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Dear HR Professional,
Two more weeks until the holiday season begins. Are you ready? It's soon time to do some traveling or spend time with family and friends. Look back on what you've accomplished or look ahead to the new year coming up. Enjoy this festive time of year!
In this edition, engaging staff, emotional intelligence, talent management, communication strategies, a discrimination case in Vernon, and much more.
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Engaging Staff for Christmas
Christmas is a time of joy and gift giving, a time of office parties and bonuses. But what will you do for your employees to make sure that they return in the New Year motivated and ready to increase performance and move your organization forward?
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Emotionally Intelligent Job-Related Feedback
Are you working in an organization where managers give employees feedback that helps them learn and grow? Do employees at your workplace believe that the feedback they receive is based on observed behavior?
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The Fallacy of the Few
In every training class, there are at least a few people who just LOVE what we are teaching and jump to implement what they learn. And, oh how we love these people!
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The Link between Employee Recognition and Engagement
I blog frequently on the topics of employee recognition and employee engagement, but what's the link? It's simple. Employee recognition, when done strategically, is a powerful tool for fostering employee engagement.
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Bond International Software Acquires ACG
Bond International Software Acquires VCG Global leader in staffing and recruitment software acquires one its largest competitors in the US, London and UK.
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Communication Strategies, Systems, and Skills
"Before you say what you think, be sure you have." - Malcolm Forbes, past publisher of Forbes magazine Communication is both a symptom and a cause of organization performance problems.
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OFCCP Settles Hiring Discrimination Case with Tyson
Tyson Refrigerated Processed Meats Inc. has agreed to settle findings of hiring discrimination against 157 African-American and 375 Caucasian applicants in Vernon.
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Deepening Our Discipline
The bedrock of character is self-discipline; the virtuous life, as philosophers since Aristotle have observed, is based on self-control.
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No Nonsense, No Excuses – How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success
When the focus of an organization is activity instead of results, when not holding low performers accountable is punishing the best performers, when the reward for hitting goals is more work and more aggressive goals, when re-work and...
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Date: December 14, 2010
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eLearning Technology: Deploying an LMS for Nimble and On-Demand Training in a Green Economy
The Regional Education and Training Center (RETC) is designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of industry for a highly qualified workforce to meet the demands of the Green Economy. Learn how the RETC leverages its Learning Management System to...
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Date: December 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Hands on Pay-for-Performance
When building a Pay-for-Performance culture, it is about more than process and systems. Success comes from also understanding the impact of the new culture on employee communication and manager behaviors. It is a journey and this webcast will explore some of the common questions, challenges and triumphs related to building a pay-for-performance culture.
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Date: December 15, 2010
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Best Practices for Engaging and Retaining Your Company's Greatest Asset: The High Performers
This webcast will reveal the key findings from HR Solutions' study examining the relationship between Employee Engagement and ...
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Date: December 21, 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
High-Touch HR via a High-Tech Personalized Portal - Better Services, Lower Costs at ChristianaCare
ChristianaCare, a major Delaware-based healthcare organization, didn’t want to sacrifice a high-touch HR service delivery model for its employees. But for HR to operate 24/7, while containing costs, they figured they had to sacrifice something … or did they? Join Christopher Cowan, Director of HR Service Delivery for ChristianaCare to learn how his organization successfully established a “high-touch though high-tech” portal that enables employees to get their own answers to HR questions in 2-clicks or less.
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Date: January 27, 2011
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
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