Blogs / 2011 / October

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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 / October

The May 1, 2011 mission to find Osama Bin Laden has become one of the most celebrated military mission planning successes in recent memory due to the utilization of a little-known and seldom-used practice called the Red Team. The mission was a dar... More...

Recognize This! – Defining desired values is useless without making those values real for employees in behavior. How do you define company culture? Since this is a topic I’m passionate about, I’ve read many descriptions of company culture ov... More...

No matter your industry, company or offering, there is a battle-ready competitor somewhere who is busy thinking how to beat you. Products can be quickly duplicated and services cheaply emulated; but the same does not hold true for innovation, executi... More...

With the end of Civil was Sri Lanka has become the fastest growing country in South Asia. According to the many researchers, Sri Lanka is one of the best countries with a qualified workforce. During past few years major companies like Mphasis have st... More...

Basic psychology will tell you that human beings are adept deniers. It’s easy for employees to feel that health and safety messages do not apply to them—and this is why feedback, and the right feedback, is so important. Often, employees are reluct... More...

Leadership Checklist I was recently working with one of my San Francisco Bay Area executive coaching clients – the CEO of a Silicon Valley High Tech company. We had an enlightening coaching conversation, that revolved around how leading pe... More...

With Halloween just around the corner, many workplaces are in the Halloween “spirit” such as having bowls full of candy, and even holding costume contests. But what about after Halloween has come and gone, is your workplace letting off a scary vibe y... More...

Many summers ago when I applied for a job as a nanny, I was somewhat perplexed when my employer let her family members interview me. First her dad, then her sister, then her step-mother. She never once interviewed me herself. She hired me, but as I l... More...

We know - it's early - but face it: most of 2011 is already in the rear-view mirror, and not much is going to change between now and the holidays. 2012 will come as an opportunity to start working on positive growth. Check out some early 20... More...

Do you practice workplace prejudice? No! you may quickly reply. But consider, what would you think of the CEO of your company if she drives a very modest, 11-year-old car, or heaven forbid takes the bus? Or, what if the person who is interviewing you... More...

In a recent blog posting: Improve Productivity with Employees Nap time & Unlimited Vacation Time , I wrote about some of the out-of-the-box benefits and practices popping up in workplaces around the globe. These unconventional perks seemed to ... More...

CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson and Warren Buffett are meeting tomorrow to discuss ongoing obstacles to economic growth. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CareerBuilder Meets With Warren Buffett on How to Repair and Refuel the U.S. Job Market Chicago... More...

Employee morale is not something to be taken lightly. According to the Harvard Management Update, in roughly 85% of companies, employees' morale declines sharply after their first 6 months on the job and it continues to deteriorate for years afterwar... More...

Recognize This! – Creating a culture in which employees can thrive is the first step to protecting your brand in viral social networks. Staying with the theme of the week on HR challenges, the Wall Street Journal recently asked HR execut... More...

Even if your company is not currently in the market for a team of entertaining mercenaries, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t be focusing on actively identifying and developing all-star employees and giving management the tools needed to form thei... More...

Forget the desk; what about my snacks! By Antonia Mitchell and Luke Connoley, UNWIRED They say the two most stressful things in life are getting married and moving. But imagine how much worse it could be: you’re not just moving yourself and... More...

The Revenue Roadmap model is something that we put together after working with hundreds of companies and asking, “What is the difference between high performing sales organizations and the average (or lower than average) organizations?” It really... More...

If you are ever lucky enough to be handed one of my business cards, as well as my pretty face on it you’ll see a question: it asks, ‘What do you want?’ It does so because this is a central question in any solution-focused (SF) conver... More...

I don´t know about you, but most people not only accept, but actively seek, career change as a way of amassing skills and remaining competitive. And in fast-growing, emerging markets it seems people do this more. Thanks to large-scale investment a... More...

Q: No matter how hard I work, I can’t seem to meet my goals. What should I do? A: Look closely at your work environment to find the conflict causing your problem to prevent it from escalating. ■ Do you respect your boss? Lack of... More...

DULUTH, Ga. – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and Empower Software Solutions, a leading Workforce Management (WFM) software provider, today announced that the two companies have entered into a customer referral agreement. Empower specializes in provid... More...

This registration-free white paper will show you how to reduce HR costs by implementing an HR Shared Services plan - while avoiding potential pitfalls like vendor lock-in. Discover sources for HR savings that actually improve your HR infrastruc... More...

Recognize This! – Give employees a reason to work harder by recognizing their efforts. Extending on yesterday’s post on increased pay not solving stressful work environments, Bnet recently published an article on how to increase productivi... More...

Kansas City, Kan. – Economists have made no secret of the fact that it will be several years until the United States returns to a healthy unemployment rate of less than six percent. As uncertainty continues to linger in the workforce, turnover rates ... More...

My colleague Chris Jock was recently at the Deloitte Annual Shared Services & BPO Conference in Barcelona. Prior to the conference, he caught up with Peter Moller, who heads Deloitte's European Shared Services Team, to discuss the themes most lik... More...

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The Red Team: A Simple But Effective Method to Improve Mission Planning

Company Culture = Core Values in Action

Critical Talent Management Strategies Every Organization Should Consider in Today's Market

Outsource Recruitment & Project Management to Sri Lanka

Can mistakes be good for business?

Managing Complexity – A Leadership Checklist

Is your company a scary place to work?

Let your Employees do the Hiring

Top 7 HR Trends of 2012

Does How One Dress Reflect One's Lack of Talent Thereof?

Low-Cost & Out-of-the-Box Benefits that are Paying off

CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson and Warren Buffett are meeting tomorrow to discuss ongoing obstacles to economic growth.

How Do You Spell Morale?

Why Controlling Your Brand Online Is Critical to Recruiting

Building your A-Team: Assessing Employee Performance vs. Potential

Forget the desk; what about my snacks!

The Revenue Roadmap

How to discover what your clients want – part 1

You have the choice to change

ROPELLA ANSWERS: "Why Is It So Difficult To Meet My Goals?"

NCR and Empower Software Solutions Sign Referral Agreement

Maximizing HR Shared Services Potential while Avoiding Lock-in

Why “Their pay should be reward enough!” Destroys Productivity

Turnover Rates Dip as Recruiting Rebounds

What hybrid models really tell us about the future of outsourcing