Blogs / 2011 / June

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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 / June

By Gwen Kesten, Ph.D., Solutions EAP Coordinator-Middlesex Hospital Our June TIPS will focus on the work of Tal Ben-Shahar, a psychologist and one of the most popular lecturers ever at Harvard University. His work has been featured on CNN, CBS, in... More...

Change is hard. Whether you’re facing a big change like reinventing a business model or something simple like the day paychecks come out, change is difficult. One Harvard Business School study found that 70% of change efforts fail. That’s not a ty... More...

Are you inspired to take responsibility for you? Are you inspired to take responsibility for your role and your conduct in every single management relationship with every single boss? You decide you are going to take responsibility for your part i... More...

Somebody summarized today's "intellectual milliue" very succintly like this: " They read one book, write 10 and talk a 100". We may call this horizontal perspective. Horizontal perspective is based on an intellectual inertia that doesn't challe... More...

Culture Change I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients - a president in a Silicon Valley high tech company. We discussed how culture change begins with getting clarity on desired results. My e... More...

The growing need for employers to perform their proper due-diligence in the hiring process created the need for legislation to protect the rights of applicants and as a guideline of best practices” for employers. This delicate dance between an employ... More...

SHLPreVisor, a global leader in talent management solutions now delivering more than 15 million assessments in over 150 countries and 30 languages,has released their fifth annual Business Outcomes Study Report , demonstrating the impact organization... More...

I'm all about passing along useful information, so here's some recent E-Verify news and state legislation updates. I hope you find these helpful! • On May 10th, the White House released a plan to establish a “21st Century Immigration System” that ... More...

The Labor Department’s release of the US job report this morning shocked many with its final numbers for May’s unemployment rate. Over the past month employers were hiring but at a slow rate. There were only 54,000 jobs this May in comparison to the ... More...

Will your organization have the talent to execute on the CEO’s plans to grow the business? Share your perspective by participating in APQC’s work force capabilities survey and receive a free summary of the survey results—offering insights in... More...

As humans, we are all prone to making missteps, errors and sometimes behaving badly. We’ve all done it, some more publicly than others. The tendency is often to lay blame on others or justify our actions, as if we can somehow shift the spotlight fr... More...

I’ve spent a lot of time studying what makes people happy, successful leaders. But some of the best suggestions I can think of came out of a study of a bunch of elderly retirees, who, as far as I know, never had been CEOs. A friend of mine had interv... More...

Recognize This! – Each of us brings our own cultural heritage to work. Blending that into one powerful company culture is possible through strategic recognition. I’ve talked a good bit this week about company culture , but it’s important in... More...

BY: Peter Reeve Director, Line of Business Sales SAP Canada Canada has a productivity problem. Whether you use statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Conference Board of Canada, or the Centre fo... More...

It is amazing to me what gets measured in this world. Just say, Guiness Book of Records and you are now conjuring up outrageous tales of the biggest, fastest, most random anythings -- largest hand thrown pizza crust, the largest ball of string, or th... More...

What do Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Michael J. Fox, and Tim Giehll have in common? They’ll all be at the 2011 SHRM Conference and Exposition on June 26-29 in Las Vegas. If you’re hesitant to go because of the price, read on. There’s a way... More...

In February 2010, The New York Times reported that, for the first time in recorded history, women outnumbered men on the nation’s payrolls. What does this mean for the American workforce? Unfortunately, women’s ascendance in the workplace is pa... More...

Many of today’s employers have focused with laser-like intensity on using the plentiful amount of information found on the Internet to conduct employment screening background checks on job candidates using search engines like Google, social... More...

Co-employment is a relationship between two or more employers whereby each has the legal responsibilities to the same employee. Co-employment issues can present problems for the companies that supply contingent labor (temps, contractors, consult... More...

Remember 8-Tracks? Better yet, remember record albums? Think back, if you can, at how the music industry has evolved: albums, reel-to-reels, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs. It wasn't really until the advent of digital music that you could finally and cl... More...

Kansas City, Kan.— Although the economy is still struggling to make significant strides towards recovery, small improvements are starting to become more evident. The 2011 Compensation Data Services survey results found pay increase budgets remained... More...

Recognize This! – You can’t engage employees. You can only create a culture in which they want to engage. Yesterday I wrote about the importance of company culture for employee engagement and business success . An article in Knoweldegat... More...

Workforce planning refers to everything from filling open positions to the inclusion of HR metrics. For our purposes, think in terms of the flow of employees through the company. As with any risk management, begin by assessing the risks involved: ... More...

Although more and more establishments are taking advantage of such programs as Groupon and Living Social, many of these firms – and their employees – come to regret the experience. Failure to manage these programs properly can destroy their value. Be... More...

Given the wage and hour litigation that misclassification claims generate, I wonder why companies pay anyone but their top executives on a salary-exempt basis. The so-called “prestige” and extra effort from employees that a company gains by offering ... More...

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Becoming Happier Part I

How to Prepare Your Culture for Change

"Get Ready"

Vertical perspective vs. horizontal perspective

Culture Change Begins with Desired Results

Making the FCRA work for you - Performing Compliant Background Checks

2011 SHLPreVisor Business Outcomes Study Report Proves Impact of People Intelligence on Driving Organizational Success

E-Verify News and State Legislation Updates

May’s job report shows rise in unemployment

Take APQC’s Work Force Capabilities Survey Today—Receive Free Results

The Risky Business of Apologies

Stop Chasing the Wrong Priorities

Respecting and Understanding Personal Cultural Heritage in the Workplace

The Shifting Perspective of Canadian Organizations - What Employees are Telling Us

Beware and Be Prepared

2011 SHRM Conference In Las Vegas

Women Now Outnumber Men In The Workforce – What Does This Mean for Our Future?

Safe Hiring Expert Lester Rosen: Employers Must Manage Risks of Using Internet for Employment Screening Background Checks

Co-employment - Do you know the risks?

8 Track, Anyone?

Pay Increase Budgets Hold Steady for Service Companies

Company Culture Is Real – Just Look at Your Bottom Line

Workforce Planning Risks

Are Your Employees Grumpy About Groupon?

Auditing Your Wage and Hour Practices