Blogs / 2006 / March

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2006 / March

This year we may be forced into a different reality whether we like it or not. From the staffing perspective this will be the year of the wake up call for many people in HR/Staffing roles. The economy is in the midst of a full swing change and what y... More...

Human resources executives increasingly are turning to a new recruiting and leadership-development resource: former military personnel. Expertise from the armed forces in teamwork, planning and execution is an attractive commodity for companies that ... More...

When you first started handling the staffing process for your current employer did you have an idea of what you were getting in to? Did anyone tell you that you´d be covering everything from the initial writing of job descriptions through to th... More...

For HR directors everywhere, recruiting and retaining the best employees is priority one. In the healthcare industry, the need is multiplied tenfold based on a national nursing shortage that has hospitals scrambling to maintain a strong team of... More...

Outsourcing without a plan is bad. Multisourcing without a plan is even worse. Manage the enterprise's multiple outsourcers holistically, or risk gross inefficiencies and wasted money. Outsourcing Failure Abounds Although most companies outsour... More...

QUESTION: Is There Still a "Glass Ceiling"? Dear Merry, I am a senior male HR leader in a global company. I feel the best way to differentiate my company is to do a better job of retaining women. As such I think it is ... More...

The captain of every ship needs to continually check their coordinates in relation to their final destination to ensure they are traveling on the safest and most effective path. The same holds true for your staff. Therefore, you´ll need a sys... More...

Craig Keilburger was just 12 years old when he started the "Free the Children." Organization. Since then, with the help of his elder brother Mark, his organization has built 420 schools in 120 countries providing education for 35,000 students. ... More...

Dear Joan: I am having great difficulty in dealing with a woman at work in my team who constantly puts others down and berates them behind their back, along with pointing out any and all flaws when covering their desks when the... More...

Dear Joan: I work in the HIM Dept. (Health Information Management, formerly known as medical records) in a hospital. Most of our employees, medical transcriptionists, work for salary plus incentive pay, and some work at home and so... More...

Dear Joan: I work in the Government sector, specifically in city management. It would be interesting to see articles related to maternity leave for women and men. Perhaps information on preparing your boss/subordinates for impending leav... More...

Many of the facilitators I´ve trained over the years have told me that clarifying the purpose can sometimes prove difficult, taking a lot of time and not resulting in the shared understanding that´s vital to move forward effectively. As y... More...

Dear Joan: I enjoy reading your columns and have learned a lot about workplace issues and how to deal with them. But, currently, I have a situation and that I just do not know how to go about overcoming. I have been working ... More...

Dear Joan: I have an employee who is a bright, young woman but who is creating problems in the team. I promoted her to a lead position a few months ago, because she is a go-getter who gets a lot accomplished. She does very well with our ... More...

The best estimates put the traditional interview as still the most frequently used selection ´technique;´ used in more or less 60% of the time. Perhaps the Biggest Disconnect Here is the ´disconnect.´ The best estima... More...

Excerpted from Maryland Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P. Anyone who has spent time in downtown Baltimore over the past several months has become acutely aware of the activ... More...

Excerpted from Oklahoma Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Doerner, Saunders, Daniel & Anderson, LLP During a four-year period, the number of uninsured people in America rose by nearly five million.... More...

What this brings to mind for me is whether or not we are effective at linking meaning with our learning. This is no less important during the "formal learning" phases of our lives and the "on the job learning" phases as we enter the workforce. &... More...

Telecommuting and work-at-home are viable ways for workers to accomplish more work while spending less time getting to work. Telecommuting and work-at-home are viable ways for workers to accomplish more work while spending less time getting to wor... More...

Seven red flags that interviewers should be aware of. While conducting research for a webcast on the topic of best practice interviewing techniques, I came across a list of Red Flags (courtesy of Tech Republic) that interviewers should be aware of. ... More...

Ten non all-inclusive responsibilities of a fiduciary are highlighted. Ten Fiduciary Responsibilities This week I will be conducting a webcast of the "Fiduciary Responsibilities under ERISA." In preparation I include a quick checklist of so... More...

Back in 2000 when the suggestion was made that the Talent Shortage was coming many referred to a report that cited 2006 as the inflection point for change. Well, here we are. It's 2006 and no matter what anyone says the numbers are starting to add ... More...

For a schedule of upcoming Thought Leader interviews, please click here . KE: I am excited today to be speaking with Donna Schulze-Gullett. Donna is a senior learning professional who has been providing learning solutions t... More...

Recently, the US Office of Personnel Management has chosen to use Plateau Systems to enable an initiative in which Human Resource Specialists and members of the Information Technology community assess their skills and competencies, benchmarking them ... More...

In the March issue of Business 2.0 there is an article on the topic of interviewing. Â I think most folks who have been in the position of interviewing someone would do well to heed the author´s suggestions. In the March issue of Business 2.... More...

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2006 - The year of living dangerously?

Military Expertise Migrates from the Battlefield to the Board Room

HR Education - How do you keep up?

Lessons Learned From the Healthcare Industry

A Holistic Approach to Managing Multiple Outsourcers

Ask the Coach - Issue 7: Is There Still a "Glass Ceiling"?

Staff Evaluations: Too Often, Too Late: Avoid These Two Costly Management Mistakes

From Me to We - How Everyone Profits from Corporate Social Responsibility

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Interpersonal Communications

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Sharing Leadership Responsibilities

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Maternity Woes

Tips for Defining a Meeting´s Purpose

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Moving Up Or Moving On?

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Leadership Competencies

Perhaps the Biggest Disconnect

Rats! The union is back!

Employee health insurance: Where are we headed?

Linking Learning and Organizational Performance

Do Your Home Work

7 Interview Red Flags

Ten Fiduciary Responsibilities

That was then...this is now

Thought Leaders: How TeleTech Has Achieved Measurable Speed-to-Performance Through Its Learning Management System

All About Competencies

Babbling Interviewer Disease