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Dear HR Professional,
This week we have some great tips from industry leaders on a variety of topics ranging from privacy issues, managing your boss, growing the leader from within, and much more. We also have a whitepaper download for those of you interested in reducing your cost of training by 98%.
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Effective Onboarding for Smooth Transitions
- September 8, 2010.
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Quick - What Do People Think of When they think of Your Company? (And Why It Matters!)
- September 15, 2010.
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Rewards & Recognition: Are You Leveraging the Best Ways to Reward and Motivate Your Employees?
- September 22, 2010.
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Corporate Health & Wellness
- September 29, 2010.
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Keys to Strengthening Buy-in, Trust and Team Coordination in a Generationally-Culturally Diverse (Military) Workforce - Part I
How can the predominant generations in authority - the Traditionals and Boomers - connect with GenXers and Millennials? In today's 24/7 always on world, rapidly cycling between constant upgrading and "doing more with less," creating communication and team coordination bridges among the military (and civilian) generations.
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Pre-recession Salaries not yet Reinstated
A large number of employees opted to take pay cuts during the economic crisis to avoid being made redundant, and data shows that 77% of these individuals have not had their full salaries reinstated.
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HR at the Crossroads
A raging debate on two professional portals on the relevance of HR brings into sharp focus the pressures on this domain of management. One debate raises a fundamental question: should we get rid of HR?
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A Legal Landmine: Privacy Issues in the 21st Century
A hot topic for employers right now is keeping up with all the new technology and creating policies and practices to ensure lawful compliance with the employment discrimination laws as they intersect with all the new types of technology.
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You Need to Manage Your Boss - and the Leading Advice Isn't Very Good
In order to be a high performer in today's workplace, you need to get really good at managing your boss. That means YOU need to take responsibility for your conduct and your role in every single management relationship with every single boss. That means YOU need to take charge and start managing every single boss, no matter who they might be on any piece of work on any given day.
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Growing the Leader in Us
Leadership is a verb, not a noun. Leadership is action, not a position. Leadership is defined by what we do, not the role we are in. Some people in "leadership roles" are excellent leaders. But too many are bosses, "snoopervisors," technocrats, bureaucrats, managers, commanders, chiefs, and the like.
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Why Motivation Matters
We all want our employees to be motivated. Of course we do. We know motivated workers work harder. But WHAT are they motivated to do? The job of the manager and leader is to help employees be motivated for the right reasons. You cannot motivate employees. You can provide reasons for them to motivate themselves.
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Are You Hiring the Right CFO?
Hiring the right CFO has helped us drive successful growth, but hiring the wrong one would have been disastrous for our business. Here are three ways anyone can hire a great CFO by leveraging the right metrics: build a hiring checklist, use a hiring assessment, and implement a consistent interview template.
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Reducing the Cost of Training by 98% - How One Company Succeeded!
With increasing pressure to reduce training budgets, HR professionals are looking for effective ways to teach employees the skills and processes they need to succeed. Read this free case study and learn how Wonderlic replaced their on-site WIA Youth Service workshops with an on-demand webcast solution, reducing the cost of attendance by an average of 98%.
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> Citizen Engineer - Summary
In the past, an engineer’s primary focus was finding simple and elegant ways of implementing design requirements. Today, however, engineers must also have knowledge of topics beyond the realm of traditional engineering – to succeed, they must possess an understanding of environmental issues, legal issues, and business issues.
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I Spy the Qualified Candidate
Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched ...
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Date: July 29, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
HR’s Role in Protecting the Customer Experience, Especially as CS is Outsourced or Moves Offshore
Find out why the HR and recruiting leaders at companies with large customer service operations are starting to test the English communication skills of customer service agents – and learn how they are getting ...
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Date: August 3, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
More than a Mission Statement:
The Importance of Corporate Work Values
Corporate work value alignment has been shown to increase job satisfaction and organizational commitment among employees, as well as decrease employee turnover. We will discuss the measurement of work values among ...
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Date: August 10, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Turn Hiring Into a Profit Center
Now more than ever is the time to impact the bottom line by identifying and taking advantage of the HIRE Act, Geographic, Work Opportunity and State Tax Credits. Learn about the latest legislation and how to ...
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Date: August 10, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Finding the Missing Piece: Creating Person-Job Fit Interviews
Interviews are the most commonly used tool in employee selection, but if not used properly, can waste time and effort and ultimately lead to bad hiring decisions. We’ll discuss how to design employment ...
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Date: August 17, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
The Joint Commission and Performance Management — 5 Critical HR Processes You Should Automate
The benefits of the right performance management solution are significant. Automating manual, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, helps HR professionals and business managers reduce costs, improve productivity, ...
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Date: August 17, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
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> The Camel Hump Implication: Will Your Younger Generations Be Ready To Lead?
Let’s begin with some context: in this case, we are referring to the “camel humps” that are the relative sizes of the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations when compared to Generation X that falls between them. In other words, Generation X is roughly half the size of each of the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations. The “camel hump implication” is that with the Baby Boomers leaving the workforce, organizations need to accelerate the younger generations’ ability to assume critical leadership roles. Does your organization have a strategy in place to address this reality?
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