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

Remember the good old days when products, markets, and industries had fairly predictable lifecycles? Back then, carefully managing a few key metrics was usually enough to ensure the continued health of the business. As long as sales and revenue... More...

Employment Screening Resources (ESR) Fourth Annual 'Top Ten Trends in Background Screening' for 2011 Trend Number 10 - New Accreditation Standards Help Employers Select Background Screening Firms By Lester Rosen, Employment Screening Resource... More...

In the past, I have written about the importance of including accurate language in summary plan descriptions and how significant it is for plan sponsors to include appropriate "discretionary authority" language and "reservation of righ... More...

www.electronici9.com Today, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) released a detailed summary of its recent I-9 listening session, which gave various stakeholders the opportunity to voice their concerns and wish lists in... More...

As we scurry madly into the Holiday Season, the year-end retrospectives are beginning. It’s time to look back on what was and ahead to what can be. This is also what highly effective – and disciplined – management teams do so much more regularly that... More...

Strategies to Retain and Engage High Potentials Research shows as the economy rebounds, organizations will see their most promising talent abandon ship in high numbers. In a recent article that appeared in Harvard Business Review, the authors indi... More...

Positive Work If work is defined as the relationship between an employer an employee, then positive work is the relationship between an employee and employer that leads to both individual and organizational flourishing.This may be an overly... More...

The New Brain for Business Institute Diane Marentette and Richard Trafton, Ph.D.

Each of us brings to the workplace - and to every other aspect of our lives - a powerful personal momentum that is made up of three powerful developmental forces: 1. The functioning of our brains that have evolved over time into an amazing human... More...

We know how difficult learning can be. We also know that learning is increased when the material or item to be learned has a strong emotional component. Learning happens through a process of encoding. This is where various connections among neuro... More...

Trusted Advisor Enlightened businesses today hire leadership consultants and executive coaches to help with their leadership development programs. However, increasingly a number of my clients now prefer me to help them in the role of trusted adv... More...

It’s no surprise that employees, for the most part, continue to be disheartened in their workplaces. Why? They at least have a job, don’t they? That’s precisely the argument lending to employee disengagement. The “survivors” of the actions taken d... More...

HRM-Club is a Human Resources Management Club interesting in providing HR Social Network services including book store, HR Activity, Articles, Blogs, uploading Files, Video, Sounds, and more.. join it today and Invite your friends to participa... More...

About three years ago a storm began that soon went full-economic tsunami, with unrestrained waves of cutbacks and layoffs that seemed to have no end. At its peak you and your colleagues scrambled into a lifeboat and bailed frantically, hanging on ... More...

How to Say It Right the First Time and Every Time (McGraw-Hill) By Dianna Booher Metaphorically Speaking Metaphors create powerful pictures. One metaphor can convey a lifetime of experience or a head full of logic. In one of my client workshops... More...

By Joanne Black Everyone Is a Part of Your Sales Team If you don't include your current clients in your referral-sales team, you leave money on the table--every single day. If you ask them, they will refer you. But, you must ask. Get upfront an... More...

I read an interesting but disturbing article in Business Week magazine that talked about Foxconn, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronic components. What was startling was the picture of suicide nets hung outside its company dormitories. Appa... More...

During the past couple of holiday seasons, many companies put a freeze on holiday parties or other celebratory events (“tough to spend money on frivolous things when we just let associates go….” was the reasoning). “This was a mistake,” cautions B... More...

There’s no end in sight for the jobless recovery in business functions such as corporate finance and IT, in large part due to the accelerated movement of work to India and other offshore locations, according to new research from The Hackett Group, In... More...

Every workplace is different. What matters in one organization may or may not matter elsewhere. First, you need to know what matters to YOU on a deep level. Know what you believe. Know what you stand for. Know what you can't support. Know what you... More...

"People seldom hit what they do not aim at." — Henry David Thoreau, 19th century American naturalist, poet, and essayist Goals are precise and measurable objectives with exact time frames and targets. Goals are short-term steps toward our long-ter... More...

It’s an uncertain economy, for sure. So is it worth the price tag to have an office party this year? Of course it is! A survey recently released by the Creative Group shows that a majority of marketing executives, 52%, believe it’s worth the inves... More...

The Trusted Advisor Enlightened businesses today hire leadership consultants and executive coaches to help with their leadership development programs. However, increasingly a number of my clients now prefer me to help them in the role of truste... More...

In my posts this week , I’ve written about the critical necessity of the CEO’s personal values reflecting the company’s values and living up to both consistently. At the individual level, that’s the entire point of strategic employee recognition – b... More...

Editor’s Note: today’s blog is courtesy of Josie Gonzalez of Gonzalez & Harris. www.electronici9.com On Tuesday, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Verification Division held a 2-hour listening session to gat... More...

In my last post , I discussed the critical importance of the CEO living and demonstrating the same values he or she is encouraging for the company. The Conference Board took this a step further in an article on “Leadership as Performance Art.” ... More...

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Don’t Get Blinded By Your Own Data

Top Ten Trends In Background Screening for 2011: No. 10 - New Accreditation Standards Help Employers Select Background Screening Firms

Supreme Court Looks at Deficient Plan Communications: Fiduciaries Beware?

USCIS Releases Form I-9 Stakeholder Summary

Tis the Season to Review, Assess, Celebrate, and Refocus

Retain Your Top Talent Webseminar

What is Positive Work?

A Challenge for the Workplace: Habits, Change and Business Success

Increasing Learning One Step at a Time

Essential Traits of a Trusted Advisor

Individual Contributors Are Ready to Walk * Can You Afford to Let Them?

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Let the Ship-jumping Begin!

Communicate with Confidence

Your #1 Untapped Referral

Suicide Nets

Even Scaled Back Parties Help Keep Employees Engaged During the Holidays

Acceleration of Offshoring Trend Driving Loss of Millions of Finance and IT Jobs in U.S. and Europe

"Be a Great Workplace Citizen (Part I)"

Goal Setting Can Limit Our Flexibility and Learning

Should you Deck the Office Halls with Holly this Christmas?

The Trusted Advisor Relationship – Developing Empathy

The Best Tool for Employee Behavior Change: Strategic Recognition

The Great I-9 Debate: Re-Designing the Most Complicated One-Page Form in America

CEO Sponsorship of Recognition Necessary for Success