Blogs / 2007 / 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 / 2007 / May

More companies will be able to use phased retirement to retain valuable skills and knowledge while providing mature workers with an alternative to the all-or-nothing approach to retirement, according to a report released by The Conference Board, the ... More...

Over the past six months, business press stayed hot with the stories of the rapid success of the companies that were able to dramatically improve their operations, increase employee motivation, achieve a higher level of employee retention, and increa... More...

Managers build their plans and strategies on the assumption that people in their firm are ready and willing to be team players, acting collectively to create or achieve something in the future. The truth, however, is that these attitudes canno... More...

A friend of mine in China is a headhunter and we often swap stories about hiring. Last year he told me about a client who emailed one of his Consultants with a demand to provide ‘at least 10 candidates for my position by next Friday’. I kid you not.... More...

Resilience is a quality that should be nurtured at the organizational as well as the individual level. These are the final tips in a four-part blog series on organizational resilience. All four parts have now posted on Recruitment Redefined Blog .... More...

Faced with a challenging issue in your workplace and need some good advice? The person who can help you best may be someone you already know well. Peer coaching is process by which colleagues offer each other advice about issues each is facing in the... More...

Marc Kielburger is co-author of Me to We, Finding Meaning in a Material World. He is also an accomplished social advocate and leadership specialist, a best-selling author, and a popular speaker. He is the chief executive director of Free the Childr... More...

• Stay connected – Working in a silo may appear to give you the focus you need (because you won’t be bothered). Unfortunately, it also disconnects you from all the other moving parts of the organization. Not to mention, being connected and integrat... More...

Ethics and leadership both seem to be abstract and ambiguous. Ethical leadership is not about how to lead to reach specific goals but what ethical affects leadership has. Ethic isn't moral but the meaning of moral ways and actions. Even so philosophy... More...

I'm a long term HR person and recently ran into a request, that was a first and that I thought would be covered under one of our policies, but surprise! Here's the jist from an employee........A few of us would like to use a conference room during l... More...

As the US government remains at an impasse over what to do about illegal immigration and illegal workers, over 70% of people with severe disabilities in this country are without a job. One of the arguments for allowing illegal workers to remain wit... More...

Resilience is a quality that should be nurtured at the organizational as well as the individual level. So let’s break it down… • Hire resilient talent – We want individuals (leaders) that prove they can bounce back if they’ve been dealt a bad ha... More...

I read an article called “hanging tough” while I was flying back from the ERE Conference in San Diego last month. The article hit the nail on the head and I’d like to share my thoughts. Think of all the companies that have hit a bump in the road. S... More...

Dear Joan: I am having some major issues here at work. I have been with this company for eight years. I work in a satellite office. For the first five years I worked in our satellite office, and then I went to work in our main office, which... More...

You may have taken part in a 360º review process at some point in your career but the odds are that you have not - either way I am sure you are familiar with the process. Unfortunately, when someone is made aware that they are going to participa... More...

Years ago my company began a long and rigorous development process to identify personal constraints. We gathered and compared behavioral and attitudinal data from top performers in a variety of fields, including corporate executives, schoolteachers,... More...

At the end of a 14-hour day, after working with a team of 24 people in a company, I looked over at my partner for this client gig. She spoke for both of us when she uttered the words, "I feel well-used. We were at dinner with the team. Th... More...

In 2004, Fast Company and the Monitor Group created the Social Capitalist Awards program to recognize “The Top 25 Groups That Are Changing the World.” Rubicon Programs, Inc. (Rubicon) received that award four times in a row—in 2004,... More...

“Please don’t put us through a program!” This was the plea from a client who wanted to plan a day off-site with his leadership team. This executive was tired of sessions in the past from other executive development consultants t... More...

Excerpted from California Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP In a nationwide raid, federal immigration officials arrested nearly 200 janitors employed at various restaurant chains. The raid was aimed at a... More...

The spring of 1997 was a significant time for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). An overhaul of the Agency’s Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) brought changes that had not been seen for a quarter of a century.1 This overhaul resulted... More...

Last year, I received a request from a reader to speak before a regional SHRM convention. She had read my articles about how to reduce large-scale turnover by using a process called “data mining”. Data mining works by extracting knowledge... More...

Sooner or later, the topic of health care and how to pay for it during retirement comes up when Jamie Jordan meets with her clients. This is a recent development for Jordan, a financial planner with a focus on long-term care insurance with Lincoln Fi... More...

It was on April 4, 2007 that President Bush held a press conference. He did many Bush-like things. But added to the mix at this press conference were some additional nuances that brought to mind holding this situation as analogous to instances when t... More...

SOR Analysis is a hybrid of SWOT analysis, an application typically used to assess the business positioning of an organization. The SOR acronym in my "hybrid" model means "strengths, opportunities, and roadblocks," which are derived from the componen... More...

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Phased Retirement Programs are Becoming Easier to Implement

Employee Scheduling Automation Positively Impacts Motivation, Efficiency, and Retention

Are We In This Together? The Preconditions For Strategy

10 Key Hiring Questions

Excellence is a Process: More tips to ensure your organization is resilient

Cubicle Coaching

Thought Leader Interview with guest Marc Kielburger: Corporate Social Responsibility

Part 2: How do you ensure your organization is resilient?

Ethics and Leadership

Religous and other Accomodations

Why are employers hiring illegal immigrants in favor of hiring American citizens with disabilities?

Part 1: How do you ensure your organization is resilient?

Recruiting the right talent and nurturing resilience will ensure your company’s success…

Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Problem Employee

The ‘Gift’ of a 360º Review

When Motivation Meets Science

Being Well-Used

The Impact of a CFO: Profile of Rubicon Programs, Inc.

Executive Development: Get to the Heart of What Really Matters

Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants

How Does 21 CFR Part 11 Affect You and Your Company?

How Not to Reduce Turnover

Assessing New Health Care Options

Analogies and Conversations with the CEO

SWOT Analysis Hybrid: SOR Analysis