Blogs / 2010 / December

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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 / December

"Don't curse the darkness, light a candle." — Chinese Proverb In our leadership workshops most team leaders, supervisors, and middle managers agree whole-heartedly that far too many people in their organization succumb to the Victimitis Virus — th... More...

"The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us." — G. K. Chesterton, British author, Fancies Versus Fads Marti was driving through her n... More...

As you look to 2011 and your goals for honing success, the following Ten Steps for Creating a Culture of Commitment and Accountability are offered as a guide: 1.) Communicate to everyone that accountability and commitment are important!2.) Align... More...

Managers often ask me how coaching skills can help them as a manager, after all isn’t it more about providing direction and correcting behavior. Providing direction or correcting behavior is very different from coaching an employee. Regardless of how... More...

http://positiveleadershiplimited.blogspot.com/2010/12/14-ways-to-keep-your-team-engaged.html More...

While you’re recovering from all the feasting – or looking for some time to yourself – here’s a chance to review the most popular of last year’s 100+ blog posts. The links below will take you directly to the post. Many of the bl... More...

Recognize This: Unexpected appreciation is a far more effective motivator than a predictable reward. A friend, trying to explain to me the joys of parenting immediately after venting about the challenges, sent me this article in Slate . To ... More...

What is the best way to determine the real salary expectation of a job seeker or current employee? First, do NOT assume anything !! This is an especially pertinent question in a time of high unemployment. Because of the number of job seekers out t... More...

Recognize This: People really do quit because of lack of recognition. Yes, even in this economy, people really do look for other work (and 2/3 of employed Americans are looking right now ) because of a lack of recognition. 2008 research at... More...

Hi there, I would like to know whether any of you has an international car policy (being particulary interested in the EMEA region) where different budgets are provided for different countries and how all this is harmonized in one policy? ... More...

Recognize This: Companies are sitting on record profits, but with no change in sight for their people practices. How flush are you feeling right about now? If you celebrate Christmas, your wallet is likely feeling quite a bit lighter or you’... More...

Between writing my recent Reorg Stress Series and receiving some understandably pointed comments from a government-related association, I got a bit fired up. Sometimes this can bring out my lyrical-satirical-cynical side. Maybe my words will help fir... More...

Coping With the Holiday Blues For many people the holidays are the saddest time of the year. The holidays are meant to be a time of joy, warmth, excitement and anticipation of the year ahead, and for some people this is indeed the case. But many... More...

Attitude of Gratitude Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger i... More...

There's a place where leadership and business development intersect. It is how you create influence. I have a whole blog dedicated to these topics, which you can access and subscribe to at http://www.SuziPomerantz.com More...

www.electronici9.com The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new E-Verify news publication called the “E-Verify Connection” on its public web site . The inaugural issue of the EV Connection includes several... More...

The common struggle in organizations that want accountability in their culture is “holding others accountable.” Often, the permission to do so really isn’t there. Or if it is, you can run into the “I won’t hold you accountable, if you won’t hold me a... More...

One of the components to health care reform that has been of great concern is the application of code section 105(h) on insured plans. Plans that had lost grandfathered status would have been subject to the non-discrimination rules that self-in... More...

Recognize This: Talented employees know what they’re worth and are ready to get it. Did you snap up any good “deals” during the recession? You know – overqualified employees you were able to get cheap? As the economy (slowly but surely) imp... More...

In the spirit making this a greener Holiday season I am recycling a blog from last year! It’s that exciting week before Christmas when kids cram for their big performance review. Where will the big guy watching from the North Pole mark them... More...

Based on work with a variety of organizational and corporate clients, Part I outlined three necessary transition stress interventions for engaging an angry and anxious audience caught in a rough and rocky reorganizational sea change. (Email stressdo... More...

The "Stress Doc's" Top Ten Tips for Tip-Top Management Warning: This satire may be hazardous to the ironically-impaired. In this era of organizational restructuring or downsizing, or better still, right-sizing, or most on target, what I call "fr... More...

It's been a long but very good year for i4cp - an enormous amount of research on corporate performance was done and many terrific corporate members joined our network. It's impossible to sum it all up in one TrendWatcher but I'm going to hit on a few... More...

Written by Carol Morrison When i4cp conducted a survey on Customer-Focused Organizations earlier this year, more than two-thirds of respondents told us their firms offer superior service. Among high-performing organizations, the percentage exceed... More...

Written by David Wentworth WikileaksBy now we're all up to date on the latest release of classified documents by WikiLeaks. Having this information made public on a global scale has caused great embarrassment for the U.S. State Department, as wel... More...

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Many Managers Disempower Themselves

From Phase of Life to Way of Life

FOR SUCCESS IN 2011 CREATE A CULTURE OF COMMITMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

The role of coach as a manager

Keeping Your Team Engaged

Top 10 Blog Posts for 2010

Say “Thank You” Unexpectedly to Motivate More Powerfully

Are Raises Back in 2011 ??

Tell Me “Thank You” or I’ll Leave

international car policy

A Real Holiday Present: Serve the Public Good

The Reorg Rag (with apologies to no one)

How to Manage Holiday Stress

How to Create an Attitude of Gratitude

INNOVATIVE INFLUENCE

USCIS Publishes First Issue of E-Verify Connection Newsletter

Holding Others Accountable

Non-Discrimination Put on Hold: Insurance Plans get a Reprieve

Hiring Cheap for the Short vs. the Long Term

Leadership Lessons from Santa

The Stress Doc’s “Top Ten Commandments” for Transforming Reorganizational Crisis: Generating the Four “R”s – Relief and Reflection, Rejuvenation and Recommitment – Part II

"Cutting Edge" Strategies for Reorganizing or Downsizing

The Top 10 Talent Trends of 2010

Why Planned Obsolescence May Be the Best Customer Service

Don’t Shoot the Wikimessenger