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Week of February 19, 2007
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Benefits
  SIMON SAYS® - Keep Your Estate Plan on Track
For today's business owner, death can mark the beginning of a significant tax problem.  Saul Simon examines options for your estate plan.

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Compensation
  Total Rewards and Best High-Performance Place to Work
How do you create a best high-performance place to work... is it in the rewards?  How do you facilitate growth and results? Jay Schuster and Pat Zingheim share their beliefs.

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Human Resources Management
  Executive Summary: The Evolving HR Function
Changes on the surface of HR don't begin to reveal the complexity of what's going on behind the scenes.

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Labor Relations
  Joan Lloyd's HR Words of Advice: Pregnancy and the Workplace
 
What do you do when you are out of work, pregnant and have accumulating expenses?  Joan Lloyd shares her advice.

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Legal
  You've Got Email
It's an email world ...  How email has changed the world as excerpted from California Employment Law Letter written by attorneys at the law firm Perkins Coie LLP.

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Organizational Development
  Who's Your Chief of Attitude?
If I've noticed anything about the thousands of companies I've been exposed to over the years, it's that the successful ones have a successful attitude, writes Don Phin.

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Performance Management
  Accelerate Performance and Increase Results
What could be more compelling than engaging in an exchange where you really win? Nathan Greeno investigates.

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Executive Coaching
  The New Normal
If you are selling or running your business the same way you've been running it for the last several years, you're overdue to reevaluate your business philosophy, says Keith Rosen.

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Leadership
  Women at the C-Level
Why there are not more women holding C-level positions?  Yvonne LaRose shares her views.

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HR Measurements and Metrics
  Top 10 Common Themes Found In Employee Surveys
They've heard it before... in fact, as HR Solutions Inc. explains, there are recurring themes in employee surveys

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Staffing and Recruitment
  Cover Letter Samples Now Make Creating a Cover Letter a Piece of Cake
for Job Seekers

It's a commonly known fact that when pursuing a challenge or performing a task, knowing when, where, and especially how to start is the most difficult thing to do. Once "in the groove," however, everything seems
to fall into place. The exact same thing happens when most people attempt to create cover letters.


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Workforce Acquisition
  Sourcing the best e-business talent: a recruiter's perspective
The rapid rise of e-business poses unique challenges for HR professionals seeking to increase the potency of their organizations' on-line channels with the best talent.

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HR Outsourcing
  Management Speaks …Views from the BPO World
Whatever it takes for whatever it is worth - The Consumption Offshoring Phenomenon as explained by Karvy Global Services.

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HRIS/ERP
  CABs Drive Compliance and New Efficiencies
Change Advisory Boards (CABs) have become a leading critical success factor in helping enterprises address change management while minimizing risk to business performance.   Info-Tech explains.

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Training and Development
  Why the Classroom is Still King & Other Training Myths
Ever wondered why the average Canadian company spends only $852 per year per employee in training costs?  Arupa Tesolin has the answer.

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  Succession Planning: Leading the Talent Management Charge
Learn the importance of Succession Planning in integrated Talent Management. Understand how to strategically map and model your succession plan, how movements will affect other departments, and ensure that you are not missing your top performers and making the best decisions.

Date: February 28, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
Jason Averbook, Knowledge Infusion
Jim Candler, HumanConcepts


  IBM's Exit Survey: a vital piece of an end-to-end engagement program
Regardless of the industry, numerous studies have shown that low engagement impacts productivity, customer service, retention, and,
ultimately, an organization’s bottom line. Identifying and resolving engagement issues is an essential part of growing a business and increasing shareholder value. ClearPicture helped IBM employ their Exit
Survey as a powerful tool for gathering intelligence on engagement. The information was fed back into other components of IBM’s various engagement initiatives in order to align HR’s front-end programs to ongoing employee needs.

Date: March 1, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
Scott Burton, ClearPicture Corporation
Marna Carlson, IBM

Four Generations in the Workforce
Organizations are now faced with how to best recruit, manage and retain a diverse workforce, in terms of age, culture and of course, race and gender. More managers understand the challenges they will face as baby boomers begin to retire and initiate one of the largest losses of knowledge to ever occur in the American workplace. This webcast will cover best practice strategies and tactics needed to retain the four generations in the workforce. And will help understanding the impact cultural differences can have in recruitment, communications and outreach.

Date: March 6, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenter: Annette Cummings , Bernard Hodes Group


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Managing Conflict: New Role for HR
Howard Guttman provides HR professionals with practical tips for helping leaders step up to the emerging demands for managing conflict and building high-performance teams. This requires reframing the role of HR practitioners, as they learn to model appropriate behavior, "mirror" the behavior of others, and provide coaching, facilitation, and real-time skill transfer to change individual and team behavior. He brings the discussion to life with examples form his work with senior HR professionals in a variety of companies, such as Chico's, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal USA, and Mars, Inc.

Date: February 26, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Presenters:
David Creelman, Creelman Research
Howard Guttman, Guttman Development Strategies, Inc.

A Leader's Legacy - Summary

A Leader's Legacy offers twenty-one essays, grouped into four sections - Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage - that represent the authors' thoughts on offering up a unique, lasting legacy and making the world a better place.


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