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Are your employee evaluations effective? How do you create an evaluation that provides a return on investment for both you and the employee? Here are a few tips. 1. Avoid evaluations that go on for page after page. Instead, keep it short, with a f... More...

Thousands of bi-annual and annual performance reviews take place in organizations each year. Les Allan, author of From Training to Enhanced Workplace Performance , gives the following suggestions for improving the follow-up discussions that take pla... More...

“How confident are you that our new President will be able to bring about significant economic progress?” Very Confident: 73%, Not Confident: 27% Although only 66 percent of surveyed employees in HR Solutions’ National Normative... More...

My last article, Pruning Thorns from Roses: HR's Role in Managing Disruptive Key Employees,1 explored approaches for managing difficult key employees. Several readers of this article requested that I examine what they felt was a more difficult and pe... More...

In October 2007, the Project Management Institute (PMI ) began offering its first credential that demonstrates skills in the emerging discipline of program management, the Program Management Professional (PgMPsm). I say emerging because, while progra... More...

One in four organizations frequently suffer delays and cost overruns with their projects, according to a study by Novations Group, a global consulting and training firm based in Boston. An additional 41% experience such problems occasionally, the fi... More...

Less than one half of all employees feel that their company has provided the training they need to do their job well. THE PROBLEM: NO ONE KNOWS IF TRAINING REALLY WORKS Organizations spend a huge portion of their operating b... More...

Dear Joan: I am responsible for yearly evaluations of a manager and a supervisor. How would you address the fact in the next evaluation, that neither one has improved themselves, nor taken the initiative to try to accomplish any of the goals that ... More...

The captain of every ship needs to continually check their coordinates in relation to their final destination to ensure they are traveling on the safest and most effective path. The same holds true for your staff. Therefore, you´ll need a sys... More...

Ha, when you read this you´ll probably have one of two reactions: 1). What the hell!? This is not in line with your previous articles, and 2). Stuff the company, they have to take care of me... after all... Righ... More...

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