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

First growth, then income. If you´re like most investors, you want to achieve growth while you´re working and income after you retire. But that doesn´t necessarily make it smart to change your investment strategy when you retire by ... More...

As a self-styled (as well as self-invented and trademarked) "Psychohumorist" TM my personal and professional challenge is to blend being both a "wise man" and a "wise guy." I suspect I have a constitutional if not congenital need to embrace psy... More...

Discover the five components necessary for bringing organizational and individual performance together by taking a look at an excerpt from Synygy CEO Mark Stiffler's new book, PERFORMANCE: Creating the Performance-Driven Organization. Please click... More...

Here s an interesting statistic. 99% of every person s DNA is exactly the same. Only 1% of our DNA makes us different and unique. Unfortunately, stating that you have a great product, service, staff or company reinforces the similarities between you ... More...

With the complexity of today´s business solutions and their far-reaching affects, more often than not senior level executives are actively involved in the process of assessing the issues and their options. Yet many companies are finding... More...

Although it has always been a good thing to nurture positive employment relationships, the interest that organizations have in doing so is really driven by the tightness of the labor market. Things are heating up again in the labor market.... More...

I feel so fortunate to have had the privilege of spending some time with Dr Jack Zenger. I feel so fortunate to have had the privilege of spending some time with Dr Jack Zenger. Dr.Zenger is the co-founder and CEO of Zenger/Folkman and was inducted... More...

Although a former Brassringite myself, this was the first user conference I was actually invited to attend and I was very impressed. Although a former Brassringite myself, this was the first user conference I was actually invited to atten... More...

This week we had the honor of meeting Paul Kedowsky, the Internet portal and community expert at Ventures West. Imagine how I felt when he told me that I needed to make these blogs more personal, more controversial and more frequent. You know how muc... More...

What HRP's Need to do to guarantee the future of DB plans. How to Make DB Plans Be More Viable In order to make sure that the Future of DB Plan continues, we need to do the following: (1) Speak out and get those responsib... More...

As the nation´s leading behavioral health disease management and employee assistance company, Magellan Health Services serves the needs of one in four insured Americans. With more than 55 million members, we touch more individuals and families ... More...

Golfing, traveling, scrapbooking, gardening, just relaxing -- leisure time -- is what most people think of when they think about retiring. But baby boomers are rewriting the definition of retirement. Many soon-to-be-retired professionals, executives,... More...

Some 44% of multinational companies increased the number of international assignments from subsidiary to subsidiary in the past two years. The percentage of female expatriates has increased significantly in the past five years, to 13% from 8% gl... More...

Most executives don´t think much of HR: not a shocker in 2006 or any other year. But it turns out that our business respondents´ opinion of the value of human resources correlates with their beliefs on other aspects of the organization. Y... More...

Innovation and creativity are so important to performance, especially these days. Innovation and creativity are so important to performance, especially these days. Having recently come back from vacation, I feel I can approach work... More...

"Some people can think no deeper than a fact." - Voltaire (pseudonym of Francois Marie Arouet), 18th century French philosopher and dramatist Many successful companies were started by passionate zealots with a strong technical expertise ... More...

Over the past several years, numerous workplace studies and workforce experts, including Spherion, have extolled the benefits of offering training and development programs to employees. According to Spherion´s recent groundbreaking Emerging Wor... More...

Need some great new employees? Don t just run an ad in the newspaper and hope the kinds of applicants you need will walk through your door. Every business has three sources of potentially excellent employees that most businesses overlook: friends of ... More...

Are you maintaining your independence? James Surowiecki writes in his book The Wisdom of Crowds that diversity -- not in the sociological sense, but rather in the conceptual and cognitive sense has a profound effect on a groups abilit... More...

If there is anything that the typical clever lawyer does right, it is to shy away from offering tax advice to his clients. For years, the question of taxability of the attorney´s fee earned on an employment case has been particularly perplexing... More...

What is SOX? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002 is a congressional act passed to prevent future scandals of Enron proportion, and is considered to be one of the most significant changes to federal securities laws in the United States. The Enron ... More...

About a decade ago, I had an epiphany about whole systems thinking when my project team and I were asked to figure out why an effort to digitize the company´s backup data systems was failing. After reading about the business trends of com... More...

Is your workforce cynical and resigned? Do you find yourself carefully orchestrating meetings and communications to share everything positive about the workplace and promote employee enthusiasm and support? Do you feel like you're working too hard to... More...

In the last few years there has been great debate taking place in the staffing world. "Do we develop our own internal expertise or do we outsource the process?" There is no one answer to these any many other questions being raised by the community a... More...

An interesting exchange ensued among OD consultants with whom I associate. If we are shareholders of a company (not the company with whom we are consulting, of course), when we advocate change, can we live with the manner in which the change is imple... More...

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Do Retirees Need a New Investment Strategy?

On Becoming a Wise System: The Dynamics of Individual Imagination and Organizational Innovation

Elements of Effective Performance

Develop Your MVP

7 Common Sales Challenges that Prevent Executive Level Access

Back to 1999!

A Tribute to Dr Jack Zenger

BrassRing Lovefest - Oops, I Mean User Conference in Phoenix

Wrap up on ASTD

How to Make DB Plans More Viable

Automation Streamlines Benefits Administration

Retire on to Your Next Career

International Assignments Increasing

Workforce Data Insights: The Value of HR

Time to Reflect

How Many Companies Lose That Loving Feeling

Unlock the Power of Training and Development Programs: Eliminate Dangerous Disconnects Between Employers and Employees

Three Overlooked Sources For Great Employees

Are you maintaining your independence?

Settling Employment Cases Just Got Easier

How SOX Affects Payroll Professionals

Avoid Piecemeal Pitfalls: Use a Whole System Approach to Achieve Diversity Results

Management In Real Life: Morale

The Great Debate...to outsource or not to outsource (that is the question)

Both Sides of the Coin