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- Benefits
Improved Productivity, Lower Employer Health Costs are Hallmarks of New Health Coaching Phenomenon
Leade Health covers over six million lives thanks to dedicated coaching that focuses on assets instead of deficits.
Read Jeff Chad's Latest Blog.
- Compensation
Mercer Issues Annual Study of CEO Compensation at Large US Firms
Latest proxies show CEO pay and corporate performance are closely aligned amid intensifying pressure for responsible executive pay.
- Human Resources Management
Frozen In Time
Alan Weiss feels HR might not be keeping up with the times.
Read Debbie McGrath's Latest Blog.
- Labor Relations
Facilitating Safe Conversations
Think about the last time you truly felt safe enough to speak your mind and have an open and frank conversation at work, suggests Alastair Rylatt.
- Legal
Does a release help?
M. Lee Smith's Legal Q&A: Our company is currently reviewing its termination policies. Should our company attempt to obtain a release of liability at the time it terminates an employee?
- Organizational Development
The Bottom-Line Impact Of Key Emergent Practices
From taking control of their careers and the rise of free agency to the increasing emphasis on work/life balance, a growing group of U.S. workers has developed very different motivations, attitudes and beliefs about work, writes Richard A Lamond.
Read Sylvia Henderson's Latest Blog.
- Performance Management
5 Tips for Getting Real Results
Implementing results management systems that work, from Renaissance Performance.
Read Aileen MacMillan's Latest Blog.
- Executive Coaching
Ask the Coach - Issue 9: Long Hours: How Much is Enough?
Executive Coach Merry Marcus offers coaching for setting appropriate time boundaries at work.
Read Merry Marcus' Latest Blog.
- Leadership
Thought Leader: John O'Donohue on "Creating the Environment for Inspired Work"
John O'Donohue is an Irish poet, author, and Catholic scholar who recently spoke with HR.com's Leadership analyst Karen Elmhirst. He lectures and holds workshops in Europe and the US, encouraging audiences to become artists of their own deepest possibility.
Read Karen Elmhirst's Latest Blog.
- HR Measurements and Metrics
Two-Thirds of Large Employers Now Offering Incentives to Improve Employees' Health
39% providing employees with data on Healthcare Quality: While the concept of providing healthcare quality information is relatively new and there may be opportunities for improvement in both the data and its packaging, many see it as a win-win; from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Read Claude Balthazard's Latest Blog.
- Staffing and Recruitment
Telecommuting: Why Managing People You Can't See Is Visionary
Enabling employees to work from home has evolved well beyond a perk for only white-collar contributors. It's now a business necessity. Elaine Gottlieb, a writer for Veritude's Workforce Insights explains.
Read Michael Moretti's Latest Blog.
- Workforce Acquisition
Success Tips: Selecting, Not Changing, Employees by Dr. Judith Bardwick
Sucess Tips, powered by AthenaOnline, is a short video featuring Dr. Judith Bardwick on selecting the best employee for your organization.
Read Mark McAuliffe's Latest Blog.
- HR Outsourcing
Hackett: Despite the Hype, Few Companies are Outsourcing Finance
Study Shows That Only 4% of Finance Processes are Currently Outsourced, While Companies Use Shared Service Centers 65% of the Time.
Read Zachary Meyer's Latest Blog.
- HRIS/ERP
Critical Factors for Success Include Collaboration and Business Intelligence through Integrated Office Technology
Ninety-eight per cent of Canadian professionals agree - given the higher levels of responsibility they are being asked to take on, they need the right technology tools to increase productivity, reduce costs and increase revenue; Microsoft Canada Co.
- Training and Development
The 6th Phase: The Future of Management Training is Outside the Traditional Classroom
Too much management training takes place in the classroom, and that's where the traditional management training model falls short, writes Bill Kaminski.
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Assessing your current performance management processes - Moving towards implementing recommended best practices | April 26, 2006
Between organizations, performance management practices can vary greatly. Even so, there are many recommended best practices when it comes to performance management.
Compensation and the Many Wars for Talent | May 3, 2006
McKinsey's "War for Talent" kicked off a storm of activity and controversy by promoting ideas like forced ranking. Helen Handfield-Jones has recently updated these ideas adding nuance to the concepts and better explaining the main wars for talent that compensation professionals must tackle. This webinar discusses the many wars for talent and the compensation implications.
Strategic Decision Making for Leaders | May 10, 2006
How skilled are your leaders at making strategy decisions? What types of development opportunities do you offer to help your leaders and aspiring leaders grow their ability? Join us for a discussion in which we look at some of the options available for increasing competence in an area that is critical to the success of your organization.
The Future of Defined Benefit Pension Plans | May 16, 2006
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Creating an HR Department that Drives Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty and Company Success | May 1, 2006
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Employee Profile Plus (EP+) and Crisis Management | May 16, 2006
The U.S. Department of State is the recipient of two 2005 Presidential Quality Awards, one for Employee Profile Plus (EP+) - an innovative skills inventory and the second for Strategic Management of Human Capital. During this webcast, David Dlouhy and John Long will discuss the steps taken that led to the successful implementation of Employee Profile Plus (EP+).
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