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3 On-the-Job Learning Tools for the New World of Work
May 23, 2013
Bill CushardEmployee turnover remains one of the hidden -- but increasingly significant -- costs of running a successful business. A company will spend as much as double a position's annual...
Want to Use Feedback As a Development Tool? Ask, Don't Tell
May 22, 2013Bill CushardThe honest truth about performance feedback in business, as I've observed it over the years? Typically, it's been a top-down process used simply to satisfy requirements for annual reviews. And usually, it's a chore that both managers and employees loathe. When I...
Why It Might Be a Great Time to Reconsider Your Rejects
May 20, 2013Charles CoyDoes your recruiting and screening process have some blind spots? Have your current hiring criteria become too restrictive? Are you tossing potential A-level prospects into a growing reject pile?
How To Thrive On The Job In An Always-On World
May 20, 2013Charles CoyIn advance of our big Cornerstone Convergence client and partner conference in June, we will be...
What Is a Social ATS?
May 15, 2013Peter GoldIf you’re thinking of changing your ATS from yesteryear for something more social what should you be looking out for?
So many of the older systems “claim” to be social but posting a job on Twitter is hardly leading edge and unlikely to close off...
Star Employees Quit When We Don't Give Them Reasons to Stay
May 15, 2013Jay ForteWe can learn a lot about employees by looking at how we treat our customers -- and what inspires their loyalty.
Leslie Perlow: How to Have Your Downtime -- Without Missing a Beat
May 14, 2013Charles CoyLeslie Perlow isn't your typical workplace consultant. A Harvard Business School professor, she set out several years ago to cure the seemingly incurable: hard-charging management...
4 Ways Your Employees Can Help Recruit Top Talent
May 08, 2013Jay ForteFinding the right person for the right job is rarely easy -- and made more difficult in today's workplace, where employees are increasingly asked not only to do their jobs but also to think creatively about ways they can inspire customer loyalty, drive...
How to Advance Your Career in a Workplace That Has No Boss
May 06, 2013Charles CoyThe modern workplace is all about being "flat" -- that is, eliminating the hierarchies, job titles, and ...
How to Hire in Hyper-Growth
May 02, 2013Charles CoyManaging a successful company through periods of dramatic growth is a challenge most CEOs would love to have. But when it comes to hiring, it's much easier said than done -- and can often make or break the future of the business. Melissa Hooven, Senior Director of...
The Story of the Corporate Applicant Tracking System
May 01, 2013Peter GoldWhich came first; the job board or the e-recruitment system? The Monster Board was first created in 1994 with most of the early ATS vendors not appearing until 1998/9.
Since those exciting late 20th...
Why the Path to Good Ethics Starts in Human Resources
May 01, 2013Chris MacDonaldHiring, training, evaluating, and retaining the right people are all undeniably core management challenges for any human resources department, but they also constitute a huge chunk of any company's ethical fiber.
Full Speed Ahead: Setting Sail with the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation 2013 Impact Grantees
April 30, 2013Julie BrandtBack in January, I introduced you to a new initiative at the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation: ...
Why Rotating Employees Through Your Company Is a Win-Win
April 24, 2013Charles CoyThe days of employees spending decades at a company -- and receiving a gold watch in gratitude -- are long gone. Workers today are constantly on the move, a fact of life that will only accelerate as job growth picks up. But the turnover poses particular challenges...
How to Keep a Workplace Conflict From Souring Company Culture
April 23, 2013Autumn LowryLet's face it: no workplace is immune from conflict and wrongdoing. Whether it's stolen equipment, fudged expense reports, bosses behaving badly, or something far more serious, incidents like these happen frequently -- and they can have lingering effects on...
New Acronym – PBCT – Performance Based Compliance Training – What?
April 19, 2013Sheri WinterWhen you think about compliance training, do you think it’s about knowing something or doing something? In previous...
What Every Manager Can Learn From a Trainer
April 19, 2013Bill CushardI have yet to come across a manager who at some point hasn't complained about subpar performance on his or her team. The common refrain I hear: "No matter what I do, I can't seem to get through."
Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Visits Cornerstone to Highlight the Role of “Silicon Beach” in L.A.’s Bright Future
April 18, 2013Charles CoyLos Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti paid us a visit today, signaling the prominence of Cornerstone in the emerging tech community in L.A. Usually...
Learn, Prepare, Collaborate: DisasterReady.org
April 18, 2013Julie BrandtIn 2010, heavy monsoon rains resulted in massive flooding throughout Pakistan, leaving much of the population stranded with little or no access to food and susceptible to water-borne diseases. As this devastating disaster unfolded, we witnessed the tremendous challenge facing relief...
How to Turn a C+ Employee Into a Top Performer
April 17, 2013Jay ForteGetting hired for the wrong job can bring out the mediocre in all of us -- good managers understand this. What turns a C+ employee into an A performer is a commitment to matching the right workers to the right job, and a willingness to modify their roles to make...
How to Interview a Job Prospect - Over Skype
April 16, 2013Charles CoyMarissa Mayer's get-your-butt-in-the-office-if-you-want-to-work-for-me attitude aside, the number of remote workers in the United States is climbing steadily. Today's employees of the BYOD...
Quiet, Yes, But Introverts Can Be Your Best Performers
April 11, 2013Charles CoyIntroverts are a misunderstood bunch. They're often seen as standoffish, shy or lacking ideas, and can have trouble fitting into today's ...
Study: Nonprofits Not Satisfied With Recruitment Via Social Media
April 10, 2013Lisa Brown MortonAccording to the 2013 Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey, while social networking sites are continuing to grow in...
Has Technology Made Us More Disconnected? 3 Easy Steps to Networking the Old-Fashioned Way
April 05, 2013Charles CoyNot everyone was born to schmooze. Even extroverts at times stand anxiously in a crowd, sipping a cocktail and facing a sea of unfamiliar faces. But putting yourself out there, literally, still matters to your career -- a fact that too often gets overlooked in the...
Social Performance Reviews: How to Get Started
April 02, 2013Charles CoyMeeting with the boss behind closed doors for an annual performance run-down bottled up into an hour-long package seems outdated when you think about the direction company culture has headed in the past few years. Open offices, total workplace transparency, and...
Is Your Company Ready for Total Transparency?
April 01, 2013Charles CoyMore companies these days are opening their books -- and databases and other records traditionally kept confidential -- to employees in the hopes of empowering workers, holding them accountable and, more importantly, boosting morale and productivity.
Open or Closed: Which Office Design Works Best for You?
March 29, 2013Charles CoyFrom adding picnic tables to installing tree houses, companies big and small are paying close attention to office design and the way it impacts how we work.
Office Hierarchies – Which One Is Best for Your Business?
March 27, 2013Charles CoyIt's a tale of two hugely successful companies known for opposite management styles: Apple grew into one of the world's largest companies in part due to the top-down approach of its erstwhile founder Steve Jobs. Google, meanwhile, is famously democratic, allowing...
Surfing the Silver Tsunami
March 27, 2013Patrick DevlinThere is an exponentially growing need for effective talent management strategies in the public sector, and I’m honored to lead the team dedicated to delivering this to the market at Cornerstone. What’s the primary catalyst within the public sector workforce today...
How to Handle Your 'Weaknesses' in Job Interviews
March 26, 2013Charles CoyWe've all heard that dreaded interview question: "So what would you consider your biggest weaknesses?" Seasoned interviewers, such as Pat Schoof, a San Francisco Bay Area-based human resource manager with more than 20 years of hiring experience, know better than...
Penelope Trunk: 3 Career Myths About Gen Y
March 25, 2013Charles CoyFor the last few years, headlines such as "Gen Y grads more likely to launch start-ups...
The Case for Re-Training: 3 Ways Companies Can Build, not Buy, Great Talent
March 22, 2013Charles CoyFor decades, American companies prided themselves on constantly teaching their employees new tricks -- offering apprenticeships, training programs, and other initiatives to expand job skills. Doing so helped companies adapt to changing strategies and new...
Quest for Knowledge: A Key to Senior-Level Retention
March 21, 2013Charles CoyA company leader who started from the ground up was once the embodiment of the American Dream -- the employee rose through the ranks, stayed loyal through the ups and downs, and, years later, was rewarded handsomely with a corner office.
After Your Dream Job? Step Outside the Box
March 20, 2013Charles CoyEveryone thinks about pursuing that coveted dream job they may have conjured up during childhood – yet research conducted by LinkedIn of...
4 Executive Job Titles on the Rise
March 19, 2013Charles CoyIt started with the tech companies (doesn't everything?) and has gone mainstream. No, it's not outlandish perks (haircuts, anyone...
Leader of the Pack
March 18, 2013Jason CorselloCornerstone OnDemand has been placed in the “Leaders Quadrant”...
Mobile Learning: What You Need to Know Before You Take the Plunge
March 15, 2013Charles CoyThink about it – smartphones and tablets have grown into massively popular learning platforms when you're away from the office – for cooking (think "How to Truss a Turkey...
NYC: Converge Live is on the Way
March 15, 2013Keith TyndallCornerstone is hitting the Big Apple! New York City will be the next stop on our talent management roadshow series, Converge Live 2013...
3 Essentials For Creating a Strong Internship Program
March 14, 2013Charles CoyJust how important have internships become when it comes to recruiting and hiring today?
Getting Started with Video Training: 3 Best (and Worst) Practices
March 13, 2013Charles CoyThe words "employee training video" can conjure images of sky-high hair and Zack Morris cell phones...
Introducing our Winter 2013 Release—Much More for Mobile
March 13, 2013Keith TyndallWith over 70,000 visitors having attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it’s obvious that...
Forrester Research, Inc. Names Cornerstone OnDemand a "Leader"
March 11, 2013Jason CorselloThe great thing about independent, trusted research is that it’s independent and you can trust the results. Obvious, right? But when you’ve maybe had your fill of software vendor marketing (and even the occasional grandiose proclamations -- hey, we’re all a guilty...
Introducing Our Winter 2013 Release: Make Recruiting Modern & Relevant
March 11, 2013Jason CorselloA survey from CareerBuilder* published in late 2012 identifies the true costs and pains associated with making a ‘...
6 Tips for Shaping Your Personal Brand Online
March 07, 2013Charles CoyIn today’s competitive -- and increasingly digital -- career landscape, it’s hard to stand out from the crowd. Almost every job seeker (and even those not on the hunt) is on ...
3 Rules for Great Recruiting In a Fierce Hiring Market
March 06, 2013Charles CoyWith the hiring market swinging back in favor of job prospects – especially those in the highly sought-after creative class – employers face a new set of challenges in landing (and keeping) great talent at the right price. ...
Are You Offering the Right Perks To Attract the Right People?
March 05, 2013Charles CoyWhat sorts of employee perks and benefits matter most to job prospects these days? The answer often depends on which way the pendulum swings in the labor market.
Employee Handbooks: Out With the Old, In With ... What Exactly?
March 05, 2013Charles CoyThe employee handbook: every company has one, yet most employees never lay eyes on it after they get out of new-hire orientation. And who could blame them? "Today's employee handbook feels so antiquated," says Michael Molina, chief human resources officer at San...
Converge Live Coming to Dallas
March 05, 2013Keith TyndallGet ready, Dallas -- Cornerstone is on the way! We recently announced that Dallas, Tex. will be the first stop of our new roadshow, Converge Live 2013.
3 Rules for Getting the Most From Your WFHers
March 01, 2013Charles CoyYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s recent decision to ban working from home...
3 Strategies to Help Hiring Managers Screen for Top Talent
February 28, 2013Charles CoyRecruitment and screening today have become more complex than ever: With the boom of social and mobile media and huge online job boards, applicant volume has skyrocketed. At the same time, ...
How to Expand and Leverage Your Employee Referral Network
February 27, 2013Charles CoyAsk most hiring managers to identify their most powerful recruiting tool and they’ll likely say, “employee referrals.” Not only do internal referrals tend to attract better talent, they also help create brand evangelists within the company, further strengthening...
3 Personality Traits to Beware Of When Hiring
February 26, 2013Charles CoyWhen it comes to hiring, what counts more: an applicant's character or experience? For Dr. Neil Lavender, co-author of Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job, the...
How to Make Employee Training Suck Less
February 25, 2013Charles CoyEmployee training tends to fall into a few familiar buckets at most companies: completely nonexistent, mind-numbingly boring, or entirely ineffective. When employees find out they can skip a mandatory training session, a collective sigh usually passes over the...
How to Attract Top Talent on LinkedIn
February 22, 2013Charles CoyScouting for talent on the social Web? For most recruiters these days, that question begins, and often ends, with LinkedIn. The massive social network for business has come a long way since its introduction as a clunky networking tool in the early 2000s. LinkedIn...
3 Ways to Get Started with Social Learning
February 21, 2013Charles CoyJust about every business today has the tools and technology at their fingertips to build cultures teeming with social activity, with more and more of it focused on "social learning," or strategies and practices designed to boost collaboration, productivity and...
How Employee "Strength" Training Can Boost Performance and Productivity
February 20, 2013Charles CoyIt’s a simple truth: no employee excels at every aspect of their job, no matter what their level of experience or effort. Naturally, then, the bulk of employee training programs and initiatives tend to stay focused on improving areas where employees may...
Managing Smartphone Addicts: 4 Ways to Oversee the Mobile Workforce
February 15, 2013Charles CoyFace it: we're all glued to our smartphones and tablets. Whether that's a productivity booster or drainer is up for debate, but our mobile devices have certainly...
How Building a ‘Social Business’ Can Boost Employee Retention
February 14, 2013Charles CoyEmployee turnover isn't just costly -- experts say that finding and training a replacement can cost...
Cornerstone for Salesforce: Enabling the New Customer World
February 12, 2013Keith TyndallBuilding a culture of continuous learning is the best way to drive productivity among your salespeople, partners and customers. We understand this at Cornerstone and that’s why we’ve announced the availability of ...
How to Win Big Talent in Smaller Markets
February 11, 2013Charles CoyA decent paying job at a cool up-and-coming company in sunny Los Angeles or a better-paying job at a corporation in the middle of Minnesota? For today’s worker the choice is simple: Job preference means more than just money -- it's about work/life balance -- and...
Good Managers Manage. Great Managers Coach
February 08, 2013Charles CoyWe're several decades into the evolution of the knowledge worker now, where skills are softer, job descriptions grayer, and thanks to technology, everyone in the workplace has a multitude of new platforms to...
Cornerstone + Appirio = Delivering on the Vision of the Enterprise Cloud
February 07, 2013Jason CorselloToday, I am pleased to share exciting news with you about our new relationship...
Hiring for Ethics and Integrity: 4 Tactics That Work
February 06, 2013Charles CoyEvery company’s got at least one: that overly competitive, sour, power-hungry -- you fill in the blank -- employee that walks around with a rain cloud over his head, infecting every conversation he joins and inciting feelings of isolation, discouragement or doubt...
Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation Launches Program to Help Increase Nonprofits’ Global Impact
January 31, 2013Julie BrandtThe Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation was established in 2010 to address critical talent management challenges among nonprofit organizations. Across the globe, nonprofits...
Cornerstone Employees Tackle LA Marathon & Raise Money for a Good Cause
January 25, 2013Tina FigueroaWhen you think of Los Angeles, what comes to mind? Sun, sand and celebrities? Maybe you’re more of a realist, and you know LA is really filled with smog and bad traffic. While you’d be right on all of the above, sometimes the stereotypes that surround a city, and especially LA, cast a shadow...
Cornerstone Sponsors Reigning Stanley Cup Champions
January 18, 2013Jason CorselloWith just one day until National Hockey League (NHL) teams across the country will take the ice for the start of the long-awaited 2013 season, we’re proud to announce our sponsorship of a true Los Angeles powerhouse, the ...
Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Cornerstone assembles a crack panel to discuss the future of work
December 20, 2012Charles CoyCornerstone OnDemand recently hosted a lively panel discussion on “...
Employers Need to Step Up to Close the “Skills Gap”
December 11, 2012Charles CoyFindings from a new Cornerstone OnDemand survey show that employers too often drop the ball when it comes to recognizing real source of perceived skills shortages.
Talent Grid: The Result of Sonar6 / Cornerstone Cross Pollination
December 06, 2012Jason CorselloWhen we acquired Sonar6 (now CSB – Cornerstone Small Business) earlier this year, we decided early on that it did not make sense to integrate their performance management software with Cornerstone’s applications, particularly...
Go Mobile & Get Productive: Cornerstone Fall 2012 Product Release
December 03, 2012Keith TyndallAt Cornerstone, when our clients speak, we listen. And an interesting trend we’ve been hearing a lot about from executives and HR management is the need for relevant tools that directly help their managers manage teams better. This means providing the right tools to departmental leaders and...
Cornerstone Movember Team Raises Over $31,000 for Men’s Health Awareness
November 30, 2012Tina FigueroaThis has been a wonderful November for Cornerstone. Early in the month, we gathered for an event-filled week to celebrate our 13th anniversary, and more recently, we were again recognized as one of the...
The Red Cross Helps Cornerstone Team Members Become Disaster Ready
November 19, 2012Tina FigueroaHurricane Sandy was a clear reminder to us all that while we cannot prevent most natural disasters, we can prepare ourselves with the right tools and knowledge to respond in crises and help others affected. And since many Cornerstone OnDemand team members were impacted by Sandy directly, it...
The Choice Is Yours: Oracle-Taleo Acquisition Highlights Stark Choices Facing HR Buyer
February 14, 2012Charles CoyFew people who follow the HR software industry were surprised by last week’s announcement by Oracle that they intend to acquire recruiting and talent management vendor Taleo. In the wake of December’s acquisition of SuccessFactors by SAP and the preceding two years of increasingly frantic...
Talent Management for Healthcare
February 02, 2012Charles CoyIn the last few years, our old pals at Bersin & Associates argued that healthcare has lagged behind other industries in adoption and implementation of talent management automation and processes and that many healthcare organizations are working to make up for lost time. (Bersin &...
Talent Management and Succession Planning in Higher Education
January 27, 2012Charles CoyAmerica’s higher learning institutions educate and develop society’s future thinkers and leaders. It’s ironic, then, that it seems many don’t develop their own administrative staff or leadership talent.
Five considerations for TM buyers in the wake of SAP/SFSF
December 12, 2011Charles CoyLast week SAP announced its intent to acquire SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion – which just so happens to be the predicted size of the entire talent management market for 2011 (according to...
The Big Five Steps for Mid-Sized Organizations to Advance Their Talent Management Strategies
December 01, 2011Charles CoyOver the last 2-3 years, we’ve witnessed a real trend toward and acceptance of integrated talent management systems among most enterprise and many midsize organizations. However, over 25 percent of all organizations still have talent processes that are developed and managed individually, with...
Onboarding: The Critical First Step to Employee Engagement
November 18, 2011Charles CoyIt hasn’t been all that long since the term onboarding appeared on the talent management horizon. After all, the original, traditional “onboarding” concept was pretty matter-of-fact, to be kind...
The Value of Talent Management Software for Non-Profits
October 06, 2011Alexis DennyNon-profits provide vital services and assistance to communities across the country and around the world, demonstrating remarkable success in meeting daily and diverse needs despite...
Avoiding Franken-suite Software (Organic vs. Acquired)
September 22, 2011Charles CoyFor those of us who have been working in and around HR technology for a while, the last two years have been remarkable in terms of the pace and scope of market consolidation. No fewer than a half dozen significant learning and performance management companies have been acquired by other vendors...
Fixing the Leaking Leadership Pipeline
September 08, 2011Charles CoyCornerstone has penned a new whitepaper on the issues surrounding leadership development and building a sustainable pipeline of leaders in your...
Seven Tips for Improving the Pedigree of Your Succession Management Strategy
September 02, 2011Charles CoyIn my last blog post, I talked about how technology-supported succession planning ...
Succession Planning Is a Challenge, but Well Within Reach
August 31, 2011Charles CoyWhen it comes to talent, it’s all about the pipeline. That is, keeping it pulsing along with the best possible employee bench strength to fill critical positions as business conditions change, new products are launched, etc. To get there takes a proactive and intelligence-driven internal...
A New Poseidon Adventure: Flipping Succession Planning Upside Down
August 11, 2011Charles CoyOrganizations make significant investments in efforts to hire the right candidates – the people who have the right experience and cultural fit. By carefully managing the performance and potential of these people over time, the organization can grow its leadership pipeline, keep a...
Talent Management Helps Supermarket Chain Live Brand Promise
January 21, 2011Charles CoyMore retailers are enjoying the advantages that effective talent management processes, supported by technology, can offer. This includes strategies for attracting, developing and retaining employees, ensuring a...