Blogs / 2006 / May

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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 / May

Dear Merry, I am presently responsible for HR in North America and I have been offered a new position with global HR responsibility. At this time, I am not sure that I want the job and especially not the international travel that it would re... More...

Municipalities across the U.S. are deploying broadband wireless networks that blanket cities with high-speed wireless Internet access. New data shows the clear benefits these networks bring for economic development, public safety, and public utilitie... More...

Demographic changes and globalization have created an imperative need for diversity management skills. IT managers that fail to recognize and promote diversity in their teams are exposed to high turnover, decreased productivity, and low employee mora... More...

Will Congress pass paension reform soon and if so when, what and how effective will it be? Where Art Thou Pension Reform? Imperative to our discussion this month on the future of defined benefit pension plans, are two important is... More...

Although many will express a negative opinion about anyone earning a base salary of $1 million, Ameritrade's CEO has just been given a new pay deal that comes as close as any I've seen to the pure model that should emerge for executive pay.... More...

Are you unhappy in your current job and ready to search for something better? If so, you are not alone. Recent surveys show that more than one-half of U.S. workers today are unhappy with their jobs and with each successive survey, the sit... More...

Each year U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars recruiting and replacing their employees. Individually, it costs between $2-11K to replace an hourly employee, and upwards to $40,000 to replace a manager. One Silicon Valley company est... More...

Attract them with the game ball My nephew Jack is in fourth grade. Remember the Life cereal commercial "Let Mikey eat it!...well Jack looks like Mikey. Always smiling, always laughing, and always digesting. His husky stature gives him a distinct... More...

A quick trip to Boston, some nice funding delivered, and other neat things that recently occurred. Hello from my desk for a change. It looks like the spring tradeshow season is almost at an end. YIPPEE. With the exception of SHRM, things really q... More...

It was sometime after dinner when my MBA wife calmly told our twelve-year old son: "Shut up, sit down and just do what you´re told." Not exactly his three core competencies. And not exactly her most motivational moment. Some Back... More...

How often do we meet people who make us wonder why they are not doing so much more with their lives? Of course, the life is theirs to spend the way they please. But if they understood the vastness of their potential and discovered a clear path to tap... More...

Nursing the Workload A bill in the Massachusetts House of Representatives would make Massachusetts one of only two states - California is the other - to regulate nurse-to-patient ratios. As healthcare facilities across Massachusetts struggle to sour... More...

In a recent 8th Circuit Court of Appeals decision, the Court held that an employer did not improperly terminate an employee at the end of the 12-week FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) period, despite additional sick leave available to the employee.&nbs... More...

Many managers struggle with how to validate training initiatives in terms of business value. Training improves employees' skills, but by how much? What is this worth to the enterprise? Info-Tech's ROI Calculator for Corporate Training" quantifie... More...

Finally, the Human Resources arena is being refined. While for the last two decades, the corporate and business world has demonstrated a proactive attitude in areas of technology advancement and operational management, the Human Resources agenda seem... More...

Today I was talking with someone and for some reason my thoughts and the conversation turned to my previous career in the banking industry. I really liked my job at the bank for two main reasons. First, I was involved in commercial lendin... More...

Spring has sprung and the annual Spring Cleaning has begun in my house. I'm using this year's ritual as a chance to let go all of the clothes I've held onto for years, thinking maybe someday, I'd like them. There is a place for Spring Cleaning in our... More...

Interviewing Tips from Rudolph Giuliani This past Monday I had the opportunity to listen to Rudolph Giuliani give the keynote address at the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame banquet in Boston. During his keynote he discussed - among other th... More...

Dear Joan: I am employed in a toxic workplace. Virtually everyone is in it for themselves, and there is a distinct separation between "management" and "workers." As such, workers come and go as they please, and abuse is ram... More...

How does buying my Blackberry compare to becoming a first-time manager? Organizations have the opportunity to greatly accelerate new leader success by offering support and formal development during this transition. I recently broke down and bought a... More...

Roughly one quarter (23%) of employers - and 44% of large companies with 25,000 or more employees - are interested in offering targeted benefits communications based on employee life stage and/or demographics, according to MetLife´s recently re... More...

The U.S. Department of Labor has put together a new section on their web site with "Off-the-Clock" wage and hour information sheets: http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/offtheclock/index.htm. The information concerns how an employer determines what are ... More...

There really are two essential pieces of the puzzle to implementing and utilizing a technology based, or for that matter, any performance management system. There really are two essential pieces of the puzzle to implementing and utilizing a te... More...

Journalists and Recruiters - Avoiding the Interview Storm In the third edition of his book Creative Interviewing author Ken Metzler notes that his surveys of journalism students over the years uncovered two distinct sets of problems...ones that nov... More...

This week´s webcast was an interesting one to be sure. Talking about CRM (Candidate Relationship Marketing) has become a favorite pasttime lately. It seems everywhere you look someone is talking about how to better source candidates. This week... More...

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Ask the Coach - Issue 12: Declining Promotion: Career Suicide?

The Benefits of Municipal Broadband Wireless Networks

Reduce Turnover through Diversity Management

Where Art Thou Pension Reform?

The New CEO Pay: Minimum Wage Plus Commission

Unhappy at Work? Ask the Right Questions Before Accepting the Next Job

Transform Your Organization from High Turnover to High Retention

Attract them with the game ball

A Peek at the Last Week

Business "Best Practices" Applied to the Home: A Case Study

Five Self-Leadership Principles for Maximizing Your Potential

Nursing the Workload

Accrued Sick Leave and FMLA

Prove the Value of Training Initiatives

Road to Inclusivity

Mapping Behaviors

A Breath of Fresh Air

Interviewing Tips from Rudolph Giuliani

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: The Toxic Workplace

A Stranger in a Strange Land - Leading for the First Time

Employees Call for Improved Benefits Communications Based On Life Stage

New "Off-the-Clock" Wage and Hour Resources

Two Essential Pieces of the Puzzle

Journalists and Recruiters - Avoiding the Interview Storm

CRM (Candidate Relationship Marketing)