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Week of October 16, 2006
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Benefits
Rewards For Healthy Lifestyles
Employers can reinforce good employee health by sponsoring healthy lifestyle contests and campaigns. Encourage such behavior as smoking cessation, healthy eating, and weight loss - with the support and discipline of an organized event; by Steven P. Noeldner, Ph.D., Mercer Health & Benefits.

Featured Blog: 10 Things Employees Dislike Most About Their Employers

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Compensation
Salary Negotiation Dos And Don'ts
Never forget this fact: Whoever mentions money first loses! Don't let it be you, writes Robin Ryan.

Featured Blog: Should You Consider Skill Pay?

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Human Resources Management
The HP Debacle
How could this outstanding company, operating under the "HP Way" and with demonstrable respect for ethics and integrity, fall upon such hard times? asks Alan Weiss.

 Featured Blog: Metrics: Recruitment Advertising ---- Oh, it used to be so simple!

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Labor Relations
Corporate Untouchables
New VitalSmarts poll reveals 93 percent of people work with an "Untouchable" no one is willing to confront.

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Legal
Supreme Court to Decide Cases on Pay Bias, Employer Liability for Injuries
How is the deadline set for filing a pay-discrimination complaint? How should blame be apportioned when a railroad worker is injured? Lyle Denniston, legal correspondent with Workforce Insights on Veritude.com, reports on the how the newly constituted Roberts court, in its first full term, will decide.

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Organizational Development
Confessions of a "Type A" Canoeist (or "Partnering for Dummies")
After a "going around in circles" canoeing misadventure, the Stress Doc intuits the potential for analogous ineffective if not dysfunctional dynamics amongst a wide variety of communication/problem-solving contexts and role relationships. By Mark Gorkin.

 Featured Blog: Master the Game to Create Change

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Performance Management
The Real Problem
"How can I help my managers lead their people better?" What should we do to get our salespeople to hold their salespeople accountable?" are the questions Markku Kauppinen is asked everyday. Do you have the answers and the information to help them?

 Featured Blog: Eight Tips for Performance Management Success

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Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching: Caveat Emptor
Executive coaching was once viewed as a last-ditch effort to rescue an executive with some fatal flaw. No longer, writes Howard Guttman.

 Featured Blog: ICCO Symposia Go International - Watch for a Symposium Near You!

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Leadership
Thought Leader: Padmakumar Nair on Leadership Challenges of the 21st Century
Padmakumar Nair, Senior Lecturer, Organizations, Strategy & International Management at the University of Texas at Dallas recently spoke with David Creelman on leadership challenges in the global economy.

 Featured Blog: Customer Centricity - I'm a big fan!

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HR Measurements and Metrics
Human Capital: What Executives Think and What Drives Performance
The current Leadership Pulse report covers two topics: energy pulse trend data and the role of various components of business capital in driving firm performance. From eePulse.

 Featured Blog: At the Intersection of HR and Marketing

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Staffing and Recruitment
Job Descriptions - Getting Down to the Essentials
The job title's wrong and the descriptions contain almost no information relevant to the jobs as they exist today. Your mission: Revise the job descriptions so they accurately describe the jobs without exposing your employer to legal risks. Trish Lewis and Susan Amason tackle this menacing task.

 Featured Blog: Hours and Hours.

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Workforce Acquisition
The Future Workforce is Here and is Ill-Prepared
Most young people entering the U.S. workforce lack critical skills essential for success concludes a report conducted in April and May 2006 by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource Management.

 Featured Blog: Hospitality in Recruitment

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HR Outsourcing
Relocation 2010: Prudential Relocation's Trend Inventory
This proven concept, from Prudential Relocation, is designed to identify the most important issues that affect the relocation industry and offer solutions from which it can benefit.

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HRIS/ERP
Sassy SaaS Isn't Always Sexy: Avoid These Six Traps
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model is receiving significant attention as a surefire way to cut software acquisition and maintenance costs. Although SaaS can save money, SaaS solutions come with hidden fees, such as setup, training, and additional storage costs, cautions The Info-Tech Research Group.

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Training and Development
Canadian Small Businesses Want To Go Back To School: Employee Training Becomes A Priority
A Microsoft Canada national survey reveals 70 per cent of small business owners want employees to be better trained on software and technology.

 Featured Blog: Spot the Sta

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Join us October 24 - 27, 2006 at the magnificent Red Rock Resort Spa & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The program includes a world class lineup of 12 keynote speakers, individualized custom tracks with workshops and roundtable presentations from leading HR Executives.
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Not Just for Big Companies! Best Practices for Deploying E-Learning in Small & Medium-Size Businesses
HR and Training Managers at organizations with 1,000 employees or less must tackle unique challenges when developing and deploying an e-learning strategy. Facing budget and technology constraints plus limited time and resources, these learning leaders still shoulder responsibility for the successful roll-out of technology-based learning solutions and demonstrating the value that learning brings to the organization.
Date: October 18, 2006
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenter: Chad Mathias, Geolearning, Inc.

How to reduce the high cost of turnover due to heavy workloads: IBM's Solution to this Vital HR concern
A 2004 national study by the Families and Work Institute on Overwork in America found that almost half of US employees are overworked, 1/3 chronically overworked. IBM's internal surveys found that heavy workload inhibited an employee's ability to provide quality service to customers, posed a serious threat to employee retention, and sapped energy for creativity and innovation. To address this vital issue, IBM teamed up with ClearPicture to develop practical, high impact solutions that could be implemented immediately to improve individual, team and business performance.

Date: November 8, 2006
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters: Clarice Robinson, IBM | Scott Burton, ClearPicture Corporation

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The New American Workplace
Drawing on decades of research this webinar provides a comprehensive look at the American workplace today. It brings together with new clarity the multitude of changes that have rocked out assumptions about working in organizations.

Date: October 23, 2006
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters: David Creelman, Creelman Research | Edward Lawler, III , University of Southern California | James O'Toole, University of Southern California

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Summary
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