Blogs / 2008 / July

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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 / 2008 / July

A colleague in HR once told me she thought people were getting smarter. This sentiment was echoed recently by a teacher in Toronto who retired after working with children for thirty years. She felt that over time students became smarter – or they kn... More...

Most of us would rather have a root canal (without the Novocain) than give an employee feedback about poor performance, particularly when it relates to a behavior based issue. Yet, we will eagerly discuss or more accurately complain about these iss... More...

Hiring the right people is a key to any business's success - in fact, I truly believe that if one had to choose only a single thing to focus on, it would be hiring these people. With that said, I find it quite disturbing that most companies I come ac... More...

Working dads may be bringing home a share of the bacon, but they are working harder to get it done, according to survey results released today by Monster . Sixty-one percent of dads polled bring work home every week, a seven percent increase over la... More...

With the State of Connecticut reeling from a series of massive security breaches that have exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands of state residents, Connecticut's Governor and General Assembly joined forces in mid-June to make Con... More...

Whether you are meeting with a potential or existing client, most of us know it's important to make a positive impression. With nearly 50% of all business interactions occurring over a meal, it's more important than ever that your table manne... More...

Since I began mediating 12 years ago, I have made it a practice to ask parties and counsel to sign an Agreement to Mediate, usually prior to the first session. I have developed my own form agreements for different types of mediations (commercial, fam... More...

Oddly, just when information demand rises, more often than not, leaders fail miserably on the supply side. They might, for example, believe sending out an email will suffice. Or, even worse, they may defensively respond to requests for more, in-de... More...

These days teens don’t judge each other’s popularity by the number of letters on their varsity jacket. Now they’re judged by the number of MySpace friends they have stamped on their profile, or the number of Facebook photos they’re tagged on. And if ... More...

We have come to the time of year that almost every school aged child has looked forward to for the last 9-10 months, and that would be summer vacation. I am sure that many of the staff people have been looking forward to it almost as much as the stu... More...

As the job application process increasingly moves online, some job seekers might be tempted to think a formal cover letter is no longer necessary -- not so, a new survey shows. Eighty-six percent of executives polled said cover letters are valuable w... More...

Sales performance management (SPM) has taken the turn into mainstream business. Like ERP in the early 1990s and CRM in the late 1990s, SPM's day has come. Just hiring more salespeople or trying to acquire one's way to growth is becoming increasin... More...

Employment costs fall into several broad categories: 1. Recruitment Expenses 2. Basic Salary 3. Employment Taxes 4. Benefits 5. Space 6. Other Eqipment More...

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Are People Getting Smarter?

3 Keys to Reducing Defensive Reactions to Feedback

Attract Quality People to Apply for Your Positions

Survey Suggests Work/Life Struggle Among Fathers

Connecticut Becomes Only the Second State to Mandate an Employee Data Protection Policy

Business Meals Prove Important in Business Deals

Are Agreements To Mediate Necessary? Yes!

When it is Time to Change, Open up the Communication Pipeline

Social network recruiting: 5 keys to leveraging Web 2.0 audiences for hourly recruitment

3 Keys to Reducing Defensive Reactions to Feedback

School is out for the Summer!

Un'cover' a New Job

How to Understand Sales Performance Management

How much does an Employee Cost