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When Dynamic Business Owners Are Also Dysfunctional-Enabling Spouses: Key Diagnostic Warning Signs
In my work as a phone coach with men and women business owners, I have come across a familiar pattern: the individual initially requests coaching services to deal with feelings of burnout regarding running the business. However, within a short period of time, the balance of our coaching work begins to shift – less emphasis on the business and more emphasis on family matters.
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PayScale's 2010 College Salary Report Highlights Decrease In Starting Pay
The report, which analyzes the company's database of over 23 million unique compensation profiles, provides a critical perspective on the relationship between college selection and both starting and mid-career salaries. The findings support that it is clear that the deep recession and slow recovery has not only made it harder to find a job, but has also brought down overall compensation for college graduates.
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Four of Ten HR Professionals Say Their Company is Prepping for Green Job Creation
A poll from the Society for Human Resource Management shows that 40 percent of HR professionals say their organization is currently focused on creating green jobs or adding green duties to existing jobs. When asked what has taken place during the past 12 months to the meet the demands for “greener” ways of working, 81 percent of HR professionals polled said new duties have been added to existing positions at their organization.
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No Promises to Laid Off Employees
A laid off employee sued the City of St. Louis when he was not rehired. He had been told that he would be given a call if there was an opening. Indeed, there had been four openings and he never received a call.
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Language Spoken For Winning
Do you argue with yourself when you are talking to yourself? Yes talking to yourself, everyone does it! The trick in business as well as personal social situations is learning to talk to others and get them to truly listen. If you aren't hearing them even though you are listening there will be no real communication.
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The Fun Factor: Steps to Making Work Engaging and Rewarding
Managers are constantly looking for ways to “motivate” team members. This has led to an endless search for the right combination of carrots and sticks. These often include financial incentives, reward programs such as travel, merchandise or public recognition, punishments, and performance management systems. All of which can be motivating or manipulative depending upon whether they are based on a set of values and assumptions that are traditional management or leadership-based.
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Remove Obstacles to Progress to Achieve Happiness at Work
Happiness at work. I hear that all the time. People are always talking, blogging, writing about how to achieve happiness at work. While of course I believe happiness at work is not only possible, but something every employee and employer should strive for, I think it misses the broader point – people are happiest when they are doing work they believe in.
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Is your Appearance Putting you Out?
As jobs become more difficult to find, many job seekers have been altering their everyday appearance with the hope of improving their chances of finding work. A new report from Implantium Network reveals that more than 300,000 people in Britain believe they've missed out on a job or promotion because of their appearance.
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How to Manage a Major Writing Project
Writing a draft is one of the later stages of the overall project, not the beginning. With a complex writing task, take the project management approach. Mull over your writing project while you’re still doing the preliminary work. Don't wait until you actually begin drafting a 200-page proposal or 15-page white paper. Fifty percent of any writing effort is thinking.
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> 10 Steps to Successful Sales - Summary
Sales is among the oldest and most conflicted professions on earth — at once reviled and revered, valued for its promise of heavy paychecks and prestigious career paths, maligned for its loose ethics, and made hopelessly unpredictable by buying booms and busts. According to author Brian Lambert, however, most people out there selling are merely “salespersons,” not true “sales professionals”: trusted advisors who not only close deals but also make connections and change paradigms along the way.
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You CAN Handle the Truth: Reducing Applicants’ Response Distortion in Pre-employment Assessments
Oftentimes people “stretch the truth” during the job application process. During this session we’ll discuss applicants’ “response distortion”, its implications, and some of the ways we can reduce it based on ...
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Date: August 24, 2010
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Service Awards: Six Missteps Businesses Make and How to Turn them into WOW!s
Could your company’s service award program be performing at a higher level and reaping greater returns for your business? Find out if your service recognition program is keeping pace with ...
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Date: August 24, 2010
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Transforming Talent Systems: The Mercy Behavioral Health Story
In the past six months, Mercy Behavioral Health has dramatically transformed their approach to talent. By partnering with Select International, they have developed a comprehensive competency model for all levels in ...
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Date: August 25, 2010
Time: 11:00 - 12:00 PM ET
Fundamentals of Compensation Communication
Creating a culture of productivity and success requires appropriate communication around compensation. Inappropriate compensation conversations can be detrimental to the psyche of employees and may have legal or ...
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Date: August 25, 2010
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Time: The Next Dimension of Employee Engagement
Learn about a new approach to survey technology and engagement methodology that allows companies to listen and respond to their employees immediately, globally, accurately, and effortlessly. The result? The engagement ...
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Date: August 26, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Measuring Work Tolerance to Reduce Turnover in Front Line Jobs
Let's face it, front-line, customer-facing jobs are challenging. During this session we'll discuss those unique work tolerance characteristics that determine why some people fail while others succeed, so you ...
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Date: August 31, 2010
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Advance your career with HR certification
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 ...
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Date: September 1, 2010
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Protect Your Employees and Company from the #1 At-Work Killer
Are employee health & wellness and emergency preparedness your responsibilities? Then you need to know about sudden cardiac arrest – the #1 cause of death at work according to an OSHA-based study – and ...
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Date: September 9, 2010
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> What to call HR Technology implementations to increase odds of success
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