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Managing Talent and Driving High Performance
How do you create a high performance organization?
This article outlines the "8 essential
elements," which include: creating a clear
sense of direction, caring management, flexible
benefits & schedules, open communication,
a charged work environment, performance management,
rewards and recognition, and training.
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Is Your Team Suffering from Flat World Thinking
Syndrome?
In this month's article, you'll find some easy
tips to inspire your team.
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Goals, Roles, Pay & Performance
Do your compensation programs create alignment
between employee and corporate objectives; manage
financial risk; encourage team results; and
reward superior performance? They can, if you
manage them correctly. This article tells you
how.
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Giving Control to the Team
This month's articles features 6 ways to create
an environment that empowers your team to take
ownership of their work.
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New Kid on the Block
This month's article shows what you can do
to ensure that your brand new staff members
deliver the first few months on the job.
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Tips for Managing and Retaining Superstars
In this issue of Great Ideas, you’ll
uncover the top three reasons behind turnover
and three secrets for keeping the best people
working for you.
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18 Actions to Build Your Culture
This month's article includes eighteen ways
to build your culture and create a more motivating,
powerful, and productive workplace.
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Giving Constructive Feedback
In this month's feature article, you’ll
discover ten ideas for giving constructive feedback.
These ideas will take the pain out of the process
and help ensure that you convey the message
you intend.
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Lighter Load in Summer Months May Boost Morale
In this month's article you’ll find
six ways to incorporate some fun into your summer
work schedule, relieve your team’s stress,
and keep everyone engaged in their work.
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Five Trust Building Techniques
This month's article shows the five best ways
to build trust in the workplace.
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Stop Worrying About The Cost-per-hire
This month's article discusses what quality-per-hire
is and how measuring it can help you reduce
recruiting and hiring costs.
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How to Reduce Workplace Stress
This month's article discusses 10 ideas to
help you lower your anxiety level and ease specific
sources of stress.
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The Top 10 Steps to Set and Achieve Your Goals
- Every Time
This month's feature article will give you
a few ideas for accomplishing your goals.
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Effective Performance Review Can Help Retain
Employees
This month's feature article discusses ways
to conduct employee reviews, and will show how
performance reviews help to create a stronger
bond between the employee and the manager.
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Bring Out the SWOT Team
In this month’s featured article you’ll
discover how a SWOT analysis can help you take
advantage of more opportunities and minimize
the barriers to your success.
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Try Before You Buy--How Companies Use Temp-to-Hire
This month's article offers a look into the
benefits of using temp-to-hire services.
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10 Low Cost, Creative Ideas to Improve Morale,
Enhance Productivity,
This month's article includes 10 ideas that
will help you create a more spirited work environment.
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Attracting New Business on a Shoestring Budget
If your company is looking for ways to drive
more business through your door...without spending
a fortune, you'll appreciate this month's issue
of Great Ideas. The issue includes 8 cost-effective
strategies for securing new business.
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Leadership’s Most Vital T-A-S-K
This article will show you how you can break
through barriers and lead your organization
to new heights.
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Be Ready to Adapt or Get Ready for Trouble
This month's feature story offers five quick
steps you can take to make change more bearable.
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Stop Perfectionism: Some Things are Good Enough!
Our feature story offers some strategies that
can help you: * Overcome perfectionism * Set
realistic expectations * Become a bit more flexible
* Learn to delegate effectively
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The New Accountability: Part 2
In the last issue of Great Ideas, leadership
coach Brian Ward introduced us to "The
New Accountability: Part 1." This month's
follow up to Part 1 offers an overview of the
Balanced Scorecard. It will help you with: *
Strategy development * Implementation * Evaluating
the effectiveness of your strategies
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The New Accountability: Part 1
In this article, leadership coach Brian Ward,
outlines the new standards of accountability
that focus on: * Improving employee performance
* Boosting morale * Increasing productivity
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Brainstorming - Generating Innovative Ideas
This month's article will show you how to
run effective brainstorming sessions, and what
you can do to develop creative solutions to
your toughest challenges this year.
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Becoming an Employer of Choice Part 3: Retention
as the Economy Improves
This month's article will reveal the two dominant
reasons why employees leave an organization
and what you can do about them.
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Becoming an Employer of Choice Part 2: Hiring
Smart
This is the second, in a three part series
of articles by HR consultant Tim Augustine.
It offers an overview of the typical recruitment
processes’ five steps: requisition, sourcing,
screening, interviewing, and selecting. It also
offers suggestions on what can be done in each
step to become an employer of choice.
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Becoming an Employer of Choice Part 1: Culture
Marketing
This article by HR consultant Tim Augustine,
is the first in a three-part series on becoming
an Employer of Choice. This first article discusses
Culture Marketing, the process of identifying
the unique attributes that make an organization
a great place to work.
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Flexibility Made Easy with Strategic Staffing
This month's featured article offers 9 Great
Ideas to help you use strategic staffing to:
* Increase earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation, and amortization. * Experience
higher performance and lower average costs.
* Reduce learning curves for new technologies.
* Decrease costs by eliminating overtime expenses.
* Relieve the stress of employee absences.
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Salary Plans - What compensation plan is best
for your business?
This month's feature outlines the pros and
cons of three of the most popular rewards based
compensation plans: * Skill-Based Pay * Competency-Based
Pay * Variable Compensation
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The Top 10 Keys to Developing Personal Creativity
This article will help you spark creativity
in your workforce, create an innovative work
environment, and stay one step ahead of your
competition.
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High Performance Staffing
Read this article to find ways to use temporary
help for more than just filling in for vacation
and sick leaves.
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Visions from an HR Futurist
HR Futurist Roger Herman shares his expert
opinion on what's going to happen in the job
market in the next few months.
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Engaging the Corporation, a Guide to Building
Trust
According to the strategy consultants who
wrote this article, high trust organizations
experience a reduction in turnover, increased
productivity, higher employee morale. Read on
to learn how you create a high trust organization.
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A View of Performance Management
What is the real definition of performance
management? Ask ten different managers, and
you'll likely end up with ten different answers.
This article will introduce you to two of the
most popular performance management theories--and
what really works.
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Managers Motivate NO ONE! Nature vs. Nurture
Want to know the real secret to motivating
people? Hint: It's not about money! This issue
of Great Ideas features a wonderful article
that will show you how to tap your staff's internal
motivators to produce exceptional levels of
performance.
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Revving Up Productivity
Is your company filled with motivated, focused,
trustworthy employees who are ready, willing
and able to take your company to the next level?
Or will your people jump ship as soon as the
job market begins to improve? This article will
show you how to re-engage your employees...how
to get them once again energized and working
toward achieving success.
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Leaders Energize and Engage the Workforce
Top executives from some of the country's
leading organizations are turning to fun and
outrageous stunts to energize their employees.
Read this month's feature to discover some unique
ways to increase productivity, reduce turnover
and engage your workers.
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6 Coaching Strategies You Can Apply at Work
Whether on the gridiron, in the boardroom,
part of a project team, or as a personal or
professional counselor, coaches use similar
tenets and tools to help others excel. Coaches
might implement their tools in different ways,
but the common denominators present in most
coaching relationships can have lasting effects
on employees' or your own performance.
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10 Ways to Use Temporary Employees to Drive
Performance and Increase Productivity
Nearly every organization today is focused
on ways to drive performance and increase productivity.
Today's economy is constantly changing and in
order to succeed, businesses need to be flexible.
This is especially true in your staffing strategy.
Here are ten examples of how you can use temporary
employees to help drive performance and increase
productivity.
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Preventing Organizational Burnout
Just like individuals within them, organizations
can burn out too. All organizational structures
and programs burn out without the positive contributions
of the people involved. What can be done to
"cure" and prevent organizational
burnout? Here are a few suggestions.
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10 Strategies for CONTROLLING COSTS WITH STAFFING
The Staffing Resource Center offers a variety
of tips and suggestions for using staffing strategically
as a tool to drive profits.
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Are you a manager or a leader?
What is the Difference Between a Manager and
a Leader? Answer: EVERYTHING. Leadership is
the art and science of influencing the activities
of others toward the achievement of goals by
providing purpose, direction and motivation.
A leader is a person that inspires you to take
a journey to a destination you wouldn't go to
by yourself.
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Motivation Secrets
During these times of economic instability,
motivating employees to be more productive can
be challenging. But motivation is simply a matter
of investing time and energy into connecting
with each employee. The following five secrets
will help any organization that is committed
to its front line. Remember, your front line
is directly related to your bottom line.
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Managing Talent and Driving High Performance
How do you create a high performance organization?
This article outlines the "8 essential
elements," which include: creating a clear
sense of direction, caring management, flexible
benefits & schedules, open communication,
a charged work environment, performance management,
rewards and recognition, and training.
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This
5 Things You Can Do to Create a Visionary
Enterprise
History has repeatedly shown that visionary
companies, those with a clear understanding
of where they are going, have consistently outperformed
the general market. This article outlines five
steps readers can take to make their organizations
more visionary, overcome the economic decline
of the past two years, and prepare their business
for success in 2003 and beyond.
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Do You Need Workforce Planning?
Workforce Planning. 20 years ago it was one
of the hottest topics in HR, and now it's making
a comeback. Why? Because companies are tired
of feeling the pain from economic surprises.
In the late 90's, it was the severe talent shortage.
Today its dealing with the downturn in economy,
and the need to trim staff while still attracting
new talent.. "Do you Need Workforce Planning?"
is about the benefits and "how to’s"
of workforce planning. And of course, planning
for and using contingent staffing is a big part
of this article!
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After the Fall, Retaining and Inspiring Top
Talent During Hard Times
With the economy in such a state of flux,
it’s not surprising that many managers
are uncertain about the direction of their departments
and the retention of their employees. "After
the Fall" addresses the dilemma of keeping
top IT professionals, not only with the company,
but happy in their job and workplace as well.
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How to contain SKYROCKETING benefits costs
Costs for medical insurance and other benefits
are on the rise. Companies across the nation
are scrambling to find new solutions for meeting
higher healthcare expenses all in an effort
to avoid passing those costs onto their employees.
"How to Contain..." shows employers
the in’s and out’s of reducing healthcare
costs, controlling workers’ comp expenses,
and--to your benefit--reducing their full-time
staff (those who cost the most when it comes
to benefits) to core levels while supplementing
with temporaries.
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The True Value of Hiring and Retaining Top
Performers
As everyone knows, top performing employees
are worth more than average ones, but how much
more? This article shows readers how to calculate
the true value of every employee...from top
to bottom. It also suggests that managers should
do whatever is necessary to keep those top employees
happy.
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Can Temps Drive Profits? Part 2
In this "sequel" to June's part
one article (which offered case studies to demonstrate
how temps can drive profits), readers are given
scientific proof to support the concept that
using a contingent workforce leads to business
success. This study, done by researchers from
Lehigh University and the University of Oklahoma,
asserts "firms that increased their reliance
on contingent labor experienced statistically
significant increases in earnings before interest,
taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)"
Read the article to find out how!
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Performance Management: 10 tips to drive the
bottom line
Strong teams are, unquestionably, necessary
for success. But to get thebest results, teams
need great leadership. Through effective performance
management, a leader can produce exceptional
results from his or her team. This article offers
10 tips for creating world-class teams. The
article also points out the value temporary
employees offer when maximizing team performance.
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Aligning Employees with Strategy & Success
Why is strategic alignment so important to
a business? Because it brings all the departments
and employees together to form a cohesive team
focusing on one goal and understanding the vision
and implementation it takes to get there. "Aligning
Employees..." shows readers the best ways
to effectively align the many facets of their
organization from the overall company structure
right down to each employee’s role there.
It also highlights how a staffing firm can contribute
to creating company alignment.
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Into the Mix: Managing Contract Professionals
Many times when companies use contract employees,
they fail to provide the management needed to
get the best results. This article shows Technical
Hiring Managers why and how to best use and
manage contractors. "Into the Mix"
offers guidance on when t
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Get Ready, Get Set, GROW!
Things are looking up for the economy, but
businesses needn’t sit back and wait for
their share of the success. Companies that want
to grow this year need to start planning today.
This article offers ten terrific tips to help
your company get ready to grow. By spending
wisely, getting aggressive about sales and marketing,
deepening client relationships, developing a
staffing system, and staying positive, you can
make the most of an economy on the upswing.
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Making It Happen: The Secrets to Creating
Sustainable Change
Whether it comes easily or reluctantly, change
is a fundamental requirement for success in
today’s volatile business world. The challenge
executives face is making changes that last--creating
the kind of improvements that permanently "take
root" in an organization. "Making
it Happen" provides a five-part model for
creating sustainable change.
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The Q Factor
What is the "Q factor?" It's quality,
or more accurately, the qualities of a company's
products or services that drive success. While
the definition of quality varies from company
to company, two things must exist to have quality:
consistency and value. "The Q Factor"
presents stories of companies that have made
the most of quality and how they did it. Plus,
it shows readers how to find their own Q factor.
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