. Recently, a rookie player for the Miami Dolphins, a 312 lb., 6’5″ tackle, suddenly resigned due to accusations of bullying by another player, foregoing a high six figure salary. Certainly not your typical target, how…
Read MoreWhy Do the Hottest Things Lose Their Mojo So Quickly?
This past summer three of my favorite TV shows ended: Breaking Bad, Dexter, and Burn Notice. Each one was very successful yet only one remained on top until the very end. Why is that? Did the others lose their way or just ride out the series like a cash cow? As far as the reasons…
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