Human Resource Consulting
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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This webcast based on a white paper that ADP developed, will discuss the evolution of Talent Management. Large employers were traditionally the early adopters of talent management programs. Now, the concept has filtered down to the midsize market …
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What’s happening with benefits? Join this webcast to hear the results from Workscape’s 3rd Annual Benefit’s Survey. As healthcare plan costs continue to increase, this year’s survey examined four areas: costs savings; communications; economic pr…
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 drive business results, and targ…
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Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company’s bottom line and create a high performing workforce!
Through this Webcast, you will learn:
· Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
· T…
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This webcast is for those people whose firms are considering expanding into Canadian employment and need an overview of the essential basics for employment and payroll as well as a review of what employment alternatives are available in Canada: ICs…
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HR can be involved in exploring ways to foster both organizational and supervisory support of innovation through assisting with strategic business and individual goal setting while encouraging, supporting, recognizing and rewarding innovative individual and team contributions. Other ways HR can take a lead in this process include channeling the diversity of skills and experiences within the organization, as seen by human capital acquisition and retention strategies and processes, most notably through recruitment and training practices. Lastly, HR can be on the forefront assuring the development and support of policies and practices that encourage a workplace where creativity and innovation thrive.
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 training initiatives. During th…
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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 drive business results, and targ…
Continue reading about Managing Your Critical Talent Pools To Improve Workforce Performance
Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
Internal investigations of alleged ethics violations have never been more critical. Federal sentencing guidelines continue to raise the bar for establishing strict ethical and compliance guidelines. This workshop will focus on the investigation p…
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U.S. employees can expect median pay increases of 3 percent in 2012, according to research by Hay Group, a pay consultancy. While these increases are consistent with forecasted base salary increases for 2011 that were reported in June 2010, they are well below the 4 percent increases seen from 2005 to 2008. After factoring in [...]
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Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
Join our webinar, and obtain expert advice on how to create a pay for performance culture, including how to reconnect the two if perceptions have split them apart. You will learn:
- Why you should worry about the relationship between pay and perfo…
Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
Continue reading about Examine What Matters Most Using Workforce Analytics
With more than 100 offices nationwide, engineering firm Terracon set out to find an effective way to electronically manage the onslaught of human resources paperwork and best serve its growing staff of employees, engineers and scientists.
In this…
As diversity in the labor force continues to increase, it’s more important than ever for HR execs to understand the conditions under which diversity “works.” Toward this end, research and practice have shifted from a focus on diversity to inclusion…
Continue reading about Organizational inclusion: What is it, and why should we care about it?
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
Title 11 of the United States Code is referred to as the “Bankruptcy Code” or the “Code.” Title 11 consists of several chapters, of which Chapters 7 and 11 are the most applicable to organizations. Chapter 7 is specific to liquidations when an organization intends to close its doors. Chapter 11 deals directly with reorganization under the Code, in which the debtor seeks to rehabilitate and reorganize its financial structure. Chapter 11 permits organizations to propose an acceptable plan of reorganization to be voted on by its creditors. In light of the complexity of the provision, seeking legal counsel is encouraged. To begin the process, organizations must file a petition with the bankruptcy court, which constitutes an order of relief under this title. This toolkit offers a compilation of resources to help gain understanding of the elements of bankruptcy and offer guidance to successfully manage the bankruptcy process. This toolkit also covers the antidiscrimination component of the federal bankruptcy law, which protects employees and applicants from discrimination based on having filed for bankruptcy.
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
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Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you k…
Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company’s bottom line and create a high performing workforce!
Through this Webcast, you will learn:
· Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
· T…
Continue reading about Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers
You are more likely to invite a neighbor to the party you’re hosting this weekend if they have previously invited you to one of theirs. You can be persuaded to leave the waiter a bigger tip if he places a piece of candy on the table along with your check. Fundraisers can increase the chances that you will make a contribution if they accompany their request itself with a small gift.
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Join our webinar, and obtain expert advice on how to create a pay for performance culture, including how to reconnect the two if perceptions have split them apart. You will learn:
- Why you should worry about the relationship between pay and perfo…
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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Given last week’s election results, it’s a good time to think about movements. Wikipedia defines a social movement as “A coordinated group action focused on a political or social issue.” That allows for quite a spectrum of movements. The civil rights movement was designed to bring equality to a system where it was it was [...]
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There are certainly no shortage of human resources consulting firms to choose from but you must make certain that the company you hire is able to do the things that you need done. You are looking for solutions to problems not a long-term contract with just any company that can provide services. Many of these [...]
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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 new legislation will mean for your be…
People often ask me to introduce them to others who are well connected or well respected in their fields. Strategically, when it makes sense, I’m all for putting them in touch with whomever I think can help their cause, personally or professionally. And yet, while I love making meaningful connections for people, I am extremely thoughtful about protecting colleagues’ and friends’ time or best interests — I don’t want to damage our relationship by pulling a fast one on you.
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As diversity in the labor force continues to increase, it’s more important than ever for HR execs to understand the conditions under which diversity “works.” Toward this end, research and practice have shifted from a focus on diversity to inclusion…
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Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company’s bottom line and create a high performing workforce!
Through this Webcast, you will learn:
· Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
· T…
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In the July/August HBR, Roger Martin argues that business is being held back by the idea that strategy development and execution are separate, and he recommends a choice-cascade model to overcome it.
The spotlight on the military in the November issue may be the place to pursue this important theme further. As may have become apparent to readers from some of the pieces written by officers in this issue, the military have worked out how to use a choice-cascade approach to deal with the problem Martin raises. They have also worked out what other elements are needed to make a choice-cascade effective. Readers may not be aware how long ago they did so and just how much of value can be learned from the approach, known today as mission command.
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With globalization accelerating at an exponential rate, acquiring the knowledge and capability to achieve sustainable business success is paramount. Further, the challenge of leadership retention and succession planning becomes more urgent with the…
Facebook wants you to become someone who attracts, wins, and manages a social network of friends and acquaintances while becoming more sharing and open about your own life. Google wants you to become someone always willing to take a few moments to tap a few keys to explore any question you might have around any topic you might be interested in. The iPad wants you to become someone who’s willing to touch and stroke your way to digital entertainment and information anywhere and anytime. The Kindle wants you to become a bookworm extraordinaire; a textually-tropic annelid who loves to read, annotate and share books and magazines.
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The following is the most effective and powerful sales approach of all. However, it is not a bunch of fancy words, a slick set-up trick or a crafty confidence building scheme. In fact, the most powerful sales approach ever, is … (READ MORE…)Mos…
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Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
Continue reading about The New Landscape of Improving Performance in the Workplace
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
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President Obama’s trip to Asia has inspired a wave of worried commentary about America’s diminished standing in the world economy. And there’s no bigger worrier than New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has spent the last few years sounding the alarm about the challenge to the West of the rise of East. Friedman normally focuses his anxiety on China, but this past Election Day, he looked at India and a new generation of startups poised to disrupt established business models.
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Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
Pensions were created to provide individuals a secure income for life. Traditionally, pensions have been the form of a guaranteed annuity payment to a retired or disabled employee or to a deceased employee’s spouse, children or other beneficiaries. Pension can come in two forms: defined benefits or defined contribution benefits. The defined benefit is determined by age, years of service, pay and other factors. The defined contribution benefit is where the employer and employee contribute to the pension plan. The contributions are placed in an account that grows through investments.
In this session, Salary.com compensation expert Athar Siddiqee will review the results of Salary.com’s 2010 Economic Downturn Survey, which focused on the ways in which HR practitioners are changing programs and practices in response to economic un…
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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 half the size it was last y…
Many managers these days face a social dilemma. They want to use social media to get input from many different customers and employees, because they know that an organization’s judgment is improved if its ideation and decision processes incorporate insights from multiple perspectives. But they can’t bring themselves to let employees use social media at work, because they fear too much social activity will hinder productivity. While we’re all becoming familiar with tweets, profiles, writing on walls, and open online discussion, the key to turning those conversational activities into business value has been elusive.
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As diversity in the labor force continues to increase, it’s more important than ever for HR execs to understand the conditions under which diversity “works.” Toward this end, research and practice have shifted from a focus on diversity to inclusion…
Continue reading about Organizational inclusion: What is it, and why should we care about it?
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
Continue reading about The New Landscape of Improving Performance in the Workplace
Workforce Planning
With more than 100 offices nationwide, engineering firm Terracon set out to find an effective way to electronically manage the onslaught of human resources paperwork and best serve its growing staff of employees, engineers and scientists.
In this…
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division, administers and enforces the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for all private, state and local government employee and some federal employees. Most federal and certain congressional employees are also covered by the law and are subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management or the Congress.
February is often referred to as the “Month of Special Romance,” wrapped as it is around everyone’s favorite romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day. This program will explore the risks and realities of office romance, and the practical steps th…
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
Continue reading about Maximizing Your Lump Sum Relocation Program
In this session, Salary.com compensation expert Athar Siddiqee will review the results of Salary.com’s 2010 Economic Downturn Survey, which focused on the ways in which HR practitioners are changing programs and practices in response to economic un…
Continue reading about Trends and Forecasts from Salary.com’s 2010 Economic Downturn Survey
Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
Continue reading about Examine What Matters Most Using Workforce Analytics
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
Continue reading about The New Landscape of Improving Performance in the Workplace
Modern Human Resources is defined as the strategic leveraging of information technology, quality, leadership and employee knowledge, skills and abilities to consistently achieve the mission of the company and get one step closer to achieving the vision of the company everyday.
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Last week NBA legend-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson sold his Starbucks franchises back to the corporation for a reported $75 million. Rumor has it, he’s freeing up some cash to invest in a professional sports team (he also sold his stake in the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team).
About 12 years ago, Magic Johnson formed a joint venture franchise program with Starbucks (Urban Coffee Opportunities) to open coffee shops in developing urban areas such as Harlem. The goal was to reinvigorate under served neighborhoods with jobs. It was a a successful partnership. Under the Urban Coffee Opportunities, more than 100 Starbucks operate in under served urban neighborhoods across the country, including Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit ,Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.
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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 new legislation will mean for your be…
Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you k…
Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
Continue reading about Examine What Matters Most Using Workforce Analytics
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 half the size it was last y…
The High Overemployment Rate: ” In this tough economy, perhaps no single economic metric has gotten as much attention as the unemployment rate, stubbornly stuck near 9.6%. As Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, writing in the November issue of HBR, observes, “In the United States, for example, the corporate sector — judging from most [...]
Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
Bonus or no bonus? That is the question. This is the time of year where expectations are high, and so is the volume of chatter around the water cooler in anticipation of that great corporate tradition…The year-end bonus. So what’s it going to be this year…a turkey, an extra paid day off, a cash bonus, stock/options/warrants, something creative or nothing at all? Complicating matters further for CEOs attempting to determine what to do about bonuses is all the recent media attention and public outrage in regard to what is perceived by many to be excessive, frivolous compensation. In today’s post I’ll take a look at the well intentioned but often misguided practice of year-end bonuses…
Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company’s bottom line and create a high performing workforce!
Through this Webcast, you will learn:
· Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
· T…
Continue reading about Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers
Accountability. A term that is trendy and often over-used, but seems to be consistently on every leaders mind!
Everyone wants and needs their employees to care about and “own” their work—-individual projects and goals, work quality and ov…
Continue reading about Building Real Accountability: A Tool Kit for Leaders at all Levels
Back in 1914 Henry Ford had the crazy idea of giving his factory workers a huge raise. He doubled the standard wage from $2.50 to a whopping $5. The business press excoriated him for his ‘five dollar day,’ but it turned out to be a brilliant move.
He had two reasons. The first, which he gave publicly, was that his new assembly-line system enabled him to produce far more cars than ever before. But after all that efficiency a Model T still cost $500, beyond the reach of most employees at Ford and elsewhere. With the huge raise he hoped to spark a movement to enable American workers to buy a car.
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
Continue reading about Maximizing Your Lump Sum Relocation Program
Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
Continue reading about Examine What Matters Most Using Workforce Analytics
Internal investigations of alleged ethics violations have never been more critical. Federal sentencing guidelines continue to raise the bar for establishing strict ethical and compliance guidelines. This workshop will focus on the investigation p…
Continue reading about Investigating Ethics Violations – What You Don’t Know May Land You In Jail
Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
Getting Started
CCH Business Owner’s Toolkit:
Pros and Cons of Health Benefits
Which Benefits Should You Offer?
How to Find Benefit Providers
How to Negotiate Your Policy
Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
Ever wonder how you can create a company challenge that promotes wellness, fun and teamwork while increasing employee productivity and decreasing healthcare costs and sick days? Yes it is possible today. Let us examine the impact of walking program…
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Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
You’ll never be a great leader without being loving and compassionate. While today’s post is a bit more kumbaya than most, please don’t check out on me because you perceive this topic too gooey and gushy to be relevant. If you take what follows to heart, it might just change your world. I saw a brief Twitter exchange yesterday between Becky Robinson and David Hutchens which piqued my curiosity. David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?” I think it’s a great question. While love and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
In this session, Salary.com compensation expert Athar Siddiqee will review the results of Salary.com’s 2010 Economic Downturn Survey, which focused on the ways in which HR practitioners are changing programs and practices in response to economic un…
Continue reading about Trends and Forecasts from Salary.com’s 2010 Economic Downturn Survey
A major leadership transition is underway. Gen X’ers are assuming key roles in business and in the public sector – taking over from the Boomers. How will their leadership approach differ? Are they ready for the challenges ahead? In this pro…
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Learn how to reduce turnover, improve your company’s bottom line and create a high performing workforce!
Through this Webcast, you will learn:
· Strategic, proven practices and highly targeted solutions for recruiting the best talent.
· T…
Continue reading about Selecting, Developing, and Retaining Top Performers
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 productivity. This webcast will highligh…
Continue reading about Talent Management Trends in Healthcare – by Aberdeen Group
This webcast based on a white paper that ADP developed, will discuss the evolution of Talent Management. Large employers were traditionally the early adopters of talent management programs. Now, the concept has filtered down to the midsize market …
Continue reading about Talent Management – The New Strategic Imperative for Performance Efficiency
What’s happening with benefits? Join this webcast to hear the results from Workscape’s 3rd Annual Benefit’s Survey. As healthcare plan costs continue to increase, this year’s survey examined four areas: costs savings; communications; economic pr…
This webcast based on a white paper that ADP developed, will discuss the evolution of Talent Management. Large employers were traditionally the early adopters of talent management programs. Now, the concept has filtered down to the midsize market …
Continue reading about Talent Management – The New Strategic Imperative for Performance Efficiency
Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you k…
If there is anything this nasty, fear-driven, dispiriting political season has demonstrated, it’s that no politician — Democrat, Republican, or otherwise — has any compelling solutions to what ails us. Even as partisan a figure as Jeb Bush is suggesting voters are feeling “disgust with the political class.’
We live in a world that has grown increasingly complex and contradictory, angry and fearful, polarized but utterly interdependent.
How, then, to feel more control over our destiny amid so many daunting challenges and so few clear answers?
Here are four very personal behaviors to consider, offered in a spirit of hopefulness and humility:
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With more than 100 offices nationwide, engineering firm Terracon set out to find an effective way to electronically manage the onslaught of human resources paperwork and best serve its growing staff of employees, engineers and scientists.
In this…
Ever wonder how you can create a company challenge that promotes wellness, fun and teamwork while increasing employee productivity and decreasing healthcare costs and sick days? Yes it is possible today. Let us examine the impact of walking program…
Continue reading about Organizing Corporate Challenges to create Employee Wellness
February is often referred to as the “Month of Special Romance,” wrapped as it is around everyone’s favorite romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day. This program will explore the risks and realities of office romance, and the practical steps th…
Maybe its because of the society we live in today. When you see ads online for “I made $3000 last month working only 2 hours at home in my pajamas” become more common than seeing someone reading a printed newspaper, … (READ MORE…)Th…
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Every major law effecting employers protects whistleblowers. It is no surprise that retaliation claims are now the second most frequently filed claim under federal anti-discrimination laws – filed 3 times as often as sexual harassment. Whistleb…
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The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) of 1985 mandates that employers that have with 20 or more employees and offer health coverage continue to offer employees benefits when they quit, are laid off or fired or have their work hours reduced. It should be noted, however, that when the employee has been terminated for gross misconduct, an employer is not required to offer continuation of benefits. Additionally, benefits must be offered to the employee’s spouse and dependents. COBRA benefits apply to health care plans, medical spending accounts, dental plans, vision plans, prescription drug plans, etc. Benefits may continue for up to 18, 24, 29 or 36 months, depending on the cause for the loss of benefits.
Are you skeptical about integrating online assessments into your hiring process? Do topics such as test security, ensuring accessibility for applicants with disabilities and risks of applicant cheating have you concerned? Or are you focused on rece…
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Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
As much as some people won’t want to hear this, “help” is not a dirty word. Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. So my question is this: Are you easy to help? Think about it…do you make it easy for others to want to help you, or is your demeanor such that most people won’t lift a finger to assist you in a time of need? How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? In today’s post I’ll address the importance of positioning yourself to be helped…
Workforce Planning
In my last post, I explained that process improvement programs that don’t focus on a company’s competitive advantage can be a huge waste of resources. Improving supply chain processes is strategically important for companies like Wal-Mart or FedEx that compete by providing customers consistent and low-cost products and services. But for companies like Apple and Nike whose competitive advantage is product innovation, world-class supply processes must be at competitive parity. Efficient supply chains aren’t the reason customers buy their products.
A really basic introduction to copywriting. In my previous article, I said that when you identify the problem you solve and who you solve it for, attracting the customer becomes easy. All you need to do is ask them if … (READ MORE…)How Do I Att…
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 productivity. This webcast will highligh…
Continue reading about Talent Management Trends in Healthcare – by Aberdeen Group
This webcast is for those people whose firms are considering expanding into Canadian employment and need an overview of the essential basics for employment and payroll as well as a review of what employment alternatives are available in Canada: ICs…
Continue reading about New Companies to Canada: A Crash Course in Canadian Employment
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
Continue reading about The New Landscape of Improving Performance in the Workplace
Accountability. A term that is trendy and often over-used, but seems to be consistently on every leaders mind!
Everyone wants and needs their employees to care about and “own” their work—-individual projects and goals, work quality and ov…
Continue reading about Building Real Accountability: A Tool Kit for Leaders at all Levels
What’s happening with benefits? Join this webcast to hear the results from Workscape’s 3rd Annual Benefit’s Survey. As healthcare plan costs continue to increase, this year’s survey examined four areas: costs savings; communications; economic pr…
Accountability. A term that is trendy and often over-used, but seems to be consistently on every leaders mind!
Everyone wants and needs their employees to care about and “own” their work—-individual projects and goals, work quality and ov…
Continue reading about Building Real Accountability: A Tool Kit for Leaders at all Levels
Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
Continue reading about Examine What Matters Most Using Workforce Analytics
Join leaders from Medco Health Solutions and Healthways as they discuss a unique collaborative care model that combines Healthways’ proven foundation in behavior change with the unique advantages of Medco, the pharmacy and prescription benefits m…
Ever wonder how you can create a company challenge that promotes wellness, fun and teamwork while increasing employee productivity and decreasing healthcare costs and sick days? Yes it is possible today. Let us examine the impact of walking program…
Continue reading about Organizing Corporate Challenges to create Employee Wellness
View these whitepapers and webcasts on the topics of human capital management courtesy of Oracle.
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 training initiatives. During th…
Continue reading about How to Leverage Government Funding for Training in your Organization
February is often referred to as the “Month of Special Romance,” wrapped as it is around everyone’s favorite romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day. This program will explore the risks and realities of office romance, and the practical steps th…
In any large enterprise, innovation presents an inherent challenge because, overwhelmingly, the processes, structures, and resources that guide people’s actions are optimized for the work that must be done well today. Healthcare organizations in particular must focus relentlessly on achieving error-free care, making it hard for their people to switch gears into the often messy and inefficient pursuit of tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
Continue reading about How The Mayo Clinic Invests in its Next Century of Innovation
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 training initiatives. During th…
Continue reading about How to Leverage Government Funding for Training in your Organization
Linking Pay & Performance:Strengthening Ties between Performance Management and Pay Delivery Systems
Join our webinar, and obtain expert advice on how to create a pay for performance culture, including how to reconnect the two if perceptions have split them apart. You will learn:
- Why you should worry about the relationship between pay and perfo…
Getting ready for the holidays: Can anyone handle that? We have enough trouble handling everyday life. Now throw in the gazillion obligations and distractions that fill mid-November through December, and you have a headache seemingly beyond remedy.
The issue? Never before in human history have we asked our brains to process as many data points per minute as we do today. We now process many orders of magnitude more data points every day than we did just 10 or 15 years ago
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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 productivity. This webcast will highligh…
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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 drive business results, and targ…
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Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you k…
Ever wonder how you can create a company challenge that promotes wellness, fun and teamwork while increasing employee productivity and decreasing healthcare costs and sick days? Yes it is possible today. Let us examine the impact of walking program…
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Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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With globalization accelerating at an exponential rate, acquiring the knowledge and capability to achieve sustainable business success is paramount. Further, the challenge of leadership retention and succession planning becomes more urgent with the…
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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It’s an exciting and hectic day here at Business Consulting Buzz HQ. Today is the official launch of the Masters of Consulting Interviews. Several months ago Mike rang me up on a rainy Sunday morning and told me he had … (READ MORE…)Launch Da…
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Learn how best-in-class organizations are taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and tools to improve key recruitment, engagement, and performance metrics.
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Performance metrics are objective, quantitative numbers that compare actual performance to company goals. All metrics should be both valid and sound. The most common metrics in sales are revenue or profit per day, week, month and year by individual, group or organization. Plus conversion metrics like cost per lead, cost per sale, leads per appointment, shows per appointment, closes per show, net closing percentage after cancels, etc. Other common HR metrics are number of employees tardy, people sick, people on FMLA, number of overtime hours, department salary budget at 50% of revenue after product or inventory expenses, etc.
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Learn how best-in-class organizations are taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and tools to improve key recruitment, engagement, and performance metrics.
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Are you skeptical about integrating online assessments into your hiring process? Do topics such as test security, ensuring accessibility for applicants with disabilities and risks of applicant cheating have you concerned? Or are you focused on rece…
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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 new legislation will mean for your be…
The AFL was created in response to the Citizen’s Alliance, which used open shop and welfare capitalism to prevent union organization. Open shops were not really open, they were just anti-union. Welfare capitalism involved improving supervisory practices, implementing hiring and firing procedures, offering wage incentives, providing insurance benefits, encouraging a positive culture, improving work environment and safety and providing employee voice. The AFL stands for the American Federation of Labor and attempted to establish and maintain standards at work through work rules.
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The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
Tina Brown’s Triumph: ” The combination of Newsweek and The Daily Beast represents yet another career achievement for uber-editor Tina Brown. Following on the heels of her success at Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and her brief stint as founding editor of the now-closed Talk magazine, Brown has, over her 30-year career in the [...]
Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
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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 new legislation will mean for your be…
Ever wonder how you can create a company challenge that promotes wellness, fun and teamwork while increasing employee productivity and decreasing healthcare costs and sick days? Yes it is possible today. Let us examine the impact of walking program…
Continue reading about Organizing Corporate Challenges to create Employee Wellness
There are many testing and assessment vendors out there – but not all of them have your best interests in mind. Join us for this one hour webcast where we will discuss how Cascades selected an assessment partner that worked with them to align th…
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Late or non-payment is of particular concern to both new and established consultants. We all know or have at least heard of the damaging effects of badly managed cash flow to businesses. Failure to collect cash on time from clients … (READ MORE…..
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Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
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Unions, labor inequities, economies, human resources and legislation are in a constant state of flux. As with any other issues of discussion, unions have advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, I will discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of unions from the perspective of labor inequities, economic activity, human resources and labor legislation to shed some light on the future of labor relations and human resources.
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
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Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
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Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
Scope—The subject of managing for employee retention involves a company’s strategic actions to keep employees motivated and focused so they elect to remain employed and fully productive for the benefit of the organization. A comprehensive employee retention program can play an important role in both attracting and retaining key employees, as well as in reducing turnover and its related costs. All of these contribute to an organization’s productivity and overall business performance.
Staffing & Human Resource Consulting is about $18.4 billion industry today & is expected to grow even larger in the times to come. In this competitive world where optimum & proper resource for any job specification is the need of the hour, Manpower & Human Resource Consulting is a very handy tool for success. It [...]
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With more than 100 offices nationwide, engineering firm Terracon set out to find an effective way to electronically manage the onslaught of human resources paperwork and best serve its growing staff of employees, engineers and scientists.
In this…
Accountability. A term that is trendy and often over-used, but seems to be consistently on every leaders mind!
Everyone wants and needs their employees to care about and “own” their work—-individual projects and goals, work quality and ov…
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Learn how to choose the right metrics, link them to workforce issues, and quantifiably demonstrate the value of workforce initiatives.
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Warning: Your Attention is Under Siege: ” So I’m watching ‘Morning Joe‘ while running on my treadmill this morning and Mika Brezezinski asks her co-host Joe Scarborough a question. He looks at her blankly. This is live television. Then he acknowledges that he was distracted by something that appeared on the iPad on his desk. [...]
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There are many testing and assessment vendors out there – but not all of them have your best interests in mind. Join us for this one hour webcast where we will discuss how Cascades selected an assessment partner that worked with them to align th…
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There are two schools of thought on this. Many people believe that during a global economic downturn is the best time to start your own business, especially if you’ve lost your job and can’t find a new one. On the … (READ MORE…)Is N…
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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 drive business results, and targ…
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The notion that we can be excellent at anything prompted passionate debate. On the one hand, it’s empowering and inspiring to believe that excellence is within our reach in any area to which we devote ourselves with sufficient diligence — something the researcher Anders Ericsson calls ‘deliberate practice.’
Just think of how many movies — often based on true stories — tell the story of inspiring teachers, coaches and mentors helping undervalued kids become extraordinary performers: The Blind Side, Stand and Deliver, Lean On Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Bad News Bears, and Dangerous Minds, among many others
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As diversity in the labor force continues to increase, it’s more important than ever for HR execs to understand the conditions under which diversity “works.” Toward this end, research and practice have shifted from a focus on diversity to inclusion…
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Outsourcing is contracting out a department, business function, project or position to an external provider. In this sense, two organizations may enter a contractual agreement involving an exchange of services and payments. Whereas offshoring is contracting out to an external provider in a foreign county. In addition, several related terms have emerged to grasp various aspects of the complex relationship between economic organizations or networks, such as nearshoring, multisourcing and strategic outsourcing.
February is often referred to as the “Month of Special Romance,” wrapped as it is around everyone’s favorite romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day. This program will explore the risks and realities of office romance, and the practical steps th…
Linking Pay & Performance:Strengthening Ties between Performance Management and Pay Delivery Systems
Join our webinar, and obtain expert advice on how to create a pay for performance culture, including how to reconnect the two if perceptions have split them apart. You will learn:
- Why you should worry about the relationship between pay and perfo…
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 new legislation will mean for your be…
Linking Pay & Performance:Strengthening Ties between Performance Management and Pay Delivery Systems
Join our webinar, and obtain expert advice on how to create a pay for performance culture, including how to reconnect the two if perceptions have split them apart. You will learn:
- Why you should worry about the relationship between pay and perfo…
Internal investigations of alleged ethics violations have never been more critical. Federal sentencing guidelines continue to raise the bar for establishing strict ethical and compliance guidelines. This workshop will focus on the investigation p…
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Talent management is no longer an optional component of an HR strategy. Rather, it is a real business imperative with significant implications. In fact, recent Bersin & Associates research correlates corporate financial performance to implemented …
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Now that we’ve identified that you shouldn’t pitch to anyone and everyone (see: Consulting Sales a Numbers Game?), we need to address who we should be presenting to. I ask this question of my clients and I recommend you ask … (READ MORE…)Wh…
How much work is too much? How do you carve out time for family while continuing to be a top performer at the office? In this, the final installment in a seven-part series on personal productivity, Bob Pozen, chairman emeritus of MFS Investment Management and a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, talks to HBR’s Justin Fox about balancing work and life.
Pozen began to develop his approach while growing up in working-class Bridgeport, Conn. His dad was a BVD underwear salesman. The younger Pozen held down two jobs while playing basketball and tennis — and graduated first in his class at an inner-city high school where, he said, “academics were a low priority.” He then made his way through Harvard College and Yale Law School on a combination of scholarships and side jobs.
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Using Predictive Models and Simulation to Identify Opportunities for Minimizing Employee Health-Care
Although many businesses are establishing health and wellness programs for their employees, they are not necessarily able to forecast the true costs of health risks and chronic diseases, or the benefits of implementing these programs. Learn how a…
I’ll never forget the Vice President of Sales who — after only five days on the job — sent a company-wide email calling all his coworkers “complete idiots,” swearing at senior management, and declaring he was walking out then and there. After that email, about 950 people who barely knew his name would forever remember him as “that guy who crashed and burned after only one week.”
This is the worst possible way to leave a job. This VP of Sales won’t get a reference, won’t be eligible for rehire, and will seal his reputation to throngs of former coworkers as the guy who lost it and walked off the job. Although sometimes it’s difficult to resist going out with a bang — especially if your departure is forced — it’s always in your best interest to part ways on good terms with the people you’ve worked with.
The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
There are plentiful examples today of companies using design to create value for consumers and shareholders. Despite the growing interest in design across industries, there are also persistent misconceptions that keep many business leaders from realizing its potential in their organizations. Here are the most common ones:
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Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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Manually reviewing piles of fresh job applications and resumes can get overwhelming. LexisNexis Screening Solutions and SHL, a leading global provider of behavioral and ability assessments, have researched new tools that helps you quickly, efficie…
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 to multiple economic and…
There are many testing and assessment vendors out there – but not all of them have your best interests in mind. Join us for this one hour webcast where we will discuss how Cascades selected an assessment partner that worked with them to align th…
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Employee benefits in the United States constitute a large, complex and ever-changing set of programs. They are either mandated by federal and/or state law (such as Social Security, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation) or voluntarily provided by the employer to help attract, retain and motivate employees and to contribute to the organization’s strategic objectives. Such voluntary benefits include pensions and other retirement income programs, health insurance, and paid time off. The distinction between mandated and voluntary benefits has become somewhat blurred in recent years, as the federal and state governments mandate requirements to all employers that once were voluntary (e.g., medical and family leave and state mandates to health insurance contracts).
Another distinction exists between the private and public sectors. Public sector employment practices, including benefits, have had somewhat of a separate development. Not-for-profit organizations, the “third sector,” are also different, but receive relatively little attention. This discussion will focus primarily on the private sector.
Jack Welch, a humble chemical engineer, tells us in his memoir why he was able to make strategic decisions all across GE’s portfolio, from nuclear power to the nightly news. The essential character trait at the heart of Welch’s story is simple: integrity. Integrity was ‘our No. 1 value,’ he writes in this book. ‘We never had a corporate meeting where I didn’t emphasize integrity in my closing remarks.’
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While the 2004 average turnover rate for all industries was 18%, the top three industries with the highest turnover were retail, service (profit) and service (nonprofit) with annual turnover rates of 34%, 24% and 22%, respectively. All those figure translate into millions or billions of dollars in lost revenue.
A major leadership transition is underway. Gen X’ers are assuming key roles in business and in the public sector – taking over from the Boomers. How will their leadership approach differ? Are they ready for the challenges ahead? In this pro…
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I know. I’ve written about the need for consultants to be persistent before, but I just had to share another story with you. Not too long ago one of my companies started working on expanding the number of partnerships we … (READ MORE…)The…
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Rolling Out a New Hiring Process Across Locations & Divisions: Challenges Roadblocks & Opportunities
This webcast will discuss the challenges faced by HR professionals when trying to implement a selection process across a division and into multiple divisions. For instance, how do you gain buy-in from stakeholders in different locations? Do you k…
Is your organization considering adding tiered, lump sum or direct reimbursement options to its relocation program? Is your organization getting the most value from its current relocation program? During this session you will learn how to ensure y…
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Did Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook friending because he was unable to make friends? That’s the main theme of the hit film The Social Network. Zuckerberg didn’t care about money, several say; he was compensating for a lack of friends.
Did Evan Williams, who just stepped aside as CEO of Twitter, jump on the bandwagon of an instant communication site because he is quiet and slow to make decisions? That’s an inference that can be drawn from a New York Times profile.
These could be examples of entrepreneurship as compensation for personal weaknesses and inner misery. Strategy-as-psychology might be back in fashion.
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The world of Human Resources and Training is undergoing tremendous change. The economy is starting to grow and businesses are now focused on innovation, growth, organizational development, and recruiting.
At the same time, today’s HR and trai…
With the economy in a tailspin that some experts say will take months, if not years, to recover from, companies are more concerned than ever about maximizing the effectiveness of their staff. Performance management (PM) is moving front and center as less emphasis is placed on hiring new staff, while more is being placed on utilizing the staff that are already on board effectively.
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Let’s start with what we know: After a dispute with her supervisor, an employee, Dawnmarie Souza, made disparaging remarks about the supervisor on her Facebook page. In response to this status update, other employees of American Medical Response of Connecticut, posted comments supporting Ms. Souza and criticizing the supervisor. American Medical subsequently fired Ms. Souza, claiming she had violated company policy, which disallowed any employee from depicting the company in any way on social media websites without permission.
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Human performance technology is a set of evidence-based methods, and a strategy for solving problems, for realizing opportunities related to the workplace performance of people. This presentation, by the editors of the newly released three-volume H…
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The U.S. government will spend more than $25 billion on health-care-related IT as part of the health care reform bill passed by Congress in March of 2010. The goal is to help make the extraordinarily complicated, fragmented U.S. health care system more interconnected and efficient. Where should they look for ideas? Poor countries, surprisingly enough. [...]
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Learn about the implications, timelines, and what the new Health Care Reform law means for you as an employer and for your employees.
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 drive business results, and targ…
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I was talking with a colleague about gaming when I heard these phrases come out of my mouth. I run a digital research centre in a city, Vancouver, that’s a serious player in the gaming industry. That means I’m one of the few people who worries that I don’t spend enough time playing video games. Sure, I have a few games on my iPhone, but as I told my colleague, I’ve got better things to do with my time, like catching up on Twitter. I’ve got a Wii, but at my age, it’s way easier to see the point of blogging than the value of World of Goo. I got a Playstation 3 so that I could play Uncharted 2 &38212; all the hype about the latest generation of truly cinematic games made it sound like an important development — but hey, I don’t need to become a champion gamer.
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There are many testing and assessment vendors out there – but not all of them have your best interests in mind. Join us for this one hour webcast where we will discuss how Cascades selected an assessment partner that worked with them to align th…
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The purpose of assembling a team is to accomplish bigger goals than any that would be possible for the individual working alone. The aim and purpose of a team is to perform, get results and achieve victory in the workplace and marketplace. The very best managers are those who can gather together a group of individuals and mold them into a team. Here are ten key differentials to help you mold your people into a pro-active and productive team.
The following ten techniques, tips or best practices, are the foundations of successful selling. Follow these ten commandments of successful selling and watch your business grow! Be forewarned however, they are simple, but not easy. The Top Ten Techniq…
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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 half the size it was last y…
View these whitepapers and webcasts on the topics of human capital management courtesy of Oracle.
View these whitepapers and webcasts on the topics of human capital management courtesy of Oracle.
