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Cigna's In-House Compassion
With headlines about massive layoffs in the news, there also comes a less glaring woe: survivor guilt, the despair employees feel when their coworkers lose their jobs. The "Why them, not me?" and "How can I enjoy my job when my friends got axed?" pangs of guilt can make employees anxious and less productive.
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Return on Execution
In today's economic environment, the ability to execute is what separates the winners from their competition. For organizations to prosper, they will need to turn strategies into real business results. In this whitepaper, Erik Berggren and Lars Dalgaard of SuccessFactors, Inc. share their points of view about how and why winning organizations outperform their competition.
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Improving The Workplace - One of the Most Basic Principals of Business
One of the fundamental questions any business owner needs to address is: "Should we standardize our operating procedures or hire really good people and let them use their best judgment." I believe that most, if not all, business processes can and should be standardized.
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Listening to Conflict: Finding Constructive Solutions to Workplace Disputes
Effective listening is the key to finding constructive solutions to workplace disputes and building cultures that thrive. Sometimes the most obvious solution is the most effective one --- and the one least considered.
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What Does Health Care Reform Mean for Employers?
On December 24, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted along party lines to approve the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), bringing health care legislation to its final stage before enactment.
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How to Accelerate Organizational Performance and Improve Job Satisfaction
The new realities of this economy have challenged business executives at all levels. Uncertainties about the economic recovery, increasing government involvement, rising health care costs, and the motivation of the workforce have placed management in a complicated and tenuous situation.
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Bringing Values to Life
The idea of clarifying core values is new for many management teams. Centering change-and improvement-effects around their vision, as well as a set of three to five core values that best defined the culture they're trying to reinforce, change, or improve are key.
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Why Performance Management Processes UNDER-Perform
The results of the “Essential Guide to Employee Performance Management Practices” (2008) captured responses from more than 700 HR, Learning and Development, and IT professionals (representing 30% of Fortune’s top 100 companies) and found that 40% do not believe their current employee performance management practices play a critical role...
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The Business Case for a robust Alumni Program
Does your company have an Alumni Program? Many do, although most treat it rather like a corporate website; a necessary investment, but not one deeply aligned with the business strategy.
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Getting Out of Wallow Hallow: Helping Co-Workers and Team Members to Stop Groaning and Start Growing
As you work on building or renewing your new success habits for the New Year you’re likely looking for ways to help your team members or co-workers stay out of the swamp of negativity, cynicism, and fear.
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Discover how the digital world is influencing the way brands are built and managed. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 professionals in the fields of marketing, media, and digital technology, this book illustrates how successful companies are embracing digital applications.
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The ROI of Outsourced Benefits Administration
Justifying the expense to change a HR process or implement a system can be more challenging than the actual implementation of that change. How can change be quantified to the point where you can point to both ...
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Date: February 10, 2010
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Developing Leaders for the Emerging Markets
The post-recession business environment faces the growing challenge of understanding how to expand into the emerging markets at an accelerated pace. As Western businesses try to make sense of the diversity in ...
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Date: February 16, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now
A major leadership transition is underway. Gen X’ers are assuming key roles in business and in the public sector – taking over from the Boomers. How will their leadership approach differ? Are they ready for the ...
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Date: February 18, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
The State of the Employer-Employee Contract
Once upon a time, the psychological contract between employer and employee hinted at lifelong employment. Employees would have the expectation of continued employment as long as they continued at a specific performance ...
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Date: February 23, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Critical Competencies for Emerging Leaders: What Are They & How Assessments Speed Skill Development
How ready is the next generation of leadership talent? A 2009/2010 leadership trends survey identified the competencies most important for emerging leaders. While given high marks for their operational and technology skills, many ...
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Date: February 23, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Preventing Intermittent Leave Abuse – What You Need to Know and What You Can Do
Join ADP and Peter A. Susser of Littler Mendelson for this informative discussion and Q&A session on the most common problems HR managers confront with intermittent leave under the FMLA. Drawing on years of FMLA...
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Date: February 23, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
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> Decreasing Employee Satisfaction & What to Do about It
Employee satisfaction is dramatically down, per The Conference Board. Clearly, employees are growing less satisfied in their work, which lays to rest that ridiculous claim that people should be grateful to just HAVE jobs. While that is in some part true, leadership has worked diligently in the last couple of years to ruthlessly kill off that gratitude...
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