Blogs / 2011 / February

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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 / 2011 / February

Recognize This: If employee engagement isn’t a board-level concern, it’s not really an important initiative. Many say the follow-through is the most important part of the golf swing. The same is true in critical corporate initiatives. Con... More...

Catching up on my reading I recently came across a pair of Fortune articles on the vital importance of storytelling for leaders. Management often relies on directing, telling, and bossing – even if politely saying “please.” Leadersh... More...

Do you avoid hiring overqualified applicants because you believe they will just up and leave at the first opportunity? The truth is just the opposite. The more qualified the applicant, the longer he is likely to stay on the job. A recent study con... More...

The US has repealed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy relating to gays in the military. But what about gays in Corporate America who are still in the proverbial closet? If a worker has to keep her personal life hidden out of fear, it can affect her pe... More...

2:30 PM EST Pre Super Bowl, our Atlanta Costco was relatively slow, but at 1:30 it was packed with shoppers and long lines. People were all smiles and even the workers were looking forward to enjoying the Super Bowl! So, why is the Monday after... More...

Many companies offer workers the option to work from home, and you may already be familiar with the benefits of telecommuting - reduced travel costs, clothing costs, childcare expenses, etc. But what about the cost to the employer? Does telecommuting... More...

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a financial estimate that helps consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system. TCO goes beyond the initial purchase price or implementation cost to consider the full cost... More...

There are many sources for candidates to find valuable input on how to behave during an interview - so here are some tricks of the trade for the person doing the interviewing instead. Finding the right person for your company is a time-consuming c... More...

What's the scariest thing I've ever done? Flying to Canada 12 years ago to meet the love of my life, whom I encountered on the Internet was pretty scary. Marrying him just 10 weeks later wasn't scary at all. Giving birth to twin boys 6 years ag... More...

Over the course of the last few years, I’ve observed what was once ‘channels for the young’ become channels for any number of purposes including business. It’s my firm belief that the staffing industry too will quickly need to hop on the social train... More...

Developing Executive Presence I’ve received a noticeable increase in requests from companies and law firms seeking help for high potential leaders to improve their “executive presence”. When I inquire into what they mean by executive presence I... More...

Does Your Company Have a Robust Drug Screening Process in Place? CNNMoney.com Reports That Drug Use At Work Is Higher Than We Thought. CNNMoney.com recently published an article by Ann Fisher on a report by the drug-testing company Quest Diagn... More...

Last week was a particularly rough week for health care reform as PPACA took some serious hits. First, Judge Roger Vinson from the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida ruled that PPACA was unconstitutional as a whole.&nbs... More...

Recognize This: If you can’t acknowledge you have a problem in the first place, you have no hope of solving it. The Economist Intelligence Unit and HayGroup came out with very interesting research late last year: Re-engaging with Engagement... More...

By Mark Murphy, CEO of Leadership IQ The following are some standard behavioral interview questions commonly asked by managers around the globe, and every one of them is seriously flawed. See if you can identify the problem: • Tell me about a t... More...

by Charlie Cook Is networking helping you bring in the new clients you want? If you are like most independent professionals and small business owners, you put hard work into getting your name out there and distribute your business card wherever... More...

If you are like most people, you do not have enough routine one-on-one discussions about your work with your boss on a regular ongoing basis, every day or every week, before anything goes right, wrong or average on your work for that boss. Most ma... More...

To understand optimism better, let’s examine pessimism a bit more closely. Pessimism is defined as the tendency to see or expect the worst aspects of all things and expecting bad or unpleasant things to happen. Having said that, is it bad to be p... More...

By John Gibbons The Critical Human Capital Issues of 2011 Report Download i4cp's new report that examines the most critical issues facing organizations this year. Available to members and non-members. Webinar: Attracting Top Talent to HR Throug... More...

Has your executive or management team fallen into a few of the traps identified in my last blog post? If so, you’re in good company. Those common team traps are highly interconnected. Getting out of them takes a fair bit of work and approaches unique... More...

In the last few months I’ve been working with three executive teams to help strengthen team effectiveness and boost their leadership of major culture change and development efforts. One team heads up a large commercial construction company in Western... More...

Leading @ the Speed of Change: Navigating Turbulent Times Jim Clemmer has been helping managers improve personal, team, and organization performance for three decades. Much has changed in our world and our organizations during that time! But a... More...

Change is happening way too fast to predict and plan for an uncertain and unknown future. Building a quickly responsive and highly adaptive team and organizational culture is more critical than ever. The core of a built-to-change culture is an energi... More...

In Dan Gardner’s fascinating new book, Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway, he cites the research of Professor Philip Tetlock, in dividing the expert forecasters he studied into hedgehogs and foxes. This comes ... More...

My last few blog posts dealt with our predictable New Year’s “Silly Season” filled with useless forecasts and predictions. This multi-billion dollar industry is built around our deep insecurity about dealing with uncertainty. But life doesn’t come wi... More...

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The Board Must Care about Employee Engagement for Improvement

Persuasion and Influence: Storytelling Skills are Essential

Don't Disqualify your Overqualified Applicant

Practicing Inclusiveness in the Workplace

Absenteeism The Day After The Super Bowl; What's The Deal?

The Cost of Managing Remote Teams

Calculating Total Cost of Ownership when Choosing a Solution

Tips & Tricks for leading a successful interview

The scariest thing I have ever done!

5 Ways Staffing Professionals Can Leverage LinkedIn

Developing Executive Presence – What Really Matters

Does Your Company Have a Robust Drug Screening Process in Place?

PPACA is Unconstitutional and 1099 Reporting May Go Away (a rough week for reform)

C-Suite Blind to Reality of Employee Engagement

The Biggest Mistake With Behavioral Interview Questions

Catch More Clients Using Strategic Networking

"Get in the Habit of Managing Your Boss(es) Every Day"

OPTIMISM - A LOST ART? Part IV

Do People Drive Business? You Bet Your Assets.

Executive Team Traps: Tips, Techniques, and Resources to Pick Yourself Up

Executive Team Traps: Have You Fallen and Can’t Get Up?

Leading @ the Speed of Change: Navigating Turbulent Times

How to Energize Vision, Values, and Purpose/Mission

Are You a Management Hedgehog or a Leadership Fox?

Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmmm on… Leading Through Uncertainty