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HR.com Leadership eBulletin for the Week of December 13, 2010

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In this edition, job-related feedback, fallacies, communication strategies, and much more.

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Delphi Method

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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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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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
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 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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