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The common practice, when looking at the prospects of selecting the right individual for an overseas assignment, is usually to focus on the individual’s technical/functional skills, with the assumption that it will be sufficient to operate succ... More...

Optimistic, confident employees are vastly more delightful to have on-board. Methods to help companies have optimistic, positive employees include pre-employment tests, job interviews of applicants, managing being role-models, and reinforcing smil... More...

A recent Wall Street Journal article titled “Firing Good Workers Who Are A Bad Fit” focused on how to deal in situations where an employee “is doing their work passably or even better but are not suited for the job for reasons rangi... More...

I actually don t even want to think of the numerous times I was told, at an interview for a new job, that I was either over qualified, too specialized, not specialized enough, over educated, under educated, and what else have you. Even worse is... More...

Too often we assume the future will emulate the past. We assume employees will behave much like their predecessors did, so that the 10 million worker shortfall predicted for2010 will be a problem of increasing productivity, without worrying too much ... More...

By AthenaOnline with Dr. Marshall Goldsmith View a short video from Dr. Marshall Goldsmith on what you can do to identify and retain those people in your company that you identify as high potential. Powered by AthenaOnline, this u... More...

Each year U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars recruiting and replacing their employees. Individually, it costs between $2-11K to replace an hourly employee, and upwards to $40,000 to replace a manager. One Silicon Valley company est... More...

View a short video from Dr. Judith Bardwick, PhD Inc. on what you can do to change employees, and what won t change. Powered by AthenaOnline, this unique video presentation gives you a brief outline of strategies to select the correc... More...

In the last few months, there has been a growing trend among multinational corporations in Asia to hire Indian managers for jobs in Asian countries outside of India. Many multinationals have hired headhunters to find Indian candidates to fill executi... More...

Managers overseeing the performance of others need to start thinking of themselves as investment managers. Few managers think of their employees as investments, but that's what they are, especially since employers will no longer have the luxury of tr... More...

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