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  • Simplify With Pre-hire Assessments
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Despite wintry conditions, hiring freezes are expected to end early next year. The talent currently available to businesses is more diverse than it has been in decades. Job seekers range from recent college grads to experienced executives. With 10 percent of the country unemployed and seeking jobs, businesses should take the time to consider the effectiveness of their current hiring process and what can be done to improve.

    Assessments are a valuable tool that provides insight to h ...

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  • Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Schedule Planning
    By: Ryan Fyfe | - If you get schedule planning wrong it can have grave implications for your business. This is not a job that just anyone can do and creating schedules takes a lot of skill and knowledge. Anyone involved with schedule planning needs to know all the ins and outs of the business and how much work there will be on any given day.

    When dealing with schedule planning you need to match the needs of the business with the availability of staff on any given day. This involves knowing the skill- ...

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  • Predict Conflict With Employee And Team Assessments
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - In a perfect world, work would always be enjoyable, and work environments would promote productivity and engagement. Unfortunately, this is rarely the case. People find themselves in sticky situations or conflict with coworkers. Some personalities and behaviors are oil and water, and they will never mix.

    What if there was a way to solve or even proactively stop these conflicts? Employee assessments offer quantitative insight into employee's natural tendencies and personalities. T ...

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  • When Performance Discussions Go Horribly Wrong
    By: Ann Andrews | - I recently ran my first ever public workshop on Dealing with Poor Performance. The day after the session, I received this e.mail from one of the attendees.

    'Ann, thank you SO much. I used to be terrified of performance discussions and my employees knew it. I would either avoid them altogether and hope they would go away, which they never did, or I would have the discussion and know I was not making a good job of it and their performance remained the same. In some cases their per ...

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  • Easy Ways To Boost Employee Morale
    By: Ryan Fyfe | - When employee morale is high, it's beneficial to any work place as a whole. If you are able to boost the employee morale in any work environment the employees will call in sick less, be more productive and take more pride in the work that they accomplish. If you're employees are happy, you as an employer are happy, with more efficiency there will be less money lost. Improving morale can be done in some pretty easy ways.

    As humans we thrive on being accepted and appreciated. Showing ...

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  • Working With Difficult People: 3 Questions To Help You Turn Your Tormentors Into Teachers
    By: Judy Ringer | - When faced with the prospect of meeting with a confrontational employee, the project manager of a New Hampshire insurance company heaved a sigh. Not again, he thought to himself. Every conversation with this guy is a struggle.

    He decided to use the meeting as an opportunity to shift perspective and try a new approach. He began by imagining that the employee had good intentions but was a bit rough around the edges. He considered that maybe if he aligned with the employee, he might ...

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  • Realizing The Importance Of The I In Team
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - The clever phrase "there is no I in TEAM" is used in conference rooms throughout the corporate world. Businesses spend a great deal of time and money on team building training, seminars, and workshops. Companies are aware that in order for business to be successful people must learn to work as a team, but the phrase about the absence of "I" in team may be a problem. That phrase implies that there is no individuality brought to team situations, and that individuals with different viewpoints must ...
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  • Employee Engagement Is More Than A Fuzzy Feeling
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Each person has been a disengaged employee at some point in their professional career. In this economy, people do not want to talk about engagement. It seems the general attitude is "Keep your mouth shut, your head down and do your job well so that you do not get fired." Some even say engagement is too warm and fuzzy of a concept which cannot be quantitatively measured, so it is not worth upper-level management's attention. While it is important to be a good employee in order to keep one's job, ...
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  • 11 Enterprise Performance Management Best Practices - Planning Phase
    By: Victor Holman | - This article continues where we left off discussing the eight performance management best practices in the defining phase of the Lifecycle Performance Management Model. The Lifecycle Performance Management Model is an enterprise framework that is centered on 35 best practices. These best practices span across the five phases of the performance life-cycle: defining, planning, executing, monitoring and reporting. This article is the second of a series of five discussing the performance management ...
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  • Solve Employee Conflicts In Your Small Business
    By: K. MacKillop | - Becoming an effective boss is critical for any entrepreneur with plans to grow a company. On top of the myriad of legal, managerial, and personnel issues an owner must deal with, most also find themselves in the role of mediator -- dealing with employees who don't (or won't) get along.

    The cardinal rule of handling problems between employees is don't ignore the issue. Any conflict that lasts more than a day or two must be dealt with head-on. Allowing inter-employee conflicts to fest ...

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  • A Guide To Business Conflict Resolution
    By: Wayne Messick | - Business conflict resolution should be a required course of study for managers and their assistants, as well as a required course in every MBA program.

    Below, you will see a short outline of conflict resolution management and resolution, the key to realizing your organization's full potential. You may want to get your managers together and do some role-playing. It becomes easier to respond correctly with practice.

    The first step in business conflict resolu ...

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  • How To Ensure Good Teamwork At Your Job
    By: Geetika Jain | - Working in a team at your workplace can be a boon if you have good people around and there is enough understanding. However, it could also turn out into a nightmare if the people you are working with are not compatible or competent enough. If your job profile is such that it requires working in a team, then you have to be a good team player and a good team player ensures good work not just personally but also for the whole team. While individual performance matters and is important, what is more ...
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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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  • Improving Employee Performance In Enterprise Businesses
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Would you like to understand how employees can be understood, motivated and managed so that you can effectively coach, motivate and retain top talent? This article will provide you with information that can help you learn how to increase productivity and maximize your enterprise level business. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Enterprise business solutions for improving employee performance provide a world-cla ...

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  • Cbas, Unions And The National Labor Relations Act
    By: Mark Dacanay | - Trade unions or labor unions have been an integral part in the protection of employee rights through a collective bargaining agreement or CBA with the employers.

    A collective bargaining agreement is a labor contract between the employer and the union. It defines the conditions of employment such as wage, hours of work and grievance procedures.

    In turn, it also discusses the responsibilities of the employee and the union towards the employers.

    Aside from the ...

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  • Improving Employee Performance In Mid-size Businesses
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Would you like to understand how employees can be understood, motivated and managed so that you can effectively coach, motivate and retain top talent? This article will provide you with information that can help you learn how to increase productivity and maximize your small business. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Mid-size business solutions for improving employee performance provide a world-class system for ...

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  • How You Can Protect Yourself From Claims Of Employment Discrimination
    By: Tony Bertolino | - Most employers these days are being faced with the need to make some changes to the way in which their businesses are structured. During these difficult economic times, I am sure that each choice is weighed carefully. As of April 2009, the unemployment rate in Texas stood at 6.7%, which is better than the 9.4% rate of unemployment that the country as a whole is experiencing. This relative good fortune is of little comfort to those whose lives are affected. When you hold the livelihood of oth ...
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  • Conflict Management Prevents Unnecessary Turnover
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Conflict management strategies can help your organization succeed! This article will provide you with information about conflict management and how you can use it to prevent unnecessary turnover due to poor manager/employee relationships. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a supervisor, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Create a conflict management strategy and prevent unnecessary turnover due to poor manager-employee relationships.

    Workfor ...

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  • How To Increase Employee Performance
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Employee performance solutions provide a system for developing, measuring and aligning individual goals with the strategic priorities of your organization.

    In today's economy, it's critical to get the most productivity from every employee. Companies must be certain that every employee performs to the best of their ability and delivers significant value to the organization. One major issue that virtually every business struggles with is the challenge of dealing with employee perfor ...

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  • The 5 Warning Signs Of Management Derailment
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Times of change present many challenges throughout organizations - especially front-line managers who need to implement change through their people and do more with less. Ironically, when you need your managers to perform at their very best they are the most vulnerable to buckling under the pressure. This article will provide you with early warning signs of management derailment. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

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  • Manage Teams Remotely And Achieve Results
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Building teams in the workplace is critical to the advancement of your organization. This article will provide you with tools that can help you learn how to manage teams remotely, choose an effective team leader and provide them with team members that will work together and achieve results. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    In today's workforce, team members are often distributed in geographic locations acros ...

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  • Evaluating Employees Increases Productivity
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Would you like to understand how evaluating employees can help you effectively coach, motivate and retain top talent? This article will provide you with information that can help you learn how to increase productivity and maximize your bottom line. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Understanding your employees and being able to evaluate their performance is a key to successful management. Many managers have f ...

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  • How To Improve Profitability And Employee Productivity Statistics
    By: Annette Estes | - The best advice successful leaders, CEOs, and business experts have ever given is the importance of hiring the right people for every job in your company.

    Ole Miss Athletic Director Pete Boone advises, "If you're going to be successful in any venture, no matter what it is, you better hire the best people possible. Whatever it takes to hire them, you're either going to be a player or not."

    In spite of the fact the news media makes us believe everyone is in danger ...

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  • Conflicts In The Workplace: Top 10 Workplace Dysfunctions - And How To Terminate Them
    By: Roxanne Emmerich | - The dysfunctional workplace is a killer. Untreated it will kill off your customer base, your profits, and your joy for living as surely as anything.

    As managers, leaders and top executives within your organization you've got to kill the conflicts in your workplace first before dysfunction takes hold.

    The Top Ten Workplace Conflicts That Disrupt Organizations - and the Cure for Each

    No. 1: No teamwork

    The best managers lead a team n ...

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  • How To Handle Employee Stress
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Learning how to handle employee stress is no easy task. Some employees rise to the occasion while others cringe with fear or avoid the situation completely. This article will provide you with information that can help you develop a solid workforce that won't crack under pressure. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Knowing how your staff will respond to stress and employee conflict could be the key to bui ...

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  • Improve Your Employee Recruitment And Staffing Practices
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Attract and retain the most talented employees with employee recruitment and staffing strategies. This article will provide you with information that will save your organization time and resources in your hiring process. Whether you're an executive, a manager or a team leader, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    To find talent, smart companies are taking every possible opportunity to interview job seekers. Whether you utilize in house recruitment personnel or ou ...

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  • How To Increase Productivity With Employee Evaluations
    By: Jim Sirbasku | - Would you like to understand how employees can be understood, motivated and managed so that you can effectively coach, motivate and retain top talent? This article will provide you with information that can help you increase productivity and maximize your bottom line with employee evaluations. Whether you're an owner, an executive or a manager, the following information will be beneficial to you.

    Understanding your employees and being able to evaluate their performance is a key t ...

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  • Create Dynamic Dialogue, Decrease Conflict In The Workplace
    By: Laurie Taylor | - Conflict. Confrontation. Most of us hate it. We avoid it. We simply hope it goes away.

    The negative effects of unresolved conflict include:

    -- Decrease in productivity
    -- Lack of focus on company objectives
    -- Loss of respect for leadership team
    -- Destructive gossip
    -- Covering up underlying, hidden problems
    -- An erosion of trust with leadership
    -- Higher turnover
    -- Lack of buy-in on critical issues


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  • How State Law Defines The Ideal Employee-employer Relationship
    By: Manuel Salvacion | - Conflict between workers and the employer is a commonplace issue in the workplace. Federal and state laws related to employment issues help maintain the balance of power in the workplace by defining the characteristics of an ideal employee-employer relationship.

    Generally, employment law encompasses employers' rights and obligations within the employer-employee relationship - between employers and their current employees, job applicants, and former employees. Because employment re ...

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  • Interpersonal Conflict - Resolving Conflict By Understanding Personal Values
    By: Annette Estes | - The presidents of two companies have opposite personal values. One of them is high in the Utilitarian value (passion for money and what is useful) and low in the Social value. The other CEO is high in the Social value (passion for service to others) and low in the Utilitarian value.

    These two men were participants at different times in executive leadership coaching sessions, during which the first president said what he was most proud of doing for his company is that he never le ...

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  • Staff Or Employee Scheduling Balances Several Requirements
    By: Lucy Caudle | - Staff or employee scheduling or rostering relates employees, workplaces and work times. A workplace schedule lists the employees who will work there at different times. The times might be specific hours, dates, weeks or even months.

    A workplace can be retail store, manufacturing facility, head office, or even an external place for field sales persons. The key idea is that there should be clarity of who will work where and when. This would help the employee to know what is expected ...

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  • How To Find The Best Employee For The Job
    By: Paul Sutherland | - Frankly, a lot of businesses are only as good as the workers who handle the day to day activities and actually come in contact with the customer or client. However, finding the right person, to fill a position, can be a guessing game, unless you know the right questions to ask, in order to make an informed decision.

    For example, many potential employers make the common mistake of asking hypothetical questions, to determine whether the employee can handle customers, and related du ...

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  • How To Keep Your Cool In Conflict, 3 Powerful Steps
    By: Bill Zipp | - Here's a quick math quiz for you

    What's two times zero? Zero. What's 20 times zero? Still zero, right? What about 200 times zero, 2,000 times zero, or even 2,000,000 times zero?

    Anything times zero is still zero. It doesn't matter how big a number you put in that equation, if it's multiplied by zero, it will always be zero.

    I have seen talented, gifted, and brilliant leaders do the same thing to their business, multiply all its incredible potential ti ...

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  • Oh, Behave -- 10 Tips To Resolve Employee Conflicts
    By: Joan Schramm | - Put many different people together in one place, day after day after day, and conflicts are bound to happen. Most people work them out on their own, but what happens when the conflict doesn't go away and threatens the productivity of your entire staff or team?

    We've all seen it Mary isn't speaking to Susan; Ted and Tom can't be put on the same project; Bill goes behind Karen's back and "forgets" to include her in project discussions. Some days, it's like working in a kindergarten ...

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  • Hyatt Legal Plan-a Popular Group Legal Plan Choice
    By: Amy Wells | - Although there are a number of legal plans available, there are only a few major players in the legal plan services field. Hyatt Legal plans, a wholly owned subsidiary of MetLife, is a major provider of group legal plans in the workplace. Group legal plans have become a standard employee benefit, and offer low cost legal assistance for employees that is deducted automatically from their payroll check. If you are an employer or an employee, you may want to consider utilizing a Hyatt Legal Plan ...
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  • Workplace Wellness Programs
    By: John Payton | - Workplace wellness programs benefit both employer and employee. For many companies, workplace wellness programs have become a valuable asset by lowering costs in absenteeism and work related injuries as well as disability management costs and worker's compensation claims.

    Studies have found that employee absenteeism is directly related to four primary factors. Depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders topped the list at 66% while stress came in a close second at 60%. ...

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  • Incentive Marketing As A Whole
    By: Mario C Churchill | - Corporate America spends $30 billion dollars on incentive marketing? If you ask why the answer is simple. Incentive marketing works.

    By utilizing the various incentive marketing procedures available out there, a businessman can manage his corporation well. Internet marketing is updated on the information, research and education a businessman needs in order to motivate both his employees and his customers.

    Internet marketing also offers education, conferences, publ ...

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  • Project Management Software For Small Business
    By: John Thompson | - In the majority of large corporations, the number of functional areas that support the services of the primary functional areas is huge. For each employee who goes into the field, large businesses have a total number of employees who work behind the scenes to support, guide and follow-up. But when you are running a small business, you cannot afford the luxury of a good number of departments. Most likely, the employees you have all relate to the main line of your business activity and if you do h ...
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  • Fierce Conversations, Part I
    By: Tim Link | - Copyright 2006 Tim Link

    A recent conversation with a leadership coaching client I'll call "Bob" began with him expressing extreme frustration with a key manager reporting to him. Bob thought the manager wasn't owning his role in a certain critical issue. He believed the manager was pointing fingers, assigning blame and creating stressful and unproductive distractions within the senior team. Bob was considering firing the manager, but was reluctant to start over with someone new.< ...

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  • What Is An Employee Assistance Program?
    By: Charles Christian | - Employee Assistance programs are designed to provide human resource psychological and counseling services. An EAP is an external entity employed by a company to assist their employees with mental health or stress related problems including marital problems, chemical dependency and family therapy. EAP initiatives are integrated into the workplace as part of the health, safety and training programs of the company and in conjunction with labor regulations. The main aim of an EAP is to maximize the ...
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  • Employees Don't Come With Instruction Manuals
    By: Robert Cameron | - Don't you wish employees came with instruction manuals? Studies show managers spend 60% of their time dealing with people problems. That leaves only 40% to work on the organization's objectives. Have you ever become frustrated by an employee's inability to follow simple instructions or ideas, or surprised by an employee's hostility to you or their co workers? It happens all the time.

    What is often missing is objective information on an employee's personality and behavioral makeup. ...

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  • Employee Conflict Resolution
    By: Lisa Cieslica | - Doin' it Old School - Written by Arizona Human Resources Outsourcing Professionals

    In most cases, employees will spend as much if not more time with each other than they do with family and friends when you take into account a 40+ work week. Employees will butt heads every now and again when you have a group of people with varying personalities in close proximity to one another for extended time periods. Differences in opinion, conflicting attitudes, several levels of work ethic an ...

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  • An Environment That Motivates Employees
    By: Hans Hasselfors | - Would you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about employee motivation? The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about employee motivation.

    The success of an organization does not solely depend on management but on the work of its employees as well. An employee that enjoys his or her position and feels rewarded by their efforts will ultimately be the most successful in their careers and the most benefic ...

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