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- WorkLife Balance
Networking Starts When The Event Is Finished
Networking isn't what you do at a meeting; it's what happens because you were at the meeting. Follow these 3 simple steps to do good, network, and make money!
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"The Way We’ve Always Done It”
Last month, Laura Schroeder wrote a great post on Compensation Café on tailored rewards and the realization that one size doesn’t fit all. As Laura points out: “Various research shows that people are motivated by different things at different times, depending on a variety of personal and demographic factors.” Pop over and read Laura’s full post. She offers five solid tips for moving towards tailored rewards. It’s her last statement of the post that got me laughing, however: “I also don’t recommend tie pins.”
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Political Savvy and Office Politics
How skillful are you at navigating office politics? Are you politically savvy? How is power and influence used where you work? The ability to navigate the political waters and influence others is an essential workplace competency. Politically astute leaders know how to appropriately use power and collaborate with others to achieve business goals. They create a culture of trust and achievement.
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What drives employees away? It's not just a bad boss (although that helps)!
If you ask 100 human resource professionals why people leave, 90 will probably answer that “employees leave supervisors, not companies.” Twenty years ago that may have been true, but newer studies are finding that such thinking wrong. It’s NOT just the boss anymore: Successful talent retention requires a company-wide commitment to full engagement.
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Corporate Health & Wellness
- September 29, 2010.
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Legal Issues for HR Professionals
- October 13, 2010.
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> Freedom 65 - What's your Retirement Age?
At what age should one retire? Do you believe in working until way into the 70s? Or does the buck stop at age 65? The French government recently passed a controversial bill, amidst a stormy session, that will raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018. This caused more than two million workers to take to the streets protesting this proposal. Union leaders have threatened a nationwide open-ended strike if it becomes law.
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