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The Pitfalls of Employing Sales People: When the economy begins to improve (or when a business puts attention on its own improvement), adding sales people is a frequent focus. Unfortunately, there are a number of hidden employment law issues that businesses are often unaware of. When the Department of Labor comes knocking, these are the main “gotcha’s.” read more
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Ten Employment Errors Managers Make That Invite Lawsuits: Managers often take improper actions and make mistakes that they do not know they are making. The company loses money and becomes embroiled in preventable lawsuits because the managers did not know the applicable employment laws. read more
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How to Fire the Pregnant Lady: Any adverse employment action taken against an employee known to be pregnant is certainly going to appear as though it was taken because of the pregnancy . . . even when it was not! That is, unless the employer has taken appropriate performance management actions first. read more
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The Shockingly Simple Way To Make Changes Stick: By the time you read this, over 25 percent of New Year’s resolutions have been broken or given up on. Another 25 percent will fail before June. There is only one reason for this. read more
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The 8 Greatest Lessons 2011 Taught Us About Change Leadership: Thinking back on my experiences over 2011, I am going into 2012 with these eight lessons about change that I learned from these eight leaders. What are your lessons? read more
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The 3 Tricks To Finding The Hidden Message Inside Any Complaint: At the beginning of any change, when people are struggling with accepting change, complaining is normal and healthy. Everyone will have challenges with making the change work. As a leader, you want to know what those challenges are so you can help your employees succeed. Here are three tricks to find the gifts inside the complaints. read more
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Doing the Right Thing is More Powerful than You May Think: This company took responsibility, and as a result of the integrity of its actions, sales of this product, once dismissed by every advertising and marketing expert queried, began a steady climb only a few months after the product’s return to the marketplace. read more
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Supply Side Innovation: If you apply the principles of supply side innovation it can lead to your promotion, an increase in compensation, and be of great benefit to your organization. read more
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The Secret of Demand Side Innovation: Would you like to come up with innovations that mark you as an extraordinary performer? Drucker knew how and he explained exactly how to do it. read more
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“Think Different”: How Steve Jobs Brought Learning to a Whole New Level: Apple’s late co-founder was on a mission to change the world. The technologies that Jobs created such as the tablets and mobile devices have contributed to dynamic change in both our personal lives and across all industries. read more
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The 8 Major Trends in HR Today: HRIQ readers and industry practitioners weigh in on the top trends in HR today. Find out what these industry trends mean for your business. read more
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A Foray into Social Recruiting: The Untold Stories Behind "My Marriott Hotel": Marriott’s online recruiting game, My Marriott Hotel, has been a hot topic in the recruiting space for over a month—but there’s an untold story that hasn’t been picked up, says the CEO that designed the social media game. read more
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What HR Can Learn about Diversity from "Angry Birds": I'm a huge believer that life is just one big metaphor. A metaphor explained by a good analogy. On a long recent train trip without access to WiFi, it hit me that the game Angry Birds is a lot like workplace diversity. read more
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Buying into Diversity: A recent study said that 38 percent of people would rather see a co-worker fired than take a pay cut themselves. That’s pretty much two out of five people who put their own inconvenience over the potential devastation of another. read more
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Revision Television: Seperating Fact From Fiction: America has gone all warm and fuzzy and retro. All you have to do is watch the upcoming TV lineup and see what has been tops at the box read more
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What the CEO (Should) Want from the HR Senior Executive: The senior HR executive must be a business executive first and foremost. HR must be at its core strategically relevant to the financial success of the business. read more
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Fish Rots at the Head: If you see an organization or a group of people failing to perform, you need look no further than the leader to identify the problem. read more
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It’s Just the Normal Noise in Here: Busy, busy, busy. Working, working, working. Meeting after meeting. So many emails to respond to and send. Reports to read and write; and budgets to complete, lobby for and approve. So many strategic planning sessions to attend and client conference calls to participate in. read more
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HR Technology in Layman's terms – Pillar #3: Acquisition: This five-pillar service delivery model helps assess requirements and opportunities for HR Technology to deliver on the value proposition of a shared services model in a way that best meets the needs of its customers. This article looks at the acquisition technology component in layman's terms. read more
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HR Technology-- In Layman's Terms: The first two articles in this column discussed the technology components that are critical in an HR Shared Services environment. The 5 pillar read more
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Making Cent$ of HR Shared Services Technology: Part II: Which of the requirements that we examined in part I is more important? Which requirements in the five pillars should receive the prioritized share of limited resources, time and budget? The three most prevalent functions in an HR Shared Service provide some insight. read more
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HR & Community Engagement: Building and Re-creating Local Relationships: HR can play a role in building these competencies within the business and actively seeking ways of using the community engagement framework as an active source of new talent. read more
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How The Financial Crisis Has Transformed HR Into Strategic Leaders: As economic uncertainty continues to play out across the world, the legacy of the Great Financial Crisis remains with us and drives the need for read more
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Ensuring Open Communication in the Workplace: HR needs to take responsibility for building a more open communication system within organizations. I have recently completed reviews of wor read more
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Self-Conversations: What You Can Learn from the Movie "Cast Away": Do we ever urge professionals and workers to talk to themselves? Is it in fact teachable, trainable? This article will discuss what "Wilson" from the the 2000 movie "Cast Away" can teach us about leadership. read more
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The 3 Types of Unleadable Organizations: We had such great expectations of the new CEO— the fit seemed perfect—all agreed the choice was right. But then matters suddenly turned read more
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Launcing an Innovation Initiative: A Self Coaching Application: Money and innovation have nothing to do with each other. It is a crass mismatch. This column presents a case study on an innovation initiative launched in a small tech company, and the lessons leard from the company's COO. read more
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Taking HRSS to the Next Level: Avoiding the Implementation Hangover: ESS is by far more readily adopted as compared to MSS, due to the prevalent challenges of change management. The implementation of these services are carried out with enthusiasm however, they don’t reach their required potential due to “implementation hangovers.” read more
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D-learning? E-learning? M-learning? The ABCs of Fast-Paced Learning: The changing dynamics of the business environment have transformed the mediums of communication and the learning methodologies. The speedy transitions are accredited to the rapid changes in information technology, which has become central to every business operation. read more
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3 Steps in Adding Value to Job Descriptions: Are your job descriptions (JDs) adding value to your organization? Are your JDs serving their intended purpose? Most importantly, are your JDs up-to-date? These are some of the questions that pose certain challenges for the HR personnel. read more
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