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As always we have a jam packed ebulletin for you to enjoy this week. Topics range from elder care, how to embed company values through fun, the important role talent management plays in engagement, and much more.
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- July 14, 2010.
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- July 22, 2010.
Talent Management rocks at Talentpalooza 2010! This one-day event features Lisa Rowan, IDC, Diebold, Clarion Health, HEI and Dynegy.
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The Double Benefit of Eldercare Benefits
Eldercare is one of the fastest growing benefit options today. While it can help your clients and their employees with direct caregiving issues, it can also impact spiraling healthcare costs. Commonly confused with Employee Assistance Programs, here's what you need to know about eldercare options...
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MPs Line Up for a Big Pay Increase
MPs are in line for a 10 per cent pay rise as compensation for losing international travel perks, but may also lose other allowances as officials try to rein in the soaring cost of running Parliament.
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Do You Know What Your Employees are Saying Behind Your Back?
A-players are hard to come by, even in a recession. As stated in the August 5th blog, The most serious threat to employers in this recession may be its end, top talent will always have choices. Employees who are not well taken care of, will leave once the job market picks up and the war for talent begins.
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Continued IRS Scrutiny of Independent Contractors
The IRS has announced that it intends to audit 6,000 companies for employment tax compliance during the next three years. The primary focus will be on worker classification, but other issues may be raised.
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Using Fun Events to Embed Company Values
Most people who work in large corporates will be very familiar with attending fun team building away days. A well structured fun event can deliver very powerful results if organised with the desired outcome in mind.
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CEO as Culture Setter * Putting Employees First
In a paean of praise to Bill Greehey, former CEO of Valero Energy and current CEO of NuStar, Dan Hilbert describes Greehey's leadership model that drove Valero to the third-fastest growth rate in American history. The model is simple take care of your employees, demand that employees take care of the community, and the community takes care of the company.
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CIPD Finds Talent Management Increases Engagement
Most workers believe that talent management programmes are effective at boosting employee engagement, new research has shown.The Talent Perspective: What Does It Feel Like To Be Talent Managed report, published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), revealed that 81 per cent of respondents said they feel more engaged when they are enrolled in such a scheme.
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Profiling Successful Salespeople: Myths, Folklore…and Progress
Current economic conditions have resulted in some notable changes to our workforce. The financial meltdown of 2009 has caused many organizations to fundamentally change their business models. But the fact remains that even in financial crises, companies still manufacture goods or provide services, salespeople still sell them and someone ultimately buys whatever that product or service is.
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Be the First on Your Block to Re-engage Your Employees
The votes are in, and the news is grim: Employees are feeling more unvalued and resentful than ever, with dire consequences for firms that do nothing now to correct the situation.
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> Engaging the Hearts and Minds of all Your Employees - Summary
When employees are fully engaged, they deliver passionate performance, a strong, sustained intellectual and emotional attachment to their work. Passionate performance creates a wall of differentiation between a firm and its competitors. The way passionate performance is ignited in a team is as unique as that team's culture. It is about passion and performance. Engaged employees are more likely to stay, perform at high levels, influence others, promote the organization to outsiders, and deliver excellent customer service.
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HR's Role in Protecting the Customer Experience, Especially as CS is Outsourced or Moves Offshore
Find out why the HR and recruiting leaders at companies with large customer service operations are starting to test the English communication skills of customer service agents – and learn how they ...
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Date: July 13, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Implementing HR Technology Projects – An Experts View
Join Dennis Noonan and Shawn Cooksey, Client Engagement Managers at Workscape, who have managed dozens of HR technology implementations in the areas of compensation and benefits. Dennis and Shawn will share their ...
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Date: July 15, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Employee Confidence Second Quarter Update: Leveraging Insight for Better
Business Strategy
This webcast will review the action-focused, performance oriented construct of Employee Confidence and how it can forecast and enhance the success of organizations. Dr. Anne Herman will share how Employee Confidence relates ...
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Date: July 20, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Population Well-Being Assessment as a Workplace Indicator
Over the past decade health management has been used by to manage and moderate healthcare cost increases. More recently population health management has also focused on productivity improvement...
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Date: July 20, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Navigating Health Care Reform
While the health care reform debate was certainly lively, the process did little to clarify the actual bill's substance. Now that the bill is law, it's time to look beyond the rhetoric to determine what the ...
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Date: July 20 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Get Certified. Get Noticed
From this webcast, HR professionals will be able to learn how their careers and companies can benefit by earning the Professional in Human Resources (PHR®) Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR®) and/or ...
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Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Managing Your Critical Talent Pools To Improve Workforce Performance
Most organizations can no longer afford to spread their HR investment indiscriminately across all workers and job types. Instead, leading firms have discovered that there are key job families that disproportionately ...
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Date: July 22, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Breaking Through the Employee Engagement Plateau
Has your organization’s engagement level reached a standstill? While it is important to maintain engagement levels, the ultimate goal is to steadily increase your engaged population. You may be anxiously ...
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Date: July 22, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
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> I Resolve to… Give Employee Recognition!
As employers, we also have the opportunity to improve the quality of our workplace for our employees. The recession has certainly taken a toll on our workforce.
A CareerBuilder study released in late 2009 showed that 40%of workers report that they have had difficulty staying motivated at work over the past year due to increased workloads, longer hours and strained resources. Now is the time to do something. It's time to make a resolution –
a Recognition Resolution.
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