Blogs / 2012 / August

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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 / 2012 / August

A new study has found that increasing employee motivation will become a higher focus for Canadian executives in the coming year. This is translating into a renewed focus on employee incentive programs, as part of their strategy to boost company produ... More...

With thanks to Kris Dunn and Ed Frauenheim, I coined the term "contigent fringe" to decsribe the rise and increased positioning of workers who spend time working for an organization in a seemingly traditional way, but are not considere... More...

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Let’s do a headcount: Millennials: 79 million. Baby boomers: 76 million. No wonder the younger tykes are increasingly stamping their mark on workplace cultures. Millennials are the fastest growing segment of today’s workforce, and even amidst... More...

AC two three hundred years China can be a whack-ball Xuanzong vividly called ball playing the game map diem chuiwan local wooden BC to AD Rome bar hitting the ball full game feathers According to legend in the Ming Dynasty the royal Ping G... More...

We all tell ourselves stories, and leaders are no exception. For example, you might tell yourself that you are viewed as a great leader by your employees, or that you are considered a super-star in your company. Sometimes stories are based on reliabl... More...

“I think seventy-five percent of all the dysfunction in companies stems from some degree of insecurity,” my friend announced the other day. It wasn’t hard to see where her conclusion came from, since her personal situation involves an insecure boss w... More...

We recruiters have become lazy and fallen into an odious trap. We were seduced by the Internet and believed that finding all of our candidates online would be a cakewalk from here on out. I’ve got some good news and bad news for you: You can find... More...

A company that employs around 10,000 workers can easily end up spending $41.3 million solely on employee turnover costs if they engage these workers as direct hire, internal employees. Companies waste a phenomenal amount of money on recruiting,... More...

Last week, I published: When You Need a Career Do Over – Upgrade Your Networking Conversations . This article focused on the best networking approaches to positively impact your leadership career effectiveness and to smooth your entrée to new career... More...

Recognize This! – We publicly praise the stars. Should we publicly highlight the truly poor performers as well? Regular readers know I’m a very strong proponent of frequent and public (when appropriate and preferred) recognition of star performe... More...

A man sued his ex-employer after he was terminated for missing work to pick up a prescription and referral paperwork. He claimed the errands should count as part of his intermittent FMLA leave. Did he win? Click the following link to read the ful... More...

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If you’re like most people this month, you’ve been glued to your TV watching the world’s best athletes compete at the games of the 2012 London Olympics. While we’ve seen records fall and history being made, we’ve also been fascinated by the stories o... More...

Employee turnover is a challenge that every organization faces at one time or another. As mentioned in the previous article, I t's Not Me, It's You..., it is uncommon in today’s world for an employee to remain at the same company for more than five ... More...

It’s hard to believe convenience store beer can teach us something about sales compensation and strategy alignment, but it’s true. I’ve seen it. Several years ago a major brewing company hired us to help compensate their driver sales reps accordin... More...

This blog originally appeared in Mashable. With all the news swirling around Facebook’s messy IPO, it’s important to remember one thing: nothing has changed about the site...yet. Despite shareholder lawsuits, NASDEQ fumbles and a stock price fa... More...

I am a big believer in personal affirmations. Almost everyone has a critical inner voice often rearing its head at the worst times. Negative messages received over one’s lifetime create internal resistance which can impair the job search. One of the... More...

This blog appeared originally in Forbes.com. I’m a big fan of A Billion Plus Change , a national campaign designed to encourage an ethic of corporate volunteerism in every industry in the country. This group has already managed to convince m... More...

Recognize This! – After-the-fact recognition delivers better results than if/then incentives, which can be easily gamed. I’ve written before about the difference between recognition and incentives . This is an important distinction to understan... More...

Our team of experts fields real-life, everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s issue: Responding to employee requests for turning up — or down — the temperature i... More...

This could be your company’s pièce de résistance – the perk that sets your company apart from the competition and improves recruiting and retention efforts. Nearly three out of every four workers (72%) say that a company that offers better techno... More...

This blog originally appeared in The Huffington Post. The grim jobs report in May has riveted the nation like a slow-motion train wreck, confirming our darkest fears about a sputtering economy that may be stuck in a stall or, worse, falling. We’... More...

By Andrew Butow – Presence of IT, Sydney Australia www.presenceofit.com.au Corporate Learning & Development has been not only a professional, but also a passionate pursuit for me. Saying this, I am a firm disciple of the theoretical schoo... More...

I’d like to help you find out exactly where it is you’re living. I don’t mean get a map and pinpoint your street address. We all know where we sleep at night. But we may not be fully aware of where we live emotionally, especially in relation to the m... More...

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Administering Successful Sales Incentives Programs through Software as a Service Technology

The Contingent Fringe

Getting to your best

Employee Retention Alert: 5 Facts To Know About Your Millennials

Ping clubs,ping irons

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Five stories managers should stop telling themselves

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: What are you insecure about?

Five Tips for Employee Sourcing

Calculating Turnover Costs: Companies with 10k workers spend $41.3 million on Employees That Don’t Stick Around

Career Do Over – Redux

Should We “Out” the Bad Workers, Too?

Do medical errands count as FMLA leave?

DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS: CIS WILL PUBLISH APPLICATION FORMS AUGUST 15, 2012

Three Things I Learned from Watching the Olympics

The Importance of Retaining Customer Service Employees

Compensating for Beer

How to Boost Corporate Volunteering with Facebook

Words of Affirmation

Pro-Bono Volunteering Provides a Competitive Corporate Advantage

Unintended Consequences of Incentives at the Olympics

Really? The temperature in your office could violate ADA?

Perk that’ll make your company more attractive to 72% of workers

In a Tough Economy, Pro-Bono Volunteering Takes on New Importance

Game-dragogy - Kolb vs. Bartle

Are You Surviving or Succeeding? Marshall Goldsmith - 8/2/12