Blogs / 2010 / 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 / 2010 / July

Sales has done a fine job of needs assessment and solution placement. But the focus on placing solution is not as relevant as it once was as buyers show up knowing more than we do. I even know of on-line capability being developed as we speak that wi... More...

Managers are constantly looking for ways to “motivate” team members. This has led to an endless search for the right combination of carrots and sticks. These often include financial incentives, reward programs such as travel, merchandise or public re... More...

The Navigator is published by Greg Smith, Lead Navigator, Chart Your Course International Inc. View this newsletter on our website: http://www.chartcourse.com/Enav-168.html See the bottom of this newsletter to subscribe or to unsubscribe. ######... More...

Bond International Software’s e-Recruiting and Talent Management Software, Bond Talent, makes its debut on Workforce Management Magazine’s influential Hot List. MINNEAPOLIS, (July 19, 2010) – Workforce Management Magazine’s June Issue inclu... More...

California's Meeting Solutions conducted a poll recently that revealed that a third of Americans consider meetings to be a "complete waste of time". At your office you may find that meetings take up a good chunk of your calendar month. But meeting ma... More...

Are you up-to-date on the type of questions that you cannot ask a candidate during a job interview? Two years ago, I applied for a job through a temp agency and was scheduled for an interview the following Saturday morning. The employer showed up ... More...

David Zinger just published his latest e-book collection: The Top Tens of Employee Engagement . A collection of advice on engagement from members of the Employee Engagement Network, The Top Tens is a solid handbook of ideas for engagement along ... More...

We announced the findings from the first annual Class of 2010 Survey , a survey conducted by Studentawards and I Love Rewards to find out what graduating students really look for in an employer. Our goal with this survey was to get into the mindse... More...

With the COBRA subsidy running out for many people and a lot of confusion in general over health reform, your former employees may not understand what their best options are. They want to know things like whether or not they can continue their COBRA ... More...

By Eric Davis and Mary Ann Downey Diversity and inclusion are, in some ways, like peanut butter and jelly. They're not the same but are often combined, making up a whole that's more than the sum of its parts. So when i4cp - on behalf of its member... More...

With the heady rush of health care reform changes, we might be overlooking retirement plans. I have been writing before about the importance of fees disclosures in retirement plans and it turns out the government has not forgotten about it eith... More...

Within the Health Care Reform structure there is a provision that adds an external appeals component to claims processing. In the mad rush to get regulations and guidance in place before the September 23, 2010, start date, the department of Lab... More...

Many career-related blogs provide helpful information by professionals, career experts, and those who just want to share their job-hunting experience. Here is a list of some top job-hunting blogs, along with their links, for you to explore. AA Car... More...

Temp work is normally viewed as a stepping stone to a more permanent position in a company or to a new career path. But nowadays temp work wears a different suit. As companies climb out of the recession's black hole, they still have painful memor... More...

Congress has approved legislation that in effect restores unemployment benefits to eligible claimants for six more months to the week of November 27, 2010. In Texas, thousands of claimants had exhausted their benefits due to the previous deadline... More...

Avoid Bad Leadership Decisions A growing body of research reveals that our behavior and decisions are influenced by an array of strong psychological undercurrents, all of which are more powerful and pervasive than we realize. Like streams, they ... More...

How do you retain and prepare your best talent to lead? Mentoring programs are one of the most effective tools in achieving business results. The authors of the book, War on Talent reported, “Of those who have had a highly helpful mentoring experienc... More...

I am often asked and I lead frequent workshops on how to create successful strategic employee recognition programs. Programs that deliver the bottom-line results the CEO expects, the appreciation and acknowledgment the employees deserve, and the simp... More...

Fierce Emotionally Intelligent Conversations “No one has to change; everyone has to have the conversation.” —David Whyte In her two books, Fierce Conversations and Fierce Leadership, training and development consultant Susan Scott explains t... More...

Restaurant owners know that garnish is where the profit is. A sandwich on a plate - $3. Add chips - $4.50. A pickle and a sprig of parsley - $7.95. Good networkers understand the value of garnish too. It's those little in between times when we fin... More...

By: Adam Small Here is a list of your top 10 business networking hates based on a survey carried out amongst experienced networkers and a few tips on how you can help yourself handle these next time you go networking. 1. Takers v. givers and pe... More...

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." — André Gide, French writer who won the 1947 Nobel Prize for literature An entrepreneur decided it was time to give his daughter, a recent busin... More...

Being unemployed can be hard. Really hard. And if you give in to your worst fears, you can convince yourself you’ll never get another job. But don’t go there. Instead be your own best advocate. Here are 5 things that... More...

“Our employees are our most valuable asset.” Anyone else sickened by that phrase? I’ve heard it so often, it’s lost all sense of meaning. And though I do believe employees are a company’s greatest competitive advantage , too many companies are no... More...

A toxic work environment is one where negative and destructive behavior occurs routinely and as a result, the atmosphere and the people in it are poisoned. It is an environment where manipulation, politics and ego are key drivers. Toxic workplaces be... More...

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Stop Giving Lip Service to Your “Most Valuable Assets”

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