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  • Employee Retention: How To Keep Your Best People
    By: Annette Estes | - During hard economic times it's more important than ever to retain your best people. They can mean the difference between business success and failure.

    This may not seem difficult on the surface since jobs are getting scarcer and maybe it's not. But even if your best people aren't leaving, they could be experiencing stress due to the fear of losing their jobs. That stress can affect productivity and morale, not to mention profitability for the company.

    So, here are ...

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  • Physician Retention Strategies - You've Got 'em, Now, How Do You Keep 'em?
    By: Robert Eskridge | - Retaining the best talent is a key concern of all hospitals and practices. It costs an organization a significant amount of money to recruit a primary care physician. Replacing one primary care physician can result in $20,000 - $26,000 in recruitment costs, loss of $300,000 - $400,000 in annual gross billings, and the loss of $300,000 to $500,000 in inpatient revenue. The average annual turnover in medical practices is between 6-10%.

    In rural and underserved urban areas, the chall ...

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  • Top 7 Job Analysis And Design Tips
    By: Annette Estes | - Does your job description analysis assure you of hiring and retaining superior performers? Your employees may be doing the tasks required by the job, but are they performing those tasks the way they need to be done; and does the job motivate them by rewarding their values?

    The typical job description analysis looks only at what duties the job involves; it doesn't go deeper to see if a person is a good match for the job. You need to look at the who, how, and why as well as the what ...

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  • So You"ve Had A Bad Day At The Office
    By: sandy vish | - Do you work with a tornado? You know the kind of person who always seems surrounded by drama in their personal and professional lives? Any attempt by their colleagues to get them to change their ways falls on deaf ears. Can you see them heading for burnout in a couple of years time?

    Research from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales found that 45 per cent of people questioned say they have suffered from stress, citing unattainable targets, poor management ...

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  • Jfk Wanted Us To Go To The Moon. - Employee Development
    By: jasonhowell | - We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things; not because they are easy, but because they are hard"because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energy and skills.


    ~ John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962
    President John F. Kennedy said the above quote and though we went to the moon in 1969, the bigger accomplishment was telling we have the power to do things and we are capable of wielding that power. Today, knowing we h ...

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  • The Value Of An Engaged Employee
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Engaged employees are excited and enthusiastic about their jobs. They resist distractions, tend to forget about time and routinely produce significantly more than the job requires. They enjoy searching for ways to improve circumstances and volunteer for difficult assignments. They also encourage others to higher levels of performance. Finally, they are proud to be involved with their organization and are more likely to stay with the company.

    There are many benefits and advantages ...

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  • Why Is There A Need For Talent Management?
    By: David Banjamin | - For any organisation to function optimally, the best person must be selected for each different task. The better the selection process, the higher the quality of work will be of each person placed in specific positions. Talent management has become a necessity to ensure the viability and future of any company today.

    What talent management teaches is the management of the people within the organisation that are skilled in the many different fields within an organisation. Without effi ...

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  • Retaining Employees Based On Best Practices
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - While many employers complain about the difficulty of recruiting and retaining quality people, other employers never seem to have this problem. What's the secret of these employers of choice? They simply know what's important to their prospective and current employees, and they work hard to meet those needs. Before you can start to consider the challenge of recruiting the very best people, you must first look at what drives people from their jobs. Follow these three steps and you are likely to b ...
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  • Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization
    By: Debora McLaughlin | - Is accountability elusive in your organization? If you're like most leaders, you regularly deal with work force issues that get in the way of your organization's success. Here you have all this talent at your fingertips, yet goals are not being met and your business isn't nearly as successful as you know it could be. It's frustrating!

    Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort.

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  • So You've Had A Bad Day At The Office, But That Doesn't Mean You Have To Like It
    By: sharuq | - Do you work with a tornado? You know the kind of person who always seems surrounded by drama in their personal and professional lives? Any attempt by their colleagues to get them to change their ways falls on deaf ears. Can you see them heading for burnout in a couple of years time?


    Research from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales found that 45 per cent of people questioned say they have suffered from stress, citing unattainable targets, poor ...

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  • Developing Leaders For Enterprise Businesses
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Your organization's leaders are responsible for managing and directing others. Their success can have a tremendous impact on profitability. This article will provide information about developing leaders for enterprise businesses and how you can create a team of effective managers who can get the job done. Whether you're an executive, manager or team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Enterprise business solutions for improving and developing leaders will ...

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  • Developing Leaders For Mid-size Businesses
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Your company's leaders are responsible for managing and directing others. Their success can have a tremendous impact on profitability. This article will provide information about developing leaders for mid-size businesses and how you can create a team of effective managers who can get the job done. Whether you're an executive, manager or team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Mid-size business leadership development solutions will help your leaders becom ...

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  • Self Paced E-learning For More Productivity
    By: Karen Cynowa | - E-Training is the next generation training system, it has gathered a firm foothold and offers subjects in almost every field. From leadership to sales skills, team reinforcement, and even E-mail efficiency, just to mention a few.

    This system has gained in popularity due to the obvious benefits it offers. Online training is a comprehensive solution that addresses the requirements of kinesthetic learners, visual learners as well as auditory learners.

    E-Training makes ...

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  • Communication Management: Develop Effective Managers And Leadership
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Your organization's managers are responsible for leading and directing others. Their success (or lack of it) has a tremendous impact on profitability. This article will provide information about how you can develop effective managers who can get the job done. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Communication management solutions help managers learn to communicate with employees ' it increases morale and prod ...

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  • Improve Leadership Skills With Feedback
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Business leaders need reliable tools that provide information and insights about how to be successful by doing the right things, the right way. It is impossible to know that right way without having the right information and a customized roadmap to get you there.

    Improving the leadership skills of managers within an organization is becoming increasingly important. Managers who are able to perform their jobs better and work toward the goals of the organization can improve productiv ...

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  • Nelson Cohen Global Consulting >> http://nelsoncohen.com: Employee Retention: Moving Up the Employee Relationship Chain Shared By: edcohenspeaks - Excerpt from RIDING... May 2010 Employee Retention: Moving Up the Employee Relationship Chain by Ed Cohen and Arunav Sinha We believe moving up the...


  • Putting The Power Of Business Assessment Tools To Work For You
    By: Brad Lebo | - The overwhelming majority of business assessment tools are designed to measure either personality, motivation (attitudes, values), or competence (skill). The first of these, personality assessment, has a long tradition in the field of psychology. Despite this tradition, there is little consensus about how exactly to measure or, in fact, define personality. Two widely used assessment tools illustrate the range of approaches to assessing personality.

    The Myers-Briggs Type Indicato ...

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  • The Impact Of Soft Skill Training
    By: Orson Dixon | - You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.'-Lee Iacocca 1924- (former CEO of Ford and famous for reviving the Chrysler brand)

    In today's world, where the survival of the fittest is the norm, it has become imperative to sharpen one's technical skills, and more importantly, one's soft skills. Technical skills can be learnt, applied and measured to an established degree. But the same cannot be said of soft skills. Soft skill is ...

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  • How To Attract & Retail The Very Best People
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - While many employers complain about the difficulty of attracting and retaining quality people, other employers seem never to have this problem. What's their secret? This article will provide you with ways to attract and retain the very best people. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    It's not really a secret. Employers of Choice simply know what's important to their employees.

    Before you can ...

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  • Buisness Coaches Got Game
    By: Andrea Dean | - If you have ever played a sport, you know the importance of a good coach.

    A coach motivates everyone to do their personal best for themselves and the team and creates accountability (you do show up for practice!).

    Most people agree that you and the team would not achieve maximum results without a good coach.
    A Business Coach works with you to develop and achieve personal and/or professional goals.

    A coach can work with the business owner, manag ...

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  • Coaching: An Essential Ingredient In Professional Development Of Academic Staff
    By: Evelyn Bos | - In professional development programmes the intention is always to provide the participants with personal and professional growth and establish a long-lasting form of learning.

    Involving them with a meaningful learning experience, where action and reflection are important ingredients, is therefore crucial (Petty, 2007; Slepkov, 2008; Maeda, 2001).

    Many of the more conventional forms of professional development, such as conferences, workshops, lectures and mass staf ...

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  • Counteracting Workplace De-motivators
    By: John Di Frances | - In todays workplaces, there are unfortunately, many strong de-motivators at work.
    These can include:

    Inadequately Prepared and Equipped Leaders, Managers and Supervisors

    Poor Communication

    Out-Moded Employee Review & Evaluation Practices

    Boring, Dismal Work Environments

    Lack of Coaching and Mentoring

    Poorly Defined Career Paths

    Lack of Performance Recognition

    These are but a few of the problems that ...

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  • Staff Satisfaction Surveys Stink!
    By: Martin Haworth | - Truth is, in many organizations, the doing of the survey is more than enough. Only rarely does anyone get down to what happens next.

    It's an easy fix for organizations to churn out the annual or even bi-annual ('to show we really care') survey to their people, to assess 'staff satisfaction'. It is a great tactic for the Annual Report. Yet in most cases, it stinks!

    Once the results are in, they get analyzed at Corporate, Divisional and Area level. Any improvements re ...

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  • Mentoring And Coaching For Professionals
    By: CJ Williams | - In recent years there has been a significant rise in the demand for mentors and coaches. The driving forces behind this are: executives, managers and other specialists are increasingly expected to demonstrate that they are undertaking significant professional development; the workplace and business employment environment is becoming even more competitive; the influence of the emerging industrial nations is forcing radical changes in the skill mix required of managers and other professionals in t ...
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  • How To Retain Women In Your Organization, And Support Their Success
    By: Kerrie Halmi | - What group makes up half of our population, yet only 15.6% of corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies? What group holds half of all management and professional positions in the United States, but less than 3% of the CEO positions in the Fortune 500? Women!

    Moreover, studies have shown that companies with the highest representation of women (top 10%) on their top management teams had better financial performance than did the group with the lowest women's representation. Women p ...

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  • A Skilled Business Coach Is Worth Their Weight In Gold
    By: Wendy Stevens | - A Business Coach can be a very effective developmental tool for leadership development, as well as producing financial and intangible benefits for any business. A good coach can provide you and your employees with a rich learning environment that allows the learning to be applied to a variety of business situations. Key skills such as decision-making, team performance and the motivation of others can be strengthened and enhanced.

    In a recent study of a Fortune 500 company that ...

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  • Employee Retention: When Is Your Next Key Employee Going To Leave And What Are You Doing About It?
    By: Les McKeown | - If you and your managers are doing your job right, you will be having regular 'one-on-one's with your key performers, part of which will cover their general job satisfaction and overall 'engagement' with the organization.

    Sometimes however, general busy-ness, or simply a lack of understanding of how to have such a conversation, means that managers fail to have such discussions, leading to the type of unpleasant surprise that no-one likes to get.

    Sidebar: It's often ...

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  • Five Ways To Destroy An Important Discussion
    By: Suzanne Holman | - Of course you want to have a positive outcome to an important discussion!

    But sometimes it just doesn't happen and you're not sure why.

    Let's look at five possible ways you may have been jeopardizing the success of a conversation. Each of these can have a huge impact on how the communication will develop.

    CANCEL THE APPOINTMENT AT THE LAST MINUTE

    What better way is there to show that you don't value the meeting you've scheduled?
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  • How Your Greatest Gifts Can Turn Into The Saboteur That Ruins Your Success
    By: Melanie Benson Strick | - Have you ever noticed that the very skills or attributes that you feel most proud of can become your biggest nightmare? Maybe you can relate to this story.

    Jane is a powerful consultant who makes upwards of $350,000 a year teaching her clients how to analyze their processes and improve in areas that help generate greater client and employee retention. Her clients pay her very well for her skills of analyzing the 'gaps' and implementing improvements. The crazy thing is she is so go ...

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  • A Guide To Starting Your Own Law Firm
    By: Kris | - There are a variety of reasons why launching their own law firm can be an attractive proposition for qualified lawyers: greater flexibility and the ability to determine their own career path, family needs and lifestyle choices, having the opportunity to handle complex cases which would be taken on by senior personnel of a bigger organization, develop a distinctive and individual professional persona, avoid the uncertainties and vagaries that are usual in employer-employee dealings, bypass the of ...
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  • Closing The Workplace Generation Gap
    By: Sam Galea | - With the obvious exception of the very young and elderly, the fact that there is a generational mix in the Australian workplace simply reflects our general population demographics.

    In the factories, workshops and offices of the past the different cohorts were more stratified with older people in senior management positions and younger ones in menial roles. However compared to a generation ago when both society and work was based on this hierarchal structure today's workplace is on ...

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  • Top Ten Things Choice Theory Can Do For You
    By: Kim Olver | - Dr. William Glasser developed the concepts of Choice Theory upon the foundational work of Dr. William Power's Control Theory. Both theories provide an explanation of human behaviorPowers focuses mostly on perception while Glasser expanded his ideas to include basic human needs and the concept of total behaviorincluding a person's actions, thinking, feeling and physiology.

    Choice Theory provides an explanation of human behavior. Once learned, individuals will understand how e ...

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  • Corporate Culture
    By: Kim Olver | - Much of the information in this article can be found in the book, How to Hire and Keep Great Employees by Jim Harris and Joan Brannick, discussed in our book review below. The authors make a very strong case for why it is so important, particularly today to have a strong corporate culture and for aligning all levels of your business with that core culture.

    I consult with many organizations about bringing Empowered Leadership to their companies and agencies. One of the things they ...

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  • Employee Retention-how To Keep People Happy And Focused
    By: Kreg Enderson | - Employee turnover impacts an organization in a variety of ways, most of which are negative. High turnover generates not only heavy tangible costs, but takes its toll on the current team members as well. So what can you do to reduce the cost of continually bringing in new people? Here are just a few reasons for high turnover and some strategies to correct.

    First of all, not all turnover is bad. When I see an organization that has not fired anyone in a very long time, that tells ...

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  • Winning The Talent War In Turbulent Times
    By: Eileen McDargh | - The reinsurance industry is not immune to the influence of our current economic slowdown. The pace of change, the dot.com disappearances, and the flushing sound heard on Wall Street throw many organizations into knee-jerk reactions. From consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions to re-engineering profit centers, creating new product lines and calming a variety of stakeholders, managers are faced with turbulent situations.

    Responding to such pressures requires both a level head as ...

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  • Job Talk"'"the Heart Of Productivity
    By: Eileen McDargh | - Read the word "productivity" and chances are you envision assembly lines, warehouses stocked with goods, even space-age machinery performing tasks at faster-than- human speed. Or if you are in corporate management, your mind recalls the U.S. production statistics when compared to foreign countries. And it's a sure bet that you have read widely on the various end-of- the-alphabet theories, quality circles, re- engineering, learning theories and other management techniques to increase productivity ...
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  • The Craft Of Choosing Well-the Ultimate Success
    By: Eileen McDargh | - A recent survey of 350 human resources managers shows that employee turnover is becoming one of the most critical workplace issues. Sixty percent say that skilled- person power is "scarce". Forty six percent say that worker retention is a "very serious" issue and another 28 percent believe it to be "serious".

    Companies that take the problem seriously and implement programs to ensure employee satisfaction have the highest retention rates. "Show me the money" is not the singular sol ...

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  • The Seven Deadly Sins Of Small Business
    By: Michael Adams | - Owners and executives must be leaders first and managers second. As leaders our task is first and foremost to be about doing the right things, and the seven deadly sins, should be on the top of your list as leadership issues you are dealing with on a regular basis. Building a small business is one of the most rewarding, but risky ventures one could possibly venture into. Most papers on small business deal primarily with financing and risk management, which are only symptoms of the real issues. ...
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  • Why Employees Leave
    By: Ross Blake | - One of the questions we're frequently asked by employers of all types, including those in different countries, is Why do employees leave?

    Here are 10 of the most common reasons employees leave; we haven't ranked them in their order of importance with the exception of the first one, which is usually the largest single reason employees leave.

    10 Common Reasons Employees Leave Employers

    1. Poor relationship between the employee and their immediate boss ...

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  • Take The Heat Off Hr "" Encourage Career Self-management
    By: Jill Frank | - Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development. These are the employees you should be striving to keep. They want new challenges, interesting work, and the opportunity to develop new skills. Even if you dont have the resources to implement a full-scale career development program, you can still provide your employees with the tools and support to manage their own careers.

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  • Executive Career Coaching: Providing Solutions To Succession Planning Challenges
    By: Jill Frank | - Organizations today are facing several challenges and talent management is one of the greatest. According to a poll conducted by OI Partners, Inc., the number one challenge facing the HR profession is leadership development and succession planning. Attracting, developing, and retaining quality talent is more costly and has a greater impact on the bottom-line than ever before. Retiring baby-boomers, the expectations of Gen X and Gen Y employees, and the new definition of long-term employmen ...
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  • Recognition As Part Of Performance Management
    By: Chris Herrmann | - Performance Management is a system developed out of the best practice of top performing organizations to provide managers with a structured approach to the key retention criteria. Simplistically, most people will feel motivated and will want to stay in their job if their manager:
    pays attention to their work provides them with a job to match their skills, knowledge and experience gives them opportunities to grow and develop judges their performance objectively

    Most Performa ...

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