Blogs / 2013 / January

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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 / 2013 / January

Persuading leaders, managers, and employees that a skills audit is necessary. Part 1 of 3 Steps to Implementing a Successful Skills Inventory Audit. Today, skills management has become an indispensable element of an organizations’ performance. Empl... More...

Press Release: BTS Group AB – Thu, Jan 17, 2013 9:00 AM EST STOCKHOLM & STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BTS Group AB (publ.), a world leading strategy implementation firm, has hired long-term client and industry expert Susan Burnett as Vice... More...

Hiring incredible team members is critical to a company’s DNA—it’s also a perennial challenge. Talented new graduates who are unfamiliar with the work-scape may default to pursuing “big name” companies. The scramble for outstanding candidates becomes... More...

One of the biggest barriers I have found in organisations when developing vision and strategy has been the lack of understanding about different ways people take in and process information. When this isn't recognised, nor addressed in the righ... More...

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Leading social media expert, trainer, speaker, and author Krista Neher launched her third book January 24th titled Visual Social Media Marketing : Harnessing Images, Instagram, Infographics and Pinterest to Grow Your Business Online. The book has al... More...

By: T.J. Muehlfeld Select International www.selectinternational.com You’ll be a great fit – you’re just like me! It’s a simple concept. People like to be surrounded by people that are just like them. Think about yo... More...

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Millennials are thought to be the generation most prone to job hopping, but they aren’t the only workers who have a “lack of loyalty” in the workplace. It turns out Gen Xers—those currently in their early 30s to mid-40s—aren’t planning on staying... More...

The new Affordable Care Act is set to provide American workers with access to quality, affordable health insurance from January 1st, 2014. However, there are still a number of questions as to how employers of temporary and project based worker... More...

January is typically a time when companies look back at the previous year and try to predict what may happen next. Despite the seemingly ever-changing economic outlook, 2013 is no different. The good news is that they found that 62% of compani... More...

Hiring managers look for safe hires. Future employees that won’t rock the boat, have no obvious defects, and are ‘fine’ – but face it, ho-hum hires lead to ho-hum companies. Fear plays too large a role when hiring. No one wants to be the one that ... More...

When you are getting ready to replace a member of your team or to add an additional staff member, the task may seem a bit daunting. Going through the process of finding the top talent, assessing their abilities, interviewing potential candidates, and... More...

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Each of us has characteristics inherent in our personality style that reflect our unique wants, needs, and values. Similarly, we all have a characteristic style or manner in which we deal with conflict. We have natural preferences for the conflict st... More...

Culture can have a strong influence on how we handle conflict. When working in multicultural teams our cultural differences can impact our work relationships and project success. Learning how to manage conflict when working across cultures can help b... More...

Recognize This! – Be willing to frustrate employees if doing so helps them develop into leaders themselves. This week, I’m focusing on leadership lessons from top executives. Today’s insight comes from Kon Leong, co-founder, president and chief... More...

Recognizing employees is the most critical thing a manager can do to improve performance and inspire employees to drive results for business success. It’s important for organizations to deliver frequent feedback using employee recognition, yet many m... More...

Today’s organizations use employee recognition to deliver frequent feedback that amplifies the right behaviors to drive results. However, recognition that is infrequent or difficult to administer will derail employee progress and potentially cause di... More...

Joanne knew she her boss was nervous, even though he didn’t say a word. Peter instantly saw that his peer was defensive, even though most people in the room didn’t recognize anything different. The reason Joanne and Peter were able to read the ... More...

If you're like most people, you don't love giving presentations. And if you are someone who is expected to use slides, there is a good chance your audience doesn't love your presentations, either. In my opinion, PowerPoint (the primary software u... More...

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by Timothy Carter You heard social media networking was the key to an effective marketing campaign in today’s digital world and jumped on the bandwagon. So, where are all those new customers and outstanding sales figures? Social networking, like ... More...

by Jeff Haden Forget platitudes and theory. Here's the only advice you'll ever need to make business networking pay off. If effective business networking is so important, why do so few people see any benefits? The problem starts with expectations... More...

Companies sink or swim based on their internal culture. One bad hire can have a huge effect on morale, productivity, and ultimately, the bottom line. Brad Feld, co-founder of startup accelerator TechStars and managing director at VC firm The Found... More...

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Making the Case for a Skills Audit and Skills Management System. Part 1 of 3

BTS Adds Leading Talent Management Executive to Its Growing Organization

How to Turn Interns into Full-Time Employees

12 Ways Leaders Bridge Vision And Realism

"Online Staffing" For Staffing Firms: Etowah Employment Launches “Online Staffing” Service Using NextCrew Platform

Krista Neher's New Book on Visual Social Media Marketing gives HR Employees More Material for Social Media Training

Avoid the “Just Like Me Complex” in Your Hiring Process

The Benefits of Offering Employees a Retirement Plan

Top 5 Reasons Gen X Workers Quit Their Jobs

The Affordable Care Act and The Project Based, Temporary Workforce

Forty Percent of Companies to Hire Temporary Workers in 2013

Hire For Compatible Flaws Instead Of Looking For Perfection

Creating the Most Productive Relationship with Your Executive Search Firm

Belinda Test after 7.2 bugfix update

Conflict Styles

Managing Cultural Workplace Conflict In Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand

Lessons from Leaders: ZL Technologies

Why Managers Don’t Use Recognition (And How to Get Them to Start) - White Paper Published By Achievers

The Role of Technology in Employee Recognition - White Paper Published By Achievers

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Reading “Tells” is a secret communication tool

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Tips for using slides in presentations

Knowledge Services Awarded Managed Service Provider Contract by State of Arizona

Why You Suck At Social Media Networking

The No-Nonsense Guide to Successful Business Networking

Workplace Culture Is More Important Than Anything Else