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HR.com General eBulletin for the Week of March 8, 2010

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This week take a few moments for yourself and check out revenue driving tips in NCM Fathom’s latest whitepaper, vote in the HR audit poll, and create your office happy machine – it worked for Coca-Cola!

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" Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

~  Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

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The Fun Corporate Walking Challenge! Click here.

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Bold Brands Drive Revenue with Storytelling
When you hear a good story, you listen. The same elements of powerful storytelling that captivate us in our everyday lives benefit businesses and their brands. Read more in a whitepaper from NCM Fathom.
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Osborne promises early action to cut corporation tax - papers 
George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor, on Saturday promised early action to cut the headline rate of corporation tax from 28p to 25p, but aides conceded the change might not fully take effect until April 2011.
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CompareHRIS.com 20 Least Read HRIS Articles

The number of times one of our HRIS articles is read has more to do with how the search engines rank the articles for certain keywords than how helpful or informative the actual article is. Once a quarter we send a press release providing a list of our top read articles.
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CEO's are Priming for a Return to Growth
According to a new survey by the Conference Board both the year-on-year movement and rank order of challenges suggest that CEOs’ focus has moved from crisis reaction to preparations for recovery.
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The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. Increases Indicators Point to a Strengthening Recovery

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for the U.S. increased 0.3 percent in January, following a 1.2 percent gain in December, and a 1.1 percent rise in November. Says Ataman Ozyildirim, Economist at The Conference Board: “The U.S. LEI has risen steadily for nearly a year...
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Galfand Berger Wins Important Case for Injured Workers in Pennsylvania

In an important victory for injured workers in Pennsylvania the Superior Court decided, that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations did not bar an injured worker's claim that the forklift -- which struck him -- was unsafely designed.
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Creating a Happiness Machine in Your Workplace

Have you ever playfully done the unexpected at work in an effort to appreciate, encourage or inspire team members? How about to just make them laugh or look at the commonplace in an entirely new way? See how Coca-Cola did just that...
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Management Style of Trust and Retention

Trust plays a powerful role in retention. We’ve talked before about the death of the 19th century style of management: command and control. But what replaces it?
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Recognition Best Practices
Judith M. Bardwick, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, recently posted to the Huffington Post the transcript of her interview with literary critic Robert Morris on employee recognition. Judith hits on four best practices of strategic recognition: be timely, be specific, be meaningful and be personal.
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"Be a Maverick"

Sometimes managers will say to me, "You know I would like to be a stronger boss. I would like to be more hands-on, but that approach would never fit with the culture of my workplace." They'll say, "I work in a big organization, there's no way a hands-on approach would work here." Or they'll say, "I work in a really small company so there's no way that a hands-on approach would work here". I say be a Maverick!
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Virtual HR Conferences

We invite you to attend one or more of the great conferences lined up for 2010. Watch live webcasts, earn credits, and browse virtual trade show booths. Registration is free for members. 

"HRIS Systems - Is Yours Meeting your Needs?" - March 10, 2010.

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"Performance Management" - March 24, 2010.

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"Leadership Development Programs: Should You Be Using Them?" - April 14, 2010. 

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> Buyology - Summary

In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom relates how the new science of neuromarketing is transforming the way marketers approach branding. Marketers have traditionally relied on questionnaires, commercials, and assumptions when promoting products, but new studies of the brain have called into question the effectiveness of these marketing methods.

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This Week's Comic

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Participate in this week's research initiative to find out what your peers are doing. Please make sure that you're logged in.

Featured Polls and Surveys:

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Your compliance training budget was cut? Learn how to spend your training dollars wisely
Did your compliance training budget get cut this year? The economy has been significantly affected the size of training budgets of organizations across the board – from small and large. So now your training budget is ...
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Date: March 9, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET


Getting the Most from Compensation Programs
There is no denying that the past 2 years have been challenging for employees from a career, if not a compensation perspective. There were many of us who lost our jobs, and even some who had their compensation
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Date: March 10, 2010
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET


Generating Buy-in for Performance Management Programs
Research has shown that organizations with consistent performance management practices have lower turnover and have nearly twice the revenue per employee. In this session you will learn how to ...
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Date: March 16, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET


Empowering the Healthcare Employee – Self Service in 2010: Benefits, Implications and Pitfalls
In this webinar, we will discuss the trends and benefits of employee self service implementations and the resulting critical need to balance access from home versus limiting liability risks that can ...
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Date: March 17, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET


How High Impact Talent Management Boosts Retention
In any economy, retaining skilled employees is imperative to organizational survival, let alone success. Recent research shows that retention is increasing as a priority for organizations as the economy ...
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Date: March 18, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET



Talent Management Trends in Healthcare - by Aberdeen Group
Aligning individual performance with business objectives and increasing engagement earned best-in-class organizations in the healthcare industry sizeable gains in employee performance, retention, and time to ...
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Date: March 18, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET


How to Leverage Government Funding for Training in your Organization
Money for corporate training is tight. Budgets have been cut, yet training needs are greater than ever. Unknown to most corporations and large organizations, state and federal funds are available for a wide range of ...
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Date: March 18, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET


How Corporate Responsibility and Environmentally Friendly Business
Practices Return the Investment
Is corporate responsibility (CR) and environmental business practices simply a fad? Using data from the Kenexa Research Institute, Dr. Anne Herman will illustrate how organizations that focus on these ...
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Date: March 23, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET

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