Blogs / 2006 / September

While Russia is no longer considered a hardship location, it nevertheless presents a number of challenges that can exasperate even the most seasoned of expatriates and HR managers. From establishing appropriate benefit packages to addressing security... More...

No words adequately express a teenager´s anxiety upon hearing about a school move due to a parent´s new assignment. Trainers for Prudential Relocation´s Intercultural Global Workforce Development (GWD) find that assignee families wi... More...

On 9 July 2004, the Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) (Amendment) Ordinance 2004 was passed by legislation in Hong Kong to effectively remove the security of tenure provisions for domestic tenancies. Prior to this change of security of ten... More...

There are many aspects of relocation that companies must consider and plan for when developing their policies and programs. As the greatest asset to any organization, it is the employee´s whose experience companies are most concerned with when ... More...

When you think about Australia as a relocation destination, what comes to mind? Do you conjure up images of the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House, the Outback, or do you envision kangaroos or koala bears? While these are certainly common "po... More...

Vacations can be exciting and we often plan for months, if not years, for that two weeks in Italy, Hong Kong, London, South Africa, Israel... anywhere our journey will take us! Tour books, cost calculations, budget planning, clothes shopping, food re... More...

This proven concept, first conducted by Prudential Relocation in 2003 and again in 2005, is designed to identify the most important issues that affect the industry and offer solutions from which we can benefit. Using a proven focus group methodology,... More...

As relocating employees and their families prepare for international assignments, they begin to wonder what to expect from the experience. Will it go well? Which bumps in the road can be predicted and which can be avoided all together? When the assig... More...

Executive coaching was once viewed as a last-ditch effort to rescue an executive with some fatal flaw. No longer. Coaching is fast becoming a way for executives on the rise to add extra capabilities to their repertoire and gain an edge to more quickl... More...

"Our country needs women to have babies, our companies need women's brainpower and time," she said. "Those two things going together really demand that companies wake up to this new culture." "Our country needs women to have babies, our compani... More...

QUESTION: Facilitating Politically Charged Feedback? Dear Merry, I am responsible for the executive development of the top 200 leaders at my global pharmaceutical company. I have a team of 20 Generalists each of whom reports to a li... More...

If you are attending Employers of Excellence National Conference next month in Las Vegas there´s still time to sign-up for your 1-hour executive coaching session with Break Through Consulting. If you are attending Employers of Exce... More...

This time every year I go to a Fall Equinox celebration in one of the last remaining old growth forests in North America. It´s a good 8 hour drive north of where I live in Toronto. I wish I could put the way the air smells in a bott... More...

China is among the easiest countries to attract expatriate executives to work but is also one of the hardest places for them to succeed, according to more than 140 international recruiters who completed the tenth edition of the quarterly Executive Re... More...

Last Wednesday my wife, son, daughter, and I took a ride down to Best Buy in North Attleboro, Massachusetts in search of a new family computer. We didn´t have our hearts set on any particular model, but we had success in the past at this store ... More...

Have you hired employees that produce good individual results statistically, but their attitude is so bad that all the good accomplished is not worth the negative influence they have on the rest of the team? Do you hope they will just go away b... More...

"Embrace change" is a useless platitude mouthed by managers or motivational speakers who have not thought through its full implications - or they are masochists who enjoy suffering. Changes that bring new opportunities or propel us forward ... More...

Dear Joan: I am a business owner who has had an employee work for me for approximately three years. She is a very well trained employee at that. She made a MAJOR mistake in one of our business dealings, in which she had to redo the whole job over,... More...

The vast majority (81 percent) of more than 2,300 global executives surveyed say they are connected to work through mobile devices (cell phone, PDA, laptop or pager) all of the time, according to the latest Executive Quiz from Korn/Ferry Internatio... More...

US sales and marketing heads earn median annual total cash of $281,000, nearly six times that of US sales representatives with median total cash of $47,300. Sales managers earn the most in Switzerland; sales representatives earn the most in Germ... More...

Dr. Susan Bethanis, a San Francisco-based executive coach, is the CEO of Mariposa Leadership, Inc. - a 12-person firm in its 10th year. Her book, Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage, (Kaplan Publishing, 2004), was voted 2004 Top 10 Busine... More...

When I worked as a Management Information Specialist at a major regional bank, I was asked to be able to link several spreadsheets together and maximize their effectiveness in documenting loan portfolio results. When I worked as a Management Infor... More...

On May 25, 2006, a compromise Senate bill, S-2611, increasing border security and placing illegal immigrants on a road to citizenship passed 62-36 after a week-long, fiery debate. In December of 2005, the House also passed an immigration reform... More...

Time Management. An interesting concept, and a topic that Solutions EAP is asked to present fairly often in a workshop format. It occurs to me that what employers are really interested in, is productivity. To actually manage time is an ox... More...

Friendship. The dictionary says: Friend (friend) noun. A person whom one knows, likes and trusts. A person whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; Comrade. One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group. An acquai... More...

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Russia: Defining the Expatriate Landscape

Pain or Gain? The Importance of Curriculum for Assignee Families and Their Teenagers

Change of Tenancy Laws and Effect on Corporate Policies in Hong Kong

Moving Household Goods Internationally

Australia: Avoiding Pitfalls of Perceived Cultural Similarities

Best Practices in International Business and Short-term Assignment Benefits

Relocation 2010: Prudential Relocation´s Trend Inventory

Acculturation: To Stress or Not to Stress?

Executive Coaching: Caveat Emptor

Mom Friendly Companies Mean Great Corporate Culture

Ask the Coach - Issue 21: Facilitating Politically Charged Feedback?

Experience Executive Coaching with Break Through Consulting ... Compliments of Hr.com!

Message in a Bottle

China Among the Easiest Countries to Attract Expatriate Executives to Work

Why great hires increase sales and help with parenting

Rotten Apple Syndrome

Navigating Change and Adversity

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Bite the Bullet

Too Much Time Connected

Global Survey finds US Heads of Sales and Marketing are Among World´s Highest Paid

Book Review of Leadership Chronicles of a Corporate Sage

Tales of the Corporate Downtrodden #3: Trapped in the Land of Spreadsheets, Databases, and Emails

Immigration Reform: Myth or Reality

Time Management 101

Friendship

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

	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

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