Blogs / 2010 / April

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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 / 2010 / April

Several years ago I had a large client with a very young employee population. Almost all of them were well under 25. As might be expected with this population turnover was very high, exceeding 100% in some areas. Management wanted to change this situ... More...

The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) recently ran an excellent three-part series on recognition and reward best practices. Highlights are below, but be sure to click through and read the full series. From Beyond the Bonus: Four Ways to Recognize a... More...

Recently someone told me that Buying Facilitation® is an old concept, that its been written about in books since sales books have been written, and that he’s been helping buyer’s buy for decades. Of course he has, except that he, like the entire sa... More...

Executive Coaching For Business Results I recently spoke with the Human Resources Director of a company regarding providing executive coaching for the company president. The HR Director asked some great questions to determine fit, and specifica... More...

Henry Ford once said that too much friendship in the workplace is a bad thing. A few years ago, a Conference Board survey found that 87 percent of North Americans didn't like their jobs. Now, a more recent survey reveals that only 45 percent of Ameri... More...

"Someone who knows his desires and works with purpose to achieve them is a person whose feelings, thoughts, and actions are congruent with one another, and is therefore a person who has achieved inner harmony." — Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, Flow: The P... More...

Only the rarest of managers has that way of talking that inspires and motivates people. Is there any way to imitate that special way they have of talking? When I think about performance coaching, I still think of Frank Gorman - the greatest teache... More...

By Abby Anderson, MS, LPC, CEAP Solutions EAP Program Coordinator In order for us to know how to interrupt the button pushing process, we first have to understand where it starts. Dr. Albert Ellis, the originator of Rational Emotive Behavior The... More...

"Every day all of us make hundreds of choices, most of them so menial and habitual that they are almost as automatic as breathing. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for the better things of life because they have ... More...

The biggest frustration for survey consultants is organizations not using survey results. Although this is understandable under certain circumstances, most of the time it is a simple case of organizations who didn’t realize the seriousness of the pro... More...

Unlocking Employees Intrinsic Motivation One of my CEO executive coaching clients is working with his executive leadership team to create an organizational culture that unleashes employees’ intrinsic motivation. I am coaching him to become more... More...

Well, We in all the companies try to come up with a million of theories of how to retain our staff how to increase their productivity and how to invest as less as possible and reap as much as possible benefits. To start with no country in specific... More...

Late yesterday, President Obama signed into law another short-term extension of COBRA health insurance premium subsidies for employees who are terminated involuntarily. This law takes immediate effect and is retroactive to April 1, 2... More...

Technology has become so pervasive in today's workplace, that it seems as if even the most menial of processes have been reinvented by the introduction of some piece of software. And don't get me wrong, I'm all for it-After all, I work for a technolo... More...

In my newsfeeds and blog readers, a good headline will often jump out and catch my attention. Soon after the Academy Awards in Hollywood, this headline caught my eye: “Too good to reward? You might just have Streep Syndrome.” What is “Streep Syn... More...

So you need to post smoking policy signs around your building that best express your company’s or the state’s regulations about where your employees or visitors are allowed to light up. How do you go about selecting the best sign or label? First,... More...

I was just beginning a new novel by Greg Iles entitled “The Devil’s Punchbowl” the other day and a quote on Page 2 stuck with me. It read “I’ve learned that most people don’t want change, even when it’s in their best interest. We pay lip service to i... More...

Over the years I have worked with many HR professionals on various organizational improvement projects. During our conversations it was not unusual to hear complaints about HR’s role, or lack thereof, in the management of the company. Repeatedly I he... More...

New story from PRWeb published by Daniel Pleasant April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Interaction Associates to Sponsor HCI Talent Management for Health Care Conference Interaction Associates has announced it will sponsor t... More...

New story from Market Watch published by Daniel Pleasant April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Beacon Solutions Appoints Victor Agruso as Chief Human Resource Officer Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc. /quotes/comstock/1... More...

New story from Market Watch published by Daniel Pleasant April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. HireVue's Video Job Interviewing Platform Available to Taleo Business Edition Customers Video interviewing pioneer HireVue (http:/... More...

New story from Engineering News published by Mortimer Goth April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Hogan cautions parastatal CEOs, as remuneration panel begins work Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan issued a stern warni... More...

New story from autoevolution published by Mortimer Goth April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Daimler Shareholders Approve Board Remuneration After yesterday Daimler's chairman of the board Dieter Zetsche announced that due t... More...

New story from Times Online published by Mortimer Goth April 15, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. BP braced for protests at annual meeting BP is expected to shake off environmental protesters and a potential rebellion over executi... More...

Companies need to understand and recognize the differences between (1) “independent contractors” and “employees” and (2) “exempt” and “non-exempt” employees. Classifying workers correctly in each of these respects is extremely important under both f... More...

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Motivating a Young Workforce

Excellent Recognition Guidance from the Corporate Executive Board

Two Types of Decisions: Buy-IN, and BuyING

Executive Coaching For Business Results - Measuring Executive Coaching ROI

BFF in the Workplace a Good Thing?

Personal Purpose Pathways and Pitfalls

"Can You Imitate That Special Way of Talking?"

SOMEONE’S PUSHING MY BUTTONS! Part II

Leaders Make it Happen

Why Surveys Fail

Unlocking Employees Intrinsic Motivation - Rethinking Management

RECRUTING THE NEW WAY

COBRA Subsidy Extended Once Again

Go Green and Run a More Efficient Business by Getting Rid of Paper Vacation Request Forms!

Avoiding “Streep Syndrome” in Your Recognition Practices

Posting Your Smoking Policy

Trusting in Change

Strategic Alignment – The Fault Is With HR

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