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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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Tolerance Barometer Part II
We are sometimes harsher when interacting with family and/or friends than with strangers. Sometimes we need to be reminded of people’s feelings. Our job as family members and friends is to support and encourage growth, change and improvement for all. How can we promote and encourage transformation and tolerate the changes that may occur?
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Demand for Talent Slowly Increasing for U.S. Manufacturers
As the economic climate finally begins to thaw, many manufacturing companies are looking to gradually expand their workforce. The 2010 Compensation Data Manufacturing survey results found the salary for a production worker has remained steady at $29,400 per year, reflecting only a one percent increase since 2009.
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Delivering Value to the Business - Why Your Current HR Systems Hold You Back
When your Human Resources organization directly contributes to the execution of the business strategy, it adds value. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Then why is it so difficult for HR to demonstrate how it affects business growth and profitability? Bottom line: Your current HR systems have become a major roadblock in delivering and communicating business value. In this brief, we’ll explain why, and introduce a unified Human Capital Management (HCM) solution equipped to help you achieve your objectives.
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Sensors not Employees
A recent Minnesota case discussed the issue of whether certain persons, claimed to be independent contractors, were employees for purposes of paying unemployment taxes. Although Minnesota regulations include numerous factors, the Court decided that there are a minimum of five factors used to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor.
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Networking Know How
Networking, even to a seasoned professional, can seem intimidating or scary at times. The reason for this is due to the fact, that networking can be positive or negative! We don't often think of "negative" networking. Not knowing what constitutes the difference between the two makes it easy to network in a negative manner.
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Excellence v Success
The best of the best make their life and work a quest for excellence and understand that there is a difference between success and excellence. Success is often measured by comparison to others. Excellence, on the other hand, is all about being the best we can be and maximising our gifts, talents and abilities to perform at our highest potential.
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How to Bounce Back from Extreme Downsizing
What’s your biggest concern in the next six months? WorldatWork recently reported the results of ComPsych Corp. survey asking just this question of HR managers. The answer itself is not surprising: “Maintaining employee productivity and morale” (31%). Why is this? The obvious answer is the fallout from actions taken during the recession.
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Avoiding Hiring Mistakes with Lauren Friese, Founder of TalentEgg
I thought it might be interesting to ask Lauren our series of hiring questions, to get her perspective from both sides: as an entrepreneur and as someone who helps the best and brightest young talent find their professional footing. The best advice I’ve ever gotten is very cliche: hire people who are smarter than you.
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Buying Decision Enablement: put the human side of decision making into the work flow
Sales enablement is the new new thing: technology is taking over a lot of the solution discovery and data-sharing parts of a seller’s job. Obviously, that leaves sellers either playing catch up - knowing only a portion of the data that buyers show up knowing - or being caught flatfooted to competitors with a bigger web footprint.
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> The Surprising Solution - Summary
In The Surprising Solution, author Bruce Piasecki addresses “how to best align going green and solving social problems with going global.” At the core of a successful, contemporary business strategy is the concept of Social Response Capitalism, a business model that puts social concerns on par with price and performance as corporate goals. Based on Piaseck’s in-depth analysis of the global economy and his work with hundreds of multinational corporations, The Surprising Solution shows companies how to “surf” this new wave of change, navigating to success and profitability while simultaneously “making a better world.”
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Protect Your Employees and Company from the #1 At-Work Killer
Are employee health & wellness and emergency preparedness your responsibilities? Then you need to know about sudden cardiac arrest – the #1 cause of death at work according to an OSHA-based study – and ...
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Date: September 9, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Building the Ethical Executive - 5 Proactive Steps To Keep Executives Out of Court and In Compliance
Along with the risks of liability exposure and legal costs posed to an organization, ethical violations carry the potential for career derailment, loss of professional reputation and ...
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Date: September 14, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Why Optimizing Referral Hires is Critical Now
It's 2010 and in these shaky economic times, it's your responsibility to optimize recruitment investments by hiring the best talent using the most effective hiring tools while keeping cost-per-hire under ...
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Date: September 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Disconnect between Job Seekers and Employers Fueling Frustration
Today’s recruiting environment has responded to the evolving economy, as well as shifting habits of both job seekers and employers, changing the way candidates become new hires. TalentDrive, a resume search ...
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Date: September 16, 2010
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
Onboarding “Four-Thought:” Four Steps to Success, Four Myths and Four Key ROI Points
If your organization is challenged with streamlining onboarding costs and processes; getting new-hires up-to-speed faster; engaging new-hires and decreasing employee turnover; and/or integrating ...
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Date: September 16, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Run Towards the Roar: How to Build Courage & Responsibility in the Front-Lines of Work
Learn why, when Lions hunt, it is safer to Run Towards the Roar than away; and why that applies to life in the front lines of work. Two studies involving 982 organizations world-wide, reveal an emerging crisis in ...
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Date: September 16, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Driving Quality in Offshore Customer Service Staffing: Screening for the Biggest Skill Gap—Language!
To maintain the quality of customer care required by your business, it is critical for offshore customer service agents to have strong English communications skills. Yet in most offshore markets, 50-75% of ...
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Date: September 21, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
The Power of Simplicity – A New Era in Performance and Talent Management
Talent management can no longer be ignored; it is critical for success in today's economy. However, many organizations believe that in order to have an effective employee talent management system in place, it must ...
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Date: September 21, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Long Term Care and The CLASS Act
A discussion around how The CLASS Act will impact long term care benefits at the worksite
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Date: September 21, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
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