Blogs / 2013 / February

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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 / February

If the role of rewards is to drive performance, managers should make performance the only lever for controlling rewards. That means it is critical to make very clear to individual contributors exactly what performance—what results, within what guidel... More...

Text posted Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Never forget, an effective pay for performance approach requires all the elements of a well negotiated purchasing contract: (1) Measurable individual performance benchmarks. Every step of the way, clear ... More...

When it comes to dealing with stress, most of us are familiar with the “R and R” recommendation – Rest and Recreation. However, “N and N” may be just as critical: the ability to say “No” and to “Negotiate.” Over the years, I’ve heard more people d... More...

Authors: Philip Gordon The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act Omnibus Rule, published in the Federal Register Jan. 25, makes many changes to the HIPAA Privacy ... More...

Authors: Jorge Lopez, Michelle Valerio,Carol Williams, and Scott Decker For the past decade, lawmakers have discussed immigration reform, but changes to U.S. immigration laws have been minimal. During the 2012 election campaign President Obama... More...

Authors: Thomas Holt In Lodis v. Corbis Holdings, Inc., No. 67215-1-I (Wash. Ct. App. Jan. 14, 2013), the Washington State Court of Appeals has helped clarify what has become a contentious issue in employment litigation, ruling that "when a pl... More...

Authors: Linda Jackson The Virginia Supreme Court has spoken again on the calculation of damages in a complex employment contract case. In Online Resources Corp. v. Lawlor, No. 120208 (Va. Jan. 10, 2013), the court addressed the expert qualifi... More...

Authors: Ed Ellis and Jill Weimer While the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) and the majority of federal courts once agreed that, in order to engage in "protected activity" under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), a whistleb... More...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it received 99,412 private sector workplace discrimination charges during fiscal year (FY) 2012 – October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012. While the number of charges is down slight... More...

Businesses that are facing the challenge of knowledge drain, tied to their aging workforce, have good reason to be concerned. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics during the next decade there will be 54 million new job openings. Over half... More...

Employee training is essential, but did you ever think of it as an opportunity to add a competitive edge to your business? More...

Readers are responding to a recent column about studying other people’s “tells,” those unconscious body language signals we all send when we are emotional—nervous, irritated, defensive, or any other reaction we don’t want to openly convey. Here are a... More...

A new software trend is turning the painful chore of annual employee reviews into something fun. Yes, really. It's called social performance management—or, in a buzzword that's less redolent of "Office Space"'s TPS reports, "gamification." Gam... More...

Foundational Awareness-Communication Concepts Authority Communication, Culture, and Cultural Diversity: Mind Puzzle Exercise Awareness of Personal “Hot Buttons” and Self-Esteem/Identity Issues What psychological/emotional issues have... More...

What are your biggest sales force challenges? Are your top performing salespeople struggling with closing sales? Do your managers know how to effectively manage each individual employee? Profiles International wants to help you optimize the p... More...

It’s every cubicle drone’s dream: working from home, with no boss breathing down your neck, no annoying coworker clicking his pen every few minutes, no broken copier or traffic-laden commute. But if you’ve made this dream a reality, you may be dis... More...

Working Resources is an Executive Coaching San Francisco Bay Area Firm Helping Companies Assess, Select, Coach and Retain Emotionally Intelligent Leaders; Talent Management; Leadership Development; Competency Modeling; Succession Management; and Lead... More...

There is an ongoing debate of whether sales managers should invest their time with top performers or those salespeople who are struggling. It’s the old 80/20 discussion. There are strong cases to be made for both sides of the argument, but I don’t al... More...

An always on, fast-paced, production-propelled, TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven and Distracted Work Environment means performing and managing on the shifting priorities and “dockets and deadlines” edge. It also means people can be stressed and... More...

Job creation continued along at a steady pace to begin 2013, as U.S. companies added 157,000 employees to their payrolls in January. The increase was roughly in line with consensus expectations, and continues to reflect a cautiously improving economy... More...

Every organization could be perceived as underachieving. It isn’t your team alone that “could do better.” Part of the anguish of every leader is the recognition that the talent you have on hand could perform at a higher level, if only they wor... More...

Looking for information about popular human capital management (HCM) topics? APQC has launched an HCM thought leadership page that focuses on current issues in the HR and HCM space. APQC members and non-members will find lots of useful resourc... More...

In its first-ever PEAK Matrix report for Multi-Country Payroll Outsourcing (MCPO) Service Providers , Everest Group recognized CloudPay as a Major Contender in the industry. This is great step forward for us as it gives independent validation a... More...

Toward the end of 2012 I had a great honor of doing several very senior level Team Members' annual reviews (more like annual alignments). I had a pretty interesting way of opening the meetings by giving a full laundry list of disclaimers. I would dis... More...

We are pleased to announce that CloudPay was named to the Montclair Advisors’ 2012 SaaS Top 250 report. Fresh off the heels of our recent rebranding, CloudPay is delighted to be recognized for our pioneering SaaS technology as part of the “next gen... More...

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Who Should Control Rewards?

Managers Get the Performance They Reward

Why Is It Hard to "Just Say 'No'"?: Ten Barriers to Asserting Your Individuality, Intentionality, and Integrity – Part I

What Do Employers Really Need to Know About the New HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Final Rule?

Workplace Policy Institute: Immigration Reform in 2013 - What U.S. Employers Can Expect

Washington Court Weighs in on Privilege Waiver & What Is Opposition Activity

The Virginia Supreme Court on Damages, Equity Valuation, and the Significance of Delaware Corporations Law in the Termination and Removal of a Chairman and CEO

No Longer Black and White, Is the "Definitively and Specifically" Standard Now Grey?

EEOC Releases Detailed Enforcement Statistics – Claims Remain at Historic Levels

Preventing Organizational Knowledge Drain

Enhance Employee Training for a Competitive Advantage

Joan Lloyd’s HR Words of Advice: Readers respond to “Tells” column

Kill Your Awful Annual Reviews—It's Time To Give Employees 'Hyperfeedback'

Interpersonal Strategies for Dealing with a Fast-Paced, Project-Driven Culture [Comprehensive Outline]

Sales Force Challenges? Win a HR Solution!

5 Ways To Get More Done When Working From Home

Leaders are Good Storytellers

Why the 80/20 Rule When Coaching Salespeople Is FLAWED?

Interpersonal Strategies for Dealing with a Fast-Paced, Project-Driven Culture

Modest Monthly Job Figures in the US, but Underlying Signs are Positive

6 Reasons Your Team Might be Underachieving

One Stop for Human Capital Management Thought Leadership

CloudPay Climbs into Contention

Incivility…

CloudPay Named to Montclair Advisors’ 2012 SaaS Top 250