Blogs / 2011 / May

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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 / May

By Marcia Eager, LCSW, CEAP, Solutions EAP Coordinator Kindness in the workplace can be controversial. Kindness can sometimes be misinterpreted as weak or naiveté. It sometimes can be looked upon as favoritism. If an organization practices kindn... More...

Don't make accepting or rejecting your idea an all-or-nothing proposition. If you agree that some action is better than no action, take care to help your listeners see other choices. If they can't purchase equipment now to do the printing, are they w... More...

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback recently signed House Bill 2134 into law, enacting big changes to the state's Workers' Compensation law. The changes require Kansas employers to display an updated state labor law poster. The Wichita Business Journal... More...

A team of my consultants recently completed another wave of leadership development programming up on the North Slope in Alaska, a tough place to work, and a tougher place to implement "employee engagement" programming. They were struck once again... More...

For project managers, the support of their team is critical for completing projects successfully. Yet, a team’s respect cannot simply be assigned like a task. Acquiring and executing project authority with the support of a full project team demands c... More...

One of the reasons that transparent and open organizations work so well is that people get the information that they need. They are able to make decisions based on that information. They are able to make plans. At least to some extent, they know what... More...

Of all the functions of HR/Training, none is more like sales than onboarding (take that salespeople who say we don’t understand what you do!). If you think about it, your new employee onboarding program is the culmination of your recruiting efforts i... More...

Recognize This! – The choices you make every day are more important than inborn talent. I once worked for an organization in which a senior leader argued “Hire for talent. You can teach skills, but you can’t teach talent.” I’m sure that’s... More...

When using job match assessments to improve the selection and promotion process, success may depend largely upon how top performers are identified. Since the process is designed to help a business select candidates who share the job related character... More...

Organizations today face multiple challenges to sustain and grow their bottom line, and they engage multiple audiences to achieve success including customers, partners, suppliers, channel and distribution networks, independent agents, and others. The... More...

The Business Advantages of E-Learning Classroom-based (instructor-led) training is still an effective way to teach new skills, particularly those subject areas that involve changes in behavior or complex concepts. But it comes at a high cost in ... More...

The convergence of learning and performance management creates an opportunity to diagnose and prescribe ways to better develop critical talent. By integrating learning and performance, organizations can more easily identify workforce trends in a more... More...

“Textual harassment” is what it’s called, the electronic footprints left behind when a worker uses high-tech tools to secretly record your conversation without your knowledge. As cell phones, pen recorders and other digital devices become more common... More...

You’ve read the stats: one in six Americans commute 90 minutes both ways to and from work, and those who commute for 180 minutes both ways are the fastest growing category. Now, how can you make use of your time on these long commutes? Some people po... More...

Shape Your Organization’s Culture I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients - a senior vice president in a Silicon Valley high tech company. We discussed how people experienced work at his company. ... More...

You’re sitting in your office cruising for top talent online, but the problem is, sometimes the best candidates are located far across the ocean. You’re not about to fly them in for an interview, so what do you do? Enter - the Video Interview. Vid... More...

School’s out, and companies are hiring graduates left, right, and centre. These Millennial grads are savvy, tech-savvy and ready to begin, for the most part. You are looking for top performers for your company. But will they fit in with your company?... More...

Claude Ruel was a Montreal Canadiens coach for many years and when I played there he ran a hockey conditioning camp for us players in August. These "getting ready" for training camp sessions were open to current players and young prospects and became... More...

You use your connections, recruiting softwar e, and interview skills to land the perfect candidate. Then, a year or two later, he or she leaves, following another great opportunity. It’s a recurring nightmare (and occasional reality) for recruiting ... More...

Quick quiz… Who should own the process of new employee onboarding within an organization? a) The Manager b) Human Resources / Training c) No one d) Everyone In our firm’s opinion, there really is only one right answer and that’s b) Human ... More...

Recognize This! – Playing to strengths enables success and engagement. There’s a virtuous circle of employee engagement , described by the illustration at right. Gallup also puts it this way: “To be engaged, you need to identify wit... More...

That's at least is the opinion of Peter Cappelli, Wharton Professor of Management. He talked during a latest Talent Supply Chain Forum on "Management in an Age of Uncertatinty". In the this video interview you can listen him talking on the evolu... More...

www.electronici9.com During the past week, I’ve been on the road (again), speaking at various immigration and HR-related conferences about I-9 compliance and technology. It’s a familiar pitch for me (smart technology = better compliance), and ... More...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/YQcekm9J7iE “We need to leverage technology to bring recruiting back to its’ roots as a social activity.” The Founder of the Zero Unemployment Movement and CEO of SmartRecruiters , Jerome Ternynck, explains, “We ... More...

A rapidly growing trend for both small and large companies is the use of Software as a Service (SaaS) . SaaS provides software to customers as an on-demand service rather than the traditional method of delivery software as an on-site installation... More...

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Is it so Hard to Practice Kindness? Part III

Change Yes/No Issues to Multiple Choice

Kansas makes significant changes to its Workers' Compensation law

From Alaska to Las Vegas: The Latitude to Create Requires Effective Employee Engagement

Authority Earned, Not Given

Never Assume

Sell your new employees the sizzle, not the steak

What’s More Important – Choices or Skills?

Selecting Top Performers — Be careful with what you wish for

Improving Business Performance through Sales Teams, Partners, and Customers: Engaging Your Extended Enterprise

Building a Business Case: E-Learning for External Audiences

Five Ways to Improve Learning with Performance Management

Smile! You're Being Recorded at Work

Do You Dread Commuting? It's Not as Bad as You Think

How People Experience Work Shapes Your Organization’s Culture

Interviewing Candidates via Video

How to Hire a Top-Performing Grad

One-Eyed Motivation

Are You A Crappy Boss ??

Who should own your new employee onboarding?

A 3 Step Process for Higher Performance?

Are we moving from a workforce planning model to a responsiveness model?

All aboard the I-9 Central: Is this the last stop for compliance?

Unemployment is Not a Fatality

What is “SaaS” and what can it do for your staffing company?